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| Topics | | messages | Last message | | | List Five Books Parlour Game : Therapy anyone? | | 24 | gforce7, Sunday 6:19pm |  |
| Book talk : A Story in Titles (Yet ANOTHER Silly Book Game) | | 19 | CD1am, August 11 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : Do you read voluminous books? Will you recommend them? | | 27 | belinthesun, July 31 | |
| Philosophy and Theory : How should I study philosophy? | | 121 | criels, July 18 | |
| Books that made me think : Message Board | | 133 | Cwrens, July 5 | |
| Children's Literature : Essential books for a kid under 10's bookshelf | | 35 | happymummy, July 1 | |
| Book talk : Another silly game---part 4 | | 408 | plohman, May 29 | |
| Connecticut Nutmeggers : Connecticut in books | | 12 | perlle, April 23 | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : Complete Sentences, Please! | | 79 | karenmarie, April 22 | |
| Book talk : Books about Mentally ill people | | 9 | cal8769, April 20 | |
| A Pearl of Wisdom and Enlightenment : Books on Wisdom and Enlightenment. | | 59 | walden_girl, April 4 | |
| LT's list of great books you should read : Action thread | | 60 | medievalmama, March 24 | |
| Dormant: Psychotherapists who read : What fictional works have contributed most to your work as a therapist? | | 3 | keren7, January 24 | |
| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : Lallybroch's 50 | | 12 | Lallybroch, January 3 | |
| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : Raggedtig's Book list | | 16 | raggedtig, December 2007 | |
| Dormant: New features : Is there way to Label & collect books on shelves like a real library does? | | 31 | nperrin, December 2007 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : Recommend a good book you've read lately | | 48 | wildbill, November 2007 | |
| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : Solitude1984 accepts the challenge! | | 11 | solitude1984, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: List Five Books Parlour Game : Why Can' t You Be More Possessive?! | | 17 | mzonderm, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: List Five Books Parlour Game : Infinitives | | 21 | dihiba, July 2007 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : What's your favorite book of all times? | | 33 | lululamb, July 2007 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 23 June 2007 | | 123 | vivienbrenda, June 2007 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : Fun with libraries | | 100 | paigelynn, March 2007 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : What I've read so far, in 2007, what about you? | | 13 | bluesalamanders, February 2007 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : The Irony Department | | 74 | perodicticus, December 2006 | |
| Dormant: Hogwarts Express : Message Board | | 106 | suge, December 2006 | |
| Book talk : Books that everyone loves and you hate | | 384 | debbiedebbiedebbie, Monday 10:44am |
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| Book talk : Ok, this is a good one. What is the most disturbing book you have read? | | 293 | TheCriticalTimes, Sunday 7:05pm |
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| 50 Book Challenge : angrystarlyt-100 book challenge! | | 89 | angrystarlyt, Friday 2:23pm |
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| Book talk : Loooonnnnngggg Novels | | 76 | VisibleGhost, August 10 |
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| Book talk : Another silly game to play. | | 671 | LynnB, July 15 |
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| LT's list of great books you should read : Top 25 | | 30 | JoleneConnelly, May 19 |
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| What Are You Reading Now? : Top Five books read during 2007 | | 255 | RcCarol, March 17 |
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| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : drsol's 50 book challenge | | 20 | drsol, January 1 |
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| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : Top Books read 4th quarter 2007 October -December | | 50 | jbd1, December 2007 |
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| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : Share a line or short passage from your current book | | 261 | Gary237, November 2007 |
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| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 28 July 2007 | | 188 | lili12302002, October 2007 |
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| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 21 July 2007 | | 173 | Storeetllr, July 2007 |
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| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 9 June 2007 | | 119 | AleAleta, July 2007 |
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| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 16 June 2007 | | 172 | varielle, June 2007 |
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| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 2 June 2007 | | 144 | ShannonMDE, June 2007 |
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| Dormant: What did YOU buy today? : Message Board | | 397 | aluvalibri, April 2007 |
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| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 14 Oct 2006 | | 80 | zimbeline, March 2007 |
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| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 25 Nov 2006 | | 99 | MrsLee, December 2006 |
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Anna Karenina, I Know This Much Is True, and The Crimson Petal and the White are all rather lengthy and quite delightful. Wow, so many great suggessions!
I have read Bleak House, Anna Karenina, and I Know this Much is True - all great novels!
