- May 21, 2011
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I just can't fully get into it. My mom loves the movie though. Maybe I'll try reading it again.
Definitely would have rather had her leave us hanging!
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- Mar 23, 2010
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All the movies have, of course, changed things or left things out. I enjoyed the book so much more. The first time I read it, I didn't always understand the phrasing. It was better the second time I read it.
- Jul 4, 2010
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Found out why my english teacher is such a stickler for citations...
Turns out a few years ago she had something published and someone plaigerized her work. All makes sense now.
ETA: BUTTTTT I got a B+ on my paper that she so harshly reviewed for her other section so I am quite pleased.
Turns out a few years ago she had something published and someone plaigerized her work. All makes sense now.
ETA: BUTTTTT I got a B+ on my paper that she so harshly reviewed for her other section so I am quite pleased.
- Nov 8, 2011
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I love classics too! I'm still trying to finish Anna Karenina..it's so long! But I really want to read Pride and Prejudice, some Dickens, and a few others along with rereading a bunch of books that I skimmed over in high school. In addition to a long list of books on my phone that I want to read, haha.
Has anybody read Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace or House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski? I've heard Infinite Jest is very good and am reading it now. House of Leaves looks good and I saw it at Barnes and Noble the other day and ended up buying it. Along with Miss Peregrine's home for Peculiar Children. And some more books on Kindle that I can't remember, but I think they were mostly classics/older ones so they were free/cheap. I have a problem, lol.
- Jan 5, 2011
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This. ^
And now my new thing is reading different "versions" of the story from various other time periods. Sometimes I love them almost as much, and sometimes I hate them - but keep reading anyway. :confused: I just bought "1932" and it's next up on my list to read.
Gone Girl was the worst book I ever read... until I read Sharp Objects. My neighbor told me it was so much better than Gone Girl - but now I see we clearly have different taste in books. I just do not get the hype with Gone Girl. The first 3/4 of it were pretty good. But then the last 1/4 was sooooooooooo bad that it just ruined it.
But back to the actual question, things to read. I love Kate Morton (all of her books), Harlan Coben (again, all of them), occasionally I'll go back and read an old Sidney Sheldon book (good for laying by the pool, read-in-a-day type reading), The Kitchen House, The Chaperone, The Paris Wife, and I just downloaded 12 Years a Slave (it's only 99 cents on Kindle right now!) but haven't read it yet.
If I could just read all day, every day, I would.
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- Jul 29, 2010
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So true! I read the Sookie Stackhouse books on my kindle, and I would get emails every day with Amazon recommendations. Being that I am a sucker for a book thats $1 and self published I started reading all of these Paranormal Fantasy books. My fiance looked at my kindle once and was just like "I don't know who you are anymore." lol The page he read through was about a demon a vampire and an elf. lol I love reading series of books so that way I can stay interested over a long span, if anyone is interested in some Paranormal Fantasy I can list a few. But from the looks of everyone recommendations I may be the odd one out. lol
Also love the whole Sue Grafton alphabet series. They are fantastic books! Just started Girl Gone, hope I can get into it.
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You have a long time for the pool honey.
- Jan 5, 2011
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Lolololololol I know! I'm counting the days though.
What's funny is that I was all upset because it's closed because they're rebuilding (it's already really nice, but now it's going to be ridiculously nice with amenities) so it's not opening until the 4th of July instead of in June. Now I'm wondering if it's going to stop $*@#ing snowing by the 4th of July! :mad:
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I just finished The Storyteller by her. It's somewhat historical fiction; about this girl (and by girl I mean shes mid 20s) whose grandma survived the Holocaust, and she makes friends with this man who she finds out used to be a Nazi soldier. It's kind of like, how their stories all cross together. I really liked it. I've also read Lone Wolf (kinda wierd), House Rules (absolutely beautiful), and My Sisters Keeper. I have Between the Lines and plan to start it after I finish A Farewell to Arms. You're right though, her books are intense! (and just a warning, someone almost always dies).
- Dec 15, 2009
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Book talk makes me gag.
The next thing I'm going to read is In Touch Weekly when I get to work at noon.....at the library.
Then I'm going to watch basketball games allll day at work because I am 100% certain that I am going to win the Quicken Loans Billion Dollar Bracket challenge.
In a few short weeks I will be tossing up the deuces to librarian life for ever.
Working in a public library does this to you. Being a librarian at a public library does this to you.
The next thing I'm going to read is In Touch Weekly when I get to work at noon.....at the library.
Then I'm going to watch basketball games allll day at work because I am 100% certain that I am going to win the Quicken Loans Billion Dollar Bracket challenge.
In a few short weeks I will be tossing up the deuces to librarian life for ever.
Working in a public library does this to you. Being a librarian at a public library does this to you.
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I think my boyfriend secretly enjoys hearing about cheer stuff. He'll watch lower level teams on youtube with me to get ideas and I taught him how to spot backhandsprings (on my sister) and base one-mans. He's even been keeping up with the worlds teams with me this year (although we disagreed where IOC5 was concerned; he's absolutely sure 005 will win, but I'd kind of like to see the CA Wildcats take 1st). He can tell you what a bobble is, and the difference between a tuck and a layout. I guess its funny because he would have never known competitive cheer existed before he knew me! :D
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- Dec 14, 2009
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I'm sure I'll have mine trained pretty soon. Between cheerleading and Beyoncé, I have a lot of educating to do!
