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[Sherry]

I went on-line and looked into it a bit.There is some fascinating info and a video of the only known living woman to still have bound feet and how difficult it had been for her after the Culture Revolution when she was considered worthless because of all she couldn't do because of her feet.

It's interesting that she still feels pride at how small her feet were.

[Ann from S.C.]

I am reading ATOINMENT. I've heard mixed reviews, but so far I like it.

[Cynthia]

I finished reading Walking West last night...yeah I finally finished another book for the summer challenge. Now I'm reading Werewolves in their Youth another summer challenge book.

[[deleted user]]

I stopped by the library yesterday on the way home and picked up Fallen (thank you Lori for the suggestion)and Blood Meridian. I'm supposed to be getting Saving Darwin, but my library can't find it!

[Carrie]

I finally got THE BUTTERFLY HOUSE by Marcia Preston in the mail, so I'm reading that along with one of the GOSSIP GIRL books...

FUN! :)

[Lori, Super Mod]

Jesse, you must tell me what you think of Fallen when you read it. I would interested to hear your thoughts on it!

Yeah for Maine :)

[Lori, Super Mod]

Lorena, I miss Logan too.... Hes got alot of make-up and catch-up to do when he gets back.

Emma,,, sick?? Oh god, now Im dousing my keys with Bleach... yuck. Back germs, Back!!!

[Emma]

Oh Lori, I guess it's bound to get to you eventually! :(. And in the summer too.

[[deleted user]]

I am reading too many books right now but should have Memoirs of a Geisha finished by tomorrow. It's a really good book a bit sad in many parts but I really enjoy it. I think I will finally watch the movie once I finish the book.

[Carrie]

Suzann, what Christian fantasy are you reading?

[TheReadingKnitter/]

I'm listening to Sisters by Danielle Steel. I'm also reading New Moon by Stephanie Meyer and Salem's Lot by Stephen King.

[Jessika]

Ooo Kasi, I loved Salem's Lot...let me know how you like it!

I finished Eldest by Christopher Paolini Friday night and I started The Voyage of the Dawn Treader last night...I'm almost done with the Narnia series! :)

[TheReadingKnitter/]

Jess is started out really slow for me, which is why I'm reading 3 books. I've never been able to be a multi-book reader but it got slow and so I picked up New Moon. But I'm about 100 pages away from being done and it's gotten really good. I can't seem to put it down now because I want to know what happens next.

[Beth]

Right now I'm reading "Arranged Marriage", a book of short stories by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. I'm really liking the stories a lot, although so far they've all been so sad and depressing. I'll need to read something funny next!

[Kirsty]

Boof, yeah I know Chorlton... I'm North Manchester though... near Bolton

[ScottK]

I just got done reading Perdido Street Station by China Meiville. Boy let me tell some kind of fun that book was!!! At first I thought it was a bit weird. But once I got into the world and it's people I LOVED IT. Now going to finish either A Grave Tattoo-Val McDermid or The Lost Constitution by William Martin

[Cynthia]

I finished Werewolves In Their Youth by Chabon...I liked some of the stories better than others...I find that I feel that way about a lot of short story collections...they are just hit or miss for me.

Then I also finished The Velvet Promise by Jude Deveraux which was really good...I just love historical romances.

So two more books for the summer challenge down...and I can get back to the 14 day books...I'm now reading The Best Day of Someone Else's Life by Reichs.

[Celeste]

Hi guys, Haven't written in a while, but I have been reading both GR and a few book. Currently reading The News From Paraguay by Lily Tuck. Just started it so no report yet.

I been reading pretty light this summer. Mostly romances and chick lit, with a little YA thrown in. About the best of the lot is Lily Dale Awakening by Wendy Corsi Staub. This is a YA Mystery set in Lily Dale, New York, a spiritualist community. It has some good twists and turns and, of course, some paranormal activity. On the downside, the story doesn't completely wrap-up as this is the first in the series. The second one is out now and the third one comes out in November.

[Kiki]

Am reading The Dead & the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer. Fantastic!

[Jessika]

Kasi--glad you ended up liking it :) That was one of a few of his books/stories that gave me chills as I was reading it!

Anyways...I just finished The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and am already starting The Silver Chair, both by C.S. Lewis. I love the Narnia series and I'm so glad that I decided to read these books this summer!

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

Just started Careless in Red, by Elizabeth George.

So far, so good.

[Carrie]

THE BUTTERFLY HOUSE is fantastic! FANTASTIC!!

[Carrie]

great...my to-read shelf is growing again!

