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[Janice]

I started The Picture of Dorian Gray last night. I wanted to read in bed and my husband wasn't about to let me have a light on so I had to read something on my kindle app.

[Sarah]

Janice wrote: "I started The Picture of Dorian Gray last night. I wanted to read in bed and my husband wasn't about to let me have a light on so I had to read something on my kindle app."

And...? Do you love it yet?

[[deleted user]]

Clara wrote: "I am now readingA Bride Most Begrudging"

I love that book! I've re-read it several times. I love the story :)

[Farrah]

I just finished James Rollin's new book The Devil Colony ...great book if you like his work. Although bad editing, lots of typos.

I just started reading The Catcher in the Rye...I haven't read it in almost 20 years. I'm reading it with my step-daughter as part of her summer reading in highschool. Such a different perspective I have on the book reading it as an adult.

[Janice]

Sarah Pi wrote: "And...? Do you love it yet?"

I'm enjoying it so far. I'm at the part where he said that he'd sell his soul if the picture aged and he stayed young and beautiful, then took off with Harry. Poor Basil.

[Brittomart]

I'm finishing A Visit from the Goon Squad.

[Fiona (Titch)]

Charly wrote: "Fiona, I really enjoyed Nature Girl."

1st book I've read of his and its been ok

[Sally, la reina]

Did you like it Britt?

[Brittomart]

Yes and no. Overall - yes. The way it's structured, with each chapter focusing on a minor character...I loved it for awhile. And then I liked it. And now I'm reading and thinking, "I really want to know what's going on with Bosco. I would read a whole book about The Suicide Tour." I have 43 pages left that I'm going to finish tonight, so maybe I'll find out.

The characters? I love them. Except the people in that chapter written in second person.

[Fiona (Titch)]

Last nite finished Nature Girl - Carl Hiaasen.

[Sarah]

Britomart wrote: "Yes and no. Overall - yes. The way it's structured, with each chapter focusing on a minor character...I loved it for awhile. And then I liked it. And now I'm reading and thinking, "I really want to..."
I know what you mean about wanting to know what was going on with a character and not getting to hear any more about them. That was definitely the frustrating part of the structure. The reward was the "Hey! Wait! I remember her!" and then paging back to see what you knew about her previously.

[Brittomart]

That PP chapter? Can I love and hate the opposite of love something at the same time? I didn't know a chapter written in PP could make me feel so much, but it kinda annoyed me at the same time. A triangle told me about what happened to Bosco though :)

Revealing where the characters end up in this "oh by the way" style says something, I think. They may get an entire chapter, but then, they are really just a tiny piece of the macrocosm.

[Joseph]

I've just finished reading the first two of three Acacia novels, and am waiting on the third one to be released in January. They are truly epic tales and well worth checking out. I've also just finished Atwood's Oryx and Crake, which was beautiful, tragic, and haunting. I highly recommend it to anyone with even a slightly open mind. I'm now reading Did Adam and Eve Have Navals, which is kind of boring and not terribly focused on anything in particular. I might give up on it and move on.

[Angela~twistedmind~]

Janice wrote: "LOL! Wasn't that a tactful and diplomatic way of me to get the message out there? Sorry, it wasn't meant in that way. It was part of the conversation between Stacy, LG and me about putting links..."

no worries, janice. through lurking here at tc i've discovered i should not take anything personally. it's all good, girl.
i really enjoyed Full Dark, No Stars. i'm partial to a good marriage, although, as usual when it comes to king, i loved them all.

i'm on the last few chapters of Relentless by Dean Koontz. i'm going to squeeze in Wild Blood by nancy a. collins to have something short to occupy me until fri., when i can finally purchase Angie Sage's latest, Septimus Heap - Darke.

[Clara]

Kaye wrote: "Clara wrote: "I am now readingA Bride Most Begrudging"

I love that book! I've re-read it several times. I love the story :)"

I just can't put it down. I am usually a slow reader. This time I am already half way through it. I am looking forward to reading her other books.

[Jim]

Welcome to TC Joseph.

[Sally, la reina]

I'm now reading the little stranger.

[Phil]

Rain Man says... "Sally got post #1600 in this thread. Yeah, 1600. Uh-oh.   fart."

[Sally, la reina]

:: punches Phil in the face::

[Janice]

Sally wrote: "I'm now reading the little stranger."

Please let me know if it's a good ghost story. I'm getting into the mood for a scary story.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Sally wrote: "I'm now reading the little stranger."

I just finished this. A good read, I thought.

