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Posted by spiderdj82 2009-03-31 23:54:48
I tried posting in the old thread but it looks like it is done and over with. So.....whatcha reading?
NEVERWHERE by Neil Gaiman
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Posted by luvtheEmcee 2009-04-01 00:01:10
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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Posted by brdlwyr 2009-04-01 00:27:09
All Quiet on the Western Front Never read it until now!
Em, I think Mrs. Brd has that book, how is it?
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Posted by Mekroth 2009-04-01 00:59:42
Schulz and Peanuts by David Michaelis
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Posted by justagirl2 2009-04-01 01:03:46
Alternating between Old Gods Almost Dead (Stephen Davis), Bumping into Geniuses (Danny Goldberg) and a hilariously trashy romance novel called Her Private Dancer. Yeah, so I'm not very intellectual.
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Posted by luvtheEmcee 2009-04-01 01:30:44
brdlwyr, it's dauntingly long (I'm only about a quarter of the way through), but so far, I like it. It's one of those great novels I've always felt like I should have read.
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Posted by danmag 2009-04-01 07:36:46
Just started the new biography about John Cheever - so far it's fascinating! And a daunting 800 pages long!
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Posted by Dollypop 2009-04-01 07:42:57
LIGHT FROM HEAVEN by Jan Karon.
It's another book from her Mitford series.
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Posted by AC126748 2009-04-01 09:45:37
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
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Posted by clever name 2009-04-01 10:06:11
I just finished The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb. (would not recommend) and I'm half way through The Host. (HATE!!)
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Posted by Roscoe 2009-04-01 10:15:36
Re-reading Raymond Chandler's THE LONG GOODBYE.
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Posted by Mister Matt 2009-04-01 10:39:34
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
I wanted to read it before I saw the film. It's a fun page-turner.
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Posted by StockardFan 2009-04-01 11:39:50
Really, Clever? Wally Lamb is usually so good.
Matt, I loved Angels and Demons! I liked it better than The DiVinci Code.
I'm reading Memory in Death by J.D. Robb. Not deep, but page turning nonetheless.
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Posted by tazber 2009-04-01 11:43:01
I must recommend Silver Shoes to all you guys.
It's a fun and clever book. A must read!
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Posted by yodamarie78 2009-04-01 11:43:08
Blood and Gold by Anne Rice
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Posted by StockardFan 2009-04-01 11:44:02
I've been meaning to get to the bookstore for that Taz.....
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Posted by danmag 2009-04-01 11:47:41
Taz, I read it and now my 12 year old is reading it. He's loving it!
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Posted by xxnewgirlxx 2009-04-01 11:59:00
Finishing up A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson, and then Revolutionary Road.
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Posted by Mister Matt 2009-04-01 12:58:04
Silver Shoes sounds quite interesting. I'm planning on starting Was next week by Geoff Ryman. Anyone have any thoughts on it?
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Posted by uncageg 2009-04-01 15:01:42
I have been looking for a new book to read. The last book was "Attack of the Theater People" by Marc Acito. "Silver Shoes" looks like it should be the next one to read and I may have to pick it up today or this weekend. Sounds really interesting and fun.
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Posted by uncageg 2009-04-01 17:17:23
Taz and danmag, did you have to order the book? I wanted to pick it up today and called 2 bookstores here (B&N and Tattered Corver) and they said that the book was only able to be ordered. Something about they were only printing them based on the orders they get. They are also offering paperback copies.
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Posted by FindingNamo 2009-04-01 17:18:35
"I'm planning on starting Was next week by Geoff Ryman. Anyone have any thoughts on it?"
I remember liking it, because it's dark, and thinking, "Okay, that's the last Wizard of Oz pomo thing we need."
Then David Lynch's biggest BS movie of all time, "Wild at Heart" literally used the Wizard of Oz for its ending and I thought, "Enough is enough."
Then Tony Kushner had Prior Walter do the "And you were there, and you were there..." at the end of Angels in America and I thought "I'm really over the Wizard of Oz references."
Then Gregory Maguire published "Wicked" and I thought, "Dear god, this is insane, the Wizard of Oz is SOOOOOOO played out."
Then it came out in paperback and for some reason I read it and thought, "It wasn't awful but that is officially the end of Wizard of Oz, seriously."
Then the musical came out and I bought tickets based on the overinflated opinions of several overexcited San Franciscans on this board (hint: keyword "amazing") and it was a piece of feces and I had finally reached my limit.
The end. No "Silver Slippers" for me. "Was": okay.
Me? I'm reading "The Omnivore's Dilemma."
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Posted by husk_charmer 2009-04-01 17:23:58
I am def. ordering Silver Shoes once I am back on my own computer! (Yay for having $$!)
I didn't like Was, I couldn't get into it.
Me? I'm currently reading Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street.
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Posted by danmag 2009-04-01 17:33:53
You do have to order SIlver Shoes online, Uncageg. You can order it from Amazon, Barnes & Noble or Target, I believe.
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Posted by StockardFan 2009-04-01 17:35:01
Aha! Good to know danmag. I was going to go to the bookstore.
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Posted by EVIE 2009-04-01 18:13:56
Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals by Temple Grandin.
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Posted by uncageg 2009-04-01 18:14:12
Amazon appears to only have it in hardback. Barnes & Noble has both paperback and hardback. our local large bookstore can order the hardback. I may just order it online at Barnes.
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Posted by Mr Roxy 2009-04-01 18:27:19
Swan Peak - James Lee Burke
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Posted by StockardFan 2009-04-01 18:39:52
Thanks, unc! I'm going to order it from B&N as well.
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Posted by little_sally 2009-04-01 23:43:58
Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger
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Posted by BluCat500 2009-04-02 01:18:32
Currently reading Better by Atul Gawande, picked up his first book called complications on a whim at Borders one day and was suprisingly sucked into it, he has a very straightforward manner of story telling, which compliments the really "who knew" topics and storys he chooses...Its just an approachable look at medical ethics...I never thought I'd be so riveted reading about the polio vaccine, both books are highly recommend.
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Posted by Elphaba 2009-04-02 01:53:36
The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Hapsburg Archduke, by Timothy Snyder.......fascinating!
The story of Wilhelm von Habsburg (1895-1949)
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Posted by spiderdj82 2009-04-02 01:57:54
Decided to put Neverwhere on hold and finish reading
THE HISTORIAN by Elizabeth Kostova
So far it is SOOO good.
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Posted by Elphaba 2009-04-02 02:17:18
Spidy, the Historian is great, read it when it first came out and loved it.
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Posted by StockardFan 2009-04-02 08:19:28
Silver Shoes has been ordered! YAY!
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Posted by sally1112 2009-04-02 14:33:07
Just started (on page 40) of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. It is hilarious! It is killing me that I haven't had more time to read these past few days.
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Posted by clever name 2009-04-03 18:52:32
~~Really, Clever? Wally Lamb is usually so good.~~
I know, Sockard! I was hoping it would be as good as his other two, but it was long and boring. And I hated the ending. I actually skipped pages at certain points..and I wasn't lost in any way. That's not good.
Has anyone read The Tracy Fragments?
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Posted by StockardFan 2009-04-03 18:55:32
Sockard? Are you calling me a sock?
Kidding.....I know it was a typo....LOL
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Posted by clever name 2009-04-03 21:33:32
lol! ..and I didn't even start drinking yet!! sorry, sTockard!!
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Posted by Plum 2009-04-04 02:07:47
My Evidence casebook. Good times.
The next Dresden Files book is coming out Tuesday, though, so hopefully I'll have a day to spare to read it in all its floofy glory. I miss reading fiction.
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Posted by skb2010 2009-04-04 10:02:33
The Book Thief 
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Posted by StockardFan 2009-04-04 10:31:34
skb2010, The Book Thief is FANTASTIC!
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Posted by skb2010 2009-04-04 11:49:54
basically. I'm only half way through because I have less than zero time to read it, and I'm in the middle of Gadsby for english. But I love Leisle and Rudy. They are so funny together.
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Posted by StockardFan 2009-04-04 14:08:51
It's funny because my mom brought it to the beach last year, and I didn't think I was going to like it at first. Ended up in love with it!
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Posted by skb2010 2009-04-04 14:45:53
It was weird reading at first. The style is so different than what I'm used to.
