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[Jim]

Yeah, you may get what you pay for. Just imagine the $0.59 STD Club.

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Great book so far - immaculately written and researched - but as a parent, it scares the hell out of me.

[ms.petra]

Clark, looking forward to discussing this one. The Hour I First Believed and Nineteen Minutes are good fiction complements to Cullen's account. So much collateral damage and long term consequences of this event.

[Kristi]

Clark wrote: "

Great book so far - immaculately written and researched - but as a parent, it scares the hell out of me."

I know exactly what you mean! I know I attended a HS where there were gangs, violence, metal detectors, bag searches, etc. But I guess as a parent it scares me more than it did for me to attend.
Also, I worry about these types of cases. Where it seems as if everything's okay, until someone finally gets pushed too far, then in the aftermath it comes out that people (in the school) knew and did nothing. That I think terrifies me more, bc as a parent I can't protect what I don't know about. Does that make any sense?

[Kailey]

I am reading The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo for my Scandinavian Murder Mystery class!

[[deleted user]]

Kristi wrote: "Clark wrote: "

Great book so far - immaculately written and researched - but as a parent, it scares the hell out of me."

I know exactly what you mean! I know I attended a HS where there were ..."

Yes, it makes perfect sense.

I keep thinking what would happen if some nut-job (all apologies to Britt's psychiatry thread, but that's what they are - chemical imbalance or just crazy as a shithouse rat; it's all the same) opened fire at one of my kids' schools and my palms start to sweat.

[Kristi]

Clark wrote: "Kristi wrote: "Clark wrote: "

Great book so far - immaculately written and researched - but as a parent, it scares the hell out of me."

I know exactly what you mean! I know I attended a HS where ..."

exactly. I can't teach my kids how to compromise, how to handle themselves in a fight, how to mediate a conflict, how to be friendly and accepting of all people, but I can't teach them how to be faster than a bullet.

[Kristi]

Kristi wrote: "exactly. I can't teach my kids how to compromise, how to handle themselves in a fight, how to mediate a conflict, how to be friendly and accepting of all people, but I can't teach them how to be faster than a bullet."

Isn't this deja vu? I swear we've had this conversation before. ???

[Michele]

I went to an all girls catholic high school. I went because I had heard about gangs in the public high school in my district. Of course, 1962 was a more innocent time..although it was the beginning of all the changes we have seen since then. My school had clicques but no gangs,no violence to persons but to feelings, oh my! most certainly. Sometimes children and adolescents are just mean. Feelings got hurt, egos damaged. But no one was battered, no one was knifed, no one was murdered by other students and certainly not by the nuns. at least not in high school. Except for my geology teacher who had a pin at the tip of the yardstick she walked around the classroom with. She wanted to make sure we were awake and paying attention. We did, or else.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I hated both Columbine and Case Histories.

[Kristi]

Finally finished up Catch 22. I really liked it. I was pleasantly surprised by it. The author moved from hilarious into the serious (almost) without me noticing. Great writing.

[Félix]

I liked that one, too, Kristi. Amazing how the term "Catch 22" has taken hold in the vernacular.

[Kristi]

Larry wrote: "I liked that one, too, Kristi. Amazing how the term "Catch 22" has taken hold in the vernacular."

I know. It said right on the cover that he was responsible for inventing a new word into the English language. Amazing!

[Michele]

Currently reading James Doss's"A Dead Man's Tale". Laughing my way through it actually.

[Kathryn]

I bought The Ethics Of Ambiguity today and I'm about ten pages in.

[Michael]

Gabby81 wrote: "Started The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck last night."

I'll be interested in your thoughts on the book when you've finished.

[Jennifer]

Maugham's "The Merry Go Round" and Vreeland's "Luncheon of the Boating Party." They're sort of contemporaneous in the time periods they portray-- MGR is late 19th century, LBP slightly earlier-- but how different in the lives they show!

[Kristi]

After Catch-22, I finished Twenties Girl (yuck) and I Am the Messenger (really enjoyed), and I'm now working on The Children's Book and The Late, Lamented Molly Marx.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I just started Six Days in Marapore.

[Michele]

Currently,Melanie Rawn's "Spellbinder"

[janine]

i've started stieg larsson's first.

[Michael]

janine wrote: "i've started stieg larsson's first."

I just bought that this weekend. He's another person who died on my birthday.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Oddly enough, today I read a story about a man who was often hiding behind a ficus. It's "Another Manhattan" by Donald Antrim.

[Michele]

reading "Fab" by Howard Sounes about a man who never hides behind a ficus.

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

[[deleted user]]

I just picked up A Separate Peace after spending half my precious Sunday at the bookstore.

[Phoenix]

Stacia wrote: ""

Stacia, is it any good? I've been eyeing that one lately.

