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[Diane]

Just finished reaading 9/11/11 by Roco Leonord Martino.
I'm reading The Weight of Silince by Heather Gudenkauf. Really enjoy it. I would also like to read her other book. Have also started to read Simple Conversation by Sonia Rumzi a Goodreads author

[Marialyce]

Ellie wrote: "Hi everyone-I'm having a very strange crisis-at least for me.

I can't choose my next book, or at least I haven't been able to focus on anything. I've tried 5 or 6 different books or continuing wit..."

Ellie, you need some nice time in warm weather sitting under a tree doing nothing. It's ok to not read for a bit, sometimes your head just fills up with too much stuff. Relax and enjoy the weekend! :)

[Robin]

Yes, or do other things like writing in a journal, take a break, I see by your books that you have to take some me time now. Sometimes when you have more than one thing that you are reading, you can't concentrate on the one. This isn't a marathon reading, so give yourself a break. We all do this from time to time. Focus on other aspects of your life. Then come back to it.

[Ellen]

Minnie wrote: "Ellie wrote: "Hi everyone-I'm having a very strange crisis-at least for me.

I can't choose my next book, or at least I haven't been able to focus on anything. I've tried 5 or 6 different books o..."

Thanks-I read this right as I was getting ready to leave the computer & struggle with another book. Your message was perfect-I'll let it go, at least for the moment.

[Ellen]

And then I read you posting, Robin!

Thanks & more thanks! :D

[Rick-Founder JM CM BOOK CLUB]

Emily wrote: "DISCOUNT COUPON!

I hope you're considering reading 'JENKINS: Confederate Blockade Runner'. Based on a true story, this historical novel begins in Victorian Baltimore at the opulent estate of Wil..."

WONDERFUL AND FACINATING READ!

[Rick-Founder JM CM BOOK CLUB]

Leslie wrote: "Recently, I've been reading The Paris Review Interviews, volume 4, a wonderful anthology of musings on writing and the writing process, by Paul Auster, Haruki Murakami and a host of other luminous ..."

If I remember correctly, George Plimpton was the founder of The Paris Review?

[David]

Am reading "Unfit For Command." My liberal friends have spoken terribly of the Swift Boat Vets. However,
the author makes their case real. I'm now trying to consume the volumns I didn't find time for. Even on retirement my times are limited.

[David]

Hi Ellie, I normally have several [2-5] volumns in process. Whatever my mood is directs which pages I enjoy. I don't always have them listed as "reading." I've ocasionally finished a book 1-2 years,or more, after chapter #1.

[Emily]

I have just started reading 'Shades of Gray' by Jessica James. First of all, the cover is gorgeous. I want the book in my library for that reason, and because it is the winner of a regional book award based on the Civil War.

This year is being observed as the sesquicentennial of the Civil War and I want to support a Goodreads author who has been generous to me in her greetings and comments, and who also writes in the historical fiction genre. Writing historical fiction requires a certain amount of 'knowing the facts' and 'storytelling' skill, and I just have a feeling from reading Jessica's blog that she's got it write.

[Barbara]

I'm reading Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen for a face to face book club. We wanted to read it before the movie came out.

[Jason]

I just finished Pray for Silence

4* mystery - My review can be read here: http://wp.me/pTRJE-48

[Vince]

Seeking Whom He May Devour: Chief Inspector Adamsberg Investigates 2nd in series of quirky French mysteries.

[Rick-Founder JM CM BOOK CLUB]

Vince wrote: "Seeking Whom He May Devour: Chief Inspector Adamsberg Investigates 2nd in series of quirky French ..."

new series for me!! thanks!!

[Gini]

Waiting for the arrival from Amazon of Deathless, the newest book by Catherynne M. Valente. It's a retelling/modernization of the Russian folk story of Koschei the Deathless, and after reading the sample I'm very excited to get my hands on it!

[Kerra]

Petra wrote: "Kerra wrote: "Wow, War and Peace! I really tried hard to finish that book. I still have my book mark in it, but havn't picked it up in a while. I find it very annoying that they speak in french ter..."

Thank you so much for letting me know that! I have added it to my wish list. Very helpful.

[Kerra]

Ellie wrote: "Hi everyone-I'm having a very strange crisis-at least for me.

I can't choose my next book, or at least I haven't been able to focus on anything. I've tried 5 or 6 different books or continuing wit..."

This actually recently happend to me. I thought something was wrong and started to wonder if I was beginning to hate reading :) But I decided to get into a new hobbie that I have, like watching movies, knitting, drawing, or any hobbie. I did this for a week and now my need for reading is back :) Try this and see if it helps. Hope it does.

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I just finished Michael Crighton's pirate book, which was good but not great, and now Im reading Steven Pressfield's Virtues of War (his Gates of Fire was awesome).

[Kerra]

Hello everyone! I would like to invite you all to my radio talk show called Kerra's Weekly Book Club. It is on Friday's at 10:00am PST time and 1:00pm EST time.

I will be discussing the book "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" For the next two Friday's. I would love to hear some of your opinions about the book, or questions.

