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Lisa
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Dec 03, 2008 07:16PM
I started The Horse Whisperer today. So far, I am really enjoying it.
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Angela...oh, how I wish I had the money (and time) to buy all my favorite books. Thanks for the mental visual. :DI'm currently reading The Pagan Stone by Nora Roberts. It's the third book in the Sign of Seven Trilogy. I really enjoy this cast of characters...and have fallen in love with Fox. lol...
Also, before I picked this book up, I had started reading A Good Woman by Danielle Steel. I haven't read a book by her in so long & this one came to me by accident because I didn't send back the card for Doubleday saying I didn't want the book. It actually has caught my interest. I figured I'd read it & maybe send it back anyway. It's a historical fiction/romance type book. Starts off with the main character losing her father & brother to the sinking of the Titanic.
Hi Laura. Thanks.I enjoyed your description of Capote's "A Christmas Memory" as "wonderful." I know everyone who has read it so far feels the same.It is wonderful.Perfect really.I only wish more people would read it.There are a lot of us Goodreads people who have vouched for it.
I have yet to meet anyone who doesn't think it a marvelous read.Please don't be put off by the fact someone like Truman wrote it.If you don't like his life style,(drinking drugging)don't let that keep you from enjoying his talent.It's a pretty easy read and has a universal appeal.I feel stupid being so "preachy," but I think recommending this book is about the nicest thing I can do for the holiday.Best.
Joe
I stayed up till 2 am finishing The Good Thief's Guide to Paris yesterday - it was really good - I'm not a mystery person - but I love this series. They would make great movies and I love the main character. I'm about halfway through Elegance by Kathleen Tessaro. I discovered this author when I got one of her books through an arc giveaway - I really liked that book and this one is just as good so far.
Debby, I was so glad to read your post! I find it also really hard to read A christmas carol and have the Disney cartoon version in my head!!!!!Lisa, great!!!!! You will really love this book, I hope!!!! :-))) HIs other books are also wonderful.
I finished yesterday Just one look By Harlan Coben and I like very much his writting and I started yesterday Marley & Me - John Grogan. I am only 30 pages in to the book, but I adore it.Have a nice reading day
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I'm just started The book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill. I'm only 25 pages, but it already has me wanting to take a day off work to sit home and read, but the weekend is almost here and I'm hoping to some major reading done.
I really got stuck into Identical Strangers. The first part where they meet after over 30 years of being separated was good. The middle part where they whine independently to their diaries about each other and how things will change is not so good. I hope the last part will be better.
Hi Petra X. Who is the author of Identical Strangers. Sounds like something I would enjoy. Let us know how it ends.
Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited: A Memoir of Twins Seperated and Reunited - Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein
JoeI was just kidding. Ken is another TNBBC member who always has something interesting to say.
You two seem to be cut from the same mold!
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Thanks Fiona. You have a great day. Hope its not too cold where you are. Its starting to get nippy here in California. Take care now.
Kelly, I am in the UK. Its cold with the sun shining lol. What time is it there? Its 12.53pm GMT (Greenwich Mean Time).
Almost done reading Living Dead In Dallas by Harris... second in the Sookie Series....
Then I am not sure if I want to jump into the third, or start my winter of Russian Authors....
Hmmmm....
Then I am not sure if I want to jump into the third, or start my winter of Russian Authors....
Hmmmm....
I want LIVING DEAD IN DALLAS!! My stupid Walden books does not have it!! I am hoing to get it in the bigger city of Columbia next weekend. If I can wait that long!!
Hi Fiona,We are 8 hours behind you or you are 8 hours ahead of us. We are on Pacific Standard Time. We never get snow where I am but its only 2 hours North of here to get to snow and skiing. Although its still very cold. Have a great day.
Thats great. I love email because you can communicate with anyone at any time and not bother them like when you call on the phone. It gives you time to think of what to say too. LOL
Finished Living Dead in Dallas and want to finish George Carlins "Brain Droppings" before I hop into Club Dead-- the third Sookie Book!!
I am on p73 of Harvesting the Heart - Jodi Picoult. Has anyone read this?Kelly, I wonder when I get up in the morning how many ppl have been on here to post loads of messages lol.
Good luck Lori. I jumped right in. Dead to the World is sitting on my table screaming at me, but I am determined to finish Along Came A Spider first.
Grrr This post is just to hard to keep up on.....To Linda: I love King but it seems to me that his endings are usually a let down to the great work done earlier in the book. I LOVED the stand but the ending seemed very contrived.
To Donna: I agree with Paula I too liked City of Ember I think you will like it when you get there. I'm sorry to hear you are struggling with Eclipse - I'm tenatively stopped at New Moon but heard it gets better with Eclpise - maybe not based on what you said.
To Debby: Thank you for bringing up Mr. Magoo as Scrooge I thought I was the only one ;-p
To Angie: Glad to hear you are liking Neverwhere - I may be looking for more Neil Gaiman now that I'm reading Stardust.
To Catherine: I believe there are other in the series -- but to be honest I don't remember them as being worthwhile (Although I seem to recall Swiftly tilting planet as pretty good) - but it was VERY long ago - Probably 20 years -- blush I think my main problem is I liked the first so well the others could not compete.
Wife of GR author: Michael J. Sullivan | The Crown Conspiracy (10/08) | Avempartha (04/09)
No can't say that I have....Tell me more tell me more...Wife of GR author: Michael J. Sullivan | The Crown Conspiracy (10/08) | Avempartha (04/09)
Jodi Picoult is one of my fav authors... I have read every single book by her and I loved them all with the exception of two or three.
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/p/j...She is an awesome writer. I am readin an american book called Harvesting the Heart by her and I met her a few months ago and she was awesome.
I did not like Songs of the Hunchback Whale (which is ironically her first novel) or Keeping the Faith.
Lori - Read the 3rd Sookie book! I just finished the 8th last night and I'm starting to have serious Sookie withdrawals. I loved the books!
I have read Harvesting the Heart- I gave it four stars. My fav's by her are Sisters Keeper, 19 minutes, The Pact and Perfect Match.
My Sister's Keeper and The Pact were great. Read those and the other 2 are also on my TBR pile lol. The only 2 I have not got or read are Handle With Care (new novel) and Picture Perfect.
Lots of people in the Twilight age group are loving Jodi Picoult now - my dau. is 17 and her friends are eating that stuff up. She is reading the one about the school shooting now.Joe - Preach away! I wouldn't have read some terrific books if it weren't for the groups here. I'm glad I was kind of pushed into reading books I never would have experienced w/out the push. (And ACMemory is one, BTW)
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