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

I'm liking it so far, but I'm only about halfway into it. It's definitely dystopian, but if you like books like Hunger Games and Unwind, you might like this one.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

I've been re-reading Harry Potter 7, but I have to put it aside and read this to review it for work:

[Jonathan]

That actually looks kind of interesting, Jackie. I have to review something for work too this week:

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

Jonathan wrote: "That actually looks kind of interesting, Jackie. I have to review something for work too this week:

[bookcover:Triumvirate: McKim, Mead & White: Art, Architecture, Scandal, and Class in America's ..."

Hmm, that looks like it has potential! Where does the "scandal" part come in, Jonathan?

[Jonathan]

The architect Stanford White was murdered on top of Madison Square Garden by the husband of a showgirl he had seduced. The story is also told very well in E.L. Doctorow's novel "Ragtime."

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

It sounds like he picked the wrong showgirl to seduce!

Hmm, all I know about American architecture I learned from The Fountainhead. And gleaned from what I've picked up about Frank Lloyd Wright, and from a little internet research to figure out what the different house styles are in my neighborhood. I used to live in a Tudor cottage.
That's not good.

[Lori]

(New kid in town)
I am currently reading The Alchemist but I usaully read anything I have out from my library first to get that over with incase I forget and don't get time (I hate rechecking out books) Then I'll go by my to-read list on here and go with whatever mood I'm in. I don't really buy hard cover books anymore so I'll just downlad the book I want to read when I want to read it opposed to having a bookshelf of books to browse and choose from.
I tend to try not to read more than one book at a time because I get to a point where I don't end up finishing one of them or both becuse when I go to read one I don't know which one to read and just go do something else. :P I just find it better to start a book and finish it instead of getting distracted by other books and getting caught up in multiple story lines.

[Jim]

Welcome to TC New kid in town Lori. Please don't let us scare you away.

[Jammies]

Welcome, New Lori, and I'm the same way with reading one book at a time.

[Michele]

welcome,new Lori...enjoy us.

[Margarida]

New here, as well. :)

I'm currently reading Anna Karenina and almost finished with it. For my next reading, I'm kind of torned between Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore and Milan Kundera's The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. I'm probably going to go with the latter, though, since I've always wanted to read it.

[Jim]

I would go with Kafka on the Shore as I thought it was a very good book. I haven't read the other.

Welcome to TC Margarida.

[Margarida]

Thank you, Jim.

I've heard/read very good reviews and thoughts on that book. I'm looking forward to read it, wether it's now or later.

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

About to start

[Michele]

I loved Anna Karenina

[Margarida]

I'm loving it too, Michele. I heard some comments about it being too slow and boring during some parts of the book but I didn't think so. It's amazing and so wonderfully written. Must read War and Peace now!

[Jammies]

Stacia, that one's on my wishlist, so I'll be interested to hear what you think of it.

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

Alecia wrote: "Stacia wrote: ""

Stacia, is it any good? I've been eyeing that one lately."

I finished it and even though there were parts that dragged a little, the last 75 pages really picked up. The series looks like it's going to be promising. Even though it's dystopian, I found it to read a bit more girly than the average dystopian (which is fine with me, but I know most dystopians are more gender neutral), maybe because it revolved around a girl falling in love with someone that she wasn't matched up with.

I'm sort of dragging my feet on Leviathan. One friend of mine loves the book, and everyone else that I know who's read it has called it just average, so we'll see.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

I just picked up an ARC of Matched at my review group meeting today. It looks like a perfect cold weather reading in front of the fire book. :)

[Michele]

Trying to read "Hero" (the life and legend of Lawrence of Arabia) by Michael Korda. not liking it so far. actually interested in what happened to him after WWI.slow going first 100 pages. hope it picks up.

[Phil]

Gabby81 wrote: "I have not yet read anything by Milan Kundera but planning to try his novels "Unbearable lightness of being" and/or "the Joke" (recommended by a friend). "

"Unbearable" was ... ... interesting. The movie was the same. The read is worth a shot, I think.

[Margarida]

Gabby81 wrote: "Margarida wrote: "I'm loving it too, Michele. I heard some comments about it being too slow and boring during some parts of the book but I didn't think so. It's amazing and so wonderfully written. ..."

I'm finally finished with that amazing book that is Anna Karenina. Glad to know, Gabby, since I have a few Dostoyevsky's books on my to read list.

I haven't read anything by Kundera, as well, but I have some books of his on my bookshelf, waiting to be read :)

I'm currently reading Murakami's Kafka on the Shore. I'm in the very beginning, so I can't say if I'm liking it or not, yet.

[Jim]

Margarida wrote: "Gabby81 wrote: "Margarida wrote: "I'm loving it too, Michele. I heard some comments about it being too slow and boring during some parts of the book but I didn't think so. It's amazing and so wonde..."

Let me know you're impressions when you are done Margarida.