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Linda wrote: "Cindy wrote: "I'm just starting "Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson. A friend gave it to me for Christmas-we usually like very different kinds of books, but I'm going to give it a go. The back..."Thanks for the thumbs up, Linda. I'm still on page one, but just because I was tired and bleary-eyed yesterday. I'm sure once I get into it, I'll love it.
I'm almost done with State of Denial Bush at War, Part III my nonfiction fix for January.. I am going to the library tomorrow to look for a book called Moon Called as well as a few others but I haven't picked specifics yet..
Robin~ You are such a superstar!! I can't believe you read and replied to all those posts! :) Awesome! Hope you like A Dirty Job when you get to it. :)Beth Ann~ I LOVED The Book Thief! One of my absolute favorite books.
I am still enjoying A Thousand Splendid Suns. I have so much school work to do that I'm barely getting any time to read though, which is a bummer!
I think I will join you girls who are reading Outlander! I have it on my shelf waiting to be read. I'll join you in a week and a bit when I have my reading week break from school (yay!)
Oh lord, watch out, the discussion's getting crazy in that thread. We might have to give it a PG-13 (who am I kidding, an R) rating.
I finished THE ICE HOUSE and it was ok.Now I am reading WHAT IS THE WHAT by Dave Eggers. It has been on my tbr pile forever!!!
Lori...About the Reluctant Fundamentalist - I liked the book, and like you, I think I was done in about a day or so. Such a quick read. I too was disappointed in the end, but I just figured that with the entire tone of the book and all of the conversations, that the reader was supposed to make up their own mind about the end.
I just finished A Thousand Splendid Suns... I loved it. Now I am at this rare stage, where I dont know what I am reading next...
Carrie - Why didn't you like I am the Messenger? I've been looking forward to reading it. Well, I just couldn't get into it and I didn't care about the protagonist, which is a death sentence for me.
Carrie, have you read The Book Thief - Markus Zusak? YES, Fiona, and I LOVED IT!!!! I loved that book so much, maybe I expected something equally as fantastic with MESSENGER. I also never finished it, which might have changed my mind...
Maybe I should try it again?!!?
Robin wrote: "Carrie wrote: "ROBIN! You are such a good member. Did you really just reply to all of those people & posts??" LOL - Going through those posts is how I get all my nuggets for the TBR file - so I can't "skip them". Do I sound OCD ;-p "
If you are Robin, you're in good company!
I'm crazy as HECK.
I'm still working on JS&MN. I'm about 2/3 of the way through. And I'm reading The Elite by Jennifer Banash. It's lighter YA reading for a break from Jonathan Strange!
I just finished Canal House. Wonderful.
I finished "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe", I liked it, especially the last chapters. Now, I'm reading True Stories of Law & Order SVU (I liked the first eight seasons of the show; now I think the newer seasons are crap) since I was always interested in the "ripped from the headlines" storylines of the show as opposed to the entirely fictional ones.
Laura~ LOL! That's too funny. :)Vicki~ Glad to hear you liked 1000 Spendid Suns. Good luck deciding what to read next, that is always fun! :)
I read the model Alek Wek's biography yesterday. I wasn't expecting much but it was fantastic. She grew up in Sudan as an ugly girl and lived for a while with tribal people. The book was ghosted but the very bright and caring Alek had a hell of a story to relate.I've just got Johnathan Kaplan's the Dressing Station (a memoir of a surgeon's chronicle of war and medicine) and Chelsea Handler's My Horizontal Life. Not sure which I will start with or even if I will read either/both. That's the advantage of owning a bookshop - I don't put read books back in stock but I do put books back that don't grab me in the first few pages.
I'm reading Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Capt. Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz. (It's for my face-to-face book club.) I'm generally enjoying it so far - learning tons about countries I knew little to nothing about before (e.g. Tahiti, New Zealand).
Petra X wrote: "I read the model Alek Wek's biography yesterday. I wasn't expecting much but it was fantastic. She grew up in Sudan as an ugly girl and lived for a while with tribal people. The book was ghosted b..."I watched an interview with her once and can imagine that she's got an amazing story!
I finally finished Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell! Took me a whole two and a half weeks so I'm super excited to get to my next read. I am going to be starting on Guernsey.Alisha, I've added True Stories of Law and Order: SVU to my TBR. I absoultley LOVE that show. I'm actually watching my DVD's of it right this second, haha!
