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[Lobstergirl, el principe]

A New York Times columnist, bends conservative, but he tends to be liberals' favorite conservative because he's not far right wing and he writes books about social trends like bohemian hipsters at Starbucks.

[Janice]

I have been to a Toastmaster's conference where David Brooks, World Champion of Public Speaking, was keynote speaker. He hails from Texas and is not the same dude.

http://www.davidbrookstexas.com/

[janine]

I'm reading Amulet by Roberto Bolaño.

[Kevin]

comment #1405 is why i still read these threads

[Michele]

One of the Bulldog Drummond books.

[Janice]

I finished The Woman in White and horoughly enjoyed it. I've started Three Day Road

[Michele]

I reread "The Woman in White" last winter and enjoyed it all over again.

[Félix]

Yeah it's called Best Seller Express. Books that are in demand at the library are rented for a dollar a week.

[Sarah]

I have soooooooooooooooo many books I want to read right now. It makes me not pick up any of them, because then I will have committed. I should probably read my first-reads win next, but I needed a break from serious.

[~Geektastic~]

I'm debating whether to start joining in on a few of my group reads. One is doing The Crimson Petal and the White, another is doing The Pillars of the Earth. Those are very large books to attempt at the same time...

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Just finished The Alcoholic, a graphic novel. If you are searching for graphic novels dealing with irritable bowel syndrome, put this one on your list.

[Félix]

Sounds ... graphic.

[RandomAnthony]

Lobstergirl wrote: "I fucking loathe that guy with the heat of a thousand suns. I also feel he's an utter dumbass.

But, enjoy the book."

I'm with LG on this one. That guy's hilariously stupid sometimes. He's the kind of writer who picks one stat/angle and hypes it up at the expense of 1) all other stats/angles, and 2) rational thought.

[RandomAnthony]

Also, I think I'm going to read some John Updike for the first time.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

John Updike was in The Alcoholic. (So were Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.)

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

Which one, RA?

[RandomAnthony]

Er...the first Rabbit one. Run, Rabbit, maybe? It's on the front porch, a good twenty-five feet away, and I'm too lazy to check. Oh, I can check on my library account. Rabbit, Run.

I did not see The Alcoholic.

[RandomAnthony]

Oh, wait, that's the graphic novel LG mentioned before. I already repressed that.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I did not see The Alcoholic either, unless you count the pictures. I read it.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

Lobstergirl wrote: "I did not see The Alcoholic either, unless you count the pictures. I read it."

I'm planning to not ever read that.

[Michele]

Looking forward to "Hit List" by Laurell Hamilton which is due out June 7th. I already preordered for my Kindle.

[Sally, la reina]

I just finished Keith Richard's Life. Shelved under Biography, not Autobiography. Wonder why.

It was okay, but he came off as a bit of a prick.

Now I'm reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I get to teach American Literature next fall, and I was thinking of starting with this.

[Sally, la reina]

Kevin "El Liso Grande" wrote: "comment #1405 is why i still read these threads"

Lg is a big reason why I still troll these boards.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Venusberg.

[Michele]

"Hit List" by Laurell Hamilton next week. Yay!

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

The Go-Between. It's very good. Reminds me of both Brideshead Revisited (which admittedly I haven't read yet) and Lady Chatterley's Lover.

[Janice]

I've started reading Breathless for my book club. I've never read Koontz before. Larry reviewed it as "Meh". Hmmmm.

[Félix]

Yeah.

[Mary]

Amber wrote: "I'm debating whether to start joining in on a few of my group reads. One is doing The Crimson Petal and the White, another is doing The Pillars of the Earth. Those are v..."


I vote for The Crimson Petal and the White, if you're asking.

I'm currently reading The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction which is ...laborious. Those Victorians are so damn wordy.

[Michele]

I loved "The Turn of The Screw"!

[Jammies]

Dean Koontz has written two books I adore, one I liked, and several that made me say "meh".

[Carol]

I'm trying to decide what to read next. I'm interested in the GR group read, but it's way overdue at the library. I should go look at the bookshelf.

[ms.petra]

Blindness by Jose Saramago

[Jammies]

No, Gabby, Fear Nothing and Seize the Night.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Villette. The first few chapters were really lame, but now it's getting into some nice subtleties with character development, some interiority.

[Mary]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Villette. The first few chapters were really lame, but now it's getting into some nice subtleties with character development, some interiority."

Our new kitten is called Lucy, after Lucy Snowe.

"I, Lucy Snowe, was calm."

[Valerie]

not taking classes this summer so i have decided to read everything awful as fast as possible
currently Drop City by T.C.Boyle, it's actually not that bad, communes, drugs, free love and all the problems that come with it

[Michele]

next read: "If He's Dangerous" by Hannah Howell. Just finished "Hit List" by Laurell Hamilton.

[Sally, la reina]

Valerie, I loved that book. The ending is such a smack in the head. Get ready.

[Valerie]

Sally wrote: "Valerie, I loved that book. The ending is such a smack in the head. Get ready."

OOOOOOO really? COOL!!! i so am going to start reading crazy vigourously now! thanks Sally!

[Angela~twistedmind~]

started Alone by Lisa Gardner this morning after knocking out a few of the short stories dl'ed on the kindle.

[Fiona (Titch)]

I am reading Bad Move - Linwood Barclay

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

I'm reading A Visit from the Goon Squad, and I just got to the powerpoint chapter.
I love the "Slide Slogans From School That I Fire at Mom (just to annoy her)"

- "Add a graphic and increase your traffic!"
- "Give us the issues, not the tissues!"

Hee!

[Jammies]

Re-reading A Foreign Affair.

[Michele]

going to the library today for more books.

[Jim]

Jaimie wrote: "Lately, I've been so indecisive when I'm trying to pick my next book. Last night I spent half an hour staring at my bookcase until I finally picked something. I do like to read something light afte..."

Jamie, like you I tend to look for something light after something heave. I also tend to look for something shorter after a longer tome. Last year I picked up an iPad and got into e-books. It made the impulse buy much easier - maybe even too easy. Free classics made it economical to add them to my collection. Amazon often seems to offer free books to introduce or publicize some authors. Right now, I'm trying to add back in to my reading the many "real" books I have sitting on my bookshelves. (Yes, I do know that e-books are also real books.) Right now, I'm reading "A Hole in Texas" by Herman Wouk. I picked it up at a bargain store on sale quite a while back. It all adds to the difficulty of deciding what to read - light vs. heavy, long vs. short, fiction vs. non-fiction, book vs. e-book.

[Sarah]

I'm currently mostly reading my latest firstreads win, but I really want to be reading The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders, which is too big to carry around with me. So instead I'm not reading.

[Michele]

"Evil to the Max" by Jasmine Haynes.

[Félix]

What problems could possibly come with all of that?

[Fiona (Titch)]

I've read Magic Kitten 08. A Glittering Gallop & Double Trouble #4 - Sue Bentley and now reading 10th Anniversary -James Patterson