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Mayra (kaligurl_7) | 371 comments Im currently reading The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks


message 52: by Mandee (new)

Mandee (mandeedawn) My sisters keeper was such a good book. :)


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Mayra (kaligurl_7) | 371 comments i wish i would have known it was a book when the movie came out, i would have read it :)


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Anne L Just finished the Hunger Game series, and am now reading The Girl who Played with Fire.


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Mayra (kaligurl_7) | 371 comments i really enjoyed Girl who played with fire.... im a hoping to get the next book soon....


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Amanda Maxwell | 14 comments Ulysses and I'm not a big fan :(


message 57: by Karen (last edited Apr 21, 2012 07:55PM) (new)

Karen (karen12) I just finished the Hunger Games Series too :)
Starting with A Game of Thrones now.


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Karen (karen12) Amanda wrote: "Ulysses and I'm not a big fan :("

People have told me that listening to the Ulysses audiobook is better..I haven't read or listened to it yet though...so I don't know for sure.


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Dolores (dizzydee39) | 17 comments Amanda wrote: "Ulysses and I'm not a big fan :("

I can't seem to get into it either. I am reading it very slowly. I think maybe it will take longer than one month. I usually read books pretty fast, but this one is different.


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Amanda Maxwell | 14 comments I just don't like audiobooks, but that's a good suggestion.


message 61: by Mandee (new)

Mandee (mandeedawn) I am currently reading Rose in Bloom. It is very good but a little slower than the first. :)


message 62: by Amanda (new)

Amanda Maxwell | 14 comments The Hobbit!


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Katrina (irrakatze) | 2 comments I'm reading Emma by Jane Austen. Was in the mood for some Austen and I'd never read it so I picked it up instead of reading Pride and Prejudice again.


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M (bookrustler) | 1 comments I'm reading Patricia Briggs series about Mercy Thompson that starts with "Moon Called".


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Lily (lily10) I'm reading now The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank) and a French book about the author's need to list everything and anything he experienced in his life.
Both quite interesting actually


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Kristin (krickiemarie) | 13 comments I finished Wuthering Heights....a wonderful 1943 edition that had the text in columns versus all the way across the page. Just getting started with "Robinson Crusoe"....have now crossed 4 books off the list! :)


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Mayra (kaligurl_7) | 371 comments good job kristin :) im reading the subtle knife, 2nd book in his dark material trilogy :)


message 68: by Mandee (new)

Mandee (mandeedawn) I just finished Death comes to Pemberly and the undomesticated Goddess. I am currently reading books can be deceiving and first impressions

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Brian Grant Just finished Laughter in the Dark, Nabokov. Pales in comparison to Pale Fire, but everything he writes is good.


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Şule Sancaktutan (bayannihayet) | 3 comments for the first time I'm reading a book of Orhan Pamuk: The Black Book.


message 71: by Kristin (new)

Kristin (krickiemarie) | 13 comments Finished "Robinson Crusoe" and took a break from the list to read "50 Shades of Grey"! :) Next book from the list will be "Jane Eyre"....


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Jon Sindell | 7 comments Amanda wrote: "The Hobbit!"

Hi Amanda. You probably know that Peter Jackson is directing the film version, which I believe is due out at the end of the year (yay!). I read bits and pieces of this wonderful book year-round in the course of my tutoring practice; and I'm reading Fellowship Of The Rings for my own sake right now. *


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Jon Sindell | 7 comments Dolores wrote: "Amanda wrote: "Ulysses and I'm not a big fan :("

I can't seem to get into it either. I am reading it very slowly. I think maybe it will take longer than one month. I usually read books pretty fast..."


I thought I'd encountered an advanced alien life form when I noticed a girl in my twelfth grade English class reading Ulysses ...


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Brian Grant Just finished Chekhov's The Duel. He's the master. Next up, May Day by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Trying to read every novella I can get my hands on. Suggestions?


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Jon Sindell | 7 comments Lynn wrote: "Just finished Chekhov's The Duel. He's the master. Next up, May Day by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Trying to read every novella I can get my hands on. Suggestions?"

Hi Lynn. Novellas ... hm, excellent portion size. Tasty, but not too filling. I love The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers. Only about 65 pages. Beautiful and dreamlike. Enjoy.


