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Feeling a little regretful at having purchased The Glass Castle...

[Ruby]

Finished The Passage this morning (and really liked it) and have started on The Brief History of the Dead (and loving it so far).

I've also read a couple of short stories from The Penguin Book of the City & discovered the work of Jess Mowry.

I've also been browsing The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton and loving that very much.
It's been a really good week for books :)

[janine]

Amelia wrote: "Feeling a little regretful at having purchased The Glass Castle..."

Have you started reading it yet?

[Jammies]

Amelia wrote: "Feeling a little regretful at having purchased The Glass Castle..."

Take it back! Take it back and get a refund! Before the walls start bleeding or something...

[[deleted user]]

Jammies, you are such a comfort to my soul. :)

[Carol]

Read The Glass Castle! I loved it, too!

[Cynthia]

Carol wrote: "Read The Glass Castle! I loved it, too!"

If you have any love in your heart for they dysfunctional family dynamic, you will love Glass Castle.

[Ruby]

Just looking at the Glass Castle blurb, it sounds a little bit like Running with Scissors and some of Augusten Burroughs's other autobiographical stuff. Has anyone read both?

[Carol]

yep, loved them both. Dysfunctional with sweetness and humor.

[Riona]

Charly wrote: "Riona, based on the book you are reading now, you may want to give Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick. It will give you a "slightly" different ve..."

Thanks for the rec! Sounds interesting. Added to my TBR.

[Cheri]

Jammies wrote: "Barb wrote: "The Glass Castle is rubbish, IMO."

Oh, yay, someone else who didn't love that piece of dreck!"

Glass Castle is crap. Half Broke Horses is a more interesting story and gives some clue why everyone in GC was such a mess. Maybe Horses was better for me since I knew the places in the book. Still I wouldn't read either again.

[Cheri]

I'm reading The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805.

[[deleted user]]

I think I'll have to make another selection for now. I've been carrying these books around since last week and none of them is "talking to me".

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Amelia wrote: "I think I'll have to make another selection for now. I've been carrying these books around since last week and none of them is "talking to me"."

Sounds like you need an audiobook.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Why was Glass Castle so crappy? Someone explain to me, in 300 characters or less.

[~Geektastic~]

I'm thinking of reading a frequently contested book in honor of Banned Books Week. I think I'll go with A Wrinkle in Time, as I've been meaning to read it for a while, and it was the pre-Potter poster child for "evil" magic influencing The Children.

[[deleted user]]

Amber, I loved the whole series! LOVED, I tell you!!

Very fun.

[~Geektastic~]

Amelia wrote: "Amber, I loved the whole series! LOVED, I tell you!!

Very fun."

I've only ever heard good things, so I'm looking forward to it.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

King of the Badgers: A Novel.

I notice Books got moved way down.

Appropriate, on a books site.

[Angela~twistedmind~]

Devoured I, Alex Cross byJames Patterson overnight. Started Mystery byPeter Straub earlier today.

[~Geektastic~]

Before moving on to A Wrinkle in Time, I need to finish The Whole Five Feet: What the Great Books Taught Me About Life, Death, and Pretty Much Everything Else and Harry Potter and Philosophy: If Aristotle Ran Hogwarts. No time to read much lately, so it's slow going.

[Cynthia]

Barb wrote: "I'm still working on The Corrections. Crikey. I don't remember the last time it took me so long to read a book."

Holy cow I loved The Corrections. And I do not even like Mr. Franzen ONE BIT.

[Fiona (Titch)]

I have read Still Life - Louise Penny, Dark Touch: Betrayal - Amy Meredith and attempted to read Complete Surrender - Dave Sharp. I am now reading Lone Wolf - Linwood Barclay.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Lobstergirl wrote: "King of the Badgers: A Novel.

I notice Books got moved way down.

Appropriate, on a books site."

I enjoyed this. Funny. (That is not a judgement on the gay orgy scene which left me feeling a little morose.)

If you enjoy gay orgy scenes, you will like this one.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Now reading The Nun and Shoot the Widow: Adventures of a Biographer in Search of Her Subject.

[Susieville]

The Little BrideThe Little Bride

[Lee]

My first Bond novel, Goldfinger (for LG )
to show the copy I found in the used book section at the library here in town.(C) 1959 For the AA group read.

[Janice]

I started Tomato Rhapsody: A Fable of Love, Lust & Forbidden Fruit and The Midnight Palace.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Lee wrote: "My first Bond novel, Goldfinger (for LG )


::claps::

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I have started Mortals by Norman Rush.

[Jim]

Gabby wrote: "I would be starting The Great Gatsby tonight."

So why aren't you?

[Sarah]

What did you think?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

The thread on whether Gatsby is the worst American book ever. (I think we can agree it's not.)

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

[Fiona (Titch)]

Kill Alex Cross - James Patterson

[Fiona (Titch)]

Finished Kill Alex Cross - James Patterson. Now back to Lone Wolf - Linwood Barclay.

[Lori]

"Slash." So far, slow-going and boring.

[Pam]

This morning, I started, "Winter's Bone."

[Pam]

...,,..,,.. few too many commas,,, there... sorry.. no morning cofffffeee yet.

[Janice]

I finished The Midnight Palace and started Map of Bones.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I (view spoiler)[absolutely loathed Winter's Bone. (hide spoiler)]

I know RA (view spoiler)[loved it, though. (hide spoiler)]

[Pam]

Thanks Lobstergirl.. I just finished it about 2a.m. and I thought it was a well written tale of survival in the boonies .. I have to read some more stuff by this guy..

Tomorrow I'm going to start the new Charles Frazier book, "Nightwood." Have you read that one?

[janine]

I'm reading Kameraad Baron, about the Transylvanian nobility before, during and after the communist oppression. Very interesting, and with cool pictures.

[~Geektastic~]

I have too many books going on at once. I can't seem to maintain interest in anything long enough to finish any of them, even though I like all of them.

The Mists of Avalon
The Whole Five Feet: What the Great Books Taught Me About Life, Death, and Pretty Much Everything Else
You Deserve Nothing
What Good Are the Arts?

[Pam]

janine wrote: "I'm reading Kameraad Baron, about the Transylvanian nobility before, during and after the communist oppression. Very interesting, and with cool pictures."

ooooh... This book looks interesting.. Let me know what you think about it.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

pictures

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives

[Lee]

Up next, Think of a Number ,

I'm remembering LG! :)

[[deleted user]]

Starting So far it doesn't look as promising as I was hoping. Everything seems a little flat after

[Janice]

I gave up on Map of Bones and have started Anansi Boys.