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message 21401: by Paula (new)

Paula | 1098 comments I'll be starting "South of Broad" Pat Conroy this afternoon sometime.


message 21402: by Laura (new)

Laura (thatlibrarianlady) @ Bernie and Kristi

I do that as well. I like it though. I like having the option to read something else depending on my mood.


Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (susannag) | 1736 comments I really liked South of Broad.


message 21404: by Paula (new)

Paula | 1098 comments Susanna wrote: "I really liked South of Broad.

Thanks Susanna, I'm looking forward to it.



message 21405: by Ralph (new)

Ralph McEwen Flora wrote: "I just started 1984 and I am really liking this one, not sure why I hadn't read this one before now.

Am also about 100 pages in ofThe Physick Book of Deliverance Dane..."


If you enjoy 1984, you might look at This Perfect Day by Ira Levin. Some say its even better than 1984. I like them both.


message 21406: by Jane (new)

Jane | 221 comments Thank you for the heads up about This Perfect Day. I was unaware of this and have ordered it from Amazon. None of my libraries have a copy so I will have to wait until November when the new paperback is released. Thanks again ---


message 21407: by Shary (new)

Shary (sharyfg) | 104 comments I'm reading Dead in the Family (Sookie Stackhouse, #10) by Charlaine Harris and Eclipse (Twilight, #3) by Stephenie Meyer


message 21408: by Julie (new)

Julie (readerjules) Carol (Kitty) wrote: "Cleaning what is that?"

No idea....


message 21409: by Ann from S.C. (new)

Ann from S.C. | 1395 comments I finished THE BTIGHTEST STAR IN THE SKY by Marian Keys and gave it 5 stars. It was great! Now I am starting 2666 by Roberto Bolano. For those of you that have read it, is it any good. I do value your thoughts.


message 21410: by Carol (new)

Carol Tough book to read. Happy reading . I won't say yea nor nay, you be the judge.


message 21411: by Madeline (new)

Madeline | 293 comments Nice to know it's not just me Rachel, maybe I need some fluff to get me through it. All I can think about right now is watching True Blood and Veronica Mars, and playing Words with Friends lol.


message 21412: by Flora (new)

Flora Smith (bookwormflo) Ralph wrote: "Flora wrote: "I just started 1984 and I am really liking this one, not sure why I hadn't read this one before now.

Am also about 100 pages in ofThe Physick Book of Deliverance..."</i>

I added Perfect Day to my to-read list. I had also heard that [book:The Handmaid's Tale
went along with 1984 I'm picked it up over the wkd and planning on reading it when I finish 1984



message 21413: by KHoopMan (new)

KHoopMan  (eliza_morgan) | 151 comments I just finished A Prayer for Owen Meany and loved every single sentence in the 543 page book. UNBELIEVABLE. I did not want it to end. I needed a book like that- I feel like Suzanne, reading a string of so-so books. Owen Meany was amazing.

Now, I'm reading The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee by Sarah Silverman. I've been waiting for this from the library for a long time. I love her sense of humor. After that, I have a stack of library books to get through...I raided the library this weekend!!


message 21414: by Marti (last edited Jul 26, 2010 06:39PM) (new)

Marti (marjay) | 985 comments The Handmaid's Tale is a book that I have never been able to let go even tho I read it for the first time over twenty years ago.

I picked up and ARC copy of Daughters of the Witching Hill from my local bookstore. I am starting it tonight.

I looked up the word cleaning and it is related to the word work.... scary


message 21415: by Vicki (new)

Vicki Oh Marti, I love to hear what you think of Daughters of Witching Hill. I have that on my shelf to read.


message 21417: by Alisha Marie (new)

Alisha Marie (endlesswonderofreading) | 715 comments I finished Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani and I really liked it. Now I'm reading Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit by John Douglas.


message 21418: by Kaion (new)

Kaion (kaionvin) A Tale of Two Cities was good (why hadn't anyone told me about it? bet it gets better on reread)- just started Beirut 39: New Writing from the Arab World 'cause it arrived today.


message 21419: by Huda (new)

Huda i went shopping on Sunday to Sunday bazaar (kind of a flea market in pakistan) I didn’t know you can get really good books from there and half the prize and guess what brand new! Got a lot of books from there but of them that I would like to mention and m reading these days id the “the bedside book of laughter” its kind of antique book published in 1966…. But I cant find it on good reads,,,, so that’s one of the books im reading these days


"the bedside book of laugthers"


message 21420: by Esther (last edited Jul 27, 2010 04:01AM) (new)

Esther (eshchory) | 575 comments I'm plodding through Northern Lights.

