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Just read Jonathan strange and Mr. Norrel by Susanna Clarke and Chronicles volume 1 by Bob Dylan..
Both great books..
 
LarryMullen's_POPAngel said:
Any thoughts on the Barrack Obama book? :hmm:
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It was a gift, and I was so psyched to get it, as I read a lot about politics, socialism, civil rights- the kinds of things Barrack is into.

The book started out with a bang, and I got half way through it and now I'm kind of chugging along. It has been very interesting, seeing how the two worlds he grew up in interacted. I will finish it, but the speed has slowed down a little. I'll report back when I do finish. :wink:
 
martha said:
I'm in the middle of Roddy Doyle's The Barrytown Trilogy. The first part was The Commitments, which had me laughing out loud. Now it's The Snapper, which is very good. :up:
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I :heart: this book! I just started Snapper.

I just bought JM Barrie and the Lost Boys by Andrew Birkin and plan to start that after the Barrytown Trilogly.
 
MissVelvetDress_75 said:
I love this thread. I have reserved a lot of the books mentioned in here at my library. :D
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Awesome! :)


The other 3 books I got today were:

The Secret Life of Bees
Random Family (which I discovered thanks to The Polysyllabic Spree)

and I can't think of the title now offhand, but I found a sequel to one of my favorite books of all time, Postcards From The Edge by Carrie Fisher. I just had to get it. :up:

This is in addition to the 6 or 7 I bought the other day.

*blocks Amazon.com from her favorites*
 
LarryMullen's_POPAngel said:


Love your new sig, btw! Gwen :drool:
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Thanks! Yesss Gwen!! :drool:

I always love your avatar, this one rocks!

Let me know how you find Barack's book.

Secret Life of Bees I heard is terrific!

Just out of curiousity- do you keep your books after you read them? What about ones you don't like?


Anyone ever hear of "The Country Girl's Trilogy" by Edna O'Brien? I heard good things and am thinking of buying.
 
oliveu2cm said:


Thanks! Yesss Gwen!! :drool:

I always love your avatar, this one rocks!

Let me know how you find Barack's book.

Secret Life of Bees I heard is terrific!

Just out of curiousity- do you keep your books after you read them? What about ones you don't like?


Anyone ever hear of "The Country Girl's Trilogy" by Edna O'Brien? I heard good things and am thinking of buying.
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Thanks! :wink:

I'll definitely let you know what I think of it.

I'm a pack rat, so I tend to keep most everything I buy. I have books at my mom's house that I haven't looked at in years, but I can't bear to part with them. On the same note, when we had a flood 5 years ago and I lost a box of books I was devestated. :sad:
 
I finished Eleanor Rigby in 2 days. It is right up there with Microserfs and Generation X. Coupland's best in years.

I'm on to The Working Poor now.
 
She ls Raging said:
Reading is my escape. I love mindless thrillers especially. I read everything, but I love stuff that I can just get lost in and not think too hard. Lately I've been reading a lot of books by Harlan Coben, in the middle of Tell No One. Good plots etc - but also fast reads.
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I couldn't put Tell No One down. I read it in two days.
 
I just took out the Iliad and the Odyssey.

However I love romantic comedy books and Jennifer Crusie is the best at it.

I also just finished Aint She Sweet by Susan Phillips, I think that is her name. That was good too.
 
Imperial Hubris - Why the West is Losing the War on Terror, by Anonymous.

Scary as hell considering the author spent well over 20 years in the US intelligence community. He take shots at the US government, every US President in the past 20 to 25 years, and explains a perspective on the war on terror.

Don't be misled though, his attacks on Bush, Clinton et al suggest he's a lefty / liberal, but his solution, essentially more military, more killing of the enemy, and less namby pamby with 'coalition building' is pretty far to the right.

It's a great read -- it put the whole Bin Laden, war on terror, et al in a different light for me. If the author is even remotely correct about the situation, the 'war on terror' will be ongoing for my entire lifetime; and I should have at least 40 years left.
 
:D april, you're the best!

now i will finally have someone to talk to about this book besides my brother.

i really hope you like it. i was just reading the reviews on amazon and i was laughing at how they described the story. it is pretty intense, but i loved it.
 
paxetaurora said:
I finished Eleanor Rigby in 2 days. It is right up there with Microserfs and Generation X. Coupland's best in years.
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God, I LOVE Douglas Coupland...although I have some catching up to do as I haven't even read Hey Nostradamus! yet...looking forward to Eleanor Rigby. Personally my favorites are Shampoo Planet & Life After God. Got to see/meet him when he did the Microserfs book tour. Really nice guy.

Any Tom Robbins fans around here? I still haven't read Villa Incognito but I've heard some ghastly things about it and I'm scared.


laz
 
bonosgirl84 said:
:D april, you're the best!

now i will finally have someone to talk to about this book besides my brother.

i really hope you like it. i was just reading the reviews on amazon and i was laughing at how they described the story. it is pretty intense, but i loved it.
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I can't wait to get it, it sounds like something I'd love. :up:


I just finished Fargo Rock City, hi-lar-ious. :up: Supposedly Klosterman has a new book coming out this summer. :hyper:

Now I can't decide which of my new books to read... :hmm:
 
Which ones. Iris? :)


I got one of my first of many from Amazon last night. Story of My Life by Jac McIerney. I remember picking it up when I was 12 or 13 and obsessed with NYC (heh, not much has changed) and that's one of the books I lost in that flood. I remember that Bono's name was mentioned somewhere in it. lol
 
picked up a new book over the weekend: romeo dallaire's shake hands with the devil: the failure of humanity in rwanda. i'd been meaning to pick it up, but after seeing hotel rwanda on sunday, i knew it was time to go get it.
 
youtwohearts said:
However I love romantic comedy books and Jennifer Crusie is the best at it.
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Personally, I think Marion Keyes is pretty good at this stuff as well. Watermelon (her first) and Sushi for Beginners are my faves.
 
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