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Felix in the Underworld (Penguin Audiobooks) by John Mortimer
P Is for Peril (Kinsey Millhone Mysteries) by Sue Grafton
Saturday by Ian Mcewan
Here is New York by E.B. White
Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, Book 1) by Eoin Colfer
The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
The Big Honey Hunt (Beginner Books(R)) by Stan Berenstain
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About meI'm a bibliophile from the states. I love reading (obviously), traveling, art and theatre. I always welcome book and travel suggestions.
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A Few Favorites: Ender's Game, Empire Falls, The Book Thief, Jane, Eyre, The Phantom Tollbooth, Falling Angels, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Time Traveler's Wife, Anne of Green Gables, Pride and Prejudice, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, A Moveable Feast, Little Women, Lord of the Rings, The Princess Bride, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Nine Stories, The Hours, On Writing, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn The History of Love, The Shadow of the Wind
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The Book Thief, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Jane Eyre, The Shadow of the Wind, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Slaughterhouse-Five, Water for Elephants, The Thirteenth Tale, Me Talk Pretty One Day, A Man Without a Country and All Over but the Shoutin'
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Thanks,
Chris
posted by cmtusa at 8:33 pm (EST) on Apr 17, 2009
posted by zanix at 11:53 pm (EST) on Feb 5, 2009
Just stopping by to say thanks for your message! Pleased to hear from a fellow fan of Shakespeare & Co - my husband took me there for a treat and took himself off to a coffee shop while I wiled away a good chunk of an afternoon in there. Loved it!
posted by Pummzie at 5:04 am (EST) on Jan 31, 2009
Hoping to hear details.....!
posted by indygo88 at 9:14 pm (EST) on Jan 1, 2009
posted by indygo88 at 10:54 pm (EST) on Dec 30, 2008
Merry Christmas, hope you have a lovely holiday!
posted by RedBowlingBallRuth at 4:34 pm (EST) on Dec 23, 2008
posted by RedBowlingBallRuth at 12:53 pm (EST) on Dec 22, 2008
Thanks again
posted by HenryL928 at 2:21 pm (EST) on Nov 7, 2008
See what I mean when I said I could talk about this book for days.
I just finished Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet and thoroughly enjoyed it. Initially I was intimidated by the nearly 1,000 pages but I am very glad I read it. I rated it 5 stars and would recommend it. But I don't think it a good idea to try to tackle a second read while thumbing through POTE,it has a lot if characters spanning two generations and various plots to follow.
How about you? Anything else you'd recommend?
posted by HenryL928 at 4:09 pm (EST) on Nov 6, 2008
I see you read and rated Poisonwood Bible. I loved that book too. The most memorable part to me was when Ruth May dies and the mother took her body outside causing the other women in the village to morn with her. Adah was my favorite character.
posted by HenryL928 at 11:21 am (EST) on Nov 6, 2008
posted by HenryL928 at 11:00 pm (EST) on Oct 13, 2008
Our book club generally meets on Friday evenings, usually once a month or once every 6 weeks or so -- sometimes at a member's house, but often at Starbucks or somewhere similar. You can see what we've read the last few years by checking my bookshelf under my "book club" tag. These next two months we're doing a couple sort of off our usual track: The Giver by Lois Lowry and Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Next meeting is on Oct. 3rd. Let me know if you're interested in stopping by. We'd love to have you! :')
posted by indygo88 at 7:12 am (EST) on Sep 21, 2008
I noticed your posts w/ bmdicker re: a book club. The book club I'm in is actually based in Fishers (most of the members living there) -- my good friend Amy started it up -- so I drive down every month or so for it. We're pretty informal & are always open to new members, so if you are interested, let me know! One of our newer members this year I actually recruited here from LibraryThing, so that was kind of cool. Maybe I could do it again! (hint, hint!) What part of Indy do you live in?
posted by indygo88 at 6:59 pm (EST) on Sep 11, 2008
posted by bmdicker at 11:12 am (EST) on Aug 24, 2008
Oh BTW- the correct name for the Book Arts place I mentioned before is Minnesota Center for Book Arts. You can look it up at www.mnbookarts.org
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posted by 4daisies at 12:01 pm (EST) on Jul 18, 2008
WOW! I am so jealous of your library!! Where do you keep it all?!
Tomorrow, I'm off, and am going to compare our libraries so that I can send some recommendations your way [Girlie, I was SO bad this week--I ordered 14 books from Amazon--so much for using that tax refund check for bills and school! :Þ]
Talk to you tomorrow!
Take care,
Tanya
posted by punkypower at 4:51 pm (EST) on Mar 26, 2008
Thanks for your note & your kind words. When I saw that you red-flagged "We Need to Talk About Kevin" and "Water for Elephants" as two of your top picks in 2007, I knew I had to add you to my "interesting libraries" roster. I loved both books.
I'm just finishing "Middlesex" now, which I see you have in your growing library. It's one the best I've read in at least a year. One book you might want to consider (I didn't see it in your collection) is "The Confession of Max Tivoli." Really interesting book.
