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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2205 on: October 14, 2009, 06:31:07 PM »
Reading Gardens in the Dunes by Leslie Marmon Silko. Really interesting, about two Southwest Native American girls.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2206 on: October 14, 2009, 09:51:14 PM »
Has anybody read the new Booker prize winner Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel?  It looks really good to me.

It's on my list! I'm going to wait until we move (hopefully in a week or so) to order it so I have one less thing to carry with me. I really like Hilary Mantel, though, and this one looks fabulous!
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2207 on: October 18, 2009, 10:19:58 PM »
It's on my list! I'm going to wait until we move (hopefully in a week or so) to order it so I have one less thing to carry with me. I really like Hilary Mantel, though, and this one looks fabulous!

I've never read anything by Hilary Mantel, but from the description it sounds like one I would like.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2208 on: October 19, 2009, 04:16:22 PM »
I just bought Cloud Atlas, this thread has started costing me money  :P

But I love when they come with recommendations!


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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2209 on: October 19, 2009, 10:57:50 PM »
Dark Summer by Iris Johansen


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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2210 on: October 20, 2009, 08:32:02 AM »
'Round Ireland With a Fridge.  It's not as funny as I was hoping, but it has its moments.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2211 on: October 20, 2009, 12:26:18 PM »
'Round Ireland With a Fridge.  It's not as funny as I was hoping, but it has its moments.

Sorry, I think I'm the one who recommended that one!  It seemed pretty funny to me at the time I read it.  Maybe I was sleep deprived...  ;D
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2212 on: October 20, 2009, 12:29:23 PM »
Sorry, I think I'm the one who recommended that one!  It seemed pretty funny to me at the time I read it.  Maybe I was sleep deprived...  ;D
Don't worry, Tin--I'm still enjoying it!  Loads of people had recommended it to me (since I'm Ireland obsessed), and it was one I really wanted to read--I was thrilled when I found it at Oxfam (I almost always find good books there!).
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2213 on: October 20, 2009, 12:49:27 PM »
Don't worry, Tin--I'm still enjoying it!  Loads of people had recommended it to me (since I'm Ireland obsessed), and it was one I really wanted to read--I was thrilled when I found it at Oxfam (I almost always find good books there!).

Yes, you're so right about the charity shop book finds!  I was serious about the sleep-deprived thing though, as I believe I read it when my second child was a newborn and in that state I could easily laugh...or cry.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2214 on: October 20, 2009, 02:20:21 PM »
--I was thrilled when I found it at Oxfam (I almost always find good books there!).

Charity shops and old small cubbyhole bookshops are great for old books. I love browsing in these nook and cranny bookshops when I'm visiting somewhere new. Usually get some pretty interesting conversations to boot. Don't know about any of ya'll but I really like the feel of the pages and the smell of old books. Kinda like a stimlus that takes me back.

One of my favourite books is my old Webster's dictionary. Well thumbed over decades of use and when I look up a word, I'll often get wafts of old book smell but it ain't just old book smell, it has its own smell and conjures up images and times from my youth.

Sometimes I may not get a waft, so I'll stick my nose right in it.  :o  Not always. As I'm a bad enough procrastinator, I do try and limit my book sniffing induced daydreams  ;D
 
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2215 on: October 20, 2009, 02:30:15 PM »
Charity shops and old small cubbyhole bookshops are great for old books. I love browsing in these nook and cranny bookshops when I'm visiting somewhere new. Usually get some pretty interesting conversations to boot. Don't know about any of ya'll but I really like the feel of the pages and the smell of old books. Kinda like a stimlus that takes me back.

One of my favourite books is my old Webster's dictionary. Well thumbed over decades of use and when I look up a word, I'll often get wafts of old book smell but it ain't just old book smell, it has its own smell and conjures up images and times from my youth.

Sometimes I may not get a waft, so I'll stick my nose right in it.  :o  Not always. As I'm a bad enough procrastinator, I do try and limit my book sniffing induced daydreams  ;D
 
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2216 on: October 20, 2009, 02:45:40 PM »

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You crack me up, AyouBob!  :D

well if you thought that was funny, my 80 yo auntie just IM'd me this. No hello, no bye, no nothing just this:

Two blondes living in California were sitting on a bench talking, and one blonde says to the other, 'Which do you think is farther away.... Florida or the moon?'

The other blonde turns and says 'Helloooooooooo, can you see Florida ?????'


Obviously didn't spend a lot of time in bookshops growing up.

To quote someone else on this forum, move along folks, nothing to see here....
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2217 on: October 21, 2009, 01:05:33 PM »
Im nly a couple chapters into Cloud Atlas now, but the language is amazing!


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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2218 on: October 22, 2009, 02:35:08 PM »
I'm reading Indian Summer by Alex Von Tunzelmann.  Non-fiction behind the scenes 1947, during the independence of India and partition with Pakistan. It's so good!

I really enjoyed this book and had no idea there was any plan to make a movie of it, so when I saw the article below I thought Yaayyy.....oh. :-\\\\

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8317829.stm

It seems like maybe they're still going to try to make the movie someday which is hopeful.  But if it ends up being "with no gestures or actions or words of love or affection between the two" then it will be missing the best bit of the book. :(
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2219 on: October 22, 2009, 02:39:54 PM »
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. Depressing but I'm enjoying it.


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