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Re: Nov.-Dec. 2009 What Are You Reading [message #24251 is a reply to message #22475 ]

Mon, 14 December 2009 16:18

Beauty/Anna
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Finishing To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and starting Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte for my literature class—but even if they weren't for class I would still read them.

"You are your best resource for success"

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Re: Nov.-Dec. 2009 What Are You Reading [message #24271 is a reply to message #22475 ]

Mon, 14 December 2009 22:38

L.R.K.
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Oh, I adore "Jane Eyre"!

And "To Kill a Mockingbird" is the only book I've ever been grateful that I was assigned in school - I doubt I would have discovered it on my own, and it was lovely.

Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.

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Re: Nov.-Dec. 2009 What Are You Reading [message #24313 is a reply to message #22475 ]

Wed, 16 December 2009 15:34

Aaron
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Just finished rereading The Demon Breed by James H. Schmitz. I don't know if he is much read these days although I think I saw a bunch of reissues. Strong female lead science fiction from the '60s is something of a rarity but this is very nicely done.

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Re: Nov.-Dec. 2009 What Are You Reading [message #24345 is a reply to message #24271 ]

Thu, 17 December 2009 18:12

Beauty/Anna
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L.R.K. wrote on Mon, 14 December 2009 22:38

Oh, I adore "Jane Eyre"!

And "To Kill a Mockingbird" is the only book I've ever been grateful that I was assigned in school - I doubt I would have discovered it on my own, and it was lovely.

I do too—what I have read of it any way this will be the first I have actually read the whole thing.

Don't think I would have read To Kill a Mockingbird without this class either, I do like it allot.

"You are your best resource for success"

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Re: Nov.-Dec. 2009 What Are You Reading [message #24417 is a reply to message #22475 ]

Sun, 20 December 2009 12:14

GBKDalton
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Location: New England

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I read The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, which made me laugh and cry. It reminded me a lot of Chris Crutcher's work, another author I would recommend. Read it.

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Re: Nov.-Dec. 2009 What Are You Reading [message #24434 is a reply to message #22475 ]

Mon, 21 December 2009 13:48

shalea
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Location: Raleigh, North Carolina, ...

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I'm a little late on this probably, but I'm finally reading Fire. Also Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I don't usually do two books at a time, but I unexpectedly had to wait around a couple of hours Saturday night so grabbed the Zen book as it was cited as a reference in another book of which I am extremely fond.

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Re: Nov.-Dec. 2009 What Are You Reading [message #24768 is a reply to message #22475 ]

Mon, 28 December 2009 22:06

ravenclawgirl
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Location: Ohio

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I just finished Fire (since I am a poor college student, I could not get it when it came out, so I just made it clear that I wanted it for Christmas). But I loved all the stories in it, my favorite was First Flight. Now I'm re-reading Water (also a Christmas present).

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Re: Nov.-Dec. 2009 What Are You Reading [message #24796 is a reply to message #22475 ]

Tue, 29 December 2009 13:20

Beauty/Anna
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The Aeneid by Virgil. Just finished—at 2:30 in the morning Christmas day—A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Re-reading Chalice—and reading many other books too. This is all so blissful. Because of Christmas break—which is two weeks long *sigh of great happiness*—I am getting to read my mountainous stack of books, make it smaller, and then big again Smile

—Hope all that was understandable—

[Updated on: Tue, 29 December 2009 13:21]

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Re: Nov.-Dec. 2009 What Are You Reading [message #24804 is a reply to message #22475 ]

Tue, 29 December 2009 17:58

emljones
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Registered: October 2009
Location: New Mexico, mostly

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When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead - loved it. It made me go look up my old friends Wrinkle in Time and From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler. This has been a december of children's lit, definitely!

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Re: Nov.-Dec. 2009 What Are You Reading [message #24818 is a reply to message #24796 ]

Wed, 30 December 2009 01:06

L.R.K.
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Beauty/Anna wrote on Tue, 29 December 2009 19:20

—Hope all that was understandable—

Of course it was! Have fun! Smile

Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.

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Re: Nov.-Dec. 2009 What Are You Reading [message #24831 is a reply to message #22475 ]

Wed, 30 December 2009 18:08

Kim A
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Registered: August 2009
Location: Vancouver, Canada

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So far I've lucked out on all my Christmas reading: I've enjoyed everything I gave to myself or my kids.

Book of a Thousand Days, by Shannon Hale. Retelling of the little known Grimm's tale "Maid Maleen," which has always fascinated me. Great main character.

Fairest, by Gale Carson Levine. Retelling of Snow White. I'd say not quite as good as Ella Enchanted, but still well-done. (Set in the same world, so the nasty fairy godmother plays a part.)

Airman, by Eoin Colfer. Looks very similar to Kenneth Oppel's Airborn, but isn't really, though if you liked Airborn you'll like this.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians, by Rick Riordan. Just finished the series, and it's great fun. I love the way he portrays the Greek gods.

The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins. I've read this and the sequel already, but my daughter stayed up until 4 in the morning last night reading it, so I figured it deserved a mention.

It was the only lullaby she would ever sing, and it was sung in Hell. --Laini Taylor

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Re: Nov.-Dec. 2009 What Are You Reading [message #24837 is a reply to message #22475 ]

Wed, 30 December 2009 22:53

librarykat
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Location: Redneck Riviera

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I just recently read the first two volumes of Nightschool: The Weirn Books by Svetlana Chmakova. These are Original English Language Manga published by Yen Press. Excellent fantasy with a strong but flawed young main character. She's a weirn, a witch who bonds with a supernatural being called an astral. Her older sister has disappeared, and only Alex remembers her at all. She enrolls in the Nightschool (for werewolves, vampires, and weirn) in order to investigate, for her sister was the new Night Keeper and disappeared on her first night of work at the school. Now I can't wait for the third volume, which won't come out until April ...

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Re: Nov.-Dec. 2009 What Are You Reading [message #24861 is a reply to message #22475 ]

Thu, 31 December 2009 20:38

Susan in Melbourne
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Registered: October 2008
Location: Melbourne

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I bought myself "An echo in the bone" by Diana Gabaldon for Christmas, and finished it yesterday. It was right up there with the ending someone was talking about on the blog thread, along the lines of 'he looked up and screamed'. So many loose threads floating around. I thought she'd done a Pegasus - had such a big story to tell she's chopped it in half. I immediately leapt to Google to find out, and DG promises that this is not the last book in the series. Good - otherwise I can imagine she'd have to leave town!
As the seventh book in the Outlander series, there are lots of characters crossing paths in two centuries across historical events. There are four main story lines, which tend to ramble a bit, but I still felt utterly lost when I'd finished, to find myself here, rather than THERE.

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Re: Nov.-Dec. 2009 What Are You Reading [message #24881 is a reply to message #24831 ]

Fri, 01 January 2010 17:39

Beauty/Anna
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Registered: November 2008
Location: America

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Kim A wrote on Wed, 30 December 2009 18:08

Yay for Airman—I love Eoin Colfer's books—as to the rest those are great to.

"You are your best resource for success"

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Re: Nov.-Dec. 2009 What Are You Reading [message #24930 is a reply to message #22475 ]

Sat, 02 January 2010 21:01

Maren
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