https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:30:05 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading/page/2#post-1590044 Fri, 04 Dec 2015 13:49:21 +0000 Anonymous 1590044@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Since I first heard the song Starry Starry Night, I have been fascinated by Vincent van Gogh. So I am rereading his biography. An absolutely amazing read, but it is a slow read because of all the detailed information. So in between the intense reading I have gotten into the author Janet Evanovich and have just finished reading 3 of her Stephanie Plum series. An easy read, interesting protagonist, and, for lack of a better way to explain it, somewhat unrealistic (but in today's world could be probable) circumstances revolving around a female bounty hunter. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading/page/2#post-1588507 Mon, 30 Nov 2015 04:29:49 +0000 anne 1588507@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Getting back to this thread to say that I enjoyed Death comes to Pemberley, thanks to this thread. I'm planning on requesting some more of everyone's recommendations.</p> <p>I rather like&nbsp; Ben Elton's books and was quite taken with Two Brothers, which I read this month, about twin brothers (one adopted) in a Jewish family during the interwar and Nazi period in Germany. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading/page/2#post-1586965 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 03:36:07 +0000 Isabel 1586965@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>@Laura, I LOVED the philosopher in residence at Heathrow. &nbsp;: &nbsp;) &nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>I looked up information on the Donner Party. How tragic !! &nbsp;I read Alive when I was a teenager. &nbsp;That involved the plane crash in the Andes where the survivors turned to cannibalism as people died. It was so upsetting to me that I am not sure that I can read about something like that again. &nbsp;Yet I want to read more about the Donner Reid Party. &nbsp;</p> <p>This is why I just LOVE YLF. &nbsp;I learn so much. &nbsp;&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading/page/2#post-1586951 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 02:58:04 +0000 Debora 1586951@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh, I love these threads! Thank you for starting it, Laura. </p> <p>Janet, I really enjoyed Stephen King's 11/22/63. Couldn't put it down.</p> <p>Joy, what a coincidence. I am also rereading Watership Down. It's a favorite.</p> <p>Mochi, I picked up the first book in the Elena Ferrante series a few weeks ago and it's next up to read. I'm glad to hear you enjoyed the series. Looking forward to starting it.</p> <p>Laura, I love Shirley Jackson! We Have Always Lived in the Castle is one of my all time favorites. My gosh, Merricat Blackwood is a character that's not easily forgotten!</p> <p>My recent trip to Quebec inspired me to read all of the books in the Inspector Gamache series by Canadian author Louise Penny. I was hooked and polished them off, one right after the other. </p> <p>Another recent read was Shaman by Kim Stanley Robinson. An excellent tale set 30,000 years ago in the Ice Age. I was transported back in time and hated to see it end. </p> <p>A few other recent reads:<br /> Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff<br /> Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee<br /> The Secret Place by Tana French<br /> Dead Wake by Erik Larson<br /> All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer</p> <p>Happy reading! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading/page/2#post-1586879 Mon, 23 Nov 2015 23:25:39 +0000 Laura (rhubarbgirl) 1586879@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I enjoy de Botton's work - his one about being a philosopher in residence at Heathrow was strangely absorbing. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading/page/2#post-1586491 Sun, 22 Nov 2015 22:44:11 +0000 Isabel 1586491@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Great thread ! Thank you Laura. I wasn't reading too much for a couple of months and then decided that I really missed it. I am also going to bookmark this page. I have a really long reading list right now. I decided in September to start reading fiction. Especially noteworthy pieces that I didn't read in high school. So I read Tom Sawyer and Hucckleberry Finn along with To Kill a Mockingbird recently. Then Murder on the Orient Express. I am about to start Pygmalion. </p> <p>Within the last month, I read The Pleasurs and Sorrows of Work by Alain De Botton. He is a modern day philospher and I just love all his work. I also read two French comedies ( in French ) in an effort to not lose my French. They are both by Moliere : L'Ecole des Femmes and Le Malade Imagaire.<br /> The Women's School and the Imaginary Sick Person. Very funny !</p> <p>I recently downloaded a biography on Cleopatra and one on ALexander the Great. </p> <p>I had never heard of the Donners...I am going to Google them . Sounds great ! