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[Jodi]

I just finished Water for Elephants and I think that I am going to start reading The Weight of Silence.

I am still slowly reading A Wonderful Little Girl: The True Story of Sarah Jacob, the Welsh Fasting Girlfor some reason this short book is taking me forever to read.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

Finished The Black Tower by Louis Bayard, and it was very good.

[Sasha]

Finished The Name of the Rose and read Frankenstein yesterday on the back porch while "working from home." Frankenstein is staggeringly good. Name of the Rose...eh. Okay.

Just started Seven Ages of Paris by Alistair Horne. How awesome is the name Alistair?

[Donna]

Lori Ann wrote: "Paula- yes Sarah's Key was very sad but I liked it too. Wish there had been a little more from Sarah's point of view."

THANK YOU! Jeez I have been saying that forever LOL

[El]

Alex wrote: "Just started Seven Ages of Paris by Alistair Horne. How awesome is the name Alistair?"

Wasn't Alistair the name of one of the kids on You Can't Do That on Television? Did anyone else watch that?

Every time I see you post about that book, my interest grows a little more. How far are you?

[Paula]

Lori Ann wrote: "Paula- yes Sarah's Key was very sad but I liked it too. Wish there had been a little more from Sarah's point of view.

Yes, I agree Lori Ann. I liked her part of the story more than Julia's but both were good.

[Sasha]

I just finished the preface. So it's a bit early to judge.

[Lisa]

I just started The Riddle-Master of Hed by Patricia A. McKillip. I'm reading her because Literature Map said she is close to Guy Gavriel Kay. Only 20 pages in, but I have high hopes.

[Ruby]

Judith- I love Brown Girl in a Ring!

Lisa- all McKillip is good, and that trilogy may be the best she wrote

[Juniper]

Currently, I am reading Adam Bede by George Eliot.

[KHoopMan]

El- you are totally right about Alistair : ) Great show. Gross, yet awesome.

[Jayme]

El wrote: "Alex wrote: "Just started Seven Ages of Paris by Alistair Horne. How awesome is the name Alistair?"

Wasn't Alistair the name of one of the kids on You Can't Do That on Television? Did anyone el..."

I DON'T KNOW! (At least I think that's what they said right before they'd get slimed). Best show ever! Yay for random 80's tv references, El.

[Linda]

Just finished Anna Quindlen's Every Last One and would give it a 3.5. I wanted to "really" like this book, but it took the downhill car on the roller coaster ride about midway and seemed to recover later, but not with the same enthusiasm as some of her other books.

[Liz]

I recently finished Catching Fire and a re-read of Dracula. I'm now working on Brick Lane.

[Donna]

Gonna start Life As We Knew It

[Lianne]

I've started reading Terry Pratchett's Going Postal and Timothy Wave's The Orthodox Church: New Edition =)

[Sydney]

Just finished A Reliable Wife- it was an okay read. And just started The Well of Lost Plots- I am also struggling through One Hundred Years of Solitude there are so many Jose's I feel like I need to create a chart to keep them all straight!

[Christy]

Hannah wrote: "Christy, I hope you find something that will catch you soon. I know how frustrating that can be. I have Odd Thomas on my to-read book, as it looked interesting. Have you read it? (..."

Hannah, I really liked Odd Thomas but haven't been as thrilled with the subsequent books in the series. He's a very endearing character though.

[Karina]

reading A Passage to India by E.M. Forster. Struggling a little bit with it, hopefully it gets more interesting!

[Maria]

i'm a little more than halfway through Alice I Have Been. i'm liking it, but it is a bit of a different book. i'd like to hear others thoughts about it, particularly the (fictional?) relationship between Carroll and the family. did anyone else find that all a bit uncomfortable? i think i find it that way because it's obvious as a reader what *could* have been happening. however, the way it was handled in Victorian England, and the way they viewed things during that period of time, could have seriously colored peoples perceptions of what may have been happening. just wanting to get someone else's thoughts on it.

[Beth]

I'm just starting Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

[F1Wild]

Finished My Splendid Concubine late (as usual) last night and had to decide between Honolulu by Alan Brennert or The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson.

Well, started reading the first few pages of Honolulu and it had me hooked. I hope this is as gripping as Moloka'i was.

[Jacqueline]

During the semester I only managed to read one book with my huge course load, which was Of Human Bondage.

Now that I'm officially on summer break I've picked up Science Under Siege, a non-fiction compilation of essays that were featured in the magazine The Skeptical Inquirer. Loving it so far!

[Bhumi]

I just started The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. Reminds of The Catcher in the Rye.

[Susanna]

Jo wrote: "I'm reading Ash Wednesday"

Hey Jo, what do you think of it so far? I should really re-read both of his books. I can hardly remember what happened in either.

[Sasha]

Maria - I haven't read Alice Have I Been, but I've heard quite a bit about the hypothetical relationship between Carroll and Alice. And you're right, they dealt with such things very differently back then, huh?

There's zero hard evidence that Carroll had romantic feelings toward Alice, much less that he did anything about them, but the most scandalous rumor is that he proposed marriage to her when she was 11. The gossip arises mainly from two facts:

1) Carroll's close friendship with her family abruptly ends with no public explanation given;
2) The pages in Carroll's diary from exactly the time of the split have been torn out and lost.

