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Subject: Latest Read.
Written By: Gis on 12/14/06 at 8:53 am
I just finished 'A long way down' by Nick Hornby. It was ok, I wouldn't rave about it though. I am currently reading The lost world and other stories.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: karen on 12/14/06 at 9:06 am
I've nearly finished The Fourth Protocol by Frederick Forsyth
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Foo Bar on 12/14/06 at 11:57 pm
Jennifer Government, by Max Barry.
It's a short novel, but it's a delightful way to spend an afternoon, especially if you enjoyed Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Sister Morphine on 12/16/06 at 3:54 am
The Bitch Posse......great book.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Dominic L. on 12/17/06 at 10:22 pm
I thought I saw this topic next to "On The Record" and I thought it was called "Lou Reed".... Heh..
Nevermind.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: HawkTheSlayer on 12/19/06 at 5:08 am
I finished the following 3 books within a day of each other:
Too Many Cooks- Rex Stout
The Festival- H.P. Lovecraft
Seabiscuit: An American Legend- Laura Hillenbrand
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: spaceace on 12/19/06 at 9:58 am
The Conscious of A Liberal by the late U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Ashkicksass on 12/19/06 at 1:03 pm
I am trying to read three books at the same time right now. The Audacity of Hope, Harry Potter book 5, and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. The latter two are repeats - especially A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. It was one of my favorites when I was young, and my husband just found it for me again.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: McDonald on 12/22/06 at 12:38 pm
Straight Talk: Speeches and Writings on Canadian Unity by Stéphane Dion.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Davester on 12/23/06 at 12:33 am
Translated Epitoma Rei Militaris by Vegetius...
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: HawkTheSlayer on 12/23/06 at 6:23 pm
Translated Epitoma Rei Militaris by Vegetius...
I've read that!
What did you think of it?
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Sister Morphine on 12/23/06 at 10:15 pm
I'm buying The Age of Innocence tomorrow....I've seen the film about a dozen or more times, and I want to read the book.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Davester on 12/25/06 at 11:02 am
I've read that!
What did you think of it?
Luv it, luv it, luv it..!
Of course this is right up my alley. Don't know why I hadn't read this in it's entirety years ago. The best detailed description of earlier Roman military matters (selection, training, logistics, etc.) there is. The subject material Vegetius refers-to as "ancient" which shows, the way I take it, that Rome was in decline and her military in decay, so, "Let's go back and do it like they used to..."
It's a recent translation, 1993, and very readable. Now if someone would only re-translate and update Josephus' Bellum Iudacium, I'd be a happy camper groove ;) on...
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Sister Morphine on 12/25/06 at 1:16 pm
I'm buying The Age of Innocence tomorrow....I've seen the film about a dozen or more times, and I want to read the book.
I bought it and read it front to back. Love this book. I might read it again.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: La Roche on 12/25/06 at 1:23 pm
I just finished 'A long way down' by Nick Hornby. It was ok, I wouldn't rave about it though.
Really? I thought it was a great read.. although to be fair, based on some of his previous works, it wasn't as good. But it was still a very good book.
I just read Jeffrey Archer's newest over the last couple of days. Another excellent book, he's a true literary master.
I've just started reading Bill Bryson's 'The Thunderbolt Kid' I've got about 40 pages in and as per usual I am laughing out loud quite frequently.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: spaceace on 12/25/06 at 8:38 pm
I'm buying The Age of Innocence tomorrow....I've seen the film about a dozen or more times, and I want to read the book.
I did a report on it for my last English class. I can't stop reading it or watching the movie. :)
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: La Roche on 12/25/06 at 8:39 pm
I did a report on it for my last English class. I can't stop reading it or watching the movie. :)
So what exactly is it?
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: spaceace on 12/25/06 at 8:47 pm
So what exactly is it?
It's a book about the New York City upper class in the late 19th century. If you're into the Victorian Era mentality, you'll love it. I didn't like it at first but it kinda grew on me.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: La Roche on 12/25/06 at 8:54 pm
It's a book about the New York City upper class in the late 19th century. If you're into the Victorian Era mentality, you'll love it. I didn't like it at first but it kinda grew on me.
Oh no.. all pride and prejudicy? I doubt I'd like it.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: spaceace on 12/25/06 at 8:56 pm
Oh no.. all pride and prejudicy? I doubt I'd like it.
Yeah, it's the same genre.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: La Roche on 12/25/06 at 8:56 pm
Yeah, it's the same genre.
Blech. Never mind then, my interest was really peaked as well.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: spaceace on 12/25/06 at 9:00 pm
Blech. Never mind then, my interest was really peaked as well.
Maybe you would enjoy my book. The History of Punishment by Lewis Lyons. It's about torture and capital punishment. :)
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: La Roche on 12/25/06 at 9:10 pm
Maybe you would enjoy my book. The History of Punishment by Lewis Lyons. It's about torture and capital punishment. :)
I think we both know I'd enjoy that.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: spaceace on 12/25/06 at 10:11 pm
I think we both know I'd enjoy that.
I got it for my birthday. :)
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Sister Morphine on 12/25/06 at 10:24 pm
Oh no.. all pride and prejudicy? I doubt I'd like it.
I don't think they're all that similar and they're not even set in the same time.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Gis on 12/26/06 at 2:54 pm
Really? I thought it was a great read.. although to be fair, based on some of his previous works, it wasn't as good. But it was still a very good book.
I just read Jeffrey Archer's newest over the last couple of days. Another excellent book, he's a true literary master.
I've just started reading Bill Bryson's 'The Thunderbolt Kid' I've got about 40 pages in and as per usual I am laughing out loud quite frequently.
I guess it was a bit jumpy for me with the constantly changing narative and I found two of the characters so deeply unplesant I couldn't give a sh*t what happened to them!
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: KKay on 12/26/06 at 3:39 pm
The Cloud Garden- A True STory of Adventure, Survival, and Extreme Horticulture
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: HawkTheSlayer on 12/26/06 at 3:50 pm
Currently working the following:
Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats- T.S. Eliot
The Call Of Cthulhu & Other Weird Tales- H.P. Lovecraft
Lord Of Light- Roger Zelazny
These are new acquisitions, thanks to Christmas! ;D
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Gis on 12/27/06 at 3:22 am
The White Road by Cynthia Harrod Eagles. It's part of her series that is taking one family through history from the wars of the roses to the present day. This one is about WW1 and as you can imagine it's pretty harrowing.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: La Roche on 12/27/06 at 7:02 am
The Call Of Cthulhu & Other Weird Tales- H.P. Lovecraft
Kinda weird, but I dig it.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Sister Morphine on 12/28/06 at 1:39 pm
I have now moved on to The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: HawkTheSlayer on 12/29/06 at 4:22 am
Kinda weird, but I dig it.
The volume upon which I am working has a lot of tales in it that I didn't have in the other volume.
I finished "Herbert West- Reanimator", "The Rats In the Walls", and "Dagon".
I am now working on "Nyarlahotep".
If you want some good ones to check out, I'll give ya some titles.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: La Roche on 12/29/06 at 10:33 am
The volume upon which I am working has a lot of tales in it that I didn't have in the other volume.
I finished "Herbert West- Reanimator", "The Rats In the Walls", and "Dagon".
I am now working on "Nyarlahotep".
If you want some good ones to check out, I'll give ya some titles.
I got in Lovecraft from Cliff Burton, he was a major fan. The thing that should not be, Cthulhu etc.
I dig.
I see you're in to Dune. I tried so hard to get in to that, I really needed some cool books to read and you aaaaalways see Dune in 2nd hand bookstores so I thought, sweet, I'll read those. Ugh, hated them. I just couldn't get in to it at all.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Gis on 12/29/06 at 11:56 am
Schott's Miscellany.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: La Roche on 12/29/06 at 12:13 pm
Schott's Miscellany.
Love it!
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Gis on 12/30/06 at 5:28 am
Love it!
Yeah, I've never read it before and thought it would be a bit boring but it's great. :)
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: MLB on 12/31/06 at 5:29 pm
The 2nd summer of the Travelling Pants:A. Brashares.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: HawkTheSlayer on 01/04/07 at 5:17 am
I got in Lovecraft from Cliff Burton, he was a major fan. The thing that should not be, Cthulhu etc.
I dig.
I see you're in to Dune. I tried so hard to get in to that, I really needed some cool books to read and you aaaaalways see Dune in 2nd hand bookstores so I thought, sweet, I'll read those. Ugh, hated them. I just couldn't get in to it at all.
I am actually into many verses and collections of literature.
I was introduced into Lovecraft by my old friend Phil Posehn, who works for the Comic Book Press in Sacramento. I was initiated into "Club Cthulhu". This was about 12 yrs. ago.
Dune- Loved it since I 1st saw the movie in 1988. My brother had the first 3 books- I devoured 'em!
I also like Nero Wolfe, Brother Cadfael, Elric of Melnibone, The Mithgar Series, and G.O.D., Inc. among others.
PM me, if you want a good list of stuff.
Ia! Ia! R'lyeh phglui phtagn!
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Gis on 01/04/07 at 8:04 am
Currently reading 'Walking Dickensian London'.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: thereshegoes on 01/04/07 at 5:19 pm
Any Paul Auster fans here?
I'm reading The Brooklyn Follies, great as always, this guy can't do no wrong imo.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: La Roche on 01/04/07 at 5:25 pm
I am actually into many verses and collections of literature.
I was introduced into Lovecraft by my old friend Phil Posehn, who works for the Comic Book Press in Sacramento. I was initiated into "Club Cthulhu". This was about 12 yrs. ago.
Dune- Loved it since I 1st saw the movie in 1988. My brother had the first 3 books- I devoured 'em!
I also like Nero Wolfe, Brother Cadfael, Elric of Melnibone, The Mithgar Series, and G.O.D., Inc. among others.
PM me, if you want a good list of stuff.
Ia! Ia! R'lyeh phglui phtagn!
That's kinda cool.
What about the thing that should not be?
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Jessica on 01/04/07 at 7:18 pm
I bought George Orwell's "1984", but have only read the first couple of pages. I'm trying to save it for the plane ride.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: La Roche on 01/04/07 at 8:27 pm
I bought George Orwell's "1984", but have only read the first couple of pages. I'm trying to save it for the plane ride.
I read about 10 pages of that and got bored.. however my 12 grade History teacher saw me reading it and then she quoted it endlessly for the rest of the year.. about 3 inches from my face.. and her breath stank like Rice's underwear after you've left him alone for 2 weeks.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: La Roche on 01/04/07 at 8:37 pm
I'm reading 'They Call Me Assassin' by Jack Tatum.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: HawkTheSlayer on 01/04/07 at 10:25 pm
That's kinda cool.
What about the thing that should not be?
The Thing That Should Not Be is called "Nyogtha".
That one, along with various others, is described in the "Call Of Cthulhu" RPG.
The original was made by Chaosium, which was bought out by White Wolf.
D'you know that I even made up a Lovecraftian entry of my own?
It's about one of the first Outer Gods, one that was banished from all realms.
It was called "Uoto".
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: La Roche on 01/05/07 at 4:36 pm
The Thing That Should Not Be is called "Nyogtha".
That one, along with various others, is described in the "Call Of Cthulhu" RPG.
The original was made by Chaosium, which was bought out by White Wolf.
D'you know that I even made up a Lovecraftian entry of my own?
It's about one of the first Outer Gods, one that was banished from all realms.
It was called "Uoto".
That's cool yo.
I wasn't even aware there was an RPG.. just had read some of the books.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Jessica on 01/05/07 at 5:40 pm
I read about 10 pages of that and got bored.. however my 12 grade History teacher saw me reading it and then she quoted it endlessly for the rest of the year.. about 3 inches from my face.. and her breath stank like Rice's underwear after you've left him alone for 2 weeks.
Ew. ;D
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Sister Morphine on 01/05/07 at 7:19 pm
I bought George Orwell's "1984", but have only read the first couple of pages. I'm trying to save it for the plane ride.
I've read that book about 14 times.....only one of them was required. I love it.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: spaceace on 01/05/07 at 8:00 pm
Evening in the Palace of Reason by James R. Gaines
It's about Bach meeting Fredrick the Great. :)
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: La Roche on 01/05/07 at 9:48 pm
Evening in the Palace of Reason by James R. Gaines
It's about Bach meeting Fredrick the Great. :)
Bach..like.. Sebastian Bach.. like.. Canadian Metalhead?
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: karen on 01/08/07 at 7:29 am
finished Bill Brysons Thunderbolt Kid book last week. Some of it was laugh out loud funny but a lot I'd read before in various other books of his which spoilt it a little.
I am now reading 'Dangerous to Know' by Barbara Taylor-Bradford. When I bought it I thought it was part of the Woman of Substance, but it isn't
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: La Roche on 01/08/07 at 7:53 am
finished Bill Brysons Thunderbolt Kid book last week. Some of it was laugh out loud funny but a lot I'd read before in various other books of his which spoilt it a little.
