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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #735 on: July 30, 2006, 07:38:12 PM »
The Blind Assassin  ~Margaret Atwood. Really like her writing style.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #736 on: July 30, 2006, 08:27:51 PM »
Quote from: Courtney on July 30, 2006, 07:38:12 PM
The Blind Assassin  ~Margaret Atwood. Really like her writing style.

She's one of my favourite authors and TBA is a fantastic read. Dig into Orxy and Crake next if you haven't yet! :D


I started Wolves of the Calla about a week ago. 
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #737 on: July 31, 2006, 09:24:17 AM »
Quote from: expat_in_scotland on July 12, 2006, 09:11:02 AM
Life in the UK: A Journey To Citizenship.

Yeah, you need a full cup of coffee to go w/this one.

VERY dry reading that!!  I've tried to get through mine several times - keep falling asleep....  ;)  ;D
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #738 on: July 31, 2006, 02:19:15 PM »
Moby Dick.  MUCH better than when I was 15!  :D
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #739 on: July 31, 2006, 07:56:55 PM »
I just finished Middlesex which was absolutely one of the best books I've ever read. I just started reading The Little Friend.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #740 on: August 01, 2006, 04:37:49 PM »
About to finish The Queen's Fool by Philipppa Gregory. My book club picked it in honor of me moving to England.  ;D
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #741 on: August 06, 2006, 04:37:24 AM »
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #742 on: August 06, 2006, 10:36:36 AM »
Quote from: pkessler on July 31, 2006, 07:56:55 PM
I just finished Middlesex which was absolutely one of the best books I've ever read. I just started reading The Little Friend.

Let us know what you think of The Little Friend.  I read it a few years ago and just started re-reading it last week.

My trip to the library yesterday yielded:

The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
Elegance - don't remember who by but it was forgettable anyway, I finished it this morning  :P
Rome travel guide
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #743 on: August 06, 2006, 06:12:23 PM »


Disobedience by Jane Hamilton.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #744 on: August 06, 2006, 06:13:32 PM »
Quote from: geetak on August 06, 2006, 10:36:36 AM
Let us know what you think of The Little Friend.  I read it a few years ago and just started re-reading it last week.

I read it a few months ago and really couldn't figure it out. I kept thinking there was a layer to the story I was missing or symbology I wasn't getting.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #745 on: August 06, 2006, 06:46:10 PM »
Quote from: Twistedncynical on August 06, 2006, 06:13:32 PM
I read it a few months ago and really couldn't figure it out. I kept thinking there was a layer to the story I was missing or symbology I wasn't getting.

I am having a hard time getting into it. It has a 'southern-ness' to it that I am having a hard time identifying with. I'll keep going with it and let you know.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #746 on: August 06, 2006, 07:15:00 PM »
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova.  Fourteen chapters into it, and so far quite intriguing.  I'm enjoying her lush, velvety language which draws one in, seductively, to a story well researched and sumptuously - yet not overly flowery - written.  And, having worked among books, and still considering them some of my best friends and strongest temptations, I had to identify - and love - this quote: "...when you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation."  Indeed. :)
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #747 on: August 07, 2006, 08:04:28 AM »
Quote from: pkessler on August 06, 2006, 06:46:10 PM
I am having a hard time getting into it. It has a 'southern-ness' to it that I am having a hard time identifying with. I'll keep going with it and let you know.

Please do! :) 
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #748 on: August 07, 2006, 06:27:38 PM »
Just starting Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #749 on: August 13, 2006, 10:14:48 PM »
Just finished My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult.
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