Susanna wrote: "I finished Girl with a Pearl Earring last night. Interesting novel.Robin - Julie and Julia was just "OK" and the sustained tone was rather whiny. I wouldn't bother picking it up again."
I agree about this book. It was really dumb and the character annoying, and I could never kill a lobster.
Mary wrote: "Fiona wrote: "Just finished reading The Tales of Beedle the Bard - J.K. Rowling.Did you like Beedle the Bard? I just bought it and haven't seen much about it
on goodreads...probably looking in ..."
Mary, as I have never read a J.K. Rowling book, I thought it was ok in places. But weird as you read a part of a story and then you get feedback adn not quite understanding the feedback.
HAPPY READING
Carrie wrote: "Carrie, have you read The Book Thief - Markus Zusak? YES, Fiona, and I LOVED IT!!!! I loved that book so much, maybe I expected something equally as fantastic with MESSENGER. I also never finis..."
Maybe, re-try and in a different frame of reading it and see if you still come to the same conclusion.
HAPPY READING xx
Robin wrote: "Mary wrote: "Did you like Beedle the Bard? I just bought it and haven't seen much about iton goodreads...probably looking in ..."
I thought it was a fun little easy read - but I expected "mo..."
Robin, thats the sort of impression I got. Too fictional and not quite there in characters.
Just finished Paint it Black by Janet Fitch last night. Not impressed.Starting -Out to Canaan by Jan Karon.
Beth Ann wrote: "I'm reading Outlander right now, I'm really enjoying it. I would like to read The Book Theif but I am hesitant, what do you think of it if you've read it?
I also want to read Revolutionary ..."
Beth Ann,
Please drop the hesitation and read Book Theif. It is wonderful. I loved Outlander as well.
As far as Revolutionary Road goes, not so sure I'm gonna see the movie. I'm just gonna read the book. Not sure why. It's getting great accolades, yet I"m not into it for some reason.
Picked up P.S. I Love You last night. So far so good.
Jeane wrote: "Linda wrote: "I am about to start Girl with a Pearl Earring and am ..."Will do. I am about 30 pages into it and at this point don't see it as one of those books that I can race through. I think part of the problem is I am waiting for a book to come in the mail that I will be reading for the B&N book club and so I am a bit hesitant to start anything else since I still have the Stephen King book to complete as well. I get charged by reading several books at once and am reluctant to go there right now. My mind in in slo-mo funk.
Gosh still can't find much reading time lately.Still reading Brother Odd and while I like the series I think i'll take a break from the series and start something else and continue with Odd Hours maybe in March sometime.Ashley I loved P.S.I Love You it's been one of my faves for awhile now.Even though the movie is different I just love the movie as well.It's my faves tear jerker.I just watched it again yesterday and it still makes me cry.
Fiona wrote: "Carrie wrote: "Carrie, have you read The Book Thief - Markus Zusak? YES, Fiona, and I LOVED IT!!!! I loved that book so much, maybe I expected something equally as fantastic with MESSENGER. I a..."
Are you enjoying it now, Fiona? I am LOVING the Messenger. And I loved Book Thief too. They are totally different, but his writing style is certainly unique and very entertaining I think.
Carrie - I love the protagonist in the Messenger. I just want to pinch both of his cheeks!
alicia wrote: "Gosh still can't find much reading time lately.Still reading Brother Odd and while I like the series I think i'll take a break from the series and start something else and continue with Odd Hours m..."I sniffled through a good chunk of that movie! I didn't expect it to be so sad, but so good.
It was fantastic - I've always wanted to read that book, glad to hear it's so good.I also want to read Pay it Forward - LOVE that movie.
I've just added Choke by Chuck Palahniuk to my current reads. It's interesting so far.
I am currently reading Birdman by Mohayder and then I plan to read her second crime novel. This is my first Hayder book and I plan to read more by her. So far so good.
Just sat this afternoon and read A Dog called Christmas - Greg Kincaid. A brilliant book, very interesting as well.
Jeane wrote: "Stephanie wrote: "Just finished I'm Not Scared. I really liked it. Now on to [b:Unles..."That's the one! I really liked it too. I felt the same way at the start, there wasn't really much happening and it took me a bit to get into it. But then it got good and creepy! :)
Ann from S.C. wrote: "I finished THE ICE HOUSE and it was ok.Now I am reading WHAT IS THE WHAT by Dave Eggers. It has been on my tbr pile forever!!!"