[Mandy]

Yes, and so is mine now thanks, Carrie, I've added The Butterfly House :)

[Tim (Mole) The Gunslinger]

I just started K-PAX i found it at a truckstop on my way home from Chicago in a free books bin (FREE BOOKS) my kryptonite and started it i was pleasantly suprised how good it is

[Petra]

I'm reading a Wilbur Smith book (the Quest) but I'm already sorry I started. I liked the egyptian ones (7th scroll, river God, warlock) and this is yet another sequence on the same theme, but it's starting to become too SF now.

I wish I was still at the beginning of 'My name is Asjer Lev' by Chaim Potok, but all books end... I think I'm going to try to find "the gift of Ajer Lev" in the bookstore today...

[Petra]

Another comment...I see that The Little Friend by Donna Tart is on may people's "to read list" (it's also on mine) but hardly anyone (of my friends at least) has really read it. What about that? Who of you truly read it from cover to cover and would recommend it to me?

[The Book Whisperer (aka Boof)]

Hi Petra, I'm sorry to say this but I really didn't enjoy The Little Friend at all, which was so disappointing as The Secret History is in my top 5 of all time.

I'm a firm beliver that people should make up their own minds on a book though, as we all have different tastes and to be fair when we read TLF for my book group there were some who loved it.......just more who didn't.

Would love to know what you think if you do read it though.

[Kirsty]

yay... we're sharing The Butterfly House love! I'm so glad you like it Carrie... and Mandy... you really should read it, it's my favourite book at the moment

[The Book Whisperer (aka Boof)]

OK I need to ask about The Butterfly House and The Gemma Doyle Trilogy which I have seen mentioned so many times since I joined here a month ago. What are they and why are they so good?

[Linda]

I don't know about the rest of you, but I find it difficult to read one book at a time. Sounds like I have too much time on my hands, but no, I have always been a little too hyper and always looking to the next best thing. So currently, I am about a third of the way through:

Schindler's List
Dreams from My Father
Black Cross

Listening to:

Play Dead

As soon as I finish one of these, I am on to a read for the book club I belong to:

The Last Jihad

Linda

[Stacie]

My list is growing quite rapidly as well, which is why I am making myself stay away from the "Best of"...it would just get out of control!

I finished the Body Artist by DeLillo - I liked it - and have moved on the Mythologies by Barthes and short stories of Fitzgerald.

I really like Barthes' essays - they focus on the mythologies created in every day life. One essay is about the mythology created around wrestling. While written in the 50's, I find that what he speaks of is still appropriate today, if not more so. We create these myths around us to understand our lives, but also to sometimes make things out to be something they are not.

[Kirsty]

Boof, The Butterfly House is by Marcia Preston. Its a story about friendships and relationships between women, and the effects that those relationshops can have on people's lives. I found it really gripping, and read it in one sitting. Very emotional read. Here's the synopsis...

As a child, Bobbie Lee found refuge from her lonely life at her best friend's house. Rockhaven was a place of magic, colored by the butterflies that Cincy Jaines's mother, Lenora, studied. Her friendship with Cincy and Lenora soon became Bobbie's compass. But the tangled intimacies between them began to unravel, and in one night, Rockhaven became a place of unspeakable tragedy.

Now, a decade later, the long shadows of that night continue to haunt Bobbie, despite her attempts to hide from the past. When a stranger with ties to Lenora and Cincy arrives at her doorstep, she is forced to confront the memories she has tried to avoid, and the dark secret at the heart of the tragedy slowly emerges.

[Lorena]

I just finished the road last night and started short stories of H.P. Lovecraft, I had read part of his short stories before but this book has a more complete list ... I'm exited because I wasn't too happy with the road ... sorry I know there are many fans of his work here. I wanted to like it but it just felt bleak.

[[deleted user]]

It's too bad that it didn't work for you Lorena, but we all have unique tastes, right? In your case, it was probably a good thing that it was a fairly short book! I know what you mean about being excited to finish a book because I am still bogged down with NonZero. I just reached page 200 this morning. Only 100 or so to go.

[[deleted user]]

Lori, I'm going to try and read it this week (I'm a ridiculously slow reader). I'll let you know what I think.

[[deleted user]]

I'm with you Jesse in the slow reading department. Apparently the speed with which you read is an inherent trait that is not related to how many books you have read, how long you have been reading for or how many literature classes you have taken.

[[deleted user]]

Lorena, sorry to hear The Road didn't work out well for you. I'm giving Blood Meridian a try. Let me know what you think about the Lovecraft stories. I'm a horror aficionado since teenhood and some of his tales just freaked me out...haha.

