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[Kat]

I'm trying to finish Alias Dragonfly, but it's not really doing it for me.

In the middle of Things We Didn't See Coming.

[Dem]

Kimberly wrote: "Dem wrote: "Just finished Anne of Green GablesbyL.M. Montgomery
This is my review www.goodreads.com/review/show/193515794"

That's a w..."

Thanks Kinberly, It is a real feel good book!

[Dem]

Robin wrote: "Kimberly wrote: "Dem wrote: "Just finished Anne of Green GablesbyL.M. Montgomery
This is my review www.goodreads.com/review/show/1935..."

Thats the great thing about books Robin! you can read them no matter what age.

[Shannon]

Dem wrote: "Robin wrote: "Kimberly wrote: "Dem wrote: "Just finished Anne of Green GablesbyL.M. Montgomery
This is my review www.goodreads.com/re..."

Its on my TBR because I have never read it!

[Gemma]

Judy wrote: "Welcome, Gemma. I think it is great that you are reading a book that you wouldn't normally read...and are enjoying it. :-)"

This has definately proved to be a good sttategy, I have just finished Operation Mincemeat, it was brilliant - I highly recommend!

[Janice, Moderator]

Gemma wrote: "This has definately proved to be a good sttategy, I have just finished Operation Mincemeat, it was brilliant - I highly recommend..."

Did you start and finish this book in January 2012? If you did, zip on over to the January challenge, Food Glorious Food. You may as well include it for the challenge.

Oh, and when naming a title in your posts, please add it as a link by clicking on "add book/author" that shows on the top of the comment box.

[Michelle]

I just started The Boy In The Suitcase because my Mom gave me her copy to read. Translated from Danish, I believe. Chrissie might enjoy this one - don't you live in Denmark?

[Kimberly]

Soo in the spirit of giving into peer pressure (Thanks Robin :D) I'll be starting

[Gemma]

Janice wrote: "Gemma wrote: "This has definately proved to be a good sttategy, I have just finished Operation Mincemeat, it was brilliant - I highly recommend..."

Did you start and finish this book in January 20..."

Oh ok, sorry I will do that next time...
I'll add to the challenge now, thank you

[Robin (Saturndoo)]

Kimberly wrote: "Soo in the spirit of giving into peer pressure (Thanks Robin :D) I'll be starting "

LMBO...: D Thanks Kimberly!!!Now I won't be reading it alllll by my lonesome : ) YOU ARE THE GREATEST!!!!

[Kimberly]

Aww shucks thanks Robin :)

I think I'm also thinking of starting

[Robin (Saturndoo)]

UMMMMMMM don't think I will be starting that one any time in this life LOL The cover of that is scary enough for me...the big scaredy cat that I am : D

[Kimberly]

LOL come on Bigfoot isn't scary at all :D

[Robin (Saturndoo)]

LOL ummmmm I still think JAWS is scary lol....I remember laying in my grandma's floor back in the late 70's watching it when it first came out on tv..it is as scary to me now as it was to me then as kid lol

[Kimberly]

I guess you wouldn't enjoy then...its about a 60 ft long prehistoric cousin of the Great White. I loved Jaws as a kid! I just didn't like the 2nd one so much then I thought it was scarier than the original.

[Robin (Saturndoo)]

You would be absolutely positively correct LOL

[Autumn]

So I'm working on and on the kindle .. I love them both.. Ive noticed that I haven't read many books with the main character being a male.. obviously Harry potter.. Robert langdon.. the Lincoln lawyer.. and a few more like 3 more.. its kind of refreshing to have a male lead... I'm kind of tired of females.in my YA books..

[Kat]

I think I may "postpone" my current read, Alias Dragonfly - it's a great idea for a story, but it's just not working for me - everything is moving way too quickly and I'm getting confused. I'll probably come back to it one day.

Last night I started Antarctica on a Plate and today I will also start New Girl as I really should read & review it before the release date.

[Janice, Moderator]

Judy wrote: "Antarctica on a Plate looks intriguing. It would qualify for Roughin' It and Food Glorious Food, too. Defrosting meat in the coldest place on earth, 75 mph winds,...."