Take care,
Brian
posted by brianinbuffalo at 9:07 pm (EST) on Jan 21, 2008
posted by alleycat570 at 8:52 pm (EST) on Jan 12, 2008
I'm always up for recommendations, too, so if you think of anything, let me know! I especially want good sci-fi recommendations, as I'm fairly new to reading it, and need help sometimes separating the wheat from the chaff.
posted by Medellia at 11:16 am (EST) on Jan 1, 2008
posted by Kell_Smurthwaite at 5:37 pm (EST) on Nov 28, 2007
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posted by tapestry100 at 8:53 am (EST) on Nov 21, 2007
I'm only half way through EOE, so I can't say just what my end conclusion will be, but for the most part, I think it's pretty magnificent. Sometimes there's just too much talking or too much description, and the biblical references are way to heavy for my tastes. On the other hand, Lee Hamilton is such an endearing character, that those flaws fade away when listening to him. I'm just at the point of the book where he dies, so I'm wondering what comes next. I also love Lizzie and all of the children.
The character of Adam is somewhat fuzzy to me; self-indulgent in his sadness and always wimpy as a child and as an adult. His lethargy annoys me.
Cathy's psychotic behavior, on the other hand, is mesmerizing, even if I never understand where she's coming from. The narrator tells us she was born without a conscience, which I guess is as good an explanation as any.
It does seem clear to me that the book deserves to be a classic. In the end though, I'm, not sure if I'll love it as much as I've always loved Grapes of Wrath.
posted by vivienbrenda at 3:49 pm (EST) on Nov 17, 2007
I just finished the Looking Glass Wars and its sequel, Seeing Redd, by Frank Beddor. It's a re-imagining of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. I really enjoyed both of them. I also read Here, There Be Dragons: the Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica by James Owen. This was a really fun read, too. If you are looking for something that's not a hard read and is fun, I'd recommend either of these.
posted by tapestry100 at 7:02 pm (EST) on Nov 6, 2007
posted by grkmwk at 12:24 pm (EST) on Oct 10, 2007
Just popped over to your library again and noticed your pic...is that the chained book bench in the lobby of the British Library?? If it isn't, it sure could be! I had the opportunity to attend a seminar in England last year, and we spend one day visiting the BL, which, needless to say for any bibliophile, was INCREDIBLE! If that isn't where you were, you really should go!
Happy reading!!
posted by grkmwk at 7:54 pm (EST) on Oct 8, 2007
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posted by tapestry100 at 8:11 am (EST) on Sep 19, 2007
However, he's a very good writer, so I'll just focus on that!!
posted by tls1215 at 9:04 pm (EST) on Sep 18, 2007
BTW, love your pic. Where was it taken?
Mary
posted by Storeetllr at 3:24 pm (EST) on Sep 1, 2007
We both have a lot of books by Maeve Binchy & also J. D. Salinger. They are 2 authors that don't have a lot in common, but I have tried to read all of their books. Maeve, to me, is a "comfort author". When I want to get away from it all, I can just lose myself in one of her books. It's always good news to hear she has written a new one.
J.D. Salinger is different. In hi school, I wan influenced by Catcher in the Rye, & then the 9 stories, reading them originally in the New Yorker. I also became immersed in the lives of the Glass family. A few years ago, when Joyce Maynard came out with her "tell all" book about her life as J.D.'s mistress, my first reaction was to feel sorry for her, but then, thinking it over, she was not just some young kid that had been taken advantage of by an older man. There was something calculated in her actions. A few weeks ago, I bought the book "Dream Catcher" Salinger's biography written by his daughter Wendy. I haven't read it yet, my TBR pile is humungous. Have you read any books about JD? However one looks at him, he is certainly interesting.
MaarianV
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I'm new at this, so do you need an e-mail address or is it something you can forward or send to me internally on this site?
Please let me know.
Thank you.
posted by see_a_knight at 12:05 am (EST) on Jul 15, 2007
Thank you for your comment that I just received from July 3rd, I've been busy reading so I haven't visited the site lately.
Even though I've already read [[Ami McKay]]'s novel [The Birth House], my bookgroup is reading this book for our September meeting.
So, I would love to take you up on your offer of providing me with the Q&A that is made available to you because you or someone from your paper had the lovely opportunity to interview her.
I am interested in the content and perhaps my book club would also like to see it as well.
Thank you, you're very generous.
Colleen.
posted by see_a_knight at 12:00 am (EST) on Jul 15, 2007
posted by lindsacl at 9:18 pm (EST) on Jul 12, 2007
P.S. As you review plays, I saw "Uncle Vanya" the other day, and it was as good as productions of "Three Sisters" and (the short story) "Lady with a Dog" I'd seen previously. Who knew I'd become a Chekov fan!
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Kell.
posted by Kell_Smurthwaite at 5:51 am (EST) on Jun 2, 2007
My last book was Shantaram, about Bombay's underbelly set about the time of Indira Gandhi's assassination. Much more fascinating.
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Fellow Reader, Is this of any interest to you?
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I’m a belgian university student that loves chick-lit. Would you like to help me with my thesis and write to me why you (personally) like reading chick-lit? What is it about chick-lit that appeals to you? What are your favourite books and why? Your help would mean a lot to me!
Best wishes,
Ester Wellens
esterwellens@gmail.com
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:) Pleso
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BTW, curious incident is a fantastic book. It has a really unique structure but it makes it hard sometimes to follow. It's great, just don't read it at bedtime.
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