What are you reading?

Yeah I agree between work and other stuff that I'd not get a book read in a week :)

That sounds good to comeback at the end of the month. What about getting members together and starting next month?

I'd do it
June sounds good
Everyone could throw out suggestions, we'd agree on one & go from there

I'm up for June also.

I don't mind any genre, fiction or non.
I'm not good at organizing things like this lol

Love this idea! I'm always reading something :)

OK..My suggestion, this is a book I've just started reading but thought it might be a good topic to discuss.....Wrongful Death by Robert Dugoni. Here's a short synopsis...

Things are going well for David Sloane: he's basking in the victory of a $1.6 million wrongful-death verdict and enjoying life with his new wife Tina and stepson Jake. That is, until Beverly Ford asks him to sue the US military over the death of her husband James, an officer killed in Iraq. Sloane, by virtue of having been a soldier himself, feels duty bound to take on the seemingly impossible-to-win case.

With virtually no evidence to work with, Sloane enlists Charles Jenkins, a former CIA agent turned PI, to help him find the only witnesses to the overseas death: the men James served with the night he died. When Sloane and Jenkins realize that two of the four officers who came home died soon after, and a third refuses to talk, their only hope is to find the youngest and most mysterious soldier and get the truth out of him...if they can keep him alive long enough to do so.

As Sloane pushes the case forward in the courtroom and the investigation further in the field, he and Jenkins begin to realize just how deep this case goes...and how much danger Sloane and his new family are in.

Just a suggestion but...I'm up for reading just about anything.

I've added the book to my list, Hellon!

Sounds like a good read.

The book I mentioned in my previous comment is pretty amazing. It focuses on the depression in the last chapters only, the main part actually deals with the concept of choosing between writing -as a career- and motherhood, the author brilliantly included biographies and personal experience of many female writers like Sylvia Plath/Zelda Fitzgerald/Lue Andreas Salome... Some of the stories are more than inspiring. Struggling between the literary salon and the kitchen, writing under pen names, writing under male names... By the way "Shafak" is the author of "The Forty rules of Love" the famous novel about Rumi.

I'll be looking for the free electronic version for the book Hellon mentioned.

Well there are two entries:

"Black Milk" a novel about postpartum depression by a Turkish writer " Elif Shafak"

&

Wrongful Death by Robert Dugoni, a conspiracy murder thriller

I'd be happy to read either one. Maybe we can start one in June and if all goes well, the next one in July.

I've now finished the book I mentioned and, to be honest, I found the use of acronyms as the story developed quite annoying as I was not familiar with most of them but...although it was fictional, it was certainly believable IMO.

Another suggestion, if no one else is stepping forward...Mornings in Jenin. Synopsis...

Palestine, 1948. A mother clutches her six-month-old son as Israeli soldiers march through the village of Ein Hod. In a split second, her son is snatched from her arms and the fate of the Abulheja family is changed forever. Forced into a refugee camp in Jenin and exiled from the ancient village that is their lifeblood, the family struggles to rebuild their world. Their stories unfold through the eyes of the youngest sibling, Amal, the daughter born in the camp who will eventually find herself alone in the United States; the eldest son who loses everything in the struggle for freedom; the stolen son who grows up as an Israeli, becoming an enemy soldier to his own brother.

Does anyone still want to do this?

Yesss! I do! I can start next week, beginning of June :) I guess I should suggest a book. Hmm, anything I can buy used and cheap on Amazon sounds good to me (or anything I already have and haven't yet read).
I'm not picky. Here are a couple suggestions though:

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. I haven't yet read it. We can read it together and then all watch the 2009 miniseries with Tom Hardy *swoon*... which I've seen at least 5 times already haha.

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers by Paul Hoffman. Sitting on my bookshelf, unread.

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. Another classic I haven't read yet.

On the Road by John Kerouac. Was thinking about bringing this book on my road trip anyway :)

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Haven't read it, but curious to read about a beautiful, vain man. What's all the hubbub about? That's what I want to know.

Anything by Jack London because dogs and wilderness are the best.

The Fault in our Stars by John Green. We could all use a good cry, eh? The movie broke my heart.

Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll. A book I've been told time and time again I should read because I'd love it.

*thumbs up*

Jane, oh my gosh yes! Wuthering Heights is something we didn't have to read for high school, but a friend at the time was swooning over it. So I read it and fell in love. It's been 4 years though so I would love to re-read... I have 2 copies too, that's how much I <3 it. One copy from B&N and one from an old bookshop.

And great suggestions... I've heard so much about Anna Karenina (especially when the movie came out) and about The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Can't wait :D

I've never read Wuthering Heights, but I have wanted to! I also played a Dorian Gray PC game, I was familiar with the story, but never knew there was a book.

I'm all for cheap books, lol.

Jane, the Fault In Our Stars book broke my heart more than the movie did. I got over the movie pretty quickly, but the book was depressing. Haha.

Anyway, we need someone to pick a book. I'm not picky either. I need something for all these fishing trips we're taking. I just finished Pet Sematary for the first time.

I could do any of Jane's except Fault
All the rest I read in High School.

Yes, we actually had schools when I grew up & no we did not write in cuneiform or on papyrus

The amazon service is currently not available in Benghazi, I have been trying to download "God help the child" by Toni Morrison uselessly, if you have any trusted links for the mentioned book, kindly share.

I'm enjoying "The Captain's Daughter" these days so much, never read anything by Pushkin before, so I will probably go on with the russian and be reading "Anna Karenina" by June.

Wuthering heights I'd love that one of the things I wasn't made to read.

I thing the blokes might be shying off with the suggestions so far and...I don't want to end up in a book club clicking my knitting needles so can I suggest ..The Fountain Head..Ayn Rand...I'm sure it would suit both sexes...