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[Linda]

Just finished reading . I would definitely give it a 4.2 and highly recommend it. Have not read much on this era, but the story and historical detail were fascinating.

[Leila]

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith. Very fun read! I am glad my librarian recommended it to me. I'm not a fan of detective fiction but this one was different and delightful. It's also fun that it's set in Botswana :)

[F1Wild]

Fiona wrote: "After Dark by Haruki Murakami my 5th Murakami."
Just read his quote (which I found interesting, especially since reading it here):
"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." — Haruki Murakami (Norwegian Wood)

[F1Wild]

For everyone poo-pooing Steinbeck's dog Charley please reread the title of the book: Travels with Charley: In Search of America! :-)))))))
Anyway, I thought the book delivered more of a social commentary of the times & places than a "travel" book. He spoke of wanting to meet people and experience their lives off the beaten path, not just speeding along the highways going from one big city or popular place to another.

[Sasha]

Katie, do you look real carefully into how accurate historical fiction is? The only name I'm real familiar with is McCullough, who I gather is meticulous.

[F1Wild]

Jodi wrote: "I decided to put Water for Elephants aside for a day or so..."
I saw Robert Pattinson on Ellen and he spoke of shooting the Water for Elephants movie with Reese Witherspoon. Sean Penn or Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) have been rumored to be playing August and there is a possibility of Hal Holbrook playing the older Jacob.

[Julie]

F1Wild wrote: He spoke of wanting to meet people and experience their lives off the beaten path, not just speeding along the highways going from one big city or popular place to another. "

Yes he did. But it seemed like he talked to his dog more than other people. As a matter of fact, I thought the whole book had a very lonely feel to it. Just not what I was hoping it to be.

[Paula]

I loved the book "Water for Elephants" but shoot, Pattinson just doesn't do it for me! I do like Hal Holbrook though.

[Timmie]

Just started Naked Lunch(Burroughs) yesterday.
So far it's really good, a bit hard to follow though.

For those of you that have read it, do you think it's a bad thing that the little vignettes don't really stick in my mind all that well?

[Brenda]

I am reading for an upcoming Discussion Night, "Velva Jean Learns to Drive by Jennifer Niven." I am enjoying the story.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

Alex wrote: "Katie, do you look real carefully into how accurate historical fiction is? The only name I'm real familiar with is McCullough, who I gather is meticulous."

Colleen McCullough is indeed meticulous, and generally has long author's notes as well, explaining how much is attested from the ancient sources, which is very useful. I am quite fond of her Rome series.

If you're interested in historical mysteries, C.J. Sansom's set in the Tudor period are, I think, excellent. The first one is Dissolution.

[Lekeshua]

I am currently reading Live to Tell by Lisa Gardner. I am a little over halfway done and I am enjoying all the characters with their personal issues in the background along with the main mystery in the forefront. I feel as if I have been reading this book forever since I am getting little read time in between my babies, husband, house duties and work. I won this book from GR giveaway. It is my first and I am hoping I win more.

[Sasha]

Timmie, no, don't worry about it. Most of that book is just Burroughs raving while bashed on heroin anyway. I doubt he remembered much of it either. And keep in mind that according to Burroughs, you can read the chapters in any order you want.

Susanna, I feel like I've had enough Tudor stuff for a lifetime at this point...but what about the Plantaganets? That's sortof where I'm headed next. And the Renaissance, finally.

[Timmie]

Alex, Thank you so much, that's exactly what i was thinking.

[Lori, Super Mod]

just finished The Second Coming, and about to start Michael Kimball's Dear Everybody - a fictional collection of unsent letters, conversations with people, and diary entries from a man who committed suicide.

[Julie]

Lori wrote: "just finished The Second Coming, and about to start Michael Kimball's Dear Everybody - a fictional collection of unsent letters, conversations with people, and diary entries from a m..."

Can't wait to see what you think of Dear Everybody. It sounds different.

[Lori, Super Mod]

Im already a good third of the way in and it's quite humorous. and a little sad. and very creative.

[Julie]

Lori wrote: "Im already a good third of the way in and it's quite humorous. and a little sad. and very creative."

Humorous? I wouldnt expect that!

[Katie]

Alex wrote: "Katie, do you look real carefully into how accurate historical fiction is? The only name I'm real familiar with is McCullough, who I gather is meticulous."

Somewhat, I'm more concerned with accuracy than I used to be. I'm less patient with liberties taken. I used to read my mom's bodice-rippers that cloaked themselves as historic fiction.

For instance, I read The Pillars of the Earth recently. Except for some technical detail, I would not recommend it as historic fiction. It was entertaining, but not educational, except for the technical detail, as I mentioned earlier.

I'm also trying to resolve in my mind the difference between historic fiction and cultural fiction, as they're often so closely related. As a psych major and a law school grad, I probably trend more to cultural/ethical/moral fiction, and let people like you guide me to some great historic reads.

[Alisha Marie]

F1Wild wrote: "Jodi wrote: "I decided to put Water for Elephants aside for a day or so..."
I saw Robert Pattinson on Ellen and he spoke of shooting the Water for Elephants movie with Reese Witherspoo..."

I am so annoyed at casting for choosing Robert Pattison of all actors for Water for Elephants, especially if you consider had it not been for Twilight, he might've not gotten the role. He just doesn't seem to be too strong an actor to handle this role and it seems like he got it based on notoriety. That's just my opinion, though. I do like everyone else's casting, though. I can definitely see Sean Penn as August.

Anyway, I'm reading Amy and Isabelle: A Novel by Elizabeth Strout and while I think it's okay, I don't really love it. I'm also still reading Dracula which is kind of lagging.

