Jodes
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« Reply #25 on: August 17, 2009, 11:06:42 am » |
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I love the Twilight saga so much I finished all four books in six days. I couldn't put them down. I have now read ther series 4 times and have started them again....and watched the movie ohhhh about 25 times and can't wait for New Moon. I have The Host and haven't been able to get into it. If a book doesn't grab me in the first page, I tend to not bother. I enjoy reading Karin Slaughter, Kathy Reichs and James Patterson. Their characters are brilliant.
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« Reply #26 on: August 18, 2009, 07:32:40 am » |
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I have two on the go... both Alice Sebold. Lucky and The Lovely Bones.
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Lovelee
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« Reply #27 on: August 26, 2009, 07:26:59 pm » |
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Ive just got my 5th copy of Women who Run with the Wolves - Clarissa Pinkola Estes. I keep getting part way through it and then meeting a woman who clasps it to her chest and claims 'this looks great - I NEED something like this' so I hand it on. This one I intend finishing - though I bought it with one of the daughter and her daughter in mind. So I guess I wont be finishing it this time either.
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Laughter is the best medicine, unless you've got a really nasty case of syphilis, in which case penicillin is your best bet.
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Shef
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« Reply #28 on: August 30, 2009, 11:10:09 pm » |
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I've been really lax about reading lately. I seem to spend more time on the computer. I am a third of the way through The Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follet. So far it's really great, but I find if I read for more than an hour I just get really tired and can't concentrate, and 10 minutes after that I'm damn near asleep
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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« Reply #29 on: November 14, 2009, 11:49:54 pm » |
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As I am under strict orders by GP to slow down, I got the new Stephen King book.... Under the Dome. Trade size is 877 very thin pages. You have to keep checking how many you have turned else you skip.
The story is flowing quite nicely. There's an awful lot of characters to remember, but bless him, he's put a glossary at the front so you can look them up if you forget who is who.
I'm up to page 300 since Thursday night. I haven't slowed down quite as much as I probably should have but - meh - I blame the doc. He not only added antibiotics to my list of pill popping, he added prednisone (I sprung a leak and can now add asthma and bronchitis to the stomach ulcer and hives) and prednisone makes me hyper I think.
2010 had better be a vast improvement on this year I can tell you!
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Magoo
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« Reply #30 on: November 16, 2009, 08:04:23 am » |
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2010 had better be a vast improvement on this year I can tell you!
I was relating an experience to someone I had in the Owaka cemetery a couple of years ago and it was likened by a friend to this book with no unhappy instances to this point in time. Susan Hill's The Woman in Black. A good little ghost story. 6/10
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Calliope
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« Reply #31 on: December 02, 2009, 08:55:34 pm » |
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The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson Book 1: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Book 2: The Girl who Played with Fire Book 3: The Girl who kicked the Hornet's Nest.
Unfortunately we will not see any more work from Stieg Larsson as he died in 2004 shortly after delivering the manuscripts of these three books to his publisher.
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[W]hat the internet and its cult of anonymity do is to provide a blanket sort of immunity for anybody who wants to say anything about anybody else, and it would be difficult in this sense to think of a more morally deformed exploitation of the concept of free speech. - Richard Bernstein in the New York Times
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« Reply #32 on: December 08, 2009, 12:08:45 pm » |
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Amongst others [I often have 4 books on the go at the same time] I am reading Stephen Kings saga, "The Dark Tower." I think he is up to volume 6 or 8 now, but I am only up to volume 3, with Vol. 4 waiting in the wings here.
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TokGal
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« Reply #33 on: January 16, 2010, 08:14:04 am » |
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I am ploughing my way through the latest Diana Gabalden book, An Echo in the Bone. I'm about halfway at the moment but it's a slow job because I keep falling asleep when I start reading it.
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Kiwithrottlejockey
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« Reply #34 on: March 23, 2011, 03:08:05 pm » |
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If you aren't living life on the edge, you're taking up too much space!
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Ferney
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« Reply #35 on: March 24, 2011, 04:50:20 pm » |
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A couple of weeks ago I was given Kate Atkinsons latest book 'Started Early, Took my Dog" I read the first few pages then daydream because once I get into it, I won't be able to put it down and I don't want to get to the end....because I'll have to wait a year or two for her to write her next book. Weird I know.
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TokGal
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« Reply #36 on: April 04, 2011, 08:07:28 am » |
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I'm halfway through Breaking Dawn (last book in the Twilight saga), don't want to finish it too soon yet I have difficulty putting it down. I resisted reading any of them at first (because I don't like vampire stories as a rule) but am glad I gave in, have thoroughly enjoyed every one.
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AnFaolchudubh
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Faugh a ballagh!
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« Reply #37 on: November 13, 2011, 01:17:52 am » |
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Right at this moment I'm reading a couple of NZ military books as am doing up Photos for a display in the local towns heritage house that is run by the local Historical society of which I'm a member, also reading a couple of books on leather working and one on black powder firearm maintance.
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Stupid people are not an endangered species so why are we protecting them R. S. OhAllmurain
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ssweetpea
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« Reply #38 on: April 21, 2012, 11:00:34 pm » |
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I borrowed The Hunger Games off Sp1 at 5pm and finished it at 10:30pm with time off to eat dinner.
Sp1 managed to read it in a single day barely stopping for meals.
A real page turner that is for sure. 5½ hours is a record for me.
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Magoo
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« Reply #39 on: April 22, 2012, 08:09:01 am » |
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The Secret Life of Bees. Finding it a bit dull at this point.
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BorisSanobabitz
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Zaregoto - The Kubikiri Cycle
I really love this book soooooooo much
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NEET or neet is a young person who is "Not in Education, Employment, or Training".
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