It really was hilarious.
Some things had been in previous books, but only mentioned, I found the vast majority to be brand new material.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: lorac61469 on 01/09/07 at 7:38 pm
A Circle of Cats by Charles DeLint and illustrated by Charles Vess.
It's a children's book, but I loved it. The artwork is wonderful.
http://www.sfsite.com/charlesdelint/coverart/circle_viking200.jpg
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: MLB on 01/09/07 at 10:24 pm
Pictures of Hollis Woods: Giff
it's a newberry honors winner for young people. Very touching story of a little girl who wants a family and has a natural gift of drawing everything she sees.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: nicki_morrissey on 01/11/07 at 8:50 am
Darnit, I just came here to make a thread about this.
I'm currently reading Elizabeth Wurtzel's Prozac Nation. I saw the movie a long time ago, liked it, and noticed that my boyfriend Matt had the book. I said, "Ooh, can I read it!?" He was basically like, "Ughh, you can have it. I read it and she does nothing but whine."
But I like it.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: spaceace on 01/11/07 at 12:53 pm
The Gods of Newport by John Jakes I find he's one of the best historical fiction writers around.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Dominic L. on 01/11/07 at 8:38 pm
I'm reading "Zappa" by Barry Miles, "The Perks Of Being A Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky, and "Lord Of The Flies" by... erm... I could care less, I have to read that for school.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: lorac61469 on 01/12/07 at 5:28 pm
Brother Odd-Dean Koontz
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: loki 13 on 01/12/07 at 6:16 pm
I am reading, strictly for historical reasons, Mein Kampf. So far, I find it a hard read, not because I can't
understand what Hitler was saying, but because it's a boring book.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Gis on 01/13/07 at 1:50 am
I am reading, strictly for historical reasons, Mein Kampf. So far, I find it a hard read, not because I can't
understand what Hitler was saying, but because it's a boring book.
Well it is written by a German and a mad one at that! ;)
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: 80s_cheerleader on 01/16/07 at 2:03 pm
"Angels in America: Perestroika" by Tony Kushner.....trying to get a head start on some of the reading for this next semester of school.....
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: karen on 01/17/07 at 4:30 am
"Thud" by Terry Pratchett
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: HawkTheSlayer on 01/17/07 at 4:32 am
I am re-reading "The Call Of Cthulhu"...a must-read classic, and an excellent way to enter the Lovecraftian mythos!
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: spaceace on 01/17/07 at 3:24 pm
My English text. :P
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Gis on 01/17/07 at 4:18 pm
A cheesy and very entertaining gossip mag! :P
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: danootaandme on 01/20/07 at 9:09 am
My sister gave me a Sue Grafton. I got bored rather quickly.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: pink daisy on 01/27/07 at 6:07 pm
I'm reading two books at the moment. 'Wicca for Beginners' by Thea Sabin and Def Leppard - No Safety Net by Chris Collingwood. He's a terrible writer, by the way!
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: 80s_cheerleader on 01/29/07 at 7:46 pm
My English text. :P
Same here.....Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe), Gulliver's Travels (Johnathan Swift) & Play It as It Lays (Joan Didion)....next up are: The Italian (Ann Radcliffe) & The Fortunate Pilgrim (Mario Puzo).
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: danootaandme on 01/30/07 at 4:24 am
Coronado - by Dennis Lehane who I absolutely love and recommend
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: pink daisy on 01/30/07 at 4:26 am
Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult. I like her stuff a lot.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: La Roche on 01/30/07 at 8:30 am
I'm reading Jeffrey Archer's prison diaries again.
I like Archer. I've met him on a couple of occasions and he was always happy to answer any questions I had and usually expressed some mild interest in what I was doing.. like.. he'd ask me questions too.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Gis on 02/06/07 at 10:51 am
I just bought the latest Marian Keyes which I can't wait to start........
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: pink daisy on 02/07/07 at 3:34 am
I finally read 'Lisey's Story' by Stephen King while I was in hospital. It was good.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: nicki_morrissey on 02/07/07 at 4:15 pm
I just bought Cyrano at the campus bookstore. It has unrequited love written all over it. I haven't started on it yet, though.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: nicki_morrissey on 02/08/07 at 4:20 pm
I just bought Cyrano at the campus bookstore. It has unrequited love written all over it. I haven't started on it yet, though.
Okay, I'm reading it now. And it's GREAT.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: pink daisy on 02/09/07 at 5:33 am
Just finished 'One For My Baby' by Tony Parsons - and it was one of those where all the way through, you're thinking 'I'm sure I've read this before...' :-\\
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: HawkTheSlayer on 03/16/07 at 4:47 am
An in teresting book, called "The World's Last Mysteries".
Talks about things such as Stonehenge, El Dorado, Atlantis, Easter Island, the Black Hole that hit Siberia, all sorts of fascinating stuff!
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: danootaandme on 03/16/07 at 2:28 pm
Airframe - Michael Crichton
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: MLB on 03/16/07 at 9:31 pm
classic Rex Stout: The Golden Spiders, A Nero Wolfe mystery
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: HawkTheSlayer on 03/18/07 at 4:34 am
classic Rex Stout:The Golden Spiders, A Nero Wolfe mystery
You are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO my buddy!
Did you find you liked it?
If so, please let me know.
I have several titles I can suggest for you, as I have over 1/2 the series in my own library.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Gis on 03/19/07 at 4:39 am
Anybody out there? by Marian Keyes.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: 80s_cheerleader on 03/19/07 at 9:52 am
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Tracks by Louise Erdrich
Up next: Great Expectations by Dickens & Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: karen on 03/22/07 at 6:42 am
Just re-read So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish - Douglas Adams. Debating looking for the Dirk Gently books again. Or maybe scanning ebay to buy some more E.J.Oxenham books. :-\\
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Jessica on 03/22/07 at 9:16 am
I'm reading "Roots" again for the eleventymillionth time.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: pink daisy on 03/22/07 at 5:00 pm
Ina May's Guide To Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin. That woman is a legend!
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Gis on 04/02/07 at 1:18 am
Finally got around to starting Perfume this week.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: karen on 04/02/07 at 6:39 am
Just about finished "I Know You Got Soul" by Jeremy Clarkson
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: 80s_cheerleader on 04/02/07 at 9:40 am
Reread Angels in America: The Millennium Approaches last night and scanned through Great Expectations this morning. Next on the list are: Angels in America: Perestroika and The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot....UGH :(
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: La Roche on 04/02/07 at 9:49 am
In A Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson.. again.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: karen on 04/02/07 at 10:01 am
In A Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson.. again.
I've not got that one. Is that the African one?
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: La Roche on 04/02/07 at 10:02 am
I've not got that one. Is that the African one?
Australian.
Africa was only a short charity book.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: karen on 04/02/07 at 10:02 am
Australian.
Africa was only a short charity book.
Another Australian one? I've read Down Under loads of times
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: spaceace on 04/02/07 at 9:11 pm
The Pennsylvania Landlord, Tenant Handbook by D. Patrick Zimmerman
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Gis on 04/03/07 at 1:25 am
Another Australian one? I've read Down Under loads of times
Maybe it's the U.S title for it??
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: danootaandme on 04/03/07 at 4:17 am
Just started "The Body Politic" by Paul Johnston. Looks interesting
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: karen on 04/03/07 at 7:05 am
Maybe it's the U.S title for it??
A quick google search reveals that to be the case.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: 80s_cheerleader on 04/03/07 at 11:12 am
The Pennsylvania Landlord, Tenant Handbook by D. Patrick Zimmerman
ummm....errr......that sounds like a "can't put it down" read :-\\
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Ashkicksass on 04/03/07 at 11:52 am
Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Marier
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Gis on 04/03/07 at 2:34 pm
Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Marier
Oooh fantastic book. There was a fabulous T.V adaptation with Jane Seymour and Trevor Eve. Have you read Rebecca?
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Ashkicksass on 04/03/07 at 2:41 pm
Oooh fantastic book. There was a fabulous T.V adaptation with Jane Seymour and Trevor Eve. Have you read Rebecca?
Yes, a couple of times - I love Rebecca! When I was in high school, my best friend and I had to make a video about a book, and we used the Barbie Dream House as Manderley and used Barbies for all of the characters. It was so much fun!
I have a book that belonged to my mom that has several of her stories in it - Jamaica Inn is the next in line. So far it's great!
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: spaceace on 04/03/07 at 5:06 pm
ummm....errr......that sounds like a "can't put it down" read :-\\
Actually it was written by my attorney. I want to pick his brain some what.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: La Roche on 04/04/07 at 4:09 am
Maybe it's the U.S title for it??
.. and yet I swear I bought it in the UK.. I guess not.
Regardless, the same book.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: McDonald on 04/12/07 at 12:47 pm
In the middle of Trudeau: Citoyen du Monde, Tome 1 which was a bilingual release, with the Englsh title being Trudeau: Citizen of the World, Volume 1. It's exactly what it sounds like; the first half of a comprehensive biography of the late former Prime Minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau. It's great, but it's a slow read, mainly because I purposely bought the French edition and although I do speak French, it isn't my first language and it certainly is not the language I am most used to reading in. I'm only in chapter two, though the chapters are rather giant.
It's amazing to see how much he actually evolved politically. He went from a staunch Québec nationalist, raised in Outremont (upscale French Montréal) and educated at Collège de Brébeuf (a very nationalist, right-wing Catholic private college at the time) to being the largest champion of Canadian federalism and national unity the country has ever known.
If you're Canadian, or simply interested in Canadian politics, I urge you to pick up this book. It's a fascinating peek into the life of the most influential and enigmatic Prime Minister our country has yet produced.
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Written By: HawkTheSlayer on 04/12/07 at 12:56 pm
I am re-reading "The Call Of Cthulhu & Other Weird Stories", by H.P. Lovecraft.
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Written By: Gis on 04/14/07 at 1:40 am
I am re-reading "The Call Of Cthulhu & Other Weird Stories", by H.P. Lovecraft.
If you ever read anything other than this genre I'll about die with shock! ;)
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Written By: 80s_cheerleader on 04/15/07 at 6:43 pm
Finished The Mill on the Floss, Arabian Jazz by Diane Abu-Jaber, and The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (I looked at the syllabus wrong and read the first one, which actually isn't assigned until NEXT week so I had to read THoMS today...lucky for me it's fairly short) and am about to move on to The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy. I can't wait until I can read "just for fun."
Over the summer, I'm going to read "The Canterbury Tales" to get a head start on my Chaucer class next semester...
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Written By: Gis on 04/16/07 at 1:27 am
Finished The Mill on the Floss, Arabian Jazz by Diane Abu-Jaber, and The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (I looked at the syllabus wrong and read the first one, which actually isn't assigned until NEXT week so I had to read THoMS today...lucky for me it's fairly short) and am about to move on to The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy. I can't wait until I can read "just for fun."
Over the summer, I'm going to read "The Canterbury Tales" to get a head start on my Chaucer class next semester...
I hope you are reading the Chaucer with a good translation on hand. ;D
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Written By: 80s_cheerleader on 04/17/07 at 12:10 pm
I hope you are reading the Chaucer with a good translation on hand. ;D
I'm looking for an annotated edition ;)
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Written By: Ashkicksass on 04/18/07 at 10:46 am
I finished Jamaica Inn (loved it) and also re-read the Blackstone Chronicles by John Saul (fabulous book) and now I'm reading a little book called "Mandy" that Julie Andrews wrote back in the 60's. She wrote it when she was married to Blake, so the author name is Julie Edwards. Anyway, it was one of my favorite novels when I was a little girl about an orphan who finds a cottage in the woods and makes it her own. A while back I got onto Amazon and bought a bunch of books that I loved when I was young. It's been really fun re-reading them.
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Written By: Powerslave on 04/18/07 at 9:56 pm
I just finished reading The Third Heaven Conspiracy. It's about Dante Alighieri (the guy who wrote the Divine Comedy) investigating the murder of a member of a secret society in late 13th century Florence. Interesting, but not as good as a story with that as its premise could have been.
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Written By: 80s_cheerleader on 04/19/07 at 8:44 am
I just finished reading The Third Heaven Conspiracy. It's about Dante Alighieri (the guy who wrote the Divine Comedy) investigating the murder of a member of a secret society in late 13th century Florence. Interesting, but not as good as a story with that as its premise could have been.
Awww....I hate it when books like that are disappointing.....I loved Dante....unfortunately, my school does NOT have a class that teaches him (at least they haven't the past 2 semesters) :o :o
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Written By: HawkTheSlayer on 04/20/07 at 3:40 pm
If you ever read anything other than this genre I'll about die with shock! ;)
Actually, I have about 2/3 of the "Nero Wolfe" series, which covers murder mysteries.
