#776
Posted: 4/19/13 at 3:54pm
I'm looking forward to reading it!
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#777
Posted: 4/22/13 at 7:00pm
About 100 pages into The Night Circus, which Tink read a while ago. I like it so far. Reminds me of a Baz Luhrman movie.
::bust a move::
#778
Posted: 4/22/13 at 8:35pm
I just got Corduroy Mansions on my Kindle, but I have a cheesy Nora Roberts and Sophie Kinsella to read first. The one I'm reading now is the Nora Roberts. It's called something like "Treasures Lost, Treasures Found" Dumb but an easy read while I'm watching the Voice.
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#779
Posted: 4/22/13 at 10:25pm
I'm thinking about reading Gatsby because of my fascination with the era, but I'm really excited about the film as well. Should I read it before the film? Will I be disappointed with the film if I read the book before?
#780
Posted: 4/22/13 at 11:33pm
Always read the books first. And Gatsby is a great one.
::bust a move::
#781
Posted: 4/23/13 at 4:49am
I would definitely read the book first!!!!!
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#783
Posted: 4/23/13 at 6:30pm
I'm about to read The Great Gatsby too...then I'm gonna see the Robert Redford movie, then I'm gonna see the new movie.
I'm odd.
I'm odd.
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#784
Posted: 4/23/13 at 7:40pm
I plan to read Gatsby during the summer even though I'm going to read it in school next year. I'm currently reading Catch 22 (along with Othello) for my english class and I really enjoy it. I just wish I didn't have to read it in such a short amount of time....
Anyone else read Catch 22 and have an opinion?
Anyone else read Catch 22 and have an opinion?
#785
Posted: 4/23/13 at 8:12pm
I teach English, and just read Catch 22 about two years ago. I loved it, some of the humor is very dark, but I laughed out loud a lot.
#786
Posted: 5/1/13 at 10:55pm
JbaraFan...........I'm reading Corduroy Mansions right now. It's a quirky little book isn't it?
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#787
Posted: 5/2/13 at 12:04pm
I just picked up Marc Maron's Attempting Normal and I can't wait to start it.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#788
Posted: 5/2/13 at 4:56pm
StockardFan, for sure! I hope you are/did enjoy(ing) it. So far I like his Scotland Street series better, mostly thanks to three characters: a little boy named Bertie Pollock, an artist named Angus Lordie, and Angus' dog Cyril.
Right now I have barely waded into some southern comedy/romance novel, name escapes me, I chose as amazon local deal. Also have Penny Marshall's book to read.
Right now I have barely waded into some southern comedy/romance novel, name escapes me, I chose as amazon local deal. Also have Penny Marshall's book to read.
#789
Posted: 5/2/13 at 8:48pm
I am enjoying it! Thanks for the recommendation!
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#790
Posted: 5/2/13 at 9:06pm
Glad to hear it, StockardFan! Sometimes it's nice to have just a fun, mostly nonserious read!
#791
Posted: 5/15/13 at 6:49pm
I picked this up at Barnes and Noble. It's very good so far.
http://www.amazon.com/Golem-Jinni-Novel-Helene-Wecker/dp/0062110837/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1368658237&sr=1-1&keywords=golem+and+the+jinni
http://www.amazon.com/Golem-Jinni-Novel-Helene-Wecker/dp/0062110837/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1368658237&sr=1-1&keywords=golem+and+the+jinni
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
#792
Posted: 5/15/13 at 7:47pm
"The Fault In Our Stars" (John Green)
Heartbreaking and laugh out loud funny. I was beside myself and couldn't put it down.
and
"To Kill a Mockingbird" (Harper Lee)
...for the 100th time. Just as wonderful as it was the first 99.
Heartbreaking and laugh out loud funny. I was beside myself and couldn't put it down.
and
"To Kill a Mockingbird" (Harper Lee)
...for the 100th time. Just as wonderful as it was the first 99.
#793
Posted: 5/15/13 at 10:36pm
I'm reading The Black Dahlia. I'm having problems getting into it.
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#794
Posted: 6/7/13 at 7:58pm
Just finished Dan Brown's INFERNO.
A real page-turner!
(And now I want to go back to Florence and Venice!)
A real page-turner!
(And now I want to go back to Florence and Venice!)
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
#795
Posted: 6/7/13 at 8:13pm
^I had the exact same thought while reading Inferno. I was in Italy exactly one year ago today and really want to go back ASAP.
#796
Posted: 6/7/13 at 10:00pm
Truman Capote's In Cold Blood...so far I am riveted.
#797
Posted: 6/7/13 at 11:46pm
The Magicians, by Lev Grossman. Before that it was Bossypants, which is lovely to read when one is in a minor career crisis.
#798
Posted: 6/8/13 at 12:00am
"Great Expectations" because it has been 26 years since I've read a Dickens novel and I've never read this one. I don't know if my tastes have changed or what, but these writers who got paid by the word did find ways to go on and on and on without saying very much of anything or making anything happen.
Right before that I read Capote's "lost" first novel, "Summer Crossing." That moved at a nice brisk pace with plenty of flashes of that Capote genius.
I put down "The Night Circus" for the umpteenth time since it came out. It's not very good. If you saw "Sleep No More" in Brookline, nothing about the magical circus seems that wondrous or magic.
Right before that I read Capote's "lost" first novel, "Summer Crossing." That moved at a nice brisk pace with plenty of flashes of that Capote genius.
I put down "The Night Circus" for the umpteenth time since it came out. It's not very good. If you saw "Sleep No More" in Brookline, nothing about the magical circus seems that wondrous or magic.
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#799
Posted: 6/8/13 at 11:24am
I'm reading Shutter Island. It was slow to start but it's getting interesting now!
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#800
Posted: 6/9/13 at 1:40am
I just finished All You Could Ask For by Mike Greenberg. It's about three women in New York. The first half it switches back and forth between their lives, then halfway through it goes to a blog for women with breast cancer. All three have breast cancer and connect through this blog. I really enjoyed it and would HIGHLY recommend it. It's a breezy, but substantial and rewarding read.
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
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