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| Book talk : Books made into movies | | 107 | Ape, October 2009 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Billion's 09 | | 1 | Billion, September 2009 | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : Where do you live? | | 78 | rolandperkins, August 2009 | |
| Made into a Movie : When the movies are better than the books or vice versa | | 211 | Jenson_AKA_DL, August 2009 | |
| 999 Challenge : luvtink81's | | 2 | VictoriaPL, July 2009 | |
| Fifty States Fiction (or Nonfiction) Challenge : Marie's 50 State Booklist | | 1 | mihess, July 2009 | |
| Book talk : Perfectly respectable happy books | | 38 | CliffordDorset, June 2009 | |
| 75 Books Challenge for 2008 : lenereadsnok joins the challenge | | 59 | dihiba, January 2009 | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : at the heart of the matter | | 12 | mamalaz, December 2008 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : Mount To Be Read: how big is yours? | | 296 | Booksloth, October 2008 | |
| Awful Lit. : 10 years of awful books my Bookclub has read | | 37 | bostonbibliophile, September 2008 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : SelkieGirl's 50 or more books of many different things | | 25 | selkie_girl, August 2008 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Lorabear's 50 books... | | 41 | lorabear, August 2008 | |
| Audiobooks : What are you listening to now? Part 3 | | 211 | bettyjo, July 2008 | |
| Book talk : New to reading world | | 10 | gorgeousbutterfly, July 2008 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : xicanti's book list | | 29 | xicanti, December 2007 | |
| Romance - from historical to contemporary : Jo Beverley Group Read for September: An Arranged Marriage-Company of Rogues Book 1 | | 14 | katybear, September 2007 | |
| Hogwarts Express : the most shocking moment for you was? | | 148 | LadyN, August 2007 | |
| Romance - from historical to contemporary : Finding a good romance novel not categorized under "Romance". | | 17 | CarolinaCatherine, June 2007 | |
| Read YA Lit : What are you reading in March? | | 73 | yareader2, April 2007 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : SheReads 50 Books or More | | 13 | SheReads, March 2007 | |
| Book talk : Fun with Libraries: Body Parts! | | 24 | NotSunkYet, February 2007 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 30 Dec 2006 | | 128 | jcasteel, January 2007 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 30 Sep 2006 | | 100 | Oocels, October 2006 | |
... Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
10. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
11. Sunshine – Robin McKinley
12. Where the Heart Is – Billie Letts
13. The Last Olympian – Rick Riordan
14. A Living Nightmare – Darren Shan
15. The Vampire’s Assistant – Darren Shan
16. ... ... eon
2. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
3. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
4. Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
5. Child of My Heart by Alice McDermott
6. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Ro ... ... by F. Scott Fitzgerald
North Carolina: A Walk To Remember by Nicholas Sparks
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma: Where The Heart Is by Billie Letts
Oregon: Diary by Chuck Palahniuk (And any other book by Chuck P, really.)
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South ... ... Although they may not qualify even as "somewhat literary" how about Can't Wait to Get to Heaven by Fannie Flagg or Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts.
>31 Saint Maybe has been one of my favorites for years. ... Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Sweet Hereafter
The Time Traveler's Wife
Up at the Villa
Virgin Suicides
Where the Heart Is
White Oleander
Women of Brewster Place
... to Harlem, Claude McKay
Home Land, Sam Lipsyte
Home Town, Tracy Kidder
Home, Witold Ryb??????ski
Where the Heart Is, Billie Letts
... and breezed through the first half. It's engaging and I love the character of Fate but, for my liking, it's too similar to Where the Heart Is.
#86 - You'll love Marley and Me, but keep the kleenex nearby. Quick read, but I wouldn't have chosen it for a book club -- not much substance to ... ... Normally I won't listen to them because they just leave out too much, but I do have one I really liked. I still think Where the Heart Is is excellent in the abridgement.
I just finished Twenty Wishes by Debbie Macomber and Sundays at Tiffany's by James Patterson. Both nice reads.
