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Friday Reads: July 30, 2010

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!

'Modern Love' and 'Ike and Nina' by T.C. Boyle. Also, 'The Steel Remains' by Richard K. Morgan. Last minute #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:53pm

Belated #fridayreads are Transit of Venus/Hazzard (still), Dark Tide/Puleo (Boston city read) and Back Spin/Coben

07/30/2010 - 11:45pm

@SheikYurbouti You Are Not A Gadget and The Wings of the Dove #reading #fridayreads #lofnotc

07/30/2010 - 11:45pm

Borrowed my mom's copy of Isabel Allende's memoir, The Sum Of Our Days, while I sat in a lawn chair and got a suntan. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:43pm

Enjoying an Anna Pigeon mystery FLASHBACK and also RAPT: ATTENTION & THE FOCUSED LIFE (Winifred Gallagher) #FridayReads

07/30/2010 - 11:31pm

Getting my #FridayReads in under the wire. Finished NUDE by @NualaNiC Wonderful! Great characters that leave you wanting more. #JustOneBook

07/30/2010 - 11:25pm

Over the long weekend I'm listening to excerpts from John Updike's The Early Stories 1953-75. How about you? #FridayListens #FridayReads

07/30/2010 - 11:09pm

BTW look what i had in my purse at the car negotiation! my secret weapon #ff @laurazigman and #fridayreads too! http://twitpic.com/2a7cm4

07/30/2010 - 11:01pm

finished TGWTDT by Stieg Larsson and now reading PRAY FOR SILENCE by Linda Castillo #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:47pm

@wheelmaker I just found you by your #Fridayreads tag! How random! It's Kathryn, btw. :)

07/30/2010 - 10:19pm

#Fridayreads Sizzling Sixteen.

07/30/2010 - 10:18pm

RT @monnibo: #fridayreads I'm reading ANNABEL by Kathleen Winter. @supremetronic @HouseofAnansi

07/30/2010 - 10:03pm

#fridayreads Not a book, but I'm reading this intriguing article about authenticating art & "forensic provenance" http://bit.ly/aZ6fvc

07/30/2010 - 9:50pm

#fridayreads - In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

07/30/2010 - 9:45pm

#fridayreads Monsters of Men, by Patrick Ness - long but good ending

07/30/2010 - 9:40pm

I'm feeling too wiped out for any #fridayreads but if I weren't, it would be more Piazza Tales. Bartleby so good a third time around.

07/30/2010 - 9:29pm

#fridayreads island beneath the sea

07/30/2010 - 9:26pm

Having a hard time putting down THE DOMINO MEN by Jonathan Barnes http://ow.ly/2j6PY Definitely worth picking up. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:01pm

#FridayReads Finishing up PIECES OF HAPPILY EVER AFTER by Irene Zutell then I shall begin NOW'S THE TIME by Larry Strauss.

07/30/2010 - 8:55pm

crap! let's try that again. late #FRIDAYreads: VAULTS by @toby_ball and TAROKO GORGE by @jacobritari

07/30/2010 - 8:49pm

@thebookmaven I'm ready to cuddle up & read Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana. It's luscious. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 8:37pm

Reading Good Grief by Lolly Winston (thx to @aswinn rec) ~ hard to put down #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 8:20pm

Savoring "The Quiet American" a few pages at a time. #fridayreads #fb

07/30/2010 - 8:18pm

I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone & No One Can Pay by John Lanchester - a brilliant explanation of contemporary economics. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 8:18pm

i'm finishing up Ceremony and getting into American Salvage for this week's #fridayreads. oh, and maybe Maus later tonight!

07/30/2010 - 8:18pm

RT @BookSparksPR: Reading the new issue of @EW with the lovely Julia Roberts on the cover #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 8:16pm

in middle of Await Your Reply. adoring it. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 8:11pm

I have high hopes for Sarah Blake's THE POSTMISTRESS #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 8:04pm

#fridayreads "A Soft Place to Land" by Susan Rebecca White . . . loving it so far.

07/30/2010 - 8:00pm

has forty pages left in Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 7:59pm

The Re-Invention of Rev. Al Sharpton .@Newsweek #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 7:36pm

Ted Wallace is an inspired snark and wit in @stephenfry's #TheHippopotamus. #FridayReads @expatina

07/30/2010 - 7:27pm

Just about to start THE COOKBOOK COLLECTOR, tho also on-&-off reading Edith Wharton's NY stories. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 7:17pm

Been a long time since I've read John Grisham; #amreading Theodore Boone, Kid Lawyer. Cute so far. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 7:14pm

ah, time for #fridayreads - BURNED for 99 cents: http://bit.ly/dk3nYA - Rock & Roll, spandex trousers, sex & drugs, near death experiences

07/30/2010 - 7:13pm

Got a copy of EAT PRAY LOVE today. Just a wee bit late to this, which I wish I could've read in 2001, when I really needed it. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 7:09pm

#fridayreads Oryx & Crake by @margaretatwood.

07/30/2010 - 6:58pm

I'm #reading Ghost Night by Heather Graham #fridayreads http://bit.ly/bhFsZA

07/30/2010 - 6:57pm

@thebookmaven thank you so much for #fridayreads - SO many great suggestions.....

07/30/2010 - 6:48pm

Unexpectedly Milo by the one, the only @MatthewDicks #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 6:44pm

New blog up on http://paperclippe.com on The Accidental Time Machine and My Heartbeat #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 6:43pm

#fridayreads got to be 'incendiary' by the marvellous #Chris cleave. Now rereading Zola La Faute d'Abbe Mouret. Beautiful.

07/30/2010 - 6:42pm

#FridayReads Gaskell's North & South. Taking my sweet time with it like it's a scrumptious high tea I'm sipping slowly seaside.

07/30/2010 - 6:39pm

on p. 8 of Chase's "The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex" #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 6:38pm

#fridayreads AIRBORN by Kenneth Oppel and SEA by Heidi Kling. And next up is BEHEMOTH by @ScottWesterfeld.

07/30/2010 - 6:37pm

“@Einaudieditore: #Fridayreads speciale. Cosa state leggendo e cosa leggerete in vacanza?” Visto che nn si parla dall'altro... Ebook!

07/30/2010 - 6:36pm

Getting to #fridayreads - better late than never -- my book is THE CURE FOR THE MODERN LIFE

07/30/2010 - 6:19pm

So excited to get the brownies out of that oven that I didn't post my #fridayreads which is She's Gone Country by @authorjanep

07/30/2010 - 6:17pm

@foxane69 - Thanks for the #fridayreads promo!

07/30/2010 - 6:00pm

Lovely book. It's ever linked in my mind w SHE'S COME UNDONE by Wally Lamb. Idk y, but both r beautiful @yatmar3 #fridayreads Lovely Bones

07/30/2010 - 6:00pm

Following #la10scbwi for the latest at the SCBWI Summer Conference. Can’t wait for tomorrow! #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 5:56pm

RT @audible_com: #FridayListens #FridayReads We're listening to Eye of the Red Tsar: A Novel of Suspense . What are you listening to?

07/30/2010 - 5:55pm

RT @audible_com: We're listening to Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart. What are you listening to this weekend? #Fridaylistens #Fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 5:55pm

Tell the folks at #fridayreads! RT @goodreads: You made it to Friday! What will you be reading this weekend?

07/30/2010 - 5:52pm

Reading Farewell to Fairacre/Miss Read & Up Jumps the Devil/Margaret Maron, both rereads cuz busy wknd #fridayreads @thebookmaven @goodreads

07/30/2010 - 5:40pm

@ElinorLoredan“You barbaric piece of pulp fiction!” Elinor Loredan = my hero. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 5:39pm

Was finally able to pick this up at the library last night: Why the Devil Chose New England for His Work by Jason Brown #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 5:37pm

Have a lovely vacation! @bellareads my #fridayreads is KARMA BITES. Okay time to sneak out & back to vacation!

07/30/2010 - 5:35pm

Giving Girl with the Dragon Tattoo a 2nd (& final) chance #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 5:35pm

#fridayreads. I'm reading Caryl Ferey's Zulu, winner of the French Grand Prix for Best Crime Novel of 2008.

07/30/2010 - 5:33pm

RT @bellareads: Hi Twitter -sneaks in- my #fridayreads is KARMA BITES by @stacy_kramer. Okay time to sneak out & back to vacation! PS Ty for all the #FF :)

07/30/2010 - 5:33pm

Hi Twitter -sneaks in- my #fridayreads is KARMA BITES by @stacy_kramer. Okay time to sneak out & back to vacation! PS Ty for all the #FF :)

07/30/2010 - 5:30pm

RT @alexanderchee: Because Personal Days is one of my favorite books. #FF @ThaRealEdPark #Fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 5:23pm

#fridayreads currently enjoying sarah silverman's the bedwetter.

07/30/2010 - 5:19pm

#fridayreads THE CASTAWAYS by Elin Hilderbrand, THE CHOSEN HISTORIAN by Randi Ertz, CRESCENDO by Becca Fitzpatrick, MATCHED by Ally Condie

07/30/2010 - 5:15pm

has a few more days on it, so his #fridayreads is still THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS by Rebecca Skloot, somethin' new next week!

07/30/2010 - 5:13pm

Currently queued up on the #Kindle is "Silver Borne" by Patricia Briggs. Next, "Girl With The Dragon Tattoo." #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 5:12pm

#foodie & #fridayreads all in one!! Book Review - Four Fish - By Paul Greenberg - http://nyti.ms/aYjbEZ

07/30/2010 - 5:05pm

Best magazine articles ever (w links) #fridayreads http://bit.ly/9bm0e6

07/30/2010 - 5:05pm

#fridayreads just finished G Saunders' Civilwarland and Persuasion Nation, working on Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year.

07/30/2010 - 4:56pm

#fridayreads "Evangelism Handbook" @alvinreid

07/30/2010 - 4:48pm

RT @younglibrarian: #fridayreads s/b a #fridaylistens as i'm doing the audiobook of WILD RIDE by jenny crusie & bob mayer. // we welcome you

07/30/2010 - 4:45pm

RT @trustinart: #fridayreads radiazione di j. appel (uno dei racconti di @40kbooks) letto tutto d'un fiato, non riuscivo a staccarmi http://bit.ly/ddPunl

07/30/2010 - 4:44pm

#FridayReads @tessgerritsen's ICE COLD. Lovin' it!

07/30/2010 - 4:42pm

#fridayreads this should technically be a #fridaylisten as i'm doing the audiobook of wild ride by jenny crusie and bob mayer.

07/30/2010 - 4:42pm

#fridayreads miss wonderful by loretta chase in anticipation of getting my hands on her latest which came out on tuesday

07/30/2010 - 4:41pm

RT @startingfreshny: My #fridayreads is House Justice by Mike Lawson - political intrigue, CIA, FBI, Russian mob... it's so fun!

07/30/2010 - 4:36pm

#fridayreads IF I'D KILLED HIM WHEN I MET HIM by Sharyn McCrumb

07/30/2010 - 4:34pm

This week's #fridayreads is Susan Fales-Hill's novel ONE FLIGHT UP. Recommended by @AdrianaTrigiani, so far I'm liking the characters.

07/30/2010 - 4:34pm

My #fridayreads is House Justice by Mike Lawson - political intrigue, CIA, FBI, Russian mob... it's so fun!

07/30/2010 - 4:32pm

Zeitoun by Dave Eggers #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 4:32pm

My Father and Myself by J. R. Ackerley #fridayreads This follows Father and Son by Edmund Gosse, one of the best things I've ever read.

07/30/2010 - 4:27pm

#fridayreads Still working on The Raw Shark Texts. Good book, just short on reading time.

07/30/2010 - 4:26pm

RT @AlgonquinBooks: RT @Graywolf Press Just started "Exley" by Brock Clarke, from @AlgonquinBooks. LOVED "Arsonist's Guide," so am v. excited. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 4:22pm

Can't believe I almost forgot! My #fridayreads is still THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY. Caveat: Do not read while hungry.

07/30/2010 - 4:18pm

#fridayreads Lovely Bones

07/30/2010 - 4:14pm

RT @RonHogan: It's not strictly #fridayreads, but I just put in @netgalley request for When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone by @galbeckerman

07/30/2010 - 4:13pm

This week's #fridayreads: The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi and The Lost city of Z by David Grann. Both @BksOnNightstand recommendations!

