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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 11:00 am
Just finishing an autobiography of Michael Crawford. He's very charming and the book is quite amusing...but very, very British.
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 2:43 pm
I just finished Eat Pray Love and found it thoroughly enjoyable. Now I'm reading Promise Me by Harlan Coben. His books grab you right from the first chapter and move really fast. I picked it up at the library in large print and have to admit my aging eyes are really happy with the large print.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 3:06 pm
Promise Me is a good one!
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Racinrach
Member
11-16-2006
| Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 6:42 pm
had to stop by because of all the talk on Twilight I picked up the first book and read it in a few days so I could go to the flim... I then started reading New Moon that night and 3 hours later I was 169 pages in the next day I had to finish so I got up and suggled into my book and read it all day and was so happy I did. I am now forcing the daughter to hurry and read the third so I can continue on however at her pace i told her she could have it at night and I get it in the day because I hate my time away from Edward Cullen! What will I do when I finish breaking dawn!!!! UGH
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 8:14 pm
When you finish Breaking Dawn, you will be shaking your head and saying you could have written it better yourself.
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Westtexan
Member
07-16-2004
| Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - 6:51 pm
I loved Life of Pi. One of my absolute favorite books ever!! I am currently reading Twilight. I have to be in on all this fuss about the series. I'm almost finished and seriously considering running to the bookstore tonight to pick up the next book in the series since I'm sure the bookstores will be closed tomorrow. I only lack three chapters. I only put it down now to rest my eyes and check to see what readers on the Internet had to say. (I waited until I got far enough along that I didn't think I'd read any spoilers. I couldn't wait any longer.)
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - 7:06 pm
I read the first three Twilight books in a week and the last one came out a few days after I had read them. The first three, I flew through. The last one, I had to make myself finish. I'm now reading Seaview Inn by Sherryl Woods.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Friday, November 28, 2008 - 11:11 am
24-Karat Kids by Dr Judy Goldstein and Sebastian Stuart
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Racinrach
Member
11-16-2006
| Friday, November 28, 2008 - 3:42 pm
last night I was up until 3:30 to finish the 3rd book in the twilight saga.. I should say I have not yet been to sleep. the fourth book was lent to a friend by the DD and so I had to go and buy a new copy because I couldn't wait until monday afternoon to find out. I was really ill waiting to find out what was going to happen. I am already on page 174 and I am still as much in love with the books even with others saying the fourth was a bad idea so far I am into it.... however if you go to the web sight stephenie meyer wrote the start of a fifth my understanding it is twilight thought Edwards eyes.. She has 275 pages you can read on line. First I must finish breaking dawn or I shall go mad.. And to make it worse I have seen the movie three times already because Robert is really how I saw Edward and it ties me into these books so much more...
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, November 28, 2008 - 5:02 pm
She's supposedly not writing the book from Edward's perspective now because the story was leaked.
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Racinrach
Member
11-16-2006
| Friday, November 28, 2008 - 5:32 pm
But she went ahead on her site and posted what she had started... Midnight sun 257 pages worth she didn't want her fans to go looking for something she knew was out there so this was how she took care of it.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, November 28, 2008 - 5:59 pm
There are lots of theories about how it leaked. At least, you can read it at her site. I heard that she's probably going to work on a time travel series next and a follow-up to The Host, her adult novel.
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Racinrach
Member
11-16-2006
| Saturday, November 29, 2008 - 11:32 am
I am 294 pages into Breaking Dawn.. I started it yesterday! I can't wait to see how it ends but sad knowing this is it..... it will end. I hate getting into these people so much! LOL.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Saturday, November 29, 2008 - 9:23 pm
Finally, finally, finally -- I finally finished Zorro (Allende). It was fabulous; I just didn't have time this trimester to sit down and really read. I'm now on to Teacher Man and also listening to Crime and Punishment (next one my AP kids are reading). In the meantime, I have also listened to all of The Picture of Dorian Gray and read The Shawl aloud to my AP class. Kaffir Boy, well, I'm working on it a bit at a time. Maybe over Christmas break I can finish it. 
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, November 29, 2008 - 11:19 pm
I never get down here! I'm reading The Fifth Book of Peace by Maxine Hong Kingston and when I finish I get to start my first book on the Kindle.. I bought the new Wally Lamb novel, The Hour I First Believed and can't wait to start on it. I liked Life of Pi but it wasn't all that great.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Sunday, November 30, 2008 - 8:40 am
I just finished first book on my Kindle -- "The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America". (I don't read fast.) Been wanting to read that for years. Kept looking at it in book stores. Finally, Kindle made me to it. 
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Sunday, November 30, 2008 - 11:00 am
Sea - I'd be very interested in your review of The Hour I First Believed. It's all I can do not to order it! 
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, November 30, 2008 - 11:16 am
Sea, it's great to see you back in here. I have Wally Lamb's new book coming in the mail soon so I'm interested to see how you like it too.
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Racinrach
Member
11-16-2006
| Sunday, November 30, 2008 - 8:05 pm
And it is over...Breaking Dawn 756 pages that I started on Friday afternoon finished. in 9 days I read a little over 2400 pages of the Twilight saga! I have never read so much in my life! I will miss my Edward and I am sure I will read it again.
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Denecee
Member
09-05-2002
| Monday, December 01, 2008 - 7:13 pm
I just finished "The Last Time I Was Me" but forget who the author was and I lent it to a friend. Very good book! I also just finished "Dead Until Dawn" by Charlaine Harris, it's the book that the first season of True Blood is based on, and now I'm starting Living Dead In Dallas by the same author. I also bought the first two Twilight books. I am in book heaven right now.
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Dogrivergirl
Member
06-24-2005
| Monday, December 01, 2008 - 8:21 pm
Racinrach, I read the Twilight saga with my daughter recently. I read all the books individually in 48 or less. Eclipse i bought at 4 o'clock in the afternoon and stayed up until 5 in the morning when i turned the last page. I loved the series and the movie. It has given my daughter and I something to bond with and to start conversations over. I love the books and the opportunity to have something special to share with my 13 year old. There is always a 13 year old in all of us, no matter how old we have become...lol
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, December 02, 2008 - 3:28 pm
Hardly Knew Her by Laura Lippman It's a book of short stories and I have to tell you, the first few stories had me half-laughing, half-gasping. They are so good.
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Racinrach
Member
11-16-2006
| Tuesday, December 02, 2008 - 5:16 pm
Dogrivergirl: I know what you mean I have a step-daughter that is 14 and it was our bonding thing too. she is still reading the 3rd book and is almost done so I have worked hard to not say anything that would give anything away!!! LOL
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Dogrivergirl
Member
06-24-2005
| Tuesday, December 02, 2008 - 6:40 pm
yeah, it was hard not to let out the plot lines, but as I was reading and i would laugh out loud or make an upset face as i was reading she would always ask "WHAT? What is going on NOW?" Hard not to give away TOO much....lol!
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Wednesday, December 03, 2008 - 1:06 pm
I just finished "Your Oasis on Flame Lake" by Lorna Landvik. I LOVED this book! I was really upset this morning when I got out of bed and couldn't wait to get to the book...and realized that I had finished it last night. Total bummer! I am now reading an autobiography of Teri Garr. Quick but interesting read.
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