Ann - good luck with What is The What. I thought it was an amazing book and truly think everyone should read it. However, as a word of caution - it's pretty gruesome at times. You may want to keep a lighter book on the side as well - some parts are extremely hard to stomach. That said, good luck with the book - such an important message! And Dave Eggers is a wonderful writer.
I'm about 3/4 through A Dirty Job A Novel. It came in from the library (finally) and I have seriously dropped everything else to read it. The first seven pages alone is one of the top five funniest things I've ever read.
I'm reading And The Shofar Blew by Francine Rivers. Its a Christian fiction and very good so far.
that was my biggest problem with the book. All that totally unnecessary and boring info that really didnt further the plotJG wrote: "That's what I keep hearing. The list is helping so far. I just read four of Levin's cows' names and had to shake my head. Who cares? But otherwise, so far, so good."
Yes, Heather, I really like her too. Have you read Redeeming Love yet? That is SO good - I couldn't put it down. This is my second (.....Shofar Blew) book that I am reading of hers but I look forward to reading more.
Redeeming Love is one of my all time favorites, but I read The Scarlet Thread by her, and its one of my least favorites! I think its because it concerned marital infidelity and I HATE reading about that...so I was probably biased against it. I really want to read her Mark of the Lion trilogy.
I just finished P.S. I Love You which I primarily enjoyed, apart from serious overuse of the word "giggle."Next I'm going to finish a book I was meant to have read by last Wednesday, The Ghost Road. I also hope to finish E.M. Forster's A Room with a View by Tuesday, as that is when my second semester classes begin.
Jenna wrote: "Lori...About the Reluctant Fundamentalist - I liked the book, and like you, I think I was done in about a day or so. Such a quick read. I too was disappointed in the end, but I just figured tha..."
I'm sorry to say this book did "nothing for me" - I expected so much more from it but found it bland which is definitely not what I was expecting.
Alisha wrote: "I finished "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe", I liked it, especially the last chapters. ..."C.S. Lewis is one of the authors (Tolkien the other) that got me into fantasy. Later in the series the children build a castle near the sea called "Cair Paravel" when we bought a beach house on the coast (Emerald Isle NC) we named it that as well ;-)
-- Wife of GR author Michael J. Sullivan: The Crown Conspiracy (10/08) | Avempartha (04/09)
Jessica wrote: "I finally finished Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell! Took me a whole two and a half weeks so I'm super excited to get to my next read. I am going to be starting on Guernsey."LOL - going from JS&MN to Gursney is like going from a 10 course meal to an amuse bush. You'll breeze through Gursney - and I think you will like it - enjoy.
Kim wrote: "Susanna wrote: "Robin - Julie and Julia was just "OK" and the sustained tone was rather whiny. I wouldn't bother picking it .Susanna wrote: "I finished Girl with a Pearl Earring last night. Interesting novel. Robin - Julie and Julia was just "OK" and the sustained tone was rather whiny. I wouldn't bother picking it up again."
I agree about this book. It was really dumb and the character annoying, and I could never kill a lobster. .."
I think giving it up at 100 pages was probably the right choice - it just was doing nothing for me and agree with the whinning.
Laura wrote: "It was fantastic - I've always wanted to read that book, glad to hear it's so good.I also want to read Pay it Forward - LOVE that movie."
Except the very very very end ;-(
Heather wrote: "Claire & Allison - Redeeming Love was an incredibly moving book and is one of my favorites! I've read The Scarlet Thread too Allison, and have to agree that of the ones of hers I've read, it's my l..."I heard the Mark of the Lion trilogy is excellent. There is another one with Garden in the title. Can't remember the exact name of it. It looks good though! I may have to add that to my TBR shelf.
Robin wrote: "Laura wrote: "It was fantastic - I've always wanted to read that book, glad to hear it's so good.I also want to read Pay it Forward - LOVE that movie."
Except the very very very end ;-(
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I agree, Robin. I don't think I'll ever be able to watch that movie again because of that.
Robin wrote: "Jessica wrote: "I finally finished Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell! Took me a whole two and a half weeks so I'm super excited to get to my next read. I am going to be starting on Guernsey."LOL -..."
LOL, Robin, you may be right. I am about 60 pages in right now and I feel like it's going so fast. But I do really like it thus far.
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LOL - Going through those posts is how I get all my nuggets for the TBR file - so I can't "skip them". Do I sound OCD ;-p "
If you are Robin, you're in good company!