You can go to www.angelsandwarriors.com, and click on the listen to angels and warriors blog talk radio button to see all the up coming events on there. Then you would click on Kerra's Weekly Book Club to get to the show. I actually had my very first show today just a few minutes ago and you can listen to that at any time if you are curious. Also if you want to listen to the live show I had today you just click on the little play button on the little blog talk radio section by Dawns picture.

Also if you would like to ask questions or post comments about this book you can also contact me through GR and e-mail posted on the site.

To listen to the show through your phone or to be on air call the guest phone number at 1 (949)534-0604. If you want to be on air the automated vioce will tell you to push 1 on your phone at any time and I will be notified that you would like to be brought on air. Also if you just want to listen to the show then you don't have to push any buttons and you will be able to listen to the show live.

You can also go to www.angelsandwarriors.org and check out all of the angels and warriors other up coming shows.

I am very excited about this and hope that some of you will join me :)

If you are interested or want more information contact me through goodreads and I will be happy to help you or announce some of your questions on air.

Thanks!!

[Rick-Founder JM CM BOOK CLUB]

Brent wrote: "I just finished Michael Crighton's pirate book, which was good but not great, and now Im reading Steven Pressfield's Virtues of War (his Gates of Fire was awesome)."

so sad he passed away- such a talent!

[Petra]

Marialyce wrote: "Yippee Petra, War and Peace is a great accomplishment! Good for you!"

Marialyce, I missed this post. Sorry!
Thank you! It does feel like an accomplishment. I'm really glad I read it. It's not nearly as intimidating as I thought it would be.

I finished The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove last week. It was a lot of fun. Christopher Moore books make me laugh.

I'm now reading Swann's Way. Not an action packed book but very entertaining. Who knew that Proust was funny, at times?! His writing is beautiful, too. I'm quite enjoying the book.

I'm also listening to Shadow Divers. It's been on my TBR list for awhile now and, as I'm reading about hyperbaric medicine for work, this book popped into mind. It's fascinating.

[Susan]

I am reading Virgin River by Robyn Carr. I have been wanting to start this series for a long long time. I dont know why I waited--it's great so far!!!

[Rick-Founder JM CM BOOK CLUB]

Susan wrote: "I am reading Virgin River by Robyn Carr. I have been wanting to start this series for a long long time. I dont know why I waited--it's great so far!!!"

willyou be reading the next book in the series right away- or hold off?

[Steve]

Started Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby. Can't believe I've never read it, since I'm a huge soccer dork. Plus, I was looking for something lighter after The Warsaw Anagrams, which was a great but grim historical thriller.

[Rick-Founder JM CM BOOK CLUB]

Steve wrote: "Started Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby. Can't believe I've never read it, since I'm a huge soccer dork. Plus, I was looking for something lighter after The Warsaw Anagrams, ..."

loved Fever Pitch!!

[Alma]

I just started "Horns" by Joe Hill because I wanted a dark, fun read and it is not disappointing. It is a delicious read.

[Barbara]

I'm reading The Neighbor by Lisa Gardner. I needed to get back to my favorite mystery/suspense genre for a bit after reading a couple of literary books for a book club.

[Norm]

I'm reading all of Tess Gerritsen's books. I sat at her table at the Love is Murder writers conference a few years ago, and we chatted without me knowing any of her books. I forgot it until I saw one of her new releases, which sparked me to get her early ones.

Well worth reading. I've rated a few of the books and highly recommend most.

Norm
http://www.normcowie.com

[Bill]

Finished today and was somewhat disappointed with it. Starting by General Richard Hillier.

[Carly]

Finished . . .

The Little Book - Selden Edwards
A Redbird Christmas - Fannie Flag
Beastly - Flinn
Everything is Illuminated including the movie
Season of Migration to the North

Reading . . .

A Given Day - Dennis Lehane
Midnight at the Dragon Cafe - Bates
Galapagos

[Jerry]

I want to thank whoever posted a blurb a couple of weeks ago about All Over But the Shoutin' without whom I would have never found this gem about growing up dirt poor in the '60's in Alabama. The author's writing is insightful yet unpretentious; I felt like he and I were sitting on the patio swapping stories.

[Steve]

Rick wrote: "loved Fever Pitch!!"

Rick, good to hear. I'm liking it well enough but after about a quarter in I'm surprised how much soccer/football there is, which I normally don't mind, being the soccer dork that I am. But it's growing on me quick and I'm sure I'll love it. Plus, maybe it's because I'm lukewarm about Arsenal; I should get over that, because it's not about the Gunners.

I'll report back!

Steve
The Losing Role and others

[Margaret]

I'm re-reading HAMLET in order to teach the play to a group of aspiring young writers. It's wonderful how every time one re-reads a stupendous literary work one sees more, gets more out of it.

[Margaret]

Petra wrote: "Marialyce wrote: "Yippee Petra, War and Peace is a great accomplishment! Good for you!"

Marialyce, I missed this post. Sorry!
Thank you! It does feel like an accomplishment. I'm really glad I r..."

