#fridayreads Henning Mankel's Italian Shoes, Lucid Food by Louisa Shafia, and The Family by Jeff Sharlet for a project.
What are you reading? Join us each week as we kick off Friday Reads! The Book Studio's Bethanne Patrick meets up with you each Friday via Twitter to find out what everyone's reading. The responses are then displayed below. Look here to decide which book to pick up next!
Reading Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall--a historical novel that's drawn me in so quickly that I don't even mind that it's enormous. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 12:36pm
#fridayreads Howard Frank Mosher's WALKING TO GATLINBURG. Haven't read a good historical fiction book in awhile, looking forward to it.
03/12/2010 - 12:32pm
#fridayreads I'm reading The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver; it's a great read.
03/12/2010 - 12:32pm
Yay! :-) RT @betsywrite: Right now I'm reading "Tempest Rising" by @NicolePeeler. It's perfect reading for Spring Break! #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 12:31pm
My #fridayreads Orange Prize winner Lionel Shriver's poignant new book So Much for That. @thebookmaven Great backlist, too.
03/12/2010 - 12:29pm
Finished Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher and starting Liberty and Tyranny by Mark Levin. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 12:14pm
#FridayReads finally digging into A RELIABLE WIFE from @AlgonquinBooks
03/12/2010 - 12:13pm
Reading "Three cups of Tea" by Greg Mortenson and someone (relin?), and "Without Conscience" by someone with a Ph.D. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 12:13pm
@ProdGuy - I'm onto another by Sarah Caudwell: The Sirens Sang of Murder #fridayreads - I like, once I got used to her style.
03/12/2010 - 12:12pm
@thebookmaven #fridayreads | Angelology by Danielle Trussoni
03/12/2010 - 12:12pm
@tinahender I loved the White Tiger. Hope you enjoy it! #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 12:11pm
I'm still stuck in lousy reading rut. Reading PAGANINI'S GHOST now, waiting for pub of THE IRRESISTABLE HENRY HOUSE next week. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 12:08pm
Ooh another good one for #fridayreads is "Enchantress from the Stars"
Really don't like the title but I LOVE the book
03/12/2010 - 12:06pm
Empire Falls by R. RussoRT It's Friday, and you know what that means! Tweet what you're reading to @thebookmaven #fridayreads @thebookstudio
03/12/2010 - 12:04pm
The more I read of "Reality Hunger," the more I think those up in arms about it have neither sense of humor nor sense of art. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 12:03pm
#fridayreads David Shields "Reality Hunger" ... Laura Miller would be so proud....
03/12/2010 - 11:57am
Book of Silence by Sara Maitland and Girl with Dragon Tattoo #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 11:56am
MATCHED by Allie Condie - fantastic so far! #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 11:55am
re-reading THE AWAKENING by Primo Levi. Forgot all about "the Greek" - what a great character. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 11:53am
PREP by Curtis Sittenfeld and KING DORK by Frank Portman. Oh, and 25 requested ms & proposals in my queue #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 11:53am
#fridayreads "Leadership: The Six Fundamentals of Success," by Stewart R. Levine
03/12/2010 - 11:47am
@thebookmaven I'm reading The White Tiger (print) and Wolf Hall (on the nook) #fridayreads #ebook #epub
03/12/2010 - 11:47am
We're reading: TELEX FROM CUBA (book club), IN OTHER ROOMS OTHER WONDERS (@bookcentric), CUTTING FOR STONE (Jeannie)-more later #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 11:45am
RT @thebookstudio: It's Friday, and you know what that means! Tweet what you're reading to @thebookmaven with the hashtag #fridayreads!
03/12/2010 - 11:43am
My #fridayreads are Stephen Kings On Writing, Junot Diaz's The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao, Heather Barbeiri's Lacemakers Of Glenmara.
03/12/2010 - 11:41am
@thebookmaven Spellwright by Blake Charlton and The Man From Beijing by Henning Mankell #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 11:37am
RT @MsRedPen: Share what you're reading and tag it with #FridayReads. It counts as a good deed, because you'll make @thebookmaven smile.
03/12/2010 - 11:28am
RT @cafeofdreams: Getting started on First Drop of Crimson by Jeaniene Frost! Hope to get in a couple this wkend. @thebookmaven #fridayreads!
03/12/2010 - 11:28am
Getting started on First Drop of Crimson by Jeaniene Frost! Hope to get in a couple this wkend. @thebookmaven #fridayreads!
03/12/2010 - 11:27am
RT @thebookstudio It's Friday, and you know what that means! Tweet what you're reading to @thebookmaven with the hashtag #fridayreads!
03/12/2010 - 11:26am
I'm #reading RUMPOLE & THE GOLDEN THREAD by John Mortimer for #fridayreads.
03/12/2010 - 11:25am
...SOMEONE KNOWS MY NAME by Lawrence Hill, and THE HELP by Kathryn Stockett. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 11:23am
#fridayreads NBCC winner THE AGE OF WONDER by Richard Holmes, THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS by @RebeccaSkloot...
