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What is the first sentence of the second paragraph in the book you are reading?
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The birds were stirring in the valley into which he descended.
timbuctou
14 yrs ago
From The Horsemen on the Roof by Jean Giono.
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June 27th & 28th - what are you reading this weekend?
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Ruth Rendell - Judgement in Stone
timbuctou
14 yrs ago
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Just finished. As for what I plan to do, I am going to suggest Ruth Rendell to two thriller fans in the neighborhood. Nobody but Rendell can truly write about the psycho who has lived next door for the past 25 years, the…
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Gahhhhh....... I just can't get into any books at the moment.....
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Reading nothing right now
timbuctou
15 yrs ago
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Well, actually, I have a book I put down sometime at the beginning of August and haven't picked up yet and I didn't finish the two I began before this one. I haven't actually finished a book since the end of July. I have…
timbuctou
15 yrs ago
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When I was in high school, I was up all night reading it.
timbuctou
15 yrs ago
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From "The Dream Life of Sukhanov", one I'm giving up on for now, which has it main virtue is its slightly off sentences and the author's all-out love affair with adjectives and description. Without looking it up, I would…
timbuctou
15 yrs ago
but I did enjoy it way back then. In fact, if I didn't have to many unread books, I would go back and read it. Recommended wholeheartedly!!
timbuctou
15 yrs ago
"Stop here," said Anatoly Pavlovich Sukhanov from the backseat, addressing the pair of suede gloves on the steering wheel.
The white-and-yellow columns outside his window ceased their tiresome flashing, began t…
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Inspired by oonaroyale's warning - What is the worst book you have read?
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Don't remember
timbuctou
15 yrs ago
Great -- I must have blotted it out of my mind. Over the past couple of years I've given up on a number of books but I don't know if any of them would qualify as the "worst". That's kind of a reverse honor to be reserved…
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When's the last time you gave up on a book partway through?
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June 15 Island of Exiles by I.J. Parker
timbuctou
15 yrs ago
Mystery set in Japan a century or so ago. I don't know why. The author did nothing with the background of setting and didn't seem to know much of anything about history or customs. Didn't care about the characters, if th…
timbuctou
15 yrs ago
I remember 20 years or so ago making a major effort to read all of the books in the series. I did it, too, and still have at least a dozen on my shelves. --Unregistered, too -- I'll have to take care of that. I'm pretty …
timbuctou
15 yrs ago
3 abandoned, page count 9592, well ahead of last year, fairly even with the year before.
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The New What's the First Sentence of Your Current Book? Thread
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Jude had a private collection
timbuctou
15 yrs ago
From Joe HIll's Heart-Shaped Box
timbuctou
15 yrs ago
--which was the only book I bought last weekend. I went to Borders and found it on the "last chance" pile or whatever they called it.
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How do you choose your holiday/vacation reading?
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Have to start thinking about this because I'll be going on vacation in a few weeks.
timbuctou
15 yrs ago
Last time I went away, it was a plane trip with lots of waiting around in airports so I brought a couple of mysteries that I could leave along the way. This time I am going by car and can bring anything I want. That's ac…
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How do you choose your holiday/vacation reading?
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Have to start thinking about this because I'll be going on vacation in a few weeks.
timbuctou
15 yrs ago
Last time I went away, it was a plane trip with lots of waiting around in airports so I brought a couple of mysteries that I could leave along the way. This time I am going by car and can bring anything I want. That's ac…
timbuctou
15 yrs ago
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Preferably trade paperbacks. Recently, at a book sale I found some paperback versions of some hardback books I already had, bought them and gave away the hard covers. I rarely look at hard cover books any more, except fo…
timbuctou
15 yrs ago
If weight is what is required to fix this problem, I'm sure there's plenty of it there.
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The Final Warning by James Patterson
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I try to stay away from authors who are popular beyond words.
timbuctou
16 yrs ago
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At some point they stop being writers and storytellers and start churning out something -- anything which will fit between two covers. They will have another half-dozen best seellers and a several million more in the ban…
timbuctou
16 yrs ago
Started last night, have gotten to page 192. Really enjoying it despite some early misgivings.
timbuctou
16 yrs ago
It's always a big decision for me what to read next. Maybe Heaven Lake by John Dalton?
timbuctou
16 yrs ago
This is one of my worst book-related problems. I have over 100 books on my shelves waiting to be read and I have a terrible time deciding among them. haven't found a solution to this problem yet and I rather envy the pe…
timbuctou
16 yrs ago
This is one of my worst book-related problems. I have over 100 books on my shelves waiting to be read and I have a terrible time deciding among them. haven't found a solution to this problem yet and I rather envy the pe…
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The first line of your current book?
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from The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
timbuctou
16 yrs ago
"Nine months Landsman's been flopping at the Hotel Zamenhoff without any of his fellow residents managing to get themselves murdered."
timbuctou
16 yrs ago
I have grown to like it. When I first started it, it took me awhjile to get into it. I noticed I was reading two or three pages, then putting it down. It took me a couple of days to read the first 70 pages, but now I am …
timbuctou
16 yrs ago
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I am 35 pages in and liking it so far. I do hope it turns out to be good.
