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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1230 on: September 13, 2007, 11:40:54 PM »
Just finished Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld and I really liked it.  Has anyone read her second book, The Man of My Dreams?  The reviews on Amazon seem to say that it's not as good as Prep.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1231 on: September 14, 2007, 12:22:00 AM »
I'm about halfway through The Kite Runner. I sure wish I was part of a book club, because I'm going to have to talk about this one!
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1232 on: September 14, 2007, 10:54:15 AM »
Quote from: shiraevans on September 14, 2007, 12:22:00 AM
I'm about halfway through The Kite Runner. I sure wish I was part of a book club, because I'm going to have to talk about this one!



I read The Kite Runner for my old book club. Fantastic book!
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1233 on: September 14, 2007, 11:39:16 AM »
Quote from: KK on September 13, 2007, 11:40:54 PM
Just finished Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld and I really liked it.  Has anyone read her second book, The Man of My Dreams?  The reviews on Amazon seem to say that it's not as good as Prep.

I have, I agree, it's not as good.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1234 on: September 21, 2007, 01:38:30 PM »
I want to read Prep!  I have the second one and just thought it was okay.

I just finished the last Harry Potter last night.  It was good.  :)
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1235 on: September 21, 2007, 02:43:08 PM »
Quote from: geeta on September 21, 2007, 01:38:30 PM
I want to read Prep!  I have the second one and just thought it was okay.

I just finished the last Harry Potter last night.  It was good.  :)

If Courtney finished mine, you can have it. 
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1236 on: September 21, 2007, 05:17:36 PM »
I just finished Diary of a Mad Mother to Be...this book made my laugh out loud so many times.  It was as if I wrote the book because it was so close to my humor.  Tonight I am starting The Way Things Were
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1237 on: October 02, 2007, 02:55:03 PM »
Currently reading Ishmael...brilliant!
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1238 on: October 02, 2007, 03:09:33 PM »
I just started The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1239 on: October 04, 2007, 07:37:58 PM »
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1240 on: October 05, 2007, 02:19:04 PM »
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1241 on: October 05, 2007, 02:22:10 PM »
Join Me by Danny Wallace. It is nice to have a break from more serious texts and read something that makes me laugh out loud.  ;D
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1242 on: October 06, 2007, 08:12:18 AM »
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson. It was published over 12 years ago, so it's funny to see how much things have changed in that time. It's also funny to see how much they haven't!
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1243 on: October 06, 2007, 01:43:47 PM »
Quote from: Bmore_2_UK on October 06, 2007, 08:12:18 AM
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson. It was published over 12 years ago, so it's funny to see how much things have changed in that time. It's also funny to see how much they haven't!

He's good! My ex got me that book when it first came out and said you gotta read this. YOU could have written it. Everything he wrote about, I had been telling her for years. It was spot on.

I especially liked the one The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America and  A Short History of Nearly Everything.

He has a way with putting words together. After reading the Downunder book, I really really wanted to go and visit.

Really odd thing though, I do remember buying Mother Tongue but never made the connection when his more light-hearted books were published until my ex turned me on to his other works.

Here's an animated clip of a passage out of The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid! . Next on my list after I finish Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe

http://www.randomhouse.com/features/billbryson/flat/home.php
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1244 on: October 06, 2007, 02:18:31 PM »
I've really enjoyed Bill Bryson's books, some more than others.  I was given a signed copy of Notes from a Small Island and I think it's my favorite.  Liked the Down Under one, and Walk in the Woods is hilarious.  Short History is great too.

I read Thunderbolt Kid and it hit very close to home because I also grew up in Des Moines Iowa, and though it was a decade later there were still a lot of things that hadn't changed!
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