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[Kellie]

Jamie wrote: "Kellie: How was Running with Scissors? I've been meaning to read that as well. I'v..."

I haven't seen the movie, but I really liked the book. It can be a bit shocking/disturbing in some parts, but he's a great storyteller. Definitely a memorable read.

[Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner), The Founding Bookworm]

Just finished The Outside World and now on to The Code of the Woosters

[Tahleen]

Just finished Handle with Care... have to say, not my favorite of Picoult's.

[jessi]

Kellie wrote: "I haven't seen the movie, but I really liked the book. It can be a bit shocking/disturbing in some parts, but he's a great storyteller. Definitely a memorable read."

The movie is pretty good, too. I think the casting was excellent, and overall it was a pretty good depiction of the book. Naturally, some things were different, and the book was better, but I would say it's worth seeing all the same.

[Silvia]

I just finished Holes which I thought was such a well written imaginative book! I wish I would have read it as a kid! And I am starting Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood.

[Justine]

I recently finished The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane and now I'm about halfway through Hocus Pocus.

[Tahleen]

Started The Lace Reader last night.

[Kimberly]

I just started the latest book by one of my favorite authors. Sea Glass.

[Lindsey]

just finnished the wanting seed by anthony bugess and am working on prep

[Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner), The Founding Bookworm]

I'm currently reading Retail Hell How I Sold My Soul to the Store Confessions of a Tortured Sales Associate ... my friend went to a book show and the author was there and she saw this book and HAD to get it for me! I'm really looking forward to a good laugh about the hell that is retail! :)

[Heather]

Jamie, that book sounds really interesting.. let us know how you like it.

I just started Sarah's Key on a recommendation from my mom.. so far it's really good. I've also been reading Kafka on the Shore which is my first Murakami. I love his style.

[Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner), The Founding Bookworm]

Heather,

I'm only on page 3 right now and I've laughed about 10 times and I keep thinking.."oh my gosh..this is exactly what it's like for me!"

Let's hope it keeps going like this!

And another funny thing..when I opened the book..I didn't realize my friend had the author sign in and it says. " jamie..see you in hell!" -freeman

I love this guy!

[Lauren!]

I'm currently reading L.A. Candy by Lauren Conrad.


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[Ashley]

I finished readi "Thirteen Reasons Why" last night. I am now reading "Kite Runner" and "Evermore"

[Kimberly]

Ashley wrote: "I finished readi "Thirteen Reasons Why" last night. I am now reading "Kite Runner" and "Evermore" "

I read Evermore a few weeks ago... You'll have to tell me what you think of it.

[David]

Just finished Lloyd Alexander's Taran Wanderer (Prydain 4), am almost done with The Dark is Rising, and just purchased Ender in Exile, Rapunzel's Revenge, and OSC's Intergalactic Medicine Show.

[Tahleen]

Jamie I saw that book at B&N... I brought it up to one of my managers and said, "Look, it's us."

[Kimberly]

David wrote: "Just finished Lloyd Alexander's Taran Wanderer (Prydain 4), am almost done with The Dark is Rising, and just purchased Ender in Exile, Rapunzel's Revenge, and OSC's Intergalactic Medicine Show."

Is The Dark is Rising pretty good? I saw the movie and thought it was pretty lame, although I could sense there was a lot of potential behind the plot and the characters. (I knew it had to be an adaptation of a book)

[David]

I'm enjoying the series immensely. Dark is Rising is the second of five in the series and it's been very good (I'm a hundred pages in). Two of them are actually Newberry Award Winners which is very rare for a series.

[Tahleen]

I think one was an Honor winner... but the movie was so lame because they tried to cram all five books into one movie and changed pretty much everything.

[Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner), The Founding Bookworm]

Tahleen wrote: "Jamie I saw that book at B&N... I brought it up to one of my managers and said, "Look, it's us.""

bahah..I would definitely recommend reading it. It's a good laugh that anyone working retail can understand. I mean..it's not going to be the best book you've ever read..but it makes me laugh and realize I'm not the only one in HELL! :)

[Liz]

I recently finished The Bell Jar and am still working on Stardust--school does interfere with fun reading!

[Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner), The Founding Bookworm]

Did you like The Bell Jar?? It's in my top 5!

[Janet]

I've really always want to read The Bell Jar. Maybe I should get on that. :)

[Jen]

I just finished reading Three Cups of Tea One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time and now I'm about to start Motherless Brooklyn.

