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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #3210 on: September 26, 2011, 02:37:26 AM »
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #3211 on: September 27, 2011, 05:28:56 PM »
Quote from: Jewlz on September 12, 2011, 09:59:22 PM
Just finished it today. I liked it, too. But yes, it was sad.  :\\\'(

I like how things are lost and found in Norfolk.  :)


I'm reading The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz

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Fifty Plants That Changed the Course of History by Bill Laws
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #3212 on: September 29, 2011, 03:40:23 AM »
Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #3213 on: October 03, 2011, 09:15:41 AM »
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #3214 on: October 03, 2011, 09:42:50 AM »
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park by Sinclair McdKay. 
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #3215 on: October 03, 2011, 11:04:09 AM »
Quote from: chary on September 21, 2011, 08:07:25 AM
I hope you love it! I'm a huge Woolf fan, but I know that some people find her hard work. I think my favourite is Mrs. Dalloway, but To the Lighthouse is absolutely wonderful as well.


Thanks, I read A Room of One's Own in college, and LOVE The Hours (book and film)...I LOVE the idea of Virginia Woolf, but it is laborious reading at times (those paragraph-long sentences!) But I shall persevere :D
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #3216 on: October 03, 2011, 12:59:53 PM »
The Jane Austen book club by Karen Joy Fowler. Embarrassed by how little of Jane Austen I can remember.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #3217 on: October 03, 2011, 01:48:56 PM »
Quote from: Woodlily on October 03, 2011, 09:42:50 AM
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park by Sinclair McdKay. 

I've been eyeing this one! How is it?

I'm reading Troubles by J.G. Farrell. Such a beautifully drawn sense of place that it's even seeping into my dreams at night.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #3218 on: October 04, 2011, 06:58:33 AM »
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #3219 on: October 04, 2011, 12:10:43 PM »
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park by Sinclair McKay is a good read!  It brings to life what the people who lived and worked there actually did.  It's worth reading for interest, and knowledge.  I am really enjoying it. 
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #3220 on: October 05, 2011, 04:50:26 PM »
The Boy From Baby House 10 by Alan Philps and John Lahutsky
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #3221 on: October 30, 2011, 06:41:38 PM »
Quote from: CharmCityGirl on September 25, 2011, 01:41:25 PM
Our Kind of Traitor by John Le Carre

I didn't finish this one which is a big deal because I ALWAYS finish a book.

Now I'm reading Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #3222 on: October 30, 2011, 07:05:13 PM »
I'm reading Wild Swans and not enjoying it (if "enjoying" is even the right word) as much as I thought I would.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #3223 on: October 31, 2011, 02:47:11 PM »
The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Which actually just gave away the ending of a book I was planning to read soon, Anna Karenina.  :-X
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #3224 on: November 01, 2011, 12:19:44 PM »
Just finished The blue zones by Dan Buettner. It's about places in the world where people live to advanced old age (e.g. Okinawa) Interesting but too anecdotal.

Started Anita Shreve's A change in altitude which is kind of depressing.
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