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[Rachel]

Agrees with Stacia.

[[deleted user]]

Hey Ms. Petra, Jim, RA, Kevin, Gus, Larry and any other sports fans I may have missed - get your hands on this one. The author references the Stooges IN THE FIRST PARAGRAPH and then it's onwards and upwards from there.

Re: Dock Ellis's acid-fueled no-no. If you were keeping score that day, his name on your scorecard probably appeared as "Ellis, D."

The 70's... What a larf!

[RandomAnthony]

So you're warned off it for life? For several months? You're going to read one Bellow and that's the end of your quota?

I can't plan that far ahead.

Good recommendation, Clark...

[janine]

i finished the girl who played with fire today. reading the book i had the constant urge to rewrite it. if larsson was still alive and i was his editor i'd yell at him real loud and then force him to write his next novel without using the words 'suddenly,' 'discover,' 'realize' or any synonyms of those words. the plot on the other hand was great, this is a book that's hard to put down.

[Jim]

Thanks for the tip Clark, will look for it.

[Félix]

I agree, J(anine).

[Natalie]

I'm about to start Nobody's Fool . I really liked the Paul Newman movie , hopefully the book will be even better .

[Jaye]

Leslie wrote: "Looking forward to reading Atwood's The Year of the Flood. I just finished one of her early novels Surfacing and absolutely loved it! It's interesting to see how her e..."

thank you for this interesting link.

[RandomAnthony]

Natalie wrote: "I'm about to start Nobody's Fool . I really liked the Paul Newman movie , hopefully the book will be even better ."

I like that one, along with a couple other of his earlier books, but his last couple sucked.

[Jaye]

i liked The Hunger Games. while reading it, i asked myself if i really want to invest more time in these books. terrifying government laws seep in slowly.
also, i realized that if Katness and Peeta called each other by shortened names they'd be
Kat Pee

[Jaye]

i am currently reading:

A War of the People: Vermont Civil War Letters

[Sarah]

Jaye wrote: "also, i realized that if Katness and Peeta called each other by shortened names they'd be
Kat Pee "

Ha! I hated the name Katniss because it sounded like cat piss to me, so this makes sense.

[ms.petra]

The Word Made Flesh: literary tattoos from bookworms worldwide
although I have none myself, the whole tattoo thing is fascinating to me. I saw a show channel surfing the other night and this guy was tattooed over every inch of his body (I find that hard to believe...wink, wink). his entire face, even his eyelids, the soles of his feet, wow.... why does someone do that?

[Brittomart]

Petra, I love that "wink wink."

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.

[Brittomart]

I tried reading that book. Lord, did I try.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Yeah well I'm not giving it 110%. I'm at about 89%.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men."

I'm done with this. There were parts that were interesting, and parts that weren't. I'm not a fan of that style of writing, really. Or literary postmodernism in general. I seriously doubt I'll read any more of his fiction.

[Brittomart]

I stopped at the part with the depressed person.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Southern Fried Britt wrote: "I stopped at the part with the depressed person."

I thought that had very interesting insights into depression, but it was definitely overlong.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

El Cuento de Ferdinando.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Currently reading Freedom.

[ms.petra]

Life:Keith Richards I am about 3/4 of the way through and this is a surprisingly good memoir.

[janine]

elizabeth gaskell - wives and daughters

i haven't made a lot of progress the last few days, but i just had a deadline today so i should have some more time to read.

[Heidi]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Lobstergirl wrote: "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men."

I'm done with this. There were parts that were interesting, and parts that weren't. I'm not a fan of that style of writing, ..."

I listened to the audiobook in my car, and it cracked me up! David Foster Wallace seems to elicit the sort of response that one might expect from a politician - they really love his writing or they really despise his writing. I'm in the love camp, myself.

Right now I'm reading The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz. I'm really excited about this read. It's this month's read for my book club.

[Sarah]

Boneshaker

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Heidi wrote: "I listened to the audiobook in my car, and it cracked me up"

In the audio version do they pause to tell you when the footnotes are being read, and then read the whole footnote?

[Helena]

Sarah Pi wrote: "Boneshaker"

Just finished Boneshaker

and moved on to:

Reading American Gods and The White Tiger

[[deleted user]]

To Kill a Mockingbird

[Sally, la reina]

The Jewel in the Crown.

