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[ms.petra]

Clark wrote: ""

no spoilers! I have it on hold.

[[deleted user]]

I've been on a bit of a booker prize short list frenzy. Not intentionally, I had selected a couple of them to read for myself, my partner purchased one for me, then I got dragged into a couple of group reads. The books have been really very good as you would expect.

I've read
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
The Slap
The Finkler Question
Parrot and Olivier in America

One of the ones I wanted to read but haven't yet is In a Strange Room

I need a break from booker short listed books. Now why did I commit to that last group read?

[Ronyell]

Jim wrote: "I second RA's welcome to TC Ronyell."

Thanks Jim!!!

[Kristi]

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

[Michele]

I just finished a vampire book by Katie MacAlister and have started rereading Dark Guardian by Christine Feehan.

[Kristina]

I'm reading The Killing Room, which was a free download for my Sony ereader. It's pretty creepy so far.

[Ryan]

Hello. I am new here. I am currently reading Shock of Gray by Ted C. Fishman. Have any of you read it yet? I've read about a third of it so far.

[[deleted user]]

ms.petra wrote: "Clark wrote: ""

no spoilers! I have it on hold."

I can't hold back. I just have to tell you this earthshaking revelation that Keef divulges. Apparently he used to "party a little."

[Jim]

Welcome to TC Ryan.

I have not read the book, but the chances are good that someone here has.

[Michael]

Kristi wrote: "Catch-22 by Joseph Heller"

Everytime I hear Joseph Heller's name I have to share this great poem that Kurt Vonnegut wrote about him.

JOE HELLER

True story, Word of Honor:
Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer
now dead,
and I were at a party given by a billionaire
on Shelter Island.
I said, “Joe, how does it make you feel
to know that our host only yesterday
may have made more money
than your novel ‘Catch-22′
has earned in its entire history?”
And Joe said, “I’ve got something he can never have.”
And I said, “What on earth could that be, Joe?”
And Joe said, “The knowledge that I’ve got enough.”
Not bad! Rest in peace!

- Kurt Vonnegut

[April]

so glad you are talking about books! Isn't that why we
are all here??? @ "Good-Reads!" I pick a book by entering the give-aways on Good-Reads! Then whatever book arrives in the mail; I read first! Some recommendations of mine- Read_ Elise Crawford's book-
A Promise Kept! A true story & a Good Read! Going to read 17 Christmases & Crossing The Heart of Africa as soon as they arrive in the mail! Check out the Good- Reads Give-aways & then read the books you win!

[Jim]

Welcome to TC April.

[April]

Thank you Jim! Here is a question for you all? How do you like your coffee???

[Jim]

Hot.

[April]

How about simmering?

[Jim]

Barb wrote: "Oh look at that, my cup is empty."

I think your cup over floweth Barb!

[Ryan]

Black :)

[[deleted user]]

I'm in the world of Pern. It'll take me a while. I read Narilka's story yesterday - it's a rather short one for Pern. Dragon's Dawn is sitting here staring at me...

[Brittomart]

The Handmaid's Tale

30 pages in....and I already have a feeling of like, "I have to finish this book." It's making me feel....uncomfortable, yet....I dunno, I can't describe it.

[ms.petra]

oh, that is a good one Britt. keep reading!

[Michele]

Amelia wrote: "I'm in the world of Pern. It'll take me a while. I read Narilka's story yesterday - it's a rather short one for Pern. Dragon's Dawn is sitting here staring at me..."

I guarantee you will love it. read away

[[deleted user]]

So far I do, Mich! I read the first three, Moreta and Narilka's Story up to now.

[Jammies]

Steven Saylor's The House of the Vestals.

[Sally, la reina]

I'm reading Catching Fire. I don't think it is as good as Mockingjay.

[Jim]

Sally wrote: "I'm reading Catching Fire. I don't think it is as good as Mockingjay."

I'm with you on that one.

[Ronyell]

Sally wrote: "I'm reading Catching Fire. I don't think it is as good as Mockingjay."

Haven't read it yet, but I heard that it wasn't as good as the first two books in the Hunger Games triology.

[Janice]

April wrote: "Thank you Jim! Here is a question for you all? How do you like your coffee???"

I like my coffee like I like my men - strong and black.

Several years ago, I went to see the theatre production of "Cats" in London. It's quite interactive with the cats coming into the audience. Rum Tum Tugger was a black cat who came off the stage, grabbed me by the shoulders and started nibbling my ear. After the show, we went out for coffee and one of the girls said, "Janice likes her coffee like she likes her men - strong and black." It has stuck ever since.