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading/page/2#post-1586475 Sun, 22 Nov 2015 21:51:22 +0000 Laura (rhubarbgirl) 1586475@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I am partway through the newly released collection of stories and essays from Shirley Jackson, including a 'new' story which no one knew existed, which I am really enjoying. Also just started Francine Prose's Lovers at the Chameleon Club. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading/page/2#post-1579527 Tue, 03 Nov 2015 02:49:52 +0000 Anonymous 1579527@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I recently reread Watership Down after many many years and enjoyed it more than the first read. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading/page/2#post-1578281 Fri, 30 Oct 2015 01:51:22 +0000 Stephanie 1578281@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I just finished (and really enjoyed) Circling the Sun by Paula McLain. I've also been working my way slowly through the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. Love the series. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading/page/2#post-1577497 Wed, 28 Oct 2015 05:20:29 +0000 Laura (rhubarbgirl) 1577497@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Mochi, I enjoyed Station Eleven. Mandel has a great voice and it's an engaging story, for all that it's post-apocalyptic. I was a little confused why it became such a big crossover hit outside of scifi, but happy for her success nonetheless because I think she's a good and thoughtful writer. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading/page/2#post-1577204 Tue, 27 Oct 2015 18:08:11 +0000 Mochi 1577204@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hi. Haven't gotten to the previous comments yet but I am looking forward to them.&nbsp;</p> <p>I recently read, almost back to back, the four-part Naples trilogy by Elena Ferrante and was completely mesmerized by it, with the feeling of having truly witnessed a complicated friendship and the unfolding of a life.&nbsp;</p> <p>Since then, I've vowed to get much more back to reading, which I'd gotten away from in recent years. I attended some talks at the Boston Book Festival last weekend and am now reading one of the authors' books. Courtney Maum's first novel on a painter trying to win back his wife (after he causes major damage to their marriage with an affair): I'm Having So Much Fun Here Without You. I'm liking it a whole lot, really great truths about love and human relations and some not fussy but sensual and beautiful language.&nbsp;</p> <p>Another author on a panel has a new book that intrigues me, based on the excerpt she read for the audience. The panel topic was "Apocalyptic Fiction" and she wrote about a troupe of actors who tour around the U.S. twenty years after an epidemic has wiped out most of the world population. Station 11, by Emily St. John Mandel.&nbsp;</p> <p>I also just read a novel from the early 90's, After Moondog by Jane Shapiro. The writing was sharp but it's kind of New Yorker-y fiction that is a lot of little moments and observations but not sure what I'm left with afterwards.&nbsp;</p> <p>Can't wait to see what you all are reading!&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading/page/2#post-1577175 Tue, 27 Oct 2015 17:07:22 +0000 nancylee 1577175@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Earlier this fall I read <i>Life after Life</i> by Kate Atkinson....what a fascinating novel! &nbsp;I'm waiting for the sequel (<i>A God in Ruins</i>) to come out in paperback. &nbsp;I also highly recommend <i>Euphoria </i>(Lily King).</p> <p>Right now I'm reading <i>The Story Hour</i> (Thrity Umrigar) and plan to read <i>Spartina</i> (John Casey) and <i>The Invention of Wings</i> (Sue Monk Kidd) next.</p> <p>I'm looking forward to Patti Smith's new book, too, Janet. &nbsp;I really loved <i>Just Kids.</i> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading/page/2#post-1574784 Thu, 22 Oct 2015 00:54:09 +0000 Anonymous 1574784@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I hope you'll enjoy The Luminaries as much as I did.&nbsp; It's really unique and enthralling. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading/page/2#post-1574776 Thu, 22 Oct 2015 00:30:03 +0000 Laura (rhubarbgirl) 1574776@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The End of Your Life Book Club was great - touching but not sappy, and a great meditation on the influence of our parents on our lives, and the influence of literature.</p> <p>I finished Rewire, yay, and one of the Wild series from Christina Lauren. I have to say that I'm getting kinda tired of excessively explicit sex scenes in romance. Not for reasons of prudishness, but it always seems to come at the sacrifice of characterization.</p> <p>I got The Luminaries from the library, so maybe I'll start that next. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading/page/2#post-1574570 Wed, 21 Oct 2015 15:10:59 +0000 Anonymous 1574570@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Janet, I think we have the same reading tastes.