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I saw the movie,SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, and Jodie Foster
was great in it. So was Hannibal Lecter or whatever
his name was. He made a superb psychopath.

I saw the movie,SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, and Jodie Foster
was great in it. So was Hannibal Lecter or whateve..."
Yes Anthony Hopkins is a great actor. I am gonna listen to Hannibal & Hannibal Rising - Thomas Harris

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Yea, it's really funny, I'm loving it.
My teacher shoved it into my face and told me to read it. :)




I just started "Olive Kittridge" by Elizabeth Stout.

Enjoy -- Olive Kitteridge is easily the best book I've read this year.

Enjoy -- Olive Kitteridge is easily the best book I've read this year.
I loved Olive Kitteridge A Novel in Stories, too! Have not yet read other books by that same author though.


Shannon- How are you liking it? I have heard mixed messages about it..."
Well, I didn't finish Lullabies for Little Criminals and was glad for a reason to put it down. It didn't capture me as I had hoped. Having said that, I think that if I had stuck with it and read to the end I may have really liked it. (Everyone in my in-person book club that finished it seemed to really like it).
For me, I got it with a only a few days before our book club met and just didn't have the time. I got half way through and apparently it starts picking up about the time that I stopped.
Some things I really liked about the book and some things I didn't. And they are related. I liked her metaphors but didn't like that each time she used one she used two or three in a row to describe the thing, feeling, whatever. I didn't like that the author kept telling us that "it was just really sad". Some in the club felt that it added legitimacy to the voice of the 12 year old (or 14 year old remembering). I had thought the narrator was much older than that. If the narrator really is that young then some of the metaphors didn't work for me as they were too sophisticated for someone that young (I apologize I do not have the book in front of me so cannot provide examples).
I liked the transitory nature of the characters as I felt that was "real". It is a sad book and I am told that the ending is quite good. I had to return the book to the library and will probably not return to it. Having said that, I do not think it was a waste of my time and I would have read it if I wasn't on such a time limit. The others in my club (who I respect their opinions) all would give it 4 stars.

I am currently reading Wolf Hall and about to start another Canadian novel Midnight at the Dragon Cafe.

and i just LOVE the book and edward.i borrowed it from one of my frnd and iam surely gonna read new moon -2nd prt of twilight.
MEERA
Fallen Angel by andrew Taylor. It's the omnibus of his Roth trilogy. I thought the TV adaptation was pretty good so I have high hopes. It's over 900 pages long but I think it's the sort of book that pulls you in.

I loved that Jonathan Stroud trilogy, everything in it was grey, not the writing or the story, grey in a good way not black and white :)

Shannon- Thank you for your summary of the novel... I still am interested in it but i think it's one of those books that will have to "wait till there is nothing else". Hope you enjoy your next read a little more!

I loved that Jonathan Stroud trilogy, everything in it was grey, not the writing or the story, grey in a good way n..."
True..almost every character had grey shades, unlike most of the other fantasy tales the characters had human traits...



Now I am reading my First Reads win Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer



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