03/12/2010 - 11:22am
Listening to IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS. Was reading THE STOLEN CROWN, but forgot it, so starting SUGAR - lots of #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 11:21am
#fridayreads I'm reading Growing Up Almost Normal in the Middle of Nowhere by John Sheirer <-- 1 of my college teachers
03/12/2010 - 11:20am
RT @thebookstudio It's Friday, and you know what that means! Tweet what you're reading to @thebookmaven with the hashtag #fridayreads!
03/12/2010 - 11:19am
@thebookmaven I'm reading Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 11:18am
Finished DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH (whew!) for book group, just started SOME DREAM FOR FOOLS by Faiza Guene #fridayreads #afrodiaspora
03/12/2010 - 11:17am
@thebookmaven Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 11:17am
RT @thebookstudio: It's Friday, and you know what that means! Tweet what you're reading to @thebookmaven with the hashtag #fridayreads!
03/12/2010 - 11:16am
RT @bookloversgifts: Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gould. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 11:16am
RT @thebookstudio It's Friday, and you know what that means! Tweet what you're reading to @thebookmaven with the hashtag #fridayreads!
03/12/2010 - 11:16am
RT @teenink: BTW, Teen Ink recommends #fridayreads "Dealing with Dragons" "The Giver" "The Martian Chronicles" "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"
03/12/2010 - 11:15am
Robert Frost: A Life by Jay Parini. Excellent and inspiring. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 11:15am
It's Friday, and you know what that means! Tweet what you're reading to @thebookmaven with the hashtag #fridayreads!
03/12/2010 - 11:15am
Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gould. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 11:14am
Reading "The Help" Mom's rec. Says main character reminds her of me. The one with frizzy hair, too tall, bump on nose. Hmm... #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 11:09am
Still working my way thru Year of the Flood, may give up if it doesn't achieve lift-off soon, not as good as Oryx & Crake #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 11:07am
#fridayreads Imperial Life in the Emerald City. Starting it today!
03/12/2010 - 11:06am
hopefully finishing RUMORS OF PEACE, and then starting on @katrinakittle's THE BLESSINGS OF THE ANIMALS! #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 11:05am
So let's put Holly LeCraw's THE SWIMMING POOL on my #fridayreads as well...
03/12/2010 - 10:59am
#fridayreads Deadline Man by Jon Talton as well as Final Target by Steven Gore.
03/12/2010 - 10:59am
RT @thebookmaven Forgot to hassle y'all about #fridayreads. Top Ten Lists w/your picks: http://snurl.com/uppnu [Report your #fridayreads!]
03/12/2010 - 10:59am
Remember, #fridayreads is part of @thebookstudio -- just head over there, see our Top Ten List, archives, and more!
03/12/2010 - 10:58am
Just finished "Cloud Atlas" - astounded me. Will buy a copy just to mark lines I loved. Recommended. http://bit.ly/cEtdv #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 10:56am
BTW, Teen Ink recommends #fridayreads "Dealing with Dragons" "The Giver" "The Martian Chronicles" "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"
03/12/2010 - 10:55am
RT @teenink: Teen Inkers: tweet about the book you're reading with the tag #fridayreads I'd love to read your recommendations!
03/12/2010 - 10:54am
Funny to have a typo in a tweet about editing. #FridayReads
03/12/2010 - 10:54am
Teen Inkers: tweet about the book you're reading with the tag #fridayreads I'd love to read your recommendations!
03/12/2010 - 10:53am
After I finish editing this morning, diving in Yoko Ogawa's The Housekeeper and the Professor. #FridayReads
03/12/2010 - 10:52am
I'm about to start a manuscript an author sent me. (I had told him I'm a big fan of his last book.) I feel so special! #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 10:52am
RT @thebookmaven: Thanks to all who have recommended #fridayreads to their followers this morning. We're close to 200 different participants/responses!
03/12/2010 - 10:51am
#fridayreads "Death is Forever" by Elizabeth Lowell & "Sundays at Tiffany's" by James Patterson. So far so good for both! :) #books#reading
03/12/2010 - 10:51am
Have you? RT @thebookmaven Thanks to all who have recommended #fridayreads to their followers this morning...
03/12/2010 - 10:51am
I'm starting something new today maybe Affinity Bridge by Mann or Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter by Grahame-Smith. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 10:50am
Right now I'm reading "Tempest Rising" by @NicolePeeler. It's perfect reading for Spring Break! #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 10:50am
Cozying up with Earl Grey and The Red Umbrella by @ChristinaDG this dreary morning! Rain, rain, go away! #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 10:50am
@thebookmaven My #fridayreads: finishing MAYFLOWER (in these March showers) and then very excited to buy & begin THE LOST CITY OF Z.
03/12/2010 - 10:49am
#FF for ideas on what to read next follow #FridayReads and while you are at it post what you are reading now / tag #FridayReads. So many bks
03/12/2010 - 10:48am
@ThoughtfulPen I'm putting The Mermaid on my (already too long, dammit) TBR list. Thanks! #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 10:48am
My #fridayreads is from my fave author Shana Abe. It's 2004, titled The Mermaid. Really good book.
