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Hello Mayra:Loved Kite Runner and the movie as well. Read the book first. In Cold Blood read a long time ago, but remember it well and was very chilling.
If you have a CD player or MP3, would advise some play as you ride books and the others for side of the road reading. Just listened to 7th Heaven by James Patterson and thought it was a great listen.
Linda
Anyone read Eye Contact? About a child who witnesses a murder that has autism.
Logan and Lori, all your talk about Brothers Karamazov has indirectly inspired me to return to Anna Karenina after a 4 year absence and try it again.
Linda, I just recently read EYE CONTACT. It is pretty good. I would defintly recommened it!
I finished 15 chapters of Anne of Green Gables this afternoon! And I didn't go on GR at all! I'll be on all night though, it's my reward from my reward. AOGG is addictive! Damn, I'm going to have to read the entire SERIES.
I know what you mean, Emma. I have the whole series too...childhood fave.
Ack!!! But I need to read Breaking Dawn, too many books to read!!!!!!!! It's so addictive though, maybe I could finish early?
I finally finished re-reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone this morning...I was trying to savor it for as long as I could, but it didn't turn out too well...teehee :)And now I'm onto Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets . This is my least favorite one out of the five that I've read, but maybe I'll like it better this time :)
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Logan- Perhaps that is why my book had more pages than yours? Different tranlators...??
I just finished "The Queen of Subtleties" and am now starting The Book Thief.And Harry Potter as well.
JT, you are a brave man. I have yet to venture that deeply into Russian Lit, instead I just skirt the edges of the pond. Something that I'll definitely have to change at some point, though I don't know that it'll be this year. Still, let me know how you like Anna Karenina.
Lori, that may be it. Mine was a Signets Classic unabridged mass market paperback that totally around 730 pages. I don't know that a different translator can lead to a loss of 250 pages, but it could be.
maybe he threw out some adjectives. :)
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Mine is Bantam Classics, tho it says nothing anywhere about being unabridged. Its mass market as well, with small type... I dunno... if it were only 730 pages, Id be done by now :p
Tisha, what did you think of Queen of Subtelties?I finished LotF today. Really liked it; although it was a bit eerie and disturbing. Really made you think about human nature.
Am now going to read Ethan Frome. This is going to be my first Edith Wharton.
I just finished ORYX AND CRAKE by Margaret Atwood. It took me a few days to get through it, I guess because of the subject matter. Next up...THE SHACK by William P. Young.
I'm currently reading The Thirteenth Tale. I didn't think I would like it at first and even as I'm reading it, I am not sure if I like it yet I keep turning the pages!
Springparty, we read The Thirteenth Tale as a group read a while back and it wasn't the usual type of book I'd pick up but in the end I'm really glad I read it because I really enjoyed it. Hope you enjoy it too.
Isabella, I just started Eat, Pray, Love and I just have a good feeling about this book, I think I will like it very much. There have been good and bad reviews of the book but I'm getting a sense of peace just reading it.
The Thirteenth Tale was a bit different. It took me a while for me to get into but like Mandy said, I was also very happy to have read it in the end :)
I am currently reading Night Watchman by James V. Viscosi and Reserved for the Cat by Mercedes Lackey. I just finished reading Moon Called by Patricia Briggs and enjoyed it.I entered a book giveaway contest at http://bookroomreviews.wordpress.com/... if anyone would like to try for the 14 books. They all look good.
Emma, yes, definitely read the whole series!! They are fond favorites from childhood for me as well.Logan, will do!
Stacie,ORYX AND CRAKE was very different, but I did enjoy it. It took reading the whole book to figure out what the heck what was going on (duhhh), and I am the type that likes to figure out what is happening as I go along. (You do not want to be sitting next to me at a movie!) But I like that. In my younger days, I would have read the last page to see what was going to happen. (If she was going to get the guy.) But, luckily, I grew up! I would recommened this book, but it does have alot of scientific, futuristic stuff to it. Some of it I got, some of it, not so much...
I hope this helps you.
Linda - Thanks for the book recommendations! I actually just picked up Skeletons at the Feast and plan to start it after I finish reading my current book (The End of Manners - Francesca Marciano).
Mandy, I loved Marley and Me. I cried so hard at the end!