And one somewhat cloudy idea:
3) Carroll liked to draw pictures of naked kids and had no real romantic attachments to adult women. This is controversial partly because it may (or may not) have been the fashion at the time to draw naked kids as a "symbol of innocence" (good Lord), and Carroll may (or may not) have had several scandalous affairs with perfectly grown-up women.

Alternate theories for the sudden split include an improper relationship between Carroll and the Liddell family's governess, or one between Carroll and Alice's older sister Lorina, or between Carroll and Alice's mother (also Lorina).

This has always felt to me like one of those controversies where we'll never get anywhere, so we might as well forget about it. Like whether Shakespeare was really Shakespeare.

[Jayme]

I've read that naked kid art was abundant in Victorian times too...but wouldn't that just make it easier for the perverts to look legitimate? I don't think it proves innocence.

But yeah, unless someone finds the long lost diaries of Lewis Carrol, I don't think this mystery is worth debating either.

That book looks like it might be interesting. I'll have to check it out.

[Sasha]

Jayme wrote: "I've read that naked kid art was abundant in Victorian times too...but wouldn't that just make it easier for the perverts to look legitimate? I don't think it proves innocence."

Well, wouldn't it also make it easier for the innocent to look perverted? I agree, it doesn't prove innocence; I don't think it proves anything at all.

[Jayme]

Agreed!

[Ashley]

Finished Heart of the Matter- Emily Giffin last night. It was pretty good.

Will start Change of Heart-Jodi Picoult today at lunch.

[Sasha]

How's Consilience treating you, Jayme?

[Flora]

Finished Memoirs of a Geishawhich I really enjoyed. And I've just begun The Alchemist

[Kelly]

Kellyflower wrote: "Tram wrote: "Now, I'm reading "

I didn't really care for that book. It wasn't badly written, just a very "soft" quiet book. Thats how I thought of it as I put it d..."


Yeah, you are right. After finishing it, I feel the plot is a little too light and not too many things impress me.

And I am reading Storm Glass by Maria V. Snyder

[Jayme]

Consilience is good so far, but I'm only on Chapter 3 of 12. It's been a busy work week and when I'm tired, non-fiction, no matter how interesting, never fails to put me to sleep.

[El]

Just starting A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks. I won it through the First-Reads Giveaway and after a painful few months of waiting, it finally arrived. Now I can spend some quality time with it.

[Sherrie]

About half way through The Map of True Places and I am enjoying it. I picked up The Lace Reader today by the same author on the bargain book shelf at Borders. I really like her writing style, and it's been on my tbr shelf for a while. I'm also partway through Reading Lolita in Tehran for my face to face bookclub. It's proving to be a slow read for me, have to stop and read slowly a lot of the time with all the political speak.

[Patricia]

Beth wrote: "I'm just starting Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer"

Beth, I saw him on Ellen a few weeks ago; I've been wanting to read that book. Let me know what you think of it when you're done.

[Jayme]

I'm about half way through ttyl...taking a quick and yet still time-wasting break from Consilience.

[Tracy]

I just started The House of the Spirits . I wasn't sure what to expect since I've not read anything of hers, but so far, it's pretty good.

[Lori, Super Mod]

Jacqueline wrote: "During the semester I only managed to read one book with my huge course load, which was Of Human Bondage.

Now that I'm officially on summer break I've picked up [book:Science Under ..."

What did you think of Of Human Bondage?

[Carol]

I just started The Lace Reader. So far I am not liking it. It is meh for me.

[Paula]

Carol (akittykat) wrote: "I just started The Lace Reader. So far I am not liking it. It is meh for me.

This was one that I really liked Carol but a lot of others didn't. : )

[Samantha McNulty]

Carol (akittykat) wrote: "I just started The Lace Reader. So far I am not liking it. It is meh for me."

I added that book to my TBR list a month or two ago, mainly because I read a great review on it.

[Michelle♥]

I am on three different books right now. The one I just picked up is Brave New World. I'm only on the 19th page and I'm freaked the f out! What?? this is going to be intense. Love dystopians.

I am still slowly going through Memoirs of a Geisha, Jurassic Park, and I just finished my last (owned) Sookie Stackhouse #8, From Dead To Worse. Talk about a snoozer. I feel like that series is just dying off (no pun intended).

[Paula]

Sam wrote: "Carol (akittykat) wrote: "I just started The Lace Reader. So far I am not liking it. It is meh for me."

I added that book to my TBR list a month or two ago, mainly because I read ...

I hope you enjoy it Sam, it was a favorite for me. But we don't all like the same things and that's ok too.

[Lori Ann]

Michelle isn't Brave New World great?!

I'm reading The War of the Worlds and The Road.

[Alisha Marie]

I'm reading A Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehane and though I'm not too far into it, I can tell I'm going to like it. I'm also dipping into Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales by Stephen King.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

Last night I finished Aladdin's Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World. A bit dense, with some organizational choices I wouldn't have made. Still interesting.

[Mary]

I just recieved an ARC of The Nobodies Album so I'm reading that even though it makes me feel guilty about all the other books in my TRB that are aging quietly as they wait for me to pick them up.

[Sasha]

Very interesting subject for me, Susanna. I've had my eye on Lost History: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers, and Artists for a while...I go back and forth on whether it looks like the right book.