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Okay, I finished Mockingjay and...I don't know. It just didn't come together for me. It sort of lost its direction and rambled about and then suddenly ended with a big pretty bow tied around it. I hope the screenplays tighten the stories with more focus. The last five chapters or so were all over the place.

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Still reading "Some Sing, Some Cry" (I do most of my reading on the bus!) but I just picked up Erin Morgensterns "The Night Circus". An ad popped up for it on a website I was on and it looked interesting. Read the opening and it really piqued my interest.

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Updated On: 9/16/11 at 12:35 PM

Last week I read "Stories I Tell My Friends" by Rob Lowe and "Theodore Boone: Abduction" by John Grisham.

Now I am starting the adventure of "A Game of Thrones".

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I just finished Nancy Thayer's new book. It was called Heat Wave. Cute story.

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Put 'Some Sing, Some Cry" aside and am reading "The Night Circus". So far, so good. It has the best opening to a book I have read in a long time.

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Updated On: 9/30/11 at 11:46 AM

Night Circus has been on my radar for a couple of weeks. Glad to hear someone enjoyed it. Right now, I'm reading In the Woods by Tana French. The style and main character remind me so much of the Prey series by John Sandford, which I love. I'm only about 100 pages in, but I'm really enjoying it so far.

Speaking of similarities to Harry Potter, anyone else read The Magicians by Lev Grossman? I was really quite stunned at the rather direct...shall we say..."nods" to Narnia and Harry Potter. It was kind of fun to read, but the similarities were something of a distraction. I'm probably read The Magician King, but I hope it is a little more original.

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Am reading 'The Paris Wife' by Paula McLain

Wonderful read - a novel written from Hemingway's first wife's (Hadley Richardson) point of view. Compelling historical fiction.

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Mister Matt - I read "The Magicians" earlier this year. I had read a review on a website and thought I'd give it a chance. Can't say I was blown away by it like others have been. It started off entertaining enough but by the time they had "graduated" it became like a smutty wizard soap opera in some ways and that took me out of it. I've been in no rush to read "The Magician King" but will eventually.

I have a few more chapters of "A Game of Thrones" left and then have "Bossypants" by Tina Fay and "The Paris Wife" waiting on my shelf (let me know what you think when you are done, Addy!).

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Not as well as past years but decent. GoT will be 20. I still have 3 months and winter is usually my biggest reading time so we shall see. I tried not to up my count goal this year but try to just maintain at 30. Other than the Hunger Games trilogy, this is the first time in years that I did not take on a full series so that effected the count as well.

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Now reading Augusten Burroughs "Possible Side Effects". I read everything of his up to this book and needed a break, so to speak. Now want some more lite reading before diving back into "Some Sing, Some Cry". So far, I like it more than "Magical Thinking".

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I'm reading Elements of Style by Wendy Wasserstein. It's not as good as I thought it would be. Sort of tedious.

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Going to start Brian Kellow's biography of Pauline Kael this weekend.

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Updated On: 11/14/11 at 03:51 PM

Finally finished the Hunger Games series. Loved it. Thinking of starting "Extremely Loud and Incredible Close" next or dive into the Game of Thrones series. Any suggestions for holiday reading?