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Posted by StockardFan 2009-04-04 15:04:13
I agree, very different.
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Posted by broadwaytourist 2009-04-05 17:21:43
In the Eye of the Storm - Bishop Gene Robinson
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Posted by BudFrump23 2009-04-05 17:28:22
The Lightning Theif by Rick Riordan and The Longest Winter by Alex Kershaw.
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Posted by StockardFan 2009-04-07 18:44:16
Got my copy of Silver Shoes today! Need to finish a library book, then I'm starting it.
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Posted by clever name 2009-04-07 18:57:34
I think I may read The Book Thief next. I've read two back to back sucky books. I really need a good one next.
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Posted by Schmerg_The_Impaler 2009-04-07 19:08:58
I'm reading The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog. It's a book by a child psychiatrist who talks about all of these interesting cases that he's had. For me, the scariest was the Branch Davidian kids.
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Posted by sabrelady 2009-04-07 19:27:25
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggars
and w some trepidation, starting Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawerence
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Posted by clever name 2009-04-07 19:44:50
A Heartbreaking Work is one of the best books I've ever read. Ever.
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Posted by StockardFan 2009-04-07 19:46:12
So right now I'm reading this book called Moment of Truth. It's about this guy who's wife is murdered and he suspects their daughter did it, so he stages it like he did it and confesses. But one of the detectives suspects her as does the guy's attorney.
I think her boyfriend did it, but since she was on crystal meth that night he convinced her she had done it.
It's fairly entertaining.
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Posted by brdlwyr 2009-05-05 17:28:08
In the last month I have read Equus, All Quiet on the Western Front, A Thousand Acres, The Hours and A Memory Keeper's Daughter. All great!
I grew up in a rural community and I knew personally so many of the farm personalities of 1000 Acres. But, such a dark book!
I loved A Memory Keeper's Daughter, one man making choices that affects others and he is constantly haunted until his death.
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Posted by StockardFan 2009-05-05 17:36:56
Memory Keeper's Daughter was great.
I just read Dear John by Nicolas Sparks. I can't read his books while drinking wine. Too heart wrenching.
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Posted by danmag 2009-05-05 17:40:07
Just starting Low Boy by John Wray about a paranoid schizophrenic wandering the subways of NYC.
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Posted by ElphieDefiesGravity 2009-05-05 18:17:32
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (en francais, bien sur) and Middlemarch, by George Eliot.
Both for school, but both excellent.
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Posted by Mister Matt 2009-05-05 18:27:16
Finishing up Angels and Demons from before I left on vacation (forgot to take it with me) and then picking up Silver Shoes.
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Posted by clever name 2009-05-05 20:15:45
Im reading The Help. It's about black maids in the South in 1962. It's really good. I highly recommend this one.
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Posted by Plum 2009-05-05 20:27:52
The Silver Swan, by Benjamin Black, aka John Banville.
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Posted by Roscoe 2009-05-06 09:06:38
About 2/3 through LITTLE DORRIT by Charles Dickens.
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Posted by Reginald Tresilian 2009-05-06 09:10:33
Plum, aren't the Benjamin Black novels wonderful?
Roscoe, I was thinking "Dorritt" would be my next Dickens.
I'm finishing up "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society," which somehow I thought was one of those Fannie Flagg-like Southern cutsey-poo novels, but is actually about the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands.
But fun . . .
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Posted by danmag 2009-05-06 10:51:09
Clever, I just ordered The Help. It got great reviews! I can't wait to read it.
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Posted by clever name 2009-05-06 15:29:04
Let me know what you think,danmag. I really liked it.
After being on the Stephen King thread I'm all in the mood for one of his. Im going to pick up Cell.
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Posted by Hulmeman 2009-05-06 17:10:06
Just started Gielgud's letters ed. Richard Mangan).
He likes writing to his mother!!!!
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Posted by StockardFan 2009-05-06 17:41:06
I just started some cheesy female detective crime thing while Henry was at sparring. But it was so loud in there I'll probably have to start it again.
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Posted by BroadwayGuy12 2009-05-06 19:08:51
I just finished Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves yesterday. It certainly was different from anything I've ever read before, but I loved it. Quite the experience.
I'm not sure what I'll read next, but I'm leaning towards Stephen King's Carrie or Billie Letts' Where the Heart Is.
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Posted by Reginald Tresilian 2009-05-06 19:49:33
Hulmeman, does it have the one where he declines an invitation to a party because "Gielgud doesn't feel good"?
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Posted by VonTussleGirl 2009-05-06 20:46:15
I'm alternating between The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton and Dog Days by Ana Marie Cox. Both quite good, but only one of the authors has a Twitter...
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Posted by iflitifloat 2009-05-06 20:50:51
I'm working on a couple of oldies...
The Mole People written by Jennifer Toth in 1993. It's her research about the homeless who live in the tunnels under NYC. Absolutely fascinating.
Centennial by James Michener. One of my kids is moving to Colorado, so it seemed to be time for a re-read. But hey, if you prefer, there's an old mini-series of it floating around somewhere or another.
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Posted by WiCkEd BaCcHaE 2009-05-07 11:52:57
Just finished Coraline and Watchmen and loved both. I'd never read a graphic novel before so it was great to learn how to read a different format.
Am currently reading:
Beloved- Tony Morrison
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings- Maya Angelou
A Bright Room Called Day- Tony Kushner
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Posted by xoangel2789xo 2009-05-07 12:12:41
Lonesome Traveler. I'm kind of hopping back and forth between pages.
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Posted by Pippin 2009-05-07 12:31:01
I'm 100 pages in "The Girl who loved Tom Gordon" by Stephen King, and am titillated.
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Posted by Dollypop 2009-05-07 19:44:30
Just finished Willa Cather's O PIONEERS! I relished every word of it!
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Posted by sally1112 2009-05-07 20:14:39
Pippin, that book made me hate Stephen King for a few moments, until I read Cell, then all what right with the world!
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Posted by Hulmeman 2009-05-08 09:23:04
Not got to that yet Reg, just at the end of WWII - Gielgud's having a "gay" old time touring Asia.
I have skipped to the bit where he was caught "cottaging". A nice letter to "Nelly" Coward thanking him for his "support!!!
Oh they're a rum lot these theatricals and no mistake.
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Posted by uncageg 2009-06-18 15:34:31
Finally got a copy of Silver Shoes. Am halfway through it and will probably finish it this evening. It is quite good!
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Posted by clever name 2009-06-18 15:51:44
WHY do I keep giving chick-lit a chance?
I just finished Firefly Lane.
Do all chick-lit books end the same??? Seriously. Enough.
uncageg, LOVE the avitar!!
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Posted by danmag 2009-06-18 16:10:14
I'm reading American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld (she wrote Prep). I have to say, I am thoroughly enjoying it!
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Posted by uncageg 2009-06-18 17:28:53
Thanks clever! That was taken on June 9th at the opening night party here in Denver.
I just finished reading "Wishful Drinking" by Carrie Fisher last week. Not sure what will be next now that I am on this reading roll! After Silver Shoes I may have to pick up The Half Blood Prince" to jog my memory before the movie opens later this summer.
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Posted by Weez 2009-06-18 17:38:56
Just finished reading Digital Fortress by Dan Brown. It's just about the funniest book I've read in months, with even more snigger-provoking moments than Angels and Demons. Can't work out if I want to move onto Deception Point or give the Brown a rest, so am rereading Henry V while I decide. 
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Posted by uncageg 2009-06-18 18:59:07
Just finished Silver Shoes. I didn't want it to end! A VERY good read. This book would make a fabulous movie!
I tried to read Angels and Demons twice and just couldn't get into it. Maybe I should try again. It has been sitting here for 3 years!
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Posted by danmag 2009-06-18 19:08:29
Unc, you should go on amazon and write a review. I did!
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Posted by spiderdj82 2009-06-18 19:20:15
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Posted by uncageg 2009-06-18 19:45:10
I think I may do that dan. Thanks for the suggestion!
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Posted by sally1112 2009-06-18 20:59:19
I am almost half-way through Wally Lamb's latest, The Hour I First Believed.
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Posted by frogs_fan85 2009-06-18 21:04:42
Because I apparently can't focus on one storyline at a time, I'm reading the second book of Stephen King's Dark Tower (Again), the first book in Lee Child's Jack Reacher series and the newest book in the Sookie Stackhouse series that the HBO show True Blood is based on.
