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The Secret of Lost Things
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The Next Thing on My List by Jill Smolinski
The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay
Stephanie Plum #16 by Janet Evanovich
More books about books:
The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay
The Solitaire Mystery by Jostein Gaarder
The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie by Charles Osborne
... envious of how much reading y'all get in! Mine is once again short and sweet. Not a bad book among them, fortunately.
The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay 10/01/09 10/03/09 ***1/2 This is a very interesting little book about a young Australian girl who moves to New York and finds ...
... and white bulls, fish-men and girl-lions -- a zoology of dreams with a cast made to populate the one I was living."
The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay page 72
I thoroughly enjoyed my re-read of Nemesis by Agatha Christie.
I just started The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay and think it's great so far.
The Solitaire Mystery by Jostein Gaarder
The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay
... LT rec'.
The World at Night by Alan Furst. Now, I have 2 of his in my tbr, so I hope this gives me some incentive.
The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay. Another LT rec'.
... written, and very interesting. I enjoyed it, though not as much as book1. Will read book 3 when it goes into paper.
6. The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay, Fiction, Completed 8/14/09, Stars: 3
This was a read for a RL book group. I really didn't like it until the end. Had ...
Midway through The Secret of Lost Things and it's a big "just okay," but I'm traveling right now and it's been an quick and easy terminal/airplane book. Before it, I finished Zeitoun by Dave Eggers, which was excellent and a hard act to follow.
Midway through The Secret of Lost Things and it's a big "just okay," but I'm traveling right now and it's been an quick and easy terminal/airplane book.
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31. When You Are Engulfed In Flames by David Sedaris
32. The Strain by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan
33. The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay*
34. The Embodied Mind by Varela, Thompson & Rosch
35. Computation and Human Experience by Philip Agre
36. Where the Acti ...
85. The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay, Fiction, Completed 8/14/09, Stars: 3
This book was a read for a RL book group.
I am rather ambivalent about it. On the one hand I thought the writing was very good. There was a sensual quality at times that made me want to roll ...
I finally finished The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay. It was for a RL book group. The writing was lovely, but the story and the characters were poor, and bland.
I am now reading Tsotsi by Athol Fugard. It is set in South Africa during apartheid and follows a nameless killer in a Jo ...
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I am still reading The Secret of Lost Things and not enjoying it. It is a RL book group read. The writing is good and sucks you in, but the characters and story are exceedingly bland and ...
I was in Tasmania but now I have moved to NYC with The Secret of lost Things by Sheridan Hay.
... It doesn't detract from my enjoyment however. I can't wait for book 3 to be published in paper in the US.
Now starting The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay for another RL book group.
I've had some fun shopping over the past two days:
By The Pricking of My Thumbs
The Secret of Lost Things
Booked To Die
The Amazing Mackerel Pudding Plan
Spoon River Anthology
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin.
... I recommend Marianne Macdonald's Dido Hoare series.
For general fiction about books, how about Sheridan Hay's The Secret of Lost Things.
Columbine by Dave Cullen
The Secret of Lost Things : A Novel by Sheridan Hay
Mr. Darcy's Daughters : A Novel by Elizabeth Aston
All Things Hidden by Judy Candis
from a trip to B&N today. With a Gift card and a partial gift card, and the help of the bargain tables.. I got these ...
... by Philip Pullman
But there are many others on the TBR pile, because I have no self-control.
I'm currently reading The Secret of Lost Things (not to be confused with The Book of Lost Things, though both are good), Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant and Anna Karenina (for a LT ...
Started The Secret of Lost Things yesterday. Starts out on a depressing note, but I've been sucked in already.
I have The Secret of Lost Things to read for a RL book group in August. Ugh !
#198: I read The Secret of Lost Things last summer and couldn't get into it. I thought Hay was trying too hard when it came to making all of her characters eccentric. The worst part was that I simply didn't care about the main character. I'm not sure why. Apathy doesn't make for an enjoyable read. ...
Has anyone read The Secret of Lost Things ? I like the concept of the book, but the characters were a little too unique for me. Would like to hear others opinion if you have read it.
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Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned From Judy Blume edited by Jennifer O'Connell
The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay
Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott
Matrimony by Joshua Henkin
The Lost Recipe For Happiness by Barbara O'Neal (after ...
My hubby got me a couple books for Easter. I finished Mrs. Astor Regrets this morning and loved it!!!!! I than started The Secret of Lost Things and am thoroughly enjoying it. He did a great job at buying books!!!
... Tale after I told her I loved it. If you happen to like The Thirteenth Tale you might want to try that out. Also The Secret of Lost Things is very much in the style of The Thirteenth Tale.
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The Secret of Lost Things sounds delightful. I hope my local library has this book.
My favourites for March were:
Conjugal Rites by Paul Magrs
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
... Forgotten Garden.
Finished The Making of a Marchioness last week (should I report this for March?!) and have started The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay. Has anyone else read this one? So far I like her character and voice - and of course, that she works in a bookstore!