I also have the following:
-Ellis Peters (Brother Cadfael's Chronicles)
-Roger Zelazny (The Amber Series, including 2 of John Betancourt's)
-Frank & Brian Herbert (Dune)
-Dennis L. McKiernan (The World Of Mithgar)
-Michael Moorcock (Elric of Melnibone)
-Jack L. Chalker (G.O.D., Inc.)
I also have several books on Medieval Music, and books concerning the "great mysteries" in the world (Atlantis, El Dorado, Easter Island, etc.), as well as classics like "Macbeth" and "Canterbury Tales".
So, what do ya want on your tombstone? :D
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Written By: Gis on 04/22/07 at 3:27 am
Actually, I have about 2/3 of the "Nero Wolfe" series, which covers murder mysteries.
I also have the following:
-Ellis Peters (Brother Cadfael's Chronicles)
-Roger Zelazny (The Amber Series, including 2 of John Betancourt's)
-Frank & Brian Herbert (Dune)
-Dennis L. McKiernan (The World Of Mithgar)
-Michael Moorcock (Elric of Melnibone)
-Jack L. Chalker (G.O.D., Inc.)
I also have several books on Medieval Music, and books concerning the "great mysteries" in the world (Atlantis, El Dorado, Easter Island, etc.), as well as classics like "Macbeth" and "Canterbury Tales".
So, what do ya want on your tombstone? :D
But where is the comedy, where's the chick lit??
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Written By: karen on 04/24/07 at 3:55 am
Currently reading The Lighthouse by PD James
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Written By: HawkTheSlayer on 04/24/07 at 4:04 am
But where is the comedy, where's the chick lit??
The best comedies I have are Shakespeare and old "Peanuts" books I've had, since age 8.
Chick Lit....hmmmmmm........
Does Michael Jackson's biography count??
No?
Well, then......I DO have a book, called "A Hawk In Silver".
It's all about 2 British lasses in what we Yanks call "High School", who get caught up in an epic struggle between two ancient races, who want nothing more than to return to the Land of Faerie.
They are led there by the Starlord, who must first defeat Rak-Domnu, Sea-Witch of fallen Caer Ys.
It has most of the "Chick Lit" requirements- Main characters are female; there's a cat-fight between the main caracters and the "bully" of the school; a mysterious boy enters the picture and leads the girls to a mystical place; a family tragedy; mentions of Female Teen Pop Idols; and horses (Fyraire, the Starlord comes to Earth from Faerie as a malformed albino horse/unicorn).
Does this cover it sufficiently?
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Written By: danootaandme on 04/24/07 at 4:29 am
The best comedies I have are Shakespeare and old "Peanuts" books I've had, since age 8.
Chick Lit....hmmmmmm........
Does Michael Jackson's biography count??
No?
Well, then......I DO have a book, called "A Hawk In Silver".
It's all about 2 British lasses in what we Yanks call "High School", who get caught up in an epic struggle between two ancient races, who want nothing more than to return to the Land of Faerie.
They are led there by the Starlord, who must first defeat Rak-Domnu, Sea-Witch of fallen Caer Ys.
It has most of the "Chick Lit" requirements- Main characters are female; there's a cat-fight between the main caracters and the "bully" of the school; a mysterious boy enters the picture and leads the girls to a mystical place; a family tragedy; mentions of Female Teen Pop Idols; and horses (Fyraire, the Starlord comes to Earth from Faerie as a malformed albino horse/unicorn).
Does this cover it sufficiently?
You should try Mists of Avalon, It's King Arthur from Morgan Le Fays point of view.
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Written By: HawkTheSlayer on 04/24/07 at 6:13 pm
You should try Mists of Avalon, It's King Arthur from Morgan Le Fays point of view.
Actually, my wife Melissa has the entire "Avalon" series, if you are referring to the Marion Zimmer Bradley book.
Melissa is quite into the Merlin/Nimue legends.
Interesting Trivia Note: the late M.Z.B. was a co-founder of the S.C.A.- the Medieval Re-enactment Society we are both part of.
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Written By: quirky_cat_girl on 04/24/07 at 7:00 pm
I am currently reading, "The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger. It's an awesome book so far. I heard that they are making this into a movie...I will be anxious to see it.
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Written By: HawkTheSlayer on 04/24/07 at 7:02 pm
I am currently reading, "The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger.
Related to Arnold Schwarzennegger?
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Written By: quirky_cat_girl on 04/24/07 at 7:10 pm
Related to Arnold Schwarzennegger?
hahaha...no!! ;D :D
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Written By: danootaandme on 04/25/07 at 4:46 pm
I am currently reading, "The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger. It's an awesome book so far. I heard that they are making this into a movie...I will be anxious to see it.
Related to Arnold Schwarzennegger?
And the children... hyphenate Niffenegger-Schwartzenegger :o
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Written By: danootaandme on 04/25/07 at 4:49 pm
Actually, my wife Melissa has the entire "Avalon" series, if you are referring to the Marion Zimmer Bradley book.
Melissa is quite into the Merlin/Nimue legends.
Interesting Trivia Note: the late M.Z.B. was a co-founder of the S.C.A.- the Medieval Re-enactment Society we are both part of.
That is the one. If you haven't read Mists I would suggest it. I was enthralled by Morte D'Arthur, but Mists puts a great spin on the tale coming from Morgans side. I haven't read beyond Mists. Maybe this summer.
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Written By: HawkTheSlayer on 04/26/07 at 4:01 am
The entire series is as follows:
-Firebrand
-Forest House
-Mists Of Avalon
-Priestess Of Avalon
-Lady Of Avalon
There's also a smaller paperback, called "Out Of Avalon".
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Written By: lorac61469 on 04/28/07 at 8:01 pm
I just read Predator by Patricia Cornwell.
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Written By: danootaandme on 04/29/07 at 6:44 am
Just got Finn out of the library. What would Huck Finns father have been like? Looks interesting.
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Written By: McDonald on 04/30/07 at 3:23 pm
After eight months of almost no Anglo-literary stimulation, I have finally stumbled upon a goldmine of English books at the University library that I just assumed would have very few. So I just checked out Fifth Business by Robertson Davies, and Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen. I have two weeks off from school and I can't wait to read them.
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Written By: danootaandme on 04/30/07 at 3:44 pm
After eight months of almost no Anglo-literary stimulation, I have finally stumbled upon a goldmine of English books at the University library that I just assumed would have very few. So I just checked out Fifth Business by Robertson Davies, and Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen. I have two weeks off from school and I can't wait to read them.
I LOVE Robertson Davies. The Deptford Trilogy is fantastic.
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Written By: McDonald on 04/30/07 at 4:02 pm
I LOVE Robertson Davies. The Deptford Trilogy is fantastic.
Cool. I believe the one I borrowed is of that same trilogy in fact. If I really enjoy it, I plan on reading the other two.
In any case, I am impressed that you're such a big fan of a Canadian author that many Canadians wouldn't even know. He gave an excellent interview to a guy named Don Swaim in 1989. The link will be below, but Mr. Swaim also interviewed a host of the most excellent authors and many of the audio files will be found at the same website. Enjoy! It really is a treasure online.
http://www.wiredforbooks.org/robertsondavies/
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Written By: danootaandme on 05/01/07 at 4:03 pm
Cool. I believe the one I borrowed is of that same trilogy in fact. If I really enjoy it, I plan on reading the other two.
In any case, I am impressed that you're such a big fan of a Canadian author that many Canadians wouldn't even know. He gave an excellent interview to a guy named Don Swaim in 1989. The link will be below, but Mr. Swaim also interviewed a host of the most excellent authors and many of the audio files will be found at the same website. Enjoy! It really is a treasure online.
http://www.wiredforbooks.org/robertsondavies/
I actually tried to get into a reading he was giving at the Boston Public Library, but it was all full up, and I still regret not getting to see him. Fifth Business is the beginning of the Deptford Trilogy, I read them 1-2-3, and loved them.
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Written By: KKay on 05/01/07 at 4:06 pm
I was reading the Zombie Survival Guide...then some other old book about german film.
Now i'm happily moving on to a big book of Times Crossword Puzzles.
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Written By: HawkTheSlayer on 05/01/07 at 5:11 pm
Debating on whether to open up my "Poor Man's James Bond"....
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Written By: spaceace on 05/04/07 at 12:39 pm
I'm re-reading The skirt and the Fiddle by TRISTAN. Because I miss my buddy. :\'(
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Written By: La Roche on 05/04/07 at 12:55 pm
I was reading the Zombie Survival Guide...then some other old book about german film.
Now i'm happily moving on to a big book of Times Crossword Puzzles.
Read my goddam Krays book so I can have it back!
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Written By: danootaandme on 05/04/07 at 3:53 pm
Read my goddam Krays book so I can have it back!
A book about the Krays-what's the name of it?
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Written By: La Roche on 05/04/07 at 8:10 pm
A book about the Krays-what's the name of it?
The Cult Of Violence. It was written by John Pearson, Reg told him a lot of rather revealing storys towards the end when he was in hospital. He was also involved with them around the time they killed McVitie.
I'm a bit of a geek for the Kray Twins.
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Written By: Badfinger-fan on 05/04/07 at 8:28 pm
i have not read it yet, but am heading over to Borders after work with my 30% off coupon to buy the newly released
The Children of Hurin by JRR Tolkien
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Written By: danootaandme on 05/05/07 at 5:37 am
The Cult Of Violence. It was written by John Pearson, Reg told him a lot of rather revealing storys towards the end when he was in hospital. He was also involved with them around the time they killed McVitie.
I'm a bit of a geek for the Kray Twins.
If you like the Krays and that sort of thing(I do, too.) you should try "Black Mass" by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill. The story of South Bostons(Massachusetts) James "Whitey" Bulger and Steve "the Rifleman" Flemmi. Steve is currently in jail, but Whitey absconded and has been on the Most Wanted List since 1994. Whiteys brother, Billy Bulger was one of the most powerful politicians in Massachusetts, while Whitey was the most notorius(and untouchable) criminals. Another brother worked in the court system, and Steve Flemmis brother was a cop. Trust me, you will love this one.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_J._Bulger
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Written By: danootaandme on 05/07/07 at 4:50 am
The Giver- Lois Lowry
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Written By: HawkTheSlayer on 05/07/07 at 4:53 am
Just finished a re-read of the "Divertisimenti" duology by Walter Jon WIlliams-
"The Crown Jewels" & "House Of Shards".
About a delightful Allowed Burglar named Drake Maijstral.
I DO hope WJW does a 3rd book on him, at some point.
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Written By: tokjct on 06/11/07 at 4:40 pm
I just finished my (I dunno)...maybe my 25th Dean Koontz novel...entitled "Velocity."
I absolutely love Koontz. He has an amazing ability to use the English languge in such a... (I don't know the precise word...) "juicy" fashion... I am not a fast reader because I have always enjoyed the process of reading and digesting the interplay of written words. With Koontz novels, I try to always have a dictionary with me...which I refer to several time per chapter.
I think I may post a thread just on Dean Koontz. He has a website which I subscribe to...and a fan club.
peace Lee (aka tokjct) 8)
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Written By: danootaandme on 06/12/07 at 5:49 am
I just finished my (I dunno)...maybe my 25th Dean Koontz novel...entitled "Velocity."
I absolutely love Koontz. He has an amazing ability to use the English languge in such a... (I don't know the precise word...) "juicy" fashion... I am not a fast reader because I have always enjoyed the process of reading and digesting the interplay of written words. With Koontz novels, I try to always have a dictionary with me...which I refer to several time per chapter.
I think I may post a thread just on Dean Koontz. He has a website which I subscribe to...and a fan club.
peace Lee (aka tokjct) 8)
I have never read Koontz, and I don't know why. I hear such raves, maybe on my next trip to the library I will give it a whirl. I read "Dark Tide" the story of the Great Molasses Flood. In Boston at the turn of the century there was a tank explosion and 2,000,000 gallons of molasses spread over the North End harborside. It was January and the thick ooze trapped and killed people and horses, and knocked down buildings. How it happened and why is pretty interesting. It was the first time in the USA that victims of an industrial accident were able to sue a company and recieve compensation.
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Written By: karen on 06/12/07 at 6:18 am
I'm re-reading The Emancipist. It starts off in Ireland in the early 1800s with a v poor family and follows the children growing up. Then the main character is deported to Tasmania and its about how he becomes an important person after he is released from prison.
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Written By: SemperYoda on 06/12/07 at 4:00 pm
I just finished my (I dunno)...maybe my 25th Dean Koontz novel...entitled "Velocity."
I absolutely love Koontz. He has an amazing ability to use the English languge in such a... (I don't know the precise word...) "juicy" fashion... I am not a fast reader because I have always enjoyed the process of reading and digesting the interplay of written words. With Koontz novels, I try to always have a dictionary with me...which I refer to several time per chapter.
