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by radiantquest » July 29th, 2009, 2:15 pm
That sounds like a good one. I didn''t know that movie was made after a book. Off to B&N to get it.
Actually the next on my list is My sisters keeper. I have heard that it is really good. My SIL is reading it now and she said that it is tear jerker. We will see about that. |
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oh i''ve been wanting to read ''my sister''s keeper'' as well, isn''t that also being made into a movie? |
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My Sister''s Keeper hit the theaters a few weeks ago. Unless it performed really well, I''d imagine it''s at the dollar theaters or gone completely. I enjoyed the book , though it was definitely a heavy subject.
Next up on my list is Still Life with Crows by Douglas Preston/Lincoln Child. I just picked it up from the library yesterday. At least I think that''s what''s next. |
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It is a wonderful book. Incredibly captivating. I had to read it last year for my Life Journey class. I was one of the few people who appreciated it, but what are you going to expect from a group of twenty-somethings college students? His Warrior Of The Light is also good, but its more-or-less something you might want to read a page or two a day, because of its format and density of material it needs some time to sink in. has anyone read "The Botany of Desire" or "Tales of a Shaman''s Apprentice"? I am going to be reading them for a class this upcoming semester. I''ve already gone through "the Botany of Desire" which was fabulous and actually a good read. |
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My next in line to read is ''The book of Negroes''. It''s actually been lying on my table for a few months now, but I keep putting it off because it''s hard to travel (on the subway) with such a massive book.
For all those who loved ''My Sister''s Keeper'', most of Jodi Piccoult''s books are fantastic reads. Although you might notice recurring themes with her books, begins to get a tad bit redundant. |
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Liz I just started the series - finished the first book last night. It was really good - didn''t think it would be something I''d like, though I''d heard such great reviews, but it was quite funny and interesting. 
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If you like Paulo Coelho, you might want to also check out one of his other books, "Veronika Decides to Die". I read it after "The Alchemist" and thought it was a great book. I just learned they made a movie of it (with Sarah Michelle Gellar) to be released this coming November. |
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Oh goodness. I just tore through the 2nd book in the Sookie Stackhouse series...I haven''t been this obsessed with a series since I discovered Ellis Peters'' Brother Cadfael series last summer!
I''ve also just finished Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (pretty good - I think I liked Shaghai Girls better, which was the first book by Lisa See that I''d read), The White Queen by Philippa Gregory (not too bad - a good look at a really fascinating era, which I encountered when I read Figures in Silk by Vanora Bennett), and I''m about to start the third Sookie Stackhouse book, The Devil''s Queen (about Catherine de Medici, by Jeanne Kalogridis, author of The Borgia Bride), and hoping to buy Sword of the Lady (S.M. Stirling) when it comes out tomorrow (it''s part of the series started with Dies the Fire - a really fantastic book). I love summer downtime
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I didn''t know they were making a movie of it! I loved that book a lot, much much more than his other books. I''ve even given it as gifts thrice. Somehow it really resonated with me. |
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Dragon Tattoo is a good one, and the second one came out not too long ago. It''s called The Girl Who Played With Fire Have you read James Rollins? He''s a great one too!! 
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Would you mind sharing what it is about? I am all for a great book, but I would like to know what it is about before a trip to B&N. I love books like that. Ones that impact you for a while. |
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I realized that I had stated two books I had meant to read before. Note to all I haven''t read them yet, just changed my focus mid way. So Ivanhoe and Healing foods, then I''ll probably read Geisha, I just wanted to read some info in Healing foods and decided to go ahead and read it, and SO brought Ivanhoe down the other night when I was laying on the couch so it replaced Deerslayer for the time being.
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It''s a fantastic read. Here''s the synopsis from Publishers Weekly: A number of fictional attempts have been made to portray what might lead a teenager to kill a number of schoolmates or teachers, Columbine style, but Shriver''s is the most triumphantly accomplished by far. A gifted journalist as well as the author of seven novels, she brings to her story a keen understanding of the intricacies of marital and parental relationships as well as a narrative pace that is both compelling and thoughtful. Eva Khatchadourian is a smart, skeptical New Yorker whose impulsive marriage to Franklin, a much more conventional person, bears fruit, to her surprise and confessed disquiet, in baby Kevin. From the start Eva is ambivalent about him, never sure if she really wanted a child, and he is balefully hostile toward her; only good-old-boy Franklin, hoping for the best, manages to overlook his son''s faults as he grows older, a largely silent, cynical, often malevolent child. The later birth of a sister who is his opposite in every way, deeply affectionate and fragile, does nothing to help, and Eva always suspects his role in an accident that befalls little Celia. The narrative, which leads with quickening and horrifying inevitability to the moment when Kevin massacres seven of his schoolmates and a teacher at his upstate New York high school, is told as a series of letters from Eva to an apparently estranged Franklin, after Kevin has been put in a prison for juvenile offenders. This seems a gimmicky way to tell the story, but is in fact surprisingly effective in its picture of an affectionate couple who are poles apart, and enables Shriver to pull off a huge and crushing shock far into her tale. It''s a harrowing, psychologically astute, sometimes even darkly humorous novel, with a clear-eyed, hard-won ending and a tough-minded sense of the difficult, often painful human enterprise. |
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Currently reading "The Night Villa" by Carol Goodman (my fave author).
Next on the list is "Sepulchre" by Kate Mosse. I started it but then I got my current book and where Carol Goosman is concerned, all er books fall by the wayside. I get very impatient and have to read it. So yeah, back to "Sepulchre" soon. |
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I was going to pick up one of her books the other day : The Drowning Tree - did you read this? |
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I finished S.M. Stirlings Nantucket series - which was amazing. It''s kind of parallel to the Emberverse series which starts with Dies the Fire - any alternate history fans out there, you have to check them out!
Currently re-reading The Last Colony by John Scalzi (author of Old Man''s War) and reading Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe for a seminar I''m in. |
