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| (7 days ago) | YAY Harry Potter!!
- Heather Rose | | (8 days ago) | I decided to try the "50 Shades" books....whew this book worm needs a fan , also ive began to read all the Harry Potter books , on Prisoner of Askaban now
- Jenn Post | | (15 days ago) | Do you think someone reading these books needs to start with the first one?
- Gretchen Ann | | (15 days ago) | Today I started Book 4  Alexander Mccall Smith : The Kalahari Typing School for Men (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency)
Oh these books are very mellow. They take place in Africa. About a heavyset African woman whose father died, so she sells his cattle and uses the money to start her own Detective Agency. It's just her and a secretary, and people go to her if they need help but don't want to go to the police. There's flashbacks every once in awhile to when she was married, and when she lost her baby. Their wording is a little different than ours, but you get the gist of it. For instance instead of saying an orphanage, they call it an Orphan Farm. They're nice, and each one I've read so far is less than 300 pages, so they don't take long to read either.
- Michelle | | (25 days ago) | I've never read any of this series (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency) or seen it on cable (no HBO). What are the stories like? I liked the "Cat who..." series, but there was this other series with recipes mixed in with the stories that was unreadable. Anyone care to give a summary of the premise behind No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency?
- Gretchen Ann | | (27 days ago) | I'll be starting the 3rd one in the series this weekend Alexander McCall Smith : Morality for Beautiful Girls (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency (Paperback)) And as I finish reading them they will be added to my Inventory.
- Michelle | | (1 month ago) | I enjoyed that last book so much, I'll start reading Alexander McCall Smith : Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency (Paperback)) tomorrow. I know it's on cable TV, but I don't have HBO, so I've never seen it. The first book was nice and mellow, and an easy read.
- Michelle | | (1 month ago) | Tomorrow I will start reading Alexander McCall Smith : The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
- Michelle |
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"The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz"
I just got finished reading "The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz" by Denis Avey. It was one of those books that once you get into it, you have to keep reading. Interestingly, the time he spent in and around Auschwitz was only a small part of the book... What came before and after was just as interesting. My only grievance was that there was a lot of British and military slang; a glossary of terms would have been helpful. Often you had to guess from context what certain words meant.
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Gretchen Ann
1 month ago
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| (1 month ago) | Since last posting, I've read:
Holly Black : Ironside (better than the first, although I didn't read the 2nd...)
-Author- : Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark is Rising, Book 1) By Susan Cooper (eh...)
Llywelyn : Silverhand: Arcana Book I (Llywelyn, Morgan. Arcana, Bk. 1.) (pretty good)
Joseph Delaney : Revenge of the Witch (The Last Apprentice) (I could go either way on this book)
and have started
Heather Brewer : The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Eight Grade Bites (a pretty good start actually... Let's see how it progresses)
- Heather Rose | | (2 months, 1 days ago) | Am half done reading Tim F. LaHaye : Apollyon (Left Behind, Book 5) I love this series!!!!!!!!!
- Michelle | | (2 months, 19 days ago) | Thanks bunches Cara!
Update list!
Since last posting, I've read:
Shannon Delany : Secrets and Shadows: A 13 to Life Novel,
Shannon Delany : Bargains and Betrayals: A 13 to Life Novel, (Not change the world YA horror/fantasy, but it's a brain break)
Jeannette Walls : The Glass Castle: A Memoir, (LOVED!)
K.A. Applegate : Land of Loss (Everworld, 2), (::shrugs::)
and have started
Holly Black : Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale (it is what it is I guess... Not all that wonderful, but I have another book in the series so I'll read it too... Just to read it and move on...)