I think I may post a thread just on Dean Koontz. He has a website which I subscribe to...and a fan club.
peace Lee (aka tokjct) 8)
Dean Koontz books are great. My favorite has to be Lightening. If you like Dean Koontz, you might like books by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Their first book together was Relic, which was made into an ok movie. The books are pretty darn good though.
The last book I finished was Road of the Patriarch by RA Salvatore. 3rd book in the Sellswords Trilogy. Im still waiting on the last Wheel of Time book. Poor Robert Jordan is still recovering from a nasty blood disease. Im also waiting for the next A Song of Ice and Fire book. Guess I dont have to wait for Harry Potter that much longer.
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Written By: Gis on 07/09/07 at 4:22 am
The Constant Princess by Phillipa Gregory.
I'm looking forward to the new Harry Potter of course!
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Written By: danootaandme on 07/09/07 at 4:26 am
The Lost German Slave Girl - wicked good stuff
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Written By: spaceace on 07/09/07 at 10:34 am
Between Worlds - The Making of An American Life . . . by Bill Richardson
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Written By: McDonald on 07/09/07 at 3:14 pm
I actually tried to get into a reading he was giving at the Boston Public Library, but it was all full up, and I still regret not getting to see him. Fifth Business is the beginning of the Deptford Trilogy, I read them 1-2-3, and loved them.
In the middle of The Manticore currently. I loved Fifth Business so much. It was such a pleasure to read it.
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Written By: danootaandme on 07/09/07 at 5:11 pm
In the middle of The Manticore currently. I loved Fifth Business so much. It was such a pleasure to read it.
Glad you like it! :)
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Written By: HawkTheSlayer on 07/09/07 at 5:54 pm
Currently re-reading "Dune: House Harkonnen", by Kevin Anderson & Brian Herbert, and "Seabiscuit: An American Legend", by Laura Hillenbrand.
Hoping to start on "The Incomplete Enchanter" soon.
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Written By: lorac61469 on 07/09/07 at 6:27 pm
I just finished my (I dunno)...maybe my 25th Dean Koontz novel...entitled "Velocity."
I absolutely love Koontz. He has an amazing ability to use the English languge in such a... (I don't know the precise word...) "juicy" fashion... I am not a fast reader because I have always enjoyed the process of reading and digesting the interplay of written words. With Koontz novels, I try to always have a dictionary with me...which I refer to several time per chapter.
I think I may post a thread just on Dean Koontz. He has a website which I subscribe to...and a fan club.
peace Lee (aka tokjct) 8)
I love Dean Koontz, the last one I read by him was The Good Guy. The only problem I have is that they're so good I read them too fast. Usually I'll reread them a few years later.
I just finished Twelve Sharp by Janet Evanovich.
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Written By: KKay on 07/10/07 at 5:43 pm
The Pirate Turns Fifty
by Jimmy Buffet.
I thought it was going to be awful but it's funnny and interesting!
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Written By: HawkTheSlayer on 07/10/07 at 5:54 pm
The Pirate Turns Fifty
by Jimmy Buffet.
I thought it was going to be awful but it's funnny and interesting!
Ever read his "Tales From Margaritaville"?
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Written By: KKay on 07/10/07 at 5:55 pm
Ever read his "Tales From Margaritaville"?
no, this is the first one.
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Written By: statsqueen on 07/11/07 at 9:27 am
Just finished reading/rereading the Harry Potter books. Also, re-reading "Trinity" by Leon Uris.
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Written By: karen on 07/11/07 at 9:41 am
currently reading The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe to my daughter. Re-reading Murder at the VIcarage - Agatha Christie.
Have collected one or two books to take on holiday but I can't recall what.
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Written By: McDonald on 07/13/07 at 7:42 am
Just started book three of the Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies, entitled World of Wonders. I've also been flipping through a collection of short stories from various authors in Canada's Atlantic provinces.
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Written By: karen on 07/24/07 at 9:49 am
On holiday I read Penguins Stopped Play by Harry Thompson. It's about his "village" cricket team and various tours they did.
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Written By: Gis on 07/24/07 at 10:24 am
Just read The Whitethorn Woods - Maeve Binchey. I've now started The Boleyn Inheritance by Phillipa Gregory.
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Written By: McDonald on 07/24/07 at 11:03 am
Just finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which was a real page-turner. I really liked it, although I just don't know what to think now that it's all over. I suppose I was satisfied of the ending as well.
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Written By: lorac61469 on 07/24/07 at 11:17 am
The Mermaids Singing by Val McDermid.
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Written By: danootaandme on 07/25/07 at 4:46 am
Paula Spencer -Roddy Doyle. Doyle is one of the very best writers today, one who isn't sucked into obnoxious, pay-by-the-word, metaphor driven, crap. This is one of his best, (and they are all very good).
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Written By: Ashkicksass on 07/25/07 at 1:25 pm
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - it's great so far!
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Written By: Jessica on 07/29/07 at 5:31 pm
Re-reading "The Mists of Avalon" by Marion Zimmer Bradley and also reading "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown.
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Written By: danootaandme on 08/01/07 at 6:19 am
Re-reading "The Mists of Avalon" by Marion Zimmer Bradley
I carried that book around with me for a week after I read it, just to have it near me.
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Written By: spaceace on 08/01/07 at 12:28 pm
A small book called Ghosts of Gettysburg by Mark Nesbitt.
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Written By: CatwomanofV on 08/02/07 at 3:29 pm
Just finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which was a real page-turner. I really liked it, although I just don't know what to think now that it's all over. I suppose I was satisfied of the ending as well.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - it's great so far!
Just finished it myself. I love ALL the Harry Potter books. But, I want more. :D ;D ;D ;D
Cat
Subject: Remember Heinlein
Written By: tokjct on 08/03/07 at 2:01 am
I haven't read Robert Heinlein since I was a teenager...half a century ago. Amongst others, I loved "Stranger in a Strange Land."
The other day, at the Friends of the Library book seller, at local public library, I picked up (for a buck) "JOB: A COMEDY OF JUSTICE" by Heinlein. Oh..was it good!!!...It was...http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/04/firedevil.gif http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/08/saint.gif...so much more than just science-fiction.
Subject: Rosamunde Pilcher
Written By: tokjct on 08/03/07 at 2:14 am
If you enjoy beautiful love stories, as I do, you should very much enjoy the novels of Rosamunde Pilcher...set in Corwall, England or the highlands of Scotland or in the heart of London...I find them so delightful!
Some wonderful novels I just finished in the past couple of months: "The Shell Seekers" "Coming Home" "Winter Solstice"...
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: danootaandme on 08/03/07 at 6:37 am
Reading Franny and Zooey-John Salinger. It has been decades since I read A Catcher in the Rye, it was good, but didn't think as much of it as the tell you you should. This is a good book. I was going for a Don Robertson book By Antietim Creek, but had to put it on order from another library as they didn't have a copy
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/03/07 at 6:39 am
I have now finally found my paperback copy of Patricia Cornwell's Portrait of a Killer and later I will settle down to read it.
Subject: Re: Rosamunde Pilcher
Written By: Gis on 08/03/07 at 8:18 am
If you enjoy beautiful love stories, as I do, you should very much enjoy the novels of Rosamunde Pilcher...set in Corwall, England or the highlands of Scotland or in the heart of London...I find them so delightful!
Some wonderful novels I just finished in the past couple of months: "The Shell Seekers" "Coming Home" "Winter Solstice"...
You should talk to Ash about Rosamund Pilcher she and I are both big fans. ;D Have you read any of her shorter books or her collections of short stories? I love Snow in April and The Empty House. Also The Blue Bedroom has some great stories in it.
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Written By: Jessica on 08/03/07 at 8:31 am
It has been decades since I read A Catcher in the Rye, it was good, but didn't think as much of it as the tell you you should.
I LOATHED that book. I wanted to sock the main character, and he was frickin' fictional!
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: danootaandme on 08/03/07 at 4:43 pm
I LOATHED that book. I wanted to sock the main character, and he was frickin' fictional!
Well, I didn't make it through Franny and Zooey either. Now on to Three Days by Don Robertson, fiction about the battle of Gettysburg
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: McDonald on 08/13/07 at 11:15 am
Smack in the middle of The Handmaiden's Tale by Margaret Atwood, a novel which won her the Governer General's Award for English Fiction in 1985.
Subject: Re: Latest Read..and FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY
Written By: tokjct on 08/13/07 at 3:11 pm
I just read Predator by Patricia Cornwell.
I just finished "Hornet's Nest" by Patricia Cornwell...terrific...sooo...I bought... (for a buck each...in hard cover)...Point of Origin, The Last Precinct, and Isle of Dogs.
NB
FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY is an wonderful organization, apparently, all over the country...I purchased books from them in Bloomington, Indiana and Asheville, NC as well as here in Broward County, Florida. They sell almost new books...paper backs 25 to 50 cents and hardcovers from a 1.00 to 3.00. I'm talking about 6.00 or more paper backs and 25.00 or more hardcover books. Really unbelievable values for books.
Subject: Re: Rosamunde Pilcher
Written By: tokjct on 08/13/07 at 3:29 pm
You should talk to Ash about Rosamund Pilcher she and I are both big fans. ;D Have you read any of her shorter books or her collections of short stories? I love Snow in April and The Empty House. Also The Blue Bedroom has some great stories in it.
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I am charmed by Rosamunde Pilcher's writing. I'm currently reading The Blue Bedroom and Other Stories. I've been devouring her stuff...recently read: The End of Summer, The Carousel, Voices of Summer, The Shell Seekers, September, The Snows of April, Coming Home, Winter Solstice and the short stories in Flowers in the Rain.
I guess you can consider me a member of her "fan club." ::)
peace...Lee (aka tokjct)
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: MaxwellSmart on 08/13/07 at 8:09 pm
I LOATHED that book. I wanted to sock the main character, and he was frickin' fictional!
What did you hate about Holden Caulfield?
DISCLOSURE: "Catcher" was one of my favorite books of my youth, and I definitely identified with Holden Caulfield...and I still do in a lot of ways. I can't stand the phonies and I'm perpetually alienated from the establishment--social and political.
"Holden Caulfield" belongs to a different era. Teenagers don't relate to him anymore. They think he's a wuss because he's not partying it up and having a blast in the city.
I'm sorry the man who shot John Lennon called himself "the Holden Caulfield of the 1980s." Then again, I'm sorry Charlie Manson spread wrong-headed ideas about the Beatles.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: MaxwellSmart on 08/13/07 at 8:11 pm
Just started: Ivor Van Heerden: "The Storm: What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina."
Subject: Re: Latest Read...My strange reaction
Written By: tokjct on 08/15/07 at 12:36 am
I just finished "Hornet's Nest" by Patricia Cornwell...terrific...sooo...I bought... (for a buck each...in hard cover)...Point of Origin, The Last Precinct, and Isle of Dogs.
I was prepared to start diving into Patricia Cornwell's stuff...when I opened the dedication page of Point of Origin (Copyright 1998), and what did Cornwell write: With love to Barbara Bush (for the difference you make).
Now I detest Barbara (Mrs. George HW) Bush. I have read many articles about this woman and she has done too many despicable things.
So...instead of starting on my journey through Patricia Cornwell...I started what seems to be turning out to be a fine mystery by Harlan Coben called: "no second chance".
Ah well...I guess I shouldn't let that dedication effect me... Hornet's Nest was actually a very good read.
(Just thought I'd share some of my "peculiar" thoughts.) :-\\
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: KKay on 08/15/07 at 6:59 am
Carribean by James Michener.
it's the smallest of the "place name" titles. i fella sleep reading and i rolled over onto it. there should be a warning label.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: lorac61469 on 08/15/07 at 10:16 am
I started reading Metro Girl by Janet Evanovich. I don't think I'll be finishing it. ;D
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Jessica on 08/15/07 at 10:19 am
Smack in the middle of The Handmaiden's Tale by Margaret Atwood, a novel which won her the Governer General's Award for English Fiction in 1985.
That is a book that I read over and over again.
What did you hate about Holden Caulfield?
DISCLOSURE: "Catcher" was one of my favorite books of my youth, and I definitely identified with Holden Caulfield...and I still do in a lot of ways. I can't stand the phonies and I'm perpetually alienated from the establishment--social and political.
"Holden Caulfield" belongs to a different era. Teenagers don't relate to him anymore. They think he's a wuss because he's not partying it up and having a blast in the city.
I'm sorry the man who shot John Lennon called himself "the Holden Caulfield of the 1980s." Then again, I'm sorry Charlie Manson spread wrong-headed ideas about the Beatles.