07/30/2010 - 4:08pm

Just finished Jonathan Safran Foer's 'Eating Animals' and onto 'Stanley Park's Secret' by Jean Barman #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 3:58pm

It's not strictly #fridayreads, but I just put in a @netgalley request for When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone by @galbeckerman

07/30/2010 - 3:57pm

@audible_com: #FridayListens #FridayReads We're listening to Eye of the Red Tsar. What are you listening to? // Star Island by Carl Hiaason

07/30/2010 - 3:56pm

@Themommaviv What are you crafting while you listen to My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding? :) #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 3:52pm

@thebookmaven Still working on The Imperfectionists but I took a 2 day break & read The Fig Eater (which is an excellent book!) #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 3:51pm

Finished White Tiger last week. Brilliant. Now reading The Devil's Playground, a history of Times Square by James Traub. #FridayReads

07/30/2010 - 3:48pm

Am now am having a bit of summer fun with THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN. I know, I know--shoulda read it already. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 3:48pm

Because Personal Days is one of my favorite books. #FF @ThaRealEdPark #Fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 3:47pm

Finished @libbabray's fabulous GOING BOVINE. Read it! #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 3:46pm

@audible_com I'm listening to My big fat supernatural wedding. Perfect for crafting and cleaning. #Fridaylistens #Fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 3:45pm

I'm immersed in #OnWriting by #StephenKing (10th anniversary edition) and enjoying it immensely! #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 3:37pm

I'm #reading Paint it Black by Janet Fitch http://amzn.to/cV1afD #fridayreads on my #Kindle

07/30/2010 - 3:35pm

#fridayreads Building Social Business by Muhammad Yunus

07/30/2010 - 3:35pm

Next 10 people who fan @JennyGNelson on FB win one copy of ANY of @BookSparksPR clients books! http://tinyurl.com/39h36em #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 3:33pm

Note to self: Read 'A Fraction of the Whole' by Steve Toltz once more before starting something new. What an awesome 1st novel. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 3:32pm

RT @WriterCrys: Next 10 people who fan @JennyGNelson on FB & tell me u did win one copy of ANY of my clients books! http://tinyurl.com/39h36em #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 3:32pm

Read true stories of personal growth through travel http://www.questpublishing.ca #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 3:32pm

RT @WriterCrys: Next 10 people who fan @JennyGNelson on FB & tell me u did win one copy of ANY of my clients books! http://tinyurl.com/39h36em #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 3:31pm

@Joe_Wallace Thank you! That was an amazing blurb - quite a story behind it. BTW, my #fridayreads, waiting for me at home, is DIAMOND RUBY!

07/30/2010 - 3:30pm

Next 10 people who fan @JennyGNelson on FB & tell me u did win one copy of ANY of my clients books! http://tinyurl.com/39h36em #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 3:30pm

Next 10 people who fan @JennyGNelson on FB & tell me u did win one copy of ANY of my clients books! http://tinyurl.com/39h36em #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 3:29pm

RT @katheastman: Reading Mr Rosenblum's List by @natashasolomons - funny, bittersweet and the characters feel like old friends. Loving it. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 3:25pm

Ooh #fridayreads time: Fray (graphic novel, Joss whedon). Film Nation (Nonfic, Robert Burgoyne)

07/30/2010 - 3:24pm

RT @VintageAnchor: @hmccormack Your selfishness is promoting illiteracy. Can you live with that?! #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 3:24pm

#fridayreads Am reading MFK Fisher's memoir, Among Friends. Outstanding.

07/30/2010 - 3:23pm

Cuz she's on Oprah 2day talking about husband's secrets that inspired her bestselling memior Perfection @juliemetzwriter #FF #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 3:21pm

Back to computer shortly -- glad to see so many ppl sharing what they're reading now via #fridayreads.

07/30/2010 - 3:21pm

Don't forget today is #fridayreads! Let the Twitterverse know what you are reading (you are reading, right?).

07/30/2010 - 3:19pm

Because she gets me #organized and #motivated: @LindaSamuels author of The Other Side of Organized #FF #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 3:17pm

Because he's HOT and so is his book for parents/kids: @IanJames007 E is for Ethics #fridayreads #FF

07/30/2010 - 3:16pm

#fridayreads: george washington cable's the grandissimes (creoles, voudou, duelling, masked balls, etc.)

07/30/2010 - 3:14pm

@audible_com: We're listening to Delivering Happiness - again! Awesome read. #Zappos #dhbook #Fridaylistens #Fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 3:14pm

Share your #fridayreads on our facebook page http://www.facebook.com/skokielibrary I am reading Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

07/30/2010 - 3:14pm

Authors with hot new books coming in August ~ @LisaUnger @jennygnelson @authorjanep #FF #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 3:11pm

Por fin viernes! #fridayreads :)

07/30/2010 - 3:09pm

#fridayreads almost done with HAPPY BOY and then it's either, Let the Great World Spin or BUNEL's autobiography

07/30/2010 - 3:09pm

Reading Mr Rosenblum's List by @natashasolomons - funny, bittersweet and the characters feel like old friends. Loving it. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 3:08pm

RT @VintageAnchor: @hmccormack Your selfishness is promoting illiteracy. Can you live with that?! #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 3:07pm

RT @BookSparksPR: Reading FRAGILE by @LisaUnger #fridayreads ~ this nail-biter comes out Tuesday. Have you pre-ordered? Thanks!

07/30/2010 - 3:05pm

#fridayreads Mary Robison's "Why Did I Ever" hilarious.

07/30/2010 - 3:05pm

I'm listening to The Iliad (Unabridged) Part 1 by Homer, Alexander Pope (translator) on my Audible for Android #Fridaylistens #Fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 3:04pm

Me 2!! @Joe_Wallace Loved that book! RT @SunnySoCal @thebookmaven #fridayreads Reading The Embers by the gorgeous @HyattBass. It is superb.

07/30/2010 - 3:02pm

Working tonight. Hopefully I'll get to read some of Pray For Silence by Linda Castillo. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 2:59pm

RT @penguinusa: From all of us at Penguin, thanks for the birthday #love! Have a great weekend & make your #reading #fridayreads a Penguin!

07/30/2010 - 2:54pm

From all of us at Penguin, thanks for the birthday #love! Have a great weekend & make your #reading #fridayreads #weekendreads a Penguin!

07/30/2010 - 2:45pm

RT @Graywolf Press Just started "Exley" by Brock Clarke, from @AlgonquinBooks. LOVED "Arsonist's Guide," so am v. excited. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 2:44pm

RT @thebookmaven: Do share what you're reading with hashtag #fridayreads -- everything counts, from cereal boxes to audiobooks to reference works!

07/30/2010 - 2:43pm

My niece is 3 mos old today & got her 1st book from Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. Never too young to start reading! #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 2:42pm

#fridayreads I'm reading ANNABEL by Kathleen Winter. @supremetronic @HouseofAnansi

07/30/2010 - 2:40pm

RT @illingworth: #fridayreads Combat Camera by @ajsomerset , The Hipless Boy by Sherwin Tija, New Quarterly 112, some Bill Gaston.

07/30/2010 - 2:37pm

#fridayreads radiazione di j. appel (uno dei racconti di @40kbooks) letto tutto d'un fiato, non riuscivo a staccarmi http://bit.ly/ddPunl

07/30/2010 - 2:35pm

#fridayreads. Mom just finished I am legend. Richard M. Nothing like movie. Starts a perfect evil. Alex kava. Tonight.

07/30/2010 - 2:33pm

@audible_com Just started listening to NEVERWHERE by Neil Gaiman (and the read by author) http://bit.ly/aaDEKj #FridayListens #FridayReads

07/30/2010 - 2:31pm

I changed my mind. MASTER AND COMMANDER by Patrick O'Brian. Looking for a little swash and buckle in my day. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 2:31pm

Shallows by Nicholas Carr, For the Win by @corydoctorow, The High Road by @terryfallis. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 2:30pm

@audible_com Re-listening to "The Adventure of English" by Melvyn Bragg. #FridayListens #FridayReads

07/30/2010 - 2:29pm

Oops, almost forgot my #fridayreads. Still "Cutting for Stone," but also "Parenting Teens With Love & Logic."

07/30/2010 - 2:28pm

Loved that book! RT @SunnySoCal: @thebookmaven #fridayreads I'm reading The Embers by the gorgeous @HyattBass. It is superb.

07/30/2010 - 2:28pm

Just finished @caitkitt's Demon Bound. 5-✰ #audiobook. RT @audible_com: #FridayListens #FridayReads …What are you listening to?

07/30/2010 - 2:28pm

At long last ready to jump into _A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and Experimental Music_ by George E. Lewis for #fridayreads.

07/30/2010 - 2:26pm

@thebookmaven #fridayreads I'm reading The Embers by the gorgeous @HyattBass. It is superb.

07/30/2010 - 2:26pm

#fridayreads Combat Camera by @ajsomerset , The Hipless Boy by Sherwin Tija, New Quarterly 112, some Bill Gaston.

07/30/2010 - 2:23pm

My #wkndreads is The Art of Choosing by @Sheena_Iyengar. What are you #reading? #books #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 2:23pm

David Nicholls' One Day; Aimee Bender's Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake & Sloane Crosley's I Was Told There'd Be Cake #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 2:22pm

Scott's #wkndreads MEMOIRS OF AN ANTI-SEMITE by Gregor von Rezzori (recommended by Alan Furst). What are you #reading? #books #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 2:22pm

#fridayreads 'Anthropology of An American Girl' by Hilary Thayer Hamann

07/30/2010 - 2:20pm

For #FridayReads folk who might've missed this great idea RT @bookflack: why not start crime fiction hashtag? #JoeFridayReads

07/30/2010 - 2:16pm

#fridayreads "Super Sad True Love Story" by Gary Shteyngart. Next up: "Death is Not an Option" by Suzanne Rivecca.

07/30/2010 - 2:14pm

O Brasil Holandês, Penguin-Cia das Letras #FridayReads

07/30/2010 - 2:14pm

It's a great book, hope u enjoy! RT @knittingmomof3 #fridayreads PIECES OF HAPPILY EVER AFTER by @IreneZutell

07/30/2010 - 2:13pm

Finishing John Woolman's Journal and beginning Oedipus Rex for my classics reading group. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 2:10pm

RT @thebookmaven: Do share what you're reading w/hashtag #fridayreads -- everything counts, from cereal boxes to audiobooks to ref works!

07/30/2010 - 2:10pm

#fridayreads Dan Chaon's AMONG THE MISSING

07/30/2010 - 2:10pm

My #fridayreads is WELL OF SHADES by Juliet Marillier. Also be reading a fantasy @CarinaPress submission this weekend.

07/30/2010 - 2:09pm

Sneak peek at tomorrow's #books column on graphic novels: http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4868765 #reading #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 2:08pm

Got the (yuck) flu so waiting for MY head to stop spinning so I can finish reading Colum McCann's LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN for #fridayreads.

07/30/2010 - 2:08pm

#fridayreads (if my head does not implode, which oddly seems a good choice) DEADLY FEAR, PIECES OF HAPPILY EVER AFTER, and NOW'S THE TIME.

07/30/2010 - 2:05pm

#FridayReads The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki (2x) b/c who wouldn't read about what to do in the beginning 4 mo. after starting a biz.

07/30/2010 - 2:04pm

Starting a re-read of A Tale of Two Cities just over 20 years after my sophomore English teacher made us analyze it to a pulp. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 2:03pm

This week, I read the second Amelia Peabody novel, some Nalini Singh, and am chewing on Pride and Prejudice now. #Fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 2:02pm

#FridayReads The BFG by Roald Dahl Wanted to read this w/my boys.

07/30/2010 - 2:02pm

RT @BookSparksPR: The Eclectic Reader loved Sand In My Eyes by @ChristineLemmon http://nblo.gs/6hnr3 #fridayreads @teddyree

07/30/2010 - 2:02pm

Just finished and enjoyed The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters -- excellent psychological gothic. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 2:00pm

#fridayreads The High King (part of my top 100 reading challenge) http://bit.ly/djOQm

07/30/2010 - 2:00pm

on page 99 of Charlie St. Cloud...it's amazing! #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 1:58pm

#fridayreads "Don't you dare read this, Mrs. Dunphrey" by Margaret Peterson Haddix - Powerful realism and believable characters, fast read.

07/30/2010 - 1:58pm

#fridayreads THE POISONWOOD BIBLE on audio (SO good!) and THE SCENT OF RAIN AND LIGHTENING (good).

07/30/2010 - 1:56pm

@ruthseeley @arjadi @CaliAlly66 What I love about The Magus & Wind-Up is the post modern unpredictability. Reality is overrated #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 1:53pm

The Collected Plays of Eric Overmyer #fridayreads #imobsessedwiththewire

07/30/2010 - 1:53pm

#fridayreads STONER by John Williams

07/30/2010 - 1:52pm

RT @justbooks: #fridayreads: Bec I love horses & characters who love them 2-BLESSINGS OF THE ANIMALS by @KatrinaKittle <

07/30/2010 - 1:52pm

I'm reading Bitten by Kelley Armstrong. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 1:52pm

The Eclectic Reader loved Sand In My Eyes by @ChristineLemmon http://nblo.gs/6hnr3 #fridayreads @teddyree

07/30/2010 - 1:51pm

#Reading The Hobbit for my 3rd time. It's been a rough week, but Bilbo and the bearded dwarves cheered me up! #Fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 1:50pm

@thebookmaven today it's The One You Really Want by @JillMansell #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 1:50pm

#fridayreads My Heartbeat by Garret Freymann-Weyr

07/30/2010 - 1:50pm

I am reading The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 1:47pm

Starting THE STUFF THAT NEVER HAPPENED by Maddie Dawson @readitforward #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 1:47pm

#fridayreads THE WORKS: ANATOMY OF A CITY by Kate Ascher & THE GHOST WRITER by John Harwood.