03/12/2010 - 10:47am
Just beginning Suite Scarlett by @maureenjohnson . Hoping it's as good as I've heard! #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 10:47am
RT @thebookmaven: Thanks to all who have recommended #fridayreads to their followers this morning. We're close to 200 different participants/responses!
03/12/2010 - 10:47am
Spending the weekend @ the gym, then bedside w/ David Mitchell (The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet). All smiles here. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 10:46am
Thanks to all who have recommended #fridayreads to their followers this morning. We're close to 200 different participants/responses!
03/12/2010 - 10:45am
#fridayreads "I Capture the Castle" by Dodie Smith--my favorite book of all time :)
03/12/2010 - 10:44am
Just started re-reading "The Gunslinger" (book 1 of Stephen King's Dark Tower series). Seriously as good as I remember. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 10:42am
What part are you at? RT @bookladysblog I'm loving my #fridayreads: FLAWLESS by Scott Andrew Selby & Greg Campbell, from @unionsqpress
03/12/2010 - 10:41am
#FridayReads It's eBook week! For a FREE My River Chronicles excerpt( http://bit.ly/dAfLoH )DM or email ex@myriverchronicles.com
03/12/2010 - 10:40am
Still sick 2day, so #fridayreads r Sara Gruen- Water for Elephants, Riding Lessons, & Flying Changes. Pls some1 get me a copy of Ape House!
03/12/2010 - 10:39am
RT @SarahFowler You know, all these #fridayreads recommendations are not making my to-read stack any shorter! #enablers #addictedtobooks
03/12/2010 - 10:39am
Last #FridayReads is an old fave...The Life and Opinions the Tomcat Murr by E. T. A. Hoffman. Odd to be sure, but delightfully so :)
03/12/2010 - 10:38am
#FridayReads pt 2 is Lynne Olson's Citizens of London which I'm thoroughly enjoying. Fascinating snapshot of Murrow, Winant and Harriman.
03/12/2010 - 10:36am
Alison Bechdel's FUN HOME and Yehuda Amichai's THE SELECTED POETRY OF YEHUDA AMICHAI #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 10:35am
Reading my 20th Robert B Parker book SMALL VICES. @SusanDEisenberg - I hope you are happy that you got me hooked! #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 10:35am
#fridayreads Matterhorn, a novel of the VietNam War by Karl Marlantes and finally reading YA novel Shiver by Maggie Stiwfvater
03/12/2010 - 10:35am
@ElisabethWeed Much different, but your surname reminded me that THE WEED THAT STRINGS THE HANGMAN'S BAG is out! #bookrec #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 10:35am
Three part #FridayReads: Sad to finish My River Chronicles by @JessicaDuLong, but highly recommend it for her voice and message. 1/3
03/12/2010 - 10:34am
I am on pg 198 of 532 of Hilary Mantel's NBCC winning novel WOLF HALL #fridayreads #reading
03/12/2010 - 10:33am
RT @SarahFowler: You know, all these #fridayreads recommendations are not making my to-read stack any shorter! #enablers #addictedtobooks
03/12/2010 - 10:32am
OK, I forget to hassle y'all about #fridayreads this hour. I create Top Ten Lists w/your picks: http://snurl.com/uppnu
03/12/2010 - 10:29am
#fridayreads Still reading Dracula by Bram Stoker. Figured it was time to find out what real vampires are like. ;) Liking it so far.
03/12/2010 - 10:29am
#FridayReads The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. It's amazing even though I don't usually read high fantasy.
03/12/2010 - 10:26am
#fridayreads The Rewards of Simplicity by Pam & Chuck D. Pierce
03/12/2010 - 10:25am
Hot Mahogany by Stuart Woods #fridayreads Stone Barrington is way cooler than Perry Mason.
03/12/2010 - 10:19am
#fridayreads The First Annual Grand Prairie Rabbit Festival (by @kenwheaton) and Shalom Auslander's Foreskin's Lament (thx @julieklam)
03/12/2010 - 10:17am
Today's #fridayreads includes GONE WITH THE WIND and A CENTURY TURNS. Maybe some THE ANNOTATED NOSE for good measure. Or FRANNY AND ZOOEY.
03/12/2010 - 10:16am
#fridayreads Leadership Building Blocks by Dawn McCoy
03/12/2010 - 10:15am
@thebookmaven Morning! Reading "Sleeping with Ward Cleaver" by @JennyGardiner. Needed something light after "The Woodlanders". #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 10:08am
This weekend, we're re-reading Kimm Walton's Guerilla Tactics for Getting the Legal Job of Your Dreams. What about you? #fridayreads, #TGIF
03/12/2010 - 10:04am
I'm on a vampire kick again. Currently reading THE VAMPIRE DIARIES: THE FURY by LJ Smith #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 10:04am
Finished #reading Surviving Paradise by Peter Rudiak-Gould. starting Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 10:04am
@MsRedPen @krissimmons I loved Didion's YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 10:00am
just finishing ANGELOLOGY -- love it. tomorrow on to debut YA novel THE BEAUTIFUL BETWEEN by Alyssa B. Sheinmal @thebookmaven #FridayReads
03/12/2010 - 9:58am
Share what you're reading and tag it with #FridayReads. It counts as a good deed, because you'll make @thebookmaven smile.