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| (3 months, 25 days ago) | In January I've read:
Archer Brookes : Vampireology: The True History of the Fallen (Ologies), Various : Creepy Archives, Steve Mockus : How to Speak Zombie: A Guide for the Living, Alyson Noel : Evermore, Alyson Noel : Blue Moon: The Immortals, Alyson Noel : Shadowland: The Immortals, Alyson Noel : Dark Flame, Alyson Noel : Night Star and have started Diana Gabaldon : Outlander
- Heather Rose | | (4 months, 18 days ago) | Michelle, Breaking Dawn was a travesty in my opinion. Worst book in the series and one of the worst books I've read... Well, pretty much ever. Especially in YA. I still love YA books and read them voraciously. This book ruined the whole series for me. Not that I liked them much anyway, but still... Total waste of time. =(
- Heather Rose | | (4 months, 18 days ago) | HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! For my first book of the year 2013, I am now reading Stephenie Meyer : Breaking Dawn I'm on page 206, so I've got over 500 pages left. It reads fast, but I just don't think kids should be reading this kinda stuff. The first 3 books....fine. This one, the jury's still out. Maybe I'll have a better opinion of it when I'm done. We'll see.
- Michelle |
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| (3 months, 28 days ago) | I'm 200 pages into Giorgio Faletti : I Kill and it is Wicked Good!!!! About a serial killer. Fiction.
- Michelle | | (4 months, 3 days ago) | I'm reading (listening to the Audio book, actually) The Birth of Britain (first volume of the History of the English-Speaking Peoples), by Winston Churchill. I'm brushing up on early English history, plenty of which I had never heard before and it's very interesting !
- Courtiron | | (6 months, 29 days ago) | Today I started reading tess gerritsen : the keepsake It's a Hardcover book club edition, and I'll probably be adding it to my Inventory when I'm done. It still looks brand new. I haven't read one of hers in awhile. It's a Rizzoli and Isles book, and it's good.
- Michelle | | (7 months, 8 days ago) | Tomorrow I'll start James Patterson : 3rd Degree I'm reading them in order, and I just LOVE THIS SERIES.
- Michelle | | (7 months, 12 days ago) | I'm reading James Patterson : 2nd Chance I'm about halfway done, and it's SOOOO good.
- Michelle | | (7 months, 14 days ago) | I'm reading David Millar : Racing Through the Dark: Crash. Burn. Coming Clean. Coming Back.. It's an insightful book about a terrible time in the sport.
- Jennifer | | (7 months, 16 days ago) | Between studies, I am reading Negro League Baseball -- the rise and ruin of a black institution. I think I finally decided that it was time to read this just before the election, it is a slow read, so I am not sure if I will finish it before the beginning of November.
- D.T Jones | | (7 months, 17 days ago) | I'm STILL trying to find a decent book to read. The last books were just... ::shrugs:: NOT what I was looking for. I've decided to venture back into the House of Night books by P.C. and Kristin Cast. The first two books? Didn't really like them... So WHY have I picked up books 3-5? It's like a crack addiction or something. I know I should be beyond reading this garbage... But I still read it. Because... Would someone please tell me why I'm reading these... ::pouts:: I just don't understand... I've read PC Cast : Chosen: A House of Night Novel (Book 3) and have started reading PC Cast : Untamed: A House of Night Novel (House of Night Novels) (Book 4). Hmmm.. I wonder why I can't add the synopsis to either of these... Curiouser and Curiouser...
- Heather Rose |
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| (4 months, 22 days ago) | Finished up 2012 with a total of 80 books read throughout the year. Short of my personal goal, but I'm pretty proud of myself. Since last posting what I was reading I've read Arthur Nersesian : The Fuck-Up, Rachel Caine : Glass Houses: The Morganville Vampires, Book I, Carrie Ryan : The Forest of Hands and Teeth, and am almost done with Deborah Harkness : A Discovery of Witches: A Novel.
- Heather Rose | | (4 months, 29 days ago) | Hey all. Just a quick question. Is anyone interested in starting an online reading group and are you on Facebook? I have started one over there and already have 5 people interested. We are just discussing what we would like to see so far. I would like to start at the beginning of January. If you would like to join, please message me with your Facebook info and I will send you an invite. This isn't a scam or anything, you can totally trust me, lol. =) If you would rather me send you the link so you know everything is legit, I would be happy to do so. Hope to see some of you there! Have a Wonderful Holiday! Heather Rose
- Heather Rose | | (5 months, 4 days ago) | Currently reading David Nicholls : One Day
- Abby | | (5 months, 10 days ago) | Am now reading James Patterson : Don't Blink
- Michelle |
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| (5 months, 23 days ago) | I think the most books I read in a year was 40-42, and that was years ago. Oh well, what can ya do??? Too bad I have to sleep at night, lol. I could be reading!!! *sigh* Next year I will seriously try to at least read 40 books. That'll be my New Years Resolution.
