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[Jerry]

Just finished Have a Little Faith: The Story of a Last Request a wonderful, uplifting, poignant collection of thoughts about living and dying. Another winner by the author of Tuesdays With Morrie.

[Heather]

Robin wrote: "I usually have a few scattered in different parts of each room I inhabit. The when the mood strikes, I will read one. I don't read 7 or more books at one time. How do you manage to finish readin..."

Well, I don't read a lot of fiction. My taste in subjects is so variable that I never confuse them and I too read one depending on my mood. Unfortunately, they aren't all 'page turners' so it does take me awhile to finish one. But let me tell you, when I do finish a book, I feel a great sense of accomplishment!

[Alex]

Right now, I am ready Rhonda B. THE POWER for mindset :)
but for recreation.. I am reading BLAZE by Stephen King.

[Monica]

Michelle wrote: "I really enjoyed The Other Boleyn Girl, too. I liked it much better than the movie, lol."


I have never seen the movie. I didn't even know there was a movie until I read the book. I will have to see if I can find the movie to watch it.

[SATIN SUE]

at the min im reading the demonica seires..by larissa ione...i started reading it coz my friend told me it was good.....so me being me decided to give it a try .....im only one book 1 but im really enjoying it

[Terri]

I just got done reading "Hunger Untamed" by Pamela Palmer, now I'm reading "Darkroom" by Joshua Graham. His first book "Beyond Justice" was amazing. I'm hoping for a repeat with this book.

[Sharon]

Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships. It was on a list of recommended reading by an author whose work I value, so I thought I would check it out.

[Shomeret]

I am now reading The White Garden: A Novel of Virginia Woolf. It's about an American woman who is a gardener that travels to England to photograph and study a famous garden created by the author Vita Sackville West so that she can re-create it for her wealthy clients in the U.S. During this process she finds a previously undiscovered Virgina Woolf diary.

When I started reading the book, I wondered if I could finish it because there's quite a bit about gardening which doesn't interest me at all. But I persevered because I'm very interested in the life of Virginia Woolf.

[Jenny]

Super excited that my copy of A Red Herring Without Mustard arrived yesterday. It's all I can do not to drop everything and devour it.

[Debra]

I've almost finished reading Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. A co-worker recommended it several months ago and I finally got to it last week. It's an interesting book, although parts of it reading like a marketing textbook.

[Betsy]

Debra wrote: "I've almost finished reading Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. A co-worker recommended it several months ago and I finally got to it last week. It's an interesting book, although parts of it reading like ..."

I loved Blink. The book is very thought provoking.

[Jane]

I just finished The Little Book by Selden Edwards. If you are interested in time travel, WWII, 1897 Vienna, Woodstock, Buddy Holly, Harvard, or baseball suspend belief and jump in. What a great read.

[Betsy]

I'm starting Room today because I've heard such great things about it. It must be good because I was on a 2 and a half month waiting list for it at the library.

[Lalalalaaa]

Betsy wrote: "I'm starting Room today because I've heard such great things about it. It must be good because I was on a 2 and a half month waiting list for it at the library."

I adored it! :) Hope it lives up to your expectations.

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Just started Claire se queda sola because I love Marian Keyes and I've never read her books in Spanish before. Usually I try to avoid translated books, but I want to improve my Spanish, so I figured this would be a good way to do it.

[[deleted user]]

I read constantly and there is a book in every nook of where I am. One in the car door, one behind the toilet, one by the bed and one or two in my bag. The ones I am concentrating on by the bed are Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon and City of Light by Lauren Belfer neither of which are enticing :(

[[deleted user]]

Peytavi wrote: "Betsy wrote: "I'm starting Room today because I've heard such great things about it. It must be good because I was on a 2 and a half month waiting list for it at the library."

I ad..."

I understand completely. I read Arabic and I tried to read a translation and it was so different. Prefer the original.

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Robyn wrote: "I am reading one classic a month, my classic for this month is Jane Eyre. So far I am loving the story. I am also reading The Demon Girl by Penelope Fletcher because it was a free book on my Nook ..."

