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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2700 on: September 27, 2010, 03:25:33 PM »
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson.  It's okay but I find it a bit slow going.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2701 on: September 28, 2010, 10:55:24 AM »
Quote from: MNVikesScouseLvr on September 27, 2010, 02:17:02 PM
It has been quite a tough read, almost reads like an academic textbook at times. It also seems like she is looking for ways to sterotype the English so she can fit them in a nice little category. I don't want to move to England and think that all English are socially inept or some other stereotype.

That's what it was! DH(my dear husband)read a bit of it, just out of curiosity, and he was like, "We're not all like that. I'm not like that." That's when I stopped reading it. I don't like people getting sterotyped at all. I want to judge each person on my own, on their own merits.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2702 on: September 29, 2010, 01:44:17 PM »
Just finished It's the Little Things by Erica James and quite enjoyed it, though it's not my usual thing. Just started The Devil's Punchbowl by Greg Iles. I'm just going through a stack of books my MIL has given me over the last few months that I haven't gotten to yet.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2703 on: September 30, 2010, 09:37:06 AM »
I've started To Kill a Mockingbird, to go with my dry textbook. :)
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2704 on: September 30, 2010, 05:02:40 PM »
I'm almost finished with The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova which I'm LOVING, but I just picked up Julie and Julia which I've been wanting to read.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2705 on: September 30, 2010, 05:08:05 PM »
Old Glory for book club. Yawn. Snooze.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2706 on: September 30, 2010, 07:16:37 PM »
"Eat Pray Love" which abbygirl lent to me through the post!  I'm enjoying it so far.  :)
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2707 on: September 30, 2010, 09:36:08 PM »
Quote from: abbygirl on September 30, 2010, 09:37:06 AM
I've started To Kill a Mockingbird, to go with my dry textbook. :)

Not sure why, but that's one of my favourite books :)

I just finished one that wasn't great- Sandie Shaw and the Millionth Marvel Cooker-

Also just finished a book on growing vegetables in pots and in small spaces and a few cookbooks (yes, I read cookbooks for fun, like stories  :))

In addition, read a book on industrial design of products as well which was fascinating!

Off to the library tomorrow/Saturday for a whole new pile. 
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2708 on: September 30, 2010, 10:04:24 PM »
Quote from: phatbeetle on September 30, 2010, 09:36:08 PM
Not sure why, but that's one of my favourite books :)

Because it's amazing!!  ;D
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2709 on: October 01, 2010, 01:45:35 AM »
The Other Boleyn Girl.....That Henry was a jerk! It is entertaining in a gossipy way but it is not entirely historically accurate. But the main points are right and the ones that are not are heavily speculated about by historians so I guess that is okay. It makes me glad to be a woman now in 2010 though!!! :o
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2710 on: October 01, 2010, 08:32:39 AM »
Quote from: chary on September 30, 2010, 10:04:24 PM
Because it's amazing!!  ;D

Probably the reason I love it then  ;D
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2711 on: October 01, 2010, 03:34:02 PM »
Just finished reading the Hunger Game trilogy by Suzanne Collins and now reading the letters of John And Abigail Adams originally edited by their grandson.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2712 on: October 01, 2010, 03:41:35 PM »
"That's Me In The Corner" by Andrew Collins.  A biography of the weird semi-celebrity status of people who work with the famous and fabulous but aren't themselves famous and fabulous.  Andrew has been a magazine editor, TV writer, script editor, TV and radio host, DJ, and even a stand-up comedian, at each stage thinking he was now in his "Dream job" and at each stage moving on to something else.  Even so, he's more frequently asked for his autograph by people who mistakenly think he's Mark Steel than by people who actually know who he is.  It's a fascinating book, if a very nerdy one.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2713 on: October 02, 2010, 12:03:54 PM »
I'm starting Crash by J.G. Ballard. It's from DH's books. He's reading my Twilight saga books(he's on Breaking Dawn), so I thought it would only be fair to read one of his. :D The boring text book has pretty much gone to a side table. ;)
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #2714 on: October 08, 2010, 08:30:16 PM »
I'm still rereading the Tiffany Aching books by Pratchett so I can read the new one. I seem to have lost my reading-fu :(
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