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message 13651: by Paula (new)

Paula | 1098 comments Ohhh, sorry to hear that Akittykat. I too love Follett and especially "Pillars". I have "World Without End" in my stacks and did understand that it took place 200 years later. I'll get to it one of these days. Thanks for your input.


message 13652: by Carol (new)

Carol Paula wrote: "Ohhh, sorry to hear that Akittykat. I too love Follett and especially "Pillars". I have "World Without End" in my stacks and did understand that it took place 200 years later. I'll get to it one of..."

welcome. I think my two favorites of his are The Pillars of the Earth and Key To Rebecca


message 13653: by Lynne (new)

Lynne | 55 comments Pers wrote: "I started reading The Book Thief last night."

I'm reading it now. Almost finished. Oh my gosh, I think this is my favorite book in the entire world.


message 13654: by Carol (new)

Carol Lynne wrote: "Pers wrote: "I started reading The Book Thief last night."

I'm reading it now. Almost finished. Oh my gosh, I think this is my favorite book in the entire world."


LOL I have sooooo many books to be read and soooo little time. I think I have over 100 on my to be read list. I get one read and you all post others I want to read.


message 13655: by Mary (new)

Mary | 203 comments Keara wrote: "I am reading "The Importance of being Kennedy" by Laurie Graham. Its really good because the Kennedy's are so interesting and although it's fiction, there are just so many... interesting and horrib..."

I really liked this books as well. Interesting to read about Joe Jr. and "Kick", two Kennedys I didn't know much about.


message 13656: by Maria (new)

Maria (minks05) | 481 comments i started The Help last night, and i'm really enjoying it. it's so hard to believe that things were seen in that way as recently as the early 1960s. makes me appreciate the way we see things now, even if it's still not perfect.


message 13657: by Sybs (new)

Sybs | 4 comments Kaliki wrote: "Mandy - and others who've read Water for Elephants - my sister in law recommended it to me, and I've had it in my to read stack for a couple years. BUT I'm highly sensitive to animals and I'm afra..."

I read Water for Elephants a couple of weeks ago - I don't think you will be traumatised by the animals - Most of the story is about people and the circus - Have a go - you can always put it away if you don't find it to your taste.



message 13658: by Brooke (new)

Brooke | 44 comments I am finally reading The Shadow of the Wind. I LOVE it! I am excited to read The Angel's Game.


message 13659: by Dorie (new)

Dorie (dorieann) | 430 comments I'm reading Jack Kerley's newest book In the Blood. The main protagonist is homicide detective Carson Ryder, whose brother Jeremy is a convicted serial killer. Love this series.


message 13660: by Mary (new)

Mary (madamefifi) | 358 comments Field of Darkenss--Cornelia Read


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Ida Suyanto | 21 comments I'm reading The Host. Kinda boring on the beginning, but gets better when I'm in the middle of the book :)


message 13662: by Liz (new)

Liz (hissheep) Just began listening to "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" and can already tell it's going to be a tearjerker (have read no spoilers, so have no clue!). ;o)


message 13663: by Vicki (new)

Vicki Jennifer wrote: "I'm a little over halfway through

The Hour I First Believed A Novel by Wally Lamb. I'm not sure how I feel about it. Considering I really didn't like "She's come undone" I'm wo..."


I couldn't get into that book, I tried reading it and I tried audio. I wanted to read it and part of me still does, but it was to all over the place for me. I hope you have better luck with it.


message 13664: by Loretta (new)

Loretta Hello all,

I'm new to the group, so just jumping in...

I really enjoyed The Hour I First Believed, I found it really compelling. It is, however, not a happy book, so if you don't want depressing, it might not be a good read for now...

I've just started Cold Mountain - somebody gave it to me ages ago, and I'm on a project of reading the many unread books already in my house before I buy new ones. Although I am making progress on the reading part, I'm not doing so well with the not buying part. Oh well.


message 13665: by Lori, Super Mod (new)

Lori (tnbbc) | 10652 comments Mod
Hi Loretta, sounds like you will fit in here perfectly! We have a personal challenge thread that your goal would work nicely in.. check it out!


message 13667: by Johanna (new)

Johanna Moran (johannamoran) | 19 comments I'm nearly halfway through THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE, too. Can't decide if I like it or not. The scenes are a little redundant, but the characters keep me turning the page.


message 13668: by Athira (new)

Athira (Reading on a Rainy Day) (readingonarainyday) I so wish I could get my hands on The Time Traveler's Wife. Someone has borrowed it from the library and not returned it back! Ugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Am digging through Water for Elephants now. Am so in love with it. Beautiful writing and a great prologue! Also finishing Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist on the other side!


Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (susannag) | 1736 comments Just started Middlemarch. This one may take me a while. LOL


message 13670: by Liz (new)

Liz (hissheep) Keara wrote: "I am reading "The Importance of being Kennedy" by Laurie Graham. Its really good because the Kennedy's are so interesting and although it's fiction, there are just so many... interesting and horrib..."

Thanks for the recommend, Keara! I borrowed this from the library - keep picking it up and putting it down, unsure whether or not to begin it! My interest in the Kennedys started, sadly, with John's assassination (I was a high school senior) and grew while living on Cape Cod (I in Hyannis, they in Hyannisport - a bike ride away) for 21+ years while bringing up my children. ;o)


message 13671: by Vicki (new)

Vicki Aths wrote: "I so wish I could get my hands on The Time Traveler's Wife. Someone has borrowed it from the library and not returned it back! Ugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Am digging through [book:Water..."


Ha! Those are two very different books. Both good in their own ways, but very different. I, too, loved Water For Elephants.


message 13672: by Jenna (new)

Jenna | 224 comments I have 3 books going at the moment.

Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris...finally checking out this series.
No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency...my first audiobook!
and I am still trekking through Reading Lolita in Tehran. This one is more difficult to read that I thought it would be. I'm finding it really slow, and I'm forcing myself to pick it up again. I'll give it a little while longer, and then I might just give up on it.


message 13673: by Avigail (new)

Avigail (avigailr) Well yesterday night I finishd an Israeli litrature called "The Jewish Dog" by Asher kravitz. It is a holocaust story by the dog's prespective. I am also reading The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. I read it in greek.
I have to decide what is my next read


message 13674: by Jennifer (new)

Jennifer (pearlady) | 45 comments I think my To Be Read pile grows every time I come into GR. That said, I'm thoroughly entertaining myself with the #1 Ladies Detective series at the moment. :)


message 13675: by Maureen (new)

Maureen I read 84, Charing Cross Road today (another epistolary book, similar to The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society). It's a series of letters between the author and a London bookshop. What starts as requests for books becomes a rather deep friendship through the years. Very much recommend it.


message 13676: by Lauren (new)

Lauren | 220 comments I am starting Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann! For some reason I am really excited to get into this book! Anyone ever read it? I would appreciate some feedback!


message 13677: by Carol (new)

Carol Avigail wrote: "Well yesterday night I finishd an Israeli litrature called "The Jewish Dog" by Asher kravitz. It is a holocaust story by the dog's prespective. I am also reading [book:The Name of the Rose|1528434..."

hmmm... this sounds very interesting. gotta get it


message 13678: by Johanna (new)

Johanna Moran (johannamoran) | 19 comments Lauren, I read Valley of the Dolls approximately 400 years ago. I remember loving it - very dishy - racy for the time, anyway. Sharon Tate, who was murdered by Charles Manson, was in the movie.


message 13679: by Carol (new)

Carol Susanna wrote: "Just started Middlemarch. This one may take me a while. LOL"

so we won't hear from you until the middle of march hahahahahaaha


message 13680: by Bridgit (new)

Bridgit | 475 comments Finished The Taste of Night The Second Sign of the Zodiac this morning and have moved on to Double Standards by Judith McNaught (which apparently isnt showing up on goodreads). Am about 50 pages in and have realized that I read this probably 10 years ago. That's always a disappointment. I thought I had discovered an unread book from this author. Now I can't decide if I should keep reading or return it...


message 13681: by Athira (new)

Athira (Reading on a Rainy Day) (readingonarainyday) Maureen wrote: "I read 84, Charing Cross Road today (another epistolary book, similar to The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society). It's a series of letters between the author..."

84, Charing Cross Road sounds interesting! Thanks for the reco, have added it to my TBR!


message 13682: by Avigail (new)

Avigail (avigailr) Akittykat wrote: "Avigail wrote: "Well yesterday night I finishd an Israeli litrature called "The Jewish Dog" by Asher kravitz. It is a holocaust story by the dog's prespective. I am also reading [book:The Name of ..."

Well I don't think they have transalated the book in English. I hope some day more Israeli and Greek authors will be translated


message 13683: by Carol (new)

Carol Avigail wrote: "Akittykat wrote: "Avigail wrote: "Well yesterday night I finishd an Israeli litrature called "The Jewish Dog" by Asher kravitz. It is a holocaust story by the dog's prespective. I am also reading ..."