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Kristin (krickiemarie) | 13 comments I finished "50 Shades of Grey", then sped through Harlan Coben's "No Second Chance." Now back to the classics....I'm about 60 pages into Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations" and I'm hoping that it gets better, because I'm not that excited about it yet.


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Vikas Jain | 20 comments Atlas shrugged ny ayn rand


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Ana (anasoloquiereleer) | 1 comments Hello:
I am starting with "Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury


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Memo (memorbl) Reading "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel


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Sarah | 2 comments im currently reading two books. wild swans, three daughters of china.
museum of innocence by orhan pamuk


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E | 1 comments I just finished 'Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime' and just started reading 'One flew over the cuckoo's nest'


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Hilary | 1 comments I'm reading Falling Off the Earth by Pico Iyer, its a collection of essays about "Lonely Places" of the world and so far its great!


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Dizzilizzi12 I'm so excited I've never been in a book group before! I just joined the group and I've read several of the books on this lists already, I'm currently reading Life of Pi, I really love it so far. Pi has a really unusual and interesting perspective on religion. It makes all the religious fighting that goes on in the world seem rather ridiculous.


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Helen | 6 comments I just started The Canterbury Tales. Has anyone else read it yet?

It was a challenge even picking which edition of the book to read. I would have liked to read it in ye olde English, but having to look up the translations was time consuming (not helped when they give you a translation once or twice and then expect you to remember it!) and spoilt the rhythm of the poetry.

So, as I am not an English Lit student and have no wish to learn Middle English, I have decided to read a translation in modern verse to get the fun and meaning of the tales, and then review the Middle English version to compare the language.

It's slow going, as I'm effectively reading it twice, but I'm enjoying the tales. The Miller's Tale is dirty!


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Denisse (denisse_sopita) I'm currently reading "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel.


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Şule Sancaktutan (bayannihayet) | 3 comments franny and zoey by salinger.


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I am reading Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson and The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper (the last one is for school). Oh! And I'm reading The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, again. I'm hoping to get around to Uncle Tom's Cabin, Dracula, and The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton sometime soon


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Kevin Waggoner (crazybass33) I am reading Patrick O'Brian's "Master and Commander." After having watched the movie a good 20 times I decided to dive into the books, they are a great read. Better than the movie.


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Alison (goodreadscombooks_alison) | 1 comments i just finished belles by jen colinatia (last name might be spelled wrong sorry)


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David Lafferty (danteexplorer) "Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco.


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Mayra (kaligurl_7) | 371 comments i will be starting Life of Pi in the next few days


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Ada Evans | 1 comments Just starte Life of Pi, it is amazing!


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Donna (donna64) | 4 comments Was reading a Death of Kings, by Bernard Cornwell but lost it with all my other Bernard Cornwell books in Sandy! UGH. Have to buy them all again and I can't wait to see how it (DOK)ends!!! Will try Life of Pi as the movie ads look amazing too!


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Mayra (kaligurl_7) | 371 comments thats y im readng it now, the movie trailer looks good


message 95: by Kevin (new)

Kevin Waggoner (crazybass33) What a combination.
I_Abukar wrote: "I'm reading The Fellowship of the Ring and Pride and Prejudice."


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Steven Harbeck | 5 comments I'm Reading Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. Just a few chapters in but already hooked. Will try to update at the end and let you know how much I liked it.


message 97: by Mayra (new)

Mayra (kaligurl_7) | 371 comments about half way done with life of pi, be sure to head over to the dicussion, those of u that are or have read it....its the book for december :)


message 98: by Rebecca (new)

Rebecca (hobbitual_reader) I'm reading The Fellowship of the Ring, then The Two Towers, then The Return of the King :)

I'm also reading The Autobiography of the Pythons at the moment too :)


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Kristin (krickiemarie) | 13 comments I'm reading the LOTR trilogy too Rebecca....I'm about halfway through The Two Towers! :)


message 100: by Mayra (new)

Mayra (kaligurl_7) | 371 comments I will hopefully read The Fellowship of the Ring since thats the one of the trylogy that i out, and it looks like thats the book choice for next month....


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