Oh Robyn, I wish I was reading Jane Eyre for the first time. I adore that book. Read it 3 times so far, Intend to wait another year or so and do it all over again. :)

[Aloha]

Halfway through . I am enjoying hearing each of the character's stories, in particular the writer's. I think Dan Simmons is most sympathetic with the writer, since he obviously has the experience. So far, it's loose strands of each character's stories. Since this book came highly recommended, I'm trusting that it will weave together to a nice conclusion, although I heard I have to read the 2nd book in the series to get that. The book is fast paced and broken to individual stories, almost like a collection of short stories, so you don't have to fear its length.

[[deleted user]]

Ok ok, just added Clan to my list of "to-read". Everyone who has read is raving about it. Goooooo David!

[Leslie]

A friend lent me Shanghai Baby - a novel about the turbulent times of Shanghai's drugged out, literary/artistic set - and I have to say, I'm finding the narrator's voice surprisingly refreshing. Although her reflections aren't particularly deep, she has a keen eye for the details and emotions that bring a place to life and freeze it in the reader's mind.....

Ex Lit Prof
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[Sharon]

I'm in a personal growth phase; what can I say?

[Cerena]

wow

[Aloha]

Been there. You should see my Self-Help audio collection.

Sharon wrote: "[bookcover:The Amazing Power of Deliberate Inte..."

[Jenny]

Betsy wrote: "I'm starting Room today because I've heard such great things about it. It must be good because I was on a 2 and a half month waiting list for it at the library."

I'm curious to know what you think of it. I read it and didn't like it at all - although I recognize the skill behind writing it and the resulting hype. :)

[Jane]

What was it you didn't like about it I'm curious?

[Susan]

From what I've heard, you either love or hate Room. My book club is reading it in April.

[Jane]

Susan wrote: "From what I've heard, you either love or hate Room. My book club is reading it in April."

Perhaps it make people (especially women) feel uncomfortable.

[Melissa]

Jane wrote: "Susan wrote: "From what I've heard, you either love or hate Room. My book club is reading it in April."

Perhaps it make people (especially women) feel uncomfortable."

I think it didn't make me feel uncomfortable enough. Most of the acclaim came from the author's choice to use a five-year-old narrator. While technically interesting, a five-year-old cannot provide the depth that a story like this warrents. I understand that part of author's purpose was to get the readers to see an abominable crime through the eyes of innocence, but the story lacked the detail and emotional resonance that it would have had if the author had tried alternating narratives between Jack and his mother. I would have like more of the grandmother's perspective, as well.

It was just too sentimental and shallow.

[Jane]

Thanks for your insights. I think this was supposed to be accepted on a visceral level. Told from a five year olds perspective does not give itself to intellect and depth which was the purpose. I don't think you were to delve into the depths but feel it. And it would have been a completely different novel if told from the mother's and/or the grandmother's perspective. That perspective would have relieved it of some of its emotional value. Sentimental yes but I think visceral but not shallow. Thanks again for giving me another view point.

[Joy]

I'm readying Thomas Hardy's "The Mayor of Casterbridge", "The Holy Longing" by Ronald Rolheiser, and for a class "Overcoming the Dark Side of Leadership" by Sam Rima and Gary McIntosh

[Carly]

Oh, well . . . shows ta' go ya' what I know - I've read The Mayor of Casterbridge through a few times - audio. And I always thought of it as being by Dickens.

Learned somethin' new today.

Thanks, April.

Carly

[Carly]

I am reading:

The Nature of Water and Air - Regina McBride
The Invention of Everything Else
Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
What We Ache For - Oriah Mountain Dreamer

On audio . . .

A Crack at the Edge of the World - Simon Winchester

WHY?

'Cause I wanna' read 'em!

(Good Scent's being discussed at Book Nook in mid March)

(The Invention of Everything Else . . . one of the clubs here, not sure, is doing it)

[[deleted user]]

Starting Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky today. Why? It is here and should finally be read. I understand that it is an incredible story of a short survival under the Nazi regime in Paris. Her book was written at that time and was hidden for 64 years after she was sent to die in Auschwitz.

