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message 1151: by Fiona (Titch) (new)

Fiona (Titch) Hunt (titch) Now I am going to listen to Red Dragon - Thomas Harris.


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Fiona (Titch) Hunt (titch) Now I am listening to The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris.


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Vonney Young (ysgillen67) | 39 comments Fiona (Titch) wrote: "Now I am listening to The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris."

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.


message 1154: by Fiona (Titch) (new)

Fiona (Titch) Hunt (titch) Vonney wrote: "Fiona (Titch) wrote: "Now I am listening to The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris."

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


message 1155: by Fiona (Titch) (new)

Fiona (Titch) Hunt (titch) In the morning I will listen to Hannibal - Thomas Harris.


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Alanna | 655 comments Reading A Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks for my neighborhood book club.


message 1157: by Fiona (Titch) (new)

Fiona (Titch) Hunt (titch) Now I am listening to Hannibal Rising - Thomas Harris


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galya Emily wrote: "Galya I love that book! It's hilarious.

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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. :)



message 1159: by Beth (new)

Beth Diiorio (beth_diiorio) Reading The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian.


message 1160: by Fiona (Titch) (new)

Fiona (Titch) Hunt (titch) Last month in the bath I started The Comfort of Strangers - Ian McEwan so I will carry on reading that today as its only 100 pages. Then I will read Poor Little Bitch Girl - Jackie Collins.



message 1161: by Donna (new)

Donna I just started Hidden Moon by James Church. I really like the main character, Inspector O, and while the first book in this series was a bit slow I have heard good things about this, the second in the series.


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Kathy  (readr4ever) | 139 comments Reading A Touch of Dead by Charlaine Harris. It's her short story collection of Sookie short stories.


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Nancy | 4 comments I just finished a tremendous book "Sarah's Key" by Tatiana de Rosnay. It was listed as one of the 10 best books of last year, and it is all that and more, in my opinion.
I just started "Olive Kittridge" by Elizabeth Stout.


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Michael Obiora (michael_obiora) | 42 comments Along Came A Spider, by James Patterson


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Arun Divakar (arundivakar) | 10 comments Hey...a newbie here...currently reading Sliver by Ira Levine


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Veronica (veronicay) Nancy wrote: "I just started "Olive Kittridge" by Elizabeth Stout"

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




message 1167: by Beth (new)

Beth Diiorio (beth_diiorio) Veronica wrote: "Nancy wrote: "I just started "Olive Kittridge" by Elizabeth Stout"

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.



message 1168: by Melissa (new)

Melissa (melitious) I am reading Club Dead. I'm hoping to pick up a few "deeper" books in the next month or so, but I'm enjoying cranking through books at the moment.


message 1169: by Emily (new)

Emily Reading The Summer Tree book 1 of a series a friend recommended to me.


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Shannon (sianin) Shelley wrote: "Shannon wrote: "I am reading Lullabies for Little Criminals A Novel for my in person book club."

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.


message 1171: by Shannon (new)

Shannon (sianin) Oops, I should have put the above in the what I have finished stream.

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


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Meera (meera123) | 2 comments Iam currently reading 'twilight'.i reached climax
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



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Arun Divakar (arundivakar) | 10 comments On to the final part of the Bartimaeus trilogy by Jonathan Stroud.


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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.


message 1175: by Lindz (new)

Lindz (miss_bovary00) Arun wrote: "On to the final part of the Bartimaeus trilogy by Jonathan Stroud."

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 :)


message 1176: by Shelley (new)

Shelley (shelleylynn) Shannon wrote: "Shelley wrote: "Shannon wrote: "I am reading Lullabies for Little Criminals A Novel for my in person book club."

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!




message 1177: by Beth (new)

Beth Diiorio (beth_diiorio) Presently, I am very drawn in to Her Fearful Symmetry A Novel.


message 1178: by Emily (new)

Emily I gave up on the Summer Tree...and now starting The Time Traveler's Wife.


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Arun Divakar (arundivakar) | 10 comments Lindsay wrote: "Arun wrote: "On to the final part of the Bartimaeus trilogy by Jonathan Stroud."

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...



message 1180: by Avigail (new)

Avigail (avigailr) I read a mystery book called The Gaudi Key A Novel by Esteban Martín & Andreu Carranza I realy like it. I read the hebrew translation. I also listen in my ipod while following the text Outlander by Diana Gabaldon


message 1181: by Melissa (new)

Melissa (melitious) I am reading Dead to the World -- the fourth book in the Sookie Stackhouse series.


message 1182: by Donna (new)

Donna (dfiggz) Finished up on Hummingbirds: A Novel and gave it 3/5 stars. Now I am reading Uglies and so far I am flying thru it. It is a good read thus far!


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Donna (dfiggz) Just finished Uglies gave it 4/5 stars

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


message 1186: by Melissa (new)

Melissa (melitious) Also picked up The Dead Travel Fast Stalking Vampires from Nosferatu to Count Chocula -- that it was time to read this, with how many vampire books I've been reading lately.


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Beth Knight (zazaknittycat) I just started reading Push A Novel by Sapphire


message 1188: by Donna (new)

Donna (dfiggz) Beth wrote: "I just started reading Push A Novel by Sapphire"

It's quite disturbing.


message 1189: by Fiona (Titch) (new)

Fiona (Titch) Hunt (titch) Having such a slow month so far. So I am still reading The Colour of Heaven - James Runice.


message 1190: by Beth (new)

Beth Knight (zazaknittycat) Yes, Push A Novel was disturbing but it was a good book. I just started reading Shogun


message 1191: by Donna (new)

Donna (dfiggz) Oh I have Shogun just sitting here waiting! I would love to know what you think of it.


message 1192: by Andrez (new)

Andrez (andrez-ssi) stilll "falar a verdade a mentir"


message 1193: by Donna (new)

Donna (dfiggz) Finished up on Eating Animals and now I am reading my last First Reads win : Courage of Fear by Barbara Boyer


message 1194: by [deleted user] (new)

Plays of the Thirties, with plays by Rudolf Besier, Noel Coward, Dodie Smith and Terence Rattigan.


message 1196: by Fiona (Titch) (new)

Fiona (Titch) Hunt (titch) Now deciding to read Housewife In Love - Alison Penton Harper



message 1197: by Shelley (new)

Shelley (shelleylynn) Going to start The Handmaid's Tale tomorrow. Still reading Dracula as it is on Daily Lit so I don't get far every day. Hope to be done it early this week!


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Kristine (foreveryearning) | 72 comments Just started American Gods by Neil Gaiman, as well as still reading Dracula.


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message 1200: by Emily (new)

Emily Started Fool A Novel by Christopher Moore.


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