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I finished The Secret of Lost Things today. I'm reading Lord of Light for a book club but struggling with it a bit, so will keep something else going alongside it. I'll probably go fo Cold Comfort Farm.
Wow, that is a great success story. I loved Flavia, looking forward to more books about her :)
I just finished The Secret of Lost Things which I really enjoyed - it's a lovely book to curl up and lose yourself in. It's about a young girl who moves to New York after her mother's death. She ...
... phensen
57. Not God: A History of Alcoholics Anonymous, Ernest Kurtz
58. Lincoln's Dreams, Connie Wills
59. The Secret of Lost Things: a Novel , Sheridan Hay
60. The World Without Us, Alan Weisman
I think that's it! June - October 6th. I might have missed one or two ...
... more portable book. As I have a couple from the library that need reading it will either be The Sword in the Stone or The Secret of Lost Things . Not sure which just yet.
3/4 of the way through of The Secret of Lost Things Sheridan Hay.
I'm really enjoying the book. Just wondering if all bookstores have such interesting emloyees. Rosemary is a very adventerous and brave character.
If you like book on books. try it.
Glad you liked Garden Spells, MerryMary -- it's a neat little book!
This month, I've read so far:
The Secret of Lost Things
Breaking Dawn
Murder with Puffins
Midwife of the Blue Ridge
The Nanny Diaries
Chatterton
Vinegar Hill
The Shack
The Subtle Knife
And today, ...
Will start The Secret of Lost Things Sheridan Hay. Any comments on this book?
... we should have read, but could never bring ourselves to do it? I guess I wanted a better feeling of Melville as I read The Secret of Lost Things , but that is my personal stretching.
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I read The Secret of Lost Things and no, I don't think it is necessary to read Moby Dick (which I did not like) first.
Welcome to the group, akowen!
I am with drneutron, and putting The Secret of Lost Things on Continent TBR. It sounds very good.
Well, The Secret of Lost Things is now on my TBR. Thanks for the tip!
#1. The Secret of Lost Things , by Sheridan Hay. Loved it---see my review on my blog over here , OR here .
... Lost Things, Professional Genealogy and Genealogy as Pastime and Profession
TBR (not necessarily in this order):
The Secret of Lost Things
Murder with Puffins
Midwife of the Blue Ridge
The Ghost Orchid
Numbering Your Genealogy
An audiobook (TBD -- I see what catches my ...
... s:
Twilight
Farewell, My Subaru by Doug Fine
May Reads:
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
A Wrinkle in Time
The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay
June Reads:
Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant by Jenni Ferrari-Adler
In a Dark Wood by Amanda Craig
Watcher in the W ...
I couldn't wait 3 more days, so I'll start tonight:)
My first book will be: The Secret of Lost Things , be Sheridan Hay.
I'd really like to list all the books I plan to read right upfront, but I just can't seem to commit past the book I'm reading at the moment---my TBR stack is ever-shifting, ...
#22 - I am reading The Secret of Lost Things now and I'm glad you managed to buy back a copy. I am enjoying it although it is different to what I expected.
The Book of Lost Things is also pretty good although I think it didn't make a great impression on me to begin with but in hindsight I ...
... -- both were bought by friends after consulting my Amazon wishlist, but without purchasing from Amazon. I ended up with The Secret of Lost Things , which was the book on my wishlist, but I returned it this week, and The Book of Lost Things, which wasn't exactly what I wanted, but now I'm ...
Of your choices I have read The Rest of Her Life and thought it was ok, but nothing terribly special, and The Secret of Lost Things which I also thought was ok. The characters in Secret of Lost Things were interesting but the plot tended to wander a bit...
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On the pile:
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay
The Butcher's Boy by Thomas Perry
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
T ...
Authors never read before:
1. Chelsea Cain - Heartsick (read)
2. Sheridan Hay - The Secret of Lost Things (read)
3. Judi Hendricks - Isabel's Daughter (read)
4. Paolo Giordano - The Solitude of Prime Numbers
... Christie 09/27/09 09/28/09 ***1/2
78. Nemesis by Agatha Christie 09/28/09 09/30/09 ***1/2
October
79. The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay 10/01/09 10/03/09 ***1/2
80. Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie 10/03/09 10/05/09 ***1/2
81. After You'd Gone ...
... list fifteen -- I don't keep track of my reading -- but a few certainly stick out.
Jane Eyre
The Thirteenth Tale
The Secret of Lost Things
Byron: Life and Legend
The Woman in White
The End of the Affair
Westmark, The Kestrel, The Beggar Queen (a series that made me ...
... Illuminated
City of Saints and Madmen
Consider Phlebas and The Player of Games
The Good Fairies of New York
The Secret of Lost Things A RL book group read
Kitchen Confidential
Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana
Forest Mage
So far I haven't really looked at my Clunkers ...
... by Jay Levinson and Seth Godin (touchstone not working)
The Web Library by Nicholas Tomaiuolo
Gifts (for me):
The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay
The Ghost Orchid by Carol Goodman
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Mine for now (borrowed from a friend):
Garden Spells by S ...
