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message 951: by Katie ATX (new)

Katie ATX (katieatx) | 74 comments I just started Disgrace by Coetzee and Butcher Boy by McCabe


message 952: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie (sbez05) | 32 comments Just started I'm Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti.


message 953: by Derrick (new)

Derrick (afderrick) | 87 comments I started At the Mountains of Madness last night to give myself a small break from Les Miserables.


message 954: by H.J. (new)

H.J. Swinford (hayleejalyn) Just started Jane Austen's Emma. I've read P&P and S&S--the former by far my favorite of the two. So far I am really loving Emma, too.


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Lenoir | 27 comments The War of the Worlds

I'm not a huge Sci-Fi fan but I love HG Wells.


message 956: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie (sbez05) | 32 comments Just started Unless A Novel which is this month's pick for my book club, and I was pleasantly surprised it is on the list. Always a bonus.


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Monique (moniquereads) | 9 comments Beloved by Toni Morrison. I am not looking forward to it since I tried to read it over 15 years ago and had to put it down (of course I was only in elementary school then).


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Denise | 231 comments Beloved is not a book I would recommend for elementary school students. It's a hard story, but very well done.


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Lenoir | 27 comments The Color Purple


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Patricia | 8 comments Love in the Time of Cholera - so far really enjoying it.


message 961: by Deanne (new)

Deanne | 681 comments The Buddha of Suburbia, some very funny moments.


message 962: by Camille (new)

Camille (thefiercepanda) | 6 comments Picked up "The Dead Father" today. Totally weird.


message 963: by Emma (new)

Emma (mnium) | 135 comments Started Moll Flanders. I got the Dover Thrift edition for Christmas.


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Darcy (darcy-elizabeth) | 34 comments 1984


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A room of One's Own and Comfort of Strangers.


message 966: by Lenoir (new)

Lenoir | 27 comments A Moveable Feast


message 967: by Deanne (new)

Deanne | 681 comments Lord Jim by Conrad


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Anna (lilfox) | 290 comments North and south by Elizabeth Gaskell


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Juliane (libristar) | 26 comments "Measuring the World" by Daniel Kehlmann


message 970: by Katharine (new)

Katharine | 19 comments Having just finished At The Mountains Of Madness, I am reading the rest of the HP Lovecraft anthology that I got out of the library (not on the list but worth a read!) I am about halfway through The Case of Charles Dexter Ward at the moment and I am liking it much more than Mountains so far.


message 971: by Niche (new)

Niche I'm reading The Book of Daniel by E. L. Doctorow at home and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick during my commute.


Melissa (So Cal Gal) | 8 comments Just started Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.


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Manju /*  Life is beautiful  */ (manjulabalu) | 3 comments I started Best Laid Plans by Sidney Sheldon......


message 974: by Lenoir (new)

Lenoir | 27 comments The Stand

It's not on the list but the Stephen King thread inspired me to give him a whirl.


message 975: by Laura (booksnob) (new)

Laura (booksnob) | 5 comments Just started The Wonderful O by James Thurber.


message 976: by Deborah (new)

Deborah (thebookishdame) | 20 comments Melissa wrote: "Just started Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte."
Melissa, This is an unforgettable book! I know you're going to love it. It's on my all-time favorite books list. I can never forget Kathy and Heathcliff.



message 977: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie Im just getting ready to start Let The Right One In...it sounds super good!


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Christina Stind | 180 comments Just about to start Middlesex so I'll be ready for the discussion.


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David | 1 comments Three musketeers


message 980: by Laura (new)

Laura (laurita) | 42 comments Stephanie, is that the book the movie is based on? I just saw the film last night and really enjoyed it.


message 981: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie Yes its the one...I have been waiting to read it for a while...the first two times I ordered it fro amazon the ran out...lol


message 982: by Niche (new)

Niche David wrote: "Three musketeers"
I loved that book. I keep meaning to read one of the sequels...

I just started The Reader by Bernhard Schlink.



message 983: by Katie ATX (new)

Katie ATX (katieatx) | 74 comments Money by Martin Amis


message 984: by Deanne (new)

Deanne | 681 comments North and South by Gaskell, just about to go on a 9 hour flight to the UK, my back up book is Artemis Fowl not on the list but on the BBC list.


message 985: by Deborah (new)

Deborah (thebookishdame) | 20 comments I'm off classics for the moment and having a mystery binge. So, I'm reading Patricia Cornwell..."Black Notice," and I'm starting, "Scarpetta."


message 986: by Lenoir (new)

Lenoir | 27 comments Pride and Prejudice




message 987: by Donna (new)

Donna (donnareadstheworld) | 0 comments 'Surfacing' by Margaret Atwood.


message 988: by H.J. (new)

H.J. Swinford (hayleejalyn) I am beginning "Count of Monte Cristo." I am only a few chapters in and I love it already.


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Diniasih | 6 comments hhhmm...i'm not so sure...which one i pick first...

i've already bought "Ascolta La Mia Voce" by Susana Tamaro, "Through A Glass, Darkly" By Josteein Gaarder, "Breaking Down" by Stephanie Meyer, and "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaleed Hosseini.

Maybe i should start with the thinnest book... :)


message 991: by Amy (new)

Amy (bibliocrates) | 29 comments I just started Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangaremba.


message 992: by Laura (booksnob) (new)

Laura (booksnob) | 5 comments Just started The Plot Against America by Philip Roth. Interesting so far.


message 993: by Kat (new)

Kat (katheriner1990) Just started Jane Eyre... about 50 pages in.


message 994: by Amy (new)

Amy (bibliocrates) | 29 comments Katherine wrote: "Just started Jane Eyre... about 50 pages in."

I loved Jane Eyre!



message 995: by Judith (new)

Judith (jloucks) | 1202 comments "The Fox" by D.H. Lawrence. Very interesting so far.


message 996: by Emma (new)

Emma (mnium) | 135 comments Started The House in Paris for this group's monthly book club!


message 997: by Katie ATX (new)

Katie ATX (katieatx) | 74 comments started Perfume by Patrick Suskind. I've seen the movie, which was pretty good so hopefully the book with be just as good, if not better.


message 998: by Chel (new)

Chel | 380 comments I started Time's Arrow by Martin Amis. I'm 8% done with the list of books.


message 999: by Charity (last edited Mar 12, 2009 03:25PM) (new)

Charity (charityross) Currently working on:

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

and finishing up: Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster


message 1000: by Niche (new)

Niche I started Fatelessness by Imre Kertesz. I kept trying to read this in college since it was on the Utne Reader list.


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