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FoxyRoxy


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Just wondering what you are reading.

As for me I decided to re-read the last book of Harry Potter. I read it when it got released and i think i might have forgotten a lot of the details.  I want to be prepared for when the movie get release.



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Hi Roxana

I'm reading a bunch of stuff.

I'm re-reading Sue Grafton's alphabet series.

I'm listening and reading Lee Child's Joe Reacher series (love!).

I'm reading Anna Karenina (Tolstoy) on my ipod.

Hmmm. It seems I have something else on the go....

Oh, I'm also listening to Nora Roberts...something older...I can't remember which book right now.



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Sonya wrote:

Hi Roxana

I'm reading a bunch of stuff.

I'm re-reading Sue Grafton's alphabet series.

I'm listening and reading Lee Child's Joe Reacher series (love!).

I'm reading Anna Karenina (Tolstoy) on my ipod.

Hmmm. It seems I have something else on the go....

Oh, I'm also listening to Nora Roberts...something older...I can't remember which book right now.


I remember these! It's been a while!

I just skimmed back over Your Heart Belongs to Me by Dean Koontz to remember why I hated it when Rob finished it last night and said the same thing. It really is very sub-par for his ability, imo, and he's one of my favorite (contemporary) authors.

Currently, I'm only a few pages into Sacred Places by Philip Carr-Gomm. Fascinating stuff!

I go through phases where I want fiction, and phases where I want almost academic reading on whatever catches my interest at the time.

-- Edited by Sunshine on Monday 30th of August 2010 10:19:46 AM

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sonya, idk how you can read so many things at once.

i've NEVER been able to do that.

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idk sue grafton. would i like her?

i need a book.

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I just started Lee Child's the Killing Floor.

Excited to see what all this Joe Reacher fuss is about.

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apies wrote:

idk sue grafton. would i like her?

i need a book.



 They are mysteries.

I like them. Fairly simple quick reads.

I like the main character, Kinsey Millhone.



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kdrew wrote:

I just started Lee Child's the Killing Floor.

Excited to see what all this Joe Reacher fuss is about.



 I enjoy them (but i'll read anything).

The books are kind of Tom Clancey-ish. I liked the first one ok but others are better.

After a while they are kind of predictible.

Anyway, I enjoyed them.



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i love jack reacher.  he is on my "gets it" list lmao!

i am reading the second in the stieg larsson series.  really liked the first one, just started the second yesterday.


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muffy wrote:

i love jack reacher.  he is on my "gets it" list lmao!


i am reading the second in the stieg larsson series.  really liked the first one, just started the second yesterday.


 I loved these.

Book 2 and 3 are very different (I thought) from book 1. Buy book 3 now because you won't be able to wait to start it.

Did you see the movies? I though they did an amazing job bring book 1 to life exactly as I pictured it in the book.



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I just got home from the library, I went to get that book Robin had posted about, The Help, but they were out

So I got a Mary Higgins Clark one, " Just take my heart"

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muffy wrote:

i love jack reacher.  he is on my "gets it" list lmao!


i am reading the second in the stieg larsson series.  really liked the first one, just started the second yesterday.

 


bertrand has them taped on our french satellite so i can watch them whenever.  but i have been waiting to read the books first.  they are in swedish with french subtitles - ugh, i hate reading french, i wish it was english s/t.  but oh well.

he doesnt 'get' what all the commotion is about - he already read them 3 years ago LOL

i told him that americans are slow wink.gif

i have book 3 next to my night table...

 



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My downloads this past summer:

The Help
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
The Island
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, No. 1)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Let the Great World Spin
The Hour I First Believed
Cutting for Stone
The Murderer's Daughters
The Apothecary's Daughter

The bold were my favorites but all very good, with the exception of The Hour I First Believed. I didn't love it but I know many who did.



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i know is a girly book but during the summer i read
The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud... Love it!

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I just finished re-reading the Twilight series again. Next I'm going to either re-read the Harry Potter series or the Fablehaven series. I'm also sort of in the middle of the Pendragon series. I've read the first 4 books and have the 5th on reserve at the library. My library doesn't have the rest of the series, which is annoying, so I don't know when I'll get to finish it. I haven't decided yet whether I like the series enough to buy it.

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Reading the Stieg Larsson series

http://www.amazon.com/Stieg-Larssons-Millennium-Trilogy-Bundle/dp/0307594777/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_4

On the second book right now

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I just remembered, I also read Her Fearful Symmetry (same author of Time Travellers Wife).

I liked that too.

And I'm listening to The Help. Awesome. So good.

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I'm struggling to get through the Time Travelers Wife.  I'm just not loving it which is surprising since I've heard nothing but good things.

Once I struggle through it, the next on my ipod to listen to is the Red Pyramid by Rick Riordin- The Percy Jackson series guy.  I love those books for my morning walks.  No thinking required since they are written for 12 year olds :)

I read "the condition" this summer by Jennifer Hague.  It was actually really good. 

I'm re-reading (or reading for the first time) a bunch of the classics this year- I hope.  I brought them home from storage.

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a_mastermom wrote:

My downloads this past summer:

The Help
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
The Island
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, No. 1)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Let the Great World Spin
The Hour I First Believed
Cutting for Stone
The Murderer's Daughters
The Apothecary's Daughter

The bold were my favorites but all very good, with the exception of The Hour I First Believed. I didn't love it but I know many who did.


re: hour I first believed- Didn't you feel like he needed to pick one story or one major news event and just go with it?  Seriously was annoyed by the end.  I can't think of many authors where I am thinking "dude, enough".

 



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supergrover wrote:

a_mastermom wrote:

My downloads this past summer:

The Help
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
The Island
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, No. 1)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Let the Great World Spin
The Hour I First Believed
Cutting for Stone
The Murderer's Daughters
The Apothecary's Daughter

The bold were my favorites but all very good, with the exception of The Hour I First Believed. I didn't love it but I know many who did.


re: hour I first believed- Didn't you feel like he needed to pick one story or one major news event and just go with it?  Seriously was annoyed by the end.  I can't think of many authors where I am thinking "dude, enough".

 


Definitely!  The book was all over the place.  And I was also fed up by the end.  There were some good parts, but mostly bad parts, lol.

 



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