This year it was The Secret of Lost Things . I wanted to like it, I really did. The plot was just far too slow, the writing wasn't good enough to merit enduring such a slow pace, and I found the characters to be unsympathetic at best. I started reading it around the same time that my annual book ...
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Things that have jumped out at me from others library.. The Secret of Lost Things , Ella Minnow Pea..Tulipomania
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Seahorse in the Sky
Chateau d'Argol
We Almost Lost Detroit
Last Summer -Evan Hunter
The Secret of Lost Things
The Glorious Deception
The Magician and the Cardsharp
Nest in a Falling Tree
North -Celine
Rigadoon
Castle to Castle -Celine
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The Secret of Lost Things
Not because it was bad, mind you. I did enjoy it, it just moved so slowly that I ended up getting fed up and just skipped to the ending (and I read really quickly!)
... Affair At Styles by Agatha Christie
44. Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay
45. Plain Truth by Jodie Picoult
46. The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay
47. The Fiction Class by Susan Breen
48. Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler
49. The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier
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The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay?
I'm close to giving up on The Secret of Lost Things . Over a hundred pages in and, well, I just don't care. I keep waiting for something in the plot to really grab me and it hasn't happened. I want to feel sympathetic towards Rosemary, I want to care about her life in New York, I'd like to have my ...
... I feel like it's just you and me on this board sometimes :-)
My review of This Charming Man by Marian Keyes and The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay are up. The Drowning Tree by Carol Goodman is up as well!
http://skrishnasbooks.blogspot.com
I just finished The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay!
Here's my review:
http://skrishnasbooks.blogspot.com/2008/07/secret-of-lost-things-sheridan-hay.html
#116 - I read The Secret of Lost Things last year. I think I may have though it was The Book of Lost Things. I wouldn't say it was great but I did enjoy it even though it was a little slow going. I would say continue on and see if it grows on you a little bit more.
Reading The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay. She has some colorful characters, but I'm 86 pages into the book and am not sure when or if she's going to develop a story. Right now it's just vignettes about how each of the characters behaves. Any encouragement about this book?
... its Walls by John Bellairs
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
New Moon by Stephanie Meyer
In The Wake by Per Petterson
The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay
The Lying Tongue by Andrew Wilson
World War Z by Max Brooks
On Monday I also got The Vampyre by Tom Holland and there ...
... today and picked up:
The Miracle Letters of T. Rimberg by Geoff Herbach
The Secret Bride by Diane Haeger
The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay
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7. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
8. A Season for the Dead by David Hewson
9. The Secret of Lost Things: A Novel by Sheridan Hay
10. The Graving Dock (Detective Jack Leightner) by Gabriel Cohen
11. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies ...
12. The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay. I didn't enjoy it as much as I expected to. The characters weren't believable, and the book couldn't seem to decide what time period it belonged in.
13. A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle. Bleah. I ...
I finished The Secret of Lost Things (3.5/5 stars) and am now reading The Meaning of Night: A Confession by Michael Cox. Really enjoying it so far.
The Meaning of Night: A Confession by Michael Cox
Focault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay
A Great and Terrible Beauty (youth fic) by Libba Bray
Ophelia (youth fic) by Lisa Klein
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
Lies Young Women Believe ...
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501 Must-Read Books leans heavily to British fiction (not my favorite), but the summaries and reviews are good.
The Secret of Lost Things is a novel about a bookseller.
53. The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay - Rosemary Savage moves to American (New York City) from Tasmania after her mother dies and gets a job in a used bookstore that is full of strange characters and becomes involved in a search for a long lost manuscript - excellent.
I finished The Secret of Lost Things last night and loved it - I highly recommend it. I started The Woods by Harlan Coben last night and stayed up too late reading it. I have never read anything by this author but I am really enjoying it.
I am still reading The Secret of Lost Things and am absolutely loving it. I stayed up way too late last night reading it and am hoping to finish it this weekend. It also has a strange tie in for me with The Ministry of Special Cases which I recently finished reading in that there is a ...
... read the prequel. I didn't like the writing style and find it really jumpy and difficult to read. I am about to start The Secret of Lost Things . I haven't begun it yet so I don't have an opinion. I hope it is better than the last book.
Just finished Secret of Lost Things which left some loose ends, but was a great dip into Melville, old books, and odd people. One of those books that I was sorry to see end.
Reading Real All Americans by Sally Jenkins after listening to her on CSPAN. Interesting account of Carlisle In ...
... and One Good Turn: A Novel which is a sequel with some of the same characters. Both really good.
Another recent read: The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay; set in a book store exactly like The Strand in NYC and populated by some very odd characters, as seen through the eyes of a 19 ...
I finally finished Power, Faith, and Fantasy and really liked it. Now I'm on to The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay. I started it last night and think I will finish it quickly as I want to do little else but read it. It's one of my favorite types of books---interesting characters ...
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