- Michelle | | (5 months, 28 days ago) | Michelle, I know the feeling... Let's promise each other to set more realistic goals for 2013, lol... =) It takes more time than I thought to actually read a book of any length... Time that I just don't seem to have... But, at least we set a goal for ourselves and tried to reach it. Trying means a lot!! Even if you didn't reach the goal, we are still successful in that we are expanding our views and horizons with each book we read!
- Heather Rose | | (5 months, 29 days ago) | Tomorrow I'll start reading Sue Grafton : "K" is for Killer (A Kinsey Millhone Mystery)
My goal was to read 50 books this year. Yesterday I was looking at my Book List, and I've only read about 35 books. So it looks like that ain't gonna happen. I like to wait till the very end of December till I total them up, but see your post about your List Goal every time I click in and got curious about how I was doing. HUGE mistake, lol. I'm SO disappointed with myself, let me tell you.
- Michelle | | (6 months, 2 days ago) | I'm almost half done reading Collected Authors of the Worst Noel : The Worst Noel: Hellish Holiday Tales I think it's kinda boring.
- Michelle | | (6 months, 8 days ago) | My November already read books are as follows... I wish I STILL wasn't 11 books behind on my reading challenge because it makes me sad... I've been trying to pick out the books that I think are going to be "fast reads" but that's never the case. I have, however, read enough books to safely say that my clothes closet is now empty of books! (My two dresser drawers and over flowing book shelf are another story altogether) Must read MORE often! And yes, I am still addicted to YA fantasy... Even at my old age of 30, just a few months ago I could say I was still in my 20's... Now that is not the case... I don't think I'm ever going to grow out of it. And that's the way I like it!! =)
1. P. C. Cast : Hunted (House of Night, Book 5) (The last House of Night book in my room, lol)
2. Cassandra Clare : City of Glass (The Mortal Instruments) (I am soooooooooo excited for the City of Bones movie!!)
3. Seth Grahame-Smith : Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (Wanted to read this before I saw the movie)
4. Kelley Armstrong : The Reckoning (Darkest Powers) (Finished up a series... How about that!)
5. Kip Fulbeck : Permanence: Tattoo Portraits by Kip Fulbeck
6. Jen Lancaster : Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why it Often Sucks in theCity, or Who are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me? (Because every now and again I need a laugh... And I adored her first book!)
7. J.D. Salinger : The Catcher in the Rye
and now I'm reading:
8. Anastasia Hopcus : Shadow Hills
- Heather Rose | | (6 months, 16 days ago) | Tomorrow I'll start reading Tess Gerritsen : Ice Cold: A Rizzoli [B007K4OICU] Isles Novel (Rizzoli [B007K4OICU] Isles Novels)
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Thought I'd share this...
The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here.
How do your reading habits stack up? Instructions:
Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read. 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien X
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte X
4 ENTIRE Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling x
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee x
6 ENTIRE The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte X
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell x
9 ENTIRE His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman x
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens X 8/10 ... alright!! I already beat the 6!! 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott x
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger x
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 11/20 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald x
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 ENTIRE The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - X
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll-X
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - x 15/30 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens X
33 ENTIRE Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen x
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne x 19/40 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery X
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood x
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan 22/50 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen x
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens X
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon x
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 25/60 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville X 26/70 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens X
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker x
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett x
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno – Dante X
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackery
80 Possession - AS Byatt 30/80 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens x
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White X
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton 32/90 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad X
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery x
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole x
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare - X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory x
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo MY TOTAL 37/100 How many have you read?
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Heather Rose
6 months, 12 days ago
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What are you reading now? September 2012
I'm slacking on my reading challenge... and just reading in general. But! I hope to catch up soon as I am limiting my time spent watching movies and the like and playing games on the computer, lol. I'm not letting myself off yet! Must finish reading challenge!! =) Happy Reading All!!