Yes .....so I found out. But as you say maybe one day.


message 13684: by Liz (new)

Liz (hissheep) Avigail wrote: "Akittykat wrote: "Avigail wrote: "Well yesterday night I finishd an Israeli litrature called "The Jewish Dog" by Asher kravitz. It is a holocaust story by the dog's prespective. I am also reading ..."

I too looked -- even on Amazon.com -- no luck! ;o)



message 13685: by Dorie (new)

Dorie (dorieann) | 430 comments I've started The Given Day by Dennis Lehane. I picked it up to comfort myself after hearing the movie studio has moved back the release of 'Shutter Island' to February.


message 13686: by Lori Ann (new)

Lori Ann | 105 comments I just finished City of Thieves which I loved! And now I've started The Devil in the White City, so far so good.


message 13687: by Carol (new)

Carol Liz wrote: "Avigail wrote: "Akittykat wrote: "Avigail wrote: "Well yesterday night I finishd an Israeli litrature called "The Jewish Dog" by Asher kravitz. It is a holocaust story by the dog's prespective. I ..."

You have to order from overseas . It is not in English yet. Thank You for looking though that was very kind of you.


message 13688: by [deleted user] (new)

I just finished The Time Traveler's Wife and I love it!♥ Next on my list, I'll be reading Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South.




message 13689: by Paula (new)

Paula | 1098 comments Lauren, like Johanna I read Valley of the Dolls "400 years ago". I also loved it. I own the movie also so I guess you could say I REALLY liked it. LOL


message 13690: by Kate (new)

Kate | 119 comments I flew through the new Kathy Reichs novel 206 Bones. I was a little disappointed in that the ending seemed flat and rushed, but it was alright.
Am now reading Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell, figured it was about time I started reading her books!


message 13691: by Ana (new)

Ana | 65 comments I'm almost finishing "Skylight confessions", by Alice Hoffman.


message 13692: by [deleted user] (last edited Aug 24, 2009 06:01AM) (new)

Finished Life of Pi... mixed feelings about it. Am now reading The Story of Edgar Sawtelle and am REALLY liking it. It's not the kind of book I usually read but I'm glad I started.

Up soon: The invention of everything else (can't get linky thing to work, so I put in the page.)
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...



message 13693: by Tracy S (new)

Tracy S | 9 comments Maureen wrote: "I read 84, Charing Cross Road today (another epistolary book, similar to The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society). It's a series of letters between the author..."

Thank you for the recommendation! I just finished The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society last night and loved it.



message 13694: by Mary (new)

Mary | 203 comments Dorie wrote: "I've started The Given Day by Dennis Lehane. I picked it up to comfort myself after hearing the movie studio has moved back the release of 'Shutter Island' to February."

Uh oh...is this a bad sign? I loved Shutter Island and am really looking forward to the movie.




message 13695: by Lauren (new)

Lauren | 220 comments Thanks guys! I am really liking this book so far! I am excited to watch the movie when I am done!


message 13696: by Dorie (new)

Dorie (dorieann) | 430 comments Mary wrote: "Dorie wrote: "I've started The Given Day by Dennis Lehane. I picked it up to comfort myself after hearing the movie studio has moved back the release of 'Shutter Island' to February..."

The studio just said the funds weren't available to market it. I was going to see this opening weekend. I'm so bummed now.



message 13697: by Liz (new)

Liz (hissheep) Lori Ann wrote: "I just finished City of Thieves which I loved! And now I've started The Devil in the White City, so far so good."

One of my favorite reads, although I preferred the sections about the creation of the Chicago World's Fair over the "devil"! Enjoy ;o)


message 13698: by Melissa (new)

Melissa Harris Hayes wrote: "Finished Life of Pi... mixed feelings about it. Am now reading The Story of Edgar Sawtelle and am REALLY liking it. It's not the kind of book I usually read but I'm glad I started.

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I felt the same way after finishing Life of Pi. I LOVED the beginning of the book. The middle section got too long for me, and then the end just through me for a loop. It certainly kept me thinking long after I was finished. I guess maybe that was the point..




message 13699: by JSou (new)

JSou I just started The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco. It's pretty interesting, so far. I love books about books!

I'm also re-reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn along with my oldest daughter who has to read it for school. She is unfortunately the non-reader in our house, so I thought it might motivate her more to read if I grabbed a copy as well so we could discuss it as she went along.


message 13700: by Liz (new)

Liz (hissheep) Jessica wrote:

I'm also re-reading [book:The Adventures of Huckleberr..."


Good for you, Jessica! I did the same thing with my non-reader, my younger daughter, for encouragement! ;o)


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