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05-30-2001, 04:47 PM
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It’s been two weeks since the last post in Tipu’s thread asking people what they’re reading right now so in a fit of moderating frenzy, I closed that thread and started a new one.
The books that I’m reading right now: Going Up the River by Joseph Hallinan The Men with the Pink Triangle by Heinz Heger Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides Home and Away by Scott Simon
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05-30-2001, 04:58 PM
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I feel like I"m revisiting my childhood. I went out over the weekend and bought a bunch of books that I might be sending to my neice (after I read them of course), so I'm currently reading:
Catherine called Birdy by Karen Cushman (I think)
Anne of Green Gables
Deenie by Judy Blume
Book of Plays from 1930 to 1959
Home and Away by Scott Simon (just arrived today)
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05-30-2001, 05:35 PM
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I bought all 4 Harry Potter books last Friday and am enjoying the heck out of reading them. I may be the last person in America to read these books. I also picked up Frank Peretti's Visitation on a bargain table at Borders last night, along with Derek Rowntree's Probability Without Tears and Ivars Perterson's The Jungles of Randomness: A Mathematical Safari. The last two are to help me become a SNAT (sensitive new age teacher).
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05-30-2001, 05:42 PM
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I am reading Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison.....
....the Bridget Jones for the teenage set. (I love young adult fiction! Does that say something about me???  )
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05-30-2001, 05:53 PM
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I'm reading The Americans: The Colonial Experience by Daniel Boorstin. Don DeLillo's Underworld is in the on-deck circle.
Ailsa
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05-30-2001, 06:02 PM
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Climbing Mount Improbable by Dawkins for Marie's write-off. Just hope I can finish up by tomorrow. Need a little time to write the review.  Extinction - Bad Genes or Bad Luck? - not great, but decent. I don't think I'd recommend it though. How to Solve Word Problems in Algebra  , Internet Applications With the Java 2 Platform and......
I'm STILL reading Consilience. Can you tell I'm arguing furiously with this author?
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05-30-2001, 06:06 PM
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I'm actually not reading too much, for once. We've finished the last month of "reading goals" at school, so I don't have to feel like I need to read a lot or be shown up by the kids anymore.
I've also closed my "library" for the summer, so the kids aren't constantly asking me what's new in it anymore.
Anyway, what I'm reading...
Paul Reiser's Couplehood
The Addy American Girl books
Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Longstocking
Lurlene McDaniel's To Live Again
Beverly Cleary's Ribsy
Sharon Creech's Bloomability (reread)
But I'm sure that it's going to take me a while to get through these!
Cindy
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05-30-2001, 06:07 PM
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Chalktown by Melinda Haynes (author of Mother of Pearl ). I'd never read her first, Oprafied novel, but so far I'm pretty impressed with this one.
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05-31-2001, 10:45 AM
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I was lucky enough to find a book on the horrible tragedy I read about eons ago in Bridgette's review about Michigan....
Mayday: The History of a Village Holocaust (Bath, Michigan)
Also.....
Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford
Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion which is the actual journal written by a girl in 1764-1765. (I love the basement of my library!)
Danielle |
05-31-2001, 10:50 AM
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Economics by Paul Samuelson
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
I Kissed Dating Goodbye by Joshua Harris (for the third time or so)
Fun fun fun; tomorrow I will try to continue reading Math analysis book, ugh!
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05-31-2001, 12:18 PM
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I'm so happy to see that everyone else is posting several- I always have at least three going at once!
'Inventing The AIDS Virus' by Peter Duesberg.
'Gay Men's Friendships' by Peter Nardi.
'The Search For Modern China' by Jonathan D. Spence
'The Palace Thief' short stories by Ethan Canin.
At least those are my 'downstairs' books... 
Cindy |
05-31-2001, 12:40 PM
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The Pump House Gang by Tom Wolfe Goodbye Darkness by William Manchester Paris to the Moon by Gopnik is still open on my bedside table Hot Night in the City by Trevanian I'm continuing to re-read for a review. pageclot |
05-31-2001, 03:32 PM
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Meghan Daum's My Misspent Youth
Rick Moody's Demonology
Just Finished:
Amy Tan's The Bonesetter's Daughter
Dennis Lehane's Mystic River |
05-31-2001, 05:46 PM
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man- i'm reading through the posts, and seeing people who are reading four or five books, and wondering where you guys find the time... 
and then i remember that i have a fourteen month old (gotta love that time in their lives where they can move on their own, but communicate in grunts and pointing fingers). i'm just proud to be reading two books at once
anyways- i'm reading The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingslover (for some reason i like oprah's book club *shrug*)
and...
The Black Stallion (forget the author...).
that's it. i did just finish Where the Heart is- does that count? |
05-31-2001, 06:13 PM
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Would you believe I'm not reading ANYTHING at the moment? I saw the thread, and was ready to post, but realized I have nothing to put here.
Oh, well. I have a book coming here from another library soon, that I'll be rereading. |
05-31-2001, 07:50 PM
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My current reads (in no particular order)
To Lie With Lions by Dorothy Dunnett
Pride and Predjudice by Jane Austen
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Sorceress of Darshiva by David Eddings
Original Story by Arthur Laurents
Deconstructing Harold Hill by Scott Miller
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05-31-2001, 10:22 PM
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Lucky was definitely the wrong choice of words. I had to take a break from reading the tragedy that was the Bath school. I have never been so affected by a nonfiction book. Horror, disgust, shock, sadness...........they are all a part of reading this book.
