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[Jeane]

I should be the pr-woman for the books I adore! Really, I get so excited when someone say they really like a book which I adored! Like the last comments about The historian, they made my morning!

[Fiona (Titch)]

Paula, never hated ur advice. Just couldn't get on with the book, so I gave up hun. BUT thanks for the advice. MUCH APPRECIATED xx

[Kate]

I read The Luxe and I am now going to read the first book in the Twilight series (never read it before).

[silvia]

wow

this thread is gigantic since the last time I read it.

I finished EL&IC now I'll be reading Fahrenheit 451 for the fall challenge

[Terri]

Well, just back from the library. I had a look for the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society but the didn't have it. In the end I went for an author I'd never heard of - Elizabeth Berg, True to Form. It sounds like a good easy read, which I think is what I need right now. The Thirteenth Tale will be moved up my TBR pile though!!

[Eileen]

I'm about halfway through "Life of Pi" and really enjoying it, though parts of it are pretty harrowing.

"The Thirteenth Tale" is next on my TBR list too. I can't wait to read it so I can participate in the discussions elsewhere in TNBBC (if it's not too late).

[Atishay]

Lolz Eileen! No wonder, GR and esp TNBBC has modified our reading to a large extent. I, too picked up Thirteenth Tale from the library shelf because of that. And so far its been a wonderful book, a must read for book maniacs like us.

[Kim]

Kellie, I hope you enjoy your time in Florida. It is raining here in Winston-Salem today.

[Kim]

I agree with everyone about Almost Moon. The narrator was so unsympathetic. I really was angry at her for what she did, and didn't do. The only reason I can think of her killing her mother was repressed emotions. The daughter was so empty and broken. She hated her mother so much but never really let it out. The mother was cold, critical and ill but she was not evil, sadistic and violent. If the mother was more vicious I could maybe understand, but she seemed like a very sad woman.

I still liked the book because of it's complexities. Sebold is a melancholy writer so I usually know I'm not going to have a lot of laughs with her writing, but I enjoy her books.

[Kim]

I'm reading IC&EL and it is a gem of a book.

[Jeane]

Just finished Poor White.
Really enjoyed reading it and I felt like I flew through the story. That's what a good story does with me!:-)

Started Thank you for the memories by Cecilia Ahern. Isn't it weird that I can only find one book of her on Goodreads? Of course P.S. I love you but weird her other books aen't on here.

[Jamie]

I just finished Arcadia by Tom Stoppard last night and I'm moving on to AGATB. I've been having a hard time finding something to follow up the Twilight series, since I loved it so much and I've been in that frame of mind for a week and a half straight! It looks like AGATB will be a good choice, though.

Kathryn - I hope you enjoy Twilight! It seems like a love it or hate it kind of thing around here, but I thought it was a fun series to get lost in for a while.

[Melissa]

I finished The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts the other night. What a great/sad read. I really like the way it was written. I really felt involved. I'm still working on The Dead Zone, which is moving a little slow in the beginning, but is starting to pick up. And, last night I started A Dirty Job: A Novel. I'm only 30 pages in, but I'm loving it so far!

[Jeane]

There you go: A Dirty job was mentioned, AGAIN! I already wanted to read it but now I went to read what it is about...jsut had to stop reading the summary...
psss....I wanna read it!!!!!

[Dorie]

Today I'll be finishing up "The Chicago Way" by Michael Harvey. It's been good enough I may read his second book. I'll be moving on to "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen, which I'm looking forward to.

[Rose Ann]

I think I am going with something light...I just finished Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and really liked it, but I need some laughs now.
I am going to go with Can You Keep A Secret by Sophie Kinsella. I've heard it's funny and light, and I picked it up at the library book sale for .50!!

[Sera]

Catherine, I am curious to see how you enjoy I Love You, Beth Cooper. I read it last summer and was fairly disappointed, especially because I loved the premise.

[Sera]

This week I picked up The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrota from the library. It's my first library book in years, and since I am currently reading two non-fiction books, I need my fiction fix, too. Has anyone read this one?

I read Little Children, which I found to be disturbing, but thought that it was very good. Perrota is a little out there, but I like it. I never read Election, but I loved the movie. Reese Weatherspoon was great in it.

[Carrie]

I have just tried to read S.King's Duma Key but couldn't get into it, so I've discarded it and I am now reading Quantum of Solace which is a collection of James Bond short stores.

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I jsut startedGood Omens. So far it is really good---- Thanks Jeremy & Donna!!!!

[Jeane]

I must have types it wrong or something but cecelia Ahern her books are on GR!:-)

[Paula]

It was a difficult book and not for everyone. I had almost put it aside also but did finish. It took me a couple of days of thinking about it to realize what it was and that I did like it. Very different type of book but one that keeps you thinking about it for a long time.

[Fiona (Titch)]

Thanks for ur opinions Paula.

[Paula]

***SPOILER ALERT****

Fiona, that was something I had to think about. I think she did it because she loved her mother. Her mother was agoraphobic and it was such a terrible ordeal for her to leave the house. If she called the authorities in to help her mother, they would have removed her to a home. She knew her mother would never be able to tolerate that. That doesn't make it right, but don't you think since both her parents were mentally ill that Helen was too? She just did what she thought was right at the time. She wasn't able to think it through. That's my take anyway. : )

[Fiona (Titch)]

Hmm, that is something to think about hun. My grandfather had Alzheimers before he passed away in July 2008.

