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[Emma]

I just finished The Voyage of The Dawn Treader. It was one of the best Narnian books. I can't decide which ones the best.

[TheReadingKnitter/]

I had to stay up last night and finish Salem's Lot. It was pretty good once you got into it. As far as vampire books go I'd pick Twilight over it though. hehe

[Shary]

I'm reading Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer. I have about 100 pages left to read and so far I'm loving it.

[Ann from S.C.]

I just finished ATONEMENT. I really enjoyed it. Now I am starting CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN by Louis de Bernieres.

[Carrie]

Kirsty, you have to keep going. I liked the 2nd one muchbetter.

[TheReadingKnitter/]

I agree with Carrie. I didn't think Twilight was that great. Everyone was raving about it when I was finished I was like UM, Okay...But New Moon is much better already. The second one makes you wonder what happens more.

[Emma]

Eclipse was the best one. Twilight was horrid. New Moon was a tiny bit better.

[Carrie]

Shary, I loved Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer too.
So good.

[Shary]

Carrie, Have you read Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close? I was thinking of giving that a try next. Although, the talk about Twilight has me curious. I may have to read that next.

[Shary]

Sorry for the multiple postings. It didn't look like my comment was posting. Sorry. :(

[Jen]

I was starting to wonder if Carrie had acquired a stalker. Just kidding. :) It probably popped your message over to the next page which is why it wasn't showing up for you.

[Shary]

Haha! Yeah, I figured that out after the third time! Oops.

[Heather]

Just started Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. I'm anxiously awaiting the release of Breaking Dawn (I know, I know, me, an adult caught up in all the twilight hype!)

[Carrie]

HA! I loved that that happened. I felt extremely popular.
Yes, I have and it's just as good, if not better.

[Liz]

Finished listening to "Constant Princess" by Philippa Gregory on Katherine of Aragon (first wife of Henry VIII)and just began Stephen King's new novel "Duma Key", suggested by a GoodReads friend. I can already tell this "read" is going make me want to stay in my car a bit longer!! Like you, Lori, I'm moving from historical fiction to the works of Stephen King!

PS Never heard of "The Town That Forgot to Breathe", but the title catches my interest ...

[Sherry]

I was totally shocked to find 50 posts since being on last night!Yikes!That was a lot of reading.

Lorena,sorry The Road didn't work out for you.
Sometimes that's just the way it is though.I feel bummed for recommending it so strongly to you.:(

[Shary]

Heehee! Thanks Carrie. I'll add that to my to read list.

[Carrie]

Good. Please read TWILIGHT too! You will not be disappointed!

[Shary]

I will. My curiosity is piqued. Yay! I have to go book shopping. :)

[TheReadingKnitter/]

Heather I have the Uglies here that I am going to read soon I hope...Let me know if you like it or not...I've only read good reviews on it...

I agree with Liz...'The Town That Forgot to Breathe' does sound interesting...

I too am reading Stephen King's books. I flip back and forth between him and Jodi Picoult.

[alicia]

I am reading Old Wounds by Vicki Lane.It's a series I really enjoy.

[Kristie]

Linda, I do the same thing. I have 5 books started so far. Although I finally hit a point with one of them, so I'm reading MORE of that, than the others. Usually I read a different one each day of the week (nearly). :)

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Shary, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close was an amazing book. Amazing!

[Jessika]

Jeremy--that is so cool about Stephen King! I'm jealous!

[Jessika]

Emma--I just finished The Voyage of the Dawn Treader on Sunday...I loved it! I can't decide which one is the best, either. I think they're all so great in their own ways. Are you reading the series? Or just that book?

[Stacie]

Lorena, I go through the same thing when I don't like a book that either everyone I know is RAVING about or is an award winner - so the whole world is RAVING about it.

Sometimes I think all the hype increases my expectations and instead of simply judging the book, I judge based on the rave reviews I have gotten.

[Stacie]

Heather, I am would be interested to know what you think of Uglies. It has been on my bookshelf forever (I feel bad becasue it doesn't belong to me!), but I just keep passing it over for another book.

[Kirsty]

Stacie, I read Uglies fairly recently and really enjoyed it. There is maybe an issue of being a bit preachy in terms of how we treat the environment, but overall it was a good read. I'd definitely recommend you read it.