[Jammies]

Fortunate Sons: The 120 Chinese Boys Who Came to America, Went to School, and Revolutionized an Ancient Civilization

[Jim]

Helena wrote: "Sarah Pi wrote: "Boneshaker"

Just finished Boneshaker

and moved on to:

Reading American Gods and The White Tiger"

I'm reading American Gods too. I don't consider it his best book.

[Helena]

Jim wrote: "Helena wrote: "Sarah Pi wrote: "Boneshaker"

Just finished Boneshaker

and moved on to:

Reading American Gods and The White Tiger"

I'm r..."

No, I’m having a bit of difficulty getting through this one. Still enjoyable- but somehow a bit boring? I’m missing his dark humour in this one. I listened to Anansi Boys narrated by Lenny Henry- he did a really great job and in all honesty- had I been reading it I probably wouldn’t have liked it as much as I did.

[Jammies]

Helena and Sarah, what did you think of Boneshaker? I love that book!

[Helena]

Jammies wrote: "Helena and Sarah, what did you think of Boneshaker? I love that book!"

I had mixed feelings about it at first. I really liked the story, loved the characters- but I didn’t like the zombie part. I felt like that could’ve been left out, I kind of thought that the zombies detracted from the story a bit. But that’s my personal preference, other than the zombies, I really liked it. I’m planning on reading the next books... if I can ever find Clementine! Loved Lucy O’Gunning :D

[Heidi]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Heidi wrote: "I listened to the audiobook in my car, and it cracked me up"

In the audio version do they pause to tell you when the footnotes are being read, and then read the whole footnote?"

Nope. I don't remember that part.

The audiobook is read by a whole slew of famous actors, though. I had fun trying to figure out which one was doing the reading. I'm trying to remember the names of all the readers - Timothy Hutton, Bobby Canavale, Lou Taylor Pucci, Christopher Meloni, Josh Charles... some Brit guy, and for some reason I wanna say Paul Rudd? He may not have been on it. I like his audiobook readings, though. I may have been trying to guess him because I wanted the guy to be him. Then again, maybe it really was him.

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

Dragonfly in Amber reminds me that I really need to get to Drums of Autumn at some point. I stalled out after book 3.

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

Jammies wrote: "Helena and Sarah, what did you think of Boneshaker? I love that book!"

I read the first half before it became overdue and I took it back to the library. Now that I have the ebook copy, there's no reason not to get back to the book, but other stuff keeps jumping in the way.

It seems like the people I know who've read it are mixed on this one.

I really liked the mom character though. Didn't get much further after the kid took off on his own, so I am sort of curious to know what happened.

[Natalie]

I'm now in the middle of Gulliver's Travels .

[ms.petra]

finished Life:Keith Richards today and moving on to another rapscallion Autobiography of Mark Twain

[JackieB]

I am currently reading "Letters from Father Christmas". It's a series of letters which "Father Christmas" sent to JRR Tolkein's children once a year (I suspect they were ghost written). This may seem a curious choice. It was a book club read for December, but my library didn't get it to me until a couple of weeks ago. It cost me £1.10 to order it, which is nearly the cost of a packet of Kettle chips here in the UK, so I thought I'd read it anyway. It's really sweet and charming. I may not make it through to the end, because I have a limited capacity for sweet and charming. My next book is going to be Sacrifice by S.J. Bolton. It was recommended to me by a friend who described it as "wierd but good".

[janine]

wierd is a weird word.

[Jammies]

janine wrote: "wierd is a weird word."

And awkward is an awkward word!

[Jim]

janine may have been pointing out some spelling Jammies.

[JackieB]

janine wrote: "wierd is a weird word."

I'm going to pretend it's the British spelling.

[Jim]

I will too then.

[Jammies]

Jim wrote: "janine may have been pointing out some spelling Jammies."

And I may have been babbling.

Scratch that, I was babbling, but only because I've always found it ironic that awkward is spelled so awkwardly.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

My Ántonia.

[Gatorman]

Gone

[RandomAnthony]

Natalie wrote: "I'm now in the middle of Gulliver's Travels ."

I love that book.