OK, I just finished my latest indulgence – Fifty Shades of Grey. Oh my. If you haven’t read it yet, please do. It’s a page turner. Thanks to my dear friend Erin who lent me the three books in the series, I was up WAY too late a couple nights the past 2 weeks because I couldn’t put the book down! And now that I’m done the first book, I cracked open the next one last night! But because I know I’ll be done this series soon, I’m wondering what’s next on my reading radar…
I’ve always loved reading. I put recreational reading aside in college, then in grad school. Now that I have no ‘required’ reading, I’m back in the saddle. Loved the Hunger Games, and can’t resist and Nicholas Sparks novels. But I’m always on the lookout for a great read. It may take me a few months or year to get to a book when I decide I want to read it, but I do eventually get to it, and I’m so thankful when I do! (I heard about Fifty Shades last year and I’m FINALLY getting around it it now!) Reading a book at night is a perfect way to wind down at night. I tried reading Fifty Shades at work during lunch one day – won’t do that again! I kept looking up when someone walked by my desk because it felt like I was doing something inappropriate… like watching porn! Cuz at some parts it practically is! So, I’ll keep the reading in the bedroom where it’s much more appropriate…
So, I’ve started a Booket List, a ‘bucket list’ of books (Thanks to suggestions from my friends here). Here’s the growing queue:
- Bared To You – Sylvia Day
- Reflected In You – Sylvia Day
- Entwined with You – Sylvia Day
- The Distant Hours – Kate Morton
- Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
- The Help – Kathryn Stockett
- Eat Pray Love – Elizabeth Gilbert
Please please please suggest any books I should add. Maybe I should sign up with that ‘good reads’ site?
oh the Help is really good of course. I also love Bringing up Bebe, Major Pettirews Last Stand, Is Everyone Hanging out Without Me by Mindy Kaling, hummm what else…Oh ‘Room’ is really good too. Enjoy reading!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Thousand-Splendid-Suns-Khaled-Hosseini/dp/074758589X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1346938031&sr=8-1
A Thousand splendid suns still haunts me, brilliant book.
I might have to give in to 50 shades soon
Game of Thrones!!!
Thanks, Jarrod.
Since you liked The Hunger Games then I would recommend Legend by Marie Wu. I liked Gone Girl. I wouldn’t give it a 10 but probably a solid 7-8. Happy Reading!!
Thanks!
A Beautiful Disaster by Jane (I forget last name — but be careful, there are two). I read Bared to You. Almost mirrored 50 Shades.
A Beautiful Disaster… sounds good. Is it like the song?
I manage my “to read” list on Goodreads.com. You have no idea how much easier it is with their phone app: see a book, add it, done. No more remembering it later and you can friend people there too so you can see what they’re reading and get even more ideas.
Thanks for the feedback – I prefer reading actual books though instead of on my phone or tablet. I’m old school like that. I’ll be good to make a queue though… so I don’t loose track of the books everyone suggests…
I read on both my Nook (it’s easier to slip in the diaper bag for me) and actual books. Goodreads just creates a list for you to go off of and a place where you can see other reader’s reviews, you don’t actually read on their site. I have a widget of it on my blog’s home page.
I’ve seen the widget… I’ll have to get one!
Hi Meghan, I have a few recos for you..I read John Sandford a LOT! I love the police procedural novels and mainly the psychological thrillers. If you’d like I’ll send across a more composite list on your email id. I mainly download my books from wattpad or Amazon apart from the paperbacks I buy online.
Lemme know. My email id-ayanti@gmail.com
hmmm they sound interesting…I’ll add them to the list! I still like hard copies instead of reading from a screen. I sit at a computer all day so looking at another screen to read just doesn’t appeal to me…
I miss reading so much! I started a book back in July, I think it’s called The American Wife (or something like that!) and I really enjoyed what a I read…..BUT I haven’t had a chance to pick it back up since then! Eek. I have no idea how you read at night before bed; I can’t even stay awake to watch a TV show, much less read a book! Aren’t you exhausted?!
Oh and The Help is fantastic! I read it a while back with my book club and then ended up seeing the movie like a week before Annabel was born:) The movie is great, but of course the book is better, so I definitely recommend it!
I hear great things about it… looking forward to reading it. Books are always better than the movie – I finished Hunger Games before the movie came out, but hubby didn’t… so we waited for the DVD, and he finished the book in time… was it worth the wait? eh, kinda. I loved all the actors, but it was impossible to put all the thoughts and emotions conveyed in the book into a 2 hour movie.
Yep, I much preferred the Hunger Games book over the movie. There was just so much background between Katniss, Peeta and Gale that didn’t come across in the movie…..
Exhausted, yes. But I have this weird thing with sleep…takes me FOREVER to fall asleep. I can’t drop like my husband does – I swear within 30 seconds of hitting the pillow, he starts snoring! I need to wind down..because up until the moment I get in bed, I’m go go go! Dishes, laundry, make dinner, clean up this mess, give Avery a bath, … after all that running around my mind is racing and adrenaline is going! Books help me wind down…
Ha, I’m just like your husband then. And my husband is just like you:) I actually wish I needed to wind down a bit and didn’t just collapse in a heap every night before I get all of the stuff done that I want to do!
haha and what I wouldn’t give to be able to fall asleep like you. When I wake up with Avery in the middle of the night I feel like it takes me forever to get back to sleep and juuuuust when i do… he wakes up again. ugh!