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I just added Doyle to my list the other day. I read some condensed stuff when I was just a wee lad but a friend of mine was reading him and it just seems like something that had to be part of my backlog. It was an interesting point to me that Sherlock apparently has a drug habit.

[Charity]

The main character of Curious Incident is a fan of Doyle (Hound of the Baskervilles in particular), so I feel like I'm missing something if I don't pick it up.

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I love book advertising within books.

[Lorena]

Jeremy - the US is a great place to live if one of your children have special needs, back home I always felt that no matter how much or how hard we worked there was so little we could do. The general attitude towards our patients was so hard to deal with, even some parents just lacked the will to try and continue with the exercises at home, it was so frustrating at times, you know we only do so much but it is the parents who really make a difference in their children's life. Now this was some 15 years ago, so I am sure things have changed there too, or at least I hope they have. ;o)

[Linda]

Am reading The Law of Similars.

[Mayra]

Hello I’m new at this and the group...I’m reading "are prison absolute" by Angela Davis it's very interesting. Just a few books in mind to read once i finish:

Kite Runner--??
Haters--Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
In cold blood--??
Son of the witch--??

I'm also going on a road trip this weekend any recommendation on reading material?

thanks

[Stacie]

Hi Mayra and welcome!

Out of the four you have listed I would choose Kite Runner of In Cold Blood. However, I don't know anything about the other two.

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Second on the Kite Runner.

Lorena, from what I understand things have gotten better. I mean, I don't think I would have been any different but certainly the global attitude has changed. Ironically, I read Memory Keeper's Daughter and was appalled that there was a time when certain people were ashamed to have disabled children. I just don't understand.

[Val]

I'll also throw my hat in the ring for The Kite Runner. I wouldn't read Son of a Witch unless you've read Wicked first.

[Charity]

Whoo hoo! My library rocks!! I just placed my hold request an hour or so ago and I already have 3 of the 4 books available for pick up. They are:

The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly (of course)
Cocaine Nights by J.G. Ballard (August read for 1001 group)
The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster (September read for 1001 group)

and...

The Book Thief is already in transit from one of the other libraries.

Can't wait.

[Candace]

I've just finished the Island of Lost Girls by Jennifer McMahon and I'm waiting for the first novel of hers, Promise Not To Tell to arrive. I really enjoyed this book. It is not for everyone by the subject matter and I would not recommend it to those who are sensitive to child abduction and abuse. However if you like twisty tales this might be one for you I've started reading Patricia Cornwell's The Front and Anna Salter's Truth Catcher-more on the dark side of things.

[Chloe]

Charity, let me know how you enjoy Cocaine Nights. I'm not sure I can join the August read for 1001 but am definitely interested in reading Ballard at some point.

Just finished Cannery Row but have no idea what I want to read now. I think I'm going to pick 8 off the shelves and then play eenie-meanie-minie-moe to decide. It's a time-tested method.

[Kirsty]

why dont u give them all a number, and then use a random number generator?

[Jen]

Mayra - Put me down as another vote for Kite Runner. It's one of my favorites.

Great score at the library, Charity! Which book are you going to read first?

[Charity]

Good question, Jen. I'll probably start with Book of Lost Things since this group will be chomping at the bit to start discussions. Then, Cocaine Nights because we are supposed to start discussing it on Aug. 15th in the 1001 group.

[Charity]

Logan, from what I've gathered, I may not 'enjoy' Cocaine Nights, but that might make it all the more fun to discuss. I'll definitely let you know what I think. This is my first Ballard...I'm a little scared.

[Charity]

P.S. I'm still calling it my library even though it is my old library across town. My new library in town is at the end of my street and I still haven't applied for a library card. How funny is that?

Nothing against the new library, it is supposed to be VERY incredible...I just have been too lazy to walk down there and check it out. The old one is near my in-laws, so I'm there pretty frequently.

[JT]

Finally finished Howards End. I had a bit of a time with it because I wasn't totally in the mood aaaaand it was keeping me away from Edgar Sawtelle.

[TheReadingKnitter/]

I am finishing Harvesting the Heart and will either start on Eclispe or Uglies next

[Jen]

I should be finishing up The Raw Shark Texts tonight and will start Book of Lost Things tomorrow. I'm looking forward to reading it. I just wish it was on one of those blasted book lists that haunts me. There's something about checking off a book that is just so satisfying.

[Sherry]

How did you like TRST Jen?

[Chloe]

Yeah, Jen, how'd you like it? I can't start any other book because that one is due at my house any day now.

[Stacie]

Sherry and Logan, I was going to ask Jen the same question. Would love to know what you think. We read that for my book group and I was the only one that liked it.

[Sherry]

Really?How many are in your book group?

[Stacie]

There were 8 or 9 that were there that night. We rate the book 1-5 at the beginning of it and most rated it under 3. I think I gave it a 3 or a 4 - 3 1/2, which is a pretty good rating for me. The conversation about it didn't last much beyond why people didn't like it.

[Sherry]

That's to bad.I thought the author had some interesting concepts that were conversation worthy.

[Jen]

I'm not done yet but I've loved it. The story line is just so different -it's like a thinking person's mystery. It's so fresh and clever.

[Lori, Super Mod]

Damn, I feel behind the times, I havent started a new book in over three weeks, Im still reading the same one.... But I think I will cry when its done. Bro Karamazov isnt meant to be read quickly.... and damned if you dont get attached to everyone in it!!

[Chloe]

Lori, I had the same problem. As I closed the back cover, I kept thinking that I wish I knew someone as amazingly kind as Alyosha.