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Posted by clever name 2009-06-19 09:24:51
frogs, I often wonder how Dark Tower is the second time around. Knowing what you know..
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Posted by frogs_fan85 2009-06-19 09:40:22
The first time I read them I only got through Wizards and Glass because that was all that had been published at the time. This was before Roland visited him in that hospital room and told him to finish the series. So I don't actually know how the whole thing ends yet.
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Posted by clever name 2009-06-19 09:45:01
oh..good thing I didn't say anything!
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Posted by spiderdj82 2009-06-19 09:45:45
I've only read the first of the DARK TOWER series and was kinda bored all the way through so I stopped. Is it worth reading the rest if I was bored during the first?
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Posted by frogs_fan85 2009-06-19 09:52:50
The Gunslinger moves very slowly but it's necessary to set up what follows. The rest of the books read much more quickly.
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Posted by colleen_lee 2009-06-19 10:21:42
I'm re-reading the Harry Potter series before the Half Blood Prince film comes out next month.
Right now I'm on the 4th book, Goblet of Fire.
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Posted by ILoveMyDictionary 2009-06-19 10:50:55
So I just finished compiling the books I want to read this summer and the first book is Pledged by Alexandra Robbins. A non-fiction book about the "secret life of sororities.
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Posted by thetheatrekook 2009-06-19 10:56:02
I just started The Inner Game of Tennis, by W. Timothy Gallwey.
I've been interested in picking up something by Louise Erdrich, has anyone read any of her books? She was the speaker at my brother's graduation this past weekend and she was absolutely FABULOUS.
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Posted by Plum 2009-06-20 21:54:43
Fifth Business, by Robertson Davies
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Posted by Dollypop 2009-06-20 22:03:28
Am halfway through TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitgerald. Seeing lots of Zelda in it, but enjoying it very much.
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Posted by Kasie 2009-06-20 22:11:40
I just finished ALIVE. It was pretty crazy.
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Posted by gustof777 2009-06-20 23:40:10
I just finished Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis. I loved it and read it straight through in a day and a half. Very quick read. Amazing but INCREDIBLY depressing. I can't believe he was only twenty or so when he wrote it. I'm curious about the film adaptation.
Next up. The Bell Jar...I know, I know. Someone hand me the Zoloft.
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Posted by TimesSquareRegular 2009-06-20 23:42:18
Finally getting around to THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE.
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Posted by Bettyboy72 2009-06-21 00:16:27
Just finished "The Legs Are The Last To Go" by Diahann Carroll. A fun read and now I'm onto "Wishful Drinking" by Carrie Fisher. Another fun one.
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Posted by luvtheEmcee 2009-06-21 00:29:15
Goodbye, Columbus, by Philip Roth. LOVED the novella, not so much digging the short stories. But we'll see.
Just finished Slaughterhouse Five, which I found utterly fascinating, but I didn't like it quite as much as I loved Cat's Cradle, which I more or less wanted to marry.
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Posted by shh282 2009-06-21 00:29:44
The gingerbread lady by Neil Simon
My mom has those huge volumes with 7 Neil Simon works per book - I just started Vol 2.
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Posted by degrassifan 2009-06-21 00:39:47
Pride & Prejudice.
I've seen the 2005 movie version more than 20 times; I've seen bits and pieces of the 1995 version; I've seen the version from the 1940s; and I saw it more than three times on Wishbone when I was younger. I know the basic story, but I feel like I might as well read the novel itself.
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Posted by xoangel2789xo 2009-06-22 16:32:29
I just bought The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. I'm not that far into it yet.
Before that I read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, which I enjoyed.
And I really want to re-read The Great Gatsby. I think it's time I get a library card...
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Posted by Reginald Tresilian 2009-06-22 16:48:46
I'm about three-quarters of the way through "Olive Kitteredge," which recently won the Pulitzer. A novel told in thirteen separate short stories. Really enjoying it. The title character is objectionable in so many ways, but you can't wait for her to come back onstage--and she's often peripheral to the story being told.
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Posted by Plum 2009-06-22 17:50:35
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami
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Posted by Dollypop 2009-06-22 18:10:41
THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway.
Do these characters do anything other than drink?
Geeze, after reading this novel I feel that I should enroll in
a 12 Step Program!
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Posted by BroadwayGuy12 2009-06-22 18:45:36
Shopgirl by Steve Martin
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Posted by AC126748 2009-06-23 17:11:39
On Beauty by Zadie Smith and Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf.
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Posted by lesmis 2009-06-25 15:58:20
I am currently reading Les Miserables, but just ordered Silver Shoes from Amazon. A lot of the books mentioned here sound really good. One I enjoyed and recommend is My Most Excellent Year; A story of Love, Mary Poppins and Fenway Park
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Posted by MotorTink 2009-07-20 19:05:09
I just finished Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski. It was a suggestion by a friend who loved it. I thought it was an OK read but was not impressed. Maybe she built it up too much. Is Bukowski's other works like Ham on Rye? Any others I should try to give him another shot?
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Posted by uncageg 2009-07-20 19:38:21
Shopgirl was good.
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Posted by dramamama611 2009-07-20 20:11:58
Kathryn Stockett's The Help
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Posted by danmag 2009-07-21 07:51:33
Olive Kittredge by Elizabeth Strout. Excellent!!
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Posted by Reginald Tresilian 2009-07-21 09:16:36
Danmag, I read it a few weeks ago. Isn't it wonderful?
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Posted by danmag 2009-07-21 10:06:08
I really loved it, Reg. I had read Amy and Isabelle before, but I think I liked this one even better!
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Posted by clever name 2009-07-21 10:22:02
I'm reading Duma Key because everyone I know liked that book. I'm only on the first few chapters but I'm already involved.
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Posted by Leia947 2009-07-21 10:41:45
"Lamb: The Gospel According to Christ's Childhood Pal, Biff" by Christopher Moore.
It's my 5th time reading it. Honestly the funniest book I've ever read. Passed it on to 7 different people and they all loved it. Anything by Christopher Moore is great though.
Also reading "Overcoming Binge Eating" by Dr. Christopher Fairburn. It's insightful, helpful and surprisingly spot on to all of my issues.
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Posted by Weez 2009-07-21 11:11:06
I read Duma Key the other week, and loved it! It's one of those great books where you need to know what happens, but you don't want it to end. Which is also frustrating, but I'll take it. I'll have to read it again some time. :)
Just finished Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult. Am now moving onto Richard II by William Shakespeare. It occurred to me that I haven't seen or read any version of it since May last year, so I thought I ought to go back and remind myself what happened. A lot of men throwing gloves around, iirc.
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Posted by Blair 2009-07-21 13:51:47
I just finished What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt. AMAZING. I couldn't put it down and ended up reading it all in one day. It's the first novel in a long time that's made me want to read everything the author has ever written. Interestingly enough, the last time that happened was with Paul Auster, her husband.
Now, I'm reading Jane Eyre and loving it.
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Posted by zepka102 2009-07-21 13:57:56
Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea.
Finished it this weekend. I can't think of anyone funnier than Chelsea Handler.
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Posted by colleen_lee 2009-07-21 13:58:27
Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know--And Doesn't by Stephen Prothero
Intensely interesting. It discusses the fact that America is the most religious yet the least religiously educated Western nation. It is not just that Americans are ignorant to world religions, but most know nothing about their own. Prothero calls religious illiteracy dangerous because religion is one of the greatest forces for good--as well as evil--in the world.
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Posted by spiderdj82 2009-07-21 16:25:50
I have so many books I have bought in the last couple of months and I haven't started reading any of them. I need to REALLY get on that. Some of the books I have include:
Once Dead, Twice Shy - Kim Harrison
The Once and Future King - T.H. White
A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
Silver Shoes - Paul Miles Schneider
Star Trek: The Academy-Collision Course - William Shatner
The Book of Lies - Brad Meltzer
and a few more. YIKES!
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Posted by sally1112 2009-07-21 17:45:37
I just started yesterday, Not Since Carrie, 40 years of Broadway Musical Flops.
I love it! I can't believe that I didn't read this years ago.
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Posted by luvtheEmcee 2009-07-21 17:46:18
Just finished The Namesake, just started Ghost Light.