07/30/2010 - 1:46pm

RT @aunt_feather: 'It had been a calm night at the Shaolin Temple before the fight started.' #FirstLineFriday & #FridayReads AMERICAN SHAOLIN by M. Polly

07/30/2010 - 1:46pm

So far LONESOME DOVE is a portrait of all-male domesticity. #fridayreads @AmyMacKinnon

07/30/2010 - 1:43pm

#FridayReads Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. Hopefully will be able to finish this weekend. Then Alden Bell's "The Reapers are the Angels."

07/30/2010 - 1:43pm

Waiting for my order to come in 4 @doctorow's LITTLE BROTHER via UO bookstore. Shd b there this afternoon. #fridayreads #summereadinglist

07/30/2010 - 1:43pm

Finally reading Connelly's NINE DRAGONS. Not the best Bosch, but not bad so far #FridayReads

07/30/2010 - 1:42pm

Loving Tree of Smoke so far #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 1:41pm

RT @BookSparksPR: Reading FRAGILE by @LisaUnger #fridayreads ~ this nail-biter comes out Tuesday. Have you pre-ordered?

07/30/2010 - 1:40pm

Reading FRAGILE by @LisaUnger #fridayreads ~ this nail-biter comes out Tuesday. Have you pre-ordered?

07/30/2010 - 1:38pm

Hoping to finish "Savage Run" by C. J. Box this weekend. Life keeps interrupting my reading time! #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 1:37pm

#fridayreads: Finally, Heather Love's genuinely brilliant 'Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History.'

07/30/2010 - 1:36pm

Finally started Sag Harbor by @colsonwhitehead #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 1:35pm

Just finished Espresso Tales by Alexander McCall Smith, currently reading On Mystic Lake by Kristin Hannah. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 1:34pm

#fridayreads I'm in love with the thief of Eddis: The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner

07/30/2010 - 1:32pm

RT @JulieKlam: #Fridayreads THIS ONE IS MINE by Maria Semple - I LOVE this book -GREAT SUMMER READING!!! (cc: @luxlotus) (tx @neversent)

07/30/2010 - 1:32pm

#fridayreads am still reading to kill a mockingbird and listening to sweetness at the bottom of the pie

07/30/2010 - 1:30pm

Reading THE BELL JAR by Sylvia Plath because I never got around to reading it as a precocious teenager. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 1:28pm

The Spot by David Means #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 1:28pm

Yay! Got Last Night's Scandal by Loretta Chase! #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 1:27pm

So, should I jump on the bandwagon and read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? Whaddya think? #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 1:25pm

#fridayreads Gormenghast Trilogy by Meryvyn Peake....got about a 1000 pages to go. #hugebookscountasweighttraining #right?

07/30/2010 - 1:25pm

Wasn't going to read THE RIGHT STUFF for #spacecamp, but @paperhaus put it in my head #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 1:24pm

@michaelcannell Emergence by Steven Johnson #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 1:20pm

reading The Fast One by Robert Daley. What's your fave racing novel? #fridayreads http://amzn.to/9vZKTc

07/30/2010 - 1:19pm

"What is it...that makes a man willing to sit up top of an enormous Roman candle..and wait for someone to light the fuse?" #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 1:19pm

I'm wildly envious of you who haven't read The Magus by J. Fowles & Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami. They're masterpieces #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 1:18pm

Reading Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. What are you reading? #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 1:18pm

RT @CEMcKenzie1: #fridayreads Jessica Z – Shawn Klomparens http://networkedblogs.com/6lMCb - a 5**** review from a great reviewer

07/30/2010 - 1:16pm

#fridayreads About 1/3 of the way through The Long Ships. And yes, it is really as good as they say it is.

07/30/2010 - 1:15pm

I finished "The boy in the stipped pyjamas" three days ago. RT @thebookmaven Have u shared your #fridayreads yet?No time like the present!

07/30/2010 - 1:14pm

Friday reads: Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury #fridayreads @thebookmaven

07/30/2010 - 1:11pm

Finished Howards End this morning. I need something new for #fridayreads.

07/30/2010 - 1:10pm

Reading Lev Grossman's The Magicians. Highly recommended for fans of magic, shapeshifting and stuff. And no vampires! #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 1:10pm

RT @CEMcKenzie1: #fridayreads - "the more I read Two Years, No Rain, the more addicted I became" - A Bookworms world http://bit.ly/cCUmyo #bookreview

07/30/2010 - 1:10pm

Month? Maybe a Year! @UMinnPress #fridayreads Beginning to tackle The Infinite Jest. I suppose it's more like #MonthOfAugustReads

07/30/2010 - 1:06pm

Just starting THE DUFF: DESIGNATED UGLY FAT FRIEND by Kody Keplinger. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 1:04pm

#fridayreads Beginning to tackle The Infinite Jest. I suppose it's more like #MonthOfAugustReads

07/30/2010 - 1:03pm

@thebookmaven Still plodding along on the gripping _The Passage_ by Cronin & also picked up Stephen King's _On Writing_ #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 1:03pm

why is Elizabeth Gilbert's Committed only available in hardcover? sigh #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 1:03pm

#fridayreads just started The girl who played with Fire by Stieg Larson, so far so good

07/30/2010 - 1:03pm

Under the Dome by Stephen King - a 30 hr audiobook. Yikes. 6 hrs in & I'm enjoying it so far. Hope it doesn't get too gruesome. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 1:02pm

#fridayreads just finished A light Hearted look at Murder by @watsoncomedian really highly recommend it

07/30/2010 - 1:02pm

@hmccormack Your selfishness is promoting illiteracy. Can you live with that?! #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 1:01pm

RT @AlexTardiff: Starting Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize winning, The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 1:00pm

Only imperfection about The Imperfectionists is my potato chip grease fingerprints on black cover. #fridayreads #babycarrotsmightbebetter

07/30/2010 - 1:00pm

& on the commute home, starting COMPLICATED WOMEN: SEX & POWER IN PRE-CODE HOLLYWOOD (I love it already) #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 1:00pm

Oops, reposting with correct tag, sorry. #fridayreads Also, the Hemingway fest continues here at the Shack with The Sun Also Rises. So fun.

07/30/2010 - 12:58pm

#fridayreads WHY OUR DECISIONS DON'T MATTER (@HarperPerennial, 08/10). Go ahead, feel better about that Oreo cupcake you just ate. #books

07/30/2010 - 12:58pm

@PurplePenning nice! Up Tunket author is speaking tomorrow in Woodstock, VT. Not sure if you're local, but he's awesome. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 12:58pm

@VIAReads I'm reading Still Fishin' by Alan Haig-Brown from Harbour Publishing! #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 12:58pm

@VIAReads The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell. Heavy, for beach reading! #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 12:57pm

#fridayreads Dave Eggers short story collection Now We Are Hungry. I like his short stories better than his novels. Engaging writer for sure

07/30/2010 - 12:56pm

Transitions in Madonnas of Echo Park are difficult like @_M_I_A_'s new album is difficult. Which means both are awesome. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 12:56pm

.@thebookmaven #fridayreads "A Novel in a Year," Louise Doughty; "The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook," Hensperger. Add gluten=elastic

07/30/2010 - 12:56pm

RT @thebookmaven: Have you shared your #fridayreads yet? No time like the present!

07/30/2010 - 12:56pm

Starting Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize winning, The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 12:55pm

Finishing THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY, starting UP TUNKET ROAD (which I won from @chelseagreen - thanks!) #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 12:55pm

>>AWESOME read, and author too!//RT @MelanieBen: INTO THE BEAUTIFUL NORTH by @Urrealism - #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 12:55pm

Reading A CRY OF CHILDREN (1952) by John Horne Burns, an author I read because nobody else does (even his terrific THE GALLERY) #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 12:55pm

Tell us what you are reading this weekend with #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 12:55pm

THE LONG SHIPS by Frans G. Bengtsson, a Viking picaresque faved by Michael Chabon & filled w/colorful Viking talk. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 12:54pm

No #fridayreads for me this week; it's a secret I must keep

07/30/2010 - 12:54pm

#fridayreads @susanmpls @thebookmaven I'm reading "The girl with the Dragon Tattoo" on my Nook!

07/30/2010 - 12:54pm

#fridayreads Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. I know I'm late to the bandwagon but at least I got here before the movie came out, right?

07/30/2010 - 12:53pm

currently reading Didn't I Feed You Yesterday by Laura Bennett #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 12:53pm

INTO THE BEAUTIFUL NORTH by @Urrealism - #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 12:52pm

@Zommie Emma a DNF? Really? How come? Did you never get into it? #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 12:51pm

Just started Zelda by Nancy Milford. So far, it seems really promising! #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 12:51pm

Finishing off this week's @NewYorker and getting back to my first Cormac McCarthy book, BLOOD MERIDIAN. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 12:50pm

RT @thebookmaven: Have you shared your #fridayreads yet? No time like the present!

07/30/2010 - 12:50pm

My First Cousin Once Removed (SP Stewart, about Robt Lowell); Kay Ryan's poems. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 12:49pm

Just did! Thx for the reminder! RT @thebookmaven Have you shared your #fridayreads yet? No time like the present!

07/30/2010 - 12:49pm

Just started "Heart of the Matter" by Emily Giffin. So far, so good. Also reading "Madmen Unbuttoned" by Natasha Vargas. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 12:47pm

#FridayReads office is reading: Shoulder Season, Ainge Mlinko; Make Gentle the Life of this World, Bobby Kennedy; and Little Women.

07/30/2010 - 12:47pm

What are YOU reading? RT @thebookmaven Have you shared your #fridayreads yet? No time like the present!

07/30/2010 - 12:47pm

RT @thebookmaven: Have you shared your #fridayreads yet? No time like the present!

07/30/2010 - 12:47pm

#fridayreads Making it All Work by David Allen

07/30/2010 - 12:46pm

The second draft of my second book. I badly want to read something I haven't written, but deadline looms. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 12:46pm

Finishing up PARTICULAR SADNESS OF LEMON CAKE @thebookmaven #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 12:45pm

I'm reading Peter Carey's Parrot and Olivier in America. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 12:45pm

#Fridayreads Using MINNESOTA MARVELS by Eric Dregni (pub'd by @UMinnPress) to plot our road trip to northern MN lake cabin.

07/30/2010 - 12:45pm

Upon @thebookmaven 's suggestion, #fridayreads are: The Little Stranger (almost done), Fly Away Home by Jennifer Weiner is next.

07/30/2010 - 12:45pm

Finishing up The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May & June, but then not sure what will follow - suggestions? #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 12:44pm

finished @Ciar_Cullen 's wild STEAMSIDE CHRONICLES, starting MY SOUL TO TAKE by Yrsa Sigurdardottir. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 12:44pm

I'm loving harpers magazine right now. Great article on writing and illness. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 12:44pm

The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 12:44pm

I'm STILL reading EMMA by Jane Austen (if I haven't finished by Tuesday evening it is ending up in the DNF file) #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 12:44pm

#fridayreads Ancestor by Scott Sigler

07/30/2010 - 12:43pm

#FridayReads bums me out bc my reading has slowed to a crawl. BUT! I'll tell you I'm reading CUTTING FOR STONE. 275 pages in & getting good.

07/30/2010 - 12:43pm

FAT KIDS RULE THE WORLD and JAPAN AI: #fridayreads http://bit.ly/arTWsk

07/30/2010 - 12:43pm

Have you shared your #fridayreads yet? No time like the present!

07/30/2010 - 12:42pm

#fridayreads @KelleyArmstrong's Waking the WItch

07/30/2010 - 12:40pm

RT @barrywightman: Does it count for #fridayreads if it's #CMOS16 Chi Manual of Style 16? <--Of course it does!

07/30/2010 - 12:37pm

'It had been a calm night at the Shaolin Temple before the fight started.' #FirstLineFriday & #FridayReads AMERICAN SHAOLIN by M. Polly

07/30/2010 - 12:33pm

#FridayReads: Troublesome Young Men | By Lynne Olson | Published in Canada by Anchor Canada | #in

07/30/2010 - 12:32pm

#Fridayreads Heading to Mackinac Island. Was Somewhere in Time based on a book?

07/30/2010 - 12:31pm

Reading THINK OF A NUMBER by John Verdon. #FridayReads

07/30/2010 - 12:29pm

#fridayreads Troglodyte Rose by Adam Lowe: http://www.troglodyterose.com

07/30/2010 - 12:28pm

RT @libraryj: Started Thursday pm, finished after midnight. Wow! Loved it. Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross. #fridayreads @thebookmaven

07/30/2010 - 12:27pm

Another #fridayreads: An in-depth history of Prohibition that details the booze-soaked yrs when women entered politics http://bit.ly/aeOYlP

07/30/2010 - 12:26pm

Sara's #fridayreads: Just Kids by Patti Smith

07/30/2010 - 12:25pm

Susan's #fridayreads: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

07/30/2010 - 12:25pm

Andy's #fridayreads: Mary Roach's Packing for Mars

07/30/2010 - 12:25pm

Racing through @janelleb's All We Ever Wanted Was Everything #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 12:24pm

@jenniferehle Do you know about #fridayreads? People post what they're enjoying. A great way to pick up ideas from thoughtful readers.