I think that after Joseph and His Brothers I will try Remembrance of Things Past and then read A Dance to the Music of Time because I read that it was written ... Well, it's not historical, but, in my opinion, I know this much is true by Wally Lamb is well worth the time spent with it. It took me several attempts to get past the events of the first chapter, but I was so glad I did. 36. I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
A fascinating book, one that I absolutely couldn't put down, and one that made me cry like a little girl several times. I can't give it an unreserved five stars like many seem to, though. The story is really neatly tied in at the end, and while I'm ... My 6 year old son adores all the Bel Mooney books: It's Not Fair! Why Me? Why Not? I Don't Want to! I Know! I Can't Find It! etc.. (You get the picture.) They are great because they allow him to understand and laugh at himself. I read them to him at first but he tackles them ... "Arise, Arise", he shouted. The Witches of Eastwick are coming this way. "They have Sweet Revenge in their eyes."
"I Know This Much is True,"said The Catcher in the Rye, "There will be a Rebellion on The Reef."
*Good tie-in extrajoker* ... of dislike it or even sometimes feel nothing for it at all really. I would have to say that I didn't particularly enjoy I Know This Much is True, even though a lot of other people seemed to like it. Also, I felt mildly traumatised after reading Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis, and in a ... I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb Sorry, double post ... Sophies choice
15) The things they carried
16) Vanishing Point
17) War and Peace
18) Catcher in the rye
19) I know this much is true
20) The hitchhilers guide to the galaxy
21) God of small things
22) The analyst
23) Catch 22
24) Unbearable lightness of being
25) T ... ... are:
1) Franny and Zooey
2) The belljar
3) Catcher in the Rye
4 The joyluck club
5) War and Peace
6) I know this much is true
7) The hitchikers guide to the galaxy
8) The life of insects
9) Life of Pi
10) The poisonwood bible
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb one for me was I know this much is true which I found to a powerful book about human change lady gata already mentioned one of mine:
I know this Much is True by Wally Lamb, and A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. I find deliberate mutilation unacceptably unsettling.
Sophie's Choice. Children.Death.No.
The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond Of Matches by Gaetan Soucy Ch ... ... up which of these books I'd put in as 5)
You're Not You by Michelle Wildgren
Taming the Beast by Emily Maguire
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst
Edited to say how could I forget Snow Flower and the Secret Fan!
... by Colm Toibin
3) Family matters by Rohinton Mistry
4) The remains of the day by Kazuo Ishiguro
5) I know this much is true by Wally Lamb
Hmm - the touchstone for the master is wrong and it doesn't want to fix itself - ... Point by David Markson
2) Midnight's children by Salman Rushdi
3) Life of insects by Victor Pelevin
4) I know this much is true by Wally Lamb
5) A tie (yes its a cop out) between The glass castle by Jeannette Walls and Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively.
Honora ... ... Yalom
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys by Dan Kindlon
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck
... Alabama. Very interesting, but I probably should have tried to get if from the library, I likely will not re-read.
123. I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb. Story of twins. One has schizophrenia and the other has a very hard time accepting it. The sane twin spends most of his life ... You mean it *doesn't* cure the common cold?! I'm disappointed. Do you know this for certain? Is it official? I know this much is true, also by Wally Lamb. This is a 900 hundered page book that I finished in five days - just an amazing story. The basic premise, identical twin brothers and the one is schizophrenic and the one isn't. ... them.. lol).
My favorite reads for this year were Fall on Your Knees, A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Red Tent, I Know This Much is True,.. and I'll have to include The Time Travelers Wife :) I liked She's Come Undone when I read it years ago, but it is a bit melodramatic. I recently read I Know This Much is True by Lamb, though and thought it was fantastic. Just thought I would throw that out there... I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb ... Robbins
Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful - Alice Walker
I Am Becoming My Mother - Lorna Goodison
I Know This Much is True - Wally Lamb
She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
It's Raining Pigs and Noodles - Jack Prelutsky
Something Big Has Been Here - Jack ... I loved I Know this Much is True by Wally Lamb because he describes Norwich CT in such exquisite detail (also using fictional substitutions for the town, street and place names) that if you know the town well enough, you could walk straight to some of the houses he describes in the story. One ... As always, reading quite a few!
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb for book club this Thursday! (Why did we assign a 900 page book for book club? :)
The World According to Garp by John Irving
Underground by Haruki Murakami
Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950s by M.E. ... I finished I know this much is true andcreally enjoyed it. Wonderful story.
I will now start Girl with a pearl earing. ... Chandler
I and Thou by Martin Buber counts for 2?
