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Hogwarts Express : What are you reading in November.		137	foggidawn, Today 3:36pm
999 Challenge : Detailmuse ...		10	detailmuse, Today 12:12pm
50 Book Challenge : Ingrid's Challenge		60	ireed110, Yesterday 8:32pm
250 book challenge : Dyrfinna's 2008 Reading		12	Dyrfinna, Yesterday 12:03pm
888 Challenge : Sanddancer's		26	sanddancer, Thursday 3:02am
Book Nudgers : cornpuff12 needs a nudge.		19	Teresa40, Tuesday 7:53am
Made into a Movie : Books made into movies showing on the fall of 2008 in the U.S.		4	HelloAnnie, November 14
Book talk : Books with unique "narrators"		45	alcottacre, November 7
Reading Globally : Sanddancer's List		5	avaland, November 3
Book of the month club : September		14	tjsjohanna, October 15
75 Books Challenge for 2008 : Izzybee's 2008 List		86	alcottacre, September 27
50 Book Challenge : FlossieT's 2008 books - 100 book target!		1	FlossieT, August 20
List Five Books Parlour Game : Clothing and fabric		10	CD1am, August 16
Book talk : The Boy in the Striped Pajamas		8	Severn, August 14
What Are You Reading Now? : Top Five Books first quarter of 2008		119	rachbxl, July 1
What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 14 June 2008		227	Talbin, June 21
Read YA Lit : What are you reading in December?		41	Ernie64, May 14
The Prizes : Irish Book Awards		7	avaland, April 30
Dormant: List Five Books Parlour Game : prison or captivity themes?		21	abbottthomas, April 13
Dormant: The Literati : What books came into your home today?		69	-Mr-Dustin-, April 12
Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - DECEMBER 2007		172	lynnlib, April 6
Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : Top 3 Reads February 2008		48	laruebk, March 23
Dormant: List Five Books Parlour Game : Can't forget.....		13	Jodyreadseverything, February 3
Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 26 January 2008		200	sferrando, February 2
Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - JANUARY 2008		222	Cariola, February 1
Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 19 January 2008		209	Cariola, January 26
Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : Nickelini's 100 Book Challenge		17	amandameale, January 19
Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : Book_Junkie's 50 book challenge		9	Book_Junkie, December 2007
Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : Top books read 3rd quarter 2007 July-September (really)		77	3M3m, December 2007
Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : susiepie's 50 books in 2007		10	susiepie, December 2007
Dormant: Fantales Club del Libro : What are your three favorite books?		20	Adelaidereads, November 2007
Dormant: Fantales Club del Libro : WELCOME!		5	nicsreads, June 2007
Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came into Your Home Today? - April 2007		161	Kell_Smurthwaite, May 2007
Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : Your Top Five for 2006		104	momom248, January 2007
Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 2 Dec 2006		87	kfl1227, December 2006
Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 23 Sep 2006		83	wyvernfriend, September 2006
75 Books Challenge for 2008 : FlossieT's 75 for 2008		121	suslyn, Thursday 8:57am
50 Book Challenge : alalba		56	alalba, Tuesday 6:51pm
Read YA Lit : Teen Books for Adult Readers		82	emib, Monday 3:53am
Read YA Lit : What is your least-favourite YA title?		214	Carnation9, Sunday 11:51pm
Historical Fiction : World War II fiction recommendations		133	DouglasWJacobson, November 12
50 Book Challenge : melanie42's		17	melanie42, October 31
What Are You Reading Now? : Book Roots! How we come to have the books we read!		100	masgar, September 22
Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : Top Five books read during 2007		255	RcCarol, March 17
Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 29 December 2007		171	Alaskapat, January 19
Dormant: What did YOU buy today? : Message Board		397	aluvalibri, April 2007
Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : Your Bottom Five for 2006		103	dchaikin, January 2007

... ad Sarah's Key# by Tatiana de Rosnay How the Irish Saved Civilization# by Thomas Cahill Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck TBA TBA

... 63. James Madison - Garry Wills (184) 64. Moloka’i - Allan Brennert (389) 65. Straw Dogs - John N. Gray (246) 66. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - John Boyne (215) 67. Radical Hope - Jonathan Lear (187) 68. The Shotgun Rule - Charlie Huston (248) 69. The Hidden Power of the Bibl ...

... through your library and these are some of the books I think you'd enjoy reading: Any of Sarah Dessen's books. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine The Traveling Pants series ...

