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exsupahero · Kate Spade

What books are you reading now?

jacL · Coach

We talked about this book awhile ago, but I liked Special Topics in Calamity Physics. I have also liked both The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl who Played with Fire. For fluffy reads, I really like Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series.

Boots · Gucci

Right now I'm reading the Girl Who Played With Fire as well (read the first of the trilogy in July.) I'm really enjoying the trilogy, but they are rather graphic and violent, so I need some space to digest between books.

For non fiction, I love any book by Erik Larson. He wrote The Devil in the White City which told the 2 stories of Daniel Burnham (the architect who designed the buildings of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair) and Dr. Holmes (a serial killer who used the excitement and influx of people during the years of the fair to commit his killings.) He also wrote Issac's Storm which was about what is considered to be the deadliest storm ever to hit the US in Galveston, TX back in 1900. Larson has a storytelling way about his writings. They're rich with stories and characters and never dry or text book-like.

I also love David Sedaris. If you aren't familiar with him, he writes humorous essays about his crazy family and his life with his partner. I liken him to this guy at a party that you love listening to because he's so funny and engrossing, but who you give a fake name to so he can't use you in the next story.

For fluff I like the Stephanie Evanovich Stephanie Plum series also. And the Charlene Harris Sookie Stackhouse novels are fun too.

NCshopper · Hermes

I'm currently reading Jen Lancaster's newest book "My Fair Lazy." She's a chick-lit memoir writer and I think she's absolutely hilarious. Not exactly terribly thought provoking, but she's good for a laugh.

Suasoria · Chanel

Right now I am reading "The Red and the Black" by Stendhal, a novel about the ambitions of the French working classes after the Napoleon era, and "Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back" by Amy Goodman, which is dated, but it's something I've been meaning to get to for a long time.

Not exactly summer beach reading so it probably doesn't help.

Metric · Gucci

I'm on the Stieg Larsson popularity train too. I just finished Dragon Tattoo and I'm about to start The Girl Who Played with Fire.

Tati · Chanel

I just finished Skinny Bitch!

Suasoria~ did you finish the Kind Diet? and have you read Skinny Bitch?

Suasoria · Chanel

I never really started Kind Diet, so no, but I read Skinny Bitch a long time ago (btw one of the authors is a friend).

Tati · Chanel

Wow! How cool are you Kenzie! do you have a autographed book? you probably dont care too?

I really hope that Skinny Bastard helps my husband, he's really overweight. I have to buy him the book......

But he's going on his 2nd week with no meat, has lost 5lbs in one week, wakes up easier, and has more energy in the evenings already!

fashionforward · Nine West

I'm reading Pillars of the Earth and it's is so good. The book is the size of a brick (almost 1,000) pages, but it's good cause you don't want the story to end. It takes place in medieval times and the story centers around the construction of a cathedral. They just made it into a series on Staez too (which I don't get and I'm bummed)

gossipgirl · Dooney & Bourke

I just read the Trilogy Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

lindsayp · Kenneth Cole

fashionforward wrote:

I'm reading Pillars of the Earth and it's is so good. The book is the size of a brick (almost 1,000) pages, but it's good cause you don't want the story to end. It takes place in medieval times and the story centers around the construction of a cathedral. They just made it into a series on Staez too (which I don't get and I'm bummed)

FF, you have to read World Without End, the sequel to Pillars. It's set a few hundred years in the future, and is fantastic. Also, Ken Follett, was involved in the making of the Starz mini-series, so that's nice to have his input on it. I've been watching it and wasn't expecting much, but am pleasantly surprised. It definitely diverges from the book some, but I still dig it :)

KaffeeKlatsch · Marc Jacobs

Am currently reading: 'The Piano Teacher' and 'Eat, Pray, Love'

wetbandit42 · Marc Jacobs

KaffeeKlatsch wrote:

Am currently reading: 'The Piano Teacher'

I just started this! I really like it so far. I'm also reading Sammy's Hill, but I think I'm going to quit that one. I just can't get into it.

fashionforward · Nine West

@lindsayp Thanks for the recommendation! I'll definitely check it out.