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Puppylov3
Member
01-26-2004
| Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 4:28 am
I finished The Rule of Four. Great Read. I felt the need to read it more slowly. More character driven than plot driven. Much more layers than Dan Brown's books. I definitely recommend. Lots of puzzles inside the storyline.
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 3:02 pm
I finished Dick Pound's book about the Olympics, quite insider view and had interesting info, but at times I skimmed through the details. Now starting one by the delicious Alexandra Fuller, who wrote Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, which I loved, especially for her amazing writing style.. well this one is Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier and I was fully engaged from page one.
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 2:29 pm
I'm inspired by Seamonkey's chart, and think I'll start visiting this thread more often again! Right now I've got the following on the go: Eats, Shoots and Leaves / Lynne Truss (hysterical!) Blue Blood / Edward Conlon (nonfiction) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (#4, re-reading)
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 4:52 pm
ooo.. I have Eats sitting on my to read pile and I know it will be much sooner than later.. maybe it will help me tame the wild commas a bit. Nah.. Resortgirl is printing out the table (well I hope that is the thread she is printing) for Marysafan.. I told her it would make that booklover TWITCH.. since she won't be around a computer for a bit ..
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 6:42 pm
Eats, Shoots and Leaves is a MARVELOUS book. I think you'll enjoy it, Sea! 
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 10:53 pm
I just started two books: Who Wrote the New Testament? The Making of Christian Myth by Burton L. Mack and Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Micael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln. Those are "serious" reading, so I'm rereading Jasper Fforde's The Well of Lost Plots on vehicle trips. Mamie, I swear you will love this one. I actually was encouraged to do a scenario of a "lost plot" book using every cliche in the book. Teach, I'm biased because I just finished Mists and all of its companion books. Mamie, is Lost Girls good? I need to put in an Amazon order the middle of the month. Well, I don't need to, but, you know what I mean. 
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 11:58 pm
Of course you need to!! Just like I need to.. Ido have a new stack of books I'm working on because I had to go to Barnes & Noble because I had an "additional 15% off" sticker for any book, plus two $10 coupons earned on my credit card, and of course took my readers advantage card, and then used my BN credit card to pay.. hee..
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, July 02, 2004 - 7:20 am
Lk, it started out really well and now, it's kind of dragging along. I'm hoping it ends with some kind of bang, you know? I belong to 4 book clubs and order way too many, well, that's what my dh will tell you. I have 8 waiting to be read and I just ordered 8 more. I haven't had as much time recently to read. I think I need to start reading!
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Friday, July 02, 2004 - 7:36 am
I was inspired by Seamonkey too. I haven't been in this part of the board in a long time even though my nose is always in a book. I'm reading Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani. I think it's great. I'm about 3/4 of the way through.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, July 04, 2004 - 8:44 am
I have just started reading One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I have read it before. In Spanish. Before the English translation came out. I had NO IDEA what the book was about, except it followed one family through many generations, and practically everybody in the book was named Aureliano Buendia, and they had vestigial pig's tails apparently as an inherited recessive trait. Now, reading it in English, I can readily understand why I had no idea what the book was about. The language is very complex, even in English translation, and the narrative is of things not of the ordinary. I can remember then having to look up five words per sentence, and I had a fairly large vocabulary. Very, very difficult read in Spanish. In the thirty-four years since the book has been in English translation, it has received rave reviews again and again, so I am looking forward to reading it. I found it in a bookcase at Rover's house and borrowed it. As I was taking it to my car, a man on the street walking his dog saw it in my hand and remarked, "wonderful book."
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Sunday, July 04, 2004 - 1:28 pm
What did his dog say about that, Juju?
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, July 04, 2004 - 2:29 pm
Dog didn't notice the book. He was busy sniffing.
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Noodle
Member
05-08-2004
| Sunday, July 04, 2004 - 4:52 pm
Hello fellow readers...i just rediscovered a favorite store from my past, and so happy to see it's now online and still offering terrific (if you like serious and offbeat) books at amazing prices. If you don't know Daedelus books you must rush over to salebooks.com. 