[Lorena]

Sherry, I am not sorry I read The Road, on the contrary I am very glad. It just wasn't my thing I guess. But some books you have to read to be able to understand what others are talking about ... I heard yesterday in here that there is a movie coming up ;o)

Stacie - I am known to hate most of the movies that get the best movie academy award ... he he he

[Chloe]

This may be taking things back to a discussion that ended over a week ago, but I'm catching up so bear with me.

I've always been interested that every time in history, up into this modern era, a strong independent woman has stepped into the spotlight or shown any sign of a mind of her own, they have been demonized with the appellation of "witch" and punished most cruelly. How dare that woman have a brain! We must burn her! Few things can raise my bile as quickly. Lorena, have you ever read Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks? It's set in a small British hamlet during a plague year and has a fantastic female lead who cares for her neighbors and is seemingly immune to the plague. It's funny watching her mentally work through what may be spreading the plague and dealing with it- a knack that her neighbors attribute to witchcraft. It's a short but very fun read.

[Chloe]

Katie said: "I've been to Salem...it's totally commercialized so it's almost worse than what actually happened there."

This may be my favorite comment in this entire group. Katie, you cracked me up.

[Charity]

Glad to have you back, Logan. I'm currently reading something that seems right up your alley...

[Chloe]

Scott, I'm glad to hear that you liked Perdido Street Station. I love the covers of China Meiville's books but have only read The Scar so far and I was distinctly underwhelmed. To the list it goes...

[Chloe]

Shary, I found Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close completely jaw-droppingly fantastic. I loved Everything is Illuminated but thought that Extremely Loud... was even better. Safron Foer may have created the most sympathetic character ever with his depiction of the little kid (who's name, unforgivably, escapes me).

[The Book Whisperer (aka Boof)]

Lorena, I loved Year of Wonders. Bizzare ending though, what did you think?

Have you read any of her others? I have read People of the Book and really enjoyed that too.

[Chloe]

So you're liking Summerland, Charity? I've passed over it on bargain tables countless times, mainly because it sounded too baseball-esque for me (if there's a more boring sport, I don't want to know what it is). Though your description sounded really interesting, and I love reading anything by Chabon. I have The Yiddish Policeman's Union and really want to pick it up. Ugh. So many books...

So I was unplugged from the internet for over a week and somehow managed to only finish one book. It was a whirlwind of a vacation though, I think I need another one to wind down from that. My wife and I were very smart in that we eloped rather than having the whole big wedding extravaganza (I'm sorry, I'm selfish. If it comes down to spending $5k on a wedding or spending $5k on a honeymoon, I'll take the honeymoon). Regardless, her family is very tight-knit and had been pressuring her to bring me out to meet everyone for years now. This summer it finally became too hard to resist. So in the past week I've driven through four different states and met more family members than I ever thought it was even possible to have. Still, it all was capped off last weekend by a fantastically fun music festival in Chicago (plus, I got to go to Chicago, which was a first for me) so it may have been worth it. I'll let you know once I'm sufficiently recovered.

Regardless, I finished The Brothers Karamazov. I loved it. All of the characters were perfectly fleshed out, though Dostoevsky's habit of having weak or insane female characters continues to grate on me. I loved the weaving together of philosophy and storyline, I think the critics were right to call this one his opus.

After finishing that gem, though, I was left floundering halfway through another three books. I started Rudy Rucker's Postsingular, which is fun SciFi, but just didn't impel me to keep at it. So then I picked up Pat Cadigan's Synners, which is more fun SciFi, but with which I had the same problem. So instead I decided that it was time to bring out the big guns and started on Clive Barker's The Great and Secret Show, which I am loving so far. I hope to polish that off tonight before getting back to my SciFi marathon.

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Logan, I look forward to reading The Brothers Karamazov someday. It's interesting you note weak female characters. So many authors are accused of doing this. It really is sad even though there are some really good books with this problem. One of my favorite all time characters is David Copperfield's aunt. She was no weakling. But I couldn't begin to tell you what Dicken's record is on female characters. And I know that Irving has been accused of not knowing how to write women.

