What are you currently reading?

[red solo cup]

Is Paris Burning?  How Paris Miraculously Escaped Adolf Hitler's Sentence Of Death In August 1944 by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre.

[Hannelore]

Finishing up Harry Potter #4. My favorite one.

[Hannelore]

Centennial, by James Michener. People hated the narrator, so hopefully I can stand him.

[FaithByProxy]

Currently slogging through The Count of Monte Cristo. I never read it growing up so I'm attempting to now, and boy is it hard to get through a novel this length as a homeschooling mother now haha. I'm enjoying it so far, though.

[Hannelore]

Currently slogging through The Count of Monte Cristo. I never read it growing up so I'm attempting to now, and boy is it hard to get through a novel this length as a homeschooling mother now haha. I'm enjoying it so far, though.

One of my favorites. I downloaded it as an audio book from Librivox.org.

[Christina_S]

Finished Nineteen Eighty-Four yesterday, so now I'm on to Yours, Till Heaven, which tells the story of the marriage of Charles and Susie Spurgeon. A Protestant friend gifted it to me.

[Hannelore]

Bleak House, one of my favorite Dickens novels.

[Elizabeth.2]

Currently slogging through The Count of Monte Cristo. I never read it growing up so I'm attempting to now, and boy is it hard to get through a novel this length as a homeschooling mother now haha. I'm enjoying it so far, though.

It stresses me out so much I can't get through it.  The betrayal. 

[Hannelore]

Currently slogging through The Count of Monte Cristo. I never read it growing up so I'm attempting to now, and boy is it hard to get through a novel this length as a homeschooling mother now haha. I'm enjoying it so far, though.

It stresses me out so much I can't get through it.  The betrayal.

What a shame. It's so good. People think it's about revenge, but it's not really.

[red solo cup]

Game Change. Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin.

[Christina_S]

On to Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis.

[Prayerful]

Dissolution of the Monasteries, a New History, James G. Clark. It treats of the dissolution of the monasteries in England and Wales, where Henry VIII held sway, but does not cover Ireland, stating that that is different story, its own. Given the sheer size, there is already enough material. Scotland is omitted as it was a separate kingdom with its own king.

One thing with Scotland is it had a few lay abbots or so when it was firmly Calvinist under James I. The assets were presumably a useful thing for the king to have in his gift, and James did sometimes entertain ideas of a sort of peace with Catholicism.

[Hannelore]

The Help. It's been a while since I last read it.

[red solo cup]

The Age of the Moguls by Stewart Holbrook

[Christina_S]

DH started reading aloud from St. Gallen Mafia by Julia Meloni. I'd say it's an engaging, quick-paced mystery/thriller, but the fact that it's real makes it somehow less enthralling...