So far in October I have read My Booky Wook by Russell Brand, Middlesex, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and The Silver Sword. I am now reading Notes from an Exhibition.

... 4) 63. James Madison - Garry Wills (184) 64. Moloka’i - Allan Brennert (389) 65. Straw Dogs - John N. Gray (246) 66. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - John Boyne (215) 67. Radical Hope - Jonathan Lear (187) 68. The Shotgun Rule - Charlie Huston (248) 69. The Hidden Power of the Bible ...

Tailchaser's Song - fabulous story narrated by a cat. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - narrated by a small boy whose father is a Nazi officer, bit controversial, but compelling because of the childish confusion of the narrator. Peony in Love like The Lovely Bones is narrated by a ...

... by Yann Martel and God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy Europe Austria - The Third Man by Graham Greene Germany - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne Norway - Naive Super by Erlend Loe Sweden - Return of the Dancing Master by Henning Mankell Prague - The Unbearable Ligh ...

... revisionist slant, I found mysef doubting the authenticity of the 'find'. But that aside it is a fine narrative. The boy in striped pyjamas is officially a children's book but also an interesting, if chilling, read. It is about a boy whose SS father becomes commander-in-chief of a ...

... and I wasn't really disappointed. I enjoyed that journey for the truth that all of the characters embarked on together. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, by John Boyne - This story touched my heart. I can't even tell you about it, except that it takes place in Europe somewhere in the 1940's ...

... Choke - Chuck Palahnuik (overlap) 6. Dearly Devoted Dexter - Jeff Lindsay (overlap) 7. Hallam Foe - Peter Jinks 8. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas John Boyne Read so far: 8 To read: 0

#71 Thanks, Whisper. 65. O Menino do Pijama Listrado by John Boyne. The Portuguese translation of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.

... 17 The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd 2008OCT17 Lat Den Ratte Komma In - John Ajvide Lindqvist 2008OCT24 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne 2008NOV07 House - Ted Dekker 2008NOV14 The Road - Cormack Mc Carthy 2008NOV14 Twilight - Stephenie Meyer ...

Welcome! What did you think of The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas? It looks interesting.

... Park - Rachel Cusk 18. On Cape Three Points - Christopher Wakling 19. What Are You Like? - Anne Enright 20. The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne 21. The Devil Wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger 22. Christine Falls - Benjamin Black 23. Sharp Objects - Gillian Fly ...

... Park - Rachel Cusk 18. On Cape Three Points - Christopher Wakling 19. What Are You Like? - Anne Enright 20. The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne 21. The Devil Wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger 22. Christine Falls - Benjamin Black 23. Sharp Objects - Gillian Fly ...

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas John Boyne T-Shirt and Genes Richard Asplin The Boy with No Shoes: A Memoir William Horwood A Patchwork Planet Anne Tyler Tipping the Velvet Sarah Waters

... in life - being nice to others and being yourself or being liked by others? Some similar issues of loyalty to friends as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - how much do you risk in order to be loyal to a close friend? And both characters found at some point that they couldn't be 100% loyal. Doe ...

The main character's naivety seemed a bit unbelievable, but I thought Boyne was a good writer. What was interesting about The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is the perspective it takes on the holocaust, being told through the eyes of what seems to be a fairly stupid boy who is, by default, basically, ...

Another great example of cross over fiction is The boy in the striped pyjamas : a fable by John Boyne

The last 5 books I finished were: 1. Admit One: A Journey Into Film by Emmett James 2. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne 3. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman 4. My Father's Paradise by Ariel Sabar 5. Victor Kugler: The Man Who Saved An ...

... reviews to post on my blog while I'm going. This weekend I finished Ex Libris, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, and Admit One (okay, I finished Admit One today at lunch). I'm now working on The Fires by Alan Cheuse and am probably going to ...

... access). Because of this, I will probably also start one or more of the following today: The Fires by Alan Cheuse, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne, or Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman. Whatever I don't start today, I'll try to read ...

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne As Nature Made Him by John Colapinto

I really disliked slam by Nick Hornby and The boy in the striped pyjamas by John Boyne for the same reason: incredibly condescending towards their intended audience.

Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai by John Tayman

Only two in February -- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne and Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

10. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne. This was a tough one. It's never easy to read about the Holocaust.