[Charity]

Ha! The main character of Summerland shares your sentiments exactly, Logan. I'm only about 1/3 into the story, but I've found that while there are baseball references, there is very little baseball playing. The book is comprised mostly of the fantastical elements...other worlds, new creatures, spirits, heroes, villains, interworld travel, etc.

I'm looking forward to reading more by Chabon. I have The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Wonder Boys, and Werewolves in Their Youth sitting on my shelf right now. I hope to pick up a copy of The Yiddish Policemen's Union after I get through the others.

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Owww...how did I miss that baseball slam? I must say that I can understand how baseball could be boring to watch for some, but having played it for 25+ years it's not boring!! And without baseball we'd be missing some of the best movies ever (see Field of Dreams, Eight Men Out, 61 and Bull Durham).

[Charity]

Finally, someone after my own heart... While my hubby and I didn't technically 'elope', we did decide to scrap our original plans for a large wedding (we both come from LARGE families) and threw together our new wedding plans in one week. We ended up having approximately 15 people total at the ceremony (the perfect amount in my opinion) and just had a small dinner and store bought cake. Easy peasy. The whole thing cost us about $400...including my dress & flowers. If I could do it over again, I wouldn't change a thing. The original wedding plans had stressed us out so much and very little would have been what we actually wanted. It felt so good to return all the stuff we had bought and cancel all the deposits.

Now my sister is getting married and it is looking like she is about to spend $30K or more! Eek...

[Chloe]

Eek is right. I can't even conceive of something like that, let alone wanting it to be focused on me. That's like 12000 new books!

Jeremy, I'm sure that baseball is highly entertaining to play. Just as I'm sure that it is highly entertaining to dive with sharks. Neither is an experience I need though.

[Charity]

I'm with you, Jeremy. I love baseball. My husbands family actually includes a pro baseball player and his first cousin just got picked up in the draft. Sometimes my husband creates scorecards for us so that we can keep score while we watch at home. :-)

[Charity]

I could think of a million things I'd rather spend $30K on than a wedding...

[Beth]

I finished Arranged Marriage this morning and now I'm reading two books, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers and Homespun. Homespun is a new book from the library and I've already had it for a week so I better hurry up and finish it b/c I'm sure someone will put it on hold and then I won't be able to renew it.

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That must be awesome to have family in pro ball. I only have played against some players who played minor league ball. Playing is great and coaching is a blast. But almost too time consuming at times. My wife is a saint for dealing with it. Add book addiction to baseball addiction to writing when I can.

As far as weddings go, I wanted to have my whole family there and being from Maine and all...but we still managed to keep it fairly low budget and all AND my wife was cool with having a golf theme. (Yeah, I like playing golf, too) I did go to a $40k (give or take 10k) wedding in Manhatten. Had to wear a tux. It was nice, but I didn't get it (paying that much for a wedding).

[[deleted user]]

Charity, The Wonder Boys will make you laugh out loud. It's a great little novel.

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Haha..Jeremy, my wife can't get over how sentimental I get about Field of Dreams. I keep telling her, "If you were a boy and your dad played catch with you, you'd understand how great the ending is."

[Charity]

Jeremy...it definitely has its perks. :-) My husband has so much memorabilia, it's unreal. My favorite is a hot dog wrapper signed by Tommy Lasorda when my husband was one year old and went with his parents to watch his uncle play the Dodgers. Too funny.

I keep trying to talk my sister out of the big hoopla, but she won't listen. I'm sad to think about all that money being spent on what boils down to be just a party.

Jesse...I've been wanting to read Wonder Boys for a while now. Now that I see how gifted Chabon is, I absolutely can't wait to dive into more of his stuff. I vaguely recall seeing the movie adaptation of Wonder Boys, but I can't remember any of the specifics, so the book shouldn't be spoiled for me.

Have you read Shoeless Joe?

[Shary]

Wow. Good to know. I'm going to pick up a copy of Extremely Loud and read it next. Thanks!

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Charity, I haven't read it yet, but it's on my vast TBR list...haha.

As for baseball, I grew up in Dallas, so I'm a lifelong Texas Rangers fan...which means I know nothing of playoffs and World Series...haha.