[Phil]

::shoves tissue in bleeding nose, plots revenge::

[Sally, la reina]

Jeeeeeeeebus. This is what I get for both following Lg about like a little lemming and not ever reading the dust cover before beginninga book. I'm crying and scared and unable to stop reading.

:: punches Lg in the ear::

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Janice wrote: "Sally wrote: "I'm now reading the little stranger."

Please let me know if it's a good ghost story. I'm getting into the mood for a scary story."

It is a good ghost story/psychological thriller, Janice.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Sally wrote: "Jeeeeeeeebus. This is what I get for both following Lg about like a little lemming and not ever reading the dust cover before beginninga book. I'm crying and scared and unable to stop reading."

I could hardly put the book down. Literally, I almost glided through it, like a poop through a colon.

[[deleted user]]

'sactly the sort of book I'm looking for at the moment.

[[deleted user]]

...and I now own it to read.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Watch out, or Sally is going to punch you.

[[deleted user]]

I am hiding behind you LG, she will never find me.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Yes, you are lucky I had a Subway sub and a Guinness tonight, and last night's Magnum is clinging to my fanny.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

When y'all are done with The Little Stranger, I'll give you a link to a really good discussion of it. But it is full of spoilers.

[Janice]

I just downloaded it. I won't read it right away because I've got a few other books with higher priority.

[janine]

I have already read The Little Stranger. Here ends my message.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

And then read it?

I've moved on to The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.

[ms.petra]

Britomart wrote: "That PP chapter? Can I love and hate the opposite of love something at the same time? I didn't know a chapter written in PP could make me feel so much, but it kinda annoyed me at the same time. A t..."

yes, you can! In fact, you can't feel one without the other. I kind of felt the same about the book, Britt. But, I have to give Egan credit for bring out the emotion and making me think about why she was being so stingy with some of the characters. I guess that is real life. There are a few pivotal people and a lot of "extras."

[Sarah]

ms.petra wrote: "There are a few pivotal people and a lot of "extras." ."

What I got was actually that everybody is the star of their own story but relegated to the role of extra in everyone else's plot.

[ms.petra]

Sarah, I hadn't quite thought of it that way, but it makes perfect sense.

[Fiona (Titch)]

I will be listening to Anything Goes - John Barrowman, A Certain Age - Lynne Truss, A Suitable Boy: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation - Vikram Seth and Boy A - Jonathan Trigell

[Leslie]

The Zookeeper's Wife

Has anyone read one of those collections of short stories where the main character in one is a peripherial character in another and vice versa? I really like those and it illustrates exactly what you're talking about.

[~Geektastic~]

I'm about 1/3 of the way through The Eyre Affair. The first 20 or so pages had me thinking that it was going to be a no-go, but I'm starting to like it much more. I am having some issues with the tone of the book, though; it feels like Fforde never decided if he was writing a comedy or a noir thriller and the two aren't meshing all that well for me.

[Fiona (Titch)]

I have finished listening to Anything Goes - John Barrowman, A Certain Age - Lynne Truss, A Suitable Boy: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation - Vikram Seth.

[Fiona (Titch)]

I'm now reading Coming Up For Air - George Orwell

[Angela~twistedmind~]

I started Darke by Angie Sage last night. I read until I simply could not keep my eyes open and was rudely awakened by the kindle bonking me on the nose after falling from my fingers. I'm not sure this series would even be considered young adult, but I've found it cute and amusing. It's a great light read when I've had a bit too much gore and psychological terror.

[[deleted user]]

Lobstergirl wrote: "When y'all are done with The Little Stranger, I'll give you a link to a really good discussion of it. But it is full of spoilers."

I am ready for that link on the discussion now LG.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Enjoy.

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/3...

[Leslie]

I just started Revenge of the Paste Eaters: A Misfit's Memoir last night.

[Sally, la reina]

I finished The Little Stranger and began Hammer of the Gods. Sorry, no links for you!

[Leslie]

I'm bailing on Revenge of the Paste Eaters. I thought it was a memoir in the sense of one story. Instead it's a bunch of disconnected little stories that are kind of amusing. I'm disappointed.

But I did find Mockingbird, the bio of Harper Lee at Goodwill today, so that makes up for it. I'll start it tonight.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Across the River and into the Trees.

[Janice]

I finished The Picture of Dorian Gray in the wee hours this morning, then dreamt of discussing it on Goodreads with Gail.

I'll be starting Vanilla: Travels in Search of the Ice Cream Orchid later today.