V-Girl
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07-16-08 04:03 PM - Post#54053
are you reading right now? Or, if you aren't, what was the last book you read?
I'm reading "Surviving Residency: A Medical Spouse Guide to Embracing the Training Years" and the book before this was "A Tale of Two Sisters."
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07-17-08 09:14 PM - Post#54193
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2 weeks ago I was complaining that I had nothing to read and I now have a stack of books that will take me awhile to get through...
My pre-teen is VERY into the Stephanie Meyer Twilight series and I like to read what my kids are reading so I picked one up and couldn't put it down!! There are 3 in the series so far and the first 2 were so heartbreaking (in a sweet way- you girls know what I mean), the third wasn't my favorite but I'm looking forward to reading the fourth.
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V-Girl
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07-17-08 09:17 PM - Post#54195
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That's sweet that you're reading what she reads! I can't see myself reading the Little House on the Prairie series. ha ha!
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campbellfam
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07-17-08 10:08 PM - Post#54201
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Well, she's almost 14 so the books she reads now are far different than what our 7 year old reads. The Twilight saga is good for adults as well Link
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V-Girl
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07-18-08 05:02 AM - Post#54215
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Cool! Can't wait until M is old enough for books I can enjoy too. Well, I kind of like her being 10 though so maybe not rush it too much.
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Joe Schirmer
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07-18-08 10:21 AM - Post#54248
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That's sweet that you're reading what she reads! I can't see myself reading the Little House on the Prairie series. ha ha!
Give them a try, you might like them. 
I've only recently ready a few of the The Little House books and have to say I really liked them. The first one was read for a book club I belong to and I enjoyed it enough to pick up a couple more books in the series. Eventually I would like to go through them all...
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07-18-08 05:10 PM - Post#54298
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I read all the Little House books as a girl but I also own the collection and reread them at least once a year as an adult. Also like to reread the "little women" series I read as a child. I also read the books my sons read - for pleasure and for academics. Only problem with the "academic" reads as they've gotten older is that it seems like dark, violent and depressing equals classic and so some of the books I've read with them (particularly my oldest - AP/graduated 2007)were hard for me to really enjoy. The 9th grade summer reading was fun, though (Enders Game and/or The Locket). The 10th grade summer reading (Old Man and The Sea) wasn't nearly as fun a read in my opinion.
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campbellfam
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07-18-08 05:43 PM - Post#54304
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I recently re-read the Anne of Green Gables series that I loved when I was in middle school. The first one especially is a real page turner
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07-18-08 06:04 PM - Post#54309
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I used to have the Anne of Green Gables set when I was too young to really understand most of it. And now that I want to read them again, I can't find em! I think it's time for another shopping spree at Halfprice books *nod*
I've been trying to read Moby Dick lately. It is SO boring though! But I'm going to tough it out, I feel like a reading failure for not having read it before hehehe The last book I read was Michael Crichton's "Next" which while educational...was not really that interesting. I think I should get a degree in something for it LOL
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07-18-08 06:32 PM - Post#54314
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Crichton's State of Fear was the same for me- educational but not really much of anything else...
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07-18-08 09:23 PM - Post#54333
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I just finished World Without End by Ken Follett. He used to write spy novels but in recent years has switched to historic fiction. This one was good but not great in my opinion. It was a little "soap operaish". You know the star crossed lovers who can't get together because of their own stupidity and circumstances that conspire against them.
I just started to reread The Mists of Avonlea. It is a retelling of the King Arthur legends from the women's perspective. I read it years ago. My daughter wanted to read it so I thought I should reread it to see if it is 7th grade appropriate. I'm just in the first chapter and the main character's husband has already gotten a servant girl pregnant. Something tells me this is not going to be appropriate.
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07-19-08 03:07 PM - Post#54354
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I'm also reading David Sedaris's new book "When You are Engulfed in Flames" which so far isn't too bad. His last book "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim" has one of the funniest chapters I've ever read in any book.
I just finished Robert Crais's book "Chasing Darkness" and really liked it. Murder mysteries aren't usually my favorite genre as I don't always like the literary styles those authors use but his was good enough that I'm going to check out some of his other novels.
OH! And Nora Roberts has a new novel out too!
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07-20-08 04:35 PM - Post#54413
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A good book to read is The Glass Castle. It is the life story of Jeanette Walls, who is a journalist on CNN and some other programs. It has been one of my favorite books and tells of her and her family's hard life when she was a child....
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07-27-08 09:52 AM - Post#55231
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I also read The Glass Castle recently - very good - I highly recommend it!
Another good book I read recently is same kind of different as me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore. It's the common reading for incoming freshmen at my son's university. I read it first, then my son read it on our recent long road trip, then got my mom to read it while we were visiting them and now my husband is reading it! It's another autobiography type of story and very easy to read.
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08-07-08 05:02 PM - Post#56903
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-Breaking Dawn -- the last in Stephenie Meyers' Twilight series. It is so GREAT.
-The Last Boleyn Sister -- I know I'm a few years behind and the book isn't historically accurate, but it's still quite good. (Does anyone know if the movie was any good?)
-Just finished The History of Love by Nicole Krauss. I'd have never picked it up because I thought it was a romance, but a friend recommended it. It was fantastic.
We should start a "Books Being Made Into Movies" topic. I'm excited about a few of them.
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08-07-08 07:11 PM - Post#56928
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Breaking Dawn was SOOO good- sorry to see the series end, although I've heard she's writing another book (possibly series) as told through Edward's eyes, sounds interesting.
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08-08-08 09:27 AM - Post#56996
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Stephen Kings Duma Key,
Halseys Typhoon,
The Gi's War,
and Micheal Crichtons book called Next.
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08-08-08 08:29 PM - Post#57108
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Just finished Where in the World is Osama bin Laden. Very interesting book by Morgan Spurlock.
Kathy Reichs' latest Bones to Ashes, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez's Dirty Girls on Top.
And now I am reading a biography of Pablo Picasso.
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08-08-08 11:02 PM - Post#57144
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Just finished Hot Zone scary scary I did not realize an Ebola strain had made it to the USA.
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08-19-08 08:48 PM - Post#58415
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Sedaris's book about the family...Was that the one with the story about the French Class?
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