I Don't Know How She does It by Allison Pearson 2 more?
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou To Catch a Wolf by Susan Krinard
52 Sacred Songs You Like to Sing
Better Beer and How to Brew it by M.R. Reese
The Little Puppy That Wanted To Know Too Much by Kenneth Graham Duffield
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, But Were Afraid to Ask By David Reuben ... but I can't help thinking the book would have been better if Hassan and Amir would have met as adults.
Now I am reading I know this much is true - only 20 pages in. ... Grows in Brooklyn, and To Kill a Mockingbird. More recently I have enjoyed The History of Love, The Thirteenth Tale, Broken for Me, As the Crow Flies, Cold Mountain and Shadow of the Wind. I guess I could go on, but doesn't this thread ask for the FAVORITE book? How to name just one? ... ... by Tom Perrotta
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
I'm enjoying all of them immensely, and would recommend each one, for very ... ... now, because there are so many books I want to be reading simultaneously.
I'm currently somewhere in the middle of:
I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
The History of Love (Nicole Krauss)
Car Pool (Karin Kallmaker)
Assassination Vacation (Sarah Vowell)
... ... ... at any given time!!
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss -- easily one of the best books I've read this year
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb -- just at the beginning, but it really grabs you right from the start!
and
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell -- ... ... I am finding that the way in which the book is narrated bothers me a bit. So, reluctantly, I've put it down, and picked up I Know This Much Is True. Yeah, it's interesting how opinions of books change over time ...
I might try out I Know This Much Is True sometime ... although right now I have sooooo many books on my reading list that it will probably be a while before I get to it. ;) I would say that I Know This Much is True is better than She's Come Undone--it doesn't cover nearly so much time, for one thing. The topic was really interesting to me, too. It has been so long since I read She's Come Undone that it is likely that I would have a different opinion of it now. ... ... found it to be pretty boring overall. It's not the worst book I've ever read, but it comes pretty close.
I haven't read I Know This Much Is True, and I don't plan to, given what I thought about his other book. ;)
Ah well ... to each his/her own. =) ... the right word, because it was very disturbing, but it was a good book I thought. What did you think of it? Have you read I Know This Much is True by the same author? That was a great book, too. I am impressed that he can make such long books so interesting and good. ... for the 'real' stuff--life is too short not to wrestle with the real things (Russell's History possibly excepted.)
It is remarkable that no one else on this board hasn't made this recommendation so far. #164 - Wally Lamb is a fabulous writer - I recently read I Know This Much Is True and have She's Come Undone on my pile TBR later this month. Why didn't Lamb write more books?!?!??! I know This Much is True by Wally Lamb. Probably the best book of the last century, written about 1998, I think. I looked at the length and thought, "no way," but started reading and couldn't put it down. Honestly, not ONE page was boring. It just kept going and going, like the energizer ... My most popular book:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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My 10% at 52 of 522:
I Know this Much is True by Wally Lamb
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My 50% or #261:
I was just Wondering by Philip Yancey
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My 100th:
The Road Less Traveled : a New Psychology of L ... ... Mind Parasites; G.I. Gurdjieff: The War Against Sleep.
Alan Watts: Beyond Theology: The Art of Godmanship; This is It; The Book; Nature, Man and Woman; Psychotherapy, East and West; The Wisdom of Insecurity; In My Own Way: An Autobiography; Behold the Spirit.
Tho ... ... Mind Parasites ; G.I. Gurdjieff: The War Against Sleep .
Alan Watts : Beyond Theology: The Art of Godmanship ; This is It; The Book ; Nature, Man and Woman ; Psychotherapy, East and West ; The Wisdom of Insecurity ; In My Own Way: An Autobiography ; Behold the Spirit .
... ... like 3 a.m. and I threw on some sweats, sped back to Wallmart, and bought COS (I had skipped it, since I'd seen the movieI know), GOF and OOF.
Now, I have all the books, every speacial edition DVD set and unashamedly go on www.scholastic.com and take the "Wizard Challenge". Its a Harry Pot ... How did we get to 16 messages without any touchstones? Is this ironic? I know this much is true by Wally Lamb. Course it will proably take until the end of the year to finish reading it. I just finished rereading a favorite, I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb.
I'm currently reading Midwives by Chris Bohjalian and Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 by Annie Proulx ...
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
--Henry Ward Beecher
How true. Yesterday I picked up I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb, Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards, and Th ...
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