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Posted by StockardFan 2009-07-21 19:18:56
spider, you're going to love Silver Shoes!
I'm reading the second Twilight book.
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Posted by degrassifan 2009-07-21 19:56:26
Just finished LA Candy.
Please don't hate me. Lol
It was actually pretty good & I can't wait till the next book in the series comes out!
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Posted by DMsquared2 2009-07-22 01:27:53
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Interestingly enough, I read Moon for the Misbegotten first.
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Posted by singingwendy 2009-07-22 18:42:29
I'm re-reading "Ragtime" by E.L. Doctorow.
Oh...and "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies".....
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Posted by KathyGriffinLovesYou 2009-07-22 20:48:32
Zorba. I'm usually reading like 10 books at once, though =-P
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Posted by sally1112 2009-07-22 22:08:59
I was sadly disappointed in Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies. I was so excited that I went out and bought it new, which I never do. I am thrift stores and Amazon used all the way, baby!
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Posted by Plum 2009-07-23 02:28:19
Just finished The Yiddish Policeman's Union, by Michael Chabon, and Robertson Davies' Deptford Trilogy. All of them were just wonderful. Now I'm back to Chabon with The Final Solution, which is short enough for me to finish tonight.
Next up is Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, by John Le Carre. And then another library run!
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Posted by TimesSquareRegular 2009-07-23 08:56:02
About 100 pages into THE STRAIN, new book by Guillermo del Toro (yes, the film director) and Chuck Hogan. So far, a real page-turner!
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Posted by colleen_lee 2009-07-23 10:23:33
Work Hard. Be Nice. by Jay Matthews
It's basically a biography of Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin, the creators of the public charter school network called the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP).
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Posted by uncageg 2009-07-23 18:11:52
A friend of mine was telling me abot the book "Tweaked - A Crystal Meth Memoir" by Patrick Moore. Got home last night and found a package and it was inside. So I am reading it next!
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Posted by spiderdj82 2009-07-23 23:27:23
Damn, Plum....you are a fast reader
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Posted by Plum 2009-07-23 23:38:11
I've been travelling a lot lately. When you spend 6 hours in one day on a train, trolley, or bus, you get lots of chances to read. (That was not a good day, though. Urgh.)
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Posted by spiderdj82 2009-07-23 23:43:47
Aw, I'm sorry about the not good day. I don't care if I was taking a 20 hour car ride, I would not be able to finish as many books as you do *jealous*
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Posted by Q 2009-07-24 04:54:04
OK, I wanted to start a thread, and couldn't see a way to under the current configuration. Are we just supposed to 'give up and go home'?
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Posted by AC126748 2009-07-24 09:20:18
Olive Kitteridge. Cannot put it down.
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Posted by iflitifloat 2009-07-25 18:56:40
I just (as in ten minutes ago) finished Olive Kitteridge and am still digesting it. I'll be interested in what others thought. There are so many little insights that ring true about one's relationship to others in their world.
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Posted by Dollypop 2009-07-25 19:31:47
ULYSSES by James Joyce
I'm gonna get through this...I'm gonna get through this...
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Posted by ghostlight2 2009-07-25 19:37:11
Stick with it, Dolly. It's worth it.
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Posted by WiCkEd BaCcHaE 2009-07-26 12:04:26
I'm reading way too many books at the same time. I don't know why I do this to myself.
I just finished:
Wuthering Heights
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Pride and Prejudice
Complete Plays of Sarah Kane
Working on:
The Satanic Verses- Salman Rushdie
The Lighting Thief- Rick Riordan
One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Time Traveler's Wife- Audrey Niffenegger
Persuasion- Jane Austin
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Posted by danmag 2009-07-26 13:06:59
Iflit, I loved Olive Kittredge. We just read it for our book club which is meeting this week - I think it will spark a good discussion! You should read Amy & Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout too. Very good.
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Posted by Ariella 2009-07-27 14:16:03
HP5. Making my way through the whole series again so there's no temptation to bring the books back to school with me. Then I'll try to make it up by reading Roth's American Pastoral.
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Posted by chenothegood 2009-07-27 14:27:55
For some reason Judy Garland's life fascinates me haha I am on my third biography in 2 months:
Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows - Lorna Luft
I just read
Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland - Gerald Clarke
and before that:
Judy Garland: The Secret Life of an American Legend - David Shipman
Very interesting stuff in there, i know that i have to take everything in there with a grain of salt but still there has got to be some truth in it right? haha
But if you have any interest in Judy Garland I definitely recommend reading one of the biographies on her!
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Posted by danmag 2009-07-27 15:01:40
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See - so far, so good.
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Posted by Roscoe 2009-07-27 15:44:27
I'll be finishing HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE in the next day or so. Then I'll move on to something to fill the time until Pynchon's INHERENT VICE comes out next week.
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Posted by doodlenyc 2009-07-27 15:46:07
"Saving Fish From Drowning" Amy Tan
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Posted by Plum 2009-07-27 18:52:58
Jack of Fables, by Bill Willingham, a spinoff from his excellent Fables series. I'm not enjoying the Jack stories nearly as much as I do Fables, but maybe it'll get better as it goes along.
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Posted by spiderdj82 2009-07-27 19:15:50
I am SUCH a teenage girl....ya know....with an extra appendage. I just bought:
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Posted by colleen_lee 2009-07-27 19:23:28
Setting Limits in the Classroom - Robert MacKenzie, Ed.D.
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Posted by dramadude2 2009-07-27 20:45:54
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
So good.
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Posted by TimesSquareRegular 2009-07-27 21:40:41
Just started the first Sookie Stackhouse book .... not the world's greatest writing sylist, but readable enough.
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Posted by little_sally 2009-07-27 22:05:46
Just finished Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. Didn't like it as much as I like his short fiction/novellas.
Started The Time Traveler's Wife last night and I am loving it. I cannot put it down.
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Posted by colleen_lee 2009-07-29 10:00:34
The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs
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Posted by spiderdj82 2009-07-29 11:17:01
sally - Time Traveler's Wife is, I think, my third favorite book of all time. I have read it 4 times now and am going to read it again before the movie comes out. LOVE IT!
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Posted by broadwaytourist 2009-07-29 22:49:49
The Unlikely Disciple - Kevin Roose - his memoir of spending a semester at Falwell's Liberty University - fascinating - went to a conservative Baptist college and this rings true
Godless - Dan Barker - miles away from my conservative college education
Starting HP and the Deathly Hallows
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Posted by colleen_lee 2009-07-31 08:24:12
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
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Posted by HellsBells2 2009-07-31 11:14:36
ANGRY HOUSEWIVES Eating Bon Bons - Lorna Landvik
Next on my list:
Are you there vodka? It's me, Chelsea
and
The Time Traveler's Wife
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Posted by StockardFan 2009-07-31 11:46:31
It took me a few tries to get into the Time Traveler's Wife, but once I did, I loved it.
I just started The Story Sisters by Alice Hoffman. It's a bit strange.
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Posted by Estrella 2009-07-31 12:45:13
Just finished "The Road to Woodstock" by Michael Lang. It's a fascinating look at rock music before it became such a huge corporate sponsored enterprise, though it marked the beginning of corporate rock era. The logistics of the event were incredible. Lang, the primary organizer of the event, follows the story from its inception to its aftermath.
Anyone interesting in seeing how the massive festival was organized on the fly should be interested in this.
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Posted by colleen_lee 2009-07-31 14:26:01
Erm, so I just read The Time Traveler's Wife in under 24 hours. I have one more weekend to kill and am now out of books so off to the bookstore I go. Any suggestions?
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Posted by AC126748 2009-07-31 17:36:12
The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University by Kevin Roose and Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. On deck: Zeitoun and A Short History of Women.
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Posted by spiderdj82 2009-07-31 18:17:14
How did you like it, Colleen?
Have you read, The Book of Lost Things? I thought that was a great book
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Posted by Plum 2009-08-01 02:07:57
Just finished the "War and Pieces" trade of Fables. Wow. Just...wow. It's pretty much what the comic has been leading up to since it started, and I really have to wonder where it's going to go from here.
Also just finished Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy, so next in my pile is apparently...The Lost Continent, by Bill Bryson. Am also going to continue my very slow progress through Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in French. (A wand is une baguette magique!)
