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[Lori, Super Mod]

Alicia, did you like Ruins? that books creeped me out waaaayyy after i read it. And the movie was just as messed up. Did either of you see the movie yet???

[Lorena]

Lori, I wanted to watch the movie so badly, but everytime we went it was sold out, or too late or something, and its no longer in theaters, aghhh... I will have to wait to get it on dvd when it comes out ;o(

[Cynthia]

Ok changed my mind...I re-organized my to-read shelf into several to-read shelves and decided to wait to read The Pact and read Thirteenth Tale next instead.

[Celeste]

I'm about half way though The Spellman Files and I am really liking it. Lisa Lutz style and humor is like reading Get Smart. Except instead of one Max you have a whole family of Maxs.

[Mandy]

Our power was out for the morning so I could legitmately read instead of work, yay! I read Virginia Woolf's Street Haunting. I've never read anything of hers before and to start with I wasn't quite sure I'd like it. It's a book of short stories. Anyway, I went on and towards the end of the first story I was in. I can relate to how one's mind wanders and how one thought leads to another and then another and so on and when your thinking time is up you have to think now what was I thinking about in the first place?

It's a Penguin Pocket Classic book and once I finished that I started Anais Nin's Artists and Models, also a pocket classic. There's two stories in this one and I've read the first one which was okay but then the power came back on so now I have to get back to working.

[Mandy]

P.S. These pocket classics are great, there's 70 of them to celebrate their 70 years, they're super cheap and I plan on picking up a few more when I next go to the particular bookshop I know that sells them.

[Libby]

Hi, Libby here, new to the group. Cynthia, I loved Thirteen Tale. The main character gives a description of how she feels after finishing one book, and going to the next. It describes that feeling I've have in a way I've never been able to express!! Enjoy.

[Lori, Super Mod]

Hey Libby,thanks for joining! Hope you are enjoying the group!

[liz]

I just started Man Gone Down, so far very good

[Kirsty]

Finished The Virgin Of Small Plains really enjoyed it, and would recommend it to anyone. Now I'm reading Uglies by Scott Westerfield for a YA book club I'm a member of. Still trying to find money to buy The Abstinence Teacher ... :(

[Chloe]

Kirsty, you will have to let us know how you like Uglies when you finish it. I have heard so much praise for this series that I am seriously considering picking them up.

[Lori, Super Mod]

Ok so Lord of the Flies is done. I flew through that one. Rereading books for me is an interesting concept. I read this in high school and liked it. I read it now, and it was almost as tho i was reading it for the first time. I didnt remember anything much about it, except for the pig head on a stick. How pathetic is that?

But then again, I was truely able to enjoy it, and felt the need to turn page after page... Im glad I read it again and have it now to add to my ever overflowing bookshelf!

Im going to start The Third Policeman (the third book my hubby and kids gave me for mothers day.. man , i am just flying thru them!)

[Emma]

My god Lori, I could never fly through books that fast! And I keep on thinking about adding book to my to-read shelf, not only will I end up having more to-reads than I will ever be able to read before I die, but I will also have to re-organize it all!! AHHHHH!!!

[Lori, Super Mod]

haa haa.. when i get sucked into a novel, i can read at a pretty good clip.. not to mention that I only work weekends, so monday-thursday i have alot of time on my hands to kill (after the kids are in school and some of the house chores are done, i plop my ass on the couch for a bit and read to my hearts content!)

BTW- has anyone read The Third Policeman before? I am kinda upset..I read the introduction for the book, and HULLO -- THEY GAVE AWAY THE WHOLE PREMISE FOR THE BOOK!!! Now, normally i like spoilers. But only when i know what i am about to read is an acutal spoiler. I want to be able to say to myself, ok... i WANT to know this... Im mad now. That sucked! I didnt want to know what i just found out.

That doesnt mean im not enjoying what i am currently reading, but aw hell... the guess work was just taken out of it for me. {Makes a huge pouty face to induce sympathy from fellow readers}

[Lorena]

::: Handing Lori half of my Veliche Organic Milk Chocolate Chips ::: Now, now its OK, we'll just watch Lost tonight and it will all be better ...

[Chloe]

Lori, I know exactly what you're talking about. I don't remember which book I had ruined for me in this way, but ever since then I leave the introduction until after I finish the book. I don't mind spoilers in television shows, but woe unto the person who ruins a book or movie for me. Learning that Darth Vader is Luke's father, or just who Kaiser Sose might be, can totally ruin the impact that a book/movie may have.

