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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #135 on: May 08, 2005, 10:35:35 PM »
Quote from: jennydee on May 08, 2005, 09:19:19 PM
I'm debating whether or not I'm going to reread Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix before the new one comes out on July 16th....

I think I need to do that,too, jennydee! I have no recollection at all of what happened in the last HP book! Why can't the damn woman write faster?!?  >:( ;)

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Some people have a vast and varied social life. I think I just READ! ;D

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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #136 on: May 09, 2005, 11:32:31 AM »
Perdita is a bit of a slow starter, but very interesting as you get in to it.  :)
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #137 on: May 17, 2005, 12:06:37 PM »
Just back from holiday where I did a fair amount of reading but not as much as I'd hoped. I indulged my (guilty pleasure) chick lit craving and read Being Committed by Anna Maxted which was cute.

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I've read it, Mark. I thought it was OK ... but maybe not Booker-worthy.

After the flossy girly book I started this one and am about 3/4 through it now. I think I agree with Belindaloo - it's good, I am enjoying it - but I'm not 100% convinced that it was worthy of the top prize. I've got Cloud Atlas and I'm going to read that next.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #138 on: May 30, 2005, 04:24:31 PM »
Presently reading Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin and re-reading (for like the umpteenth time) a favourite of mine: Phantastes by George MacDonald.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #139 on: May 31, 2005, 08:51:26 AM »
Quote from: Songmistress on May 30, 2005, 04:24:31 PM
Presently reading Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin

That's a good one! Ian Rankin is great!

I'm reading "The Buccaneers" by Edith Wharton.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #140 on: May 31, 2005, 08:56:26 AM »
I've almost finished Take It Like A Man - Boy George's autobiography.  It is VERY badly written but full of gossip and a pretty good read.  I have a few books waiting for me after that - first up will be Elizabeth Jane Howard's autobiography.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #141 on: May 31, 2005, 08:59:44 AM »
Quote from: Britwife on May 31, 2005, 08:56:26 AM
I've almost finished Take It Like A Man - Boy George's autobiography.  It is VERY badly written but full of gossip and a pretty good read.  I have a few books waiting for me after that - first up will be Elizabeth Jane Howard's autobiography.

Liz, I think we have the same taste in books! Boy George's has been on my wish list ever since I heard about it! I haven't read Elizabeth Jane Howard's autobiography, but I adore here. Did you read the Cazalet Chronicle?
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #142 on: May 31, 2005, 09:35:30 AM »
Ya-Ya's In Bloom, the new ya ya sisterhood book. I've read the other two, and really enjoyed them.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #143 on: May 31, 2005, 10:35:11 AM »
Quote from: belindaloo on May 31, 2005, 08:59:44 AM
Liz, I think we have the same taste in books! Boy George's has been on my wish list ever since I heard about it! I haven't read Elizabeth Jane Howard's autobiography, but I adore here. Did you read the Cazalet Chronicle?

Yes I loved the Cazalet chronicles, and most of her other books.  I picked up the Boy George book in a charity shop for a couple of quid which I'm glad about because the grammar is so awful I would be very annoyed if I had paid full price for it! Also it is very hard to keep track of the 50 million people he talks about.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #144 on: May 31, 2005, 10:43:17 AM »
The Magician's Nephew  ;)
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #145 on: May 31, 2005, 10:58:04 AM »
I'm just starting a historical novel: The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #146 on: May 31, 2005, 08:42:51 PM »
Currently onto:

William Thackeray's Vanity Fair (two chapters a day, then chat with a friend in the U.S. also reading it)
Louis Auchincloss's Manhattan Monologues
Noel Coward in His Own Words
T S Eliot's Selected Essays on Elizabethian Drama

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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #147 on: May 31, 2005, 08:51:04 PM »
Quote from: Kuyperama on May 31, 2005, 10:43:17 AM
The Magician's Nephew  ;)

 ;D Awwwww....yay!  C.S Lewis is a favourite of mine.  Too many people only read The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and never read the rest of the series (and few ever start at the beginning, which The Magician's Nephew is)!  I am so hoping that they stay true to the book in this film version of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe that is coming out in December...  well, I can hope, can't I?
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #148 on: May 31, 2005, 09:48:16 PM »
Well, from the trailer, and the website, the movie looks like it will indeed be true to the book.  It looks gorgeous.  There are debates as to which book is first, even though Narnia is 'created' by Aslan in The Magician's Nephew.  Some people say he wanted people to read L, W, W first, then Magician's Nephew, and others say the other way round.  In any case, I'm indeed enjoying it!
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #149 on: May 31, 2005, 11:01:46 PM »
Reading a Sue Grafton.. R is for Ricochet.  Pretty good so far. I just picked up the rest of the No. One Ladies' Detective Agency books, The Virgin Suicides and The Princess Bride.  My bedside table is full and I'm happy!   ;D

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