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message 401: by Lori (new)

Lori Walker I guess I'm going to start Emma. It's a book club for another book group and it qualifies for several categories on this groups challenge, I just have to pick a category for it.


message 402: by Justine (new)

Justine (paperbackheart) I'm almost done with A Wild Sheep Chase. I read about a quarter of it in May and then set it down until yesterday.
At lunch I'm starting 2001 A Space Odyssey and I'm not very excited about it. I just want to get it out of the way.


message 403: by Heather (new)

Heather (andshewontsleep) Jamie, The Thirteenth Tale does get better, although I did have some trouble getting through it anyway. I think it picks up a bit somewhere between pages 50-100.


message 404: by Lauren (new)

Lauren Williams (mrslaurenwilliams) | 425 comments Just finished Nefertiti A Novel! It was fantastic!!!! You girls have got to get this book! Haha.


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Lauren Williams (mrslaurenwilliams) | 425 comments I'm reading Sold right now & it's just crazy. It's about a girl that is sold from her father as a sex slave, but on the way to her new "home" the entire time she thinks she going to be some rich woman's maid. It's just nuts. I don't know how people could still live lives after something like that.


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Veruca Salt (mynameischrista) I finished Lonesome Dove and now reading Jessica Z. which I'm almost done with that to.


message 407: by Lauren (new)

Lauren Williams (mrslaurenwilliams) | 425 comments Oh my gosh Ashley!!! Is there anyway I can borrow it and mail it back to you? Or swap one of mine? I want to read that one sooooo bad!


message 408: by Justine (new)

Justine (paperbackheart) I'm reading 2001 A Space Odyssey and Nineteen Minutes A novel. I'm about 40 pages into both of them.


message 409: by Lauren (new)

Lauren Williams (mrslaurenwilliams) | 425 comments Justine - Let me know what you think of 19 Minutes. I have that one at home.


message 410: by Veruca Salt (new)

Veruca Salt (mynameischrista) I loved 19 Minutes, I couldn't put it down.


message 411: by Justine (new)

Justine (paperbackheart) I like it so far, but I've heard some mixed things about Jodi Picoult. This is the first thing I've read by her.


message 412: by Veruca Salt (new)

Veruca Salt (mynameischrista) Well so far it's the first and only thing I read by her. I've heard mixed things as well but I really enjoyed that book. I don't know about the rest of them!


message 413: by Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner), The Founding Bookworm (new)

Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner) (perpetualpageturner) | 4407 comments Mod
i haven't read anything by Jodi Picoult either. I'm thinking about reading one of her books soon.


message 414: by Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner), The Founding Bookworm (new)

Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner) (perpetualpageturner) | 4407 comments Mod
you guys were right..The Thirteenth Tale is getting much better!


message 415: by Kelsey (new)

Kelsey  Baguinat (kelseybaguinat) I got an advanced copy of Change of Heart from work. I've never read Jodi Picoult before either, but I've heard she's good. I'll try that one first and see how it goes...


message 416: by Janet (new)

Janet I really don't like Jodi Picoult. However I did read My Sister's Keeper and really, really liked it!! It is the only book I have ever read by her that I really enjoyed!! It's the best and it's being made into a movie.


message 417: by Lauren (new)

Lauren Williams (mrslaurenwilliams) | 425 comments I read Salem Falls by Picoult & absolutely loved it. Then I tried Songs of the Humpback Whale A Novel in Five Voices & it was awful. I mean... awful. Haha. But the general consenus from people who've read a lot of her novels is just that that one sucked bad for some reason. Haha. So don't read that one. But I bet the rest are good.

I just finished Sold. It was pretty good, but it just kind of ended without telling me what happened later on in the main character's life. That always bugs me.


message 418: by Lori (new)

Lori Walker I've started The Year of Living Biblically. But I need to start some fiction today, which will probably be War and Peace, although I, of course, have a million fiction books I want to read.


message 419: by Kimberly (last edited Feb 25, 2009 03:52AM) (new)

Kimberly (kimberlywithat) | 2140 comments I just finished "The Hunger Games". It was amazing! I was pulled into the story from the first page. I did not want to put it down, it took a lot of self control to keep myself from reading it instead of doing my math homework. I can't wait for the next book!


message 420: by Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner), The Founding Bookworm (new)

Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner) (perpetualpageturner) | 4407 comments Mod
ooh that looks interesting Kimberly!


message 421: by Emily (new)

Emily I just finished reading Escape I really really enjoyed it. I find other cultures and ways of living so fascinating, I cannot BELIEVE that there are people living like this in the U.S., it really makes me grateful to be born into my family! I starting reading this book and couldn't put it down, i read it in one sitting and cried!


message 422: by Kelsey (new)

Kelsey  Baguinat (kelseybaguinat) I've been meaning to read Escape for awhile! I'm glad to hear that it's a good one. =)


message 423: by Tami (new)

Tami | 3103 comments Mod
Just finished Northanger Abbey and not quite sure what to pick up next.


message 424: by Monique (new)

Monique (moniquereads) Just finished "To Kill a Mockingbird" and starting "Their Eyes Were Watching God"


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message 426: by Justine (new)

Justine (paperbackheart) Coraline showed up yesterday and was quickly digested. Now it's back to Nineteen Minutes A novel. And 2001 A Space Odyssey. They're my "put down if something new/better comes along" books.