03/12/2010 - 9:57am
RT @publishingworks: Maybe we should start a #fridayedits instead of #fridayreads. I feel like I have so little time to just read.
03/12/2010 - 9:57am
#FridayReads: LONGBORN'S UNEXPECTED MATCHMAKER - an unexpected spin on PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
03/12/2010 - 9:56am
#fridayreads back from the brink by snowdon. good so far.
03/12/2010 - 9:55am
@thebookmaven RT @mdbenoit2: Reading J. D. Robb's Kindred in Death. 97 pgs in, I'm underwhelmed so far. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 9:54am
I'm in the middle of Javier Marias's A Heart So White and love love loving it! #FridayReads
03/12/2010 - 9:53am
Reading J. D. Robb's Kindred in Death. 97 pgs in, I'm underwhelmed so far. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 9:53am
Finished Black by Ted Dekker last night. Now reading Men and Cartoons by Jonathan Lethem. #FridayReads
03/12/2010 - 9:51am
@ thebookmaven #FridayReads DEVOTION by Dani Shapiro
03/12/2010 - 9:51am
Ok, I plan to (finally) start Elizabeth Kostova's THE SWAN THIEVES today. Really, I mean it this time. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 9:50am
#fridayReads @krissimmons What do you think of Year of Magical Thinking? I've thought about reading it. Worried it might be too bleak.
03/12/2010 - 9:50am
RT @thebookmaven: Keep those #fridayreads coming in; feel free to tell us why we should read something, too...or ask for a #bookrec!
03/12/2010 - 9:46am
@debra47 I want to read more ATONEMENT now, but need uninterrupted time :) I saw the film already and just wanted more! #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 9:46am
Beautifully written, one long suspenseful chase scene The Knife of Never Letting Go #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 9:44am
GIRL W DRAGON TATTOO is picking up. After the first ch I was about to throw it across the room, now Stieg's got me hooked. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 9:43am
I'm in the middle of QUEEN VICTORIA, DEMON HUNTER....different #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 9:43am
@thebookmaven #FridayReads recently finished an ARC of @SarahAddisonAll Girl Who Chased the Moon. I highly recommend all her books #FoodLit
03/12/2010 - 9:42am
My #fridayreads (well, #fridaylisten anyway) is Scott Lynch's Red Seas Under Red Skies. Hurrah for Locke Lamora!
03/12/2010 - 9:42am
Less than 100 pages left of A Reliable Wife. Not my usual reading fare but enjoying it nevertheless. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 9:41am
@WriterFish So far The Kind Diet is good. Only in the first chapter, though. I'll keep you posted. :) What about your reads? #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 9:41am
@janflora You won't be able to put down Atonement. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 9:40am
And finally, for my #ToB reading, I will read BIG MACHINE and BOOK OF NIGHT WOMEN this week. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 9:40am
I just finished (and also loved) THE THREE WEISSMANNS OF WESTPORT. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 9:38am
Hey, what are you reading? Please post to #fridayreads. /via @sonya_unrein
03/12/2010 - 9:38am
I am reading and loving (take THAT ToB!) THAT OLD CAPE MAGIC. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 9:36am
#fridayreads rereading HUNGER GAMES for 7 millionth time, brainstorming mindnight party ideas for MOCKINGJAY!
03/12/2010 - 9:33am
#fridayreads Half way through Deliverance Dane; beginning Let The Great World Spin & would like to read The Kind Diet. Any good? @smtwngrl
03/12/2010 - 9:32am
You know, all these #fridayreads recommendations are not making my to-read stack any shorter! #enablers #addictedtobooks
03/12/2010 - 9:31am
For YA, I'm reading a fun adventure called MIDDLEWORLD by Veolkel from Edgemomt. Fast paced, Mayan myths & fun! Ages 8-12 #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 9:29am
#fridayreads As Easter approaches, I'm celebrating Scandinavian-style: finished TGWKT HORNET'S NEST & starting back on Nesbo's THE REDBREAST
03/12/2010 - 9:28am
RT @PD_Smith: Thinking about those stories while reviewing Sandel's fine book "Justice" (http://bit.ly/cTm6JL) #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 9:27am
Maybe we should start a #fridayedits instead of #fridayreads. I feel like I have so little time to just read.
03/12/2010 - 9:27am
#FridayReads Jeanne Birdsall's PENDERWICKS crashed my reading list this week after daughter read for school & made rest of fam read it too.
03/12/2010 - 9:26am
"Directing the Story" by Francis Glebas. Animation storyboarding techniques, but connects well with picture books too. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 9:25am
Thinking about those stories while reviewing Sandel's fine book "Justice" (http://bit.ly/cTm6JL) #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 9:25am
@Bibliojo are you saying that's what keeps people from sharing #fridayreads?
03/12/2010 - 9:25am
RT @thebookmaven: We're on track for 50 unique responses to #fridayreads per hour. If so inclined, tell a friend and thanks for taking part!