Kat could give us a recipe for penquin popsicles.

[Kat]

Judy wrote: "Antarctica on a Plate looks intriguing. It would qualify for Roughin' It and Food Glorious Food, too. Defrosting meat in the coldest place on earth, 75 mph winds,...."

True! I didn't even realise that before - d'oh.

Don't know how tasty penguin popsicles would be Janice........

[Stuart]

I am reading The Dream Of Scipio by Iain Pears, for my offline book club.

[Chrissie]

Where have I been? Well, in my mind I have been in in the the Balkans with The Tiger's Wife (review http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/..., in France with The Chateau (review http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/..., in Russia with Child 44 (review http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...) and finally in China with White Gardenia (review http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/....

White Gardenia was without doubt the very best. I highly recommend it. The audiobook was fantastic. Shanghai and Harbin, China were so well described. A refuge camp in the Philippines and life in Australia too! Pls read this book, and listen to it as anaudio if you can. The narrator is Desire Rubenstein, the same narrator as the audiobook Mosaic: A Chronicle of Five Generations. I intend on reading more audiobooks narrated by this woman. You simply must chuckle at the American accents.

Well actually I have been in the hospital. With lousy vision I am trying my best to return to GR.

I will soon be starting Birds Without Wings. another audiobook. This one set in Turkey.

[Janice, Moderator]

Oh Chrissie!!!! I am so glad to see a post from you! Welcome back and keep on healing. :)

[Susan]

Chrissie, I hope you are feeling better soon. I absolutely loved Birds Without Wings.

[Chrissie]

Janice you were ever so sweet to explain my absence. I cann oot see better but I can open both eyes with out it killing me and my diabetes is adjusting to the shiock of the operations. I am adjusting the insulin levels and thus feel better. So I am bery happy.

Susan, I was very naughty and went ahead and bought Biorsd Without Wings as an audiobook. I already have the paperback. And I had to pay two credits for it at Audible. I soooo want to read it!. I am a little worried I will have trouble with zll the characters; I cannot make notes. I can make them but cannot read them! The fun of audios is just sitting back and absorbing the whole experience.

[Kat]

Chrissie wrote: "Janice you were ever so sweet to explain my absence. I cann oot see better but I can open both eyes with out it killing me and my diabetes is adjusting to the shiock of the operations. I am adjust..."

Welcome back Chrissie! All the best for a speedy recovery :) and HURRAY for audiobooks!

[Chrissie]

Kat, definitely. i love audio books now. DO listen to White Gardenia.

[Susan]

Chrissie wrote: "Janice you were ever so sweet to explain my absence. I cann oot see better but I can open both eyes with out it killing me and my diabetes is adjusting to the shiock of the operations. I am adjust..."

The names in Birds without Wings are a bit tricky, but that is what the rewind button is for.

[Kat]

I've just finished New Girl and enjoyed it way more than I thought I would.

Now back to my old friends with ZombieDead :-D

[Chrissie]

Susan, yup. I am continuall pushing the 30 second rewind. It took me a while to figure out that when I unplug the Ipod from the earphines the audio automatically stopped. I was sitting there tapping and stapping the Voice-Over screen while the doctors were trying to tell me stuff...... The Ipod talks to me. I do not have to read it. :0) What gadgets there are today.

[Mrs C]

I'm reading the last installment of the Strain series, The Night Eternal and I hope it doesn't disappoint. The first book was amazing, the second was, forgettable, so I'm really curious how the authors are going to make this story work.

[Janice, Moderator]

Anyone who thinks that listening to audiobooks is cheating needs to hear Chrissie's story.

[Kat]

Andrienne wrote: "I'm reading the last installment of the Strain series, The Night Eternal and I hope it doesn't disappoint. The first book was amazing, the second was, forgettable, so I'm really curi..." I loved the first book, and then heard so many blah reviews on the second I'm too scared to read it!

[Kat]

Janice wrote: "Anyone who thinks that listening to audiobooks is cheating needs to hear Chrissie's story."

Audiobooks are so NOT cheating. Audiobooks need even more time and sometimes more concentration than written books.