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Tami | 3103 comments Mod
I decided on Me Talk Pretty One Day. So far not too interesting, but a fast read. Hopefully it will pick up.


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Fr. Andrew (nitesead) I just finished The Bone People and have picked up Choke.


message 430: by Fr. Andrew (new)

Fr. Andrew (nitesead) Tami wrote: "I decided on Me Talk Pretty One Day. So far not too interesting, but a fast read. Hopefully it will pick up."

I prefer my Sedaris in his audio books. He's such a great reader, and his style is very endearing when I hear it in his voice.




message 431: by Lynnie (new)

Lynnie Just finished Saints Behaving Badly The Cutthroats, Crooks, Trollops, Con Men, and Devil-Worshippers Who Became Saints. But I don't see how it would fit in for the book challenge (darn).

Going to focus on finishing The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (for class and the challenge) and continue reading Bright Lights, Big Ass A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why it Often Sucks in the City, or Who are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me?. I'm enjoying taking my time with it and savoring (something I rarely do). And I also got Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day at the library the other day and would like to read that next... but I feel like I need to catch up on my American Lit class readings. eh.


message 432: by Spencer (new)

Spencer (spencerafreeman) Glad the 13th tale picked up for you, Jamie. Kudos for continuing reading. I'm almost done. let me know what you think of it when you finish.

Ashly, I've been wanting to read Nefertiti but heard mixed reviews, especially about the setting descriptions. What do you think? Are they good?


message 433: by Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner), The Founding Bookworm (new)

Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner) (perpetualpageturner) | 4407 comments Mod
i'm almost done with it too Anastasia! I'm really enjoying it now. It has me wanting to read whereas before I really could have cared less to pick it back up. I'll let you know when I'm done! :)


message 434: by Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner), The Founding Bookworm (new)

Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner) (perpetualpageturner) | 4407 comments Mod
just finished The Thirteenth Tale (much better for me than it started out to be!!)..now on to a nice refresher of Franny and Zooey.


message 435: by Tami (new)

Tami | 3103 comments Mod
Andrew, it is getting better. One of my friends drives a lot back and forth to California and listens to audio books. I will mention that they are enjoyable to him. Any other suggestions?

I am not sure why this book ended up on my to be read list, but so far it is interesting, if not super addictive. I have a weakness for Great Danes and there are two in the chapter I am on right now. That probably helped out a bit.


message 436: by Allison (new)

Allison bree- i read the freedom writer's diary a few months ago. i'm majoring in education, so it was a really inspiring read.
one thing that threw me off was that if you've seen the movie, it covers 1 school year. everything in the movie happened, but it was over the span of 2 or 3 years, but with the same group of students. i don't think that this took away from the book, but it took me a while to figure out what was going on.


message 437: by Heather (new)

Heather (andshewontsleep) I just finished Sima's Undergarments for Women.. now I'm going to start Pretties


message 438: by Janet (new)

Janet I just started The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman. It's really good so far. I have to read it for my Cultural Diversity Class. It's hard right now though because I have 2 novels going for class and 1 novel on my own. I am trying to finish The Book Thief so I can just focus on school reading. They're all really good books though!


message 439: by Kelsey (new)

Kelsey  Baguinat (kelseybaguinat) Janet, I read that for my Issues in Literature class and completely loved it (The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down)!


message 440: by Tami (new)

Tami | 3103 comments Mod
Finished Me Talk Pretty One Day. It was good, not great. Some funny parts but some slow parts too.
Now I am starting Franny and Zooey.


message 441: by Kimberly (new)

Kimberly (kimberlywithat) | 2140 comments Hey how do you make the title of a book a link? That's pretty cool....


message 442: by Kelsey (new)

Kelsey  Baguinat (kelseybaguinat) There's something above the comment box that says "add book/author". You just click on that and choose whether you want a text link or a picture of the cover link. =)


message 443: by Kimberly (new)

Kimberly (kimberlywithat) | 2140 comments Thanks! I'm reading the third book in the Pellinor Series, The Crow The Third Book of Pellinor. I've really like it so far.


message 444: by Ashley (new)

Ashley (readerandwriter) I've got the first three books of the Pellinor series but have yet to read them. Is the series good?


message 445: by Kelsey (new)

Kelsey  Baguinat (kelseybaguinat) I'm on the second book of the Pellinor series. I like them, but they seem to drag a little bit in some places.


message 446: by Miah (new)

Miah | 2 comments I just finished reading The Sandman vol. 6 by Neil Gaiman.
I'm currently reading
The Tell Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allen Poe for myself
and
Blade Runner for a class.


message 447: by April (new)

April (booksandwine) I'm currently reading Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell


message 448: by Lori (new)

Lori Walker I finished reading Maureen McCormick's Here's the Story and I've made a pretty good dent in Old School this morning, hopefully finishing tonight or tomorrow. Both have been pretty enjoyable. I mainly bought the McCormick book for gossip, but it turned out to be a lot more interesting than that.


message 449: by Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner), The Founding Bookworm (new)

Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner) (perpetualpageturner) | 4407 comments Mod
just reread Franny and Zooey and now I am starting Jessica Z. pretty good so far. She is an interesting character.


message 450: by Lauren (new)

Lauren Williams (mrslaurenwilliams) | 425 comments currently on The Secret History of the Pink Carnation & im still not getting into it just yet, but im not giving up. i think im going to go ahead & start The Woman Warrior Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts


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