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Heather Rose
8 months, 15 days ago
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| (7 months, 25 days ago) | Yesterday I started Stephen Collins : Double Exposure: A Novel About a TV Critic who gets dumped by his fiancee. He moves into a new apartment, and his neighbor is a freaky girl. I think he's gonna have sex with her or get all obsessed over her. ANYWAY, the author is the guy who played the preacher-man on "7th Heaven".....a TV show I never got into, but I hear it was a nice one.
- Michelle | | (7 months, 26 days ago) | Since last update of books, I've read: Mary E. Pearson : The Adoration of Jenna Fox, Banana Yoshimoto : Lizard, Barry Lyga : The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl and am reading Bryan Smith : The Freakshow. None of these books standout to me. I read them and... eh... I'm working my way through The Freakshow, but it's hard to get into. So, I've been NOT reading, lol. Hopefully, after this one is done I'll be able to pick a fast paced winner.. because I am now 8 books behind where I should be on my reading challenge... ::blushes and hangs head in dismay::
- Heather Rose | | (7 months, 26 days ago) | Belinda, sounds like a plan to me! =)
- Heather Rose | | (8 months, 1 days ago) | Brisingr - that's my challenge now... Eragon (the fisrt part of Inheritance cycle by Ch. Paolini) was great, the second part The Eldest boring really (500 somethong pages and I'd recommend to read first 120 pages and last 120 pages, skip all in the middle). So now I just pushing myself to finish Brisingr and definitely I won't buy the last part.
- Kasia | | (8 months, 3 days ago) | How about we check in? You let me know how you're doing and I'll let you know how I'm doing. I have not read all weekend, save for an article in Rolling Stone about Mitt Romney. Does that count? :) I will try to get a chapter in before bed tonight.
- belinda | | (8 months, 3 days ago) | belinda... your challenge sounds very reasonable... maybe I should start it too! =)
- Heather Rose | | (8 months, 5 days ago) | I just started "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn and am really, really enjoying it! Mesmerizing and truly a can't-put-downer. I can't wait to finish it.
I finished "Before I Go to Sleep" by S.J. Watson and was a bit disappointed. You could probably finish it in a day, and the ending was deeply unsatisfying.
And of course, the book EVERYONE has been talking about, Fifty Shades of Gray. I could not get past 50 pages. One of the most poorly written books I have ever read in I don't know how long. Beware: the book reads like fan fiction and I have a sneaking suspicion it was and somehow managed to get published.
Next up? Anthony Bourdain's "Medium Raw." The goal is to read at least one chapter of anything for at least a half hour, each day. Sounds reasonable? Doable? ;)
- belinda | | (8 months, 12 days ago) | Just finished Margaret Wander Bonanno : Preternatural, currently reading Margaret Wander Bonanno : Preternatural Too: Gyre (Preternatural) and will list both on BM as soon I'm finished. I'm also finishing Kathy Reichs : Bones: Buried Deep (Bones) - I'm not particularly impressed by this one.
And I'm still reading my copy of J.Michael Straczynski : Rising Stars Compendium (Rising Stars), it's a big book, so it will take some time. I really hate its binding though: I've bought my copy brand new, and the spine is cracking while I'm reading it, the pages are coming loose - I have to glue them back in! Apparently, this is a problem with the whole paperback edition, a lot of reviewers on Amazon had the same problem. I wonder if this is due its being so thick (the spine is about 5 cm) and this happens with every thick graphic omnibus, or if this is due to glue type in this particular book only. Apart from this, I'm really enjoying Rising Stars.
- Dovile | | (8 months, 14 days ago) | Now I'm reading Lisa Scottoline : Killer Smile
- Michelle | | (8 months, 15 days ago) | Just finished up Earl Thompson : A Garden of Sand and have moved into something completely different with Newt Scamander : Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Harry Potter's Schoolbooks S.) because I am a Harry Potter dork, lol. But let's go back to A Garden of Sand for a moment. I'd just like to advise you that you need to take this book with a grain of salt. It centers around poverty, incest, alcohol use and later drugs, depravity, prostitution and most importantly lost innocence. You need to forget everything you were taught about what is right and wrong and learn to view the world through Jacky's eyes. I admit, I had trouble doing so. I tried to tell myself this novel was garbage and move onto something else. But, I finished it. Am I glad I did? I don't know right now. But it's a novel that sticks with you, good or bad, and leaves you (or at least left me) wondering what you WOULD do to survive and find a piece of happiness in if you weren't where you are today.
