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Carolyn F.
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May 29, 2011 03:38PM
After holding onto this book for over a year, I'm finally reading
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stormhawk wrote: "Slammerkin was excellent... I wasn't sure if I would enjoy it at all, but it turned out to be a much more fascinating story than the back-of-the-book blurb indicated. "Thank you for the insight. :) I recently attended the author's reading for her other book (Room) and one member of the audience mentioned it. The way Emma Donoghue described it intrigued me, and I've been liking historical fiction a lot lately.
Carolyn F. wrote: "After holding onto this book for over a year, I'm finally reading
."an amazing book. keep tissues at hand, your gonna need them.
So I came back here to see exactly what I put in my post...sadly I've only read two of them since then. It seems like the more I plan to read the less I pay attention to those books. I've managed to read at least 4 others that weren't even listed.
Oh, my co-worker and I decided to join the GoodReads challenge thingy? So I might skip Slammerkin and Poison to read A Visit from the Goon Squad instead.
Helen wrote: "I sobbed over Time Traveller's wife, Carolyn."nada wrote: "Carolyn F. wrote: "After holding onto this book for over a year, I'm finally reading
."an amazing book. keep tissues at hand, your gonna need them."
I keep hearing that, I love a good cry.
Sonya wrote: "how is The Passage? Any good?"mostly yes. It has its ups and downs, but i am enjoying it.... it is a huge read! And i will finish it. 73% in so definitely committed.
Not sure which book is next exactly... but I do have several library books that I need to get read before I turn them in...
These will probably change, but this is my tentative list.1) Club Dead
2) The Mists of Avalon
3) Foundation's Edge
4) Foundation and Earth
5) The Three Musketeers
6) The Bell Jar
7) A Dance with Dragons
8) Dune
9) Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
10) How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
I see this is an old thread but books i am looking forward to are:11/22/63 by Stephen King
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
77 Shadow Street by Dean Koontz
Dismembered by Susan Mustafa (True Crime)
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
I am also looking forward to try something written by Octavia Butler (SF-Fantasy)
Another genre I love is what my friends and I call non genre. Books that you cannot really place in a genre.
I have too many books and too little time.
Amy wrote: "I think I'im goind to read The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay next."My daughter just finished the first book. Finally she gave it a try and she kept on reading The Hunger Games. I knew she would love it. Enjoy!
Club Dead, The Three Musketeers,and most especially Dune are very cool reads. I am rereading allot of stuff. William Burroughs Junkie. Then I am going to read Ceasars Civil Wars. Or maybe some TE Lawrence.
Danniella wrote: "21% left to read on
then I'm gonna read
"My daughter finished Last Breath last month and is currently reading Forbidden - small world. I need to read Last Breath myself, she wants to talk about the book.
I rarely know my next read while I am still reading something. I usually sit in front of my bookshelf and go through my kindle for a good half hour before I decide what's next. I need to get back to finish Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Series, so maybe my next read will be The Burning Land
I try not to pick my next read until I finish at least one book unless I've been notified to pick up a digital library book. Part of the fun in reading is picking out the next book. I admit I do use Ramdom.org to help me select the next book but if a book comes up that I'm not in the mood for than I'll just press "Generate" again.
I have a huge pile of books that were lent to me by a friend who happened to mention them the other day ... I have to get to them next.And then back to the pile of books from the Borders' closing.
I got a request from a publisher to review a book and just received the galley in the mail, so my next read is Redemption Day, due out later this month.
I've just discovered Juliet Marillier. I read a book out of order, it might be the 5th, and I want to start her Sevenwaters series properly.
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