[Lori, Super Mod]

Julie wrote: "Lori wrote: "Im already a good third of the way in and it's quite humorous. and a little sad. and very creative."

Humorous? I wouldnt expect that!"

It's the way some of the letters are written. Like this one:

Dear Mom and Dad: Here's the reason that I pulled the stitching out of my feather pillow and then pulled all of the feathers out of it too: I thought that I was going to find a bird.

or this one:

Dear Mom and Dad: Do you ever wish that the sperm and the egg that became me wasn't me? I'm sure that you must have been expecting somebody else from all of that pleasure.

[Sasha]

Katie, that's really cool. I like historical fiction, but I need it to be accurate. I'm adding you to my list of trusted historical fiction experts, along with Susanna and F1 and some others. :) Thanks.

I was recently both impressed and irritated by Robert Harris's Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome, 'cause it was totally scrupulous most of the way - it's about Cicero - but took a nose dive at the very end.

[Lori, Super Mod]

Here is the book trailer for Dear Everybody.
It's quite long. Just watch the first couple minutes - so you dont ruin the whole book yourself...It's read basically word from word.

http://www.michael-kimball.com/DearEv...

[Dija]

Currently reading

[Sydney]

Just started reading Some Girls: My Life in a Harem

[Maria]

i finished Brava Valentine yesterday. i enjoyed it, but didn't like it as much as the first, Very Valentine.

i think i've dedcided to set aside Pillars of the Earth for now. i'm enjoying it, but it's so lengthy, i read 100 pages in a day and felt like i got nowhere. we shall see.

[Brenda]

My son and I just finished reading the first in the series, Sisiters Grimm,"The Fairy-Tale Detectives" by Michael Buckley.

[Timmie]

I know, i know, Not part of the discussion(kinda), but this is the only group i am currently a part of.
But, did anyone else' status get erased?

[Sasha]

I think mine's cool, Timmie.

You probably get this way more than you'd like to, but every time I see your name I hear the kid from South Park.

[Alisha Marie]

I finished Amy and Isabelle: A Novel by Elizabeth Strout last night and only found it okay. I just didn't really care about the characters. I'm now reading Wonder When You'll Miss Me by Amanda Davis.

[Lori, Super Mod]

Finished Dear Everybody, and have started THEM: poems 1999-2002 - a collection of poems.

[Maria]

i started The Espressologist and it's ok so far. it's a YAL book, and it shows. there have been some questionable actions/thoughts on the part of the main character, which really say YAL to me. however, the idea is really cool, so i'm hoping i enjoy the book overall.

[tiasreads]

I'm reading One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd along with One Hundred Years of Solitude. I had to have a backup book, because One Hundred Years is proving hard to get through.

[Timmie]

Alex wrote: "I think mine's cool, Timmie.

You probably get this way more than you'd like to, but every time I see your name I hear the kid from South Park."

that's fine. It's not as bad as hearing someone yelling 'TIMMAH' and getting all excited.

[Judith]

Reading two...Alraune. on my Kindle. Old World German Horror....creepy for sure! And Brown Girl in the Ring....dystopian with Afro-Caribbean overtones, although it's set in Toronto!

[FromAna]

Digging to America

[Jayme]

Started Chapterhouse Dune this morning. Not expecting much from it, but I have the disease where when I start a series I have to finish it...so hurray for the last book!

[Madeline]

I actually liked the entire Dune series. However I don't remember it in it's entirety, just bits and pieces are really vivid in my memory.

Brenda, I love the Fairytale Detectives! Although the oldest gets on my nerves until about the fourth book I think. Her issues are believable however so I forgive it.

I'm now reading Toads and Diamonds which I won in a goodreads giveaway. It's the first giveaway I've read and I hope they are all so good!

[Maria]

i finished The Espressologist today at work. it was ok, i really liked the premise (matching people based on their drink orders at a coffee shop) but it was very much a YAL book.

i picked up Alice I Have Been so i'll be starting that next.

[Petra]

I just started World of Wonders today. It's the last of the Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies. I've enjoyed the other two books so have high hopes for this one, too.

I finished Great Expectations this morning. I really enjoyed it, although it was a bit wordy. Great story, though.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

Read an Ellis Peters (Brother Cadfael's Penance: The Twentieth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael) today. A nice read.

And finished The Black Tower, by Louis Bayard, last night, which was a fun mystery about the lost Dauphin, Louis XVII.

[Carol]

Picked up Anansi Boys at the library. When I finish The Book Thief I will start on it.

[Kellyflower]

I'm just about to finish up Rules of Attraction and then I'm on to Spells & finally Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

[Mary]

I read Fever Dream and The Bell Witch: An American Haunting over the weekend. Both were only so-so. This afternoon I decided to start The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and am really liking it so far.

[Sydney]

finishedSome Girls: My Life in a Harem and I just started A Reliable Wife

[Lillie]

I'm reading 2 books at the moment, my car book- A Rather Curious Engagement & my house book- The Real History of the End of the World. Two very different reads.

[Sasha]

People love that Henrietta Lacks book, huh? One of those books everyone's talking about.

[Julie]

Alex wrote: "People love that Henrietta Lacks book, huh? One of those books everyone's talking about."

Sounds interesting. I added it to my list.

[Lori Ann]

Right now I'm reading Sarah's Key and Tender Is the Night.

[Christy]

I'm sort of still reading The Little Friend and The Shadow of the Wind but can't really get into either. I finished Dead in the Family and liked it. I started Odd Hours but haven't gotten very far in that one either. I'm having a really hard time finding something that will really catch me. grrrr.