We shall see.

[4cats]

April wrote: "I'm readying Thomas Hardy's "The Mayor of Casterbridge", "The Holy Longing" by Ronald Rolheiser, and for a class "Overcoming the Dark Side of Leadership" by Sam Rima and Gary McIntosh"

oohh the mayor of casterbridge is just fabulous stunning read, but that's what you get with Hardy

[4cats]

am about to start have just finished and it was so great thought i would read another japanese writer and i loved and managed to find this in the library

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Does anyone listen to music while they read?

[4cats]

Sonia wrote: "Does anyone listen to music while they read?"

jazz or classical or world

[Jasmine]

Sonia wrote: "Does anyone listen to music while they read?"

if I'm on the train.

[Rick-Founder JM CM BOOK CLUB]

Carly wrote: "Oh, well . . . shows ta' go ya' what I know - I've read The Mayor of Casterbridge through a few times - audio. And I always thought of it as being by Dickens.

Learned somethin' new today.

Tha..."
While I enjoyed -The Mayor of Casterbridge- I found it to far more wordy than Dickens- meaning far less dialogue

[Jenny]

I just finished Greg Bear's Hull Zero Three and Rick Riordan's The Red Pyramid, now gearing up for A Dog's Purpose and Life: Keith Richards. Also be re-reading the Percy Jackson series and reading The Plague for the first time.

[Rick-Founder JM CM BOOK CLUB]

Jenny wrote: "I just finished Greg Bear's Hull Zero Three and Rick Riordan's The Red Pyramid, now gearing up for A Dog's Purpose and [book:Life: Keith Richards|943930..."

have you seen the Percy Jackson bluray- quite a good transfer!

[Jenny]

Rick wrote: "Jenny wrote: "I just finished Greg Bear's Hull Zero Three and Rick Riordan's The Red Pyramid, now gearing up for A Dog's Purpose and [book:Life: Keith R..."

Nope, haven't seen it.

[Jerry]

Starting Piccoult's House Rules after so many good comments by a number of you. Haven't read her before. Looking forward to it.

[Aloha]

Started during the swim meet. I am enjoying the vivid disgusting descriptions. It should be a quick read because I'm getting into all its squeamish glory. The guy started his job as a meat grinder. His mother is sickeningly oppressive. Meat grinder, mother, meat grinder, mother...hmmmm

About 50 pages left in . All the individual stories are interesting, but I wonder how Simmons is going to weave them all together to a satisfying conclusion with only 50 pages left.

[Aloha]

I won on eBay a collection of 40+ books by Japanese authors. All of these were among them. A person who used to teach in Japan decided to go back to Japan and needed to unload a bunch of books. The only author I didn't get was Banana Yoshimoto because I'm not a into her type of writing as I am into the other authors. With the 40+ book I purchased, I think I have plenty to keep me busy without missing Banana Yoshimoto.

4cats wrote: "am about to start have just finished and it was so great thought i would read another japanese writer and i loved and ..."

[Robin]

Sonia, in answer to your question, I cannot read and listen to music, it is too distracting for me. I must be in a quiet room away from any distractions. Even if I am taking a test I cannot listen to music.

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That has been the standard answer all along Robin. I ask because I noticed in the last few weeks that I have intentionally turned off music. So, I was wondering why. I guess I need the quiet these days. Thanks for taking the time to respond.

[Robin]

sure I can multi-task but when I am reading, can't concentrate and listen to music. But at work, while I am sweeping the floor, I like to hear music, not much concentration needed in sweeping the room.LOL. But serious stuff like reading, it takes total concentration on my part.

[Heather]

Sonia wrote: "Does anyone listen to music while they read?"

I have heard that when one is studying or reading while listening to Mozart, they retain it a lot better. I implemented this and found that it is true in my case. So if I am reading something that would otherwise be easily distracted, I tune into some classical.

[Robin]

instrumentals are great while reading. Mozart is supposed to be good for early learners like toddlers, etc.