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| (8 months, 19 days ago) | Now reading Melinda Doolittle : Beyond Me: Finding Your Way to Life's Next Level
- Michelle | | (8 months, 24 days ago) | Am almost done reading: Tim LaHaye : Nicolae: The Rise of Antichrist (Left Behind, Book 3) I love these books!!!
- Michelle | | (9 months, 5 days ago) | I'm not doing too well on my Reader's Challenge. I've pledged to read 100 books this year and my chart is saying
I am now 4 books behind schedule. I have read 60 books so far this year and here are a few books I've read since posting
last.
John Moore : The Unhandsome Prince (not at all what I expected... I expected a light child-like fairy tale...
This is a stretch at a YA novel even because it contains adult language and themes)
D. J. MacHale : The Merchant of Death (Pendragon Series #1) (slow paced and convoluted at times... Interesting enough and plenty of action for a reluctant reader,
I just don't know if I would continue with the series)
just finished Robert Newton Peck : A Day No Pigs Would Die (I laughed, I cried... I don't want to read this book again because of the poor grammar and atrocious dialogue...
I understand that is the way the characters would have spoken at the time, but it makes for difficult reading)
and have started Pat Frank : Alas Babylon as I was longing for some good ol' post-apocalyptic fiction.
(My standard, along with dystopic fiction, horror and fantasy novels)
So, that's all for me right now. Hope everyone is enjoying the ending of August and their book/novel picks.
- Heather Rose | | (9 months, 10 days ago) | Am now reading Norma Howe : Angel in Vegas: The Chronicles of Noah Sark It's cute. About a Guardian Angel in Las Vegas.
- Michelle | | (9 months, 13 days ago) | I'm reading two biographies: Jenny Sanford's and Margaret Sanger's. Talk about juxtaposition!
- cbcammarata | | (9 months, 16 days ago) | Now I'm reading Patricia Cornwell : All That Remains It's her third book in the Kay Scarpetta series.
- Michelle | | (9 months, 19 days ago) | I'm almost done reading James Patterson : 1st to Die: A Novel (Women's Murder Club) It is SOOOOO good!!!! Wish I'd read it sooner.
- Michelle | | (9 months, 20 days ago) | I just finished reading Iris Chang : The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II Nonfiction, history. It's really a disturbing book, extremely graphic, but there's no nice way to tell the story.
- Mimalgato | | (9 months, 24 days ago) | Today I finished Richard Laymon : Beware In my opinion it was total trash. Graphic sex and violence. I read it in 3 days. It was VERY fast-paced. I don't read his books often, cuz they are SOOOO nasty. This was typical Laymon. Blech.
- Michelle | | (9 months, 25 days ago) | I am now reading Chuck Palahniuk : Choke
- Heather Rose | | (9 months, 25 days ago) | in July I read, Alice Hoffman : Property of (pretty amazing), Robin McKinley : Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast, Rob Zombie : ROB ZOMBIE'S SPOOKSHOW INTERNATIONAL #1 (stick with his music because this is seriously lame), Gerard Way : The Umbrella Academy Volume 1 (another just stick with MCR's music and you'll be okay moment), Margaret Atwood : Oryx and Crake (rocked my socks!!), Banana Yoshimoto : Kitchen (A Black cat book) (pretty wonderful), Ayn Rand : Anthem (pretty darn good), Mark Haddon : The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Vintage Contemporaries) (better than I thought it was going to be), and finally Karen Marie Moning : Dreamfever: A MacKayla Lane Novel (which is the 4th book in the series, whoops... Once you get past the porn, it's a decent book and I think I will continue with the series)
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Im loving this new book!
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alisha
9 months, 29 days ago
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| (10 months, 2 days ago) | Matthew Dicks : Something Missing Am at the halfway mark, lol.
- Michelle | | (10 months, 12 days ago) | Anne Mccaffrey : Changelings: Book One of The Twins of Petaybee I'm finishing up my last few Anne McCaffrey series I haven't read yet.
