Dan's comments
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Started A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore and The Cobra Event by Richard Preston. Been a while since I've dipped into The Complete Novels of Jane Austen but it's still there in the pile and I'm working on Philosophy in the Boudoir by the Marquis de Sade.
105. Baudolino - Umberto Eco
I finished this over the weekend and liked it better than Dragon Tattoo. It "moved" a little better than the first and had more twists. Because the end had a "to-be-continued" flavor, I'm not sure we've been told yet what "All the Evil" is. I thought for a while that it was something that happened in the hospital but then I got the impressions that it happened before Lisbeth went to the hospital. As for digging herself out of the grave, I think that was set up and was reinforcement for the fact that Lisbeth and Niederman are half-siblings. Lisbeth could have physiological abnormalties (albeit to a lesser degree) similar to Niedeerman's. I also wonder if the intrusion of the bullet into her brain could effect Lisbeth's personality in Hornet's nest.
Okay - time to give this thread a shot of male perspective.
I'll have to go with Eowyn in Lord of the Rings and Annie in Shoeless Joe. They got the casting of Eowyn perfect with Miranda Otto. Amy Madigan was okay in Field of Dreams but it'd be hard to find a good match for Annie's personality.
104. The Girl Who Played With Fire - Stieg Larsson
This thread makes me wonder where advertising agencies get the people who come up with ads using the words that turn people off.
Jingle Jangle - song by the Archies (now I feel really old)
103. To the Gates of Richmond - Stephen W. Sears
Lori,
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102. The Hot Zone - Richard Preston
Hi Megan. Welcome to the best group on Goodreads. You're going to love it here and we're glad you've joined us.
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien deals with the Vietnam war and is very thought provoking.
I've already started thinking about my reading goals for next year. I may go with a number-of-pages goal instead of number-of-books. Perhaps goals related to specific genres or a number-of-new-authors (new to me) goal as well.
101. Angels of Destruction - Keith Donohue
I think the only book I've ever re-read is Shag, Last of the Plains Buffalo when I was 10 or 11. I always feel like there's too much new stuff to get to, so there's no time for re-reading and I've rarely felt that a book had more to offer me once I finished it. That second factor has changed this year with my reading of Gravity's Rainbow and V. by Thomas Pynchon. As much as I got from the first readings, I know there's more to get from subsequent readings under different life circumstances. I have a feeling that most of Pynchon's work will be that way for me.
Congratulations on getting to your goal, Charity.
It probably averages out to something between 2 and 3. My goal for the year is 120 so I'd have to do about 2.5 a week to hit that. I read several books at a time so I tend to finish books in groups. May go a week with no finishes and then have 3 or 4 or 5 the next week.
Congratulations, Alisha. Enjoy your longer book and let us know how it goes.
Eye of the Tiger - song by Survivor
