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[peanutter]

I'm struggling with Fifty Shades of Grey, and am ready to give up ...

Next is "Smart Thinking" and it's a "guide to improving skills in analysis, critical thinking, and the effective communication of arguments and explanations"

[LuluHB]

Just finished The Innocent by David Baldacci and all I have left on the kindle is Fifty Shades of Grey. Can't say I'm all that inspired to start reading it after so many negative comments. I'm about to download George Faletti's latest, after I work out what its called! He writes thrillers that are a bit violent at times but a good read with some interesting twists.

[Rowellen]

Lulu - I know what you mean about other people's negative comments putting you off. I think it depends on who is saying it though. Maybe try to read it without expectations?

I have started reading "The Help". I'm up to chapter 5 & I'm hooked. Very well written, I found myself thinking in a southern us accent

[LuluHB]

I think I can safely say I have absolutely NO expectations

I keep forgetting about The Help each time I download a new book. I loved the movie and I'm sure the book is a million times better - as they almost always are!

[Cass72]

I have a couple of books on the go (depending on my mood)....

Kathy Reichs Flash & Bones and The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks. I'm finding the Nicholas Sparks one hard to get into ....

[~me~]

If you like the idea of 50 shades, I have been recommended a book called Bared to You by Sylvia Day. It's similar in context, the writing is supposed to heaps better!

[peanutter]

I didn't like the shopaholic one - I only read one (the onewhen she has a baby) ... I liked her "undomesticated goddess" book, though. Very funny

But hey, with other Paullina Simons books, have you read "A Song In The Daylight"? I didn't like her "Road to Paradise" much, so haven't got around to ASITD, but now her new one is out, and I'm one behind ... Have you read it? What did you think?

[Novella]

I downloaded a sample of fifty shades and it didn't do much for me do I haven't bothered purchasing it. Just finished gravity by Tess Gerritsen for the second time and now to have a look through the pile of books mum left the other day....

[sangie]

Have got Absolute Power by David Baldacci waiting for me next on my ipad. Ooooh I should definitely get The Help too, thanks!

LuluHB have a go at fifty shades just to satisfy your curiosity! I read the first third, hated it and then struggled to finish because I thought it might get better. It didn't for me. But lots of people say the second and third books are better.

[LuluHB]

Have got Absolute Power by David Baldacci waiting for me next on my ipad. Ooooh I should definitely get The Help too, thanks!

LuluHB have a go at fifty shades just to satisfy your curiosity! I read the first third, hated it and then struggled to finish because I thought it might get better. It didn't for me. But lots of people say the second and third books are better.

That's hilarious lovely. Reminds me of a line in a Billy Crystal movie- "here, try this and tell me if it tastes bad" Your variation is hey read this book. Its crap but read it!! ;-)

I hope you like the Baldacci book. I've read a few of his now and they're not earth shattering but usually a good read - I really enjoyed his latest one

[Bloom]

i have just finished reading two good books by Kate Morton. The Shifiting Fog (also published as the House at the Riverton) and The Forgotten Garden. Both were good - basically about modern day people remembering or researching the past set in great houses in England (kinda like Downton Abbey).

Now I'm onto a PD James book called Death Comes to Pemberley - a "sequel" to Pride and Prejudice.

[sangie]

Haha Lulu! I just thought u should give it a go to satisfy your curiousity. But yeah I'm pretty much saying to read it even though it's crap! Will let u know on the baldacci book.

[peanutter]

Oh no! I really was looking forward to Mystery at Mercy Close, and really had my fingers crossed and I didn't much like The Brightest Star In The Sky, and that was the first of hers I had not completely loved ... But yes, she struggled with depression and alcoholism and other substances, from what I gather. I hope she recovers soon (because I think she's fabulous, not just because I want her to pump out her next book ...).

I really quite liked the Richelle Mead I just finished (Bloodlines - about an Alchemist) and I am thinking I'll just read the next one before getting onto MAMC, so that I've got all the characters still in my head.

[Astrolady]

Currently reading "The Man Called Ove" what is everyone else reading.

[~me~]

Currently reading "We are all completely beside ourselves" which I am loving.