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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1815 on: January 16, 2009, 08:12:31 PM »
Quote from: Stacey on January 15, 2009, 08:01:11 AM
Hmmm, mean ;D  They are no-nonsense!!!  That is for sure.  I stopped reading it for a bit.  I can't do everything they say right now.  Especially giving up coffee.  But I will come back to it.

OMG you weren't kidding... I've been reading it for about three nights before bed, thinking it was safe to do so, then got to the Chapter "You Are What You Eat".
Wow.

Definitely no-nonsense!
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1816 on: January 17, 2009, 05:17:22 PM »
GRANTA - "Fathers" issue.  There are some wonderful pieces in it.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1817 on: January 17, 2009, 07:55:27 PM »
Confessions of a Shop-A-Holic for my book club.  Meh.  [smiley=bleck.gif]  (not really my thing, but at least it's going fast)

My other book club's book hasn't arrived yet from Amazon:  The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets by Sophie Hannah.  I'm not much more excited about reading it.  :-\\\\

I got two new books for Christmas that I hope to soon read - the first Twilight book by Stephenie Meyer, and Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1818 on: January 17, 2009, 09:19:07 PM »
Quote from: Mrs Robinson on January 17, 2009, 07:55:27 PM
Confessions of a Shop-A-Holic for my book club.  Meh.  [smiley=bleck.gif]  (not really my thing, but at least it's going fast)




I picked up this and the sequel for a vacation reading a few years ago and wasn't a fan. Not sure why, but the main character really got on my nerves for some reason.

Has anyone here read any books from the Sookie Stackhouse mystery series by Charlaine Harris? Did you like it?
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1819 on: January 19, 2009, 05:16:43 PM »
Quote from: Mort on January 17, 2009, 09:19:07 PM
I picked up this and the sequel for a vacation reading a few years ago and wasn't a fan. Not sure why, but the main character really got on my nerves for some reason.

It has its moments & yeah she is annoying.  I was rolling with it (not laughing - but I mean going with the flow), until she (the author) wrote a 'funny' bit about a fat person in a pink jogging suit with carrier bags filled with tubs of ice cream.  Because you know, fat people are just so hilarious.  ::)  Not to mention the stuff that just doesn't happen (in real life) the way the story tells it.  :P
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1820 on: January 20, 2009, 06:20:12 AM »
Quote from: Mort on January 17, 2009, 09:19:07 PM

Has anyone here read any books from the Sookie Stackhouse mystery series by Charlaine Harris? Did you like it?

I'm reading the first one "Dead Until Dark" right now.  Interesting concept, but the writing is weak sauce.  I'm half-way through and maybe it will get better. So far, I'm meh to it.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1821 on: January 20, 2009, 01:41:56 PM »
The Stone Gods- Jeanette Winterson.  I am sort of disappointed, because I remember loving Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.  I haven't really read much else of hers, and I remember I didn't finish Sexing the Cherry.

It's not that she can't write.  The language is nice.  The plot is a bit meh.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1822 on: January 20, 2009, 01:43:24 PM »
I'm reading Lark Rise to Candleford and a biography of Flora Thompson.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1823 on: January 20, 2009, 01:47:06 PM »
Quote from: chary on January 20, 2009, 01:43:24 PM
I'm reading Lark Rise to Candleford and a biography of Flora Thompson.

I read Lark Rise many years ago and enjoyed it.

I love literary biographies.  Is the Flora Thompson one any good?
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1824 on: January 20, 2009, 01:54:04 PM »
Quote from: Tin on January 20, 2009, 01:47:06 PM
I read Lark Rise many years ago and enjoyed it.

I love literary biographies.  Is the Flora Thompson one any good?

I'm reading Lark Rise for an online reading discussion group, so I thought the biography would be good to read alongside it ... but it's awful! There is a lot of useful background info in it and it's nice to find out about people Thompson knew in real life who wound up in her books under other names, but I wouldn't recommend this biography at all. It's very poorly written with run-on sentences in some places and incomplete sentences in other places. Where was the editor!? It's this book by Gillian Lindsay - there must be a better Flora Thompson biography out there! I'm going to try to struggle through it, but it's not easy!
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1825 on: January 20, 2009, 02:00:32 PM »
Sorry to hear that Chary, but thanks for warning me off!
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1826 on: January 21, 2009, 02:50:48 PM »
The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1827 on: January 21, 2009, 02:57:08 PM »
Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn, the first book in the Tales of the Otori series. My no-reading DH read it and loved it, so I thought I would read it so we would have a book to discuss!   ;)  He's now reading the second book, Grass for his Pillow and I am pretty shocked he is sticking with the reading, but very proud.  ;D
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1828 on: January 21, 2009, 05:18:52 PM »
Bah. Posted this in another thread but I guess this one is newer.

I've been on a Murakami kick lately. I just finished The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. I posted a review on it here: http://ridingthewind.net/2009/01/16/the-wind-up-bird-chronicle/ [nofollow]

I'm starting on Oscar Wilde's Complete Shorter Fiction today. I'm excited!
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #1829 on: January 23, 2009, 07:31:01 AM »
Death in Venice and other stories-Thomas Mann
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