- Jennifer | | (10 months, 14 days ago) | STILL IN JULY......and am now reading Mary Higgins Clark : The Shadow of Your Smile
- Michelle | | (10 months, 17 days ago) | IT'S JULY.........and now I'm reading Don Borchert : The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Undead
- Michelle | | (10 months, 27 days ago) | read Cade Merrill : The Witch's Daughter (The Blair Witch Files, Case File 1) and have started on Frewin Jones : The Faerie Path.
- Heather Rose | | (11 months ago) | I'm currently reading a ghost story collection by Charles Dickens. There's some great stuff in there, so far. :)
- Dawn | | (11 months, 4 days ago) | Halfway done reading Tim LaHaye : Tribulation Force: The Continuing Drama of Those Left Behind (Left Behind, Book 2)
- Michelle | | (11 months, 5 days ago) | Just finished "Calebs crossing" and starting Doc: a novel.
- Helen | | (11 months, 8 days ago) | onto: Rebecca York : Witching Moon (Berkley Sensation). 44/100!!
- Heather Rose | | (11 months, 9 days ago) | reading Lisa Mcmann : Wake.
- Heather Rose | | (11 months, 10 days ago) | reading MaryJanice Davidson : Swimming Without a Net. I didn't know this was a series and Swimming was Book 2, but I'm enjoying reading this so far!
- Heather Rose | | (11 months, 12 days ago) | I'm almost done reading Lee Nichols : Tales Of A Drama Queen (Red Dress Ink) It is SOOOOOO funny!!!! This is even better than the Shopaholic book series by Sophie Kinsella.
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| (11 months, 10 days ago) | I've also read Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
Katherine Paterson : Jacob Have I Loved;
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
David Sedaris : Holidays on Ice: Stories;
Young Ghosts by Daniel Cohen
Daniel Cohen : Young Ghosts;
and
Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus by Carolina Maria de Jesus
Carolina Maria de Jesus : Child Of The Dark: The Diary Of Carolina Maria De Jesus.
- Heather Rose | | (11 months, 13 days ago) | I just finished "Dear John" by Nicholas Sparks- Great Book - I truley recommend it! (Don't read the description - it says way too much about the book. I'm glad I didn't know those things ahead of time.)
- Dawn | | (11 months, 17 days ago) | I'm almost done reading "PHANTOM FELINES and Other Ghostly Animals". Gerina Dunwich : Phantom Felines And Other Ghostly Animals
- Michelle | | (11 months, 24 days ago) | I am reading a copy of "Shodows" by John Saul..Its a tattered book but I love it.
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- John Burfy | | (11 months, 29 days ago) | I'm almost done reading the first in the "LEFT BEHIND" series.
- Michelle | | (12 months, 8 days ago) | started John van de Ruit : Spud.
- Heather Rose | | (12 months, 9 days ago) | I've read Jan Fields : Wellspring of Magic Adventure Book #1 (Creative Girls Club), Christopher Golden : Soulless and have started Jason Lethcoe : The Misadventures of Benjamin Bartholomew Piff: You Wish
- Heather Rose | | (12 months, 10 days ago) | I'm reading several books at once:
V.C. Andrews : Broken Wings (Broken Wings)
Cornelia Funke : Dragon Rider
Sharon Lee : Fledgling (Liaden)
- Jennifer | | (12 months, 14 days ago) | Now I'm reading "HELLO DARLIN'; TALL (AND ABSOLUTELY TRUE) TALES ABOUT MY LIFE" by Larry Hagman with Todd Gold.
I bought it at a Library book sale, and knew I wouldn't be disappointed with it. I used to love to watch 'Dallas' back-in-the-day.
- Michelle | | (12 months, 21 days ago) | I'm reading "MURDER AT YALE" by Stella Sands. It's a true crime book about that guy who killed a girl and stuffed her in a wall. It was in all the news a couple years ago.
- Michelle |
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| (1 year ago) | 2nd batch of books I've read this month... I'm on sick leave from work right now because my body hates me!! (Thus is why so many have been read, lol)
F.E. Higgins : The Black Book of Secrets
Suzanne Collins : Gregor The Overlander (Underland Chronicles)
Lisa See : Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel (Random House Movie Tie-In Books) (loved it!!)
