Julie’s Comments (group member since Jun 14, 2009)

Julie’s comments from the Readerville Veterans group.

Considering we all recommend books to each other nonstop, I'm not surprised our numbers are pretty high! And if I could just read faster (I'm so jealous of you, Kat), they'd be even higher, I bet!

Even in the 10 years since I've known most of you, the only person I almost always agree with (bookwise) is Lauren B-L. Maybe I'm just not seeing the pattern with anyone else. Or maybe I'm just unique! Just like everybody else.

"and who slept with you." Wow! So, Lauren, who was it?

Yeah, I knew some people hated Hedgehog. But I really like it. I think if you can't get behind the irony, you're not going to be able to like it. It's for my RL book club, and I'm expecting to get annoyed with people in the group that I know aren't going to get it, and aren't even going to try to see anything except "I hate it! It's terrible. Period." We just did Cannery Row, which I really don't like, but I was able to see the merits in it, and try to view it in the spirit in which it was written. Some people flat out refuse to do that, and it kind of irks me. Open your mind peeps! (Not you Lauren. I know you're not at all like those people in my book club. They're good people, but still....I'm sure I annoy them sometimes too.)

Still, I was one of the people who also loved Special Topics in Calamity Physics, so it's not surprising me that I'm loving this one too! Now I need to read The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie and Little Bee, because apparently they have precocious young girl narrators too. I seem to really like that. (Also loved What Was Lost, with a precocious girl who got dead.)

Miriam & Nancy, I have quite a few on my "currently reading" but I actually just removed a few. Moved them to the "On Hiatus" list I have, because I haven't read anything in them in weeks, but I do intend to finish them someday! I rarely give up on a book completely, though there are a few. I guess I'm just one of those people who can't commit to just one book! I'm a book whore. I read different stuff all the time, I buy more books than I will ever read, etc. You are my people.

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I am reading like 7 books at once, but I'm trying to concentrate on RL book group books first. So I'm reading Gone With The Wind, which I am absolutely adoring, and The Elegance of the Hedgehog, which I just started tonight. After about 60 pages, I'm loving that one too! It's funny and smart and a little mean, just like me! :D

Hey y'all! I'm still trying to finish In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez. I also got sucked into April & Oliver by Tess Callahan last night. It reminds me of a relationship I have with an old "friend." Couldn't resist.