[Lori, Super Mod]

Ahhhh.... at least for the time being, I am tucking myself into bed with them all...
Hope Turn of the Screw is as good when I get ready to tuck into that one...

Logan, are you still gonna read it along with me?

[Chloe]

Lori, I'm in if you are. I've been devouring the classics ever since The Brothers Karamazov and don't really see that ending soon. Let me know when you're ready and I'll pick it up.

[Lori, Super Mod]

Will do..

[Lori]

Hey Lori and Logan - which translation are you reading? The Pevear/L... one? I haven't really read this, just skimmed and skipped around 30 years ago. (Pretty weird when you start saying things like that!) I'm so ready and excited to get to it soon. But up first will be Shantaram in Sept!

Right now I'm still reading Cloud Atlas, then I'm so excited to get back to the 3rd book of the Night Watch series. Then it will The Master and Margarita. Good stuff lined up!

[Mandy]

I have just finished Marley Me - WOW, this book was amazing. I have a labrador myself and maybe I'm a bit biased but this book touched me sooooooooo much. I really can't explain it.

If you're an animal lover and you haven't read this book I would suggest you do.

[The Book Whisperer (aka Boof)]

Mandy, I am a huge animal lover and have this on my shelf.........I will read it (that and a million others I have my eye on since joining GR. Sigh).

[Mandy]

Be sure to let us know what you think, Boof.

[Leila]

I started on The Zahir by Paulo Coelho even though I knew I shouldn't since I'm reading Burning Bright and will soon start to read Breaking Dawn. I couldn't help it. I was going on a sleep-over for two days and it was automatically put in my bag.

Oh, I've heard of Marley & Me. It sounds interesting and it's been soooo long since I read a book involving animals.

[The Book Whisperer (aka Boof)]

Leila, I am the same at the moment. I have always only ever been able to read one book at a time but sine starting on GR I am finding myself reading 2 or 3 a time cos I get so excited with all the recommendations.

Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier? I LOVE all her other books but haven't read this one yet. Is it good?

[Leila]

I am also usually reading more than one book at the same time but I've been trying to behave because when I read several, I yield in to temptation of another book so easily and end up never finishing. It's easier to simply be determined that 'no, I will read THAT once I finished THIS' but then again, that is also easier said than done.

Burning Bright is so-so. I haven't gotten very far. I loved Girl with Pearl Earing and Falling Angels but for some reason I have had it hard to 'get in to the story' of Burning Bright. I blame it on the texttype. It's a smaller size than I am used to.

[Meghann]

I just finished Who Stole the Funny? This is a hilarious satire about the making of a tv sitcom. I absolutely loved it.

[Cynthia]

I finished The Last Lecture last night...so inspiring and yet so sad since he died so recently. I really hadn't planned on reading it any time soon but then I heard he died so I thought I better read it before a lot of people request it. My favorite quote from it was "Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted." It really applies to me at the moment and it helped me put things into perspective.

After that book I needed a lighter fair so I picked up How Dolly Parton Saved My Life by Charlotte Connors (it was just one of those books that I had to read as soon as I read the title) and so far I'm really loving it...about 130 pages in.

[Kathy McC]

Kudos to all of you reading John Steinbeck. I was introduced to him by my freshman English teacher and he is my all time favorite. Didn't really like Travels With Charley as much as his fiction stuff. Hope all of you enjoy his work as much as I do.

[Chloe]

Lori, the translator for my copy was Constance Garnett. I think that for the most part she did a good job, I was never really hung up on the language like I have been with some poorly translated books.

Have you read The Master and Margarita before? It's only recently come to my attention, but I think that I'm going to have to read it sooner rather than later.

[Sherry]

I reread Animal Farm this morning and now it's back to Wizard and Glass by Stephen King.I feel that if I don't keep on reading the series I may put it down and never pick it up again.

[Charity]

And how did you like Animal Farm Sherry? Inquiring minds...

[Chloe]

Sherry, you could easily put down the series after Wizard & Glass and walk away knowing that you read the best stretch of The Dark Tower. It's all downhill after that one.

[Sherry]

I loved it.It inspired meto pull out the book on the Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore my son had bought me last fall and spent a pleasant hour browsing the book and pics.

I predict I may have trouble with the other books in the Dark Tower series.There are so many other good books I would rather be reading and aleady I'm forcing myself through the best of the Tower books.Does not bode well.

[Jessica]

Just finished Curious Incident, I really liked it, it was different and really made me think what it would be like to have a child with autism. I worry that I would be like the mother with her lack of patience. Either way, it was a quick yet deep read.

I'm now going to start The Book Thief so I can discuss it with you guys.

[Liesl]

I'm currently reading books by Trevanian. I hadn't heard of him, but this spring stumbled on his last novel, The Crazyladies of Pearl Street (which is said to be more of a memoir even though he published it as a novel), on the remainder table at Barnes and Noble and it intrigued me so I read it and really loved it. It was so beautifully written. Trevanian was an interesting, odd guy and I liked this one so much that I decided to read some others by him, but so far they haven't lived up to Crazyladies. I recently read Shibumi and have just finished The Summer of Katya. Both were just okay. Now I'm starting The Loo Sanction because I haven't been able to get my hands on a copy of the Eiger Sanction locally (haven't looked online yet). Anyway, I'm in my Trevanian phase which should end real soon here.

[Charity]

I forgot about summer hours at the library, so I'll have to wait until Monday to pick up my books. :-(