07/30/2010 - 12:22pm

I WAS TOLD THERE'D BE CAKE #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 12:22pm

#FridayReads: Troublesome Young Men | By Lynne Olson | Published in Canada by Anchor Canada

07/30/2010 - 12:22pm

#fridayreads Death With Interruptions, weird, satisfying, half through.

07/30/2010 - 12:21pm

#fridayreads Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson

07/30/2010 - 12:21pm

Enjoying COMMUTERS by E.G. Tedrowe. And since @thebookmaven sanctioned it, the side of the Special K box is fascinating. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 12:18pm

RT @CEMcKenzie1: #fridayreads Jessica Z – Shawn Klomparens http://networkedblogs.com/6lMCb - a 5**** review from a great reviewer

07/30/2010 - 12:18pm

#fridayreads I'm starting BYRON IN LOVE by Edna O'Brien for book club.

07/30/2010 - 12:18pm

#fridayreads The Secret Life of Baba Segi's Wives by,@lolashoneyin & #fridaylistens Harry Potter Goblet of Fire

07/30/2010 - 12:17pm

#fridayreads Jessica Z – Shawn Klomparens http://networkedblogs.com/6lMCb - a 5**** review from a great reviewer

07/30/2010 - 12:17pm

#FridayReads perché non una bella rilettura di Cime Tempestose?

07/30/2010 - 12:14pm

@Brendacopeland Thanks for the RT! #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 12:14pm
07/30/2010 - 12:14pm

RT @spinningkates: #fridayreads: book expo sample of @pattonoswalt's forthcoming book; "freshman at thanksgiving" pinot noir is hilarious.

07/30/2010 - 12:14pm

@thebookmaven #fridayreads Wild Ride by Niki Green, Lorelei James and Moira Keith. Short stories are great after a class!

07/30/2010 - 12:13pm

RAPTURE OF THE DEEP: BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF JACKY FABER, SOLDIER, SAILOR, MERMAID, SPY #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 12:11pm

Mad World by Paula Byrne, The Art Detective by Phillip Moulds #fridayreads @penguinusa @harperperennial

07/30/2010 - 12:11pm

Browsing #fridayreads responses--so many good ones! @MKatWorkman did you like Madonnas of Echo Park?

07/30/2010 - 12:10pm

#Fridayreads Though I do love Nietzsche, enjoying The Unbearable Lightness of Being, finally checking it off my list - been on it for years!

07/30/2010 - 12:06pm

it's been a magazine kinda week @MotherEarthNews + @bonappetitmag #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 12:05pm

I am reading A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD (Jennifer Egan) & HOLD STILL (Nina LaCour). Love both so much-don't want them to end. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 12:04pm

Some thoughts on book recommendations and #fridayreads. http://bit.ly/dorMHS Ours: "The Man Who Never Returned" & "Last Night in Montreal"

07/30/2010 - 12:04pm

ARC of upcoming (Oct) John LeCarré, "Our Kind of Traitor." SWEET! #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 12:03pm

Like it. Every Friday share what you're reading with the hashtag #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 12:01pm

RT @bookladysblog: Why #fridayreads is impotant: http://bit.ly/amvRwG (via the awesome @bookswim). Three cheers for @thebookmaven. #FF

07/30/2010 - 12:00pm

My favorite #fridayreads yet: RT @hollowaymcc
#fridayreads DAY FOR NIGHT, AN EXACT REPLICA OF A FIGMENT OF MY IMAGINATION.

07/30/2010 - 11:59am

#fridayreads The Strange Case of the Composer and his Judge.

07/30/2010 - 11:58am

#fridayreads Westerfield's LEVIATHAN, Green Lantern Corps: Emerald Eclipse and possibly starting THE OVERTON WINDOW on a live-tweeting lark.

07/30/2010 - 11:55am

The Immoral Life of Henrietta Lacks - @RebeccaSkloot; The Sixth Surrender - Hana Samek Norton; Sum - @davideagleman #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:54am

#fridayreads DAY FOR NIGHT, AN EXACT REPLICA OF A FIGMENT OF MY IMAGINATION. Also waiting for a galleyish delivery. Ahem. @thebookmaven

07/30/2010 - 11:54am

Started Thursday pm, finished after midnight. Wow! Loved it. Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross. #fridayreads @thebookmaven

07/30/2010 - 11:53am

My #fridayreads is BEHIND EVERY ILLUSION by Christina Harner @mawbooksblog

07/30/2010 - 11:52am

Finishing up AGNES GREY, by the least popular Bronte sister (Anne) #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:49am

RT @goodinthestacks: #fridayreads "The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception." Interesting history of how the CIA learned covert tricks from magicians.

07/30/2010 - 11:48am

#fridayreads Reading POPE JOAN and THE ACTOR AND THE HOUSEWIFE.

07/30/2010 - 11:47am

BEACHCOMBERS by Nancy Thayer #FridayReads

07/30/2010 - 11:47am

#fridayreads "The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception." Interesting history of how the CIA learned covert tricks from magicians.

07/30/2010 - 11:46am

RT @bookladysblog: Why #fridayreads is impotant: http://bit.ly/amvRwG (via the awesome @bookswim). Three cheers for @thebookmaven. #FF

07/30/2010 - 11:44am

This week I read Little Bee - I loved it! #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:42am

reading 'L.A. Candy' #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:41am

Re-read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:40am

My #fridayreads: 'The Morning Star,' Andre Schwarz-Bart's posthumously discovered novel, coming out in September. It's outstanding thus far.

07/30/2010 - 11:40am

thanks to @mcnallyjackson i read two delightful books this week! bluets by maggie nelson + dorothea lasky's black life #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:39am

INKHEART (again) #fridayreads Light summer reading for booklovers.

07/30/2010 - 11:39am

#fridayreads Reading to my kids at bedtime: The Calder Game. Fun art history mystery. I'm enjoying but the junior critics say it's too slow.

07/30/2010 - 11:39am

Finishing up THE HAPPINESS PROJECT #fridayreads #bookaweek

07/30/2010 - 11:38am

#fridayreads still reading (and enjoying) Tom and Jack: The Intertwined Lives of Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson (cont) http://tl.gd/2r2p9u

07/30/2010 - 11:37am

#fridayreads Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen, for its lyricism and form, like a great piece of music.

07/30/2010 - 11:37am

A good recommendation. The Earthsea cycle is quite good. RT @lukenavarro A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:36am

Reading THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS by Rebecca Skloot. Fascinating. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:36am

Great choice! RT @reftechrob: For History buffs: Marathon: how one battle changed Western civilization http://bit.ly/9Z4Ob3 #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:35am

Finished Dan Chaon's AMONG THE MISSING this week; now, perusing Epoch 59.1 & Anne Enright's YESTERDAY'S WEATHER. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:35am

#fridayreads Never Let Me Go. Intensely personal vision of a possible future, which isn't clear for quite a ways in.

07/30/2010 - 11:35am

#fridayreads Getting back to Grace Under Pressure after skimming/rereading The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo for last night's book club.

07/30/2010 - 11:34am

just started Restoring Harmony by Joelle Anthony; totally on a dystopia kick right now #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:32am

Reading Wading Home by Rosalyn Story (a great name for a writer!) about an adult son & father after Katrina in NOLA #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:32am

For History buffs: Marathon : how one battle changed Western civilization http://bit.ly/9Z4Ob3 #fb #fridayreads /cc @feedly

07/30/2010 - 11:31am

RT @AlgonquinBooks: Reading loads of our Spring 2011 manuscripts. So many dazzling books coming down the pike. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:30am

there are no stars in brooklyn #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:30am

TINKERS, then DAY FOR NIGHT #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:29am

#fridayreads happening now. (all the cool kids are doing it.)

07/30/2010 - 11:29am

RT @justbooks #fridayreads: Because I love horses & characters who love them too: BLESSINGS OF THE ANIMALS by @KatrinaKittle (8/3 release).

07/30/2010 - 11:28am

I concur! RT @VintageAnchor Really recommend A.S. Byatt's THE CHILDREN'S BOOK. Dense but very rewarding! #fridayreads http://ow.ly/2iRCc

07/30/2010 - 11:27am

#fridayreads We Were Soldiers Once...And Young. So awesome.

07/30/2010 - 11:27am

#books #fridayreads Amazon.com Best Books of 2010... So Far http://amzn.to/cNBY1W

07/30/2010 - 11:27am

#fridayreads - "the more I read Two Years, No Rain, the more addicted I became" - A Bookworms world http://bit.ly/cCUmyo #bookreview

07/30/2010 - 11:26am

I'm reading Monique Truong's The Book of Salt and Anne Edwards' Sonya: Countess Tolstoy. Love and pain; more love, more pain. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:26am

#fridayreads four wall vangelis hatziyannidis ,grossman translation of don quixote cervantes

07/30/2010 - 11:26am

#fridayreads DarkFever by Karen Marie Moning

07/30/2010 - 11:23am

"Home to Italy" by Peter Pezzelli #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:23am

That pairing reminds me of the Xmas I read Jane Smiley's Greenlanders & Barry Unsworth's Sacred Hunger. I MUST be a masochist. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:20am

RT @bookladysblog: Why #fridayreads is impotant: http://bit.ly/amvRwG (via the awesome @bookswim). Three cheers for @thebookmaven. #FF

07/30/2010 - 11:20am

#fridayreads Cookbook Collector

07/30/2010 - 11:19am

I feel inadequate that I didn't finish a book this wk, since #fridayreads makes me want to say something new! Still reading!

07/30/2010 - 11:19am

AL Kennedy's Everything You Need and Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:18am

Loving "C". Tom McCarthy is a brilliant writer. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:18am

#fridayreads _Necropolis_ by Maureen McHugh

07/30/2010 - 11:16am

@thebookmaven #fridayreads Today I'm reading more of Richard Matheson's Hell House. It's so damn creepy and great.

07/30/2010 - 11:16am

Just finished reading "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit" by Sloan Wilson. Very different than what you might think. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:15am

@thebookmaven reading Pretty in Plaid by Jen Lancaster, light summer reading #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:15am
07/30/2010 - 11:14am

Thank you!!! Made my day. :) RT @booksnyc: My #fridayreads is WAXED by @robertrave - perfect summer read!

07/30/2010 - 11:13am

#fridayreads Moving Is Murder by Sara Rosett

07/30/2010 - 11:12am

Just finished ROOM by Emma Donoghue in record time. Couldn't put it down, though feared the subject for a while. Superb. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:11am

THE HOUSE AT RIVERTON by Kate Morton #FridayReads

07/30/2010 - 11:11am

starting today Clockwork Angel by @cassieclare from @simonsayscanada can not wait #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:11am

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:10am

RT @bookladysblog: Why #fridayreads is impotant: http://bit.ly/amvRwG (via the awesome @bookswim). Three cheers for @thebookmaven. #FF

07/30/2010 - 11:09am

finishing up WAXED by Robert Rave and then starting THE BISHOP by Steven James #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:08am

Alex O'Donnell and the 40 Cyber Thieves by @reginadoman about 1/2 done amazing story #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:08am

RT @bookladysblog Why #fridayreads is important: http://bit.ly/amvRwG (via the awesome @bookswim). Three cheers for @thebookmaven. #FF

07/30/2010 - 11:08am

Really recommend A.S. Byatt's THE CHILDREN'S BOOK which is out soon in pbk. Dense but very rewarding! #fridayreads http://ow.ly/2iRCc

07/30/2010 - 11:08am

In the middle of Desire: Women Write About Wanting. Also plan on reading the Olivia books to my niece for her birthday. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:07am

MY NAME IS ASHER LEV #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:07am

Why #fridayreads is impotant: http://bit.ly/amvRwG (via the awesome @bookswim). Three cheers for @thebookmaven. #FF

07/30/2010 - 11:06am

#fridayreads Now I'm ready to start MEMORY WALL by Anthony Doerr-Have heard such good things about it.

07/30/2010 - 11:06am

#fridayreads The Passage by Justin Cronin.

07/30/2010 - 11:06am

#fridayreads - "So Much For That," Lionel Shriver. Surprisingly hard to engage with, so far.

07/30/2010 - 11:06am

YAY! RT @Suejustbooks: #fridayreads Just finished AMERICAN MUSIC by Jane Mendelsohn thanks to @bookladysblog. I absolutely LOVED it!

07/30/2010 - 11:04am

Sarah Vowell's The Wordy Shipmates and...and...still deciding #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:04am

Peter Handke's "Short Letter, Long Farewell," from @nyrbclassics (really great; highly recommended). Then, dunno, Fuentes? #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:03am

@thebookmaven #fridayreads I am reading the book thief. Anyone else read it?

07/30/2010 - 11:03am

#fridayreads Just finished AMERICAN MUSIC by Jane Mendelsohn thanks to @bookladysblog. I absolutely LOVED it!

