What's in Your "To Be Read" Pile?

I haven't got any in the to be read file...

Nothing sits around long enough to get into the pile.

Unfortunately, I don't read as much as I would like or have in the past. It's tough when I have to read a lot for school and am now much more into TV and movies. I haven't read the books but I have seen the movies for both "Memoirs of a Geisha" and "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" and I enjoyed them both.

i have 4 people who requested I read their romance chapters. I ned to do that. I have four Erotic Thrillers to get read and do a review on for respective people or places. Lots of reading.

Pagan Homeschooling
Celebrating the Great Mother: A Handbook of Earth-Honoring Activities for Parents and Children
The Highly Sensitive Child : Helping Our Children Thrive When the World Overwhelms Them
The Highly Sensitive Person's Survival Guide: Essential Skills for Living Well in an Overstimulating World (Step-By-Step Guides)

and I just ordered again so am adding:

Indigo Adults: Forerunners of the New Civilization
Making the Grade: Everything Your 1st Grader Needs to Know
Teach Me How to Say It Right: Helping Your Child With Articulation Problems

I really need to find more time to read, somewhere.

Three Jodi Picoults,
one Margaret Atwood
Roots by Alex Haily
Umberto Eco

and lot many!

The Odd Quantum by Sam Treiman, it has been kicking around my house for a while, I finally ove rthe summer found some time to get half way through Stephen Hawking's " A Brief History of Time,From the Big Bang tio Black Holes", I want to finish that one before going on to the Odd Quantum, here is Amazon.com's review:

"Whenever you cross a street, sad to say, you run the risk of being struck down by a misguided vehicle. The probability of such a tragedy is infinitesimal under most circumstances, but, as the statisticians say, it is non-negligible nonetheless. By the same token, when energy travels, it may bend this way or that in response to the vagaries of gravity, following a seemingly random course. The probability that it will wander in a certain direction given certain conditions is the province of quantum mechanics, a branch of physical science that concerns itself with small-scale phenomena that cannot be observed without instruments--and that cannot be described in the terms of classical Newtonian physics.

Using such phenomena as the disintegration of light and the decomposition of radioactive matter as cases in point, Princeton University physicist Sam Treiman takes his readers through the latest theories of quantum mechanics in his aptly titled primer. He surveys the history of the field, drawing on the 20th-century work of Neils Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, and Max Planck to explain key terms; he then proceeds to enumerate some of the problems that quantum mechanics seeks to describe on the way to showing, in Richard Feynman's cheerful phrase, how the world really is.

Although accessible, Treiman's book is not for novices; its pages bristle with complex formulas and terms like lepton conservation and neutrino oscillations. Nonspecialist readers with some background in physics, however, will find Treiman's discussions to be clear and even elegant, and an altogether useful introduction to the discipline. --Gregory McNamee "

Let's see . . . I have
Sophies choice
Lolita
The Quickie (James Patterson's new one)
The complete works of Jane Austin
The Golden Compass
The Book of Lost Things
The DaVinci Code

I know there's more ( I have a really bad Barnes & Noble addiction) but I can't remember them. Their all sitting on my dresser in a pile.

I just finished The Five People You Meet in Heaven and don't have another one to read yet so I'll probably go to the library today.

Reading Lolita in Teheran

I went to the library sale and bought a box full and I haven't gotten to any of them yet. lol

I love Douglas Adams! I want to buy
The Tale of Hawthorn House: The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter (Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter Mysteries) as I have been reading the series, Beatrix Potter was a facinating woman!

I've got a 3-shelf bookshelf FULL of books to be read. If I started listing them all now, I'd be typing all night. haha

Slayer Team Alpha

Denise, I still have some leftovers from the last library book sale to go through too. I just listed the ones I keep in my um, more immediate TBR pile. LOL.

Vikki, I know what you mean -- it would take me a long while to list them. I only keep the very good ones that I've read -- not a lot of storage space!

Vikki and Mary, I totally understand! I have a lamentable addiction to Borders (and any other bookstore I can get to), so I have too many to list! And still 23 First Chapters Romance Competition entries to read!

Mary, Memoirs of a Geisha is absolutely on my to-be-read shelf :)



Enchanting the Earl - Chapter 2

I have a dynamic to-read list; I'm always adding to and subtracting from it (after I buy it). This weekend I found several of the books in my list at a library book sale:

_State of Denial_ and _All the Presidents Men_ (which I already read back in 1974) both by Bob Woodward (I bought these for him to sign when I see him in October at Oakland University.)

_The Fan_ by Peter Abrahams (I've never read anything by this author but heard he is good. The book was just 50 cents, so not much harm if I don't agree.)