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Posted by colleen_lee 2009-08-01 12:40:55
Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire - Rafe Esquith
ETA: Sorry DJ, I was on my Blackberry when I posted this, so I missed your questions. I did enjoy The Time Traveler's Wife very much but was a bit unprepared for the way it picked at the scabs of old wounds.
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Posted by colleen_lee 2009-08-01 14:27:12
That was a fast read. Now onto "Olive Kitteridge" - Elizabeth Strout
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Posted by Plum 2009-08-01 22:27:07
I'm not really enjoying The Lost Continent as much as I did Notes From a Small Island. I'm thinking about switching to The Confusion, since I'm determined to finish the Baroque Cycle (has anything ever been more appropriately named?) someday. Oh, Neal Stephenson. Don't ever change.
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Posted by colleen_lee 2009-08-02 09:02:09
The Evolution of God - Robert Wright
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Posted by StockardFan 2009-08-02 12:02:22
I just started Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination by Helen Fielding (who wrote Bridget Jones Diary). It's pretty cute so far.
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Posted by picturetaker9211 2009-08-02 12:14:06
The Time Traveler's Wife- Audrey Niffenegger
I've been wanting to read this book for quite sometime since I don't read in my free time during the school year. Now I'm in a rush to read it since the movie is coming out soon.
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Posted by EugLoven 2009-08-02 12:22:39
I am 50 pages from the end of The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and really would not recommend it. I have no idea why this won the 2007 Pultizer... I read such better Fiction that year. 
Then I move on to New Moon and the other 2 remaining Twilight books. It is a guilty pleasure now that Harry Potter has come to an end. They are simple reads and somewhat entertaining so no harm in not reading them. 
I got half-way through Audacity of Hope, then he became President and for some reason I wasnt motivated to finish it because it all felt so passe! 
On my Yet-To-Read bookshelf, next in line is Life of Pi and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay 
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Posted by clever name 2009-08-02 13:52:47
I really liked Oscar Wao.
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Posted by EugLoven 2009-08-02 14:22:04
clevername: My best friend liked it too. As did the bookseller I nabbed it from at Strand. Can you tell me why you liked it? I am completely disinterested... Well, I am enjoying some parts of it (specifically the present-time narratives about Oscar in college and the older-womens stories of the past). And while I appreciate the brief-history of the DR, I didnt sign-up for it. I have read similar story lines before (aka Middlesex) that were far more engaging. I am grasping at straws for a succinct story-line, but I cant bite into anything. I dont really care about any of the characters nor the fuku. Makes me sad, because I wanted to like it.
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Posted by clever name 2009-08-02 15:16:42
well, I think I liked it because I was interested in them. Simply put. I loved the stories of his Mom. I was interesested in his sad loser life and the fuku. I liked his relationship with his sister. I wanted to hear what happened. It sounds like you just weren't interested, so why would you want to read any more about these people, right? That's how I felt about The Memory Keeper's Daughter. I wasn't interested in any of those people so I hated the book.
p.s I LOVED Middlesex. Great book!
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Posted by uncageg 2009-08-02 15:21:02
I realized I have 3 E. Lynn Harris books to read. I need to get the 1st two in the "trilogy" as I have the last one and the two in between the 2nd and 3rd.
Still reading "Tweaked". Still a bit out to lunch on it. Would really like to read Kurt Andersen's "Reset" next.
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Posted by sabrelady 2009-08-02 16:43:23
Finished Dant's Purgatorio (took 4evah!) Working on Mordden's "All That Glittered" and Larrsens "The Girl Who Played With Fire". Yeah, eclective in'it?
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Posted by justagirl2 2009-08-02 17:19:42
EugLoven, "Life of Pi" is one of the best books I've ever read. It's unbelievably creative and captivating, and Martel is a hell of a storyteller.
I'm currently reading "It," in a half-assed effort to scare myself.
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Posted by spiderdj82 2009-08-02 17:35:28
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Posted by Reginald Tresilian 2009-08-02 17:54:22
Just started Sarah Waters's THE LITTLE STRANGER and am loving it! It's like BRIDESHEAD REVISITED or ATONEMENT--only it's (apparently) a ghost story.
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Posted by sweetestsiren 2009-08-09 12:51:06
Well, I am enjoying some parts of it (specifically the present-time narratives about Oscar in college and the older-womens stories of the past). And while I appreciate the brief-history of the DR, I didnt sign-up for it. I have read similar story lines before (aka Middlesex) that were far more engaging.
I found Oscar Wao far more engaging than Middlesex, actually. Middlesex was dreadfully boring at certain points, and I kept waiting for there to be some sort of payoff where it would all come together, but there isn't at all. It just...ends, and I didn't feel like I gained anything out of the whole tortuous narrative. I think Diaz does a much better job than Euginides with integrating his plot threads and moving the story forward.
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Posted by colleen_lee 2009-08-09 12:56:14
Did my post get eaten?
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
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Posted by orangeskittles 2009-08-09 13:11:23
Currently- Mary Queen of Scotland & The Isles by Margaret George and Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident
Next- Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon by Andrea di Robilant
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Posted by millie_dillmount 2009-08-09 13:16:02
Currently - The Devil Wears Prada (yes, I know, nothing intellectual, but I finally have some time to do some fun reading)
I might read the David Sedaris book, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, next.
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Posted by StockardFan 2009-08-09 13:41:51
I just finished At First Sight by Nicolas Sparks. It was sad.....
Getting ready to read the new Jennifer Weiner book who's title excapes me but it's the sequel to Good In Bed
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Posted by taylorPHENOMENON2 2009-08-09 14:11:20
It's called Certain Girls, I believe StockardFan. I read it after Good in Bed but didn't like it as much when it was told in Cannie's daughter's perspective. Still a fun read though.
I'm currently reading The Omnivore's DIlemma;
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Posted by spiderdj82 2009-08-09 14:20:38
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Posted by StockardFan 2009-08-09 15:59:33
Yep, that's it Taylor! I just started it a little while ago. It seems good so far, but I'm only on chapter 4.
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Posted by danmag 2009-08-12 14:04:25
Well, my last post disappeared. I'll try again..
I just started Richard Russo's new book "That Old Cape Magic"
I think he is brilliant.
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Posted by xxnewgirlxx 2009-08-12 14:14:06
I just started The Time Traveler's Wife..yes, I'm a little behind. And I'm ashamed because Audrey Niffenegger is a professor at my alma mater.
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Posted by Theatreboy49 2009-08-12 16:06:53
I just finished Everything was Possible: The Birth of the Musical Follies. It was extremly facinating. I just started World War Z by Max Brooks (a random recomendation from a friend) and once thats done I have a biography on David Merrick sitting in my room that needs to be read.
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Posted by colleen_lee 2009-08-12 20:32:08
Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
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Posted by Plum 2009-08-13 02:10:05
Finished The Napoleon of New York: Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, which was informative but felt a bit lightweight, perhaps because it was written by a journalist and at this point my brain has been warped by years of getting most of my nonfiction from people with PhDs.
Then I read Neil Gaiman's Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?, which...well, the title story in the collection was very Gaiman, and I loved the Kubert art, but in some ways I felt like I'd seen the same ideas handled by the author before. He handled them gorgeously here, as well, but still.
Now I'm onto The Confusion, the second part of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle. I read the first part, Quicksilver, last year, I think. My goodness that man writes long books. But I'll finish that trilogy one day, dammit!
The book sitting on my dresser waiting patiently for me is Teacher Man, the only Frank McCourt book I've never read.
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Posted by MotorTink 2009-08-13 09:22:55
In the past two weeks I have read:
Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell - I like the overall message and theme the author puts out but it, in my opinion, got a little too repetative and boring. Plus, reading an entire chapter on plane crashes while on a plane...not usually a good thing, lol.
Inherit the Wind - Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee - Why it has taken me this long to read the play I have no idea, but I greatly enjoyed it. Quick read but I found it very moving.
New Moon & Eclipse - I finally gave in, and well now have become obsessed. It was hard to get through New Moon at first but by mid book it had me hooked, and then Eclipse I just ate up. Not really fond of the writing style per say, and honestly, Bella annoys the crap outta me, but I have been taken by the overall world.
and now I'm onto The Time Traveler's Wife like a lot of you.
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Posted by Ariella 2009-08-13 12:06:52
Colleen - I loved Franny and Zooey!