&nbsp; I LOVED "Just Kids," and am planning to get the new one.&nbsp; "Burial Rites" was -- I don't know the right word to describe it, but I couldn't put it down.&nbsp; A beautifully-written book, and an unforgettable story.&nbsp; "11/23/63" is a real thriller, a work of great imagination, and another page-turner.&nbsp; Wish I could write like that! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading/page/2#post-1574511 Wed, 21 Oct 2015 13:15:19 +0000 Helen11 1574511@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I re-read "A Walk in the Woods" , too, when I heard that it now has a movie adaptation. &nbsp;The book is from 1997, no wonder &nbsp;some parts feel dated. &nbsp;I love Bill Bryson, though. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading/page/2#post-1574507 Wed, 21 Oct 2015 13:06:25 +0000 Janet 1574507@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I want to get the new Patti Smith! I loved "Just Kids."&nbsp;</p> <p>I'm nearing the end of Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash" which is sort of an old sci-fi/cyberpunk classic. I used to rarely read sci-fi, but I'm now enjoying some of it quite a bit. Loved the Hugh Howey series that was recommended here!&nbsp;</p> <p>The last book I read before that was "Burial Rites" by Hannah Kent, based on the true story of the last woman convicted and executed under the death penalty in Iceland. Not cheery, but worth reading.&nbsp;</p> <p>Up next, I'm FINALLY going to read Stephen King's "11/23/63."&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading#post-1574481 Wed, 21 Oct 2015 11:29:38 +0000 Style Fan 1574481@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Lots of good books here.&nbsp; I agree with Lisa.&nbsp; There are some very good Canadians writers.&nbsp; I go through phases.&nbsp; Right now I have not been reading fiction.&nbsp; I did read Miriam Toews though.&nbsp; She is very good.&nbsp; I loved "All My Puny Sorrows".<br />I liked "Just Kids" by Patti Smith.&nbsp; I am looking forward to her new book.<br />Another great book that I read a few years ago is "The Dirty Life:&nbsp; On Farming, Food, and Love" by Kristin Kimball.&nbsp; It is about a journalist who falls in love with an organic farmer.&nbsp; True story.<br />Also I liked "The End of Your Life Book Club" by Will Schwalbe.<br />A great book for those who are into music and the 60s, 70s era is "Girls Like Us:&nbsp; Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon-and the Journey of a Generation" by Shelia Weller.&nbsp; Very detailed. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading#post-1574422 Wed, 21 Oct 2015 03:19:58 +0000 Anonymous 1574422@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Laura, thanks for starting this thread.&nbsp; It's fascinating to hear about all these books.&nbsp; And you're right about Hemingway, he doesn't come off well in this book at all!&nbsp; I don't know how Martha G. put up with him as long as she did, especially when she had an amazing life of her own.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading#post-1574267 Tue, 20 Oct 2015 20:30:19 +0000 Laura (rhubarbgirl) 1574267@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>So many great books mentioned, awesome. Xtabay, I love Martha Gellhorn; she had such an interesting life - the only person/thing associated with Hemingway that doesn't make me want to punch him in the face.</p> <p>Greycat, I loved The Martian. The movie is overall pretty true to the book, but I preferred the book. There's a bit of cursing in the book (less in the movie) but other than that I'd think it'd be fine for a teenager. Lots of cool science stuff. </p> <p>Apparently Sarah Vowell has a new book out, about the Marquis de Lafayette, so I'll be putting on that on my library wishlist. I always enjoy her humorous romps through history. </p> <p>I ran across John Waters' newest book at the library and grabbed it the other day - it was strange, Waters-ian and filthy as always. It's a book about hitchhiking across the US; the first half is his fictional imaging of the trip, and the second half is what really happened. I found the second half much more interesting.</p> <p>I'm almost done with Rewire; it's good but a little exhausting to listen to all the ways people are self-destructive every time I get in the car. I only listen to audiobooks when I drive, and I don't drive a ton, so it takes me a while to get through the longer books. (Roots took foreeeeeeever.) I'm also partway through All the Presidents' Men, which I'm reading for a book challenge because it won the Pulitzer. Even though I'm interested in Watergate and associated events, I'm finding it hard going. I expected the book to be more eventful and less "and then on this day they flew to Miami and interviewed somebody's bodyguard's mother to get a phone number". </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading#post-1574184 Tue, 20 Oct 2015 17:37:46 +0000 Ginger 1574184@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think I'm a compulsive reader; I am ALWAYS reading something. Often while putting on my makeup, eating, walking around the house, etc. I may have issues. ;)</p> <p>This morning I started <i>Ride the River</i>, by Louis L'Amour. I've read it before; to my knowledge it's the only one he did in first person from a woman's POV. Quite well done!