_Sunburned Country_ by Bill Bryson (ditto)

_Elizabeth Costello_ by J.M. Coetzee (ditto)

_Prayers for Rain_ by Dennis Lehane (I recently discovered this author when I bought another book by him, _Mystic River_. It was good, so I bought another of his books, _Gone Baby Gone_, which was even better.)

_The Cobra Event_ by Richard Preston (I read two other books by Preston, _The Hot Zone_ and _Demon in the Freezer_, both nonfiction and both excellent, terribly interesting. _The Cobra Event_ is fiction but, I think, about the same subject, deadly viruses.)

_The Lost_ by Daniel Mendelsohn

_The Brief History of the Dead_ by Kevin Brockmeier

So now these books are waiting for me, except _State of Denial_, which I started and am finding quite tedious.

Yes, that's quite a list! I had a list I was keeping on my old computer, which is now out of order. Bummer. So I am currently trying to figure out if it's worth it to start a new list, because I have been pretty busy between the 3 reading groups I participate in, plus reviewing books for a couple of sites. I haven't had time to touch my list in months anyway!

Lemme see..

"The Secret Life of Water" by Masaru Emoto.
"The Mist-Filled Path" by Frank MacEowen.
"The Earth Path" by Starhawk.
"The Spiral Dance" by Starhawk.

The Starhawk books are books for myself to 'kickstart' something in me.

I have two rows of books TBR. I am reading one right now by Lisa Jackson. Next is the sequel to that book. I think my next one I will try to read one of my books about Princess Diana.

I also have Pride and Prejudice that I want to get read. Does anyone have any comments about this book?

Pride and Prejudice was wonderful. Witty, cultural, romantic -- just great. I had to read it in high school and ended up reading it a couple extra times just because I enjoyed it so much.

I'm looking forward to having some time to dig into Terry Shaw's new book.

I have sooooo many books in my "to be read" book pile, and I do have "The Picture of Dorian Grey." I am really excited to start reading that one, and would love to read your comments. I am currently reading, "The Shadow of the Wind," and I LOVE it. I highly recommend it, especially for people who like books that move fast. I hate getting bored, and this book has not bored me since I started reading it. I also have a book by J. California Cooper, Margaret Atwood and Octavia Butler that's sitting on my night stand. I recently finished reading, "Blindness," by Jose Saramago, which was EXCELLENT.

Mary M., my boyfriend read "The Ultimate Hitchiker's Guide," and he LOVES it. I tried watching the movie a few times, and ended up running away from the TV. This is the first time that I am reading that a woman likes the book. You Go Girl!

I thought the movie was AWESOME! And it's very close to the book. Love it. I keep cracking up as I read it. My hubby sticks to magazines over books but I share the good parts with him and he is laughing with me. LOL.

Tamara, I'm trying to finish up the Hitchiker book so I can get Dorian Grey from the library next week. It's a fatty though -- it's all the Hitchhiker books in one volume. I just started the second book earlier today and there are about 5 total. Yikes!

My reading list got so long that I gave up and purchased a subscription to Simply Audiobooks (simplyaudiobooks.com). Just got "Teacher Man" in the mail. I haven't had time to put in my entire reading list yet, and I already have a list of almost 30 audiobooks in my rental list! My iPod is going to get a SERIOUS workout this fall!

I'm reading October's Harlequin Next novels (as I'm writing one - research). And I'm still working on the latest Harry Potter novel. I've been writing more than reading, but I try to read as well.

omigosh I'm reading "Beneath the Skin" by Savannah Russe. (Vampire romance but it has extra fleshy plot you dun find in typical mindless romance novels.) I have quite a few books waiting for me to read:

A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie
The Pillars of the World by Anne Bishop
Lover Eternal by JR Ward
Jesse James by TJ Stiles
Cursor's Fury by Jim Butcher
Harry Potter #6 and 7
Realm of Light by Deborah Chester
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters by Gordon Dalquist

I just got an advance copy of Richard Price's new novel Lush Life, that I'm about to crack in about 10 minutes. Extremely excited.

For some neo-hardboiled, check out my Borders/Court TV first chapter at
The Hard Bounce

I read all the 'sisterhood of the traveling pants' books and loved them. I do have several waiting, including 'Letters of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson' and a couple of Lord Greys from Diana Gabaldon.

My to read pile is smaller than it's been for some time.

(Sherman's) March to the Sea and Beyond by Joseph Glattthaar
Naval History of the Civil War by Admiral David Porter
The Crimson Kings by SM Stirling
Panzer Aces by Franz Kurowski

there are some good ones coming out to in both scifi and military history I plan on catching this summer!