[Janice]

I'm almost finished reading "It" by Stephen King. I'm listening to "Bag of Bones" by Stephen King on audiobook. Our next book club hostess has chosen "The Wednesday Letters" by Jason F. Wright so I'll be reading that when I finish It. I've also bought a couple of Deepak Chopra's books for my Kindle - going to try an Aruyvedic approach to weight loss.

[Paul]

Janice wrote: "April wrote: "Thank you Jim! Here is a question for you all? How do you like your coffee???"

I like my coffee like I like my men - strong and black."

or the version i once heard a comedian say:

i like my coffee like i like my women; white and bitter...

[RandomAnthony]

Sally wrote: "I'm reading Catching Fire. I don't think it is as good as Mockingjay."

Wait. You're reading them out of order?

[Kristi]

I'm currently reading Catch-22 by Joseph Heller and then I'll be moving onto ...Maybe This Time by Jennifer Crusie. (I think-not sure on the order I set for myself).

[Paul]

good to see Catch-22 still popular. it is an awesome book.

i started Heller's Something Happened awhile ago, but had to put it aside as i was finding the unpleasantness of the narrator and the lack of plot hard going. if it wasn't so well written i think i might've just chucked it, but i will pick it up again soon, perhaps when im done with Mr Sammler's Planet

[Clara]

I am now reading "Book Lust" by Nancy pearl. It is a pretty good read. I wanted to read something other than chicklit.

[Rawail]

three cups of tea , has anyone read it?

[[deleted user]]

Umm, ummm, ummm...

Worth a quick look for the freak show on parade here more so than anything Ms. Von D has to say. Most of the people who appear are obviously starved for attention, have Daddy issues, or are a couple fries short of a Happy Meal. And her infatuation with Nikki Sixx gets real old real fast.

Don't look now Kat, but the sand in the hourglass is about to run out on your 15 minutes.

[Sally, la reina]

Oh shit, no. My sister burned the MP3 onto CDs for me so I'm not sure that is the title after all. I'm reading the second one. Whatever.

They're on a train, pretending, reminiscing. I don't really get it.

[ms.petra]

Rawail wrote: "three cups of tea , has anyone read it?"

wonderful, inspiring book!

[Aynge]

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis. I've had this book for years but I'm only now starting it.

[Kristi]

Paul wrote: "good to see Catch-22 still popular. it is an awesome book.

i started Heller's Something Happened awhile ago, but had to put it aside as i was finding the unpleasantness of the narrato..."

Paul: I'm finding it refreshingly, sarcastically funny. It's just my kind of twisted humor.

[Kristi]

Rawail wrote: "three cups of tea , has anyone read it?"

No, but I have it, because I've had a lot of people recommend it as a really good read. HTH.

[Michele]

I am starting Torment.

[Steven]

Oh, jeez. Where to start? I'll close my eyes and point a finger and see....The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes? The Bullpen Gospels? The next book for my grad. class? One of Mary Karr's memoirs? Fannie Flagg's Standing in the Rainbow? Dark Places? One of Bill Bryson's? AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!! Somebody help me!!!

Steven Belanger
www.stevenbelanger.com
www.stevenebelanger.blogspot.com

[Joanne]

Jackie, what did you think of "Consider The Lobster?" I'd like to read it, but so far the fact that the author hung himself nearby is too disturbing to me.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

Joanne, I really liked it, even though Wallace really overdoes the footnotes and digressions. The man is brilliant and funny, and even as he's showing off, he's also self-deprecatory, he knows he's a huge nerd, so it's okay.
Whatever his personal issues were, I didn't sense them in these essays. I think my least favorite one was the first one, about a porn conference in Vegas, which had a bleak vibe to it that was more about the porn industry than anything else.

[Joanne]

Thanks, Jackie. If I read it, I'm skipping the Vegas porn essay. I used to see him around town, and he seemed nice, and openly friendly. So sad.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I'm reading two World War II-related books, but that's merely coincidence. Rape of Europa: the fate of Europe's treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War, and The Stalin front by Gert Ledig, a novelistic treatment of his experiences as a German soldier on the Eastern front.

[Michele]

well, yesterday it was "Grave Witch" but I finished it before bed. Haven't picked another yet. Liked "Grave Witch" sounds like the start of a series. One of the main character's lovers is Death, the grim reaper. Except he's not so grim in the book.

[Sarah]

Aynge wrote: "To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis. I've had this book for years but I'm only now starting it."

Yay! That's a funny book.

[L.J.]

I'm reading Case Histories by Kate Atkinson. I loved When Will There Be Good News? so I have high hopes for this one too.
L.J.
The Sex ClubNow $.99!

[Kristina]

The Christmas Chronicles by Jeff Guinn.