[[deleted user]]

Kasi, I hope you enjoy Salem's Lot. This was written during a period where, in my mind, King could do no wrong. From about '74-'81, Carrie, Salem's Lot, The Shining, Night Shift, The Stand, The Dead Zone, Firestarter and Cujo. Pretty impressive.

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Jeremy, a speed reading course is looking better and better all the time..haha. There's a part of me that is scared I'll miss something important by speed reading, but I have absolutely nothing to base that fear on.

[[deleted user]]

Yeah, my fear of speed reading would be losing some of the enjoyment. And what if you can't go back to being a slow reader?

I liked all those King books (well, the ones that I read). But the funny thing about Salem's Lot is I was crusing right along but once I found out what the source of evil actually was, for some reason I was quite disappointed.

Beyond just liking Stephen King's writing, I grew up only 1/2 hour away from Bangor and played his son in high school baseball and basketball and even saw him at a game or two. I think he was writing the Green Mile during one of our games (at the mega-awesome field he financed), but that is just a complete guess. He sure was loud enough!

[[deleted user]]

Jeremy, that's so cool...haha.

[Lorena]

Jesse, Jeremy - Thanks I always feel so boomed when I don't like a book everyone else seems to love ... did I miss something? was the hype too high and my expectations impossible to meet?

And it has happen with the last two books I have read! So I decided to go back to someone I know I will like to avoid further dissapointment ... he he he ... I will venture out again after this book.

BTW my daughter and I are reading Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Vernes) as a night time reading time and she is loving it, it is so funny, she loves how the nephew is so silly and carefull about everything, and doesn't want to put the book down. I was so worried the book was too advanced for her age, but what do you know ...

[Jen]

That's great, Lorena! I regret not reading more classics with my daughter when she was growing up.

I picked up The Willoughys by Lois Lowry from the library the other day. OK, so it's a children's book but Number the Stars and The Giver were brilliant so I thought I would give it a try. It is hysterical. It's based on four children who want to be orphans and the parents want to ditch the children as well. The end of the book contains a glossary for some of the more complex words and even the glossary is so clever. I am loving it and highly recommend the book for anyone with tweens. Here's an excerpt from the glossary:

ODIOUS, surprisingly, has nothing to do with smell. It just means something hateful or disgusting. Of course, something that smells bad and is also disgusting - like a drunk guy barfing on the sidewalk - would be odious and odoriferous at the same time. But an adorable baby skunk would be odoriferous without being odious, and a person making racist remarks while wearing expensive aftershave would be odious without being odoriferous.

...and one more good one (I can't help it)

NEFARIOUS means utterly, completely wicked. The character in The Wizard of Oz could have been called the Nefarious Witch of the West but authors like to use the same beginning consonant, often. Perhaps L. Frank Baum crossed out nefarious after wicked came to his mind. Thank goodness, because Nefarious would be a terrible name for a musical.

[[deleted user]]

LMAO - I'll have to keep this in mind for the older two..or at least the 2nd oldest. The oldest hasn't really latched on yet but I'll never give up.

I think I would like to read classics to the kids, but keeping their attention span for that long if HARD. It remind of in Cider House Rules where the tradition is to read David Copperfield and Jane Eyre to the orphans.

[Kirsty]

finished Twilight... thought it was ok, not as great as all the hype, but a fun read. Will probably pick up the other books at some point.

Now starting The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly

[Jim]

THE SPIES OF WARSAW by Alan Furst

as always Furst sets the mood, times well

[Lori]

I just finished Eclipse, book 3 in the Twilight series. Tonight I'm going to start City of Bones, another YA vampire series. I also downloaded 1st to Die to my Ipod and plan on listening to it while I'm on the dreadmill. I haven't read any of this series yet and thought I'd give them a try.

[Cynthia]

I finished The Best Day of Someone Else's Life a few minutes ago...it was good chick lit...I thought it might be too similar to the plot of 27 Dresses the movie...but it really wasn't and it was very entertaining. 431 pages flew by.

I plan to read All We Ever Wanted Was Everything by Good Reads Author Janelle Brown next.

[Charity]

I'm currently reading Summerland by Michael Chabon. I'm only 100 pages in (out of 500), but I'm really enjoying it. YA fantasy...kind of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy meets Lord of the Rings meets 'Field of Dreams' (Shoeless Joe). I'm hoping that it remains compelling...I'd like to knock this one out in the next day or two. :-)