Forgotten Voices of the Holocaust by Lyn Smith The boy in the striped pyjamas by John Boyne IT by Stephen King The History of Love by Nicole Krauss The Summer Book by Tove Jannson

I finished The Boy in the Striped Pajamas which was brilliant and haunting. Here is my review! Now I am reading Memoirs of a Geisha. I'm on chapter two and enjoying it so far...

#43 bunagsbooks - I just bought The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas at the weekend, so I'll be looking forward to hearing what you think of it. # 46 Booksloth - I finished reading The Phantom of the Opera last week and rather liked it. Hope you enjoy it too!

I just finished The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time which was quite good. Now I am reading The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Enjoying it so far. My Book Review Blog

... on an island at war, the power of fiction has dangerous consequences. Imagination and beliefs are challenged by guns. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne: The story of "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas" is very difficult to describe. Usually we give some clues about the book on ...

... on an island at war, the power of fiction has dangerous consequences. Imagination and beliefs are challenged by guns. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne: The story of "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas" is very difficult to describe. Usually we give some clues about the book on ...

I think my favouroues were Fiction Measuring Time by Helon Habila Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard The boy in the striped pyjamas by John Boyne The Night of the Burning by Linda Press Wulf *** Written as novel...but is based on story about Author's mother in ...

Finished my 39th book a couple of days ago - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne. It was a very easy, quick read.

... I picked up four new books yesterday with a gift card I got for Christmas, so I am very excited. I think next I'll read The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.

... by Elizabeth Berg 2) Sweetgrass by Mary Alice Monroe 3) Marrying Mozart by Stephanie Cowell 4) The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne 5) Rescuing Sprite: A Dog Lover's Story of Joy & Anguish by Mark Levin Honorable mentions: 1) How to Win Friends ...

... the Subtle Knife. One set is for my daughter, and one for my niece. - The White Giraffe, by Lauren St John - The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, by John Boyne - Felicity Wishes, by Emma Thomson (for my 7 yr old) (yes, THAT Emma Thomson--she's so talented) - Warriors: F ...

... Bayou by JoAnn Ross (8) Blue Smoke by Nora Roberts (7) The Book of Bunny Suicides by Andy Riley (7) * The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne (10) Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (8)

22. The boy in the striped pijamas by John Boyne Short novel about the friendship developed by two children, the son of a nazy commander in a concentration camp and a jew boy in the camp. It is chilling.

Here are my picks, out of the 30 books I read, in random order: 1) The Kite Runner 2) The Red Tent 3) The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 4) For One More Day 5) We Need to Talk About Kevin

... Philosophy, by Alain de Botton 30. The Reef, by Romesh Gunesekera 31. The Plague, by Albert Camus 32. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, by John Boyne 33. On Chesil Beach, by Ian McEwan 34. Buddhism without Beliefs: a Contemporary Guide to Awakening, by Stephen ...

... Hannah Goslar Remembers which will also make you cry because they are true stories. Another great one on this topic is The Boy in Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne. Have the tissues ready!

Yesterday I bought The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne in Asda for a reduced £3.73.

Hi Ladies. 3 of my favorite books are Don't call me Ishmael Boy in Striped Pyjamas and Tins! How about you?

... only excludes cookery and poetry books. Some of the touchstones didn't work but such is life Irish Novel of the Year Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne* Book of Lost Things - John Connolly** Tenderwire - Claire Kilroy Winterwood - Patrick McCabe Irish Non-F ...

... English by D B C Pierre was very disappointing after the success of Veron God Little. I also didn't care for The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne which is a YA book about the holocaust but I just didn't like the character and how naive he was through the whole thing. ...

Just finished Alabama Moon by Watt Key and starting The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne.

I started The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne last night...it is so powerful for a YA book...

... have to say my favorites were The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield The Boy in the striped pajamas by John Boyne Eragon by Christopher Paolini A Lesson before Dying by Ernest Gaines

... by Elmore Leonard Her Privates We by Frederic Manning True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne King Dork by Frank Portman The Thin Place by Kathryn Davis The last two have been talked up on one of the B ...

I read The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne---this little book tells a simple story with great impact. And now I'm starting The Book of Fate by Brad Meltzer.

... Rotten by Jasper Fforde The Care and Feeding of Books Old and New The Book of Fate by Brad Meltzer The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne--(I'm very anxious to read this one!) Reading Women--a lovely book And to read with my first grader: Do Not Open This Bo ...

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne is amazing. It's not to everyone's taste, and is not really a book for adults, but it's nevertheless hugely moving.