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I LOVED The Hunger Games trilogy and can't wait for the movie in March

I just finished a strange book I had in storage (and never read) called Kissing in Manhattan. It was good, but the ending was very unfinished for all the stories that wind together throughout the book.

I loved The Help and I really liked Room - even though it was VERY dark

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I am currently re-reading the Harry Potter series for the third time. When I am done with that, I have Dracula downloaded on my Kindle. I have never reader it before, so I am pretty excited

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I just finished The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst (amazing but not quite the experience I had with his best book The Folding Star).

Am now reading London Triptych by Jonathan Kemp... Do far so good (similar themes though)

My bff bought a copy of Peter Straub's Ghost Story for me for Christmas. Odd Christmas gift, I know, but I wanted to read it around Halloween but could not find a copy of it.I'm on about page 80 and really digging it so far.

Almost finished with:





And then going to start:

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Updated On: 1/18/12 at 09:24 PM

@StockardFan, yes this Ghost Story is the one they made into a movie. Everyone tells me the book is way better. I kinda remember seeing the movie on cable when I was a kid and it being creepy.
I am going to rent it when I am done.
I love the book, it is a great winter scary read!

Updated On: 1/24/12 at 08:22 PM

Comedy Writing Step By Step by Gene Perret.

Carol Burnett provided the foreword.

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I've red Isherwood's Berlin Stories ever since I became hooked on Cabaret as a young teen--probably read them a couple of times since, and read A Single Man (which whether you liked the movie or not--I did a lot with some big problems--is simply one of the most stunning short novels I've ever read), but somehow never got around to reading more Isherwood--aside from Christopher and His Kind his sorta "real" memoir take on the Berlin Stories with what actually happened in more frankness.

An online friend said I had to read Down There on a Visit, which he wrote in the 60s immediately before Single Man, but continues the stoires of some of the characters from Berlin Stories and was originally intended to be combined with those as well as some unfinished works as his never finalized big epic work The Lost. It's divided into four parts--I'm onto the second and really loving it.

^ I LOVE Jodi Picoult's books.

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Yesterday I read "Best Part of Me" by Nicholas Sparks. I was in the line at the library and it was sitting there.

Seriously, that man is a sadist. Why in the hell do people enjoy reading these stories?? lol

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"Rules of Civility" by Amor Towles.

LOVE!

Incredible debut novel. I can't put it down.

Description:
Set in New York City in 1938, Rules of Civility tells the story of a watershed year in the life of an uncompromising twenty-five-year- old named Katey Kontent. Armed with little more than a formidable intellect, a bracing wit, and her own brand of cool nerve, Katey embarks on a journey from a Wall Street secretarial pool through the upper echelons of New York society in search of a brighter future.

The story opens on New Year's Eve in a Greenwich Village jazz bar, where Katey and her boardinghouse roommate Eve happen to meet Tinker Grey, a handsome banker with royal blue eyes and a ready smile. This chance encounter and its startling consequences cast Katey off her current course, but end up providing her unexpected access to the rarified offices of Conde Nast and a glittering new social circle. Befriended in turn by a shy, principled multimillionaire, an Upper East Side ne'er-do-well, and a single-minded widow who is ahead of her times, Katey has the chance to experience first hand the poise secured by wealth and station, but also the aspirations, envy, disloyalty, and desires that reside just below the surface. Even as she waits for circumstances to bring Tinker back into her orbit, she will learn how individual choices become the means by which life crystallizes loss.

Elegant and captivating, Rules of Civility turns a Jamesian eye on how spur of the moment decisions define life for decades to come. A love letter to a great American city at the end of the Depression, readers will quickly fall under its spell of crisp writing, sparkling atmosphere and breathtaking revelations, as Towles evokes the ghosts of Fitzgerald, Capote, and McCarthy.

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It's been out for a few months, Tink. I know others have mentioned it in this thread. I think you'll enjoy it!

I have a large stack of books next to my bed. I haven't had as much time to read as I like, so I'm enjoying catching up.

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