03/12/2010 - 9:25am
RT @thebookmaven: Good morning, tweeps; it's time for #fridayreads. Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell - great fun!
03/12/2010 - 9:25am
Reading The Best American Poetry of 2009 and, still, Infinite Jest. @thebookmaven #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 9:24am
@Bibliojo I know metadata, it was open archives part that confused me. Should we close #fridayreads archives, is that what you're saying?
03/12/2010 - 9:24am
RT @hieronymus: I've done my #FridayReads part, have you? Make @TheBookMaven happy and post your books for the weekend.
03/12/2010 - 9:24am
#fridayreads BADLANDS by Cynthia Reeves - an exquisite heart-wrenching novella. A reread actually - because it rewards that.
03/12/2010 - 9:23am
Started a non-fic book last night called Blind Descent (Tabor). Fascinating! Think Into Thin Air for cave exploration! #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 9:23am
Looking forward to curling up with @Marilynajohnson s This Book Is Overdue #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 9:23am
Hey, what are you reading? Please post to #fridayreads.
03/12/2010 - 9:23am
Almost finished reading "Paris Times Eight" by Deidre Kelly...picked it up in a little bookstore in Greenwich Village-absorbing #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 9:22am
RT @krissimmons: Will you post whatever you're reading at the moment with #fridayreads? You would not BELIEVE how happy it'd make @bookmaven
03/12/2010 - 9:21am
I've done my #FridayReads part, have you? Make @TheBookMaven happy and post your books for the weekend.
03/12/2010 - 9:17am
Hope you like! RT @StrachanLit: Reading something COMPLETELY out of my usual range: Can't Stand the Heat by @louisaedwards #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 9:17am
My books this weekend: The Bounty by Alexander and Storm Front by Butcher, the first Harry Dresden book. #FridayReads
03/12/2010 - 9:15am
@JulieKlam HeLa is my #FridayReads as well!Started reading after I saw a @rebeccaskloot talk.Love it!(& I think you should steal it back :)
03/12/2010 - 9:15am
RT @thebookmaven We're on track for 50 unique responses to #fridayreads per hour. If so inclined, tell a friend and thanks for taking part!
03/12/2010 - 9:15am
Also reading GOING BOVINE this week after my YA son read it :) http://goingbovine.com/ #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 9:15am
Followers:will you post whatever you're reading at the moment with a #fridayReads tag? You would not BELIEVE how happy it'd make @bookmaven.
03/12/2010 - 9:14am
For #fridayreads I am completing THE LADY IN THE TOWER by Alison Weir. Interesting to think about this bk in relation to WOLF HALL.
03/12/2010 - 9:14am
#ff @thebookmaven for publishing insights & #fridayreads, @FakeAPStylebook, @DrSamuelJohnson, @marcusbrig & @thingsgretasays for laughs
03/12/2010 - 9:14am
@janflora Oh you will love it. The writing is so beautiful... reminds me of Steinbeck. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 9:14am
Finished Size 14 is Not Fat, Either (Meg Cabot) last nite. Still reading The Kind Diet (Alicia Silverstone). What're u reading? #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 9:13am
@thebookmaven Did you count Violet's and Paul's and Beatrice's #Fridayreads?
03/12/2010 - 9:12am
#fridayreads Blood & Thunder, since I have to wait my turn for the new Hampton Sides ARC.
03/12/2010 - 9:12am
I.O.U. by John Lanchester is a comprehensible and very witty explanation of the banking crisis. It flies by. I promise. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 9:12am
Reading the marvellous One Day by David Nicholls #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 9:12am
Just finished Joelle Anthony's "Restoring Harmony" due out this May. Starting..."The Human Disguise" and "House Rules"... #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 9:12am
#fridayreads INCARCERON by Catherine Fisher. Dystopian YA. S'good. http://bit.ly/NnhST
03/12/2010 - 9:11am
Reading Sky Coyote by Kage Baker and El diablo de Yudis by Ahmed Doudi #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 9:10am
RT @thebookmaven: We're on track for 50 unique responses to #fridayreads per hour. If so inclined, tell a friend and thanks for taking part!
03/12/2010 - 9:10am
#fridayreads: Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and for (fab) non-fic Something from the Oven, by Laura Shapiro
03/12/2010 - 9:10am
Re-reading Salinger's Nine Stories & Franny & Zooey. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 9:09am
Reading Cotillion by Georgette Heyer and loving it. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 9:09am
Sparked by a great article @The_Rumpus on resident bohemians of the Chelsea Hotel, I'm reading Joseph O'Neill's Netherland #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 9:09am
RT @thebookmaven: We're on track for 50 unique responses to #fridayreads per hour. If so inclined, tell a friend and thanks for taking part!
03/12/2010 - 9:08am
Diana Gabaldon's ECHO IN THE BONE is keeping up later that I need to be up every night. #fridayReads
03/12/2010 - 9:08am
RT @thebookmaven: We're on track for 50 unique responses to #fridayreads per hour. If so inclined, tell a friend and thanks for taking part!
