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brie k
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 Posted: 04/27/04 - 11:49 Post subject: Whatcha reading?
I just finished 4 John Grisham books in about 2 weeks. Hit B&N today and picked up The Burning Man by Phillip Margolin (one of the legal gals at iVillage recommended him, he's a lawyer like JG) and also Lost by Gregory Maguire. It has "dark echoing overtones of A Christmas Carol," according to the jacket.
I love having all this free time to read. 
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airehead
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Posted: 04/27/04 - 11:51 Post subject:
I just finished "The Dead Zone" by S.King. Excellent read. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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brie k
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Posted: 04/27/04 - 11:53 Post subject:
| airehead wrote: | | I just finished "The Dead Zone" by S.King. Excellent read. I thoroughly enjoyed it. |
Was this your first King? Did you post about that a while ago? I cannot remember.
Yes, that is a great book!! What's next then? Read It. It's tragic and sad and as a mother, it will break your heart, but it is his finest work, IMO.
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airehead
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Posted: 04/27/04 - 11:55 Post subject:
| brie k wrote: | | airehead wrote: | | I just finished "The Dead Zone" by S.King. Excellent read. I thoroughly enjoyed it. |
Was this your first King? Did you post about that a while ago? I cannot remember.
Yes, that is a great book!! What's next then? Read It. It's tragic and sad and as a mother, it will break your heart, but it is his finest work, IMO. |
No, I read "The Green Mile" which I loved and BC and I were reading each other "Dreamcatcher".
I must say, the man knows how to weave a tale. The man is brilliant. His descriptive powers are beyond that of ordinary mortals, methinks.
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Posted: 04/27/04 - 11:55 Post subject:
just finished Next Door Savior by max lucado
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Posted: 04/27/04 - 11:59 Post subject:
My recent reads are in the Review forum, but i'm working through Purple Hibiscus, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Fairly good book so far, it's been praised to high heaven locally. Also reading the new Raymond Feist fantasy King of Foxes.
I have forthcoming reviews of
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Century - Peter Jennings (a big coffee table type book, history of this past century)
Martin Dressler - Steven Milhauser (winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction)
I have a "to read" list that is nearing ridiculous length, so we'll see what i end up reading when i'm done with what i have out from the library now.
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jrjo
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Posted: 04/27/04 - 12:23 Post subject:
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omega lambda
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Posted: 04/27/04 - 12:45 Post subject:
I finished The Alienist and The Time Traveler's Wife over the weekend. The Alienist was okay, The Time Traveler's Wife was an excellent and compelling read, even though I had trouble suspending disbelief.
 for The Time Traveler's Wife.
I have quite a few books in the queue. I'll have to peruse my "library" (aka the stack of books I bought at my last visit to the bookstore) to see what beckons.
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Cappy
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Posted: 04/27/04 - 12:50 Post subject:
I'll be reviewing The Official Guide For GMAT Review for a while. I review a little each day.
I mostly just read Sports Illustrated, VeloNews, and Bicycling
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Pug
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Posted: 04/27/04 - 12:52 Post subject:
| omega lambda wrote: | I finished The Alienist and The Time Traveler's Wife over the weekend. The Alienist was okay, The Time Traveler's Wife was an excellent and compelling read, even though I had trouble suspending disbelief.
for The Time Traveler's Wife.
I have quite a few books in the queue. I'll have to peruse my "library" (aka the stack of books I bought at my last visit to the bookstore) to see what beckons. |
I don't even want to talk about the stack of books that i own that i haven't read...but i'll give you a brief overview:
Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond
An Army at Dawn - Rick Atkinson
Means of Ascent - Robert Caro
Master of the Senate - Robert Caro
Alexander Hamilton - Ron Chernow
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin - H.W. Brands
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt - Edmund Morris
Theodore Rex - Edmund Morris
Truman - David McCullough
Africa in My Blood - Jane Goodall
I Shall Bear Witness: Volume 2 - Victor Klemperer
That's just what i can think of off the top of my head...
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Posted: 04/27/04 - 13:05 Post subject:
I'm still plowing through Conspiracies by F. Paul Wilson.
Good book, but I am very inconsistent and sporadic in my reading these days.
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Library Chick
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Posted: 04/27/04 - 13:11 Post subject:
I'm finishing up a stack of books I'm reading for work. When that's done I have a stack for my own enjoyment. They include: The Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith, The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde, Reading Lolita in Tehran, and since I never read it in America, Lolita by Nabokov. Oh, and The Devil in the White City.
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HYPERASHEL
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Posted: 04/27/04 - 14:00 Post subject:
Still on the Tale og Genji, it might last me till 2005 
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Pug
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Posted: 04/27/04 - 14:11 Post subject:
| Library Chick wrote: | | I'm finishing up a stack of books I'm reading for work. When that's done I have a stack for my own enjoyment. They include: The Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith, The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde, Reading Lolita in Tehran, and since I never read it in America, Lolita by Nabokov. Oh, and The Devil in the White City. |
Lolita is one of my favorites.
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Floridaboiler
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Posted: 04/27/04 - 20:24 Post subject:
Brandenburg by Glenn Meade
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