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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2355 on: February 11, 2010, 01:52:31 PM »
Just finished Now is the Time to Open Your Heart by Alice Walker. Strange and very philosophical. Hmmm. I liked it.


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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2356 on: February 11, 2010, 01:54:39 PM »
I finished Diary of a Provincial Lady by EM Delafield.  I really liked it and will get the next one from the library. 


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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2357 on: February 12, 2010, 02:41:34 PM »
The Reader. Loved the film, and I'm loving the book even more. Very poignant. Wish I had read it before seeing the film so I wouldn't know what happens already, but then I guess I might not have loved the film as much!


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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2358 on: February 15, 2010, 08:47:32 PM »
Just finished The Time Traveler's Wife. I actually cried a little at the end, even though I knew what was going to happen. I don't remember ever crying while reading a book, although there are lots of times I had that feeling, but didn't actually produce tears. Anyway, I really loved it. Glad I saw the film first, though. I liked the film, but now I realise how much it truly sucked compared to the book.  :P


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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2359 on: February 16, 2010, 11:09:10 PM »
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh.

Jewlz, you're reading my my kind of books! I really love Alice Walker, though a little goes a long way, and The Reader really took me. I hated it and loved it at the same time.


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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2360 on: February 17, 2010, 11:46:24 AM »
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh.

Jewlz, you're reading my my kind of books! I really love Alice Walker, though a little goes a long way, and The Reader really took me. I hated it and loved it at the same time.

Hmmm... well do you have a profile on Library Thing or We Read that I can follow? Maybe that will give me some ideas for some new books to read since we have similar tastes. If so, PM me!  :) (I prefer We Read because I like the layout better, but I have a Library Thing account, too.)


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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2361 on: February 17, 2010, 12:36:06 PM »
. Anyway, I really loved it. Glad I saw the film first, though. I liked the film, but now I realise how much it truly sucked compared to the book.  :P

Oh yeah, the movie sucked. The book is awesome.

I've begun the Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart. Jon told me I'd enjoy the series. So far it's alright but god she writes a heck of a lot of detail. I'm a speed reader and I find all the extra details she puts in make me read slower, which bugs me a bit.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2362 on: February 19, 2010, 08:44:11 PM »
Terry Prachett has taken a backseat. I'm reading September by Rosamunde Pilcher. It came in one of my boxes this weekend. Bliss!  :)
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2363 on: February 20, 2010, 06:47:58 PM »
Been reading The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters - it's good!  Think I'm going to have to give some of her other novels a go too.  :)
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2364 on: February 21, 2010, 12:48:24 PM »
Been reading The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters - it's good!  Think I'm going to have to give some of her other novels a go too.  :)

I keep seeing that one in the bookstore, the cover is so intriguing..

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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2365 on: February 22, 2010, 07:23:24 AM »
Just started "Perfume" by Patrick Suskind.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2366 on: February 22, 2010, 07:30:11 AM »
Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum- I'm in a production based on it.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2367 on: February 22, 2010, 09:01:00 AM »
I keep seeing that one in the bookstore, the cover is so intriguing..

It's a scary ghost story!  I was so freaked out last night when it was time to go upstairs to bed (up our darkish stairs), because I had been reading it in the evening!  :o
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2368 on: February 22, 2010, 01:04:52 PM »
It's a scary ghost story!  I was so freaked out last night when it was time to go upstairs to bed (up our darkish stairs), because I had been reading it in the evening!  :o

Oooh! I wanna read it! I wonder if our tiny library would have it? Is it new?

I'm reading Tale of Two Cities:)


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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2369 on: February 22, 2010, 01:10:50 PM »
Just started "Perfume" by Patrick Suskind.

Oooh, I saw the movie and really liked it. Let us know if it's any good. It's a weird concept for a story.
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