Ann, thank you. that was very helpful. I have walked by and picked up that book and put it back down so many times. I guess next time I am just going to finally buy it.I too am like you and like to try to figure out what is happening. That was one of the things that I really liked about Raw Shark Texts was trying to figure out what the heck was happening.
I did that with the Da Vinci Code too. I figured it out and when my husband read it (one of the few he has read) I kept asking if he had figured it out yet. Wait, maybe that is why he hates reading around me! :)
Reading _The Jungle_ by Upton Sinclair and _Good to Great_ by Jim Collins.
Stacie, The Queen of Subtleties was a good book. She casually references some major events though, so I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who isn't already familiar with Anne Boleyn's story. I came to appreciate that fact though, because you can only replay the same stories so many times, and if you are like me and have read more than one Anne book, you already know those stories and appreciate other perspectives. This one is from the perspective of Anne in a letter to Elizabeth and the king's confectioner (sounds random, but it works having a servant's view)
Sam, I would love to hear your thoughts on The Jungle when you finished. I read it about a month ago.
I am currently reading "A Good Yarn" by Debbie Macomber which is one of the knitting book series. I enjoy her tremendously.
Isabella, I'm about halfway through Italy and boy, I would love to learn Italian.Beth, it's one of those books that I think I will email the author, it just touched me so much that I cannot explain.
I have just finished Mapping the Edge by Sarah Dunant. Hmmm, I'm not loving it. It did only take 2 days to read and there were some page-turning moments but on the whole I feel very underwhelmed by it.I am dying to start Book of Lost Things but I still haven't finished Outer Dark (McCarthy) and I also have to read the Thornton Wilder book (Bridge over St Louis Rey or something) which I have to read for my book group on Tuesday and I know it's only short but I just want to get on with Lost Things. Argh, decisions decisions.
Last night I picked up Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix Plus. So far it's a far more straightforward cyberpunk read than anything else I've ever read by him. This is definitely a good change of pace. I always wondered how Sterling came to be such a highly regarded figure in the 80s cyberpunk movement, but this book is helping to explain this to me rather thoroughly: A gripping story with those imaginative uses of technology that can't help but foreshadow where we are going as a species.
Currently I am reading 'I Know This Much is True' by Wally Lamb, and 'Art Lover: A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim' by Anton Gill. The latter is rather dry reading but still interesting.
I just started The Secret History - I'm only about 75 pages into it, but I'm not really blown away so far. I'm hoping that I start to like the main character, as at this point he just seems rather lame to me. It doesn't help that I'm not real jazzed about Lin in Shantaram either, although I am loving the book. (Yes, I started it early! I just couldn't help myself as I've been on a big India kick lately.)
Just finished reading The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific by J. Maarten Troost. What a great read! A true story about the author and his girlfriend who go live on an atoll in the South Pacific. Very easy read, funny, and quite eye-opening.
Macy, let me know what you end up thinking of The Secret History. I started that one a while back and just couldn't get into it, although I've always meant to get back to it.
Can't remember if i posted my current read or not.I am reading the Secret which I'm almost done and it's okay.It what I expected it to be.But it will be my very first bc meeting at my house.Ihope it goes well.I have never hosted a rl bc before.I also started Bloody Mary which I' am sure I will enjoy.
Jenna, I'm glad you enjoyed Sex Lives. I've had a copy sitting on my shelves for years and just haven't gotten around to it yet.
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Macy and JT - oh no! I LOVED The Secret History.Ken, I have The Book of Dave on my shelf at home and have meant to pick it up loads of times but something else always grabs my attention. I haven't read anything else by him but I have heard good things so if you get round to reading it before I do let me know what you think. Also, how was David Cook? I'm dying to know.
Ken, I can't STAND Will Self... there's just something about him that rubs me up the wrong way... Can't figure out what though.
Oooh, Kirsty - fighting talk!
lol, not fighting talk... just my opinion :)
Sam:Thought the Jungle was fabulous. Listened to Good to Great on CD and Jim Collins rules. Still refer people to that book even though am no longer working.
Linda
I'm not sure if he's a London cabbie... I know of him from a comedy show on which he was a panel member - Shooting Stars. I've never read his books, my comments about hating him were based on him as a person lol.
hehe... I thought it didn't sound quite right
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Am interested in what you think of the Book Thief. I got interested in it from another website of books reviews and lovvvvvvvvvvvvvvvved it. It is pretty dark (for some) but I couldn't put it down.
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