Yesterday I read an erotica novella Beth's Acceptance for a break.
Talk-about mental whiplash!! Sort of outside my comfort-zone and not really the kind of break I was looking for.

I think I may get started on Frankenstein.


message 21421: by Patricia (new)

Patricia | 185 comments I finished Dubliners by James Joyces - a bunch of short stories which take place in Dublin, Ireland in the early 20th century. I liked them particularly Eveline, The Boarding House, A Little Cloud, and Clay.

Now I've moved on to Deliverance by James Dickey.


message 21422: by Lori, Super Mod (new)

Lori (tnbbc) | 10631 comments Mod
Has anyone read Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto: A Novel? It's an interesting book that seems slow to unwind... I know it's hiding something in it's pages, but it refuses to show it... I am about 100 pages in and hate putting it down because I feel I right on the cusp of finding out....


message 21423: by Jayme (new)

Jayme (jayme-reads) Started Price of Altruism last night for a group read. So far so good.

Still slogging through Infinite Jest. Very slow going on that one, but not really in a bad way.


message 21425: by Joanie (new)

Joanie | 714 comments I finally started The Passage and Anna Karenina-both have but out on the nightstand waiting. I also just started the audio version of Saving CeeCee Honeycutt which I really like so far.


message 21426: by Turner (new)

Turner | 34 comments Has anybody read The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet ? I just saw that it was long-listed for the Booker Prize and was wondering what anybody might think about it.


message 21427: by Flora (new)

Flora Smith (bookwormflo) I finished The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane which I really liked and have just started The Girl Who Played with Fire. So far I'm not overly impressed with this one. I've heard its as good as the first one so I won't quit just yet.


message 21428: by Turner (new)

Turner | 34 comments Flora wrote: "I finished The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane which I really liked and have just started The Girl Who Played with Fire. So far I'm not overly impressed with this one..."

I really loved The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , but didn't quite love The Girl Who Played with Fire as much, though the third one (and you definitely have to read the second to understand it) was better than the first (in my opinion). Keep with it! And even if the second isn't as good as the first or third, it's still really good!


message 21429: by Da (new)

Da | 1 comments I love Dragons myself. Great Posts!I just got it now an ebook for 4.99 @ http://digitalpages.ecwid.com/simple-...
They got the guy from James Bond to be in the movie.....The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo


message 21430: by Carol (new)

Carol Turner wrote: "Has anybody read The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet ? I just saw that it was long-listed for the Booker Prize and was wondering what anybody might think about it."

I finished it a couple of weeks ago. Mitchell knows how to write a story.


message 21431: by Turner (new)

Turner | 34 comments Carol (Kitty) wrote: "Turner wrote: "Has anybody read The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet ? I just saw that it was long-listed for the Booker Prize and was wondering what anybody might think about it."
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Thanks for your reply! I think I will have to procure it very soon because the synopsis I read of it sounded very appealing!


message 21432: by Carol (new)

Carol Here is my very short review.

http://www.goodreads.com/review/edit/...


message 21433: by Turner (new)

Turner | 34 comments Carol (Kitty) wrote: "Here is my very short review.

http://www.goodreads.com/review/edit/..."


