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I would much sooner pick up The Behaviour of Moths than The Sister, and Someone Knows My Name is a completely boring, unmemorable title. Blah! Another issue is title changes. This year I read a recent book by Poppy Adams (Orange Prize nominee) that was titled The behaviour of moths in England but The Sister in the US, and a great book by Lawrence Hill, titled Someone Knows My Name in the US but the Book of Negroes everywhere else. ... ... Rehearsal
14 Slaughterhouse 5
15 The Adventures of Pinocchio
16 Autumn Journal
17 Library of the Dead
18 The Behaviour of Moths (aka The Sister)
19 A Mercy
20 The Breaking Point
21 Enslaved
I won't go through the whole list in detail but there are a few that ... Finished The Behaviour of Moths which was great! Now on to A Mercy. Got home from an overnight stay in the Hospital, to find:
from QPB:
The Sister by Poppy Adams
The Outlander by Gil Adamson
and an ARC:
On the Bluffs by Steven Schindler
now if i can make time to shelve them..never mind read...Jeesh! I haven't heard of any of these except The Behavior of Moths (which is known as The Sister in other parts of the world). 17) The Sister, Poppy Adams
18) The Scent of Sake, Joyce Lebra
19) Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali
20) Seeking Provence, Nicholas Woodsworth
21) An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, Elizabeth McCracken A Spell of Winter looks good, so I'm adding it to my TBR pile! Have you read The Sister by Poppy Adams? That's an interesting modern gothic w/ a twist. That's interesting, bleuroses. By the title and author, I'm thinking that The Behavior of Moths is the same book as The Sister which I read as a Barnes and Noble First Look selection.
I finally finished White Teeth for Orange January and on to Amy Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses also for ... ... (and nearly finished!) The Behaviour of Moths by Poppy Adams recently published by Virago.
It was published as The Sister in the US with lackluster cover art. Even at a deep discount, I couldn't bring myself to purchase the US edition! ... of Moths by Poppy Adams. I was rather adamant about reading the Virago edition as the American edition was retitled The Sister with uninviting cover art and published by Knopf. 6 The sister Poppy Adams
A nice eerie story about two sisters with the narrator being the kookie one with some serious OCD on her and a small side of autism, or is she the kookie one? you never really know for sure as she shoots out brilliant observations. Think "What ever happened to Baby ... ... you do get around huh? in your last thread you had just read We always lived in the castle - Which I loved! I'm reading The sister right now, just started it, but I keep running parallels. I have no idea if it keeps it up, but so far it's pretty good. What is a "spoiler" to one person might not be to another. Case in point: at B&N 1st look when The Sisterwas being shipped, several people posted in the community room that they had received their book. One person wrote he/she didn't know what butterflies had to do with the story and another ... Fleur, please let me know how you like The Behaviour of Moths. I've heard mixed reactions, and I have The Sister (the American title of the same work) in my TBR waiting for me! ... tion
Fingersmith***** by Sarah Waters
Oryx and Crake**** by Margaret Atwood
Back Roads**** by Tawni O'Dell
The Sister**** by Poppy Adams
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Adichie
Honorable mention mystery edition
White Nights****1/2 by Ann Cleeves
Jar City**** ... ... want to lose track of you. I don't understand the need for that group anyway--50 books is only a suggestion here....
The Sister looks really interesting. Not that I need to add a book to my list. A friend read The Poisonwood Bible for work recently (she's an English teacher), and she ... Since my last post:
The Sister by Poppy Adams -- http://lifeinbooks.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/the-sister-by-poppy-adams
The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway -- http://lifeinbooks.wordpress.com/2008/08/26/the-gone-away-world-by-nick-harkaway
The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike -- ... ...
Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies by Laura Esquival
The Sister by Poppy Adams
Most from the 1$ sale at Bookcloseouts. ...
Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies by Laura Esquival
The Sister by Poppy Adams
Two from mooch and the others from Blookclosouts for $1 each.