Currently reading Kafka on the Shore.
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Posted by Dollypop 2009-09-01 11:14:37
Just finished MAINLY ON DIRECTING by Arthur Laurents. Very engrossing.
Now reading SONG OF THE LARK by Willa Cather--another one of her sublimely written tales.
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Posted by clever name 2009-09-01 11:19:55
I'm reading PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES but I'm not sure if I'm going to finish it.
Yeah, I get it.it's Pride and Prejudice...and Zombies.
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Posted by xxnewgirlxx 2009-09-01 11:43:40
I'm now reading Wally Lamb's "The Hour I First Believed". I love his books and so far, this is no exception. I'm completely engrossed.
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Posted by Blair 2009-09-01 11:49:18
I'm about 200 pages into The Secret History by Donna Tartt. I'm really enjoying it so far.
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Posted by StockardFan 2009-09-01 11:49:34
I'm reading some trashy novel about some woman who's ex-husband stole their kid and is trying to make her look like the town drunk so she won't get custody. I think it's called The Second Silence or something.
re: Wally Lamb....I loved "She's Come Undone" but it took me 3 tries to get into "I Know This Much Is True". Once I finally got into it I liked it though.
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Posted by Roscoe 2009-09-01 11:49:54
My post on this seems to have vanished, so here it is again:
Just finished Philip K. Dick's VALIS, pretty good but my patience with religious questing gets thin pretty quickly. Especially when the religious questing gets as wacky as it does in VALIS.
Starting Pynchon's INHERENT VICE. Enjoyable so far.
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Posted by sweetestsiren 2009-09-01 21:48:39
This week I read Farewell Waltz by Milan Kundera. I really liked it. Now I'm reading Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis and Immortality by Kundera.
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Posted by EVIE 2009-09-02 15:36:48
The Exorcist.
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Posted by doodlenyc 2009-09-02 15:43:28
Good girl!
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Posted by Reginald Tresilian 2009-09-02 15:52:13
Just started Tony Horwitz's "A Voyage Long and Strange."
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Posted by spiderdj82 2009-09-02 22:42:28
I'm reading three books and dividing my time between them
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Posted by uncageg 2009-09-03 00:27:23
Just finished "Tweaked - A Crystal Meth Memoir" by Patrick Moore. Given to me to read by a friend. I am thinking he thought I would like it because I have read 4 of Augusten Burroughs' books.
Michael Musto says..."Observant, funny, and harrowing, Tweaked is an eye-opening, fasten-your-seatbelts ride in and out of the depths of meth madness."
I'm not sure what book he read. While reading this book (It took me about 3 or 4 weeks to get through it and it was only 200+ pages) Augusten Burroughs kept running through my mind. And I kept thinking that he was running through Mr. Moore's mind also. But Mr. Burroughs does it better in my opinion. A hard book to get through. A bit disjointed, random and just all over the place.
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Posted by Plum 2009-09-03 00:35:27
Still The Confusion. I WILL FINISH IT ONE DAY DAMMIT.
I'm also almost halfway through Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in Hebrew, which I'm pretty proud of.
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Posted by Weez 2009-09-03 03:45:45
I just read The Enemy by Charlie Higson. My life is complete. I'm now going to bash my way through Brigands MC by Robert Muchamore and Lisey's Story by Stephen King, and I'll be back on the Judy Blume back catalogue by Monday.
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Posted by bdwaygirl 2009-09-14 15:20:06
Is this the one? 
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Posted by StockardFan 2009-09-14 15:22:43
I just finished a book called Dismantled. I can't remember the author's first name and I already returned it to the library, but her last name is McMahon. It was very intriguing!
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Posted by spiderdj82 2009-09-14 15:25:20
God bless you. haha (since I said the title wrong in the other thread. Oops )
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Posted by roquat 2009-09-14 15:40:39
Just finished SPADE AND ARCHER by Joe Gores, a prequel to THE MALTESE FALCON which almost surpasses it in quality--it provides a very convincing backstory for Spade, Effie Perrine, and Miles Archer, showing the genesis of the Spade/Archer partnership (dissolved by Archer's murder in the second chapter of FALCON)
Also recently finished a Maria Callas biography by Anne Edwards--it was engrossing, but a little too much dimestore psychological "insight" imposed by the biographer (who seems both too sympathetic AND too judgmental toward her subject). You know the drill--"perhaps Maria did this in order to secure the love of the father she had never really known", etc., etc. Just tell me what HAPPENED...
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Posted by Mister Matt 2009-09-14 15:46:55
I recently read Silver Shoes and loved it. It really left me wanting more.
Now, I'm about to finish The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Though it was a little slow in the beginning, after the first 100 pages or so, it takes off! Sort of a combination of Festen and Silence of the Lambs with a dash of The Firm.
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Posted by spiderdj82 2009-09-15 13:24:19
I have this problem with starting a book...getting a few chapters in....get bored....stop reading....pick up a new one (repeat). I need to stop that.
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Posted by StockardFan 2009-09-15 13:44:10
Mister Matt, who is the author of the Dragon Tattoo book? That sounds really good!
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Posted by spiderdj82 2009-09-15 13:49:54
I'm not Mister Matt (Obviously ) but the author is Stieg Larsson
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Posted by Mister Matt 2009-09-15 16:29:56
spider's right! The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is the first part of Stieg Larsson's trilogy, which become a HUGE sensation in Europe and has recently found its way to the US. I'd never heard of it until my partner showed up this summer and told me I had to read it. The second book, entitled The Girl Who Played With Fire, has just been released here though the entire trilogy as well as a feature film of the first book have long since been out in Europe. Unfortunately, there are no recent plans for distribution of the film in the US as I'm sure Hollywood wants to bastardize its own treatment, but I am dying to see it!
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Posted by spiderdj82 2009-09-15 16:31:35
Does the movie in Europe hold the same title, or is it called something else?
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Posted by NYadgal 2009-09-15 16:34:18
Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol"
(well, I'll start reading it tonight...)
Plum - I'm impressed!!
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Posted by Roscoe 2009-09-15 16:45:12
Finishing up Pynchon's INHERENT VICE, good rowdy fun.
Up next -- dunno.
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Posted by spiderdj82 2009-09-15 17:53:56
Addy - I am on the list on my library to get it. Can't wait!
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Posted by StockardFan 2009-09-15 18:09:25
Ooooh, thanks you guys! I'm so going to look for that the next time I'm at the library.
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Posted by Mister Matt 2009-09-15 18:12:28
spider - The Swedish title for the film is Män Som Hatar Kvinnor.
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Posted by BroadwayGuy12 2009-09-15 18:15:48
Right now, I'm half way through Flowers for Algernon. I read the short story that it's expanded from back in 2005 and have wanted to read the novel for quite some time.
Next I want to read Waiter Rant, which I saw at Barnes and Noble and thought looked entertaining. But right now my friend is reading Kathy Griffin's new book and wants me to borrow it when she's finished. I'm not really a Griffin fan, but I told her I'd give it a try.
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Posted by MotorTink 2009-09-16 08:57:40
awww, I had to read Flowers for Algernon several times between grammar school and HS. I love that book. My favorite books read from required reading was that, A Seperate Peace, I am the Cheese, and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. I can re read any of them at any time.
Addy - I just picked up that book yesterday from Target. I have a very large love/hate relationship with Dan Brown, but figure I'd give good 'ol Langdon another go.
I finally finished The Time Travelers Wife and was very disappointed in the ending, but otherwise it was a good book.
Now I am reading The Ice Queen: A Novel by Alice Hoffman. Fictional story about a girl who is struck by lightning and the aftermath phsyically, etc. I think there is supposed to be a love story in there at some point.
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Posted by colleen_lee 2009-12-13 17:59:01
Reading An Orchestra Beyond Borders: Voices of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra by Elena Cheah and I am LOVING it. Of course, I am very interested in Israeli-Palestinian relations after dating a Palestinian for 7 years.
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Posted by spiderdj82 2009-12-13 18:01:38
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Posted by Salene 2009-12-13 23:51:47
The Seven Dials Mystery - Agatha Christie.
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Posted by TimesSquareRegular 2009-12-14 09:09:05
Paul Rudnick's I SHUDDER ..... where else could I learn about the only nun who gets to vote for the Oscars.....
