75 Books...More or Less! discussion
Archive (2009 Challenge)
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L's 2009 challenge
4. Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris5. Little Earthquakes by Jennifer Weiner
Feb/097. i see you by Holly Lisle
L, Robin Lee Hatcher is an author I'm interested in. How well did you like "Wagered Heart"?
I liked it ok, it was the first of her books that I have read. By the end I started to get into it a little more than the beginning.
9.Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte10.The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker
March/0911. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
12. The Gnostic Mystery by Randy Davila
15. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
L, "The People of the Book" has been on my "To Read" list for awhile. How highly would you recommend it?
Kay wrote: "L, "The People of the Book" has been on my "To Read" list for awhile. How highly would you recommend it?""The People of the Book" started out a little slow, had some really interesting parts, and then would lose its momentum for me. That being said I loved the idea that the story presented to me... That is in general that everyone (or in this case everything) has a story of how they came to be where they are. I recommend it highly, but with the stipulation that you may have to get through a few sections of slow reading.
L wrote: "Kay wrote: "L, "The People of the Book" has been on my "To Read" list for awhile. How highly would you recommend it?""The People of the Book" started out a little slow, had some really interes..."
Thanks, L!
I have been away from my computer and Goodreads while moving and gettting settled. Here is a list of books read since the end of April.16. Finlater by Shawn Stewart Ruff
17.Something borrowed by Emily Giffin
18.Sanctuary Hill by Kathryn R. Wall
19. Like a hole in the head by Jen Banbury
20. The Bluebird House by Ellen Rae Lee
21. The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay
22. Up the Amazon without a Paddle by Doug Lansky
23. Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry
24. The Long Way Home by Sarah Storme
July/0925. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
26. The Last Bridge by Teri Coyne (Goodreads giveaway)
29. 7th Heaven by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
30. Midnight Magic: Selected Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason31. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
33. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson34.The Importance of being Ernest by Oscar Wilde
36. Pendragon The Merchant of Death by D .J MacHale
September37. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
38. The Wet Nurse's Tale by Erica Eisdorfer
L,"The Picture of Dorian Gray" has been calling to me for a re-read lately . . . how did you like it?
I liked it,eventhough the tragic character that Dorian becomes by the end was sometimes hard to "watch". I liked Lord Henry's numerous epigrams, whether true or not. This being my first reading of it, I saw it as the classic "selling your soul to the devil story". Having to read other books like that in school I was suprised that I never came across this sooner.
39. Sundays at Tiffany's by James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet
L wrote: "I liked it,eventhough the tragic character that Dorian becomes by the end was sometimes hard to "watch". I liked Lord Henry's numerous epigrams, whether true or not. This being my first reading of ..."Yeah, I didn't discover it until well out of high school, either. I actually saw the old black and white movie first, then read the book a few years later. The move is actually excellent and quite true to the novel, from the best I can recall.
October45.East of Eden by John Steinbeck
46. The Storekeeper's Daughter by Wanda Brunstetter
47. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
48. Lifeguard by James Patterson and Andrew Gross
L wrote: "47. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom"I've been meaning to read this one for quite awhile. . . should I put it near the top of my "To Read" pile?
I thought it was a good story and very thought provoking. It had been on my to read list a while too and I wasn't disappointed. Since it is so short you could read it in an afternoon, so it wouldn't be a huge waste of time if you didn't like it. I would definitely recommend it though it makes me question who my five people would be.
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49. Water, Stone, Heart a Novel by Will North
L wrote: "I thought it was a good story and very thought provoking. It had been on my to read list a while too and I wasn't disappointed. Since it is so short you could read it in an afternoon, so it wouldn'..."L - and Andrea - thanks! I'll move it up on the list.
50. Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi51.the Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
52. Child of an Ancient City by Tad Williams and Nina Kiriki Hoffman
53. Turn of the Screw by Henry James54. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
55. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow( my reading lately has taken drastic changes between genres lately--Oedipus Rex and Down and Out... In one months time. That's what happens when I take part in reading challenges!)
L, I hear you about the reading challenges. Don't you feel that sometimes it really expands your mind, though?
Kay, I do feel that challenges expand the mind--and keep me out of reading ruts as well. I just look back at my reading history the last few weeks, and find it a funny twist of choices.
56. New Spring (book 0 of Wheel of Times series) by Robert Jordan-- Love this series, it was the first fantasy book/series I ever read, and it is so addictive.
1. The Agency by Alley O'Brien (ARC addition to be released in Feb 09)
2. Secret Speakers and the Search for Selador's Gate by K.S.R. Kingsworth (read in manuscript form from the author by email)
3. The Blue Valleys a collection of stories by Robert Morgan