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TNBBC book ravings

The Thirteenth Tale (I just purchased the audio)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (I loved it!)
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (I HATE it!)
The Memory Keepers Daughter (okay)
The Lovely Bones (not impressed)
There are many more, but I will have to think.

Twilight (obviously I had heard of it, but wasn't planning on reading it until I read reviews-LOVED the whole series)
Sookie Stackhouse (really enjoyed the whole series so far)
basically, I just never thought of myself as a big fantasy fan-but based on other people's reviews I decided to give all these a try, and they are now all some of my favorites!



Yeah, I was very wary of Sookie, but once I read Twilight and loved all those vampire characters, I figured I might as well just jump on the vampire bandwagon...now I'm foaming at the mouth waiting for the next Sookie book to come out in May! haha.


Thanks! That's the one. Is it worth starting and then stopping when they get bad? At what point do you think it drops off? I was interested because here seem to be a lot of them.
So this a "if it wasnt for goodreads, I would never have considered reading these" kinda thread????
Well, for me, Charlaine Harris's Sookie novels. They just looked totally cheesy and horribly chick litty on the bookshelves, but then everyone started raving about them and I had to get in on the action. Kick ass urban vamp series!! I love it, its perfect brain candy!
Foers Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. If this wasnt chosen as a group read, I would never have touched it. It turned out to be one of the best reads for me this year.
Well, for me, Charlaine Harris's Sookie novels. They just looked totally cheesy and horribly chick litty on the bookshelves, but then everyone started raving about them and I had to get in on the action. Kick ass urban vamp series!! I love it, its perfect brain candy!
Foers Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. If this wasnt chosen as a group read, I would never have touched it. It turned out to be one of the best reads for me this year.

I liked through about the first ten, when she started abandoning actual plot for light porn.

I have also bought, but have to read, The Horse Whisper, Blindness, Guernsey, Shadow of the Wind, Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrel and The Book of Lost Things.
Many of these books I wouldn't have come across if not for this site, and it definitely has broadened my horizons as a reader.

The Loop - Nicholas Evans (Jeane)
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fiona, you took long to put it!!! I thought you would ahve come immediately and put certain books that I adore...

Well, for me, Charlaine Harris's Sookie novels. They just looked totally cheesy and horribly c..."
That's right Lori. Youa ctually explained it better than I did and much shorter!!!
And you see, you will in the end having me read the Sookie ones!!!!

I have also bought, bu..."
Great Vicky. let me know what you think about the horse whisperer. There is also a group about it!
Shadow of the wind is great too!

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Book Thief
I know there are plenty more, but cannot think of them right now.

The Thirteenth Tale A Novel
The Book Thief
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Love Is a Mix Tape Life and Loss, One Song at a Time

The Book Thief
Guernsey
Outlander
Sookie series
I hadn't heard of any of these before GR!

Book Thief
Book of Lost Things
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Dracula
Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
probably many more but can't think of them. Not to mention the line of books waiting in the wings to be read thanks to this site. :)

Atonement
Life of Pi
The Book Thief
A Great and Terrible Beauty
Peony in Love
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Thirteenth Tale
Eat Pray Love
The first 3 Stephanie Plum books
and I have Twilight and PS I Love You
to be read next.

The Thirteenth Tale (I just purchased the audio)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (I loved it!)
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (I HATE it!)
The Memory Keepers Daughter (okay)
T..."
I loved the Thirteenth Tale and SnowFlower and the Secret Fan....haven't read any of the others....thanks for the ratings, though.

The Thirteenth Tale
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Sookie Stackhouse series
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Blindness
A Dirty Job
I'm sure there's more but that's all I can come up with right now.

If you keep going on I suddenly will! :-)))



Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
The Divide
The Loop
The Monsters of Templeton --just starting

OK, Jeane, I have become a huge fan of Nicholas Evans and read The Divide and The Loop because you and Atishay converted me. Now, you must listen to me and read the Sookie Stackhouse, Southern Vampire series by Charlaine Harris. I loved them, and I won't take no for an answer from you. Get started, girl.

These have gone on my TBR list, and I plan on reading them soon:
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Book Thief
Stargirl
The Thirteenth Tale
The Count of Monte Cristo
These, I believe, were put on my list due to all the raves from people in another GR group:
Ella Minnow Pea
An Abundance of Katherines
The Code of the Woosters

Hahaha, kathy...you are teaming with Lori and so many others!!!!
Another book I wouldn't have watched it it wasn't for seeing it in posts is Jonathan strange& MR Norrel. Might be starting it tomorrow.

THE BOOK THEIF
SOOKIE SACKHOUSE
and
any Charlene Harris book (GRAVE SITE)
A DIRTY JOB
EL&IC
MIDDLESEX
THE ROAD
and many more...........

It helps me a librarian because I have a good grounding in the pro and cons of popular fiction without having to read every single book,( if only I had the time and budget!)
The greatest 'surprise' is that I will probably read Twilight even though I hve doubts about the writing style. But I will have to wait for awhile after the film as I doubt I will manage to get hold of them before!
Although I always intended to read The Book Thief and Outlander GR has definitely bumped them to the top of my list.

the christmas books,
heart shaped box
- these to are the ones I actually read.
the books I got and have on my tbr shelf because of TNBBC:
rebecca
across the nighingale floor
the stand
everythig is iluminated
flowers for algernon
books I have on my whislist bcause of tnbbc:
outlander (actually wainting for a book via bookmooch)
a great and terrible beuty
gurnsey
house of leaves
oscar mao
etc

Gursney (Pleae don't make me type the whole thing ---- again)
Book Thief
Pillars of the Earth
Water for Elephants
-- Wife of GR author Michael J. Sullivan: The Crown Conspiracy (10/08) | Avempartha (04/09)

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Love is a Mix tape - I have never heard of this before, Jamie - it looks so good, I have already reserved a copy at the library! Oooo, someone nominate this for our love book for February! (or has this group already read it- forgive me, I'm new!)

well...life would suck.

I capture the castle- Dodie Smith
Carter beats the Devil-Glen David Gold
The Magic of Ordinary Days-Ann Howard Creel
The Things they Carried-Tim O'Brien
the Outlander Series---these have been mentioned so many times I must check it out.
I also looked at Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close; but a couple of reviews say it is explicit and hard core. Is that true?

Book of Lost Things wasnt gory, but depending on your tastes I guess it could be..... Are you much of a horror fan? If you are, then it will seem tame. I reread it with my oldest son and he was ok with it.
I really really liked that book too, by the way!
I really really liked that book too, by the way!



Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell if it hadn't been for this group. I was a little late on joining in for the monthly read, but I had to try it out once I was done with Pillars of the Earth.
This group really reminds me about how great it is to disappear into a book.
There are others on my TBR list, but Jonathan Strange was definitely the one I'm most thankful for. You guys are great!!
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Fiona brought me on this idea.
Since being part of TNBBC I have books in my head that I want to read that probably before I wouldn't even have known they exist. There are some books that are mentioned more in posts than others and I was wondering which books you all put on your lsit to have to read as fast as possible because of the posts you read here. I don't mean the huge amount of books we put on our TBR pile, mountain but those couple that put their head out because of the amount of posts that mention them.
For me it are for instance:
The Thirteenth Tale A Novel
The Book Thief
The Pillars of the Earth