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What are you reading?
Stephanie wrote: "Rosabelle wrote: "Stephanie wrote: "Currently reading the Gemma Doyle series :)"Hi Stephanie, how is the Gemma Doyle stories.. i have my eye on the books at the bookstore yesterday, but wasn't su..."
Thanks Stephanie.. Now i want to go and buy the first book :)
Next read for our book club is The Art of Racing in the Rain - which I look forward to very much, having heard great things about it.
Just finished reading The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger... Phew.... Now i'm reading The Enemy by Lee Child. Only a few pages in, but looks like I will enjoy this book
Patricia wrote: "I finished Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro last night. What an interesting novel. Very sad & disturbing but also very unique & well written. I'm curious to see how it'll translate ..."Two awesome books in a row! I don't think you'll be disappointed with Irving's latest. :o)
I'm reading "A Twisted Ladder" Rhodi Hawk
. I'm not very far into it yet but it's promising so far.
Rosabelle wrote: "Just finished reading The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger... Phew.... Now i'm reading The Enemy by Lee Child. Only a few pages in, but looks like I will enjoy this book"You didn't like The Catcher in the Rye? I've read it twice and really enjoyed it both times.
I'm reading Diary by Chuck Pahlaniuk, I just started it and I can't decide if it's any good yet.
Heather wrote: "Kristin wrote: "I just finished 
, I started 
the other night before bed and made it 20 pages in.. I think I am going to try to breeze t..."Not Kristin, but I personally loved The Society of S. I thought it was a very unique spin on modern-day vampires. This is coming from someone who hasn't really liked any vampire stories she's read, but this one.
I finished A City of Ghosts: Stories and I thought that it was just okay. A couple of the stories in here were creepy, but for the most part, I was a bit underwhelmed. I've just started Firefly Lane and I'm really liking it so far.
I just finished The Picture of Dorian Gray (blah) and started Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. I need to move some more books to my iPod Touch because I'm about out of options.
Heather wrote: "Kristin wrote: "I just finished , I started the other night before bed and made it 20 pages in.. I think I am going to try to breeze t..."My best friend LOVED the book and wouldn't stop talking about it, I was going to buy it at the book store full price a few months back but ended up finding it for a dollar at goodwill.
I liked it, I am very glad that I didn't run out and pay full price for it when she told me about it. I found the beginning boring. The ending for me was the best part.. it got better towards the end. and I do agree with Alisha it is a nice modern twist on vampires.. no glittering or anything stupid like that LOL.
Usually I find myself liking a lot of the books that everyone else does, but this one was iffy.. maybe I just wasnt in the right mind-set for it.. coming off of 15 Stephanie Plum books...
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Yahooo!!! Hooray for Blindness! Sorry I am just seeing this now, life stops me from checking the threads sometimes :)
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Miss GP, what did you think of Blindness?
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look at all the Blindness love! I am so happy people are reading Jose Saramago (rip)
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I have finished David Moody's sequel to Hater - Dog Blood. I favor Hater slightly, but that is the case with all book series for me. A great new monster lit series, though. Watch out Zombies and Vamps, Haters are coming to take your place!
I finally finshed THE CONCUBINES DAUGHTER by Pai Kit Fai and gave it 3 stars. Now am reading BLACK WAVE by John and Jane Silverwood.
Hater looks good. Do you know when the third book is supposed to come out? I hate reading a series that's not complete because I hate cliffhangers.
Flora wrote: "Finally finished The Blind Assassin, I was begining to think the book never ended. I'm moving on to The Black Cat as well as [book:The Dracula Dossier: A Novel of Su..."
How did you like The Blind Assassin?
Catie wrote: "Hey Alex and Claire - If you're going to read Oryx and Crake, then you must follow it with the sequel called The Year of the Flood. I actually didn't really LOVE Oryx and Crake until I read The Ye..."Thanks, Catie - I'll be sure to read The Year of the Flood after O&C.
I completely agree...basically if you read Year of the Flood first, it may be highly confusing w/o reading Oryx and Crake first. But would be helpful to still read it.Claire wrote: "Catie wrote: "Hey Alex and Claire - If you're going to read Oryx and Crake, then you must follow it with the sequel called The Year of the Flood. I actually didn't really LOVE Oryx and Crake until..."
Hey folks, I need your help!I have a dim memory of a book about the Nigerian Prince email scam, where it turns out that it's not a scam - there really is a Nigerian Prince who needs your help and will give you a million dollars or whatever. Does that ring a bell for any of you? If it exists, I figure someone here knows about it. Thanks!
Oh yeah - and I'm reading Giordano Bruno: Philosopher/Heretic, nonfiction about the 16th century philosopher monk who was burned at the stake for insisting that the universe is infinite and made of atoms. Terrific so far.
Alex wrote: "Hey folks, I need your help!I have a dim memory of a book about the Nigerian Prince email scam, where it turns out that it's not a scam - there really is a Nigerian Prince who needs your help and..."
Alex - is it this: I Do Not Come to You by Chance?
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Uhm.. this time next year maybe? Dog Blood was just released in June.... so that seems about right.
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"More love for ROOM!!!!
Claire wrote: "Flora wrote: "Finally finished The Blind Assassin, I was begining to think the book never ended. I'm moving on to The Black Cat as well as [book:The Dracula Dossier:..."
