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[Carrie]

KATHY AND LISA: Just saw your comments!
Kathy, I am definitely going to check out the movie. I might show it to my class next week when we're just sitting around waiting for FINALS to come!

[Jessica]

I just finished Stardust and am going a different route now and am starting some chick lit. Queen of Babble in the Big City by Meg Cabot, which can also be used for the winter challenge!

[d4]

I'm about to start on The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. I don't typically read YA, but I'm going on a recommendation. If I don't like it, I'll probably disregard future recommendations from that friend, lol.

[Lori, Super Mod]

I picked up A Christmas Carol.....
So far so good. Not all written the way I thought Dickens would write.....

[d4]

I probably won't even notice any inaccuracies. I'm far from informed when it comes to history. It isn't that I haven't tried, but I have a terrible inability to remember most things that didn't directly happen to me.

[Darla]

ok, so don't throw anything at me, but.... They were ok. I liked the middle of the series much better than the end. I found that by the time I got to the conclusion I really just wanted it to be over. I just got tired of waiting to see how it would end.

Now, I'm not saying that I thought they were bad. They were entertaining and the plots were quite intricate. The characters really jump off the pages, and J.K. Rowling is very good at creating characters that you really love and really hate.

That being said... I'm glad that I read them, but I can't say that I truly understand the 'mania' about these books, and I don't think I'd pick them up again.

*Hides in the corner and waits to be attacked...*

[Cynthia]

I'm back!! Managed to read all 3 books (The Mighty Queens of Freeville, Where or When, and Innocence) with me on my trip (2 train rides, 2 metro rides + waiting time)...MQoF was a good non-fiction memoir by the woman who took over for Ann Landers, Where or When was yet another great Anita Shreve book (sad ending but overall a good book), and I really loved Innocence.

Next I'm on to Scot On The Rocks: How I Survived My Ex-Boyfriend's Wedding With My Dignity Ever-So Slightly Intact.

[Jeane]

Wow Cynthia, WHAT A TITLE!

[Ann from S.C.]

I finished THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET. Now back to THE STAND.

[Fiona (Titch)]

Determined to finish Skipping Christmas - John Grisham today and read Ghostheart - R.J. Ellory for ML (incase I get Roots - Alex Haley in the post lol)

[Kathy]

I am currently reading Isaac Asimov's short stories "Buy Jupiter and Other Stories." I have only read one story right now but I think I will like it.

[Kathy]

Rachael wrote: "I'm currently reading Eat, Pray, Love."

This is a good book. My book club read it a couple months ago and I really enjoyed it.

[Kathy]

Lori wrote: "Hey Christine, thanks for joining!
I see alot of people reading Suite Francaise... Is it for a book club, or just for your reading pleasure?

Lynn, Neil Gaiman is a great writer. Have you read a..."

I just read "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman. It was a fantastic book. My husband informed me that he wrote an episode of "Babylon 5" which is his favorite show.

[Kathy]

Lori wrote: "I am currently knee deep in the Dexter Series... I finished Darkly Dreaming Dexter last nite (a day and a half), and I am already half way through the Dearly Devoted Dexter.

I have Dexter in the..."

Love the show Dexter but have never read the books. I have been thinking of checking them out. Sorry about the posts but I just joined today and am trying to catch up.

[Catherine]

I just signed up for The Woman in White and Bleak House on dailylit.com - That's probably the next year of my life right there, but I thought I'd sneak a little extra reading in.

Has anyone else ever used dailylit? This is my first time.

[Alisha Marie]

I decided to put The Lace Reader back on hold since I just wasn't in the mood for it. Right now I'm reading The Stolen Child: A Novel by Keith Donohue.

[Angela]

Heather- I loved Firefly Lane! Hope you enjoy it!

[Ann from S.C.]

I also just started CHOCOLAT by Joanne Harris for the winter challenge.

[Emily]

I've used DailyLit to read The Picture of Dorian Gray and also A Christmas Carol... its a good way to sneak some reading time in at work.

[Catherine]

Thanks, Emily! I'm pretty excited, a few extra pages can't hurt and I've been trying to read Bleak House for a few years with no success at all.

[Darla]

Heather... Maybe... Although I love to read series, and when I do I usually read them in a row with no breaks. I don't know. I didn't dislike them. Maybe all the hype took away from them. Maybe I'm just weird. :)

[Lori, Super Mod]

Alisha, I read Stolen Child quite awhile ago. It took me a little bit to get into it, but overall it was a good book. What do you think so far?

[Alisha Marie]

Lori, so far I like it. I actually got into it right away. I stopped reading The Lace Reader because I was in the mood for something that I would get into in no time. The Stolen Child accomplished that. I'm not too far into it, though. I like how the story's alternating the chapters between Aniday and the fake Henry Day. Although, right now I'm more partial to Henry Day's chapters as opposed to Aniday's. I just find them more interesting. I'll let you know how I feel about the book as a whole when I finish it.

[Cameron]

Currently reading The Catcher in the Rye and To Kill a Mockingbird (mostly The Catcher in the Rye). Two classic books that I've never read before.