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Sunday, July 04, 2004 - 8:20 pm
Just picked up an old Oprah book "Drowning Ruth" for half price. Intriguing beginning so far. I think Mists are next Lkunkel! I'm saving Anna until August.
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Not1worry
Member
07-30-2002
| Sunday, July 04, 2004 - 8:26 pm
If you are a fan of Lee Child's Jack Reacher character, I recommend The Enemy. This book goes back about 10 years to Reacher's last days in the military. It's set on a fictional post in NC, very similar to Ft. Bragg where we live, so that was fun to read. To me, a good book keeps me so entertained that I don't even try to figure out the mystery. I just enjoy it as it goes. I also read Islandsby Anne Rivers Siddons. Also very good, though it did drag in a few places. Overall, I didn't want it to end. Next week I have to turn in all my library books and get ready to move. I hope our new library is as great as this one has been.
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Sunday, July 04, 2004 - 8:52 pm
Teach: Have you read any other of the series? In series order, it technically goes: The Priestess of Avalon (finished by Paxson after MZB's death in 1999); The Forest House; Lady of Avalon; andMists of Avalon. I can't wait to obtain and read Ancestors of Avalon, just released on June 17th. It's also by Paxson, based on MZB's notes.
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Monday, July 05, 2004 - 11:06 am
I am in the last pages of the Shell Seekers by Roasmunde Pilcher. I am enjoying it very much, but it has the uncanny ability to put me to sleep! So I have been napping as much reading! While visiting Resortgirl's resort, we went to see beautiful downtown Park Rapids...as we were walking down this wonderfully quaint Main Street, I passed a store that said "Book World" and of course I had to enter. Hubby trying to disuade me claimed the sign said "Bike World"...but I wasn't buying it. I went in and bought another Rosamunde Pilcher just in case I should finish the one I am reading. That way I shouldn't have to change gears! lol! SEA...your chart is awesome! RG printed it out for me...but ran out of paper after 25 pages! lol! It's a book all of its own!
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Puppylov3
Member
01-26-2004
| Monday, July 05, 2004 - 11:20 am
Ohhhhhhhhhh The Shell Seekers - I LOVED that book.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Monday, July 05, 2004 - 2:19 pm
Lkunkel...no, I've not read ANY of these books. If I like Mists, I'll go back and read all of them in order. The further I get into Drowning Ruth, the more I like it! Not a "happy" book, of course, since it's an Oprah pick, but wonderfully written.
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Monday, July 05, 2004 - 3:16 pm
Glad to hear that Teach...I have it on my bookshelf, and I have been eyeing it lately. I think that will be the next of the Oprah books I will read. Thanks for the heads up.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, July 05, 2004 - 6:37 pm
Finished Something Borrowed, great Chick lit book. Loved it. I am now reading The Good Wife Strikes Back by Elizabeth Buchnan.
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Stacerita
Member
01-15-2003
| Monday, July 05, 2004 - 7:30 pm
I just finished reading "The Notebook". I was actually surprised that I liked it. It was a very easy read. I read it in less than a day. I think I will read more books by Nicholas Sparks. I'd recommended it. By the way, I saw the movie two days before I got the book. That was good as well.
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Puppylov3
Member
01-26-2004
| Monday, July 05, 2004 - 7:45 pm
I'm in the middle of reading The Blue Shoe by Anne Lammott.
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Monday, July 05, 2004 - 8:17 pm
Currently reading The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory. It's an historical novel about Mary Boleyn, Anne Boleyn's sister and Henry VIII's mistress before he married Anne. It's a very easy read, and one you can easily put down and pick up again later.
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, July 06, 2004 - 12:09 am
LOL, Mary, I promise I had NO idea how long that list would come out in print.. until I did it here.. eeek. But, I knew it would get your juices flowing I'm done with Scribbling the Cat, very good and, well, Alexandra Fuller has a unique voice, unique knowledge, unique point of view.. Starting Eats, Shoots and Leaves with nothing but high expectations.. I love Anne Lamott. Mary have you seen the miniseries of The Shell Seekers? It was good, as I remember.
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