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Posted by Roscoe 2009-12-14 10:51:51
I read GIRL WITH DRAGON TATTOO until I just lost interest, somehow. Some great stuff, though, including a particularly tasty bit of revenge.
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Posted by spiderdj82 2010-07-25 07:48:35
Let's bump this!
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Posted by Weez 2010-07-25 08:19:48
I just read Webster's Duchess of Malfi which has some fantastic enough dialogue that I turned several page corners down so I could easily find it again later, and I usually treat my books well. D: My ongoing mission is to finish Stephen King's Under the Dome, although the sheer weight of it is genuinely what is preventing me from reading it faster, then I'm on to The Girl who Played with Fire. Oh, and I'm simultaneously reading Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, and Richard III, depending on what bag I have on me at the time. XD
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Posted by uncageg 2010-07-25 10:32:21
Recently finished:
"Game Change" by John Heilemann & Mark Halperin
"Hot Seat" by Frank Rich
"Without You.." by Anthony Rapp
Currently reading:
"Mainly on Directing" by Arthur Laurents
"Harold Prince - A Director's Journey" by Carol Ilson
Catching up on theater reading. I am behind!
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Posted by spiderdj82 2010-07-25 10:41:22
Just finished It's Kind of a Funny Story and it was really good.
Here is a trailer for the film version coming out
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Posted by wonkit 2010-07-25 10:46:03
I'm almost half way through FREE FOR ALL, the oral history autobiography/biography of Joe Papp. Fascinating stuff, and an amazing cast of characters get to remember Joe and the Public Theater experience.
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Posted by StockardFan 2010-07-25 11:02:13
I just finished reading the "Queen of Babble" series. Silly easy summer reading stuff. They were cute and funny though.
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Posted by uncageg 2010-07-25 11:09:19
wonkit, glad you posted that. I was in the library last week looking through books to see if there was something on Papp. I totally forgot about this book. I am heading to pick it up today!
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Posted by Craww 2010-07-25 11:12:34
Just finished Bonk by Mary Roach. Currently reading The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell.
I'll likely finish today, so then I'll be starting Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk. But I'm bringing the third book in the Dark Tower series (The Waste Lands, I think) in case I don't find Palahniuk to be palatable for reading at work.
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Posted by colleen_lee 2010-07-25 11:19:53
I am participating in a "Shakespeare in a Year" challenge (www.shakespeareinayear.com) so I am currently working on As You Like It.
I am also smack in the middle of A Tale of Two Cities.
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Posted by Plum 2010-07-25 15:02:38
The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science, by Richard Holmes
My past few books:
Assassination Vacation - Sarah Vowell
Presumed Innocent - Scott Turow
The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran - Dirk Hayhurst
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Posted by wonkit 2010-07-25 16:31:41
uncageg - let me know what you think about FREE FOR ALL. I can't seem to find anyone else who has read it.
I can't seem to get through any Scott Turow. Listened to Presumed Innocent on tape when it first came out. Kinda plods along.
Anyone else read the Lapham's Quarterly? I just got my first issue, and I am full of wonderment! And the subject is SPORTS AND GAMES, not one of my passions - yet.
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Posted by luvtheEmcee 2010-07-25 16:46:32
I'm reading Free For All now, too. Needed a break from novels for a bit. I'm about 200 pages from the end, up to the A Chorus Line chapter. I'm really loving it so far; I was engrossed from the beginning, and though I've found certain sections to be lacking, at least in terms of what I'd been hoping to read, overall I've found it really moving and inspiring -- both in terms of the story it tells, and in the way it's crafted. It's a bit long (and heavy to carry around!) but I definitely recommend it.
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Posted by wonkit 2010-07-25 16:52:43
I'm reading FREE FOR ALL quickly because it is such a pain to carry! Not a commuter train book at all.
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Posted by uncageg 2010-07-25 17:11:11
I decided to return the Harold Prince book and ran down and got Free For All. I am about a quarter of the Arthur Laurents book so I figure I should be starting Free For All this evening or tomorrow.
I posted that I just finished Anthony Rapps' "Without You". Did anyone read it? I am a bit out to lunch on parts of it.
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Posted by CarlosAlberto 2010-07-25 17:56:31
Letting Go Of The Person You Used To Be by Lama Surya Das,
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Posted by luvtheEmcee 2010-07-25 18:03:14
uncageg, there should be a few threads on Anthony's book floating around the archives. I tried to search for the one I know I posted a long time ago, but for some reason when I click on the link, it turns up an empty thread. Maybe you will have better luck with the search.
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Posted by zepka102 2010-07-25 18:17:42
HA! Last time I posted in this thread I was reading Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea. Now I'm reading Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang. Guess to stick with the pattern, Ms. Handler needs to write another book before next summer.
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Posted by best12bars 2010-07-25 18:32:29
There's another book I'd love for you to read ...
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Posted by clever name 2010-07-25 19:35:19
Just read Of Mice and Men
Now reading Bret Easton Ellis Imperial Bedrooms. I had no idea he had written a book with Clay and the others from Less Than Zero. I just happen to see it at the library. How did I not know that?
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Posted by Mister Matt 2010-07-26 11:19:30
Just finishing up Under the Dome. Not sure what I'll read next. I have a TON of new books from which to choose. Maybe the new John Sandford Prey book. I love the Lucas Davenport series and have read them all. Or I might dive into Little Bee by Chris Cleave.
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Posted by zepka102 2010-07-26 11:27:04
Next in line, Besty, next in line...
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Posted by uncageg 2010-07-26 11:47:18
I am just trying to get through this Arthur Laurents book. It is driving me crazy. It's not long but it is so repetitive. He could have cut a lot out.
Edit/update: I bailed on the Laurents book 3/4 of the way through. It was giving me a headache!
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Posted by Plum 2010-07-26 22:16:59
March Violets, by Philip Kerr
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Posted by BroadwayGuy12 2010-07-28 21:56:00
In the past two weeks I've read:
At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks
Breakfast at Madeline's by Matt Witten (cheesy murder-mysteries are my guilty pleasure!)
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Spending some time at the beach has really helped me catch up on my reading! I had to go to the bookstore today because I didn't bring enough books with me. Now I'm deciding whether to start Murder with Reservations by Elaine Viets or Tinkers by Paul Harding.
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Posted by spiderdj82 2010-07-28 22:01:49
I'm going to the library tomorrow and will post about what I get
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Posted by pushdabutton 2010-07-28 22:07:08
I just started reading Kathy Griffin's Official Book Club Selection.
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Posted by zunit1234 2010-07-29 02:01:05
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee.
so.good.
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Posted by Brave Sir Robin2 2010-07-29 02:47:32
Of Mice And Men, for school.
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Posted by broadwayjim42 2010-07-29 13:13:53
STILL trying to finish Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows...although that battle may end tonight...only the epilogue left. It's been one of those things I'll read for a bit, put down, come back to (for the past two years) but with the movie(s) coming out, I figured I'd better finish it.
Within those two years, I also read "Dewey" (about the library cat...cute story, VERY poorly written), "The Devil Made Me Do it" (former porn star Georgina Spelvin's self-published memoir) and "Valley of the Dolls" for the first time in about 30 years.
Feeling the urge to hit some celebrity (auto)biographies.
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Posted by StockardFan 2010-07-29 19:11:51
I'm reading this totally silly book called Insatiable by Meg Cabot. It is about this girl who is a writer for a soap opera, and they are going to introduce a vampire story line. In the meantime, there are women popping up all over the city totally drained of their blood, and the head of all vampires is in town, and she falls in love with him. Dumb, but entertaining.
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Posted by spiderdj82 2010-07-31 00:01:14
Bought this today at Barnes and Noble
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Posted by Mister Matt 2010-09-07 16:35:42
I just started Of Bees and Mist by Eric Satiawan and I'm utterly fascinated by it.
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Posted by Roscoe 2010-09-07 16:37:47
Finished Pynchon's MASON & DIXON. Read some of Philip K. Dick's CLANS OF THE ALPHANE MOON, have moved on to Franzen's FREEDOM.
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Posted by Reginald Tresilian 2010-09-07 16:49:08
I started "Freedom" this weekend and am enjoying it a lot. My favorite sentence so far: "Eliza was exactly half pretty."