I didn't really care for the Blind Assassin. I thought it was really long and really sad. I think the story could have been told in a much shorter version. And I guess I'm a hopeless romantic cuz I prefer happy endings.
Darn - thanks, Bridgit, but nope. That takes place in the world of Nigerian email scams, but the idea of the (again, possibly imaginary) one I'm thinking of is that they're real.
Lori wrote: "Miss GP, what did you think of Blindness?..."Hey, Lori, I absolutely loved it. I haven't had a lot of time lately to be able to write up my thoughts about it -- hopefully soon -- but in the meantime, I'll simply say it's probably on my list of top ten books. (Which is probably more like a top 20, but you know what I mean!)
Now you are just being picky Alex...
Claire wrote: "Catie wrote: "Hey Alex and Claire - If you're going to read Oryx and Crake, then you must follow it with the sequel called The Year of the Flood. I actually didn't really LOVE Oryx and Crake until..."I really enjoyed The Year of the Flood, and am looking forward to Oryx and Crake, which I think is just in at the library.
Leslie T. wrote: "I just started Veronika Decides to Die."Hm. Interesting title - even more interesting when I imagined that this was an Archie Comics spinoff - but the description leaves me less intrigued. Hope you like it though.
Leslie T. wrote: "I just started Veronika Decides to Die."I just finished this a few days ago. I sincerely hope you like it more than I did.
Leslie T. wrote: "I just started Veronika Decides to Die."This is on my TBR list so I'm curious to see how you like it.
Me too! It's the book another group has chosen for the month, so I figured I would try it.
I am reading A Quiet Belief in Angels which is nothing like I expected and I'm loving it! I'm also reading The Passage. Im about 1/3 of the way through it and I really like the writing style and language. I've also just started The Rivers Run Dry.
Have been reading like crazy lately and not sharing - selfish, i know. Have just finished: The Gargoyle, The Cold Room, The Amber Spyglass, Storm Glass, Heat Wave, I Am Number Four
CURRENTLY reading Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry's Extraordinary Ride - a biography of Annie Londonderry, the first woman to ride around the world on a bicycle (1895)
and trucking away on War and Peace. About 1/3 through with it...
Damn, Bridgit! Impressive work. How're you liking War & Peace? I have that scheduled for 2012. (No, seriously.)
Bridgit wrote: "Have been reading like crazy lately and not sharing - selfish, i know. Have just finished: The Gargoyle, The Cold Room, The Amber Spyglass, [book:Storm ..."
How did you like The Amber Spyglass? I didn't like it as much as the other two books and found it to be kind of all over the place which was a disappointment. I was still hooked though; was just expecting a bit better I guess.
Alex wrote: "Damn, Bridgit! Impressive work. How're you liking War & Peace? I have that scheduled for 2012. (No, seriously.)"Let's just say that if I wasnt giving myself a big check mark for completing this sucker I would have given up a while ago. I am reading at like 1/4 my normal pace. The story itself is fine, but I keep getting lost with all of the ridiculously long named Igor Igorovitch's and thousand other names with 4 V's in them.
I will be glad to get through it. Though i think if i could just read about the Peace parts i would enjoy it more.
Stephanie wrote: "Bridgit wrote: "Have been reading like crazy lately and not sharing - selfish, i know. Have just finished: The Gargoyle, The Cold Room, [book:The Amber Spyglass|1812..."
well, it took me like 2 years to read the whole trilogy. I liked them in descending order. The first one was pretty interesting and fun and fanciful. Then it got a bit preachy in the second, but overall I would say i enjoyed it. maybe a 5/10.
By the time the third one came around, the book was basically beating you over the head with anti-god sentiments.
Oddly i had the same reaction to this as christian fiction - they sort of have the exact same message, delivery and impact, just from polar opposite sides of the spectrum.
And dont get me started on the 'relationship' between the two kids. just gag.
I finished
and really enjoyed it. I'm also about 1/4 of the way thru The Dracula Dossier: A Novel of Suspense and while the first 50 pages were really slow going the book is starting to pick up and has finally gotten my interest.
Okay, apparently I'm not going to read Veronika Decides to Die because my ebook is not the entire book. So instead I'm going to read The Shining!
Flora wrote: "Claire wrote: "Flora wrote: "Finally finished The Blind Assassin, I was begining to think the book never ended. I'm moving on to The Black Cat as well as [book:The D..."
Yeah, I've heard mixed reviews about Blind Assassin. Either you like it or you don't.
I just finished Promise Not to Tell: A Novel and thought it was just ok. I could see a teenager really enjoying the book - seems like its written more for that audience. It wasn't bad, just ok.!
Bridgit wrote: "Stephanie wrote: "Bridgit wrote: "Have been reading like crazy lately and not sharing - selfish, i know. Have just finished: The Gargoyle, The Cold Room, [book:The A..."
I actually read them one after the other. My favorite was the second book and I really liked the first of course. I agree with you about the third. I'm not religious at all and even I thought it was a bit much. Ohh and the "relationship" yes! Why can't it ever stay a friendship? Especially when the characters are so young it's almost creepy for me at my age (which is just 23) to read about a "romance" between them. Still love the series though just some complaints.
Started reading Anagrams and I think this may actually be my favorite book by Lorrie Moore so far which is saying a lot. She's just brilliant.
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I now moved on to Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving. I'm a huge John Irving fan so I'm psyched to finally get to his newest one.