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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1515 on: May 17, 2008, 11:06:00 PM »
The Hotel on the Roof of the World - Five Years in Tibet by Alec Le Sueur
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1516 on: May 17, 2008, 11:18:50 PM »
Ironside by Holly Black - last in a trilogy
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1517 on: May 18, 2008, 05:05:22 PM »
The "Let's Discuss This Once and For All" thread!   :o
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1518 on: May 18, 2008, 05:07:43 PM »
Quote from: Darwinsdisciple on May 18, 2008, 05:05:22 PM
The "Let's Discuss This Once and For All" thread!   :o

Novel-length, juicy and full of plot twists!  ;D
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1519 on: May 18, 2008, 05:09:15 PM »
Quote from: Darwinsdisciple on May 18, 2008, 05:05:22 PM
The "Let's Discuss This Once and For All" thread!   :o

LOL!! And, at this rate, it'll be longer than The Forsyte Saga by tomorrow!  ;D
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1520 on: May 19, 2008, 02:30:23 AM »
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See.

I'm almost finished and can't shake the shock of what women in China had to go through with their foot binding, among other things.

Has anyone else read it?  :(  :o
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1521 on: May 19, 2008, 06:30:52 AM »
It's on my to be read list. Blue_Iris recommended it to me!

I am reading Amsterdam by Ian McEwan.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1522 on: May 19, 2008, 08:59:05 AM »
Quote from: sevans on May 19, 2008, 02:30:23 AM
Has anyone else read it?  :(  :o

I have! I have!!

My book club did it last year. Several of us ended up doing more research about foot-binding because we found we really knew very little about it all. Some of the pictures online are horrendous. I mean, you think it's horrendous reading about it in the book, but the pictures? Gah. I remember finding it fascinating that the bound feet were considered sexual. That was one of our best and liveliest book club discussions.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1523 on: May 19, 2008, 12:51:34 PM »
Dark Continent by Mark Mazower.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1524 on: May 19, 2008, 10:50:37 PM »
Amazing how much time there is for reading now that I've given up sleeping... :P

I've read all my library books and my books in the house, starting on kid1's now.  So it's 'Beautiful Child' by Torey Hayden...
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1525 on: May 19, 2008, 11:51:30 PM »
Quote from: chary on May 19, 2008, 08:59:05 AM
That was one of our best and liveliest book club discussions.

Yes, I can definitely see that happening because there's something so morbidly fascinating about the whole footbinding thing.  WTF ever possessed anyone to find that sexually attractive?!

I think I'm gonna start up a club and make this book #1 on the list.  :)
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1526 on: May 20, 2008, 12:26:28 AM »
Quote from: crabbit.expat on May 19, 2008, 10:50:37 PM
Amazing how much time there is for reading now that I've given up sleeping... :P

I've read all my library books and my books in the house, starting on kid1's now.  So it's 'Beautiful Child' by Torey Hayden...

I love Torey Hayden's books. They are sad, poignant, and inspiring at the same time.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1527 on: May 20, 2008, 12:26:57 AM »
Quote from: helle_chic on May 17, 2008, 09:21:44 AM
Read Love, Rosie!  It's great!

Will add it to the list!  :)
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1528 on: May 20, 2008, 06:58:47 AM »
Traveling Music: The Soundtrack of My Life and Times by Neil Peart.  Equal parts rock star autobiography, music criticism, and travelogue from Los Angeles to Big Bend National Park.

From "Chorus Three" (the verses are built around the travelogue, the choruses the memoirs... the lyrics that set off each chapter-equivalent would later be reworked into Working Them Angels)

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Drumming at the heart of an English winter

That Christmas of 1971, my grandma put up the money to fly me home for the holidays, and I went back to St. Catharines all "anglicized" (after a whole six months), with my new corduroy suit from Lord John on Carnaby Street, patterned sweater vest, and affected accent.  In January, I flew back to England, only to be held for several hours by Immigration.  The problem was that I only about £2 in my pocket, barely train fare to New Barnet.  However, I told the officers I was going straight back to work for Bud, and I did.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1529 on: May 21, 2008, 06:56:35 PM »
I'm reading a book about NLP.
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