Proust! Swann's Way! Yay! Proust and his book stick in your brain. Incidents and passages come back to me at odd times. He was so one-of-a-kind, truly original.

[Petra]

Margaret wrote: "Proust! Swann's Way! Yay! Proust and his book stick in your brain. Incidents and passages come back to me at odd times. He was so one-of-a-kind, truly original...."

I'm really enjoying it, Margaret. It's not a quick read because of the writing style and all the detail but it's so beautifully written and it paints pictures of by-gone days in my head. Very peaceful.
I've reached the end of "Combray" and like how he tied the end of this section into the beginning of the "Overture" section. No wonder I kept thinking that the writing was "dreamy".....it was intended to be. I have to marvel at how an author does that.....give the reader such an individualistic type of feeling (such as "dreamy") while reading his words; especially a hundred (or so) years later.

[Flora]

I finished The Meaning of Night: A Confession and was pretty disappointed. I thought Faerie Wars was ok. It would really be a good book for a young reader. And I loved Tipping the Velvet, 5 stars.

I think I'm gonna start The Wise Man's Fear

[Margaret]

Margaret wrote: "Petra wrote: "Marialyce wrote: "Yippee Petra, War and Peace is a great accomplishment! Good for you!"

Marialyce, I missed this post. Sorry!
Thank you! It does feel like an accomplishment. I'm r..."

Oh I know what you mean, the book meanders, wanders,goes down "bunny trails." But that was his whole point, I think. Of course "Remembrance of Things Past" was his title for the larger work he had in mind, and he mimics so well how memory works: it goes here, there, everywhere, in no particular chronological order, in no big hurry, lingering over images, places, scenes, incidents just as they occur to him. So nice to share the Proust experience with someone!

[Bernadette]

Just read A Room With a View for the second time. I'm not sure why I picked it off the shelf but once I was in Florence, I just kept reading. Now I have to move it up on my Netflix list.

[Robin]

The movie is good, Bernadette. Hey how are you? I tried to read the book and I think I still have it here somewhere. LOL

[Margaret]

Never did see the movie of Room with a View. Is it true to the novel?

[Jill H.]

It is a fantastic film......I haven't read the book for several years but as I remember it, the film is true to the novel.....even if it has some modifications it is worth watching. It is one of my favorite films along with "Howards End".

[Bernadette]

Robin wrote: "The movie is good, Bernadette. Hey how are you? I tried to read the book and I think I still have it here somewhere. LOL"

Hey Robin! I have a lot of books like that, read a page or two and changed my mind...I'm in one of those quandaries right now, don't know what book to start...and I have about one hundred piled here because my book shelf broke. I'm reading Moby Dick but need something else...

[Margaret]

Bernadette wrote: "Robin wrote: "The movie is good, Bernadette. Hey how are you? I tried to read the book and I think I still have it here somewhere. LOL"

Hey Robin! I have a lot of books like that, read a page o..."

Moby Dick improves vastly after you get thru the first chapters of whale lore. Ugh. How Melville did carry on abt whaling to "set the stage" for the rest of the novel!

[Bernadette]

Margaret wrote: "Bernadette wrote: "Robin wrote: "The movie is good, Bernadette. Hey how are you? I tried to read the book and I think I still have it here somewhere. LOL"

Hey Robin! I have a lot of books like ..."

I loved the beginning...the introduction of Ishmael and Queequeg and their relationship, Father Mapple, the Spouter Inn...very funny too. Right now though, the whaling terminology is not really keeping me riveted :)

[Robin]

Margaret in re: to Room with a View, it pretty much follows the book as far as the characters, but the film adaptation is I believe a Merchant and Ivory Production so it is top notch..

[Diane]

Just finished reading "Of No Conseguence" by Sonia Rumzi.
It is a short story. What a touching story she wrote about a young women in Egypt and her life.

Ms Rumzi shows us in this story the struggle many women face in Egypt still today and the price many of them pay by what is known as a "honor killing"

People just don't want to think that these things still go on.

This story leaves us asking many questions and why this is still allowed to happen.

A must read

[Margaret]

Then skip the whaling part (I confess I did the first time I had to read it at UF as an English major!). When you get into the monomaniacal chase Ahab has launched for the Great White Whale, it becomes hugely interesting.

[Margaret]

Bernadette wrote: "Margaret wrote: "Bernadette wrote: "Robin wrote: "The movie is good, Bernadette. Hey how are you? I tried to read the book and I think I still have it here somewhere. LOL"

Hey Robin! I have a l..."

Merchant and Ivory???? I'm sold!

[Bernadette]

Margaret wrote: "Then skip the whaling part (I confess I did the first time I had to read it at UF as an English major!). When you get into the monomaniacal chase Ahab has launched for the Great White Whale, it be..."

I'm reading it, but don't feel like I'm really "absorbing" it in those parts. I'm looking forward to the chase!

[Larry]

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress By Robert A Heinlein
Been on my TBR for a while, finallly giving it a go.