[Emma]

Awww, Lori you poor thing, I hate when that happens!! I would love to have that kind of time! I read really fast as well when I'm in to it, but not THAT fast!

[Lori, Super Mod]

Funny thing Logan, But i thought the reason they were "introductions" were so you could read them as an intro into the novel. Silly me for thinking such things. I just dont know where my mind is at!! Tsk,tsk...

Hmmm.. Maybe I should write the publishing company and ask for my money back. Stinking intros. Such a shame that we had to learn the hard way, eh??

[Emma]

Not ironic at all huh?

[Lori, Super Mod]

just thought I would hop back on real quick to tell you all... that even tho the intro spoiled the books premise... im only 33 pages into, and its a bit freaky. It's got my skin crawling ...
Maybe I wont ask for my money back just yet!!

:)

[Lori, Super Mod]

Seth, is it a good book then? I thought knowing the end result would kind of take away from it.

[Stacie]

I once had a professor tell me to never read an introduction of a book until after I have read it because it can 1. either give the entire premise away or 2. skew your own reading of the book. I have lived by that rule for years and am very pleased with that decision. Now, instead of me going into the book with the "idea" of how I should be reading it, I read it as me and then find out what the editor/author/whoever thinks.

[Magpie67]

A Necessary Evil by Alex Kava

[Charity]

Submarine by Joe Dunthorne (1/2 way through)

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber by Julian Rubinstein (1/4 way through)

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory (2 chapters in)

I'm in the process of moving to our new house (which has been extremely exhausting) and I can't seem to concentrate on just one book right now....so I've been rotating. Can I just say I'm so sick of painting right now?? One more week until the movers show up and then I might actually be able to sit down and read properly.

[Blujbird]

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
(I will write more about this book somewhere else)

I have never read introductions except once, The Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller.....I loved that introduction but really hated the book.

[Chloe]

I finally finished Graham Greene's Brighton Rock after a week of half-heartedly plugging through it. I was disappointed, I expected far better after reading some of Greene's other books and this book just felt like a weak attempt at an engaging crime novel.

I need something good after that, so I am finally going to listen to the dozens of people who have recommended me David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest and crack the copy that has been sitting by my bed for the past couple months. It's 1000+ pages, so I am really hoping that it doesn't suck.

[Emma]

I put back some of my library books! So now I'm left with 7. (Don't ask me how I carried the other 12.) And I got The Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson, I can't wait to read it! It should be a quick read, it's kind of a chick flick, so it shouldn't take me to lng.

[Gail]

As some know or not I was reading the three musketeers. Well I have put it down for a short time so that I can read The Host. I am loving it and I am very nearly done!

I should not buy a new book I have been wanting untill I have finished reading the one I am on. But that is something I do do from time to time.

[Mandy]

I'm reading Howards End at the moment, about 100 pages in and it's not as free flowing as I'd like, still undecided whether I like it or not.

[Emma]

Aw man, I'm going to have to completely ditch my to-reads list and read the Narnia books, I can't help it after seeing Prince Caspian. I'm speeding through The Bermudez Triangle to get to it.

[Gail]

Just finished The Host! Loved it. It is a good read and is fun with interesting relationships. I would say go ahead a read it!

[Cynthia]

Just finished The thirteenth tale (finally...can't tell you how many times I've brought this book home from the library and had to bring it back because I didn't get a chance to read it before having to bring it back because someone else had a hold on it)...it definitely lived up to the hype...it was really good. Next on my list is Elizabeth Noble's Things I Want My Daughter To Know...so excited I really love her books.

[alicia]

Almost done with A Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult and I must say is another great one by her.This one goes up there with My Sister's Keeper as one of the better ones i have read.

[Diane]

I picked up "American Eve" after reading an intriguing review in the LA Times book review last week. It is a non-fiction account of "Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White and the Crime of the Century". Set in turn of the century Philadelphia (Evelyn's childhood) and New York. It is extremely well written and a page turner of a story. This may be the first time I bought a book and actually started it as soon as I got home with it.

[Cynthia]

It took me about 12 hours (give or take) today to get through Things I Want My Daughters To Know by Elizabeth Noble...374 pages that I just couldn't seem to put down. It was a real tear-jerker but wonderful all the same. I recommended it for next month's reading prior to reading and I hope even it's not picked I'll inspire people to read it. If you like chick lit with substance, tear jerker's, and brit lit you will love this as much as I did.

