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[Riona]

I don't think I could ever read that little. I would not be able to stop myself after two pages.

[Kevin]

finished two books this weekend. a john sandford and grisham's calico joe. both highly enjoyable good reads.

[[deleted user]]

So far, pretty good. Not exactly Shakespeare, but she's awful funny, very down to earth, and I just like her.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Dream of the Red Chamber. An abridged version of the 1754 Chinese classic. About 780 characters introduced thus far, I've sort of given up keeping track of them.

[Alias Reader]

I am about to begin reading
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President~~Candice Millard

[Cheri]

Lobstergirl wrote: "I can't do book reads with anyone in my family. Only because it takes them 6 months to finish a book. I suppose I could do a "side read" with them. Reading, like, two pages a day."

It is how we avoid intimacy in my family.

[Kevin]

charlie - no, newest sandford book is a lucas davenport but that FF is in it :)

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Kevin, I bet you would like Eye of the Needle. Have you read it already?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Innocent Blood.

[Fiona (Titch)]

Determinant - A.M. Hargrove

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I just started A New England Girlhood, a memoir published in the 1890s about a girl's life in the 1830s-50s.

[[deleted user]]

Once I finish which I am quite enjoying. I think I'll start

[Sally, la reina]

Finally finished Crime and Punishment. Should I finish Tess next (I abandoned it three weeks ago to read C&P), or go on with another book about Indian women?

[[deleted user]]

Sallers, if you mean Tess of the D'Urbervilles, I'd skip it if I were you. It doesn't get any better!

[Kevin]

LG - i have not and i love ken follett. i am going to the library after work today to return a couple and i am going online to try to put a hold on that. thanks!

[Fiona (Titch)]

Just finished Determinant - A.M. Hargrove. Now going back to reading Lifeblood - J. Przymus.

[Fiona (Titch)]

Amelia wrote: "I liked Room a lot, Jennifer.

I LOVED THG, Fiona. Don't you find it hard to choose after a really good read, like you don't want it to be a let down?"

I am in 2 minds whether to carry on reading the next in the series x

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Kevin "El Liso Grande" wrote: "LG - i have not and i love ken follett. i am going to the library after work today to return a couple and i am going online to try to put a hold on that. thanks!"

There's a movie too, with Donald Sutherland. Scary!

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I just started Angle of Repose.

[Cheri]

Found it at the library. The Book of Lost Fragrances

[Jammies]

Cheri wrote: "Found it at the library. The Book of Lost Fragrances"

I'll look forward to hearing what you think of that one, Cheri, as I belong to a GR group full of perfumistas. :)

[Fiona (Titch)]

I've given up on Lifeblood - J. Przymus for now and now reading The Ghost Rock Cafe - Chinle Miller.

[Sally, la reina]

I wish a noob would open this thread so we can move away from 666 page views.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Or a Nubian.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I'm also reading Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Not just 666 page views, but we're on the verge of advancing to page 66.

[Sally, la reina]

::puts on foil hat::

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

A noob looked.

[Fiona (Titch)]

This morning I finished The Ghost Rock Cafe - Chinle Miller. Now I think I will read Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins.

[[deleted user]]

Fiona (Titch) wrote: "Amelia wrote: "I liked Room a lot, Jennifer.

I LOVED THG, Fiona. Don't you find it hard to choose after a really good read, like you don't want it to be a let down?"

I am in 2 minds whether to c..."

Fiona, I am one of those people who tends to enjoy a series more and more as it goes on, because I get more attached to the characters (unless it goes on forever and changes authors ie. Dragonlance / Dragonriders of Pern...then I give up). So, I really enjoyed books two and three. I think I am the only person I know who liked book three best, but other than some violent objections to the ending most liked the rest. In my opinion all three are worth the read. And, lets face it, it's not like they're a huge time commitment. They're relatively short and an easy read.

Enjoy!

[Fiona (Titch)]

Amelia wrote: "Fiona (Titch) wrote: "Amelia wrote: "I liked Room a lot, Jennifer.

I LOVED THG, Fiona. Don't you find it hard to choose after a really good read, like you don't want it to be a let down?"

I am i..."

I have started book 2 today x

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Lobstergirl wrote: "I just started Angle of Repose."

Man this book just goes on and on and on. And every chapter feels just like the last one. Yet it's quite popular for a book published in 1971. 16,300 ratings. I'm surprised.

[Riona]

I just finished Great Apes. Meh.

I think I'm going to start A Tree Grows in Brooklyn tomorrow.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I wonder if I should reread Tree. It's been so long. I really don't remember anything about it.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I finished Angle of Repose. I thought it would never end. Damn. So that was frustrating. I ended up giving it three stars. Maybe it deserved four but there was so much repetition in it. The same stuff happening over and over. But at the same time it left me feeling profoundly sad, and not a lot of books do that. I felt so sad for Frank and Oliver and angry at Susan. Although if I'd been in Susan's situation I don't know if I would have done anything differently. I think Oliver is going to be one of those characters who sticks in my head for awhile, so maybe that's the sign of a good book? I don't know.

[Cheri]

I'm taking a break with Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman
Funny and sweet short stories.

[Alias Reader]

I just started,

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail~~Cheryl Strayed

[Sally, la reina]

Lobstergirl wrote: "I finished Angle of Repose. I thought it would never end. Damn. So that was frustrating..."


I love that book. Sad to hear you didn't like it.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

The Secret Pilgrim.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Sally wrote: "Lobstergirl wrote: "I finished Angle of Repose. I thought it would never end. Damn. So that was frustrating..."


I love that book. Sad to hear you didn't like it."

Well I liked some things about it. There were some beautiful sentences. I thought it was a nicely done and true portrait of a marriage.

Didn't it bug you that Lyman kept referring to Shelly's big dangling boobs underneath her sweater as ohne Büstenhalter? (German for without a bra.)

The "modern" part of the story felt very dated. Hippies, braless hippies, and talk of communes. UGH.

[Kevin]

ohne Büstenhalter

[Phil]

Kevin used the caps key!

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Maybe he only uses the caps key when he's typing in German? He knows German nouns must be capitalized.

[Jammies]

The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet

[Mejix]

The main dish is Les Misérables.

The side dishes are:
View With a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems,
The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry
and the sublime Colorful Realm: Japanese Bird-and-Flower Paintings by Ito Jakuchu.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business. This one is going to take a loooooong time to get through.

I'll be reading a work of fiction too, naturally. Haven't picked it yet.

[Elizabeth]

Starting a re-read of The Passage in anticipation of it's sequel being released in October.

Also starting The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, just for fun.

[Sally, la reina]

Charly wrote: "Finally finished Tom Jones, currently reading King Lear as we are seeing this play in October."

Awesome, Charly. I'd love to hear your thoughts. I'll be re-reading King Lear and teaching it this winter.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

::writhes::

[Sally, la reina]

::smacks Lg with a trout::