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message 951: by Sera (new)

Sera | 1325 comments LynnB wrote: "I'm reading two: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin."

I loved the Hurston book. I hope that you enjoy it as well.


message 952: by Sera (new)

Sera | 1325 comments I just started Catherine the Great Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie and Darkness, My Old Friend A Novel by Lisa Unger .


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Juny | 11 comments just started The Tiger's Wife this afternoon.


message 954: by Barb (new)

Barb I just started reading Blow Out (FBI Thriller, #9) by Catherine Coulter , for this month's book club discussion, and listening to The Tin Collectors (Shane Scully #1) by Stephen J. Cannell


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Sera | 1325 comments I started reading Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury by Ray Bradbury.


message 956: by Becky (new)

Becky (beckymurr) The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners (Newport, Rhode Island, #2) by Luanne Rice , just started this, I needed a Luanne fix


message 957: by Lisa (new)

Lisa Hickman (lbhick) | 986 comments I've started The Emperor of All Maladies A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee and A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion A Novel by Ron Hansen . I won the latter book from the publisher website.


message 958: by Sera (new)

Sera | 1325 comments I'm starting The Arriviste by James Wallenstein today.


message 959: by LynnB (new)

LynnB I have started In the Sea There Are Crocodiles by Fabio Geda which is historical fiction -- and Beowulf - Graphic Novel by Gareth Hinds which is a graphic novel.


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Suzanne Moore (suzeq) | 3 comments I just started The Graveyard Book


message 961: by Becky (new)

Becky (beckymurr) Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1) by L.M. Montgomery , we are heading to PEI next week & I have not read this in years!


message 962: by LynnB (new)

LynnB Becky wrote: "Anne of Green Gables, we are heading to PEI next week & I have not read this in years!"

What perfect timing! I've always wanted to get to PEI and see what it's like. We're planning to go to the East Coast (US and Canada) in a few years to see what's there. I've been all over the rest of the US and Canada, just not the extreme east. Have a good trip!


message 963: by Becky (new)

Becky (beckymurr) LynnB wrote: "Becky wrote: "Anne of Green Gables, we are heading to PEI next week & I have not read this in years!"

What perfect timing! I've always wanted to get to PEI and see what it's like. ..."




Thanks, we have talked about it for years & this trip was actually going to be just Maine but as we got looking at the map we were like...ummmmm....LOL & Sept is a big Food Festival on the island. We are camping in our little teardrop camper!


message 964: by Lisa (new)

Lisa Hickman (lbhick) | 986 comments Becky, have fun! I have great memories of camping on Prince Edward Island when I was young. I'd love to go back some day.


message 965: by Gloria (new)

Gloria Melissa wrote: "I just started Cutting for Stone. I am enjoying it so far. I have Let the Great World Spin and The Lost City of Z waiting for me."

Jaime wrote: "Lisa wrote: "I've got three going now:

Watership Down  by Richard Adams Watership Down by Richard Adams

The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers [book:The..."


"Cutting for Stone" is one of the finest books I have read, ever. I hope you really enjoy it.


message 966: by Becky (new)

Becky (beckymurr) Lisa wrote: "Becky, have fun! I have great memories of camping on Prince Edward Island when I was young. I'd love to go back some day."

Really??? You camped there? I feel like a little kid just thinking about it LOL


message 967: by Judy (new)

Judy | 4 comments Hope you'll post a review when you finish telling us if you enjoyed it as much now as when you were younger. I probably read it, and loved it, 55 years ago (!!) but if you enjoy it as an adult maybe I'll read it again.


message 968: by Barb (new)

Barb I just started The Ballad of Tom Dooley A Novel (Appalachian Ballad) by Sharyn McCrumb , and it's already sucked me in!


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Mary Chambers (marycha) | 23 comments I just started THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger.


message 970: by LynnB (new)

LynnB I'm reading Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler by Anne Tyler and The Brutal Telling (Armand Gamache, #5) by Louise Penny by Louise Penny. The Tyler book is general fiction for another group, but the Penny book is because I love these mysteries (modern, but an Agatha Christie style). This is #5 in her series.


message 971: by Laurie (new)

Laurie (laurielh) | 93 comments I'm about to start The Map of Time The Map of Time by Félix J. Palma -- has anyone here read it? I'm a slow reader and it's a thick read -- wondering if it's worth buying if I can't finish the borrowed copy from the library by the due date.


message 972: by Lisa (new)

Lisa Hickman (lbhick) | 986 comments Laurie wrote: "I'm about to start The Map of TimeThe Map of Time by Félix J. Palma -- has anyone here read it? I'm a slow reader and it's a thick read -- wondering if it's worth buying if I can't..."

I'll be starting that next month. It is the November group read for my F2F Barnes & Noble book club.


message 973: by Sera (new)

Sera | 1325 comments I'm starting The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen later today on audio. I think that the cover of this book is so beautiful.


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Katzs4 | 14 comments LynnB wrote: "I'm reading Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler by Anne Tyler and The Brutal Telling (Armand Gamache, #5) by Louise Penny by Louise Penny. The Tyler book is general fiction for another group, but the Penny book is ..."

