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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #360 on: November 04, 2005, 03:24:00 PM »
i'm reading the food of love.

it is great!
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #361 on: November 04, 2005, 06:02:23 PM »
The Color Purple-- Alice Walker
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #362 on: November 04, 2005, 07:04:15 PM »
Quote from: azroomie on November 04, 2005, 06:02:23 PM
The Color Purple-- Alice Walker

What a great book!!!  Have not read that in years - so much better than the movie, although the movie is fantastic in its own right.

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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #363 on: November 07, 2005, 03:37:05 PM »
I've finally given in to the wishes of my husband and my best friend who have been trying to get me to read this book for years... ::) I'm reading The Stand, by Stephen King.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #364 on: November 07, 2005, 10:03:57 PM »
Brit Think Ameri Think.  DF got it for me :)
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #365 on: November 08, 2005, 09:34:59 AM »
Quote from: Luxie on November 07, 2005, 10:03:57 PM
Brit Think Ameri Think.  DF got it for me :)

I read that when I first started dating Rich!  A friend gave it to me, I think it was an old version of it though, she had bought it when she was dating a brit long ago.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #366 on: November 08, 2005, 09:48:09 AM »
Quote from: Songmistress on November 07, 2005, 03:37:05 PM
I've finally given in to the wishes of my husband and my best friend who have been trying to get me to read this book for years... ::) I'm reading The Stand, by Stephen King.
I absolutely loved that book, and the mini series as well, but I'm a big Gary Sinise fan.
I just read a book called Losing It, and it drove me crazy trying to figure out the ending......I actually did something I NEVER do, I read the last page, before I got to it!!
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #367 on: November 17, 2005, 07:25:46 PM »
I just finished reading 44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith- I love his books! I'm currently reading The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth Century England by Antonia Fraser and loving it! I'd really recommend her books - she's occasionally a bit wordy, but her first love is telling the stories she finds out about specific women. Fascinating!

I also recently finished The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory. I adore her books and this may just be her best yet- it's about Catherine of Aragon- just sooo good!
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #368 on: November 19, 2005, 05:21:55 PM »
A Year in the Merde, by Stephen Clarke.  Funny as hell!  So true, too.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #369 on: November 19, 2005, 06:49:53 PM »
Quote from: expat_in_scotland on November 19, 2005, 05:21:55 PM
A Year in the Merde, by Stephen Clarke.  Funny as hell!  So true, too.

Oh, I have it waiting for me!!!  I can't wait!
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #370 on: November 20, 2005, 02:10:13 PM »
Finished 'A Year in the Merde'.  What fun!  Am saving it for my mom now.

Onto 'Beyond Black' by Hilary Mantel.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #371 on: December 12, 2005, 11:25:19 AM »
Just finished 'Watching the English' by Kate (?) Fox.  She's an anthropologist who did a study on the hidden 'rules' of Englishness....just what makes people English.  She says straight up that she DIDN'T study the Welsh, Scottish, Irish....it's not a book about BRITISHNESS.  Anyway, it was quite a good read and I found it very interesting.  It discusses such topics as pub rules, class, dress rules, etc., and I found the bit about 'positive courtesy' vs. 'negative courtesy' extremely enlightening.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #372 on: December 12, 2005, 01:33:41 PM »
Finally got 'round to reading Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.  Been planning to read it ever since DH and I visited Savannah back in 2003 when we were dating -- such a gorgeous town!
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #373 on: December 12, 2005, 01:47:34 PM »
The last book I read was the Labyrinth by Kate Moss. I loved the book and would recommend it to anyone.

Unfortunately, I'm having to read set material/books for my two uni courses so I won't have much time for pleasure reading. The up side is that I'll be reading The Color Purple, Pride and Prejudice, Top Girls, Great Expectations, A Doll's House, King Henry V, As You Like It, Othello, Frankenstein, Fathers and Sons, Medea, Wide Sargasso Sea, and Pygmalion.

Most of these I read in high school, but it'll be good to refresh my memory!
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #374 on: December 12, 2005, 02:15:05 PM »
Quote from: expat_in_scotland on November 19, 2005, 05:21:55 PM
A Year in the Merde, by Stephen Clarke.  Funny as hell!  So true, too.

Just finished it - loved it!  I'm hoping he really is planning on doing a series as his bio states.

Also finished A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby.  After the mediocrity that was How To Be Good, I was a bit afraid to read this one.  I was so relieved that I liked it!
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