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Post by YogaBug on Aug 5, 2005 18:56:54 GMT -5
Maureen,
I read the Diana Gabaldon series a few years ago and just loved them! I'm glad you're enjoying them. I like series....but sometimes they get to repetitive. But, I guess, a person who did not have the opportunity to read the previous one can catch up.
Lulu
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Post by akansan on Aug 8, 2005 11:40:12 GMT -5
YogaBug -- I agree about the Gabaldon series! I read the first one, really like it. I read the second one, kinda liked it. I read the third one...and thought I had already read it. I stopped there.
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Post by keliCAN on Sept 10, 2005 17:21:31 GMT -5
I started the new John Irving last weekend, but haven’t been able to read anything unrelated to work this week (I’m teaching English this year, and we’re in a short stories unit, so I’m reading a LOT of those). Maybe this evening.
Over the weekend, my mother insisted that I take her copy of The Kite Runner because she’s sure I’ll love it (she thinks I like depressing books). I guess I’ll read it next.
I’ll have to look for the M.C. Beaton series.
For non-fiction, I’ve got a book called Boys and Girls Learn Differently, which I got at a workshop recently, but I haven’t started it yet.
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Post by Pattinic on Oct 23, 2005 20:08:09 GMT -5
Hey! Is anyone reading this month? :-) I am looking for some suggestions.
I too recently finished reading 'The Kite Runner' by Khaled Hosseini. I thought it was wonderful.
Today I finished 'Bone in the Throat" by Anthony Bourdain. Love the guy, 'Kitchen Confidential was awesome and his show on the travel channel is fabulous, his fiction writing though, leaves little to be desired.
TIA
patti
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Post by nra3aa on Oct 24, 2005 20:45:56 GMT -5
I just finished reading "The Last Days of Dogtown" by Anita Diamante. That was our book club selection this month. Very depressing book.
I am on the library waiting list for The Historian - the story of Dracula.
Would love a recommendation for a new book club book. In the past, we have read:
Davinci Code - good read Middlesex - unusual but really interesting Kite Runner - stylized but good read Secret Life of Bees - I really like How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accent - okay. I enjoyed "In the Time of the Butterflies" by the same author To Kill a Mockingbird - awesome but completely different from when I read it in high school Bel Canto - okay (the rest of my group loved it) Saul and Patsy - terrible
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Post by whitlarson on Oct 25, 2005 0:28:36 GMT -5
I enjoyed The Secret Life of Bees
Time Traveler's Wife was a bit too graphic for me. It was VERY well written and started out good - it just got ... yucky (technical term) for me.
I like Janet Evanovich - mysteries and romances.
"The Cat Who..." books are in my library and some of my favorite - really fun to read in order.
Harry Potter books are some of my favorite books in the world. I'm just getting ready to start knitting a "Weasley" sweater for my dd to wear to the movie next month.
Okay - basically all cozy mysteries I love. I've read Mary Daheim's books and enjoy them.
I also enjoy contemporary fiction. I just finished (and enjoyed) Lipstick Jungle by Candace Bushnell.
I like fantasy and also just read the Bartimaeus trilogy (the two that have been released so far) and the High Druid of Shannara books.
I belong to a book club and this month we're reading "The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe" - you can't go wrong with C.S. Lewis!
I get my books from AUDIBLE.com and that way I can "read" while I knit!! Plus, it keeps my hands busy so I don't want to eat as much.
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Post by whitlarson on Oct 25, 2005 0:33:28 GMT -5
Forgot to say - our book club is going to spend the next year doing juvenile fiction. We're making lists now. Some of my favorite juvenile books are: The Giver, The Little Prince, A Wrinkle in Time and Frindle. I love to read!!!!
Another good book group book (not juvenile) is Life of Pi -- great for discussion. Also Dandelion Wine is a favorite book group book. Two Part Invention - great for book groups.
Okay, sorry - in case you can't tell I really like to read!
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Post by nra3aa on Oct 25, 2005 4:17:47 GMT -5
Thanks for the suggestions. I too am a Harry Potter fan. My nine year old has read them too. I am very disappointed that the movie is coming out PG-13. Why do they do that to children's movies? We read Life of Pi. That was a great book. I agree with you about the Time Travellor's Wife. I had heard so much hype about it by the time that I read it. It did not live up to the hype. Another good one is The Lovely Bones - listed as juvenile I believe. I will suggest The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe to my group. Fellow Book lover
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Post by whitlarson on Oct 25, 2005 13:14:16 GMT -5
With the HP rating - it's really hard because the book is DEFINITELY PG13. I think it would have been a hard one to keep at PG just with the themes involved. My sister is having the same trouble with her "little ones" who have seen the other movies. My two children are older (15 & 11) so we're good here. )
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Post by nra3aa on Oct 25, 2005 18:56:34 GMT -5
The problem has been that they have played the ratings game with so many movies marketed to children. Spiderman 2, Star Wars III, Fantastic 4 and now Harry Potter all PG-13. My kids are 7 and 9. Our baby is 2. Right now, I am saying no PG-13 movies at all. I don't want to open that door yet.
BTW, I am excited because I got my reserve copy of The Historian from the library.
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Post by mary on Dec 2, 2005 7:39:12 GMT -5
Our book club is reading 'Zorro' by Isabelle Allende
I just finished it and thought it was fantastic. She write so well.
I grew up watching Zorro on Walt Disney so I thought the book would be redundant...it wasn't.
It really is a good read, I highly recommend it, can't wait until the club meets Mon to discuss it!
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Post by xenagoddess on Dec 2, 2005 10:11:17 GMT -5
"A short history of everything" by Bill Bryson. Science made fun to read and understand.
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Post by tanya on Dec 2, 2005 14:39:14 GMT -5
I'm reading Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman right now, but I highly recommend the Narnia books. I just re-read them all recently, and they haven't lost anything since I was a kid. If you're thinking of reading the whole series, though, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe is actually book two. Book one is called The Magician's Nephew. You won't be totally lost without having read it, but it gives you some nice background.
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Post by tanya on Dec 2, 2005 14:40:53 GMT -5
Oh. I also have to recommend anything by Gregory Maguire, especially Wicked and Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister.
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Post by xenagoddess on Dec 2, 2005 19:19:10 GMT -5
I am reading TLWAW to my 6 year old right now. I loved the stories as a kid. I know TMN was first but he wants to see the movie and I told him I would take him after we read the book. He always wants "just one more chapter" which means he is intersted in what is going on. We have to discuss the chapter as we go along since it is a little bit older than he is ready for quite yet.
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