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[Jackie]

Gemma what other series do you have in mind? Hey have you read Twilight? If you haven't I think that is going to be my choice. It's YA, has romance, and it's slightly addicting.

[Emma]

I have read it, and it was pretty good.

Anything else???

[Jackie]

Hmmm, let me think about it. I have to go through your books shelves to see what you've read and how you rated it.

[Emma]

No, The Morning Gift and A Song for Summer are the ones I haven't read.

If that's my christmas gift to you than you have to read:

Stargirl
Love, Stargirl
Princess Pawn
Princess Mage

annnddddd.....

Just Listen.

[Jackie]

OK I came up w/ 2 for you...Little Women (its on your TBR list) and Red Tent (one of my favs).

Have you read Memoirs of a Geisha? I didn't see it on your list.

[Emma]

No I haven't.

Little Women it is! :D

That includes Little Men and Jo's Boys, because you're reading three. :)

[Jackie]

I haven't even read Little Men or Jo's Boys... I might have to read those with you.

[Emma]

:D

DEAL!

I love this.

THIS IS GOING TO BE THE BEST CHRISTMAS EVER!

[Emma]

Fiona, I think our deal is set. :)

Hehe, Laura is getting very good at her reccommendations.

*tears up with joy*

I've taught her so well.

[Kristina]

I just started reading Runemarks by Joanne Harris.

[Fiona (Titch)]

I will carry on readin whatever is left of my TBR books for other Read It Swap It friends.

[Laura]

LOL Gemma!

Has anyone read March - isn't that supposed to be about Little Women, from the father's point of view?

Seriously, Guernsey is a gift. I gave a GIFT to the woman who recommended that book to me - well, I'm making it. So I haven't given it yet. But you know what I mean.

[Emma]

Just like my reccommendation is a gift to Libba Bray.

She better hug me for all I'm doing. :P

[Emma]

Hehe Fiona. I don't want her commission, I just want her appreciation.

And a signed copy of TSFT, AND a hug.

[Laura]

I'm just so glad to see the Emu face around here I don't know what to do !

[Emma]

:D

Emu is happy.

Emu is also avoiding Nano, but whatever. :P

[Fiona (Titch)]

So wot u all readin for xmas period?

[Laura]

I'm reading A Christmas Carol, which I've never read. I love Dickens.

[Emma]

Let it Snow by Maureen Johnson, John Green and Lauren Myracle.

[Laura]

Excellent! I should prob get on the list now, there's always a list for that book at this time of year. My hubby audio-ed it last year, maybe I could get the audio sooner.

[Fiona (Titch)]

1. A Classic Christmas Crime - Tim Heald (edited)

2. Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow- Peter Hoeg

3. Marley & Me - John Grogan

4. Lucky - Alice Sebold

[Emma]

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

(A Great and Terrible Beauty)

Emma is happy.

[Fiona (Titch)]

Fi, u will love PS I Love You. I thought it was brill.

[Fiona (Titch)]

No I never knre about a film being made of Marley & Me.

[Laura]

Ive never read the book PS I love you, but we really enjoyed the movie.

[Catherine]

I'm about 50 pages into A Great and Terrible Beauty and really like thus far. I needed something a little lighter after all the Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster I've been reading for class! Also started the second Sookie book, but I'll probably be reading those on my commute.

[Emma]

YAY!!!!

:D

Awesome!

Fantastic!

I'll stop now.

[Catherine]

Ha! I thought you'd be pleased. I don't read much YA, but mostly because it doesn't have much place in MA program and I try to read things that'll get me "caught up." I'm loving it so far though - I forget that there ARE decent YA novels when I was raised on adult books because the age-appropriate ones either bored me or were written badly.

[Emma]

Ahh. :)

I'm sure you'll continue to enjoy it!

[Ann from S.C.]

I loved AGATB!! And I loved TWILIGHT. I think they brought the inner teen in me. lol


I am still into EOE, and A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN.

[Catherine]

Ann, I love it too! My inner teen isn't too locked up though since it was fairly recent.

I've never read East of Eden, but did get through Grapes of Wrath about 2 years ago and fell in love. Haven't read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn since I was about 13, but I remember it being great.

[Lori, Super Mod]

Attack of the YA pushers... ahhhh.. everyone run for the hills.... hee hee hee

Rachelle, I read the first book in the series, and then took a break for a previously scheduled read-along with one of the members (hi Seth!)

I am totally going back to it as soon as I can.. I really liked it!!!

[Darla]

Jackie... I loved The Red Tent.

For all who were following my plight:

Finished HP 3 today, on to the Goblet of Fire :)

[Jackie]

Darla, it's one of my favorites too. It's so rich in descriptions.

Congratulations on flying through HP. How many books does that make for this week? I think Goblet of Fire is my favorite in the series.