Serena Valentino : Gloom Cookie, Vol. 1
and am reading: Poppy Z. Brite : Lost Souls
That's book 27 for the year!!
- Heather Rose | | (1 year ago) | have read Avi : Don't You Know There's a War On?, Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black : The Spiderwick Chronicles: Goblins Attack Special Edition of The Seeing Stone,
Tony Diterlizzi : The Spiderwick Chronicles: Troll Trouble (Special Edition of The Seeing Stone),
Tony and Holly Black. Diterlizzi : THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES: GREAT ESCAPE SPECIAL EDITION OF THE SEEING STONE., and
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry : The Little Prince (the best of the bunch!)
- Heather Rose | | (1 year ago) | Cheikh Hamidou Kane : Ambiguous Adventure Cheikh Hamidou Kane : Ambiguous Adventure
I had it for something like 20 years. When I was in school I was in African writer kick. I pick it and never got around to reading it. After I put it in my inventory, I wanted to read it. Not bad. A French novel by Senegalese writer about Afican Muslim confronting the Western world in the 1950's.
- EJCoppers1967 | | (1 year ago) | I'm reading Laura E. Reeve : Vigilante: A Major Ariane Kedros Novel. I finally finished the first book last month, after having a false start with it a couple years ago and now I can't wait to finish the trilogy.
- Jennifer | | (1 year ago) | Today I'll start reading "EXPOSURE" by Therese Fowler.
- Michelle | | (1 year ago) | I am currently reading lots of Seven of Nine and Capt. Janeway fanfiction. Whilst trying to get through Sandra Scoppettone : Some Unknown Person which I am finding a little bit dull, but I have enjoyed all her other books, so I am trying to give it a chance
- Providence | | (1 year ago) | I'm reading Sharon Lee : Crystal Dragon. I'm finally going to catch up on the Liaden series this year!
- Jennifer |
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| (1 year ago) | Dovile: I finished the Shadow Children series in about a week (well, starting with book 2, I had read book 1 a few months before I mooched the rest of the series). They are just THAT WONDERFUL! All of the novels are well rounded, the characters believable, and action packed. I also enjoyed how most of the books focused on different Shadow Children and how they came to interact with other characters from the series that you may have already come into contact with or who are going to play a big part in the next book in the series. Hope you enjoy them!! I know I did!!
- Heather Rose | | (1 year ago) | Just finished Sandra Scoppettone : Playing Murder and am now reading Scoppettone Sandra : Late Great Me
I love Scoppettone's books, such a variety of themes across all her work
- Providence | | (1 year ago) | I've finished survivors and now I'm reading The Shadow Children YA series by Margaret Haddix: http://www.goodreads.com/series/40339-shadow-children
I don't have the last book in the series, but I've decided not to wait for it.
I really like the premise of these books (What if having more than two children were illegal and punishable by a fine of 5 million or death?), and they're really well written. I've already read book one, and now I'm on book 2.
- Dovile | | (1 year ago) | Added The Survivors to my wants, too. :)
Just started Sundiver by Brin. Hope I'll be able to enjoy the story and finish the series... I've been getting sidetracked and losing interest quite a lot lately. I blame SAD.
- E Thayer | | (1 year ago) | Dovile: The Survivors looks quite great!! (Added to my want list, lol) and started reading Roald Dahl : The BFG.
- Heather Rose | | (1 year ago) | I'm currently reading Amanda Havard : The Survivors
It's like a cross between a paranormal romance and a quite scary supernatural historical novel, and I find the historical part quite gripping.
- Dovile | | (1 year ago) | Robertson Davies' FIFTH BUSINESS. I mooched this oldie a while ago and just got around to read it....Great and highly recommended.
- skiwiz | | (1 year ago) | started Catherine MacPhail : Missing. Up to 15 books this year already!! My personal goal is to read 100. (18 more than last year)
- Heather Rose | | (1 year ago) | started Betty G. Birney : The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs.
- Heather Rose | | (1 year ago) | started Laurie Halse Anderson : Speak.
- Heather Rose | | (1 year ago) | started Lois Lowry : Number the Stars (Laurel Leaf Books).
