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What Are You Reading Right Now?
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This is a group where you can tell us what you're reading and what you think of it to give others some ideas. Your choices can be fiction, non-fiction, articles, books, blogs, whatever. Tell us what it is and your opinion of it!
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Comment by wiffledust on July 25, 2010 at 1:36pm
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welcome gini! i'll step aside , cuz i don't have a novel going. i've been doing non fiction when i can read at all lately......although i really love short stories by dubois. ...continue, folks. just wanted to welcome gini to the group!
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Comment by Gini Steele on July 25, 2010 at 1:34pm
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Chapters away from finishing The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver...may possibly surpass Poisonwood Bible as her best novel. Taking the Stieg Larsson trilogy to the beach week after next...
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Comment by Kristin deWitt on July 25, 2010 at 1:23pm
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Oh, Elle, no need to be impressed. I've read them both before. This was only the second go through of FMiR and boy! it takes forever to figure out whose story you're reading now! All the names being the same and trying to figure out the class system! I, too, adore M.M. Kaye.
Finished the Stieg Larsson and LOVED it, no surprise. Now I'm reading Peter Mayle's French Lessons. Have you read him? All about France. The non-fictions are fabulous. His caricatures of the French are affectionate and so fun!
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just jumping in here for a minute to give another salute to The Thorn Birds...everyone knows the basic story and the miniseries. but the book is such a satisfying book to read...excellent in character development and emotion. i want to read it again!!
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Comment by Elle MacNeil on July 25, 2010 at 11:13am
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Kristin - just read your one post - kudos to you!!! The two books you mentioned, First Man in Rome and Far Pavilions, were hard reads!!! And thick books!! And they were on your "so far this summer" list? Wow! I'm impressed. I've always liked MM Kaye and LOVED Thorn Birds but, despite my love of Roman history (4 years of Latin instilled that in me), but FMiR was a toughy for me!!
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Oh, my!! I finished a book last week that was SO good. It was not something I would normally have bought - found it in the Bargain books aisle in B&N - but I'm trying to push myself to read more books that don't have to do with murder and forensics. Where the River Ends was a lucky choice!! A sad, sweet love story that made me cry (this is a phenomenon for me, I never cry when reading...well, hardly ever!); twice in the middle and I cried myself to sleep when I finished it!! And I KNEW how it was going to end, but it just wrapped itself around me and sucked me in. Lots of edge-of-your-seat moments that were totally unexpected from the description on the back cover. If you like well written love stories, then I highly recommend this one. Oh, and the thing I found to be really odd? It was written by a man (Charles Martin). No offense to the guys in here, but I just never expect men to put their emotions down in writing, ala Erich Segal.
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Comment by Lillian Gaffney on July 18, 2010 at 5:20pm
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Okay, I finished Eat, Pray, Love and enjoyed it. Like I said, the part about Gilbert raising money to help a women that healed so many, not only raising her own child but adopting two orphans with an eviction on her back. I loved that this woman's dream was fulfilled by someone who truly cared... and what E.G. experienced around trust, understanding, acceptance, and strategy to pull the whole thing off. I especially loved her message of the little girl visualizing the outcome...law of attraction. Looking forward to the movie.
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FANTASTIC SUGGESTIONS!!! thanks, kristin!!!! so glad you're here! ;-))
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Agreed. Books usually are! I've been a mystery fan for a long time, inherited from Mom and Grandmother. This may be blasphemy to some, but Agatha Christie only sort of did it for me. I prefer other English authors like M.M. Kaye, who has a number of light, well written mysteries set in various locales, and Ngaio Marsh. Love her books! A long series with a main character who's a Gentleman in Scotland Yard. Marries a renowned painter. I can see some of the patterns in her writing after a while but the stories are fun, the main character is dry and witty, the settings interesting. After having read mysteries for so long I decided I needed to read Doyle. I bought all the Holmes mysteries in anthologies and read them straight through. Again, I saw the patterns after a bit and they got a little thin for me but I felt educated in the genre! ; ) I then went to other authors who tried to write Holmes and was regularly disgusted. Until I found Laurie King. She writes Sherlock the way Doyle did but then broadens, deepens and expands. Then she throws a twist of a fifteen year old girl! BRILLIANT! I HIGHLY recommend her to any mystery readers. They can be easy reads but the writing is far superior to many others out there. IMHO. ; )
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oooo you have great ones, kristin!!! mysteries REALLY keep you glued to the book. i like a good psychological or historical one when i read them too. so these are great suggestions. i love colleen mccullough!!!! and a little romance in there is always nice! i was trying to re-read cold mountain..not a mystery. but the book is so much better than the movie. the movie was good, but the book is TONS better....
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