03/12/2010 - 9:08am
#fridayreads What Is Left the Daughter @hmhbooks Howard Norman *my first Norman novel* due in July http://bit.ly/cBWRuH
03/12/2010 - 9:07am
RT @thebookmaven: We're on track for 50 unique responses to #fridayreads per hour. Tell a friend and thanks for taking part!
03/12/2010 - 9:07am
We're on track for 50 unique responses to #fridayreads per hour. If so inclined, tell a friend and thanks for taking part!
03/12/2010 - 9:06am
THE SCATTERING poems by Christopher Reid won the Costa Book of the Year Award. Accessible. You feel and learn from his grief.#fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 9:04am
Crabwalk by G Grass. Greatest maritime disaster of 20th Century was sinking of the Gustloff in 1945, not the Titanic. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 9:04am
Reading Julia James' new Something About You. Pretty cover. Fun characters. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 9:03am
@thebookmaven #fridayreads unless I unplug from the world and read all weekend, it'll probably be one more week :-)
03/12/2010 - 9:00am
#fridayreads LA'S ORCHESTRA SAVES THE WORLD by Alexander McCall Smith
03/12/2010 - 8:57am
ABE LINCOLN; VAMPIRE HUNTER #fridayreads #bookrec Sounds silly, but it's a really fun & interesting read.
03/12/2010 - 8:55am
My #Fridayreads is ETHAN FROMME. Reading a book for the first time is like getting to know a new friend. @thebookmaven
03/12/2010 - 8:54am
@petezoe #fridayreads It really DOES take a while. Feel free to have the same fridayreads book for more than one week! :)
03/12/2010 - 8:53am
@thebookmaven As you will. You did ask, though! Cool stuff, actually, paging thru #fridayreads. Much I haven't heard of.
03/12/2010 - 8:53am
Embarassed to say it's still 'russian debutante's handbook'. In my defense, it's a long one! #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 8:53am
I'm reading Stephen King's Under the Dome. I have Olive Kitteridge on deck. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 8:53am
#fridayreads Halfway through "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle." I love big books, but it takes a while to read 600 pp, 20-40 pp a day.
03/12/2010 - 8:52am
My #fridayreads ~ started ATONEMENT last night. Yes, finally.
03/12/2010 - 8:52am
THEREBY HANGS A TAIL with @chetthedog from @atriabooks for my subway commute today. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 8:51am
My #Fridayreads - MAJOR PETTIGREW'S LAST STAND and RABBI HARVEY VS. THE WISDOM KID.
03/12/2010 - 8:48am
This #fridayreads finds me with The Dead And The Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer in hand... a read-along with @stephxsu! So creepy and good.
03/12/2010 - 8:47am
Starting Push today. Just finished "In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents..." #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 8:46am
Keep those #fridayreads coming in; feel free to tell us why we should read something, too...or ask for a #bookrec!
03/12/2010 - 8:46am
RT @thebookmaven: Remember: Your #fridayreads can be ANYTHING. THE GIRL ON LEGARE STREET & THE WAR OF ART
03/12/2010 - 8:46am
And while waiting, I have Alice in Wonderland for my #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 8:45am
#fridayreads Just started UNBOUND: A True Story of War, Love, and Survival by Dean King. http://bit.ly/bo6ZpM Dean: pls write faster.
03/12/2010 - 8:43am
#fridayreads Just finished @ArynKyle 's THE GOD OF ANIMALS last night (LOVED IT) and moving on to THE HUMMINGBIRD'S DAUGHTER by @Urrealism.
03/12/2010 - 8:43am
Cool title! RT @sarahw: I'm deep into reading NEVER TELL OUR BUSINESS TO STRANGERS by @jennifermascia. It's very, very good. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 8:42am
#fridayreads francophones might enjoy ‘Algérie, terre de rencontres’ by Pruvost / Ammour. Written as dialogue.Musings on islamology+Algeria.
03/12/2010 - 8:42am
#fridayreads City of Thieves by David Benioff (loving it!), plus lots lots lots of submissions.
03/12/2010 - 8:41am
#fridayreads In the middle of Patti Smith's Just Kids and starting Zeitoun by Dave Eggers.
03/12/2010 - 8:39am
@thebookmaven I'm loving my #fridayreads: FLAWLESS by Scott Andrew Selby and Greg Campbell, from @unionsqpress
03/12/2010 - 8:38am
@thebookmaven #fridayreads David (5) loves to read Fine as we are by Algy Craig Hall -- about a big frog family.
03/12/2010 - 8:37am
@thebookmaven Recovering copy editor needs to know: Are #fridayreads reminders more than once an hour, or the sharing?
03/12/2010 - 8:36am
#fridayreads I'm reading THE MAZE RUNNER, by James Dashner
03/12/2010 - 8:36am
@thebookmaven #fridayreads: CHEF by Jaspreet Singh (May) and THREE WEISSMANS OF WESTPORT by Cathleen Schine
03/12/2010 - 8:35am
#fridayreads Crunching through DEXTER BY DESIGN in audiobook while doing chores, then rereading STITCHES and maybe tackle AVENGERS/INVADERS.