[Kate]

I finished Twilight yesterday and stated New Moon. I am about 100 pages through. I absolutely loved the book, Twilight, but I despised the movie (went to a midnight showing with some friends). It seemed like amateur acting and filming to me.

[Darla]

lmao... that makes 3 for the week. To be fair, the first three aren't very long and are very easy reads. I don't think I'll have any more 1 or 2 day books for a little while now, judging by the size of the rest of the HP series and by the fact that it looks as though I'm moving in 10 days. I'm up to 7 1/2 for the month. :)

[Jeane]

Fiona, PS I love you is a bit soppy but also funny. probably liked it more than I would normally becasue I wasn't going to see or almost hear my boyfriend for six months, but it reads also so fast that maybe if it is too soppy, you finish it fast. But first read Prodigal summer!!!!! you have too, pleaaaaasssse.

Did Marley and me, besides making you cry, also make you laugh a lot?

[Laura]

YAY Fiona!

I'm reading THE BOOK THIEF everyone! And it is great, but I'm a little confused. I hope I'm supposed to be, and that I'm not just dense (I'm only on p. 30).

So glad for TNBBC - just one more book I prob. would have never read w/out it.

[Stephanie]

I decided to read INKHEAT. The movies comming out so I need to brush up...lol.

[Jeane]

Without teling anything about the story, is there really a book thief in The book thief? You can also answer me in a personal message if you have to tell something about the story to answer this. I jsut keep putting back the book in the shops!

[Liz M]

Recently finished The House of Seven Gables, which Cheri asked about a gazillion posts ago. I found it to be a beautifully written book, with the plot buried in-between long digressions and nature-inspired descriptions. It is not a book that can be read lightly or a few pages here and there, you need to set aside a chunk of time to sink into it. I loved, loved the character descriptions:

Colonel Pyncheon: "Endowed with common sense, as massive and hard as blocks of granite, fastened together by stern rigidity of purpose, as with iron clamps, he followed out his original design, probably without so much as imagining an objection to it."

Hepzibah Pyncheon: "She dwelt too much alone--too long in the Pyncheon house--until her very brain was impregnated with the dry rot of its timbers."

Clifford Pyncheon: "He was probably accustomed to a sad monotony of life, not so much flowing in a stream, however sluggish, as stagnating in a pool around his feet."


Now, on to something completely different--A Clockwork Orange

[Laura]

I've always wanted to read that one liz! Glad you enjoyed it!

[Joseph]

Hi Lori,
Thanks for the read. Don't give up. It's purposely planned to become more serious as the main character ages. Two of the remaining few stories were selected as finalists by Glimmer Train. Most experienced writers spend a life-time and do not ever get that far.I believe GT reads 40,000 manuscripts a year.(Yes 40,000). I also believe they select 25 or so to be published.Finalists are in the top 2 to 3% of all entries. Most published works there are from very well known writers from here and throughout the world.When they selected "Phineas Rising" and Mountain Men" they wrote me and told me to mention my selection as it would open many doors. It already has. Thanks.
Joe

[Petra X]

Mary Reilly was really good.

[Beth]

When I was manning a booth for the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America at the Mountain and Plains Independent Booksellers Association conference, I picked up an ARC (Advanced Reading Copy) of The Heretic's Daughter that was published in September. I just finished it and I highly recommend it! The book is beautifully written, powerful, and gives you a clear, emotion-filled picture through the eyes of a girl living in late 1600's Andover, Massachusetts (near Salem), of what life was like back then with its Indian attacks, smallpox, terribly hard toil, poverty, and ominous whispers of witchcraft. You'll need a box of tissues nearby near the end as you read about whole families, including women and children, being tortured into confessing to witchcraft then thrown into jail to starve because their relatives are too poor to pay to feed them. I think it's an important book to read and discuss because it shows how corrupt men in power can turn the dangerous forces of ignorance and fear to their greedy own ends. It's a message for our times.

[Jessica]

Just finished 102 Minutes. Very gripping but incredibly sad.

I'm now onto Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides.

[Kristie]

Loved Middlesex....

Starting EL & IC...I leave for california in a couple of days....from all the great things I'm hearing I should finish it in no time!!!!

[Michelle]

I hope you love it!!

I'm reading Gone With The Wind. I'm only about 100 pages into it and I like it, but it's just so loooooong! I really want to read it but I'm not getting excited about it because I'm kinda intimidated by the length. Sometimes I have to be in the right mood for a certain book, ya know?

[Cindy]

I added it too Beth, thanks! and..House of Seven Gables is one I've always meant to read.

[Catherine]

I just finished A Great and Terrible Beauty and am off to bed! I would start the second, but it's already 1:30 in the morning and I should get some sleep so I can do my actual assignments at some point.