LynnB, I LOVE Louise Penny's books.. unlike alot of mystery series .. hers just keep getting better with each new book.


message 975: by LynnB (last edited Sep 22, 2011 03:50PM) (new)

LynnB Katzs4 wrote: "LynnB, I LOVE Louise Penny's books.. unlike alot of mystery series .. hers just keep getting better with each new book. "

I agree that each one gets better. I really enjoy her characters. She's up to book #7 (as of last month), so I'm almost caught up with the series.


message 976: by Victoria (last edited Sep 22, 2011 05:32PM) (new)

Victoria (vicki_c) The Snowman The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7) by Jo Nesbø - and I'm so excited to get it from the library for my Kindle app on my iPad!


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Mary Chambers (marycha) | 23 comments I just started FREEDOM by Jonathan Franzen to read with Soap Lake Library Book Club.


message 978: by LynnB (new)

LynnB Mary wrote: "I just started FREEDOM by Jonathan Franzen to read with Soap Lake Library Book Club."

Hi Mary - My eye just caught the reference to Soap Lake. I figured there can't be too many of them, so I think you live near me (more or less, anyway). I'm from E'burg.


message 979: by Linda (new)

Linda | 1693 comments I'm working on In the Garden of Beasts Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson which captivated me from the first page and I'm listening to The Last Precinct (Kay Scarpetta, #11) by Patricia Cornwell .


message 980: by Barb (new)

Barb Next up for me is Sentenced to Death (A Booktown Mystery, #5) by Lorna Barrett , the latest in a series I recently discovered.


message 981: by Steven (new)

Steven | 2 comments Just started The Phantom Tollbooth which is the "On the Same Page selection for Decatur,Ga where everyone interested will be reading the same book with book groups etc. http://www.littleshopofstories.com/sa.... So far the book is hilarious


message 982: by LynnB (new)

LynnB I'm reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver and The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell .


message 983: by Sera (new)

Sera | 1325 comments LynnB wrote: "I'm reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver and The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell."

LynnB, I thought that Kingsolver's book was excellent. We read it for one of my GR book clubs and we were pretty divided on it. I'm curious to hear what you think.


message 984: by Sera (new)

Sera | 1325 comments I started Sons by Pearl S. Buck . I'm about 100 pages in and really enjoying it.


message 985: by Cathy (new)

Cathy | 482 comments I began Jamrach's Menagerie  by Carol Birch on audio, recently. A Man Booker nominee and extremely well-written. It is a fabulous audio experience, very engaging. I highly recommend it on audio, or otherwise.


message 986: by Betsy (new)

Betsy (ebburtis) | 1291 comments I started Townie by Andre Dubus III on audio today. There are a surprising number of similarities with What's Left of Us by Richard Farrell (which I recently read), including the fact that both authors currently teach at UMass Lowell.


message 987: by Donna (new)

Donna (drspoon) I just started Adrenalineand it promises to be a super read - we'll see.


message 988: by Juny (new)

Juny | 11 comments Before I go To Sleep


message 989: by Juny (new)

Juny | 11 comments Betsy wrote: "I started Townie by Andre Dubus III on audio today. There are a surprising number of similarities with What's Left of Us by Richard Farrell (which I recently read), including the fact that both aut..."

There 's another author, he wrote the girl in the Italian Bakery, who claims that his book was plagerized by Dubus. I have Townie and look forward to reading it, but isn't it strange that other books are so similiar to his


message 990: by Juny (new)

Juny | 11 comments LynnB wrote: "I'm reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver and The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell."

i loved Animal, vegetable, Miracle. So very interesting, I actually heard the book via cds and the author herself narrated. Very well done.


message 991: by Sera (last edited Oct 03, 2011 06:12AM) (new)

Sera | 1325 comments I just started The Year We Left Home by Jean Thompson and Sister by Rosamund Lupton , the latter on audio.


message 992: by Becky (new)

Becky (beckymurr) Just started The Soldier's Wife by Margaret Leroy


message 993: by Lisa (new)

Lisa Hickman (lbhick) | 986 comments Becky wrote: "Just started The Soldier's Wife by Margaret Leroy"

I can't wait to read that one! I have it on my Nook.


message 994: by Betsy (new)

Betsy (ebburtis) | 1291 comments I started Little Chapel on the River by Gwendolyn Bounds for my F2F book group. It's quite good so far.


message 995: by Becky (new)

Becky (beckymurr) Lisa wrote: "Becky wrote: "Just started The Soldier's Wife by Margaret Leroy"

I can't wait to read that one! I have it on my Nook."


It was very good....I liked but at about the 1/2 way point I had a very hard time putting it down!


message 996: by Becky (new)

Becky (beckymurr) I usually stay away from overly hyped books when they first come out but this book has intrigued me, so I am starting....
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern


message 997: by Lisa (new)

Lisa Hickman (lbhick) | 986 comments I just started The Last Letter from Your Lover by Jojo Moyes .


message 998: by Juny (new)

Juny | 11 comments STARTED THE POISON TREE BY ERIN KELLY


message 999: by Steven (new)

Steven | 2 comments I'm readingWildwood and so far in nice easy enjoyable book


message 1000: by Betsy (new)

Betsy (ebburtis) | 1291 comments Becky wrote: "I usually stay away from overly hyped books when they first come out but this book has intrigued me, so I am starting....
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern"


I'm torn about this one too. Keep us posted, I'm anxious to hear what you think.


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