Well, I'm not a teenager and I wasn't one when I read it, so maybe that's why I despised it. I did not like the character because he reminded me of every other Emo whining son of a bitch out there today. And I do not have a fondness for middle class-well to do teenagers whining and crying about how their lives suck, so they have to dress like tools and cut themselves. That's what I got from this book. It had nothing to do with whether he was partying or not.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Rice_Cube on 08/15/07 at 10:37 am
I liked "The Catcher in the Rye". I'm not emo though :)
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: MaxwellSmart on 08/15/07 at 10:15 pm
That is a book that I read over and over again.
Well, I'm not a teenager and I wasn't one when I read it, so maybe that's why I despised it. I did not like the character because he reminded me of every other Emo whining son of a bitch out there today. And I do not have a fondness for middle class-well to do teenagers whining and crying about how their lives suck, so they have to dress like tools and cut themselves. That's what I got from this book. It had nothing to do with whether he was partying or not.
Huh? You so don't get Holden Caulfield you don't realize you are Holden Caulfield!
If he was a 16-year-old nowadays, he would say exactly what you just said about Emo kids and self-absorbed preppie "cutters."
See in the 1950s introspection was discouraged.
Since the 1960s introspection has been...discouraged.
Holden Caulfield didn't have Morrissey the way I did...and the real Holden Caulfields didn't have the fictional one if the schoolboard could help it.
Our pop culture since the '60s has increasingly fostered narcissism not introspection.
Kids know how to question authority but have no concept of authoritarianism.
And that's the difference between Emo kids and Holden Caulfield.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Rice_Cube on 08/16/07 at 10:16 am
Holden Caulfield is easily identified with by most because he represents the stage in adolescence when one is trying to determine one's identity and place in the world, but to an extreme...the author clearly showed that he had some serious personality and perhaps mental issues. That is the appeal of the novel. That doesn't mean he's not emo, and it also doesn't mean that I have to be emo to appreciate the novel.
After reading the book, I reaffirmed that my life didn't really suck that bad compared to this guy's fictional life. Still liked the book though.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: danootaandme on 08/16/07 at 5:17 pm
The Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant - Ulysses S. Grant (not as dry as it sounds)
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: MaxwellSmart on 08/16/07 at 9:00 pm
The Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant - Ulysses S. Grant (not as dry as it sounds)
U.S. Grant...dry? I don't think so!
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/12/drunken_smilie.gif
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: danootaandme on 08/17/07 at 5:19 am
U.S. Grant...dry? I don't think so!
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/12/drunken_smilie.gif
;D right there!
An Unquiet Grave - P J Parrish I have gotten sick of most murder mysteries, most are so formulaic, but this one was pretty good, and, the reason I picked it up was because I was graveyard strolling and saw a battered piece of paper on a grave, picked it up, and it was the torn cover of this book :o I should have taken note of the grave it was on, but it was so eerie looking at the name of the book in the graveyard I forgot.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: thereshegoes on 08/17/07 at 8:25 am
I'm reading Little Children by Tom Perrotta. The movie was great,the book is proving to be even better.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: tokjct on 08/19/07 at 11:14 am
Just finished "The DaVinci Code" by Dan Brown...WOW! Couldn't put it down. (The again...I rarely put down a book I'm reading for very long...anyway.)
I have another of his books sitting on the shelf...called "Deception Point"...But first...I just started "The CODEX" by Douglas Preston (2003).
It looks like it's going to be good. ;)
Subject: Re: Rosamunde Pilcher
Written By: Henk on 08/19/07 at 12:06 pm
If you enjoy beautiful love stories, as I do, you should very much enjoy the novels of Rosamunde Pilcher...set in Corwall, England or the highlands of Scotland or in the heart of London...I find them so delightful!
Some wonderful novels I just finished in the past couple of months: "The Shell Seekers" "Coming Home" "Winter Solstice"...
Rosamunde Pilcher...I've actually read one of her books ("Wild Mountain Thyme"). Terrible mistake... :-[
Quite a few of her novels are adapted for television by German broadcasting company ZDF. There's a funny thing about that...I don't know how many people you know in England that are fluent in German, but somehow the main character always bumps into that one man...Amazing coincidence.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Henk on 08/19/07 at 12:18 pm
I LOATHED that book. I wanted to sock the main character, and he was frickin' fictional!
For what it's worth: I didn't like it either. Maybe because I HAD to read it for my English class, I don't know.
I might give it second try, though...
For some reason, "The Catcher in the Rye" always reminds me of a Dutch book called "De Avonden" (The Evenings) by Gerard Reve.
This is one of the most appraised books in Dutch literature, yet it bored me to death. Don't know if anyone's read it, but I found it to be extremely monotonous. I don't think I'll ever try reading it again.
For "latest read" I give you: "The Chimney Sweeper's Boy" by Ruth Rendell . I have about a dozen of her books, and absolutely love 'em. (Now you might also understand why I don't like Rosamunde Pilcher)
Subject: Re: Rosamunde Pilcher
Written By: tokjct on 08/20/07 at 11:28 am
Rosamunde Pilcher...I've actually read one of her books ("Wild Mountain Thyme"). Terrible mistake... :-[
Quite a few of her novels are adapted for television by German broadcasting company ZDF. There's a funny thing about that...I don't know how many people you know in England that are fluent in German, but somehow the main character always bumps into that one man...Amazing coincidence.
I have not read "Wild Mountain Thyme"...but, Henk, I am curious why you would say it was a "terrible mistake." ??? Perhaps you don't like love stories. Which, I guess, is understandable. Anyway...I like love stories, her love stories. I'm a softy... Having toured a bit, by car, in England and Scotland, (unfortunately not Cornwall or the Scottish Highlands, though), I very much enjoyed her descriptions of the local scenery. Her development of all sorts of interesting characters fascinates me. Pleasent "coincidences" never bothered me. :)
Subject: Re: Rosamunde Pilcher
Written By: Henk on 08/20/07 at 2:05 pm
I have not read "Wild Mountain Thyme"...but, Henk, I am curious why you would say it was a "terrible mistake." ??? Perhaps you don't like love stories. Which, I guess, is understandable.
You won't find any love stories in my library (unless it was a gift), that's for sure. I'm more of detective person myself (Agatha Christie, Ruth Rendell, Minette Walters).
I said it was a "terrible mistake" to read it because the storyline is ever so predictable (and I should have known!). There's a woman, there's a man, there's trouble (read: the man is already in some kind of relationship/affair), but all's well that ends well. If there's one thing I can't stand in a book it's this kind of predictability. No offense...
Anyway...I like love stories, her love stories. I'm a softy... Having toured a bit, by car, in England and Scotland, (unfortunately not Cornwall or the Scottish Highlands, though), I very much enjoyed her descriptions of the local scenery. Her development of all sorts of interesting characters fascinates me. Pleasent "coincidences" never bothered me. :)
I'm glad you enjoy her books. They're just not my cup of tea.
Subject: Re: Rosamunde Pilcher
Written By: tokjct on 08/20/07 at 9:28 pm
You won't find any love stories in my library (unless it was a gift), that's for sure. I'm more of detective person myself (Agatha Christie, Ruth Rendell, Minette Walters).
I said it was a "terrible mistake" to read it because the storyline is ever so predictable (and I should have known!). There's a woman, there's a man, there's trouble (read: the man is already in some kind of relationship/affair), but all's well that ends well. If there's one thing I can't stand in a book it's this kind of predictability. No offense...
I'm glad you enjoy her books. They're just not my cup of tea.
Probably the primary reason I have enjoyed Pilcher is that prior to reading her novels, I had just finished reading about 20 Dean Koontz books in a row. If you've read any Koontz you know how exciting his stuff can be...so the relative peace and serenity of Pilcher's novels was a nice break from Koontz. ::)
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Gis on 08/22/07 at 1:58 pm
For "latest read" I give you: "The Chimney Sweeper's Boy" by Ruth Rendell . I have about a dozen of her books, and absolutely love 'em. (Now you might also understand why I don't like Rosamunde Pilcher)
Very disapointing ending! I was glued to the book and then the story just pettered out...............
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Snoopygirl on 08/22/07 at 7:16 pm
I finally bought Cell by Stephen King. It's pretty good so far, but then again, I pretty much love anything he writes.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: gopher on 08/26/07 at 7:48 pm
"The Incident With the Dog" (or however you spell it or title it?) the best book i have ever read so far 8)
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: tokjct on 08/29/07 at 1:14 am
Two fine novels..."The Codex" by Douglas Preston...reminded me of the Indiana Jones stuff...and
I just finished Patricia Cornwell's "The Last Precinct. Yes I do like that gal...She writes a mean detective story!
Now I've started Cornwell's "Isle of Dogs." So far...very good...and again with the character, Andy Brazil...cool guy, who I first met in her novel "Hornet's Nest."
Read on, MacDuff!!! :o
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: danootaandme on 08/30/07 at 4:27 am
An Unquite Grave - PJ Parrish good mystery, not quite as formulaic as what passes for mystery these days.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: danootaandme on 08/31/07 at 4:49 am
A House Divided - Civil War book about Grant and Lee. I'm turning into a wonk, I shouted at the book when I came upon a couple of mistakes.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Gis on 08/31/07 at 10:31 am
The Murderous Marriage - M C Beeton. A spoof of Agatha Christie really, a good read and funny too.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: danootaandme on 08/31/07 at 5:07 pm
The Murderous Marriage - M C Beeton. A spoof of Agatha Christie really, a good read and funny too.
I LOVE AGATHA RAISIN Impatiently waiting for the next book :)
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: MLB on 09/02/07 at 12:17 am
simultaneously reading the final H.P. book and Unexpected Magic 16 collected stories by dianna wynne jones. just finished teen fiction absolutely normal CHAOS: sharon creech.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: quirky_cat_girl on 09/02/07 at 12:25 am
The Five People You Meet In Heaven
By: Mitch Albom
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Badfinger-fan on 09/02/07 at 2:36 am
An American Band , The America Story by Dan Peek
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: danootaandme on 09/02/07 at 4:33 am
Glory Road - Bruce Catton
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: tokjct on 09/09/07 at 1:58 am
I guess she's just too good to stay away from...Patricia Cornwell..."Cause of Death" was good..."Point of Origin" was really good...now I've started "Predator"...and the early chapters are a a bit confusing...more confusing than usual for Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta and her niece Lucy.
Anyway...Cornwell is OK. :)
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/09/07 at 8:32 am
I guess she's just too good to stay away from...Patricia Cornwell..."Cause of Death" was good..."Point of Origin" was really good...now I've started "Predator"...and the early chapters are a a bit confusing...more confusing than usual for Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta and her niece Lucy.
Anyway...Cornwell is OK. :)
Here first books were good, especially The Body Farm.
How are her books now, do they still hold you?
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: danootaandme on 09/09/07 at 9:04 am
Mary Chesnuts Civil War - Mary Chesnut
She was a wealthy woman in the South, well educated(unusual for women, even for wealthy women) with mega connections. This is her diary of the war years. In the end she and her husband lose everything including their slaves, so it goes. Very good, very informative.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: quirky_cat_girl on 09/09/07 at 6:43 pm
I guess she's just too good to stay away from...Patricia Cornwell..."Cause of Death" was good..."Point of Origin" was really good...now I've started "Predator"...and the early chapters are a a bit confusing...more confusing than usual for Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta and her niece Lucy.
Anyway...Cornwell is OK. :)
she's one of my favorites! :)
Anyway, the last book that I read (which was in an hour, last night) was...Sam's Letters To Jennifer, By: James Patterson (this was such a good book).
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Jessica on 09/21/07 at 10:18 am
Reading "The Memoirs of Cleopatra" by Margaret George for the umpteenth time. It's such a good book though.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: danootaandme on 09/21/07 at 10:24 am
The Unwritten War-American Writers and the Civil War by Daniel Aaron
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: danootaandme on 09/22/07 at 5:17 pm
Dead of Winter- P J Parrish
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: xSiouXBoIx on 09/22/07 at 5:20 pm
i haven't finished a book in ages, but right now i'm reading "Morrissey & Marr: The Severed Alliance".
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: MLB on 09/22/07 at 7:35 pm
Redwall :Brian Jacques
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Foo Bar on 09/28/07 at 11:56 pm
Alan Greenspan, The Age of Turbulence.
Worth reading for anyone, regardless of how much economics you know.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: danootaandme on 09/29/07 at 6:49 am
The Journals of Tennessee Williams
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: tokjct on 10/01/07 at 12:42 pm
she's one of my favorites! :)
Anyway, the last book that I read (which was in an hour, last night) was...Sam's Letters To Jennifer, By: James Patterson (this was such a good book).