59. The Sister by Poppy Adams
A creepy gothic where I was constantly off-kilter due to questions about the narrator's sanity. An estranged sister, Vivi, returns home after almost 50 years of estrangement and neither we nor the narrator, Ginny, know why. Very good and compelling read. I liked ... I'm reading an advance copy of Poppy Adams's The Sister. I've just started, and it is already quite creepy. I went to post a couple of times, but it seems just as overwhelming as when I tried to participate in the discussion for The Sister. So I skim a couple of posts and see what others are saying and then just move on. I think until they get a better way to set up the discussion, I am going to have ... I got mine a couple days ago here in S. California.
I participated in First Look for The Sister by Poppy Adams and enjoyed it although I agree the format was a bit much (I didn't know they'd be discussing it chapter by chapter and I read ahead-so it was hard to only discuss the individual ... Hi! I got my copy yesterday, as well (I'm in Michigan). Like Rarcar1 said, I tried to participate in the discussion for The Sister from a couple months back and was totally overwhelmed by the entire experience, so I'm hoping that this time won't be the same way.
I've never read anything by O'Na ... Me, too! Last month I got The Sister by Poppy Adams through B&N, too. I didn't really participate in their book discussion (too many people, too overwhelming), but I sent in a review. I didn't know if that would be enough, but I guess it is. ... on my game.
15. The inimitable Jeeves by P.G.Wodehouse
16. The garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway (reread)
17. The sister by Poppy Adams
18. The big sleep by Raymond Chandler
I think I'll try to get some more half-done reads finished so I can get my numbers up and then move on. ... Eden, one of my favorites--I had been worried it wouldn't be as good as I remembered, but it was better. Also, I finished The sister, which was lingering half-read for like three weeks.
So now I'm trying to build up some momentum by finishing some other half-read books. This afternoon I'm ... The Sister by Poppy Adams
275 pages / 2008 / 3 stars / Fiction
I was selected to read Poppy Adams' The Sister through Barnes & Noble's First Look program. I thought the description of the book sounded interesting and the first chapter that they posted intrigued me enough to want ... 78. The Sister by Poppy Adams - This one took a while because I was trying to read on the book discussion schedule. I'm not really sure what I think of this book. It's dark - almost Gothic in tone - and I didn't find the characters all that sympathetic. Even so, I was anxious to see just what ... >32: mrstreme
At page 200, I'm finally drawn into The Sister. I'm surprised -- and encouraged!! :) -- by your and others' comments upon finishing it ... it must really be some wow-something that pulls everything together? 15) The Sister by Poppy Adams (review) I finally finished The Sister by Poppy Adams, or as I affectionately call it, "The Moth Book." I almost gave up on it at the half-way point, but the story moved past the moths and really got interesting. A great book for a patient reader (patience is not one of my fortes though!).
Next, I ... ... bird by Martin Davies
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
The Sister by Poppy Adams
The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
I love this style of writing, so I am curious to see what books make the list in this thread! >55 Mrstreme
I have an arc of The Sister. I will be curious to hear what you have to say once you finally get into it. If you like it, I will move it up my pile! It's been a slow reading week for me. I am still at the beginning of The Sister by Poppy Adams - not the book's fault, just one of those weeks. And could it possibly be March already?!? ... first serve deal. I had just checked the thread titled "How to Get Your Free Reading Copy and Enroll in the Discussion" on The Sister message board, and followed the directions at the beginning of the thread and was accepted. I know that sounds a little enigmatic, but there didn't seem to be ... ... 19, and am working on my 20th and 21st right now: Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate and Poppy Adams' The Sister. ... read the others in the series, but they wouldn't be offensive to me.
I need to start my review books, so I'll be reading The Sister next (at least chapters 1 - 5). I haven't received Holding her head High yet, but that will be next on the list. ... R. Lawhead
and Advance and Retreat by Harry Turtledove
I also got an ARC from Barnes & Noble this week (The Sister by Poppy Adams) for their First Look club, and I'm waiting on an ER book.
I'd better get reading!! >7 - The Sister is the ARC being read in Barnes and Noble's First Look book club for March and the books were just sent out. Possibly you signed up there?
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