03/12/2010 - 8:33am
For #fridayreads, I'm deep into reading NEVER TELL OUR BUSINESS TO STRANGERS by @jennifermascia. It's very, very good.
03/12/2010 - 8:33am
@thebookmaven my kids #fridayreads Virginia (11) is loving Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh, Patricia is in another Anne of Green Gables bk
03/12/2010 - 8:31am
#fridayreads "The Secret Sister" by Elizabeth Lowell, but soon to be "Blindspot" by Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore :)
03/12/2010 - 8:30am
#FridayReads Shanghai Girls by Lisa See - very interesting historical perspective on China & U.S. 1st half of 20th C + character dev
03/12/2010 - 8:30am
Looking forward to my #fridayreads being the new books by @jenwgilmore @JulieKlam @EmilyMandel @EliseBlackwell @Leavittnovelist and others!
03/12/2010 - 8:30am
@thebookmaven THE WHISKEY REBELS by David Liss. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 8:29am
Starting Major Pettigrew RT @thebookmaven: Good morning, tweeps; it's time for #fridayreads.
03/12/2010 - 8:29am
Reading Toni Morrison's A MERCY. I don't exactly understand what's happening, but it's still a great song! #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 8:29am
#fridayreads - Started Moab is my washpot by the fabulous @stephenfry last night
03/12/2010 - 8:27am
Reading BASEBALL'S GREATEST HIT for my panel at the Empire State Book Festival. Next: @Leavittnovelist's MEETING ROZZY HALFWAY. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 8:26am
#fridayreads Never Let Me Go by Kazuro Ishiguro. Love it even as I'm squirming.
03/12/2010 - 8:22am
@thebookmaven Just starting Becoming Alice: A Memoir by Alice Rene #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 8:22am
I'm also reading Dumas' Twenty Years After but it's temporarily on the back burner #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 8:22am
This weekend's #FridayReads: TAROKO GORGE, BEAUTIFUL DEAD, FLAWLESS, PIECES OF HAPPILY EVER AFTER, and/or THE WIFE'S TALE
03/12/2010 - 8:20am
#fridayreads Reading through the issues of comics I picked up this week, then finishing THE BOY WHO HARNESSED THE WIND.
03/12/2010 - 8:19am
@thebookmaven Reading one new, Anne Tyler's Noah's Compass, and one old, The Great Gatsby. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 8:18am
RT @thebookmaven: Your #fridayreads can be ANYTHING. All reading persuasions welcome! We are not just a lit-fic clique. We're about reading.
03/12/2010 - 8:18am
#fridayreads Around here it's Smith College Stories from 1901. Including the fabulously titled "Biscuits Ex Machina."
03/12/2010 - 8:17am
RT @thebookmaven: Your #fridayreads can be ANYTHING. All reading persuasions welcome! We are not just a lit-fic clique. We're about reading.
03/12/2010 - 8:16am
This Friday I'm reading LOCK AND KEY by Sarah Dessen #fridayreads @read4justice
03/12/2010 - 8:16am
RT @thebookmaven: Remember: Your #fridayreads can be ANYTHING. All reading persuasions are welcome! We are not just a lit-fic clique.
03/12/2010 - 8:14am
Actually reading something COMPLETELY out of my usual range: Can't Stand the Heat by @louisaedwards #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 8:12am
I'm reading Admission and enjoying it completely. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 8:12am
Now reading Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by Chelsea Handler...even the punctuation is funny. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 8:10am
#fridayreads Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession, Julie Powell
03/12/2010 - 8:08am
#fridayreads Currently reading The Believers. Really enjoyed the first half. It's gotten very put-downable now, though. Hope it gets better
03/12/2010 - 8:08am
#fridayreads will be adventures of sherlock holmes if i get feeling up to it. too sick even to read right now.
03/12/2010 - 8:06am
#fridayreads I'm reading Ruby Rogers GET A LIFE by Sue Limb to my daughter. Series is a MG delight.
03/12/2010 - 8:05am
Being fascinated by Robert Goolrick's A RELIABLE WIFE for #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 8:04am
Almost finishing Edmund Crispin's 'Holy Disorders' but not enjoying it as much as his other books. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 8:03am
#fridayreads I'm barreling through @PhilippaJane's DIGITAL MAGIC. Don't want to put it down, but responsibilities call.
03/12/2010 - 8:03am
Remember: Your #fridayreads can be ANYTHING. All reading persuasions are welcome! We are not just a lit-fic clique. We're about reading.
03/12/2010 - 8:03am
#fridayreads Again, I have about 4 books on the go, but primarily reading EVIDENCE (Jonathan Kellerman). Quick, easy who-done-it.
03/12/2010 - 8:01am
@thebookmaven reading #fridayreads for inspiration today. I'll survey the kids and post theirs a la @julieklam and Violet
03/12/2010 - 7:57am
'The day is a morsel. One bite and it's gone, so let's get busy.' from Erri de Luca's GOD'S MOUNTAIN. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 7:56am
One of my favorites. RT @JulieKlam: And Violet's #FridayReads Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder @thebookmaven
03/12/2010 - 7:55am
.@JulieKlam I ordered your book. Should arrive soon. Maybe it will be In next week's #fridayreads tweet. Also ordered Five Finger Fiction.