- Heather Rose | | (1 year ago) | started Elie Wiesel : Night (Oprah's Book Club).
- Heather Rose | | (1 year ago) | Yesterday I started reading "STEP ON A CRACK" by James Patterson.
- Michelle | | (1 year ago) | I'm reading "LOOK AGAIN" by Lisa Scottoline. It's wicked good!!!!
- Michelle | | (1 year ago) | I am reading Wand by Joanna MacOwl, which I am loving, and am in abit of a Robin Alexander stage at the moment too, have just gone through 4 of ehr books back to back
- Providence | | (1 year ago) | I must have been on some sort of roll last night as I finished The Only Alien on the Planet (pretty amazing fiction dealing with teenage mental illness, solid story line and a powerful ending), read Faith Erin Hicks : Zombies Calling which is a clever, light read (graphic novel really) and finished it, read and finished Todd Meister : Little Scrowlie: The Call of Cuthbert (Little Scrowlie) which was okay... and started Richelle Mead : Frostbite. I only wish I could read so many more often!!
- Heather Rose | | (1 year ago) | i'm currently reading "dead roots" one of nancy j cohen's bad heir day mystery series.. and i love it... i'd like to give away this book so that other cohen's fans can read this too..happy reading everyone..
- edwinpanonuevo | | (1 year ago) | I started trying to read 'Memories of my Melancholy Whores' but Marquez has always been a big task of attention for me. I've also started the 44 Scotland Street Series: The Unbearable Lightness of Scones. They both seem very involved so I may just put them both on hold until I can get my hands on something lighter and easier. I'm waiting on Paula- Isabel Allende so I'm excited about that.
- Tracita Linda | | (1 year ago) | started Kristen D. Randle : The Only Alien on the Planet at home.
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| (1 year ago) | started Eoin Colfer : The Wish List at home.
- Heather Rose | | (1 year ago) | started a reviewer ebook copy of Induction by J. D. Watts. This is the second in the series and as I haven't read book 1 yet, I may be at a bit of a loss. Seems interesting enough though, so I'll have to purchase a copy of the 1st sometime in the near future.
Book Description
Publication Date: September 13, 2011
(Children of Creation Novel) Book 2 of 3
Daniella Rossi's life was turned inside out last year when she discovered all she knew about herself wasn't quite true. Hiding in the Rockies with her two most trusted friends and Guardians, Dani struggles with a blooming love and the haunting dreams of a little boy begging for her help. Forced to move on with the advent of spring, they search for answers while Dani completes her induction into the world of the unseen, learning many things about love; life; and herself; as well as the true depth and nature of the strength within her along the way.
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- Heather Rose | | (1 year ago) | I'm reading Tamora Pierce : Wolf-Speaker (Immortals), Rockne S. O'Bannon : Farscape Vol. 4: Tangled Roots, and finishing up Greg Kramer : Sims 2: Seasons: Prima Official Game Guide (Prima Official Game Guides).
- Jennifer | | (1 year ago) | started Neil Gaiman : Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch.
- Heather Rose | | (1 year ago) | lets see... finished Byron, finished Christopher P. Reilly : The Trouble with Igor in all of 10 minutes (it's a textless comic... not my cup 'o ramen at all... textless wise and just not a great, or even good, comic wise) and now I'm reading PC Cast : Betrayed: A House of Night Novel.
- Heather Rose | | (1 year ago) | started Karl Christian Krumpholz : Byron Volume One: Mad, Bad and Dangerous last night.
- Heather Rose | | (1 year ago) | Started Garth Nix : The Fall (The Seventh Tower, Book 1) last night.
- Heather Rose | | (1 year ago) | I just went through ALL my 2011 posts and came up with a total of 77 books read in 2011!! Not as much as I thought... hmmm... oh well, that's still pretty good. Still reading the books I started in December 2011 so nothing yet to mark as read in 2012. Boo!
- Heather Rose | | (1 year ago) | HI, Yesterday I finished "BODY OF EVIDENCE" By Patricia Cornwell. It's the second of her Kay Scarpetta books. It didn't creep me out like the first one did. :)
Today I started "I IS FOR INNOCENT" By Sue Grafton.
On a side-note, last year I only read 38 books. I'm wondering how everybody else did.
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