07/30/2010 - 11:03am

Reading Premiere by Melody Carlson and listening to Break No Bones by Kathy Reichs in the car #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:03am

Diamond in the Desert: Behind the Scenes in Abu Dhabi by Jo Tatchell, Vestments by John Reimringer, & back issues of New Yorker #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:02am

What are you reading today? #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:02am

RT @GraywolfPress: RT @thebookmaven: Share what you're reading w/ hashtag #fridayreads - everything counts, from cereal boxes to audiobooks to reference works!

07/30/2010 - 11:02am

Sucked into the Sookie Stackhouse series, currently flying through "Definitely Dead" #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:02am
07/30/2010 - 11:02am

@HarperPerennial I'm not quite 1/4 done yet, but I like it a lot so far. Loved her first novel & have been waiting for another! #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:02am

Reading Scott Weidensaul's Return to Wild America; great narrative on US env change and conservation since 1950s. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:01am

RT @jocemiller: #fridayreads @Nancy_Mitford's WIGS ON THE GREEN. @VintageAnchor's gorgeous reissues of her backlist come out in a little over a week!

07/30/2010 - 11:01am

@thebookmaven I'm reading City of Ruin by @MarkCN (aka Mark Charan Newton). #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 11:00am

Very excited for my #FridayReads; will need to relax after moving day! THE NOBODIES ALBUM and THE REMBRANDT AFFAIR, @TheBookMaven

07/30/2010 - 11:00am

#fridayreads @cherrycheva's delightful DUPLIKATE. It's like my love of reading and my love of The Sims made a baby.

07/30/2010 - 11:00am

#fridayreads: Because I love horses & characters who love them too: BLESSINGS OF THE ANIMALS by @KatrinaKittle (8/3 release).

07/30/2010 - 10:59am

@theshorehaminn Have you read A Reliable Wife? #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:59am

In the thick of Wings Of Fire.... #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:59am

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak #fridayreads @thebookmaven

07/30/2010 - 10:58am

RT @UberLibraryGirl: I have a BA in English, and I'm reading Writing Fiction for Dummies? So far, not helpful. #fridayreads @thebookmaven

07/30/2010 - 10:58am

#fridayreads reading What Good is God by Philip Yancey.

07/30/2010 - 10:58am

#fridayreads ZEITOUN, Dave Eggers. Busy week has stalled me! (Related: Going to give Kindle iPad and Blackberry apps a whirl soon.)

07/30/2010 - 10:57am

#fridayreads - trying out a kindle, pre-vacation, with SOUTH OF BROAD by Pat Conroy.

07/30/2010 - 10:57am

"There are times when a man must act as though life were equally sweet in any company." --Joseph Conrad #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:56am

About to start THE SPIRE by Richard North Patterson. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:56am

On my 3rd re-read of DFW's Infinite Jest. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:55am

#fridayreads Harry Potter with my daughter, Cetain Girls by Jennifer Weiner for myself

07/30/2010 - 10:54am

I have such a crush on Anthony Bourdain. reading MEDIUM RAW and thoroughly enjoying myself #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:54am

#fridayreads "memory wall: stories" & "major pettigrew's last stand."

07/30/2010 - 10:53am

Still: Skippy Dies, by Paul Murray (but this week it's now a Booker longlist title) #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:53am

RT @ShelfAwareness: Awesome response for last week's #fridayreads http://bit.ly/a5qBIv Tell @thebookmaven what you're reading!

07/30/2010 - 10:53am

@chelseagreen "The Winter Harvest Handbook" by Eliot Coleman #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:52am

Reading an Agatha Christie novel, Appointment with Death, for the 1st time in about a decade. #FridayReads

07/30/2010 - 10:51am

Today's #fridayreads is MARIANA by Monica Dickens. Gotta love Persephone Books!

07/30/2010 - 10:51am

RT @ShelfAwareness: Awesome response for last week's #fridayreads http://bit.ly/a5qBIv Let's top that today! Tell @thebookmaven what you're reading!

07/30/2010 - 10:50am

#fridayreads - "Bullet" by Laurell K. Hamilton

07/30/2010 - 10:50am

Michael Cunnigham's BY NIGHTFALL #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:50am

RT @ShelfAwareness: Awesome response for last week's #fridayreads http://bit.ly/a5qBIv Let's top that today! Tell @thebookmaven what you're reading!

07/30/2010 - 10:49am

Awesome response for last week's #fridayreads http://bit.ly/a5qBIv Let's top that today! Tell @thebookmaven what you're reading!

07/30/2010 - 10:48am

Last 50 pages of the Mitchell, then ENOUGH ABOUT LOVE (OP 2011). I read a sample translation a few months back & loved it. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:48am

I have a BA in English, and I'm reading Writing Fiction for Dummies? So far, not helpful. #fridayreads @thebookmaven

07/30/2010 - 10:48am

Almost done with ArchEnemy by Frank Beddor. Last book in the trilogy that puts a great twist on the Alice in Wonderland story. #FridayReads

07/30/2010 - 10:47am

@QNYbooks Good ole fashioned book! #Fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:45am

For the airplane: The Intuitionist by @colsonwhitehead and Tom McCarthy's Remainder. #revisitingfavorites #FridayReads

07/30/2010 - 10:44am

I enjoyed TRICKSTER: NATIVE AMERICAN TALES, an anthology of trickster tales illustrated by comic book artists-such a good idea. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:42am

All right, ONE DAY. It's just you and me now. We can do this. You won't defeat me, David Nicholls! #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:42am

War by Sebastian Junger, very thought provoking and sobering. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:42am

Need some #fridayreads ideas? How 'bout a tasty novel feat. Indian cook & food frm Mumbai 2 Paris. Crosisants & curries http://bit.ly/blyz0X

07/30/2010 - 10:41am

What-the-Dickens by Gregory Maguire #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:40am

#fridayreads I'm still working on A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, plus cg manuscripts. What are you reading these days?

07/30/2010 - 10:40am

@thebookmaven: my #fridayreads - The Elegance of the Hedgehog

07/30/2010 - 10:40am

RT @GraywolfPress: RT @thebookmaven: Share what you're reading w/ hashtag #fridayreads - everything counts, from cereal boxes to audiobooks to reference works!

07/30/2010 - 10:40am

"The Passage" by Justin Cronin is finally available from the digital library! #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:39am

Wireless by Charles Stross. #FridayReads http://amzn.to/btjAmr

07/30/2010 - 10:39am

Reading Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:39am

#fridayreads @Nancy_Mitford's WIGS ON THE GREEN. @VintageAnchor's gorgeous reissues of her backlist come out in a little over a week!

07/30/2010 - 10:39am

#FridayReads finishing Florida Roadkill by Tim Dorsey because In Harm's Way by @RidleyPearson comes out Tuesday @thebookmaven

07/30/2010 - 10:38am

#fridayreads The Wolves of Andover, by Kathleen Kent

07/30/2010 - 10:38am

#fridayreads Excellent Women by Barbara Pym. British spinsters living in the 1950s--AY-YO!

07/30/2010 - 10:37am

Today's #fridayreads is SHALIMAR THE CLOWN. I just love Rushdie.

07/30/2010 - 10:37am
07/30/2010 - 10:37am

@thebookmaven Pillars of the Earth #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:36am

#fridayreads just finished Water Bound by Christine Feehan (4 out of 5 stars) now #reading Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth

07/30/2010 - 10:36am

#fridayreads a classic, steeped in hot summer days and the kind of emotions heat brings: The Great Gatsby http://clicky.me/yKY #bookrec

07/30/2010 - 10:36am

#fridayreads Sean Payton's HOME TEAM and Alex Kava's DAMAGED

07/30/2010 - 10:35am

Looking forward to sneaking in a few pages of Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner" between writing breaks #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:35am

I'm reading Fly Away Home. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:35am

#FridayReads The Power Broker by Robert Caro

07/30/2010 - 10:34am

I started Kafka's "The Castle" yesterday and I can't put it down! Very engaging. #FridayReads

07/30/2010 - 10:34am

#fridayreads still trying to make my way through Guernsey Lit & Potato Peel Pie Soc. Other books on my nightstand keep glaring at me.

07/30/2010 - 10:34am

Reading "The Boss of You" because my best girl and I are thinking of opening a bookstore/cafe. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:33am

#fridayreads Am late to this, but I just started reading A Visit From the Goon Squad. Considering canceling wkend in order to stay in & read

07/30/2010 - 10:33am

Right now I'm reading The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde and I'm loving it as much as I love the rest of his books #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:33am

@thebookmaven My #fridayreads are A ZOO STORY and CHAMBER OF SECRETS (yes, again) & still working on THE BOOK IN THE RENAISSANCE (long one!)

07/30/2010 - 10:33am

#FridayReads Adam Kahane's Power and Love: love is bringing together that which has been separated. power is the drive to self actualize

07/30/2010 - 10:33am

Fully into REFRESH, REFRESH, and ready to jump into SEASON OF WATER AND ICE next. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:33am

I want everyone to read The Tsar's Dwarf by @danish_novelist so they'll publish translations of his other books! #ff #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:33am

@thebookmaven #fridayreads Fatherland, by Robert Harris. One of the best books i've ever read and the author went to my school :)

07/30/2010 - 10:32am

#fridayreads Real newspapers from New York, Chicago, Detroit, Traverse City, Leelanau, and Glen Arbor. Festival of print on vacation!

07/30/2010 - 10:32am

#fridayreads ooopppsss. The Classmate Murders by @MurderNovels.

07/30/2010 - 10:32am

As Husbands Go by Susan Isaacs, very enjoyable #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:32am

Perché non cimentarsi con le delicate ossessioni intellettuali di Elizabeth Costello? (Coetzee) @Einaudieditore #Fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:31am

ah, time for #fridayreads - BURNED for 99 cents: http://bit.ly/dk3nYA

07/30/2010 - 10:31am

RT @kristendaemons: Finishing up Shiver so I can start Linger this weekend #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:31am

RT @kristendaemons: Finishing up Shiver so I can start Linger this weekend #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:31am

#fridayreads Velva Jean Learns to Drive! Soooooo Wonderful!

07/30/2010 - 10:31am

#fridayreads Empire of the Summer Moon, A brilliant accounting of Comanche history & Cynthia Ann Parker's son, Quanah, Comanche war chief

07/30/2010 - 10:31am

@GraywolfPress #fridayreads A Novel in a Year by Louise Doughty & The Classmate Murders by @MurdersNovels

07/30/2010 - 10:30am

Almost finished with Silver Borne by Patricia Briggs #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:30am

The Poacher's Son by Paul Doiron #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:30am

@annammcc What's the book? Ukrainian connection perked up my ears! #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:30am

I'm reading Collusion by Stuart Neville. Same characters as the excellent The Ghosts of Belfast. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:30am

Keep those #fridayreads coming...I may be out of pocket for an hour or two, so want to pester you all *now.*

07/30/2010 - 10:30am

Really enjoying Adam Thorpe's Hodd, but still totally confused about whether it's true or not. Should it matter? Just curious. #FridayReads

07/30/2010 - 10:29am

A guidebook about Ukraine that my mother bought for me. (Cool eggs!) #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:28am

My #fridayreads: Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective, ed David Grusky - yup I know, you're jealous :)

07/30/2010 - 10:28am

#fridayreads - "The Passage" by Justin Cronin. I usually avoid the hot bestsellers but this is great so far.

07/30/2010 - 10:28am

Starting Marian Keyes' The Brightest Star in the Sky today. Great expectations! #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:28am

# RT @thebookmaven: Do share what you're reading with hashtag #fridayreads -- everything counts, from cereal boxes to audiobooks to re...

07/30/2010 - 10:28am

RT @thebookmaven: Do share what you're reading with hashtag #fridayreads -- everything counts, from cereal boxes to audiobooks to reference works!

07/30/2010 - 10:25am

'The Things That Keep Us Here' by Carla Buckley. World wide pandemic forces ppl to lock themselves away to survive. Loved it. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:25am

@danangelo1 I don't know if this makes it more or less embarrassing, but I wrote Diamond Ruby! Hope you enjoy it. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:25am

My #fridayreads is Faithful Place by Tana French. It's got me hooked. Can't wait to read it some more at lunch.

07/30/2010 - 10:24am

@thebookmaven My other Friday read (besides THE FALSE FRIEND by Myla Goldberg) is TWITTER! #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:22am

Reading loads of our Spring 2011 manuscripts. So many dazzling books coming down the pike. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:22am

#fridayreads Gas City by Loren Estleman (reading), Blind Descent by James Tabor (listening in car)

07/30/2010 - 10:22am

I plan to finish reading SAINT JULIAN by Walter Wangerin Jr. today. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:21am

I am reading THE BEET QUEEN by Louise Erdrich #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:21am

#fridayreads The Principles of Uncertainty by Maira Kalman, The Street Art Book by Ric Blackshaw, and Flight Vol. 6 by @boltcity.

07/30/2010 - 10:18am

#fridayreads Starting THE PEPPERED MOTH by Margaret Drabble

07/30/2010 - 10:15am

My #fridayreads is @CourtneyMilan's Trial by Desire, so I can at least feel a bit like I'm vicariously at #rwa10.

