I'm currently reading The Emporer's Children. So far so good. It's about intersecting lives in Manhattan.

I am reading INKHEART aloud with my grandson. (Trying to encourage him beyond his 4th grade reading level.) Has anyone read INKSPELL or INKSDEATH? Are they worth the reading?

Also, does anyone have a KINDLE? I am thinking of getting one for our Spring trip (rather than bringing lots of books along).

Just in case anyone is thinking of buying one, I love my Kindle. I have started placing books on there for our Spring trip. At $9.99 for a newly released book, I can get 2 books for the price of one and not carry those heavy books with me (especially now that they are charging for over-weight luggage). LOL

Not only that, but they just released an application of the iPhone that allows you to pick up and read your book from your phone. Go right back to your Kindle and it picks up where you left off. Loving it!

Anyone have any good suggestions about new books to read over vacation?

I'm currently reading Plum Spooky. It's a between the numbers novel by Janet Evanovich. I don't enjoy the Stephanie Plum between number books as much as the numbered ones...

I love the Stephanie Plum series too. I just recently started reading them and am currently on book number 9. Those books are so entertaining and fun. All the characters are awesome, her grandma Mazur is hilarious and so is Lula. I hope Stephanie and Joe end up together in the end. This series is so great I can't get enough of them.

Just finished Jodi Picoult's Handle With Care. Anyone that knows someone with a "special needs" child would be especially touched by this book.

Also read J.D. Robb's Promises in Death. If you like to read these detective series, you will enjoy this one.

If you are into James Patterson's books, Run for Your Life is a book I breezed through.

What can I say? I was on vacation. These tree books made for some good reading.

Have any of you ever read any of Lee Child's series featuring a character called Jack Reacher? I just finished "Nothing to Lose", the 11th one in the series.
(I have a little secret lust in my heart for Jack! Ha)
"Killing Floor" is the first one in the series.

That's all of them JW!
There's a new hardcover out called "Gone Tomorrow" but I guess I won't be reading it 'till it's out in paperback.

Dang! I will need to wait until May 19th. That is when it will be available on Kindle. Of course, the prices are usually only $9.99 for a new release.

Can't wait!

But...saw a FREE book by Lee Child that I had never seen. PERSUADER

Ever see this one? I downloaded it.

No, I haven't ..... I'll check it out. Thanks.

Read Jodi Picoult's Handle with Care.

This book reads super fast and I am not a fast reader. It definitely deals with siblings of "special needs" children.

Reading Scarpetta at the moment. It is the latest book in the series. It does make me want to go back and re-read a few of the books Patricia Cornwell has written.

Read A Quiet Belief in Angels by R.J Ellory and enjoyed it so much I went back and read everything he's written. I'm not sure if all of his books are available in the US and Canada, I liked all of them but especially loved Candlemoth and A Quiet Belief in Angels.

I'm in the middle of an interesting memoir called, Project Girl by Janet MacDonald. A girl who grows up in a Brooklyn housing project manages to go to Vassar, law school and journalism school despite all these setbacks in her life, mental illness, and other heavy stuff. Most of her siblings were on drugs, in jail or teen mothers. She ends up beating the odds. If you like heavy books, you might like this one.

Thumbs up for Harlan Coben's Long Lost and David Baldacci's First Family!

Has anyone read The Story of Edgar Sawtelle? I am almost done reading it and so I wondered if anyone else had read it? And will it be made into a movie?

i'm reading, Night Sins by Tami Hoag. It's easy, light and fast paced, but the subject matter about an abducted child is hard.

I am reading Sandra Brown's Breath of Scandal. Really good story over a decade of the character's lives.

I just finished Roadside Crosses by Jeffrey Deaver. Lots of twists and turns, good ending. I love this writer.