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colleen_lee
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/05
#700Currently Reading
Posted: 6/20/06 at 3:14pm
Calling Bernadette's Bluff - Dale McGowan
The story of an atheist philosophy teacher at a "feminist" women's Catholic college on a prairie in Minnesota. It's an academic satire and heavily centered on the debate between faith and reason. The book is not an easy beach read, but not particularly heavy. You are forced to think but will laugh out loud on many, many, many occasions.
The stabs at religion are many and the book is chock full of wit and satire.
I very highly recommend this book!
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1401036082/qid=1119692669/sr=1-1/103-3320745-4447011?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
http://xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdisplay.asp?bookid=12552
"You just can't win. Ever. Look at the bright side, at least you are not stuck in First Wives Club: The Musical. That would really suck. "
--Sueleen Gay
#701Currently Reading
Posted: 6/20/06 at 3:16pm
First off, I LOVE your icon Colleen.
I am currently reading TIMELINE by Michael Crichton.
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
#702Currently Reading
Posted: 6/20/06 at 3:16pmThe Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
"Carson has combined his passion for helping children with his love for one of Cincinnati's favorite past times - cornhole - to create a unique and exciting event perfect for a corporate outing, entertaining clients or family fun."
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#703Currently Reading
Posted: 6/20/06 at 3:31pm"Grief: A Novel" by Andrew Holleran. First edition. Inscribed.
Twitter @NamoInExile
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neddyfrank2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#704Currently Reading
Posted: 6/20/06 at 3:33pm
I am actually reading two books.
The first is Oliver Twist because I am preparing to direct that.
The second is Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
#705Currently Reading
Posted: 6/20/06 at 3:34pm
I love Holleran... will have to get that book.
Reading two books:
"State of Fear" by Michael Crichton
"Conversations with God" by Neale Donald Walsch
Celebrate Life
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
#706Currently Reading
Posted: 6/20/06 at 3:40pm
f.u.b.a.r. by sam seder and stephen sherril
very funny, scary and informative book...
also reading Sweet Jesus I Hate Bill O'Reilly...
You're always sorry,
You're always grateful,
You hold her, thinking:
"I'm not alone."
You're still alone.
-"Sorry-Grateful" Company
-"Sorry-Grateful" Company
#707Currently Reading
Posted: 6/20/06 at 3:52pm
I'm currently re-reading my books by Tamora Pierce because I've been missing them recently...and then I have a few library books by Paulo Coelho (who wrote "The Alchemist".....great author!).
If you enjoy reading--or even just beautiful writing, you should check out Jodi Picoult. She is far and away my favorite author. She has a beautiful, flowing style. As a writer myself, I adore her so much. I even got to meet her in February and she is SO wonderful in person!
Umm...you may be familiar with her if you've seen the Lifetime movies "The Pact" and/or "Plain Truth." Her first book to be a 'big bestseller' and catapult her up in the world was "My Sister's Keeper," which is my favorite book EVER and worth checking out. My second-favorite book is also by her--"Keeping Faith." Both of these books have been optioned to become movies sometime soon.
Her latest book just came out this past March. It is called "The Tenth Circle" and is the first novel to interweave graphic novel pages into the text in order to portray a character's feelings and emotions. These pages also are heavily tied to Dante's "Inferno," which is one of the world's great classics.
Jodi Picoult has a smart, intelligent writing style. She writes things that resonate in the real world. Many (though not all) of her books wind up in the court room, which is a fascinating process in and of itself. She deals with many current events in society over the years, such as euthanasia, designer babies, etc. Her next two books will deal with the psyches of 1) a kid who goes into his school and kills his peers, and 2) an innmate on death row.
She does in-depth research on her topics, from going to a jail in Arizona and talking to people on death row to studying in Alaska to living with an Amish family in Lancaster to going to work with real-life ghost-hunters, etc.
She is absolutely amazing and I would recommend her to anyone looking for a good, fulfilling read. Many of her books are in my favorites list.
#708Currently Reading
Posted: 6/20/06 at 3:55pmThe Pope's Army: 500 Years of the Papal Swiss Guard by Robert Royal
"I am open, and I am willing,
For to be hopeless would seem so strange.
It dishonors those who go before us,
So lift me up to the light of change."
Holly Near
#709Currently Reading
Posted: 6/20/06 at 5:55pmWhen Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay Penman
YessicaB
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/05
quintia
Featured Actor Joined: 4/5/06
#711Currently Reading
Posted: 6/20/06 at 5:58pmNicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
"I believe in truth, beauty, freedom, but above all things, I believe in love."- Moulin Rouge
#712Currently Reading
Posted: 6/20/06 at 6:14pm
Anthony Rapp's book is good, but either you haven't read much, or just have weird tastes.
Anyway, I'm re-reading SON OF A WITCH.
#713Currently Reading
Posted: 6/20/06 at 6:19pmJust finished The Devil Wears Prada and Peace Like A River. Now onto A Long Way Down by, Nick Hornby and Running With Scissors.
"I don't wanna see that!" -Aunt Sassy (as played by Valerie Cherish) on Room & Bored
#715Currently Reading
Posted: 6/20/06 at 6:28pmLOVE LOVE LOVED IT. Couldn't put it down and was VERY upset when I finished it. I thought the author (Lauren Weisberger) perfectly balanced Andrea's personal and RUNWAY life. My only problem was with the ending which just seemed too dramatic for the character she had set up in Andrea. But, a great read none the less.
"I don't wanna see that!" -Aunt Sassy (as played by Valerie Cherish) on Room & Bored
Broadway Star Joined: 12/31/69
#716Currently Reading
Posted: 6/20/06 at 6:31pm
"Running With Scissors" by Augusten Burroughs.
It is VERY twisted writing, but AMAZING!! Stayed up till 4 in the morn last night just to keep reading!
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#722Currently Reading
Posted: 6/20/06 at 6:41pmWAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!! I have to see it! thank you so much!
#724Currently Reading
Posted: 6/20/06 at 6:48pmI'm three chapters in to Patty Jane's House of Curl. Not much has happened story-wise, but I love the way Lorna Landvik turns a sentence.
And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."
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