I'd love to read it, but somehow the link you gave doesn't seem to work :/ It seems to be getting very good reviews.


message 21434: by Jayme (new)

Jayme (jayme-reads) Your profile is private, Carol. ;)


message 21435: by Carol (new)

Carol Oops sorry . The book is very good Turner. In fact I just finished Black Swan Green and have ordered Cloud Atlas. Right now I am readingElizabeth Costello. Coetzee is one of my favorite writers


message 21436: by Knarik (new)

Knarik I am reading "The Twelve Caesars" by Suetonius which was written around 120 AD, it is a great story about the twelve caesars (from Julius Caesar to Domitian), their life and times. I really recommand it!


message 21437: by Mona (new)

Mona Garg (k1721m) | 116 comments Rosabelle wrote: "Just finished Airhead. It was quite okay, light reading. I just started reading Sundays at Tiffany's by James Patterson. I've always read James Patterson..."

Rosabelle, have you readSuzanne's Diary for Nicholas? It's one of all-time favorites. A co-worker lent it to me a while back saying that I had to read it. Her sister had sent it to her in the mail. BTW, I really miss this co-worker. She was a magazine junkie like me and we discussed books/movies/life.


message 21438: by Mona (new)

Mona Garg (k1721m) | 116 comments Laura Ashlee wrote: "@ Bernie and Kristi

I do that as well. I like it though. I like having the option to read something else depending on my mood."


Laura, Bernie, & Kristi:

I've got 4 books going right now:
Every Last One
Never Look Away: A Thriller
Half Life
We Need to Talk About Kevin

I'm liking all of them so far. Every Last One I picked up at my library's ongoing book sale. Hardcover for $2. The rest are library checkouts.


message 21439: by Sasha (new)

Sasha I'm reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer for the first time since around puberty. It's still awesome.


message 21440: by Carol (new)

Carol Are you home Mr.Alex. If so welcome bbbbbbbbbbbbaaaaaaaaacccccckkkkk.

I must say Elizabeth Costello gives you quite a look into the mind of Coetzee. I like it. There are no if's and's or but's with him.


message 21441: by Sasha (new)

Sasha I'm back, Carol! I got a lot of reading done. :)


message 21442: by Carol (new)

Carol That is great. List please.


message 21443: by Sasha (last edited Jul 28, 2010 08:35AM) (new)

Sasha Why, certainly.

- A Tale of Two Cities (because I was in London and Paris, so, y'know, like, duh)
- Henry V and a couple chapters of Shakespeare's English Kings: History, Chronicle, and Drama (I had no reason for anything else I read)
- Journey to the Centre of the Earth
- Treasure Island
- Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors
- The first two books of the Holy Bible.

Woo! That's what 16 hours on a plane, 6 hours in airports, 4 hours on trains and unknown hours drinking coffee and/or wine in cafes and/or my uncle's garden will get you.


message 21444: by Betsy (new)

Betsy (mistymtladi) | 511 comments Finished I,Alex Cross today and was satisfied with the ending. I did wonder if he was trying to make a political comment about one of our former Presidents or if Patterson was inspired by a "what if" scenario. :D


message 21445: by Carol (new)

Carol That is a nice list. A Tale of Two Cities is one of my favorites.I have never read Journey to the Center of the Earth.


message 21446: by Sasha (new)

Sasha Tale of Two Cities was my first Dickens (at least as an adult), and I thought it was staggering good. Journey to the Center isn't my favorite Jules Verne, but he never does me wrong.


message 21447: by Carol (new)

Carol I seen the Journey movie does that count. heheheh


message 21448: by Sasha (new)

Sasha Heh...probably not. But I am curious as to how true to the book it is. Probably not at all.


message 21449: by Max (new)

Max Even though I have absolutely no experience in filmmaking, I always wanted to remake a film version of A Tale of Two Cities... I think I could do a stand up job, despite my lack of experience and education in that area. Not actually, but I like to imagine I could.

Anyway, A Tale of Two Cities is one of my favorite books ever. And I had to read it in high school. You know a book is great when you have to read it for school and you still like it.


message 21450: by Sasha (new)

Sasha Michelle wrote: "You know a book is great when you have to read it for school and you still like it. "

Well said.

I was thinking about a film version of ToTC while I was reading it too. Dickens has such a flair for visually stunning scenes, I kept imagining how they would look.

Looks like there've been a bunch of versions, the most recent being a BBC miniseries in '89.


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