07/30/2010 - 10:15am

We don't read - we just lay all over the books. Free cat fur with your reading experience. #FridayReads #GreenHillsofAfrica

07/30/2010 - 10:15am

Reading @JenniferWeiner's Fly Away Home #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:14am

RT @GraywolfPress: Just started an ARC of "Exley" by Brock Clarke, from @AlgonquinBooks. LOVED "Arsonist's Guide," so am v. excited for this one. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:12am

Watched Dr. Seuss Cake Challenge on the Food Network last night-what's your favorite Seuss book? #Fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:12am

Reading this week, Intelligence by Susan Hasler. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:12am

What's everyone reading today, an e-book or a good ole fashioned book? #Fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:11am

Reading this week's New Yorker for #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:11am

The Ask #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:10am

Mary Roach's new book, Packing for Mars #fridayreads Just started it, but loved Bonk, Stiff.

07/30/2010 - 10:10am

Just started THE KEEP by Jennifer Egan. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:10am

RT @TravelSavvyKayt: Self-serving but honest - reading my article the military suicide epidemic posted yesterday: http://bit.ly/bOxY7j #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:10am

#fridayreads Shocking Pink Erica Spindler

07/30/2010 - 10:10am

RT @GraywolfPress: Just started an ARC of "Exley" by Brock Clarke, from @AlgonquinBooks. LOVED "Arsonist's Guide," so am v. excited for this one. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:10am

A favorite series ->Rt @PaperClippe: #fridayreads The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

07/30/2010 - 10:09am

RT @thebookmaven: #fridayreads -- I'm reading twitter ; ) and The Night of the Solstice by L.J. Smith - awesome book!

07/30/2010 - 10:09am

Just started an ARC of "Exley" by Brock Clarke, from @AlgonquinBooks. LOVED "Arsonist's Guide," so am v. excited for this one. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:08am

Despite major vampire fatigue, I'm still enjoying BLOOD SONG by @ctadamsauthor. If you're getting on a airplane, pick it up. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:07am

I'm #reading LIGHT UP YOUR CHILD'S MIND by Joseph Renzulli and Sally Reis and LETTERS TO A YOUNG TEACHER by Jonathan Kozol #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:07am

Tana French's IN THE WOODS, on @magiciansbook's recommendation. Rereading @leverus' THE MAGICIANS for course prep. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:07am

Its Friday. I am currently reading Dark Embers by Tessa Adams #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:07am

Good idea. RT @chrisayar: Librarians? If we're doing #fridayreads, then should we do #webwednesday? Our best website suggestions?

07/30/2010 - 10:06am

RT @IslandBOOKstore: THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET by David Mitchell, and FEED by Mira Grant #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:06am

I wish I could sneak away from work today to read the second half of THE KING'S MISTRESS, historical novel by Emma Campion. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:05am

#fridayreads THE SORCERESS by Michael Scott

07/30/2010 - 10:05am

Still reading Patchett's RUN and listening to DUNE, but I picked up WISDOM OF WHORES (a book about AIDS) again. #FridayReads #FridayListens

07/30/2010 - 10:05am

My #fridayreads was Madonnas of Echo Park but I just finished it and now I need to find a new one! What to read? Exley is probably next...

07/30/2010 - 10:04am

Cutting for Stone #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:04am

My #fridayreads are @cmpriest's Dreadnought (almost finished, read much in pool yesterday), and next up is @MarcyDermansky's Bad Marie.

07/30/2010 - 10:04am

#fridayreads: Super Sad True Love Story, then my ARC of Washington by Ron Chernow

07/30/2010 - 10:03am

Hiya friday! Work, final packing and then the moving commences. I have a feeling my #fridayreads will be email and food exp dates!

07/30/2010 - 10:03am

At a colleague's recommendation, I just got The Land of Far-Beyond on ILL. And just finished Riordan's The Red Pyramid. Fun! #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:03am

@sullivankate Starting Star Island this afternoon after I finish Catching Fire. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 10:03am

#fridayreads Also browsing through Leonard Pitts, Jr.'s Forward from this Moment & Stories by Neil Gaiman.

07/30/2010 - 10:01am

@thebookmaven #fridayreads This is where I leave you (J. Tropper) Funny, sharp, easy read.

07/30/2010 - 10:00am

#fridayreads Sophie Kinsella Can you keep a secret. Enjoy it a lot. Plus Body language 101 by David Lambert.

07/30/2010 - 10:00am

Reading two books: The Pool of Two Moons and Eat Pray Love (still). Takes twice as long when you read two at a time. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:59am

Still reading Don't Panic by Neil Gaiman and almost finished Waiter Rant by Steve Dublanica #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:59am

I am reading Waking the Witch by @KelleyArmstrong. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:58am

#fridayreads Knifing The Famous by Carolyn Allen

07/30/2010 - 9:58am

RT @Emileela: Learning new life lessons chapter by chapter in "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott. #Fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:58am

RT @erikadreifus My #fridayreads: The J-Word, by @andrewsanger http://amzn.to/5g9Thw>

07/30/2010 - 9:58am

Started @jenniferweiner's Fly Away Home last night and had to force myself to stop reading & go to bed. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:58am

Finishing up MARY ANN IN AUTUMN by Armistead Maupin and A WIDOW'S STORY: A MEMOIR by Joyce Carol Oates #FridayReads

07/30/2010 - 9:58am

Reading 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius' - Dave Eggers. Not sold on the genius, but definitely heartbreaking. #FridayReads

07/30/2010 - 9:57am

@BenRubinstein XENOCIDE! Sorry, just get really excited when someone mentions an Ender book. #FridayReads

07/30/2010 - 9:57am

Reading about 19th century Norwegian healer Anne Brandfjeld, who used herbs & berries in her folk healing. http://bit.ly/djShMD #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:57am

@thebookmaven: In that case, I'm reading compiled financial statements and credit memos. Kind of dry. Little plot. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:57am

My #fridayreads is Sam Kean's THE DISAPPEARING SPOON, a super fun and smart history of the periodic table.

07/30/2010 - 9:56am

#fridayreads Finished Skulduggery Pleasant:Dark Days by Derek Landy. Next up: Dreaming in Hindi by Katherine Russell Rich for book club.

07/30/2010 - 9:56am

I'm reading HIT OR MYTH by Robert Asprin #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:56am

Once again into the whiteness of the whale - Moby Dick - not since college - it's like a completely new book, w/new eyes #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:55am

@AnneDeCourcey Just tell us what you're reading...and if you get us excited about a pre-pub title, good for you! #FridayReads

07/30/2010 - 9:55am

#fridayreads Listening to Ubik by Phillip K. Dick. No cathedral building in this one, either.

07/30/2010 - 9:55am

My real #FridayReads: The Girl Who Played With Fire

07/30/2010 - 9:55am

@erikadreifus Erika, thank you for recommending The J-Word! #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:54am

I'm reading The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue, by Manuel Munoz (from @AlgonquinBooks). Quiet/hot/sad/sexy California stories. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:53am

#fridayreads The Man from St. Petersburg by Ken Follett. Page 156 and still no cathedral building.

07/30/2010 - 9:53am

#FridayReads Robinson Crusoe. #FridayIsAlsoIn Robinson Crusoe.

07/30/2010 - 9:52am

#fridayreads I'm #reading Jealousy by @lilithsaintcrow this weekend. And possibly others.

07/30/2010 - 9:52am

Just started Transition by Iain Banks. So far so good. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:52am

Can't finish this book in just a week. Still reading Pillars of the Earth. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:52am

I'm getting my sci-fi on, old-school style. XENOCIDE! #fridayreads http://bit.ly/cxfAcw

07/30/2010 - 9:52am

RT @TravelSavvyKayt My article on the military suicide epidemic: http://bit.ly/bOxY7j #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:52am

I'm still reading The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:52am

#fridayreads What to read next? Just finished The Girl Who Played with Fire late last night. Whew! Gonna wait a little for book three.

07/30/2010 - 9:52am

I'm reading dynamic thought today #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:51am

THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET by David Mitchell, and FEED by Mira Grant #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:51am

The NYTimes digest of articles On Writers and Writing #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:51am

Sourcery - Terry Pratchett #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:50am

@thebookmaven Still Ilustrado, by Miguel Syjuco. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:50am

I'm reading A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:49am

Beginning THE MASTER by Colm Toibin, so I can keep up w/@Karen_Palmer @robin_black @sonya_unrein @adevries18 @JessicaFKane #fridayreads #FF

07/30/2010 - 9:49am

Self-serving but honest - reading my article the military suicide epidemic posted yesterday: http://bit.ly/bOxY7j #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:49am

WHITE NOISE. So glad I finally decided to pick it up. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:49am

I'm starting The Swimming Pool by Holly LeCraw. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:49am

Reading Nora Ephron's Heartburn and Sam Kean's The Disappearing Spoon. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:49am

#fridayreads a truly great manuscript coming next fall (such a tease) and then MR PEANUT.

07/30/2010 - 9:48am

RT @thebookmaven: Do share what you're reading w/ hashtag #fridayreads- everything counts, from cereal boxes 2 audiobooks 2 reference works!

07/30/2010 - 9:48am

RT @thebookmaven: Do share what you're reading w hashtag #fridayreads -- everything counts, cereal boxes to audiobooks to reference works!

07/30/2010 - 9:48am

Dublin Review issue 40, That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo (@vintagebooks) #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:48am

Reading Stone's Fall by Iain Pears. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:48am

RT @thebookmaven: Do share what you're reading with hashtag #fridayreads -- everything counts, from cereal boxes to audiobooks to reference works!

07/30/2010 - 9:48am

@thebookmaven The Vintage Caper by Peter Mayle -- a perfect summer read. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:47am

Finished Daphne du Maurier’s Frenchman’s Creek. A lovely book I strangely feel I may have read before. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:47am

@jenwgilmore Oooh! You've got the @galbeckerman ARC? I should ask @hmhbooks if that's up on @netgalley yet... #fridayreads #notyet

07/30/2010 - 9:47am

Forgot to hashtag last post #fridayreads WHO IS FOURIER?

07/30/2010 - 9:47am

RT @thebookmaven: Do share wht U're reading w/ hashtag #fridayreads everything counts, from cereal boxes 2 audiobooks 2 reference works!

07/30/2010 - 9:46am

#fridayreads 1984 - George Orwell!

07/30/2010 - 9:46am

Just started Richard Parks' novella Hereafter and After and I'll probably take some time for Riordan's Titan's Curse. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:46am

@thebookmaven Reading "A Rather Charming Invitation" by C.A. Belmond. Like it so far! #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:46am

RT @thebookmaven: Do share what you're reading with hashtag #fridayreads -- everything counts, from cereal boxes to audiobooks to reference works!

07/30/2010 - 9:46am

My #fridayreads: The J-Word, by @andrewsanger (so sorry for the delay, Andrew!).

07/30/2010 - 9:45am

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I forgot you were on here, Gal! #fridayreads @galbeckerman's When They Come For Us We'll Be Gone

07/30/2010 - 9:45am

#fridayreads Rexroth's One Hundred Poems from the Japanese and some MFK Fisher.

07/30/2010 - 9:45am

My #fridayreads are LINGER by Maggie Stiefvater and THE SOLITUDE OF PRIME NUMBERS by Paolo Giordano.

07/30/2010 - 9:45am

I'm reading The Three Weissman's of Westport by Cathleen Schine #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:45am

RT @thebookmaven: Share what you're reading w/ hashtag #fridayreads - everything counts, from cereal boxes to audiobooks to reference works!

07/30/2010 - 9:45am

I'm going to finish THE BEAUTIFUL STRUGGLE and start PROBABLY STILL NICK SWANSON. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:45am

Also read Dracula on the Kindle. #Fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:44am

RT @PaperClippe: #fridayreads The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

07/30/2010 - 9:44am

RT @thebookmaven: Do share what you're reading with hashtag #fridayreads -- everything counts, from cereal boxes to audiobooks to reference works!

07/30/2010 - 9:44am

#fridayreads Just finished Bernard Cornwell's upcoming THE FORT. Now on to the long-awaiting DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY.

07/30/2010 - 9:44am

#fridayreads The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

07/30/2010 - 9:44am

#fridayreads All Saints by Karen Palmer and The Lunatic Express by Carl Hoffman

07/30/2010 - 9:44am

RT @chrisayar: Librarians? If we're doing #fridayreads, then should we do #webwednesday? Our best website suggestions?

07/30/2010 - 9:44am

Halfway through Louise Penny's THE BRUTAL TELLING. Love how she uses description and setting to increase the suspense. #fridayreads #fiction

07/30/2010 - 9:44am

Reading True Blood and Philosophy. Quite good! #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:44am

Hey! It's #fridayreads time!!!

07/30/2010 - 9:44am

#fridayreads Michael Grant's GONE and @drewbrees 's COMING BACK STRONGER

07/30/2010 - 9:43am

Do share what you're reading with hashtag #fridayreads -- everything counts, from cereal boxes to audiobooks to reference works!

