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Susanna
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Jun 08, 2010 01:14PM
I decided to try to re-read the HP series before the last two movies come out. I'm not a big fan but my best friend has the series so I'm borrowing them one at a time. So, next up is
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
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Hi everyone! I haven't been around for four weeks because I was in the hospital for back to back strokes. My next book will be the audiotape of The Time Traveller's Wife.
Beth wrote: "F1Wild wrote: "...the book, Anthropology of an American Girl: A Novel by Hilary Thayer Hamann?" I'm reading this right now and I'm really liking it!"
Cheers Beth! I think I may tackle this one next!
Catamorandi so sorry to hear that. I hope you are regaining your strength. Tinkers
The House of Mirth
Hunger
These are books for another group readings coming up
I also will have to re-acquaint myself with The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
as I am moderator in July
Catamorandi wrote: "Hi everyone! I haven't been around for four weeks because I was in the hospital for back to back strokes."OMG!! I hope you're doing well Catamorandi!!! Best wishes to you in your healthy recovery!!
Alex wrote: "I didn't love Bringing Down the House. It's entertaining enough just 'cause of the subject matter, but Mezrich's not a very graceful writer.I'm only a couple pages in and I already get what you mean. 0.0 If I read it like fiction, it's not too bad (like you said, entertaining enough), but trying to consider it nonfiction is a pretty big stretch.
I'm usually too much of an impulse reader to compile a list of my next 5 reads but here's what I have planned:Blindness by Jose Saramago (currently reading)
Gunpowder by Joe Hill
Bag of Bones by Stephen King
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Passage by Justin Cronin
I love Blindness. Recently saw the movie, and it was remarkably accurate to the book but strangely lifeless.
Blindness is sort of driving me crazy right now. I'm into the story which makes me feel like I should be further along in the book than I am. The writing is tripping me up and slowing me down. Or I've just been to tired to read lately.
Going away for the weekend. I'll most likely finish HP #1 so I'm also taking along
This Side of Brightness
by Colum McCann, my first from him.
I'll probably be reading Reich's Rules of Vengeance, Morton's The Forgotten Garden and/or Waugh's Brideshead Revisited next.
Catamorandi wrote: "Hi everyone! I haven't been around for four weeks because I was in the hospital for back to back strokes. My next book will be the audiotape of The Time Traveller's Wife."My gosh Catamorandi! My prayers are with you! I wish you a speedy recovery.
Once again, another trip to the library and I leave fairly full-handed.- Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer
- A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
- The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner
- Fatherhood by Bill Cosby
The last one was a pick from my boyfriend since he believes Bill Cosby to be the ultimate role model considering we have our own little one on the way. I figured I would give it a shot too once he was done, especially since the librarian was raving about it when we checked out. The others are just off my to-read list, which is (sadly) getting smaller...
Just finished Mary by Vladimir Nabokov. Next up is To Kill a Mockingbird. This will be the first time I'm reading this!
One of my all-time favorites as well as the fantastic movie. Speaking of TKaM, I'm hoping to read Scout, Atticus, and Boo: A Celebration of Fifty Years of To Kill a Mockingbird by Mary Murphy soon...oh, what the hell - just ordered the sample! ;-)
Myne wrote: "Can't wait to jump into A Thousand Splendid Suns"That was sooo good. Have you read The Kite Runner yet? I thought it was the better of the two, but this is still amazing!
Jennifer wrote: "Myne wrote: "Can't wait to jump into A Thousand Splendid Suns"That was sooo good. Have you read The Kite Runner yet? I thought it was the better of the two, but this is..."
I really love both of those books.
In no particular order.......1. The Necromancer
2. The Red Tent
3. Duma Key
4. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
5. The next 2 books in the Guardians of Ga'hoole series
6. Mockingjay
Just starting Lady of the Butterflies then I'll read John F. Kennedy Lives in the Future! if no other goodreads giveaways show up then I'll finally start Persuasion or The Epic of Gilgamesh both of which I keep putting off to read these giveaways. ><
I am currently reading The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and next on my list is the newest Tana French book Faithful Place: A Novel when it comes out.
New List!2. The Street of a Thousand Blossoms
3. The Zahir
5. Blood Harvest
Donna wrote: "New List!...2. The Street of a Thousand Blossoms...
"
Maybe The Street of a Thousand Blossoms will be our July read. Did you vote for it?
Trying to decide between Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor, The Angel's Game, Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life & The Real History of the End of the World.I just don't know what I want to read. Anyone read any of these?
My tiny tbr list:Horns - Joe Hill
Blindness - Jose Saramego
The City & The City - China (something something)
The Cat Among Pigeons - Agatha Christi
Nefertiti - Michelle Moran
Having add book/author down is really ruining my groove. It was the only thing that eased my fears about misspellings (or is is mis-spellings or missspellings, perhaps mispellings?). Forgive me group!
Felina wrote: "My tiny tbr list:Horns - Joe Hill
Having add..."
Hi Felina - I'm currently listening to Horns on audio and it has got me totally hooked. Joe Hill is one sick man.
I hope you enjoy it!
I've read Heart-Shaped Box and really enjoyed it. I'm a Stephen King fan so it only seemed logical to become a Joe Hill fan to. :)
1 - The Undomestic Godness by Shophie Kinsella2 - Sweet Nothings by Catherine Anderson
3 - The Cupid Effect by Dorothy Koomson
:)
F1Wild wrote: "Donna wrote: "New List!...2. The Street of a Thousand Blossoms...
"
Maybe The Street of a Thousand Blossoms will be our July read. Did you vote for it?"
I know I am late answering you but I am the one who nominated it. Too bad it didn't win! I am still going to read it though ;-)
Donna wrote: "F1Wild wrote: "...The Street of a Thousand Blossoms..."Did you vote for it?"
I know I am late answering you but I am the one who nominated it. Too bad it didn't win! I am still going to read it though ;-)"
Ah, NP! It's high on my TBR list as well!
You can find them under "General" "July's Group Reads Are" - 2nd page."Here are the two winners for the July Group Read...
Reg cat: THE PASSAGE - Justin Cronin
Under 200: FRANKENSTIEN - Mary Shelley"
I finally started Persuasion, then I'll read John F. Kennedy Lives in the Future! from my firstreads pile, then The Epic of Gilgamesh. One for me one for them, that's my current strategy!
I might read either Puzo's The Family, Stone's The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo, Waugh's Brideshead Revisited or Kay's Tigana next, lol. I have a lot of choices at this point; might even start tackling one of my really thick books (i.e. Tolstoy's Anna Karenina or Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov).
I need suggestions. I'm going to finish The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo today. In the next hour probably. Then we're heading to the beach this afternoon and I MUST have a book. I always read at least one (usually more) "classics" over the summer. I am torn - Rebecca, Katherine, or Of Mice and Men???? I'm leaning towards the first two but am looking for help deciding (the sooner the better please!). Also, I have lots of other classics sitting in my TBR pile so I'll gladly take other suggestions if you have them. Thanks friends!
I read Katherine many years ago. Go for it. it is a historical classic and Anya Seton always did a nice job.
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