Next on my list is Emily Giffin's newest book Love the One Your With.

[Kirsty]

woohoo, I'm finally reading The Abstinence Teacher !

[Lori, Super Mod]

So i just finished The Third Policeman. Wow. A bit confusing at parts, but overall a trippy, creepy, mindboggling novel. This one is from the Lost Lit List, and while I was struggling to see any connection to the show at first, towards the end of the novel it all becomes a bit clear why the writers chose it as a literary link.

I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys books that are not of the norm.

Now, I am excited to start Jules Verne's novel Journey to the Center of the Earth. I bought his leather bound collection about a month ago and have been meaning to read another novel out of it, but other novels were screaming to be picked up first. However, I just saw a preview for the movie of Journey to the Center, and that has brought this novel to the forefront. Reading Jules will be like getting reaquainted with an old friend... I cant wait!

[Yelena]

I'm about 20 pages (about half my subway ride - sigh) from the end of The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls which has been engrossing, but might be the last author memoir of totally f-ed up childhood I read for a while. Then I'm going to start Mario Vargas Llosa's Feast of the Goat.

[Mona]

I recently read The Glass Castle. Really had me thinking how we all grow up with very different childhood memories... I'd love to know what you think of it when you are finished.

[Katie]

Cynthia -- So funny! BOTH of those books are ones I picked up on my last trip to Borders! I LOVE Emily Giffin, so that's what I'd gone in for but Things I Want My Daughters to Know caught me as I was getting in line. Good to know you enjoyed it...I have a bunch of library books on the TBR list before it, but I'll be sure to keep it in the active pile!!

[Mandy]

I read The Glass Castle last year I think it was and although it was a good fast read I wasn't overly impressed with it. Maybe because I had heard heaps of fantastic reviews about it and my expectations were high but it was just okay for me. Good for her for turning her life around and writing it, nothing wrong with that at all.

[Lorena]

I didn't care for The Glass Castle a whole lot, I thought it was a bit self-serving, but I liked the social look at homeless people she gives, I'm sure its not like that for everyone in that kind of circumstance here in the States, but for years I had been suspecting those were the motivations, (or lack of) for some.

[Mona]

Hey... I saw that book Things I Want My Daughters to Know at the bookstore tonight... almost bought it and then I decided to wait. So it's really good? Sounded good...

[Cynthia]

Definitely worth buying...or in my case getting from the library. Her books are all really good...I also recommend Alphabet Weekends highly.

If you have lost someone really close to you I think this book will especially speak to you...but it is a moving story either way.

[Yelena]

I finished The Glass Castle on my ride home last night and I think my review is more favorable on account of the book I found myself comparing it to: Running With Scissors which I also read this year. While the latter filled me only with mild ennui, I enjoyed Walls's memoir even as I told myself I was now going to stealthily avoid author memoirs of f-ed up 20th century upbringings. I think what I liked best about it when compared to others of the memoir genre was its pace. It moved well and I didn't find it lingering overmuch on any one episode. It's not a book I'll read again, but I'm not sad I read it.

[Kathy McC]

I also did not care much for Glass Castles. At least, I didn't rave about it as so many others have. It's an great story of survival, but it just didn't grab onto me.

[Magpie67]

I loved Glass Castle! I still review it often in my mind. It will be a novel that stays with me forever.

I am reading Last Known Victim by Erica Spindler.

[Mona]

Thanks Cynthia... sounds like something I would like. I heard Alphabet Weekends was good too. Thanks!

[Cynthia]

Just finished Love The One You're With by Emily Giffin...it was good and I enjoyed it but whereas I really loved her first two novels Something Borrowed and Something Blue there was just something about this one and her last book Baby Proof that I just didn't connect to as much. The main character in both books are just so frustrating to me because I just can't seem to empathize with their problems. In the case of Baby Proof...I can't fathom personally being a woman and not wanting to be a mother...I can't wait till I have children. And in LTOYW the main character has the perfect guy that I would kill for and she's still wondering what if about an ex. Other than that both books were really good and had satisfying conclusions.

Next comes The Secret Life of Bees.

[Rachael]

I'm reading the prequel to Anne of Green Gables "Before Green Gables". I really love it, but not as much as the orginal. But, what can!?