Danielle |
05-31-2001, 11:05 PM
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Oh Danielle, I so much want to find that book. I knew there were two that existed on the tragedy, but haven't been able to find them.
Isn't it a horrible, horrible incident? What's amazing is how few people know about it and it remains (and I pray it will always remain) the worse case of school violence in this nation's history.
If you're ever in the Bath area, let me know and I'll arrange for you to see the museum. It continues to be a powerful event that affects the life of the village of Bath.
I got distracted from what I was reading. The medicine I've been taking made me ill today, soI lay in bed and read. I finished Catherine Called Birdy and started another book that was supposed to be a children's book:
Running out of Time
anyone ever hear of it? It was pretty intense for juvenile fiction and was pretty flawed, but definitely a powerful book.
I'm now reading (TIPU: Are you listening?) Lloyd Alexander's The Book of Three.
I went on a little bit of a binge last night and over the weekend. I visited several used bookstores. I finally sat down to make a list of all the juvenile fiction books I bought to send my niece. I, um, have 55. (Though, I spent only $40, so I can't complain.) I really hope I can turn her on to reading, 'cause otherwise I have a whole bunch of books that my son won't be able to appreciate for another decade. I'm enjoying them, though...
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06-01-2001, 11:25 AM
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This week, since I am mostly in one hotel room or another and my car, I'm ploughing through books one at a time instead of having several going simultaneously (I'm also weaning myself off of reading for pleasure since I will soon have to deal with an annoyance called homework).
What I've read so far this week:
Two more Dorothy Sayer's Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries from my growing collection
The Falcon at the Portal by Elizabeth Peters
Finished up the Emily books by L.M. Montgomery (Redlass : while you're revisiting your youth and Anne of Green Gables give Emily a whirl too)
The book of the day is Michelle West's The Sea of Sorrows, fourth in the Sun Sword series. However, I'm taking awhile to read through this one since I read the first three over a year ago and the plot has gotten rather complicated at this point.
Books for the weekend are a Regency romance called A Country Flirtation and Mercedes Lackey's The Black Swan.
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06-01-2001, 07:34 PM
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"An Hour Before Daylight, Memories of a Rural Boyhood" by Jimmy Carter.
I am big fan of the Carters so it seems natural I would like this book. He is pretty straightforward about the race issues, classes of people, etc. Very interesting. I love autobiographies.
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06-01-2001, 07:49 PM
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Mercedes Lackey's The Black Swan.
--naomi
I liked it. But it's not really in her usual style. More along the lines of Robin McKinley. But I like her books also, so there ya go.
Lynne
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06-01-2001, 08:36 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by Redlass
I finished Catherine Called Birdy and started another book that was supposed to be a children's book:
Running out of Time
anyone ever hear of it? It was pretty intense for juvenile fiction and was pretty flawed, but definitely a powerful book.
| Yeah, I've heard of it! It was one of my favorites a couple of years ago, but have since reread it a couple of times and have seen the flaws. However, I did reread it and write my review of it last weekend (not posted yet). Margaret Peterson Haddix (author) is becoming one of my favorite children's/young adult authors. I also liked her Among the Hidden and am waiting patiently for Turnabout to come to paperback.
Cindy
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06-02-2001, 12:04 AM
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Did someone say Alexander? Yessssss! muhuhahahahahahh My eeeeevil plan worked!!! It's either gonna be LeGuin or Cooper next, so read ahead class!
Wow, I feel like a slowedpoke... oh wait, used to that anyway... I'm still reading two of the three I'd mentioned earlier... the non-fiction works. Reading Pinker's Words and Rules more or less concurrently with McWhorter's Word on the Street is kind of an eye-opener. Pinker's more celebrated, yet I find myself so much more eager to return to McWhorter's crisp writing (he's currently countering the theory that Black English has its roots in African languages right now by showing how it arose from the dialects of the lower class English {Irish, Scots, northern England as opposed to the more 'correct' south Brits} plantation owners). Pinker has interesting points, but rather drags at times, while McWhorter's writing seems to take you tripping from point to point with such poise that I'm able to tell you about the premise he's been developing for about 15 pages now, while Pinker is right now talking about, um, stuff... about irregular verbs...
Got thru Redeye—didn't live up to its promise in me eyes. Due to a relatively recent event, I veered off my reading list and went through the five books of the Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy in The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide, lovin every minute, even liking Mostly Harmless more than I remember enjoyin it before (but it's still a 3 starrer)...
... then got kinda busy at work and haven't been able to read much for almost a week...
... but I'll have a good chance to read throughout next week, so chances look good for me getting thru Bland's The Island of the Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime and Nadolny's God of Impertinence... well, mebbe, as long as I can resist the uge to check out a few Vonnegut's from the library...
... and I'm on the June issue of Funny Times. Yay!
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06-02-2001, 01:45 AM
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If I had my way, you couldn't get into college without reading The Prydain Chronicles; Lloyd Alexander did a superior job.
I am reading the Scott Simon book fitfully, and am rereading two of Bernard Cornwell's Richard Sharpe books that I was reading at the beach. Also The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and a Carl Hiassen comic-thriller.
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