07/30/2010 - 9:43am

Why #fridayreads is important: http://bit.ly/brvN6I As well, my #fridayreads is "Phantom Tollbooth" (for the 3rd time)

07/30/2010 - 9:42am

Why #fridayreads is important: http://bit.ly/brvN6I As well, my #fridayreads is "Phantom Tollbooth" (for the 3rd time)

07/30/2010 - 9:42am

Years too late, but loving Millicent Min, Girl Genius. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:41am

Today-driving to New Braunfels, listening to Before He Shot her and hope to read a bit of The Dawn Patrol. #fridayreads #fridaylistens

07/30/2010 - 9:41am

Going Under, by Justina Robson and Blink by Malcolm Gladwell #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:41am

#fridayreads Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

07/30/2010 - 9:40am

I'm reading Room by Emma Donoghue and am utterly mesmerized. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:39am

@thebookmaven #fridayreads Metro Girl by Janet Evanovich

07/30/2010 - 9:38am

onwards with moby-dick #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:37am

I'm reading Red Hook Road by @ayeletw. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:37am

#fridayreads "La's Orchestra Saves the World" by Alexander McCalll Smith.

07/30/2010 - 9:37am

Finishing up Gail Caldwell's Let's Take the Long Way Home and then it'll be The Girls Of Murder City by Douglas Perry. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:36am

Learning new life lessons chapter by chapter in "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott. #Fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:36am

ROLE MODELS by John Waters. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:35am

My #fridayreads is the galley for EXTRAORDINARY RENDITIONS by Andrew Ervin, and also, hopefully, ONE DAY by David Nicholls!

07/30/2010 - 9:35am

Words provided... Incandescent, Psychedelic, Neon, Translucent, Abyss http://wp.me/pSOYe-rZ How about some words? #poetry #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:34am

I list pre-pub titles! RT @AnneDeCourcey: Curious if #fridayreads is focused on available books? Or is it ok to list pre-pub reading

07/30/2010 - 9:34am

RT @chrisayar: Librarians? If we're doing #fridayreads, then should we do #webwednesday? Our best website suggestions?

07/30/2010 - 9:33am

advance copy of THE UNIDENTIFIED by @raemariz and THE GOOD MAN JESUS AND THE SCOUNDREL CHRIST by philip pullman #freshairbooks #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:31am

#Fridayreads THIS ONE IS MINE by Maria Semple - I LOVE this book -GREAT SUMMER READING!!! (cc: @luxlotus) (tx @neversent)

07/30/2010 - 9:31am

vacation reads: @jenniferweiner's fly away home, elin hilderbrand's barefoot: a novel, and anthony bourdain's medium raw. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:31am

Curious if #fridayreads is focused on available books? Or is it ok to list pre-pub reading (that's my focus for next 2 mos)

07/30/2010 - 9:31am

TGIF--what are your #Fridayreads? I just finished SUPER SAD TRUE LOVE STORY, working on MEMORY WALL right now...

07/30/2010 - 9:29am

Staff #fridayreads: Emma's reading Sheila Schwartz' Lies Will Take You Somewhere, Molly's reading DFW's The Broom of the System.

07/30/2010 - 9:28am

@thebookmaven Alpha by Rachel Vincent and Endless Summer by Jennifer Echols. #FridayReads

07/30/2010 - 9:27am

RT @Newsweek: J. D. Salinger Unmasked: Never-Before-Seen Photo http://bit.ly/c2sKDd #FridayReads

07/30/2010 - 9:19am

Reading & laughing thru "Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life" by Steve Almond. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:19am

Finishing Elise Blackwell's AN UNFINISHED SCORE. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:19am

"A dead author can at least enjoy fame without fatigue." Proust "The Guermantes Way" #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:18am

#FridayReads Re-reading Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson for 2010 Maroon Edition activities! http://tinyurl.com/lmgn9e @maroonedition

07/30/2010 - 9:18am

RT @mcsullivan: Reading The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood AND IT IS SOOOOO GOOD! #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:16am

I'm reading "Pleasure of a Dark Prince" by Kresley Cole. #FridayReads

07/30/2010 - 9:16am

I'm #reading Sacred Sin by Estevan Vega #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:16am

#fridayreads finishing up Ham on Rye

07/30/2010 - 9:16am

#fridayreads Sputnik Caledonia by Andrew Crumey -100 pages in. Delightful tale of growing up in Scotland with dreams of being an astronaut.

07/30/2010 - 9:15am

RT @lara_adrian: Savoring the last few pages of the brilliant @laurendane's Nov 2010 Berkley Heat release, INSIDE OUT. So good! #inlovewithcope #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:14am

The best books are those picked randomly off the shelf. I like a nice cover. Blind Submission by Debra Ginsberg. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:13am

I also plan to start a new audiobook today: Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy. Almost a #fridayreads book, it should count! ;)

07/30/2010 - 9:13am

#fridayreads (wishes it could sleep) http://twitgoo.com/1f7k8y

07/30/2010 - 9:13am

#fridayreads Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art/The Moment of Movement/Taken by Surprise: A Dance Improvisation Reader

07/30/2010 - 9:12am

Savoring the last few pages of the brilliant @laurendane's Nov 2010 Berkley Heat release, INSIDE OUT. So good! #inlovewithcope #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:12am

My #fridayreads is The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery. I've read maybe 2/3 of it & hope to finish soon; LOVING IT!

07/30/2010 - 9:11am

RT @AnnKingman: My #fridayreads: REVOLUTION by Jennifer Donnelly (due October). Soooooo good - smart YA rocks.

07/30/2010 - 9:11am

The Other Wes Moore #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:11am

My #fridayreads: (non-fic) The Secret Life of Germs by Tierno and still working on (fic) Kingsolver's The Lacuna

07/30/2010 - 9:11am

My #fridayreads is THE TUDORS by G.J. Meyer.

07/30/2010 - 9:11am

Reading The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood AND IT IS SOOOOO GOOD! #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:10am

RT @thebookmaven: Share those #fridayreads -- even if I sleep in!

07/30/2010 - 9:09am

RT @thebookmaven: Share those #fridayreads -- even if I sleep in!

07/30/2010 - 9:09am

My #fridayreads STILL reading Children's Book, almost done Wench (Audio), and School of Essential Ingredients.

07/30/2010 - 9:09am

Share those #fridayreads -- even if I sleep in!

07/30/2010 - 9:08am

My #fridayreads is Alaya Dawn Johnson's The Burning City, the sequel to Racing the Dark.

07/30/2010 - 9:08am

And a great #ff to you! RT @gripemaster: #fridayreads CAPE COD SURPRISE by Carol Newman Cronin ( @cansail )

07/30/2010 - 9:06am

#FridayReads THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE - Stieg Larsson

07/30/2010 - 9:05am

My #fridayreads are 'The little Giant of Aberdeen County' by Tiffany Baker and also listening to 'Wolf Brother' by Michelle Paver

07/30/2010 - 9:05am

#fridayreads A rare grown-up book for me Carl Hiaasen's STAR ISLAND. Classic Carl, so much fun.

07/30/2010 - 9:04am

#Fridayreads A. Conan Doyle "Il Mastino dei Baskerville"

07/30/2010 - 9:04am

I think Shteyngart's SUPER SAD Somethingorother is starting to mess with how I see the world. #FridayReads

07/30/2010 - 9:04am

My read for Friday (and probably the whole weekend): A FIERCE RADIANCE by Lauren Belfer. Have you read it? #fridayreads @thebookmaven

07/30/2010 - 9:04am

@thebookmaven Just finished Seven Year Switch by @ClaireCookbooks. Delightful and funny, and poignant esp. if you have kids #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:03am

#Fridayreads Stanley Karnow - Storia della guerra del Vietnam @francescapeach niente di allegro, come puoi vedere... :)

07/30/2010 - 9:03am

My #fridayreads is WAXED by @robertrave - perfect summer read!

07/30/2010 - 9:02am

#Fridayreads pronta a iniziare "Questo libro ti salverà la vita" di A.M. Homes - e voi, che leggete che leggete. perchè DOVETE leggere!

07/30/2010 - 9:02am

In the middle of "Troubles" by J. G. Farrell, winner of the Lost Booker Prize #fridayreads #booker

07/30/2010 - 9:02am

Reading Jonathan Tropper's THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU. Hilarious. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:02am

@thebookmaven #fridayreads H. Rider Haggard SHE AND ALLAN (oldie but a goodie)

07/30/2010 - 9:02am

Loving my #fridayreads - NURTURESHOCK by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman. Required read IMHO for anyone who has, cares about, works w/ kids.

07/30/2010 - 9:00am

#fridayreads rereading Frankenstein because it's brilliant, also reading Volume 2 of Maus

07/30/2010 - 9:00am

One Day by David Nicholls, plus The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (again! and still!) for a soon-to-be-overdue article. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:00am

What to read today? City of Veils or The Tavernier Stones? #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 9:00am

About halfway through "The Age of Innocence" and, in conjunction, a dictionary. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 8:59am

#fridayreads 'Anthropology of an American Girl'--starting it today to see if it lives up to the PW blurb!

07/30/2010 - 8:59am

#fridayreads this is embarrassing. It's titled Diamond Ruby I believe. Historical fiction. something a little bit different.

07/30/2010 - 8:59am

My #fridaylistens #fridayreads is Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

07/30/2010 - 8:58am

#FridayReads Bring on the Night by @jsmithready.....so close to being done....hmmm do I go to work or read??

07/30/2010 - 8:58am

Loving MARRYING MOZART by @StephanieCowell #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 8:57am

I'm reading Slow Heat by Jill Shalvis. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 8:56am

RT @kristendaemons: Finishing up Shiver so I can start Linger this weekend #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 8:56am

Finishing up Shiver so I can start Linger this weekend #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 8:55am

Also listening to Anne Lamott's workshop lecture Word by Word #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 8:54am

#fridayreads Jennifer Donnelly's REVOLUTION. And I'm kind of in love with it.

07/30/2010 - 8:53am

Started The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker thanks to @aboutbooks and loving it! #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 8:52am

Am so loving @HollyBlack's White Cat . #fridayreads #yalit

07/30/2010 - 8:52am

I'm reading ONE DAY! #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 8:52am

@AaronsBooks LOL! Welcome back! #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 8:52am

#fridayreads finish Erick Setiawan's Of Bees and Mist, start @WesleyStace's Charles Jessold

07/30/2010 - 8:51am

Sam is back from vacay, so her #fridayreads will be several hundred emails....

07/30/2010 - 8:51am

Trying to finish ONE DAY -- can't put it down! #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 8:51am

Ivan Doig's THE WHISTLING SEASON is my #fridayreads. Enjoying it very much.

07/30/2010 - 8:50am

#fridayreads Might put Anthro of American Girl aside 4 now in favor of One Day, which I've been dying to read. Need sumthing a little easier

07/30/2010 - 8:50am

#fridayreads Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum

07/30/2010 - 8:48am

Re-reading THE SURGEON by Tess Gerritsen and A DARK MATTER by @peterstraubnyc #FridayReads

07/30/2010 - 8:48am

Fun day planned. Work a little & then lunch with @AnneDeCourcey! And finish Catching Fire #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 8:48am

Still plowing through Pillars of the Earth, but really want to put it down and devour Catching Fire. #FridayReads #Torn #Indecisive

07/30/2010 - 8:48am

Giving "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" another chance as I embark on this long ride out to work. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 8:47am

SKINNY BITCH & SKINNY BITCH IN THE KITCH (by Rory Freedman & Kim Barnouin; narr by Renee Raudman) #fridaylistens #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 8:47am

#fridayreads A Separate Peace! (Giving a talk at B&N in Sept.) + When They Come For Us We'll Be Gone, The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry

07/30/2010 - 8:47am

Erm, title is PLAYING PIANO IN A BROTHEL. That would have been useful. #FridayReads

07/30/2010 - 8:46am

@bookladysblog Exactly, that's really the reason for it, especially with hundreds of #fridayreads these days

07/30/2010 - 8:46am

Yay - I will officially be able to participate in both #fridayreads and #fridaylistens today! Woo to being on vacation!

07/30/2010 - 8:45am

#fridayreads Reading a friend's novel manuscript. It's beautiful.

07/30/2010 - 8:45am

#fridayreads Currently reading Neuromancer by William Gibson. Jacking into the matrix shortly.. p45

07/30/2010 - 8:44am

I'm reading BEFORE I FALL by @Oliverbooks for #fridayreads -- I can't put it down!!!

07/30/2010 - 8:43am

RT @AudioBookFans: Listening to 13 Bullets by David Wellington #fridaylistens See my review of Frostbite by the same author http://bit.ly/ckMcmD #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 8:43am

#Fridayreads THE BLACK PRISM by @brentweeks. Took a bit, but I'm really enjoying it. 200 pages in.

07/30/2010 - 8:42am

#FridayReads DIE TWICE by Andrew Grant. Action and suspense = shazam.

07/30/2010 - 8:42am

#FridayReads THE DEATH AND LIFE OF CHARLIE ST. CLOUD so glad it was a book before the movie!

07/30/2010 - 8:41am

@DevourerofBooks I thought audibooks counted for #fridayreads...

07/30/2010 - 8:40am

#FridayReads CREATION IN DEATH by J.D. Robb. It's okay.