03/12/2010 - 7:55am
@JulieKlam Oh, LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE is one of my all-time favorites.#fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 7:54am
And Beatrice the Dog is reading Dog Years by Mark Doty @thebookmaven #fridayreads.
03/12/2010 - 7:54am
And Violet's #FridayReads Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder @thebookmaven
03/12/2010 - 7:53am
#fridayreads I'm reading The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet. I'm about half into it and it's a good read. :)
03/12/2010 - 7:52am
I'm going to do a #Fridayreads for Paul, too. He is reading #Hela by @rebeccaskloot (stolen from me!) @thebookmaven
03/12/2010 - 7:50am
I'm reading Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 7:48am
Today's #books column: A Vicarious Vacation in Ireland: http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4786929 #fridayreads #wkndreads #reading
03/12/2010 - 7:47am
@SarahFowler REALLY appreciate your spreading the word to others re #fridayreads. Thank you!
03/12/2010 - 7:47am
.@thebookmaven Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America by Kati Marton, and Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 7:46am
Very fortunate to be reading forthcoming US ed. (thx @FSG_Books) of RAIN: Poems by Don Paterson soon to be rev. in Solar Mirage #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 7:44am
Finishing "The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet" (Reif Larsen). Adventures of a 12-yr-old mapmaker, margins full of drawings, etc. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 7:44am
@thebookmaven Frances Mayes' new memoir EVERY DAY IN TUSCANY is ramblng; like a friend describing events. Fun armchair travels. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 7:44am
Hey @oclslibrary do you follow the #fridayreads conversation?
03/12/2010 - 7:40am
#fridayreads finishing Jeffrey Rotter's novel The Unknown Knowns & Brad Watson's story collection Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives
03/12/2010 - 7:35am
#fridayreads John Williams's brilliant STONER @thebookmaven
03/12/2010 - 7:30am
#fridayreads Jonathan Balcombe's SECOND NATURE: Inner Lives of Animals (Palgrave) @thebookmaven
03/12/2010 - 7:26am
@thebookmaven #Fridayreads (and remind as often as you like) Finishing the @KenFosterWrites The Dogs Who Found Me (LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!!!)
03/12/2010 - 7:26am
@thebookmaven Reading WOMEN FOOD AND GOD by @GeneenRoth and beginning The Help by Catherine Sockett #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 7:23am
@thebookmaven Not intrusive at all. Some of us need the reminder :) #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 7:23am
#fridayreads Hugh Hood, THE CAMERA ALWAYS LIES, (The New Canadian Library)
03/12/2010 - 7:23am
#fridayreads informal survey: If I remind everyone to share more than once an hour, is that all right, or intrusive?
03/12/2010 - 7:20am
just started house rules by @jodipicoult. wish it were on kindle! listening to half broke horses by jeannette walls. #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 7:17am
@thebookmaven Reading a cookbook! LA BONNE SOUPE COOKBOOK and made 2 recipes from it this week. #FridayReads
03/12/2010 - 7:14am
@thebookmaven #fridayreads Persuasion by Jane Austen.
03/12/2010 - 7:13am
#fridayreads The Champion by Elizabeth Chadwick, Mort by Terry Pratchett, A Duke of Her Own by Eloisa James.
03/12/2010 - 7:13am
My #fridayreads: FINGERSMITH by Sarah Waters, TWO TOWERS by JRR Tolkien, PTOLEMY'S GATE by Jonathan Stroud (on audio)
03/12/2010 - 7:11am
#fridayreads Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life by Carol Sklenicka & Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America by Bertram Gross
03/12/2010 - 7:10am
Morning! @thebookmaven I'm reading Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte & Governess by Ruth Brandon #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 7:04am
@thebookmaven my #fridayreads is The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting!
03/12/2010 - 7:03am
The Pillow Book (S.Shonagon) & hoping to start Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (H.Murakami) / Her Fearful Symmetry (A.Niffenegger) #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 7:03am
My #fridayreads is GAME CHANGE, which I started but was diverted from finishing.
03/12/2010 - 7:00am
Good morning, tweeps; it's time for #fridayreads. I'm finishing the ARC of TAKE GOOD CARE OF THE GARDEN AND THE DOGS by Heather Lende. You?
03/12/2010 - 6:58am
RT @WayfaringReader: Love to see @thebookmaven's #fridayreads become the book equivalent of #MusicMonday. Tweet your reads! Use #fridayreads
03/12/2010 - 6:53am
For #fridayreads I'm reading Linchpin and I'm afraid I'm still behind on Jonathan Edwards' Freedom of the Will, which I plan to remedy
03/12/2010 - 6:51am
#fridayreads The Tale of Genji. ever heard of it? it's the first novel ever, written by a woman, Lady Murasaki Shikibu entirely in Hiragana.
03/12/2010 - 6:15am
My #fridayreads remains unchanged (but not for long): #2666 and @thewomaninwhite.
03/12/2010 - 6:12am