Hey...I finshed Predator and picked up a copy of Blow Fly, which I just finished...Cornwell's good. And then...dontcha know...I picked off my bookshelf (which is literally crammed with books I have not read), James Patterson's Roses Are Red. It is very exciting...(I'm half way through it and I find it hard to put down.) ;)
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: thereshegoes on 10/01/07 at 2:15 pm
Lance Armstrong's It's Not About the Bike
I hated it,it made me feel like a major loser. I really don't like him.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: xSiouXBoIx on 10/02/07 at 7:06 am
http://www.newworldzorro.com/seriesbooks/nancydrew/drew23.jpg
I know I should be reading books that are intended for people my age :-\\.........
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/02/07 at 7:39 am
Spurred on by with my own family interest, I have started to read "Boy Soldiers of the Great War" by Richard van Emden. This book on about the boys, some as young as thirteen that were caught up by patriotism to joined up for national service. Only to serve in the bloodiest battles of the Great War.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Jessica on 10/02/07 at 10:24 am
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I know I should be reading books that are intended for people my age :-\\.........
Bah. I'm 27 and I just finished reading "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson. I'm also planning on reading a bunch of other books that I enjoyed when I was younger. Sometimes you just have to relive your childhood. :)
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Ashkicksass on 10/02/07 at 4:37 pm
Bah. I'm 27 and I just finished reading "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson. I'm also planning on reading a bunch of other books that I enjoyed when I was younger. Sometimes you just have to relive your childhood. :)
I couldn't agree more. This spring I ordered a bunch of books from Amazon that I loved as a child. I think it's fabulous to re-visit them.
I just finished the Harry Potter series again. After I finished the seventh book, I decided to start all over again. I read a couple of other things in between, but for the most part I read them straight through from 1 to 7. It was so great!
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: holicman on 10/03/07 at 2:11 am
The menu at Captain Americas.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: danootaandme on 10/03/07 at 5:27 am
The Reckoning - David Halberstam How the american auto industry through it all away.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Jessica on 10/17/07 at 8:57 am
I went and got myself an early Christmas present yesterday. Two books: "Chicago Haunts" and "The Devil In the White City". I'm reading both right now. "Chicago Haunts" is a compilation of the legends and lore from Chicago. It is pretty good. "The Devil In the White City" is beyond description. I've only read a few chapters of it, but it is fantastic. It is essentially two stories: the story of how the 1893 World's Fair came to be and how it changed Chicago forever and the story of the sadistic doctor who took advantage of the crowds by building a "hotel" and murdering his "guests".
The way the author describes late 19th century Chicago is so detailed that you can actually picture it very clearly. Wonderful.
Subject: Re: Rosamunde Pilcher
Written By: karen on 10/17/07 at 8:02 pm
If you enjoy beautiful love stories, as I do, you should very much enjoy the novels of Rosamunde Pilcher...set in Corwall, England or the highlands of Scotland or in the heart of London...I find them so delightful!
Some wonderful novels I just finished in the past couple of months: "The Shell Seekers" "Coming Home" "Winter Solstice"...
I just read the first two.
Now I'm reading East of Eden and struggling with it. It seems to jump about a lot at the beginning. Perhaps it will settle down. I mean it must be good - I heard they made it into a film :D
http://www.newworldzorro.com/seriesbooks/nancydrew/drew23.jpg
I know I should be reading books that are intended for people my age :-\\.........
Not at all. I collect a series of books by one author that are more or less 'school stories', though later ones follow the original girls as they start families.
Subject: Re: Rosamunde Pilcher
Written By: tokjct on 10/17/07 at 10:11 pm
I just read the first two.
Karen, I would very much like to know what you thought of the two Pilcher novels that you did read. You are English...I assume you still live there...(Where?)
peace...Lee :)
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: danootaandme on 10/18/07 at 6:05 am
I went and got myself an early Christmas present yesterday. Two books: "Chicago Haunts" and "The Devil In the White City". I'm reading both right now. "Chicago Haunts" is a compilation of the legends and lore from Chicago. It is pretty good. "The Devil In the White City" is beyond description. I've only read a few chapters of it, but it is fantastic. It is essentially two stories: the story of how the 1893 World's Fair came to be and how it changed Chicago forever and the story of the sadistic doctor who took advantage of the crowds by building a "hotel" and murdering his "guests".
The way the author describes late 19th century Chicago is so detailed that you can actually picture it very clearly. Wonderful.
I absolutely loved The Devil in the White City
Subject: Re: Rosamunde Pilcher
Written By: karen on 10/18/07 at 8:06 am
Karen, I would very much like to know what you thought of the two Pilcher novels that you did read. You are English...I assume you still live there...(Where?)
peace...Lee :)
I picked up The Shell Seekers first in a charity shop. I really enjoyed it so when I spotted Coming Home in a 'library' at the gym I borrowed that as well. Again I enjoyed it but, because I'd just read the other one, I noticed she uses a lot of the same phrases.
I am from England, the East Midlands, but at the moment I am living in Connecticut.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: xSiouXBoIx on 10/19/07 at 4:18 pm
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and
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Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Jessica on 10/20/07 at 12:04 am
I absolutely loved The Devil in the White City
I am thoroughly enjoying it. And to think, this all happened just a few blocks south of where I live now. I'm gonna have to go down and explore Jackson Park now.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: laffytaffy on 10/20/07 at 2:36 am
Yesterday, I finished another book by Patricia Cornwell called Body of Evidence. I'm hooked on her stuff and I've got four more of her books on deck. I discovered that it's better to read her books in chronological order..going back to the oldest first...It keeps her character's relationships and occupations clear in my mind.
About a year ago, I read Angela's Ashes and Tis, by Frank McCourt...and I was over at the library the other day and I just couldn't pass up a relatively new autobiography by McCourt called Teacher, Man about his thirty years as a NYC high school English teacher. It is delightful...I do enjoy his style. Incidentally, I taught school for a year and a half over in Williamsburg, Brooklyn...Common Branches ( which means grade school)...before I decided to go into the family furniture business.
peace, folks...Lee :D
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: tokjct on 10/20/07 at 2:46 am
Yesterday, I finished another book by Patricia Cornwell called Body of Evidence. I'm hooked on her stuff and I've got four more of her books on deck. I discovered that it's better to read her books in chronological order..going back to the oldest first...It keeps her character's relationships and occupations clear in my mind.
About a year ago, I read Angela's Ashes and Tis, by Frank McCourt...and I was over at the library the other day and I just couldn't pass up a relatively new autobiography by McCourt called Teacher, Man about his thirty years as a NYC high school English teacher. It is delightful...I do enjoy his style. Incidentally, I taught school for a year and a half over in Williamsburg, Brooklyn...Common Branches ( which means grade school)...before I decided to go into the family furniture business.
peace, folks...Lee :D
Oh...I posted in my wife's name...so sorry...she forgets to log out and I forget to log in!!! :P
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: danootaandme on 10/21/07 at 5:38 pm
I am thoroughly enjoying it. And to think, this all happened just a few blocks south of where I live now. I'm gonna have to go down and explore Jackson Park now.
Yes, regional books make it fun. When I read books about metropolitan Boston it is fun to go and see the places where things actually took place.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: xSiouXBoIx on 11/01/07 at 4:58 pm
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Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: danootaandme on 11/01/07 at 5:15 pm
The Penelopiad - Margaret Atwood. Been a long time since I got engrossed in a book right from the start. :)
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Written By: Gis on 11/02/07 at 9:22 am
I couldn't agree more. This spring I ordered a bunch of books from Amazon that I loved as a child. I think it's fabulous to re-visit them.
I just finished the Harry Potter series again. After I finished the seventh book, I decided to start all over again. I read a couple of other things in between, but for the most part I read them straight through from 1 to 7. It was so great!
Too right I always read Enid Blyton when I am home sick from work with a cold or something!
On the recommendation of a friend I am reading 'The Secret Language of Bees' at the moment.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: karen on 11/02/07 at 2:29 pm
Circle of friends - Maeve Binchy. again
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: danootaandme on 11/04/07 at 6:19 am
I must recommend The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood. It is a thin book, easy read, and totally engrossing. It has been a while since I read a book that ignited the unnameable spark you get from a good book ;)
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/04/07 at 6:37 am
I must recommend The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood. It is a thin book, easy read, and totally engrossing. It has been a while since I read a book that ignited the unnameable spark you get from a good book ;)
Margaret Atwood she wrote Gone With The Wind?
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: danootaandme on 11/04/07 at 9:20 am
Margaret Atwood she wrote Gone With The Wind?
No, that was Margaret Mitchell who wrote that overblown bit of laundry. Magaret Atwood is an excellent Canadian writer. She also wrote The Handmaid's Tale, which was quite chilling.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/04/07 at 9:53 am
No, that was Margaret Mitchell who wrote that overblown bit of laundry. Magaret Atwood is an excellent Canadian writer. She also wrote The Handmaid's Tale, which was quite chilling.
Oops, wrong Maragret sorry.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: karen on 11/04/07 at 3:44 pm
No, that was Margaret Mitchell who wrote that overblown bit of laundry. Magaret Atwood is an excellent Canadian writer. She also wrote The Handmaid's Tale, which was quite chilling.
I read The Handmaid's Tale when it first came out. I remember being confused by it.
Still reading East of Eden ::)
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: danootaandme on 11/04/07 at 4:22 pm
I read The Handmaid's Tale when it first came out. I remember being confused by it.
Still reading East of Eden ::)
Handmaids Tale speculative fiction in the vein of Brave New World or Farenheit 451. Its basis is what would happen to women should a Taliban like religious right were to take over the United States.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: KKay on 11/04/07 at 4:22 pm
still working on Hemingway. But I have so little time. Loving it though
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Gis on 11/05/07 at 2:55 am
Just finished 'The secret life of bees' and wept like a baby whilst reading it. Sometimes I think it does you good to read a book like that and let it all out.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/05/07 at 3:07 am
Still reading "Beethoven's Hair", just had to read a long chapter which really did not have to do with the tale, which could had been done in a few pages.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: danootaandme on 11/05/07 at 12:20 pm
Still reading "Beethoven's Hair", just had to read a long chapter which really did not have to do with the tale, which could had been done in a few pages.
I hate when that happens.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: thereshegoes on 11/05/07 at 1:42 pm
I Am America(And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert
Funny and really clever,i can't put it down.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: karen on 11/11/07 at 10:19 pm
I've just finished reading The Andromeda Strain - Michael Crichton
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Written By: HawkTheSlayer on 11/12/07 at 1:12 am
I am juggling 5 books, currently.
It's average for me.
3 books:
-Nero Wolfe: The Black Mountain
-Sword Of Clontarf
-Seabiscuit: An American Legend
are re-reads.
2 books:
-A Tale Of Two Cities
-Merlin's Mirror
are new reads for me.
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Written By: Jessica on 11/12/07 at 8:04 am
Handmaids Tale speculative fiction in the vein of Brave New World or Farenheit 451. Its basis is what would happen to women should a Taliban like religious right were to take over the United States.
I friggin' love that book. It scares the crap out of me.
I'm reading Kitty Kelly's "The Royals". It's so tacky and tell all-ish. ;D
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Written By: Tia on 11/12/07 at 8:52 am
i'm reading "mike nelson's movie megacheese."
http://www.stomptokyo.com/store/img-books/nelsoncheese.jpg
good book, but possibly the most ridiculous cover of any book in my collection. it’s a little tough reading it on the metro.
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Written By: Jessica on 11/16/07 at 12:36 pm
Just finished re-reading "The Mist" by Stephen King. This is my all time favorite story by him, even though I was seriously traumatized by it. Everytime the fog rolled in to the Monterey area, I'd freak out. :D
The movie comes out next Wednesday. I have been waiting YEARS for them to make this movie. Unfortunately, I heard they messed with the ending, which might suck. BUT STILL! The movie! *squeals like a little girl*
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Written By: xSiouXBoIx on 11/16/07 at 3:31 pm
http://www.all-about-agatha-christie.com/images/crookedhouse.jpg
The first Agatha Christie book I've actually finished. Now I'm reading 'Murder At The Vicarage'.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: karen on 11/16/07 at 9:52 pm
Now I'm reading 'Murder At The Vicarage'.
I read that again recently. I've also not long finished Ten Little Indians, Murder on the Orient Express and Murder on the Links by her.
Currently reading some book about why losing weight is not the answer to my unhappiness. Can't recall the exact title.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/07 at 3:59 pm
I read that again recently. I've also not long finished Ten Little Indians, Murder on the Orient Express and Murder on the Links by her.
Currently reading some book about why losing weight is not the answer to my unhappiness. Can't recall the exact title.
I have previously read all of the Agatha Christie murder books. For my particular favourite, I cannot remember the title, and can only remember ithe book by the who did the murder.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: danootaandme on 11/17/07 at 5:25 pm
The Great Interlude, Neglected Events and Persons from the First World War to the Depression - Francis Russell
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: EthanM on 11/20/07 at 12:45 pm
I just read something called "and don't forget to rescue the princess" by Marc Bilgrey, which is one of the funniest books that i've ever read.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: laffytaffy on 11/20/07 at 12:58 pm
From: TOKJCT
Just finished Patricia Cornwell's "Potters Field" and "At Risk" both fine Cornwell.