07/30/2010 - 8:40am

@marcapitman @iheartrhody #fridayreads was started by @thebookmaven and is a great way to connect w/others or find new books!

07/30/2010 - 8:40am

I'm spending the morning finishing PACKING FOR MARS, then it's on to A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 8:39am

My #fridayreads is "Sh*t My Dad Says" - definitely NSFW but wonderful moments of hilarity and deep belly laughs

07/30/2010 - 8:39am

RT @beckyzh: RT @juliemangano #fridayreads Daniel Silva's The Rembrandt Affair.....me too! -- Yay! I love his books.

07/30/2010 - 8:39am

Hate when my #fridayreads is the same as last week. Reminds me that I haven't been doing my homework. RESTLESS, by William Boyd.

07/30/2010 - 8:39am

@AnnKingman Ooh I like the idea of #fridayreads!

07/30/2010 - 8:37am

@AnnKingman I haven't seen #fridayreads before. Neat idea! I'm reading "The Beautiful Cigar Girl" by Daniel Stashower.Interesting!

07/30/2010 - 8:36am

#fridayreads CHEAP CABERNET: A FRIENDSHIP by @cheapcabernet My Kindle is intoxicated by this read, as am I. @Brendacopeland

07/30/2010 - 8:36am

I will finish Catching Fire (for the second time) today. #FridayReads

07/30/2010 - 8:36am

RT @annkingman My #fridayreads: REVOLUTION by Jennifer Donnelly (due October). Soooooo good - smart YA rocks. (AGREE!)

07/30/2010 - 8:36am

RT @xaida_sahanya: At the moment I read "Kiss of Crimson" by @lara_adrian. Amazing book! Started two days ago and I'm nearly half through it! :) #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 8:35am

RT @juliemangano #fridayreads Daniel Silva's The Rembrandt Affair.....me too!

07/30/2010 - 8:35am

#fridayreads : Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich my last trashy summer beach book of the season. I love that Ranger!

07/30/2010 - 8:35am

Am reading The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano. Very touching. Love it. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 8:34am

Finishing "The Imperfectionists" (Tom Rachman) which started slow for me, but am now really enjoying. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 8:34am

For #fridayreads I need a recommendation for the weekend! Lots of reading time available.

07/30/2010 - 8:33am

My #fridayreads: REVOLUTION by Jennifer Donnelly (due October). Soooooo good - smart YA rocks.

07/30/2010 - 8:32am

Thank you for choosing to read DIAMOND RUBY, @OnLocustStreet & @marta_rose! #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 8:32am

#Fridayreads THIS ONE IS MINE by Wendy Semple - I LOVE this book -GREAT SUMMER READING!!! (cc: @luxlotus)

07/30/2010 - 8:30am

Reading THE TIME IT SNOWED IN PUERTO RICO & starting THE RED QUEEN. CATCHING FIRE reread on audio. #fridayreads #fridaylistens

07/30/2010 - 8:30am

#fridayreads IRON KINGDOM by Christopher Clark

07/30/2010 - 8:30am

My #fridayreads for the train today is to start THE SENATOR'S WIFE by Sue Miller.

07/30/2010 - 8:29am

Suitcase packed for NYC. Don't forget to put your current book/author with #fridayreads, @thebookmaven gives prizes if we get over 500.

07/30/2010 - 8:28am

My #fridayreads for this week: Finished Dexter #5 last night (A+!) and STILL on "World Without End." I feel like I married this book!

07/30/2010 - 8:25am

#fridayreads Daniel Silva's The Rembrandt Affair

07/30/2010 - 8:22am

Reading Chef by Jaspreet Singh and having mixed feelings. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 8:21am

#FridayReads "The Diary of Virginia Woolf (Vol. 1)" http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0156260360/ref=mp_s_a_1?qid=1280492182&sr=8-1

07/30/2010 - 8:20am

RT @bostonbibliophl: #FridayReads SUPER SAD TRUE LOVE STORY by G. Shteyngart & RUNNING THE BOOKS by Avi Steinberg. Fun!

07/30/2010 - 8:18am

#Fridayreads False Mermaid by Erin Hart.

07/30/2010 - 8:17am

Finished Janet Mullany's Improper Relations last night. Reading nothing until I get Last Night's Scandal. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 8:16am

My #fridayreads DEATH OF RILEY by Rhys Bowen. nice mix of historical fiction and mystery.

07/30/2010 - 8:14am

My #fridayreads are The Weight of Glory by CS Lewis, which is FANTASTIC, and re-reading Troubling A Star by Madeleine L'Engle, great too.

07/30/2010 - 8:09am

@thebookmaven Reading the ARC of THE FALSE FRIEND by Myla Goldberg. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 8:05am

Next book on the summer reading list: One Day by David Nicholls. #FridayReads

07/30/2010 - 8:05am

I'm still reading LOOP GROUP by Larry McMurtry. Not so compelling. Too leisurely. Still, well-written #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 8:04am

I'm reading S. King GRAVEYARD SHIFT. Kind of adolescent, but I'd be interested to know what he thinks about horror today #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 8:03am

#fridayreads The Hypnotist by M J Rose and A Murderous Procession by Ariana Franklin.

07/30/2010 - 8:03am

In the beginning pages of The Postmistress & for someone who dislikes historical fiction, I'm really, really enjoying it. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 8:02am

My #fridayreads SUPER SAD TRUE LOVE STORY & MY STROKE OF INSIGHT @thebookmaven

07/30/2010 - 8:02am

#fridayreads CAPE CODE SURPRISE by Carol Newman Cronin ( @cansail )

07/30/2010 - 8:00am

Reading INNOCENT by Turow. Un-puttdownable! #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 7:59am

Sticking with Anita Brookner's FALLING SLOWLY altough I think she said what she had to say in her first 5 or so novels. #fridayreads #lonely

07/30/2010 - 7:58am

2 #fridayreads - Carey Wallace's The Blind Contessa's New Machine (Pamela Dorman Books) & Chris Cavender's Pepperoni Pizza Can be Murder

07/30/2010 - 7:58am

#TheCityofFollowingAngels by John Berendt is my #fridayreads / #wkndreads. Somebody twitered about it 2 weeks ago but I can't recall who

07/30/2010 - 7:57am

My #fridayreads is Indigo Blues by Danielle Joseph and Stolen by Lucy Christopher

07/30/2010 - 7:56am

DIAMOND RUBY by @Joe_Wallace is my #fridayreads. Thoroughly enjoying.

07/30/2010 - 7:55am

My #fridayreads is Life As We Knew It by Susan Pfeffer.. I'm not sure I'll be able to finish before I leave tomorrow :(

07/30/2010 - 7:54am

Started Captive Queen by Alison Weir yesterday #fridayreads. Despite my love for all things Eleanor of Aquitaine ... so far, not so good.

07/30/2010 - 7:49am

half way through @joe_wallace's DIAMOND RUBY. also trying to finish the last two stories of munro's HATESHIP, FRIENDSHIP, etc. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 7:46am

For #fridayreads this week, Paul Theroux's terrific Africa travel book, DARK STAR SAFARI. @thebookmaven

07/30/2010 - 7:44am

Yay it's Friday! #fridayreads in print I have AN ORDINARY DECENT CRIMINAL. On audio I'll finish SOLOMON VS LORD after work. #fridaylistens

07/30/2010 - 7:43am

#fridayreads The Cookbook Collector. Not bad so far. But light.

07/30/2010 - 7:43am

Technically, I'm ALSO reading Horowitz's VOYAGE LONG AND STRANGE, but I've only got 4 more pages in it. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 7:42am

I'm reading HIT MAN by Lawrence Block, MONSTER OF FLORENCE by Preston & Spezi, and CONFEDERATES IN THE ATTIC by Tony Horowtiz #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 7:41am

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins #fridayreads #bookaday #rereading @scholastic

07/30/2010 - 7:33am

Finished Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall. Now onto Life Class, selected memoirs of Diana Athill. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 7:27am

I'm #reading Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 7:27am

Thoroughly engrossed in The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, by David Mitchell. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 7:27am

For some reason my #fridayreads have disappeared from the results list. *frowns* My tweets have been disappearing & reappearing this week

07/30/2010 - 7:21am

#fridayreads Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. I'm going through a reading frenzy again. To Kill a Mockingbird in 3 days last week.

07/30/2010 - 7:18am

Packing for a long wknd upstate. The plan is to finish CATCHING FIRE & @daveihl's hilarious manuscript on Amtrak this a.m. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 7:17am

#fridayreads LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI by Melina Marchetta

07/30/2010 - 7:09am

#fridayreads "Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era" by Caroline Moorehead.

07/30/2010 - 7:08am

MEMOIR OF THE HAWK fantastic poetry from James Tate, Ecco, 2001. Perfect with coffee this morning. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 6:46am

#FridayReads SUPER SAD TRUE LOVE STORY by G. Shteyngart & RUNNING THE BOOKS by Avi Steinberg. Fun!

07/30/2010 - 6:29am

My #fridayreads are American Gods by Neil Gaiman, The Enchantment of Flesh and Spirit by Storm Constantine & Scandalous by Tilly Bagshawe

07/30/2010 - 6:28am

And a #fridaylistens Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 6:24am

My #fridayreads: Four Past Midnight by Stephen King and A Good Man Is Hard to Find & Other Stories (reread) by Flannery O'Connor

07/30/2010 - 6:23am

#fridayreads The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld. Started this morning - so far, so good.

07/30/2010 - 6:19am

Still reading: Wild Swans, by Jung Chang #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 6:18am

#fridayreads Stewart Lee's How I Escaped My Certain Fate: The Life and Deaths of a Stand-Up Comedian -brilliantly funny & clever! Read it!

07/30/2010 - 6:09am

#fridayreads is a hashtag monitored by @thebookmaven -just tweet what you're currently reading w/ the tag. There's a book giveaway involved!

07/30/2010 - 6:05am

Im August erscheinen definitiv zu viele Bücher, die ich lesen will.... #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 6:03am

Is in the mood to read some Larkin this weekend. #poetry #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 5:30am

@Einaudieditore #Fridayreads speciale: "I 39 scalini" "La pattuglia all'alba" "Abbiamo sempre vissuto nel castello" "Madame Bovary"

07/30/2010 - 5:17am

@Einaudieditore niente vacanza... i miei #Fridayreads Tishomingo Blues E. Leonard; La Dea Bianca R. Graves;

07/30/2010 - 5:12am

@Einaudieditore #Fridayreads valgono anche i libri che si recensiscono? un augurio di buone vacanze e buone letture!

07/30/2010 - 5:08am

I hope to finish Robert Service's TROTSKY over the weekend. After that, I may go back to the novels I recently abandoned. #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 5:03am

RT @Einaudieditore: e poi visto che è l'ultimo venerdì di luglio un #Fridayreads speciale. Cosa state leggendo e cosa leggerete in vacanza?

07/30/2010 - 4:42am

@Einaudieditore: #Walter Benjamin: Passages di Parigi e #Gogol #Anime Morte #Racconti di San pietroburgo: letture agostane #Fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 4:40am

Un #FridayReads condito di Amy Hempel e di tutte le sue Ragioni per vivere a @Einaudieditore

07/30/2010 - 4:39am

@Einaudieditore #Fridayreads Jonathan Coe - The Rain Before It Falls (La pioggia prima che cada)

07/30/2010 - 4:36am

e poi visto che è l'ultimo venerdì di luglio un #Fridayreads speciale. Cosa state leggendo e cosa leggerete in vacanza?

07/30/2010 - 4:31am

"Nur Du kannst die Menschheit retten" (Terry Pratchett) ... #fridayreads http://amzn.to/9LAaGW

07/30/2010 - 4:18am

At the moment I read "Kiss of Crimson" by @lara_adrian. Amazing book! Started two days ago and I'm nearly half through it! :) #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 4:16am

Hey, today is #fridayreads ! Tell your followers what you are reading at the moment / read this week!

07/30/2010 - 4:15am

RT @janiceharayda: Robert Hughes' LUCIAN FREUD: PAINTINGS (@thamesandhudson, 2003), excellent background for MAN WITH A BLUE SCARF (T&H, 10/10). #fridayreads

07/30/2010 - 4:04am

#fridayreads Tishomingo Blues by Elmore Leonard ---> WOW!

07/30/2010 - 3:46am

#fridayreads Finished Mountains beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder - Paul Farmer an amazing guy. Still going on the Aeneid...

07/30/2010 - 3:33am

#fridayreads The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield. i'm at the Middles.

07/30/2010 - 2:52am

#fridayreads Joined-up Thinking by @stevyncolgan

07/30/2010 - 2:28am

#fridayreads @TransAfrica4rum book club is reading Thing Around Your Neck http://tiny.cc/m2wq3 Paperback now available in-store & online

07/30/2010 - 1:59am

#fridayreads Departing gifts for our super intern Heather: Naomi Klein & Colin Cotterill. http://tiny.cc/a43sz http://tiny.cc/qfhlk

07/30/2010 - 1:56am

#FridayReads @stephenfry's #TheHippopotamus and Charles Foran's #ButterflyLovers. Hope they'll compliment G&Ts on the dock.

07/30/2010 - 1:33am

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