[Chrissie]

Janice wrote: "Anyone who thinks that listening to audiobooks is cheating needs to hear Chrissie's story."

hey, I will clobber anyone who says audiobooks are cheating! Be prepared. Actually there is no way that audiobooks are cheating. You listen and suck on every single word. Skimming is impossible. I think some writers improve with narration. For example: I am currently listening to Birds Without Wings The narrator is great and each sentence has such superb irony you cannot help but smile. My type of humor. And it is about how in Gtrerce and Turkey the peoples of all different religions got along just fine. Great characters.

[Chrissie]

Kat wrote: "Janice wrote: "Anyone who thinks that listening to audiobooks is cheating needs to hear Chrissie's story."

Audiobooks are so NOT cheating. Audiobooks need even more time and sometimes more concen..."

They do take more time. Sometimes I have to rewind and rewind. particularly in the beginning when you have to get stuck in your head who is who.

[Kimberly]

I started

[Susan]

Chrissie wrote: "Kat wrote: "Janice wrote: "Anyone who thinks that listening to audiobooks is cheating needs to hear Chrissie's story."

Audiobooks are so NOT cheating. Audiobooks need even more time and sometimes..."

Glad you're enjoying it, Chrissie. And, yes, a really great narrator can add a lot to the story. They often say something in a tone that I would not have come up with in my head had I been "reading" it. A perfect example is Room by Emma Donoghue, in which Michal Friedman narrates the little boy's voice. She is phenomenal.

[Chrissie]

Susan wrote: "Chrissie wrote: "Kat wrote: "Janice wrote: "Anyone who thinks that listening to audiobooks is cheating needs to hear Chrissie's story."

Audiobooks are so NOT cheating. Audiobooks need even more t..."

Hmm, I have been avoiding The Room. Now Iwill keep in mind what you have said.

I absolutely adore Birds Without Wings. Tell me pls. Are the main characters going to disappear and be replaced by others? Or do the central ones remain. i invest a lot of time meeting pêople so I know who they are. I feel this is essential when you begin a book.

[Susan]

Yes, most of them stay around, as I recall.

[Kristina]

for a YA Book Club

[Kat]

I started Happy Birthday to Me last night - interesting/scary idea, getting one year older every day!

[Susan]

Kat wrote: "I started Happy Birthday to Me last night - interesting/scary idea, getting one year older every day!"

This sounds like an interesting subject for a book. Although I sometimes feels that I am aging a year every day, but then I'm considerably older than Cameron.

[Pam]

I'm on the pro-audio side and am on a John Green kick. Just finished Will Grayson, Will Grayson and started Paper Towns. Love his stuff. Can't wait to get his new book The Fault in Our Stars.

[Kat]

Susan wrote: "Kat wrote: "I started Happy Birthday to Me last night - interesting/scary idea, getting one year older every day!"

This sounds like an interesting subject for a book. Although I s..."

Me too!

[Eileen]

I am reading an advanced reader copy of Katherine Boo's . I'm also attempting to finish up on # , which is an easy/interesting read, but which I'd set aside to get through the Game of Thrones tomes. I still have one more to read - - but I don't own it yet, and the last book dragged a bit for me. love the characters - hate the way Martin is moving the story along, or rather, not moving it along.

[Eileen]

Autumn wrote: "So I'm working on and on the kindle .. I love them both.. Ive noticed that I haven't read many books with the main character being a ma..."

I really liked . I can't wait to get to . I don't own that one yet either!

[Chrissie]

Susan wrote: "Yes, most of them stay around, as I recall."

Great. I am attached to them. Clever writing.

[Robin (Saturndoo)]

I am also pro audiobooks. I do not consider them cheating as they do take a lot more time. My mother is visually impaired but is still able to read large print books but she has to wear special magnifying glasses and use a magnifying glass. She loves to read but I know someday she will have to convert to audiobooks. I am thankful for audiobooks for those in Chrissie's situation, for those like my mother and for the blind. In my opinion it takes just as much effort to listen and remember as it does to physically hold the book and read it and remember.

[Kimberly]

Robin wrote: "I am also pro audiobooks. I do not consider them cheating as they do take a lot more time. My mother is visually impaired but is still able to read large print books but she has to wear special mag..."

Well put!