Then zipped through Dean Koontz's "Phantoms"...very good...and I rented the Video from the library...also good, but, as usual, not as good as the book.
Couldn't resist reading the book of the movie I already saw..."The Devil Wears Prada", which was better than the movie!
Now I just started Rosamunde Pilcher's Another View" which I think I already read, but I simply love her stuff...and I didn't realize how much until I started this current book.
and that's all for now, folks!
peace Lee aka Tokjct 8)
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: KKay on 11/21/07 at 7:53 am
Yeager: An Autobiography
By Chuck Yeager
I dig him.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: danootaandme on 11/21/07 at 7:57 am
Yeager: An Autobiography
By Chuck Yeager
I dig him.
The only contest I ever entered was a Pepsi( I think) promo, the prize was Chuck Yeager would take you up in a jet for a ride. I lost.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: KKay on 11/21/07 at 7:58 am
The only contest I ever entered was a Pepsi( I think) promo, the prize was Chuck Yeager would take you up in a jet for a ride. I lost.
wow! that would be really amazing. i could die after that.
a long time ago i had a chuck yeager thread...no, i had a short story thread and i wrote a little biography about him.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: danootaandme on 11/21/07 at 9:29 am
Vindication, A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft - Lyndall Gordon
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: tokjct on 11/22/07 at 9:25 pm
Thanks to ChuckieG and a good suggestion, I am back with my TOKJCT logo..."V" ;)
Anyway...I finished that Rosamunde Pilcher novel, "Another View"...for the second time...and it was wonderful...again!
Now I'm into Patricia Cornwell's "Unnatural Exposure." It's another Dr. Kay Scarpetta novel and I'm a quarter way through it and it is very good.
Definitely up to Cornwell's high standards.
peace...Lee
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: danootaandme on 11/23/07 at 5:27 am
Vindication, A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft - Lyndall Gordon
Fascinating subject, dry book, don't think I can do it.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: karen on 11/26/07 at 8:04 am
I've just finished Flowers in the Rain and other stories by Rosamund Pilcher. I am trying to read some book about improving my memory but I don't think it's quite what I was looking for.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/07 at 8:14 am
...I am trying to read some book about improving my memory but I don't think it's quite what I was looking for.
...as long as you remember where you put those books?
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Jessica on 11/26/07 at 11:01 am
Just finished "The Lost World" by Michael Crichton. Now I need to find something else to read.
I need some new books. :P
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: tokjct on 11/29/07 at 6:42 pm
Decided, finally, to double up...ie that is...to start a second novel whilst still reading the first.
So I just started..."Get Shorty" by Elmore Leonard...So far...it reads well...and, NO...I did not see the movie. 8)
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Written By: xSiouXBoIx on 11/29/07 at 9:43 pm
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n0/n243.jpg
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: karen on 11/29/07 at 9:44 pm
Can I tell you 'whodunit'?
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: danootaandme on 11/30/07 at 6:44 am
I read The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell and ran right out and took out Maggies other book After you'd Gone. Been a long time since I liked an author this much ;)
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Jessica on 12/21/07 at 10:23 pm
Reading "The Gun Seller" by Hugh Laurie right now. Like everything else he does, the book is excellent. And I'm not just saying that because I'm crazy about him. :D
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: tokjct on 12/21/07 at 11:23 pm
OK....I finished Elmore Leonard's "Get Shorty"and I loved it. Chili Palmer is one hell of a character..."Look at me!!!!"
Followed it up with Leonard's sequel "Be Cool" also starring Chili Palmer...the lovable hero!
Then I whipped through a Dean Koontz novel, "The Face", which was one of the few I had not yet read. All I can say, as a self-styled "maven" of Koontz is that this was one of his weirdest works...very interesting.
Finally, I just finished reading another Elmore Leonard work, (without Chili Palmer), called "Killshot." Very exciting...and plenty of great dialogue, which seems to be his specialty. 8)
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: quirky_cat_girl on 12/22/07 at 1:02 am
"P.S. I Love You" by Cecelia Ahern
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: danootaandme on 12/22/07 at 5:31 am
The Citadel- A J Cronin
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Written By: quirky_cat_girl on 12/23/07 at 12:28 am
"P.S. I Love You" by Cecelia Ahern
I just finished this book...it was so good! Now, I want to see the movie (it just came out).
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Written By: danootaandme on 12/23/07 at 5:41 am
King Coffin- Conrad Aiken
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Gis on 12/29/07 at 6:33 am
The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd.
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Written By: McDonald on 12/31/07 at 1:13 pm
I recently reread A Farewell to Arms. Great book.
Currently reading the French translation of The Alchemist, which is a novel originally in Portuguese by Paulo Coehlo (sp?). And I sorta told someone I would read The Celestine Prophecy.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/31/07 at 4:36 pm
I took three books with me on holiday and I did not read any of them.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: KKay on 01/01/08 at 11:17 am
Other voices, other rooms by Truman Capote
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: danootaandme on 01/01/08 at 1:54 pm
I took three books with me on holiday and I did not read any of them.
Which probably means you had a pretty good time. :)
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: tokjct on 01/01/08 at 6:10 pm
Just picked up two very good Patricia Cornwell, "Kay Scarpetta" novels...which, I think bring me up to date...chronologically.
First, (for 50 cents), I found "TRACE"...a very exciting thriller...which preceded "PREDATOR." After finishing that one, I'm currently reading, what I think, could be her latest Scarpetta novel...published in 2007...called "THE BOOK OF THE DEAD"...and it is developing very nicely. http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/09/snake.gif
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Written By: karen on 01/03/08 at 9:04 am
Just finished reading a Kay Scarpetts novel called Unnatural Exposure. I'm reading them all out of order - just picking them up where I see them going cheap or free. This last one was bought for a small donation to the local Mountain Rescue team when I was in a cafe in North Wales at New Year.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Gis on 01/11/08 at 7:01 am
At the moment I am about halfway through 'Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen'. I'm loving it! Has anyone else read it?
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/11/08 at 8:20 am
Just picked up two very good Patricia Cornwell, "Kay Scarpetta" novels...which, I think bring me up to date...chronologically.
First, (for 50 cents), I found "TRACE"...a very exciting thriller...which preceded "PREDATOR." After finishing that one, I'm currently reading, what I think, could be her latest Scarpetta novel...published in 2007...called "THE BOOK OF THE DEAD"...and it is developing very nicely. http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/09/snake.gif
It's a new year, shall I give that JTR book of PD Cornwell another go?
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Written By: tokjct on 01/11/08 at 6:06 pm
I was watching Book Beat on C-Span the other day, (I think), and I jumped in on a discussion of Rev. Billy Graham and his wife Ruth. The author being interviewed mentioned that THE best biography of Ruth Graham was written by Patricia Cornwell.
I haven't read it...but that' s very interesting. It's called, "RUTH, A PORTRAIT: THE STORY OF RUTH BELL GRAHAM."
Anyone who's been reading the Kay Scarpetta novels has to be aware of Scarpetta's (Cornwell's) fondness for cooking...particularly Italian style.
Cornwell's written at least three books on cooking! :P
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: danootaandme on 01/12/08 at 4:47 am
Other voices, other rooms by Truman Capote
I think Truman is one of the best writers of the 20th century. He is in my top 5.
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Written By: Gis on 01/12/08 at 6:16 am
At the moment I am about halfway through 'Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen'. I'm loving it! Has anyone else read it?
I urge you all to read this book it's brilliant!
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Written By: MaxwellSmart on 01/15/08 at 9:48 pm
Other voices, other rooms by Truman Capote
That's funny, I read "In Cold Blood" for the first time this fall.
Then I re-read Ernest Hebert's "The Dogs of March." This is a rather obscure title, but worth your while to pick up on Amazon. You can find them cheap.
I am now tackling Vincent Bugliosi's "Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy." I still have over 1300 pages to go. Mr. Bugliosi worked on this book for 20 years. He's going to prove to me beyond a shadow of a doubt that Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole assassin of JFK and there was no conspiracy. He'd better present a hell of a case. I'm only as far as 4:30 on the afternoon of November 22, 1963!
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Written By: danootaandme on 01/16/08 at 10:44 am
That's funny, I read "In Cold Blood" for the first time this fall.
Then I re-read Ernest Hebert's "The Dogs of March." This is a rather obscure title, but worth your while to pick up on Amazon. You can find them cheap.
I am now tackling Vincent Bugliosi's "Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy." I still have over 1300 pages to go. Mr. Bugliosi worked on this book for 20 years. He's going to prove to me beyond a shadow of a doubt that Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole assassin of JFK and there was no conspiracy. He'd better present a hell of a case. I'm only as far as 4:30 on the afternoon of November 22, 1963!
American Experience on PBS is airing Oswalds Ghost. it is worth a look
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Written By: Davester on 01/16/08 at 8:10 pm
Just finished the graphic novel "Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi. Bought it after reading an article about it in the paper...
Based on the author's experiences growing-up in revolutionary Iran...
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: MaxwellSmart on 01/18/08 at 8:02 pm
American Experience on PBS is airing Oswalds Ghost. it is worth a look
I'll see if I can find that.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: McDonald on 01/24/08 at 10:54 pm
I just finished two books.
First, Each Man's Son by Hugh MacLennan.
It's a novel about a young boy and his mother from Cape Breton Island, who are trying to get by as best they can while waiting for the boy's prize-fighter father to return home from an indefinite career trek. Meanwhile the local doctor takes an interest in the boy, and commits himself to doing everything in his power to make sure the boy gets an education and doesn't end up working in the mines. But his efforts aren't long tolerated, and his meddling along with other factors leads to tragedy.
Second, The Last of the Crazy People by Timothy Findley.
This is one about an 11 year-old boy from a well-to-do family in Ontario which is truly dysfunctional, and not in the cute Malcolm in the Middle way either. His reclusive mother detests anything that reminds her of motherhood (including her own children) after giving birth to a stillborn. His brother is a 22 year old prep-school drop-out who drinks too much and lives in the family library. His aunt lives in her office full of pictures of dead relatives, and she lives only for her brother (the boy's father). His only companions are the housekeeper, who has been his caretaker his entire life, and his pet cats. He passes much of his free time giving the birds and mice his cats kill proper burials in a field near his house. The family sinks into more and more emotional turmoil, and nobody will tell him anything. No one in the family will really talk to each other, and the boy is left to figure out why his family isn't right on his own. This drives him to a terrifying conclusion about what must be done.
Of the two, I liked the latter the best.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: karen on 01/25/08 at 7:51 am
Just started Hogfather by Terry Pratchett. I read it a few years ago but have forgotten any details of the story.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: KKay on 01/25/08 at 8:10 am
That's funny, I read "In Cold Blood" for the first time this fall.
Then I re-read Ernest Hebert's "The Dogs of March." This is a rather obscure title, but worth your while to pick up on Amazon. You can find them cheap.
I am now tackling Vincent Bugliosi's "Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy." I still have over 1300 pages to go. Mr. Bugliosi worked on this book for 20 years. He's going to prove to me beyond a shadow of a doubt that Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole assassin of JFK and there was no conspiracy. He'd better present a hell of a case. I'm only as far as 4:30 on the afternoon of November 22, 1963!
i put down the capote briefly to peruse "Very Funny, Charlie Brown!" ;D
I read "in cold blood" last year. it was terriffic.
I have read Bugliosi and I find him clear and easy to understand but not very gripping. Hope you like it.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Davester on 02/16/08 at 3:27 am
Just finished "Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs" by Chuck Klosterman...
If you were born between 1965 and 1978 in the US you'll "get it"...
"In and of iteslf nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever "in and of itself"...
~SD&CP
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Written By: danootaandme on 02/16/08 at 8:52 am
The Gentle Madness of Book Collecting -Nicholas A. Basbanes
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Written By: Gis on 03/06/08 at 12:18 pm
Last years Kathy Reichs, as ever I can't stop reading once I start and am not getting anywhere near enough sleep!
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Written By: quirky_cat_girl on 03/06/08 at 12:21 pm
The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder
By Daniel Stashower
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Tia on 03/06/08 at 1:28 pm
Just finished "Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs" by Chuck Klosterman...
If you were born between 1965 and 1978 in the US you'll "get it"...
"In and of iteslf nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever "in and of itself"...
~SD&CP
i amazonned this and it looks cool. do you recommend it? ???
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Written By: Davester on 03/09/08 at 6:42 am
i amazonned this and it looks cool. do you recommend it? ???
Oh, s*it! Sorry I missed this one, Tia...