[Lori]

Janet wrote: "I've really always want to read The Bell Jar. Maybe I should get on that. :)"

You definitely should read it. I really liked it. One of the things I most appreciated about it that was it defied my expectations.

Right now I'm reading Public Enemies America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34, mostly for pleasure although it's helping me on my thesis, and The Awakening and Cheap Amusements Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York are for class. I'm really enjoying The Awakening; it's pretty sexy.

[Justine]

I just started The Girl Who Played with Fire. I feel like it picks up a lot quicker than the first one.

[Tahleen]

I just finished Bodies by Susie Orbach. Really great look at how we view our bodies as a "work in progress" and not as a place from which we live, and in which we live.

[Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner), The Founding Bookworm]

Finished Retail Hell How I Sold My Soul to the Store Confessions of a Tortured Sales Associate a few days ago and now on to A Model Summer

[Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner), The Founding Bookworm]

Just finished A Model Summer. It was alright. I'm a moron and thought it was actually an autobiography of Paulina but actually it's just a novel that she wrote. It was interesting because I bet she has such insight into the modeling world that it was probably a pretty true depiction as far as the modeling world goes in fiction but it was very fluffy reading. I have to give Paulina credit..she's not only gorgeous but she's smart too!

Now I'm starting The Mirror based on a recommendation from a friend.

[Silvia]

I just finished Moral Disorder and Other Stories and I am now reading The Zookeeper's Wife A War Story which I am really excited about!!! I love true stories set in WWII. I dont know why,I just find then very interesting.

[Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner), The Founding Bookworm]

Let me know how The Zookeeper's Wife is!

[Liz]

Jamie wrote: "Did you like The Bell Jar?? It's in my top 5!"
I did! I liekd the way Plath ended the novel. I thought it was very interesting onfthe whole.

[Sarah]

I'm currently reading The Story Sisters by Alice Hoffman. Just finished reading Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult and I hated it. The book was fine all the way through, but the ending completely ruined it for me.

[Tahleen]

Sarah, that's pretty much how I felt about Handle with Care too.

[Edina]

I'm reading Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. I'm about hundred pages in since yesterday.

[jessi]

I just finished The Alchemist. Hated it.

[Heather]

Jessi, I didn't like The Alchemist either. I was expecting it to be a pretty great book, but I just found it boring. I couldn't get into it at all.

[jessi]

Heather wrote: "Jessi, I didn't like The Alchemist either. I was expecting it to be a pretty great book, but I just found it boring. I couldn't get into it at all."

I liked it at first, but then it got way too cheesy, and I couldn't stand all the mush about god and souls and whatever. I'm not religious at all, and I found myself rolling my eyes a lot at the attempts for profound meaning. I was expecting great things, too, but now I have another book to swap on paperbackswap for something decent lol.

[Tami]

Just finished Artemis Fowl: Time Paradox and started (and almost finished) Catching Fire the next book following The Hunger Games.

[Tahleen]

Jessi wrote: "I just finished The Alchemist. Hated it."

Yay! I'm not the only one!

[Edina]

I just started Hunger Games!

[Kellie]

Finished The Glass Castle, currently reading Water for Elephants.

[Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner), The Founding Bookworm]

Wow! Seems like everyone is reading The Hunger Games. I was so close to buying it the other day. Perhaps I should!

[Tami]

You really should Jamie. Such a good book. Oh, and so is Catching Fire the second one. Only have about 50 pages left, and I don't want to finish it, since the final one won't be out for another year! I hate reading series without all them being out, but I hate reading a good series and there not being any more coming. Catch 22!

[Tahleen]

I'm excited the weekend is coming up, I've hit a rut with finding reading time. I haven't picked up Graceling in like two days.

[Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner), The Founding Bookworm]

Tahleen..I've hit a rut lately too! I was all pumped to read alot and then I got busy and then I've been too tired to read when I get home! It's horrible!

[Kimberly]

Wow, everyone is reading the Hunger Games! I'm almost through with its sequel, Catching Fire. It is so good!

[Kellie]

Just finished Water for Elephants and really loved it.

[Tami]

Finished Catching Fire. Why does the next book have to be so far away?! :) Great book, especially considering I usually don't care for the second in the series as much as the first, but this one bucked the trend.