Might re-try the book after xmas. But carry on readin from there as well.

[Liz M]

Recently started The House of Seven Gables for a real life book club. While I am enjoying it very much, lack of focus is making it a very slow read.

[Rowena]

This is a grim read but rather important. I read PMD's autoextremist blog (which is passionately in support of a loan...a loan!... for Detroit) and decided that his book was a must read.



For more info on the truth about why it would be immensely more costly to let the automakers go bankrupt:

http://gmfactsandfiction.com/

[Laura]

SuzieR - HOLD EVERYTHING! I predict you will LOVE True to Form by Eliz. Berg. BUT it is the LAST in the series of books she wrote about that young girl.

The first is Durable Goods, then Joy School. True to Form is the last one.

PLEASE read them in order.

Read more about the background on these books at the author's website:

www.elizbeth-berg.net

[Cheri Howard]

Liz - I tried like hell to read Seven Gables and just couldn't get through it. It's one of the few books that I put down mid-way. I hope you have better luck than I do — when you finish I'll be curious to read your review, I'm contemplating giving it another go!

[Cheri Howard]

Oh yeah, and I just finished The Anubis Gates and I'm on to Good Omens, the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch.

[Jeane]

I started Thanks for the Memories and love this sentence(s)-don't read on if you don't want to read a small part of the story-:It is his job to give them passion. To share with them his experiences of travel, his knowledge of all the great masterpieces of centuries ago.

But mainly this part straight after it:
He wil transport them from the stuffy lecture theatre of the prestigious Dublin college to the rooms of the Louvre museum, hear the echoes of their footsteps as he walks them through the Cathedral of St-Denis, to Germain-de-Prés and st-Pierre de Montmartre. They'll know not only dates and statistics but the smell of Picasso's paints, the feel of baroque marble, the sounds of the bells of Notre-Dame cathedral. They'll experience it all, right here in this classroom. He will bring it all to them.

[Laura]

Oh cool, Jeane! Nice quote. Wow, I think I'll take a look at this book!

[Laura]

HEY HERES A THOUGHT:

If you like the book you're reading, put a quote from the book here when you tell about it, so others can get a flavor for the book you're reading.

[Jeane]

Great idea Laura! I don't have a clue how the book will because I just started it but this part I adore already!

[Laura]

OK, I'm reading Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, and here's a quote from pretty far back in the book (no spoilers, no worries):

"Though all the houses of Venice are strange and old, those of the Ghetto seemed particularly so - as if queerness and ancientness were two of the commodities this mercantile people dealt in and they had constructed their houses out of them."

[Michelle]

Jeane,

I picked up Thanks for the Memories while I was in Dublin. And while it made me nostalgic for the city on the Liffey, I really couldn't get into the story. The premise was just too far fetched. But I have to say, the descriptions were great. Made me remember days as an obsessed art history major.

Love the quote idea...but watching the Gators at the moment...

[Laura]

Here's another one - couldn't resist:

"There was one little window that was open to the evening air and shewed the moon, although it was a little surprizing that the moon with her clean white face and fingers should condescend to make an appearance in that dirty little room."

How can anyone resist this book? I ask you.

[Andrew]

Just finished Just Listen...It was okay.

Started Robinson Crusoe....looks and seems to be very good.

[Kerryn]

I am reading Peeps by Scott Westerfeld, and im loving it!! its a very good book so far i think, im having trouble putting it down.

[Angela]

Just finished EL&IC and I loved it! I am reading A Tree Grows In Brooklyn and I am 90 pages in and really enjoying it.

[Joanie]

I'm reading Island of Lost Girls-it's a quick read so far. I just started listening to East of Eden to get the ball rolling a bit too.

[Kellie]

Just finishedHissy Fit: A Novel
It was pretty good.
Funny and light. Nothing too deep. Great for a travel read. I didn't have to think.

Now I'm reading a bookclub book
The Three Miss Margarets
From the back cover "Miss Peggy, Dr. Maggie and Miss Li'l Bit, friends and confidantes for nearly a lifetime, find it funny and bewildering that they have become icons in Charles Valley, Georgia. Little does the rest of the town know that beneath the irreproachable facades of its three doyennes lies an explosive decades-old secret that is about to be revealed.
Thirty-odd years ago the three Miss Margarets did something extraordinary, clandestine and very illegal. Although haunted by the night that changed their lives, they belive that their crime was simply a matter of righting an egregious wrong. But when a stranger's arrival in town and a tragic death open the floodgates of memory, their loyalty, friendship and honor are tested in ways they could never have imagined."

Hope it's good....

[Stephanie]

I just started The Friday Night Knitting Club. It has started out kind of slow, does anyone know if it gets any better?? The last book I read was awful so I'm really trying to find something good if not great to read...HELP.

[Kellie]

Stephanie.
Don't give up on Friday Night Knitting Club. I liked it. It's very character driven and kept my interested.
A bit sad at the end.
Keep reading!

[Stephanie]

Thanx Kellie=)

[Laura]

Angela - EL&IC AND Tree in Brooklyn? Best books ever!

[Emma]

I'm about to start Suite Scarlett.

[Carrie]

Stephanie,
I agree with Kellie. It really does turn out to be a great book with a sweet message. Keep going! :)

[JG (Introverted Reader)]

I finished The Devil in the White City. It dragged in parts, but it was good for non-fiction. I'm already about halfway through First Among Sequels. I love Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next books.

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Almost done with Twilight.