Yes I do recommend it. His observations and ramblings about ordinary pop culture are crative/insightful/funny. I especially loved his musings on "Saved By the Bell" and internet porn, the cultural significance of "The Empire Strikes Back" to an entire generation (not what you'd think...) why the Dixie Chicks are/were the new Van Halen and comparisons of Marilyn Monroe and Pam Anderson. Published in 2003 so it's not too dated. Good stuff...
I'm resisting the urge to post entire paragraphs out of the book, I won't, but definately check it out... :)
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/08 at 6:37 am
I have just started to read "The eBay Business Handbook" by Robert Pugh. All this could lead to something big.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: karen on 03/13/08 at 8:09 am
Black Coffee - Agatha Christie. This was one of her plays that has been adapted into a book.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/08 at 8:11 am
Black Coffee - Agatha Christie. This was one of her plays that has been adapted into a book.
I have read all of the books by Agatha Christie and this appears to be one that I did miss out on for the title is not familar to me.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: karen on 03/13/08 at 8:21 am
I have read all of the books by Agatha Christie and this appears to be one that I did miss out on for the title is not familar to me.
Nor me - that's why I bought it! And it didn't appear on the list of Agatha Christie books and plays printed in an omnibus Miss Marple book I have
It says 'Adapted as a novel by Charles Osborne'. It was printed in 1997
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/08 at 8:22 am
Nor me - that's why I bought it! And it didn't appear on the list of Agatha Christie books and plays printed in an omnibus Miss Marple book I have
It says 'Adapted as a novel by Charles Osborne'. It was printed in 1997
That explains a lot, is this play in book form only available in the US?
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: karen on 03/13/08 at 8:39 am
That explains a lot, is this play in book form only available in the US?
Apparently not
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/agatha-christie/black-coffee.htm
Also it apears that a film was made in 1931/32 with Austin Trevor playing Hercule Poirot.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/08 at 8:42 am
Apparently not
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/agatha-christie/black-coffee.htm
Also it apears that a film was made in 1931/32 with Austin Trevor playing Hercule Poirot.
There seems to be many reprints of the book.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: karen on 03/13/08 at 8:50 am
There seems to be many reprints of the book.
Isn't that true of many popular authors whose books were first published many years ago?
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/08 at 8:52 am
Isn't that true of many popular authors whose books were first published many years ago?
Dickens always has a new cover for each new generation. It is a Disney effect.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: thereshegoes on 04/07/08 at 11:24 am
Pretty is what changes by Jessica Queller
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: danootaandme on 04/08/08 at 6:09 pm
The Hanging Valley - Peter Robinson
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Gis on 04/20/08 at 9:36 am
The Lollipop Shoes by Joanne Harris.
The follow on from Chocolat which is one of my all time favourite books. This is proving to be just as good.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: karen on 04/21/08 at 9:25 am
Just finished The Isle of Dogs by Patricia Cornwell
I am about to start The Fifth Elephant - Terry Pratchett.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: quirky_cat_girl on 04/21/08 at 10:16 am
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: karen on 05/13/08 at 2:39 pm
Hardy Boys Classic Collection volume 1. I've read The Tower Treasure and The Secret of the Old Mill and I'm just about to start The Haunted Fort.
I'm also part way through The Great Gatsby
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Reynolds1863 on 05/13/08 at 2:58 pm
Eternal Life? by Hans Kung
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Gis on 05/16/08 at 10:38 am
Just finished Playing with the grown-ups by Sophie Dahl. Odd book, but I got it free with a newspaper so I gave it a go.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: karen on 05/16/08 at 11:25 am
Just finsihed Bill Bryson's African Diary and I am now reading Bill Bryson's The Lost Continent
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: Gis on 05/18/08 at 4:25 am
Just finsihed Bill Bryson's African Diary and I am now reading Bill Bryson's The Lost Continent
I'm finally reading his Thunderbolt Kid book.
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: danootaandme on 05/18/08 at 4:55 am
Age of Betrayal - The Triumph of Money in America 1865-1900 Jack Beatty
Subject: Re: Latest Read.
Written By: 80sTrivMeister on 05/18/08 at 5:12 pm
Hamlet's Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge And Its Transmission Through Myth by Giorgio De Santillana and Hertha Von Dechend ... very fascinating!
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Written By: MaxwellSmart on 06/12/08 at 7:05 pm
I'm back to Vincent Buliosi's "Reclaiming History." I put in on haitus over the winter. 300 pages in, they haven't even killed Oswald yet! And you've still got 1350 pages left to go~
:P
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Written By: 80sTrivMeister on 06/20/08 at 4:43 pm
A Creed for the Third Millennium by Colleen McCullough
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Written By: greenjello74 on 06/20/08 at 7:38 pm
I finished the following 3 books within a day of each other:
Too Many Cooks- Rex Stout
The Festival- H.P. Lovecraft
Seabiscuit: An American Legend- Laura Hillenbrand
zi love Lovecraft THE STRANGE CASE OF CHARLES DEXTER WARD
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Written By: danootaandme on 06/22/08 at 6:40 am
Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro very rarely do I re-read anymore, but this is a magnificent book and a magnificent movie. I think Ishiguro is one of our greatest living writers.
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Written By: Gis on 06/22/08 at 1:35 pm
I just read 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' as a friend said it was the best book she had ever read ever..I really struggled with it. Each to their own I guess.
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Written By: Gis on 07/18/08 at 8:28 am
Bones to Ashes - Kathy Reichs.
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Written By: Reynolds1863 on 07/18/08 at 12:50 pm
The Magus by John Fowles
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Written By: 80sTrivMeister on 07/24/08 at 4:26 am
The Other by Thomas Tryon, a very spooky psychological thriller turned into an equally scary movie in 1974.
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Written By: quirky_cat_girl on 07/24/08 at 11:28 am
I just finished The Dollmaker by Amanda Stevens
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Written By: danootaandme on 07/27/08 at 5:12 am
Moonspender - Jonathan Gash
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Written By: Reynolds1863 on 07/27/08 at 8:01 pm
The Final Conclave by Malachi Martin
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Written By: karen on 08/29/08 at 9:16 am
I've just finished reading Picts and Martyrs by Arthur Ransome.
I'm a bit puzzled now though. I picked up this book in the library because I remembered reading it about 30 years ago and wondered if it would make more sense now. However the story I remembered and this story aren't the same! :o Some of the story I remembered is mentioned as happening maybe a year before. :-\\ Now I want to recall the title of the book I thought I was going to read. Any Ransome fans out there?
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Written By: danootaandme on 08/29/08 at 12:48 pm
Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish-American Gangster by T. J. English
After I read it Sig grabbed it, he reads maybe one book a year but couldn't wait to get his hands on this one.
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Written By: MaxwellSmart on 09/05/08 at 5:14 pm
NAOMI KLEIN: THE SHOCK DOCTRINE
I recommend everybody read this book before Election Day!!!
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Written By: Gis on 11/12/08 at 3:57 pm
The Mesmerist - Barbara Ewing, very good so far.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/08 at 4:00 pm
I am going to my main library to see if the book "The Bisley Boy" by Chris Hunt is on the shelf.
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Written By: danootaandme on 11/12/08 at 4:06 pm
A Way Up North in Dixie, A Black Families Claim to the Confederate National Anthem - Howard L Sacks and Judith Rose Sacks
I knew Dixies was written in the north, I didn't know that it was written by a freed slave, the co-opted by their white neighbor. This is as good as finding out Danny Boy was written by an Englishman :)
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Written By: Foo Bar on 11/12/08 at 10:04 pm
NAOMI KLEIN: THE SHOCK DOCTRINE
Follow it up with Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged.
The parallels are actually pretty damn chilling. The two authors have been adopted by opposite ends of the political spectrum because they'd disagree on the solution to our present mess, but there's no denying that both would agree on its cause.
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Written By: Tam on 11/12/08 at 10:10 pm
The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
Yes, y'all already know I am obsessed with these 4 novels. So much so that I have read them 4 times in the past month. They may be labelled for Young Adult, but once you pick them up you can't really put them down. The love story is amazingly written to the point where you can feel the gut-wrenching turmoil. I definitely recommend this saga.
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Written By: karen on 11/12/08 at 11:40 pm
I just finished Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Now I'm reading The Cat Who Can Read Backwards
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Written By: Gis on 11/13/08 at 3:14 am
The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
Yes, y'all already know I am obsessed with these 4 novels. So much so that I have read them 4 times in the past month. They may be labelled for Young Adult, but once you pick them up you can't really put them down. The love story is amazingly written to the point where you can feel the gut-wrenching turmoil. I definitely recommend this saga.
Is that the vampire stories my friend was telling me about, that are being made into a film with the guy who played Digory in Harry Potter?
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/08 at 7:42 am
I am going to my main library to see if the book "The Bisley Boy" by Chris Hunt is on the shelf.
The book is not in stock at my library, but it is still in print.
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Written By: karen on 11/13/08 at 7:46 am
Is that the vampire stories my friend was telling me about, that are being made into a film with the guy who played Digory in Harry Potter?
Not sure what the film is called but they are advertising something with that actor in it. Everytime it comes on Elizabeth points out who it is ::)
eta: well his latest movie is calledTwilight
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Written By: apollonia1986 on 11/13/08 at 10:55 pm
I'm trying to get my hands on the new Stephen King novel. Someting about Sunset...I cant' really remember the title, but every bookstore in town is on backorder for it. It sucks! I wanna read it.
I'm stuck with reading Prince's poerty/coffeetable book, which is okay, but it's so darn BIG! :o
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Written By: karen on 11/13/08 at 11:02 pm
I'm trying to get my hands on the new Stephen King novel. Someting about Sunset...I cant' really remember the title, but every bookstore in town is on backorder for it. It sucks! I wanna read it.
I'm stuck with reading Prince's poerty/coffeetable book, which is okay, but it's so darn BIG! :o
Just After Sunset. Walmart claim to have it for $14 :-\\
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Written By: Tam on 11/13/08 at 11:38 pm
Is that the vampire stories my friend was telling me about, that are being made into a film with the guy who played Digory in Harry Potter?
Sure is!
I am not sure if the movie will do the book justice - books are always better anyway! ;)
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Written By: Davester on 11/13/08 at 11:49 pm
Finished Slackonomics (Lisa Chamberlain) and am starting The Virgin Suicides (Jeffrey Eugenides)...
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Written By: Jessica on 11/14/08 at 12:51 am
Some old book that belonged to my grandfather (I took all his books before my grandmother sold them) called "I Jan Cremer". Dunno if people from The Netherlands have heard of it because it is supposed to be about a Dutch painter who is..........ummmm......very wild. :o
It says it is autobiographical, but inside near the copyright date, it says "fiction". Go figure.
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Written By: Davester on 11/14/08 at 1:32 am
Some old book that belonged to my grandfather (I took all his books before my grandmother sold them) called "I Jan Cremer". Dunno if people from The Netherlands have heard of it because it is supposed to be about a Dutch painter who is..........ummmm......very wild. :o
It says it is autobiographical, but inside near the copyright date, it says "fiction". Go figure.
Out of curiosity, I looked it up...
Interesting fellow. Sort of like the Jack Kerouac of the Netherlands...
http://www.jancremer.com/
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Written By: quirky_cat_girl on 11/14/08 at 11:18 am
Keeping Faith
by: Jodi Picoult
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Written By: Reynolds1863 on 11/14/08 at 12:51 pm
The Romanov Prophecy by Steve Berry
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Written By: karen on 02/11/09 at 8:38 pm
Making Money - Terry Pratchett. Moist Von Lipwig leaves the job of Postmaster General to take over as Master of the Mint
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Written By: danootaandme on 02/12/09 at 6:38 am
Life in the North During the Civil War George Winston Smith and Charles Judah
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Written By: karen on 02/19/09 at 2:01 pm
I'm currently reading POINTS Women Have Them MEN NEED THEM. It's supposed to be a humorous relationship guide
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Written By: Reynolds1863 on 02/19/09 at 2:17 pm
Aquinas on Mind by Anthony Kenny
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Written By: statsqueen on 02/19/09 at 10:21 pm
Just read The Whitethorn Woods - Maeve Binchey. I've now started The Boleyn Inheritance by Phillipa Gregory.
I love Maeve Binchey's books...haven't read that one though
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Written By: danootaandme on 02/22/09 at 4:28 am
Decisive Battles of the Civil War Lt Colonel Joseph B Mitchell.
Short and sweet synopsis of the important battles of the U.S. Civil War.
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Written By: karen on 02/22/09 at 4:51 pm
Keeping Faith - Jodi Picoult
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Written By: Reynolds1863 on 02/24/09 at 9:53 pm
Decisive Battles of the Civil War Lt Colonel Joseph B Mitchell.
Short and sweet synopsis of the important battles of the U.S. Civil War.
I don't think I've read that one. I've got three Civil War books waiting for me to read. :)