Read Outlander by Diana Gabaldon if you haven't already. It is just the best! I cannot even describe how much I love her books!

After a string of dark, dense, heavy duty reading, I wanted something fun, easy, and entertaining, so I broke out the youth lit genre and read the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. The books were, as expected, fun, easy, and entertaining. Not as heartfelt and epic as the Harry Potter series, but in the same…

I am a big fan of the adult short stories by Roald Dhal. They are creepy and so wonderful, my favorite is "Lamb to the Slaughter" (not about lambs being slaughtered). Also, most books by Daphne Du Maurier, especially "The Scapegoat" and "My Cousin Rachel" which were brilliant in their psychological twists and turns.…

I'm stuck doing some oh-so-fun reading for school: Classics in Mathematics Education Research. Yay! So, in order to keep my sanity I started rereading The Gunslinger by Stephen King. I have read it since I was 18, so 17 years ago. I'm kind of excited to get back into the series in my free time.

I love these Atwood books! I'm so excited that the third is out. I don't eat cheap chicken anymore. Did you ever read "The Blind Assassin"? It's completely different and great. Margaret also does great interviews if you ever have the chance to hear/see her. She did a literary talk with Ursula K. Le Guin last year…

I haven't read 1Q84 yet, but I have read other Murakami novels that I didn't like. Some of his stuff is great, others not so much. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, a collection of short stories, is really good. I would highly recommend that one, because if you're reading a story and you don't like it, you can just flip…

I tried to start Oryx and Crake recently and tried to get into it, but was unsuccessful. So now I'm reading Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore and I'm enjoying the hell out of it so far. I am also reading Ann Somerset's Elizabeth I for a little splash of historical goings on. That's pretty excellent too.

I'm a cheese ball, so I'm reading the new Bridget Jones book. Then, the new John Grisham and then the new Wally Lamb. Sometimes I worry that I'm going to get judged by my book choices. Does anyone else feel that way?

I finished a book called 13 Golden Monkeys. It's a fictional account of a true story—about little golden lion tamarins (a small type of monkey) that were born in zoos in the US, but then reintroduced to their natural habitat in Brazil. It's cool, because it tells a fascinating true story, but goes into the monkeys…

Sorry apparently Kinja didn't double post me and I lost my whole post and it won't let me edit to fix it so I'm posting again. Sorry!

Ooh! I've been so busy for such a long time that my list of "to read" books is crazy long, but I started reading a collection of Atwood's short stories that someone left at my laundromat, accidentally stole it, and have almost read it all. I missed reading, but never could fit it in. Somehow short stories seem to…

I just finished reading The Exorcist (brilliant, but kept me awake all damn week) and started on Whistling Vivaldi, Claude M. Steele's book on stereotypes, and Amsterdam by Ian McEwan.

Did you use the same username at the time? I have the vaguest recollection of it. I also got rid of my account, and re-upped after the kinja rollout.

Yeah, I actually think it's pretty fucked up that they just use posts from groupthink. Obviously GM "owns" them, but to me it seems like work for free. If they are making any ad revenue from those posts (which they necessarily are because of the way ads work on the site) the authors from those posts should be paid.