[Darla]

Heather, I liked 4 and 5 the best out of the whole series. If I had to choose one book it would be The Goblet of Fire. Maybe because I think it really cemented Harry's character traits. I did like 6 quite a bit, but I was so angry at the ending that it clouded the rest of the book for me. (I cried at the end too) :)

[Jaime]

I'm currently reading "A Round-Heeled Woman" by Jane Juska. It's okay so far...I'm 30 years younger than Jane was in this book so I'm not exactly the target demographic, but on the otherhand, human feelings/relationships happen at any age and that is always facinating.

[Ann from S.C.]

I also picked up REBEL ANGELS and INTO THIN AIR. Going to figure out how to put these in the winter challenge..lol

[JG (Introverted Reader)]

I just finished The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel. It's a good wintertime book--all snowy and bleak up there in Canada in the 1860s, with a mystery thrown in for good measure. I enjoyed it.

Now on to Ice Limit.

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Secret Life of Bees - I'm liking it, but fear it will turn predictable.

If on a winter's night... - too cute for me. I think he writes really well (or is it William Weaver who translates well?) but the book itself participating in the reading process smacks a little too much of "Six Characters in search..."

[Jeane]

Anybody read Sepulchre?
It is really good, reads fast too for now. The main difference for now with The labyrinth is that after almost 300 pages you don't need to be really concentrated to fllow well the stories with about 100 year difference between them. The labyrinth was also not a book to leave a couple of days because you would be wondering sometimes what you read. Sepulchre is lighter but still very good.

[Robin]

Whew - so hard to kee up with you all!

Kathryn: Hitchhicker's Guide is a marvelously wacky book - hope you like it -- I did

Jamie: and Fiona - LOL - yes go read Harry Potter series - they are well worth it even if you have seen the movies.

Rachel: I'd be interested in what you think about Eat, Pray, Love - I've been on the fence about tgetting this as of late

Kathy - I didn't know that Neil Gaiman wrote a Babylon 5 - Both myself and my husband really enjoyed that series.

Cameron - both great choices - Catcher in the Rye and To Kill a mockingbird are "must reads" IMO

I just finsiehd Mistborn - and though I liked it I think I was expecting more. Hoping to finish off the other 5 I have in process by the end of December:

Avempartha
Christmas Carol
Gursney Literary Society and Potato Peel Pie (just got to the sad news ;-(
Stardust
Flight - Got the "replacement" book for the one I lost in the mail yesterday.

Wife of GR author: Michael J. Sullivan | The Crown Conspiracy (10/08) | Avempartha (04/09)

[Fiona (Titch)]

Just finished Skipping Christmas - John Grisham

[Linda]

Finally finished Jane Eyre. I thoroughly enjoyed the book. But now the problem is what next? Have so many choices that confusion tortures my heart.

[Fiona (Titch)]

Just reading Silent Night - Mary Higgins Clark.

[Lori, Super Mod]

I finished A Christmas Carol today. It was my first Dickens and I really liked it. It read alot smoother than I had expected.

I am now about to start Club Dead by Harris..
Hang on Sookie!
Hear I come!

[Catherine]

Linda, I love Jane Eyre - I'm jealous! A friend of mine is writing her thesis on it right now.

Just finished Transmission and The Waves for classes today. Okay, I may have tried to speed through them a little - damn finals week(s)!

[Jamie]

One For The Money - Janet Evanovich. Interesting so far.

[[deleted user]]

they made a movie of Prodigal Summer... somehow I can't quite imagine that

[[deleted user]]

yea... you said "It's just one of those stories that's kinda ruined by all the movies and hype kinda thing - if you know what I mean" and I thought you meant that they had made a movie out of it... sorry... head cold...

[Jeane]

I wanted to share a part I read in Sepulchre,which I seem to like:

'Says the person who's spent half her life in a library. Real life is never so neat. It;s messy. Stuff overlaps, facts contradict each other. .....'

[Maranda (addlebrained_reader)]

I finished Kitchen Confidential and have moved on to a book called The Unseen by T.L. Hines

[Susan]

Robin - you MUST read Eat,Pray,Love. It's hilarious and thoughtful. I recommend it to everyone I know.

I just finished Blindness, Twilight & Choke. Loved Blindness, pretty ambivalent about Twilight and Choke. I started Devil In the White City yesterday. I have a hard time getting into non-fiction, but I hear this reads like fiction.

[Fiona (Titch)]

Just finished Silent Night - Mary Higgins Clark. Will read The Babysitter's Club: Dawn's Big Date - Ann. M. Martin.

[Lisa]

I've finshed Ilium by Dan Simmons. It has a twist on the Trojan War that I find interesting. I'm on to the sequel Olympos. These will count for reading a book and its sequel. Half way there. Only about 650 pages to go. Did I mention that both the books are really long?!?

[Melissa]

I just started Steve & Me and In Cold Blood.

[Lori, Super Mod]

Susan... yeah! Chalk another up for Blindness love!!!

Fiona, I have A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations here, so I plan on reading them eventually.....

[Sherry]

Wow! I haven't been in this thread for a while.Over 400 posts!

Reading War and Peace very slowly....

[Kelly]

Still reading True Believer. Every time I go to sit and read I get sleepy. :(

[Cameron]

Kelly - I read True Believer a couple of months ago. It was excellent. What do you think of it? Do you have any plans to read the sequel, At First Sight?

[Angela]

I personally could not get into True Believer (I actually still have to finish it), but I really liked At First Sight.