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Posted by uncageg 2010-09-07 16:53:37
Finally finished "Free For All..." last week. I didn't realize that Joseph Papp could be such a, for lack of a better term, jerk. It was one of those books you could read a "chapter" and come back to in a few days and not really forget anything. I wasn't crazy about the "ending". it just sort of ended. Lots of great stories and quotes though. I actually thought about buying it just to have around as kind of a reference book.
I have 3 books in line for the next 2 months...
Patti Lupone: a memoir
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics - Stephen Sondheim
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Posted by JerseyGirl2 2010-09-07 16:59:33
Just finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo last week. It was difficult to find the second in the Millennium series in English here, so I tried the local library. The English section was pretty limited so I ended up getting Middlesex. We passed a little bookstore on our way to pick up our wedding cake and what do you know, they had The Girl Who Played with Fire in English! Now I have two books I have started. I also started Love, Ellen by Betty Degeneres, but it's just one I pick up when I am not reading anything else.
Before Dragon, I read Like Me by Cheley Wright and that was just plain awful. Parts were heartwarming but during most of the book I wanted to shake her and remind her that she was a 1.5 hit wonder in Nashville and didn't change the face of country music.
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Posted by NYadgal 2010-09-07 17:15:34
Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon - And the Journey of a Generation
From Publisher's Weekly:
The epic story of three generational icons, this triple biography from author and Glamour senior editor Weller (Dancing at Ciros) examines the careers of singer-songwriters Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon, whose success reflected, enervated and shaped the feminist movement that grew up with them. After short sketches of their early years, Weller begins in earnest with the 1960s, switching off among the women as their public lives begin. A time of extremes, the 60s found folk music and feminist cultures just beginning to define themselves, while the buttoned-down mainstream was still treating unwed pregnant women, in Mitchells terms, like you murdered somebody (thus the big, traditional wedding thrown for King, pregnant by songwriting partner Gerry Goffin, in 1959). Pioneering success in the music business led inevitably to similar roles in womens movement, but Weller doesnt overlook the content of their songs and the effect they have on a generation of women facing a lot more choice, but with no one to guide them. Taking readers in-depth through the late 80s, Weller brings the story up to date with a short but satisfying roundup. A must-read for any fan of these artists, this bio will prove an absorbing, eye-opening tour of rock (and American) history for anyone whos appreciated a female musician in the past thirty years.
I'm finding it fascinating and thought-provoking.
Not to mention, it's influenced the music I've been listening to recently. Ah, those singer-songwriters!
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Posted by FindingNamo 2010-09-07 17:19:42
"Insignificant Others" by Stephen McCauley.
I am reading it VERY slowly, because I like to savor his writing and there's usually four years between books from him. True to form, he has been making me laugh out loud at least once per page.
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Posted by JerseyGirl2 2010-09-07 17:37:11
Addy, I wanted to read that assoon as I heard about it.
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Posted by spiderdj82 2010-09-07 18:37:58
Sunday, I finished The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen and now I'm reading The Silence of the Lambs. So far, it's better than the movie
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Posted by StockardFan 2010-09-07 18:38:56
I just finished a book called The Castaways by Elin Hilderbrand. It was good. Just an easy summer by-the-pool read, but good.
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Posted by Plum 2010-09-07 21:57:30
The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, by Elif Batuman
And oooh, Girls Like Us has been on my "to read" list for a while, but now that school is starting I'm going to have to stop my pleasure reading again. 
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Posted by FindingNamo 2010-09-07 22:42:39
I've never heard of the first one, Plum, but just the title made me think of Julianne Moore in "The Kids Are All Right."
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Posted by spiderdj82 2010-09-07 23:15:39
Such a great movie, Namo.
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Posted by BroadwayGuy12 2010-09-08 14:59:33
I'm very eager to begin This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper but I'm buried with other readings right now. I just need a free moment...
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Posted by Plum 2010-09-09 20:42:00
Argh, time constraints. I'm writing a Really Big Paper right now, so once I finished The Possessed my leisure reading had to end. But one of the books I'm rereading for the paper is a huge favorite of mine, and I recommend it for pretty much anyone who's an artist or who enjoys art in any form (which is everyone on this board).
The Gift, by Lewis Hyde
It's seriously, seriously wonderful.
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Posted by wendilin622 2010-09-10 05:36:28
Love love love Jonathan Tropper. I've read 4/5 of his books and I can't wait to pick up "How to Talk to a Widower"
Almost done with Girl who Played with Fire. It's good but I'm eager to finish....It's a huge book to get through. Am I the only one who has trouble with all the names? I know the major ones but all those "B" names... I'm never really sure which one is the police chief, private investigator etc.
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Posted by StockardFan 2010-09-10 07:30:07
Yeah, the names had me tripped up a lot in all 3 of those books.
I'm still on a "beach book" kick. I'm reading a book called "A Tale of Two Sisters" by Anna Maxted.
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Posted by SonofMammaMiaSam 2010-09-10 08:00:10
The Buccolic Plaque by Josh Kilmer-Purcell of the Fabulous Beekman Boys. The boy is funny! I've now read all three of his books. He's had quite a life!
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Posted by wonkit 2010-09-10 09:44:49
I have just started "Are You There, Crocodile?" by Michael Pennington. He is an amazing actor, and also clearly an amazingly talented writer. The book is about his delving into the life of Anton Chekhov in order to write a one man show for himself in which he portrays Chekhov. This is going to be one of those books that I hate to finish! And, if you really want to understand Twelfth Night, Hamlet or Midsummer Night's Dream, look at Pennington's guides to those plays. No - I'm not a shill, just a life long fan of his work.
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Posted by spiderdj82 2010-09-10 13:14:36
I am going to be picking this up in a few days and can't wait to read it!
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Posted by broadwayjim42 2010-09-10 13:23:13
Definitely going through a celebrity autobiography phase...just finished Shirley Temple Black's "Child Star," which I'd given my mom as a gift when it came out in 1988.
Had a Katharine Hepburn biography lined up but it looks like a slog so may hit the library and hunt down Maureen McCormick and Kathleen Turner. Both of their books are hitting the remainder bins big time and I can't even justify spending $3 on them. But the library, sure.
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Posted by SonofMammaMiaSam 2010-09-10 13:29:36
I recently read Farley Granger's autobiography "Include Me Out".
I found it at the Dollar Tree.
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Posted by sally1112 2010-09-10 13:42:16
I am 200 pages into Mockingjay, the final book in The Hunger Games triology.
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Posted by uncageg 2010-09-10 14:24:25
Just started "The Help" yesterday. It is the One Book One Denver book selection.
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Posted by broadwayjim42 2010-09-10 14:54:34
Tab Hunter's was at Dollar Tree too. Tempted....
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Posted by StockardFan 2010-09-10 15:01:13
Just started "The Help" yesterday. It is the One Book One Denver book selection.
Is that the one about the maids in the south back in the 60's? I read that, and it's REALLY good!
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Posted by uncageg 2010-09-10 15:05:18
Stockard, yes it is. read the first chapter last night. Getting ready to continue reading. I didn't know the 3 women were maids in the 60's. I just knew it was about 3 women making a change in their community. My mom cleaned houses, was a semi-maid, in the 60's and 70's. That first chapter and the conversation over the card game got to me a bit. Needless to say "Caroline or Change" ran through my mind.
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Posted by StockardFan 2010-09-10 15:30:28
It is a really good book. There will probably be some parts that bother you with the way some of the women treat the maids - I know there were some parts that bothered me. But over all it is a message of hope and overcoming.
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Posted by uncageg 2010-09-10 16:52:12
I am 3 chapters in and already feel like an angry black woman! I just want to reach into the book and strangle that one woman with the baby who wants the seperate bathroom built for the maid.
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Posted by StockardFan 2010-09-10 18:09:45
YES! She was a total BIOTCH! I couldn't believe some of the mentality of those women in that book.
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Posted by jamiekennywicked 2010-09-10 18:09:55
Currently re-reading
The Help 
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Posted by uncageg 2010-09-10 18:22:39
Stockard, it's not suprising but still gets under my skin.
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Posted by Plum 2010-09-10 18:27:28
...So I'm the only one who loathed The Help and couldn't finish it?
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Posted by uncageg 2010-09-10 19:21:43
Well I am only 3 chapters in. But I think I will finish it. I want to finish it because they are having events surrounding the book here in Denver that I want to attend.