... ... feel good novels what about Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook or Message in a Bottle) or Billie Letts (Where the Heart Is)?
If you have an interest in philosophy, I would recommend Sophie's World. It is a fun read that also teaches a history of philosophy. ... Little Heart by Anne Lamott
The Heart of Meditation: Pathways to a Deeper Experience by Swami Durgananda
Where the Heart is by Billie Letts
Queen of Broken Hearts by Cassandra King
I'm going to have to get in the Kavalier and Clay Fan Club. One of my favourites for sure.
The only other I've read is Where the Heart Is. I actually really liked it the first time I read it but when I reread it I couldn't figure out what I likes so much the first time. ... Sarah Willis
02/03/08 When crickets cry – Charles Martin
02/04/08 Julia’s Chocolates – Cathy Lamb
02/06/08 Where the heart is – Billie Letts
02/10/08 The pillars of the Earth – Ken Follet
02/12/08 The thirteenth tale – Diane Setterfield-
02/14/08 The snow train ... ... I would do if I lost my husband...
2) Shoot The Moon by Billie Letts 424 pages ***
Why I chose it: Loved the book Where the heart is What I thought: I thought this was a well written book, enjoyed the story, found it difficult to keep the many different characters straight in my mind (h ... Been behind on my thoughts of books so here we go
23. Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
Loved it!! Now I want to see the movie, it was so good, I loved the characters expessially Novalee and F. Hull (working in a library I might be biased on the last one though)
Sort of reminds me of F ...  3,500 Wooooow.... You must have a house for your books... Do you ...
... Meg Cabot
21. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
22. The Masque of the Black Tulip by Lauren willig
23.Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
I also read Where the Heart Is, and I have to agree with you on the weirdness, oxymoron. But I wouldn't say it was an awful book. ... and did enjoy that, but it helps that I read the book a long time ago and was fuzzy on the details.
I've also read Where the Heart is by Billie Letts and watched the movie and loved both of them.
Pay It Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde was a better book than movie.
I've only ... ... downloadable books too. I recommend unabridged. I have one abridged that I love - the story about the baby born in Walmart (Where the Heart Is?. They made a really bad movie about it. I like the abridged audio book better than the unabridged for this one. #143 GertrudeTonks:
Have you ever read Billie Letts' Where the Heart Is? You've reminded me of it because the main character in that book had so many things going on with the number seven. :) ... as chick lit include:
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood & Little Altars Everywhere by Rebecca Wells
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination (and pretty much everything else written by Helen Fielding!) ... Marilyn French
Paradise Toni Morrison
Where the Heart Is Billie Letts
What Looks Like Crazy
on an Ordinary Day Pearl Cleage
A Good ... ... by James Michner
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
Homeland by John Jakes
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts (so much better than the movie)
13. Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts JF(Just finished): Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
OA(On Audio): Rash by Pete Hautman
CR(Currently Reading): Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
LF2(Looking Foward To): The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls and The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards I am reading Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts, not necessarily considered YA, but definately has YA appeal. It is this month's choice for our Read It 1st Book Club which reads the book then watches the movie after discussing the book, with more discussion to follow after the movie. The ... ... Robert Jordan
Heart, You Bully, You Punk by Leah Hager
The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honore de Balzac
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Vile Bodies by Evelyn ... ... Your Mind by Tucker Shaw
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer
The Arm of the Starfish by Madeleine L'Engle
Where the Heart is by Billie Letts
Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan by Bruce Feiler
Journaling from the Heart by Eldonna Bouton
Heartlight by Marion Zimmer Brad ... ...
electronic - either an e-book or a manuscript
Now that that's taken care of, here's my 2007 reading list:
1. Where the Heart is by Billie Letts - seller
2. Promise of the Witch-King by R.A. Salvatore - library
3. The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan - seller
4. ... I'm about 100 pages into Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts. I wanted something with heart to it, so I figured it was time to reread this one. I'm poised to begin Shoot the Moon by Billie Letts. I loved Where the Heart Is, so I have high hopes for this one.
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