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Post by Aravis on Dec 4, 2004 18:18:21 GMT -5
What book is your nose stuck in now?
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Post by Aravis on Dec 5, 2004 16:37:44 GMT -5
I'm finishing up Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke. It has taken me forever to read it because I have been busy with other things. It's a wonderful book so far though.
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Post by RobertGraves on Dec 6, 2004 3:46:24 GMT -5
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Post by Wyndham on Dec 6, 2004 10:03:21 GMT -5
Reading Desmond Morton's new potboiler, Fight or Pay. Soldiers' Families in the Great War. Very interesting account of a very different time (about which we think we know everything!).
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pinkozcat
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Post by pinkozcat on Dec 7, 2004 1:34:17 GMT -5
I'm currently reading Citizen Girl by Nicola Kraus and Emma McLauthlin and I'm not enjoying it very much.
I bought it because I enjoyed their first book, The Nanny Diaries, but I think that I'll give any future books by them a miss.
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Post by demgoddess on Dec 7, 2004 11:52:27 GMT -5
I'm reading I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson. Just started it yesterday, so not much to report thus far.
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Post by Aravis on Dec 7, 2004 15:36:18 GMT -5
Great to see you again Pink. :0) I'm not surprised if those two women didn't turn out a second good book. The first was a tell-all based on their past employers. I'm not sure how easy it was to get sourse material after that.
Jen, I have only read a little of Bryson's work but know others who love him. He does seem really funny. I just have trouble reading non-fiction for any length of time. I liked what I read though.
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Post by demgoddess on Dec 7, 2004 17:02:11 GMT -5
Aravis...Bryson was recommended to me by a friend, I've never read anything by him before and am generally not a huge fan of non-fiction. The book I am currently reading is about his return to the US after living abroad for 20 years. It's actually a collection of weekly columns he wrote about things in the US. Given my political leanings, it's refreshing to read something about the US that is positive and humorous.  |
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Post by Aravis on Dec 7, 2004 23:58:36 GMT -5
Dem, I bought a copy of that book for my mother last Christmas. I'll have to borrow it from her some time. |
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Post by pinkozcat on Dec 8, 2004 1:11:08 GMT -5
I love Bill Bryson's books - my favourite is "Mother Tongue" which is all about the English language and its development. It is sort of along the lines of "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" in that it is a fun book about a technical subject.
I gave up on Citizen Girl, the book I was reading yesterday - I read the last few pages and decided that I didn't want to know how the middle bit went. I'll leave it down by the beach - somebody might enjoy it.
I have started on a two-book volume of a collaboration between the Kellermans which is so-so but not as good as the ones which Jonathon writes on his own.
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Post by wordswordswords on Dec 10, 2004 20:22:06 GMT -5
I'm reading Henry James, Complete Short Stories, 1864-1874
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Penelope Fitzgerald, Human Voices
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Post by LizzieD on Dec 10, 2004 22:55:03 GMT -5
Although I'm also still plowing on with JS&MN, my main book of choice right now is TEXTThe Shadow of the Wind TEXT by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. It begins in the Cemetary of Lost Books in Madrid and continues with love, intrigue, mystery and books - all in a magical realistic vein. I'm trying to balance reading it in one great gulp with making it last as long as I can!!!! ;D (Not all that hard to do since exams are next week, and I'm swamped with papers to grade!  ) |
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Post by Aravis on Dec 11, 2004 0:23:02 GMT -5
Lizzie, I read that book this summer and absolutely loved it. Enjoy!  |
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Post by Nulla on Dec 21, 2004 8:53:54 GMT -5
ah, yes, reading!!.... I've not had much time for it lately due to the little distraction of our house fire and dislocation, but I'm managing somehow....
presently, I'm shuttling back and forth between David Weber's Shadow of Saganami (the latest installment in my favorite space opera) and My Life by Big Bill Clinton (an opera of a different kind)..... ;D
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Post by RobertGraves on Dec 21, 2004 14:38:33 GMT -5
Great to see you here Nulla. ;D
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