</p> <p>I just finished Rex Stout's <i>Bad for Business</i>. Stout wrote the Nero Wolfe/Archie Goodwin books; this is a different, shorter series about a detective called Tecumseh Fox. It was really good.</p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading#post-1574165 Tue, 20 Oct 2015 16:46:43 +0000 kkards 1574165@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>i'm going to book mark this post and come back to it....i'm not reading much right now, but i read both of these earlier this fall and enjoyed them both.<br />Big Little Lies, by&nbsp;&nbsp;Liane Moriaty --light reading, but very entertaining and well written, a mystery with a twist in that you don't even know who gets killed until the end.<br />The Cartel, by Don Winslow---fiction. for some reason, i really like crime fiction, this was really interesting because i know nothing about the Mexican drug wars. makes you think about the unintended consequences of good ideas. &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading#post-1574059 Tue, 20 Oct 2015 12:42:58 +0000 Laurinda 1574059@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>@JAileen: Thanks for the suggestion!<br /><div></p> <p> <div><br /> </div><br /></div> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading#post-1573932 Tue, 20 Oct 2015 03:25:38 +0000 stainedglass 1573932@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I really enjoyed Ancillary Justice, but it definitely took a little while for all of the world building to make sense. &nbsp;Right now I'm reading a short story by Lois McMaster Bujold, Penric's Demon. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading#post-1573905 Tue, 20 Oct 2015 01:56:39 +0000 JAileen 1573905@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Laurinda, I have David Lebovitz' ice cream book which is really great, especially his peach ice cream with sour cream. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading#post-1573879 Tue, 20 Oct 2015 00:15:01 +0000 MuseumGal 1573879@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I just finished <i>The Misses Bronte's Establishment</i> by Amy Wolf, which I think many of you would quite enjoy.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading#post-1573850 Mon, 19 Oct 2015 22:17:30 +0000 Laurinda 1573850@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I've been reading... Cookbooks. It's been awhile since I've seen what is out there or worked at all on expanding my kitchen technique. There are some inspirational new authors, plus I've added a few four-star recipes to my repertoire.</p> <p>&nbsp;My favorites so far:<br /><i>Smitten Kitchen</i> by Deb Perelman <br /><i>Prune</i> by Gabrielle Hamilton<br /><i>Plenty</i> and <i>Jerusalem</i> by Yotam Ottolenghi<br /><i>Ruhlman's Twenty</i> by Michael Ruhlman<br /><i>New Midwestern Table</i> by Amy Thielen<br /><b>Anything</b> by Dorrie Greenspan or David Lebovitz</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading#post-1573847 Mon, 19 Oct 2015 22:15:24 +0000 Jennifer 1573847@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm reading Finders Keepers by Stephen King. Also just finished The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates. Both highly enjoyable and hard to put down. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading#post-1573817 Mon, 19 Oct 2015 20:32:18 +0000 Gail 1573817@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have been reading Kate Mortons books. I read the Forgotten Garden and The Secret Keeper both of which I loved. I am currently reading the Distant Hours but struggling with it. I usually like non fiction especially true crime writing such as Ann Rule.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading#post-1573809 Mon, 19 Oct 2015 20:10:58 +0000 Anonymous 1573809@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>It's interesting to hear about what others read. &nbsp;We Canadians often have a very different reading list because of our own very strong literary identity. &nbsp;Ian McEwan, who several of you mention here, has been one of my very favourite authors for as long as I can remember, but I read more Canadian literary fiction than anything else. This has to do with the career I have, but I also like to think Canada has produced some of the world's best writers. &nbsp;I did just finish The Paying Guest by Sarah Waters though, and although it was good, it was too long and navel-gazing in it's story-telling style. I am trying to read Elizabeth Hay's latest novel (she's Canadian) but unfortunately it's not grabbing me and I've read all of her books. It's so uninteresting that I can't even remember the title :)</p> <p>I have Stephen King's 11.22.63, and Colm Toibin's Nora Webster in the chute next. &nbsp; </p>