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What do you think about Inheritence/Eragon trilogy?
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Re: What do you think about Inheritence/Eragon trilogy?
PostMuse
18 yrs ago
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Enjoyed Eragon, perhaps because I was impressed with the author's age. Didn't particularly care for Eldest. Thought it too derivative.
PostMuse
18 yrs ago
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iTunes doesn't have a good selection, and they are quite pricey. I don't like the interface, either. I've written to them and detailed just how I would like to browse audiobooks. Digital audiobook listening is huge and A…
PostMuse
18 yrs ago
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> Hmmm, I'm on a Mac (Safari, OS X.4) and I
> haven't had any problems with Audible.
Do you see the tab for My Next Listen? And can you email Help Desk? I am very curious if you can, because I've not heard back from…
PostMuse
18 yrs ago
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I am thinking more and more this is a Mac incompatibility issue, especially since KF-in-Georgia was able to successfully email tech support using a wintel machine. :::sigh::::
Anyway, I've contacted my library and the…
PostMuse
18 yrs ago
Mine came down today. For the first time in my life, I had an artificial tree...really artifical. It is purple. I haven't had a tree in a few years, so this year I decided I'd get one and just have fun with it, so I got …
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Alternatives to audible.com?
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Re: Sorry you're having trouble with Audible; while I did find the new...
PostMuse
18 yrs ago
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Yes, the woman I finally spoke with thought it strange that section wasn't on my account. I did log out and back in, and tried using Firefox instead of my preferred browser, Safari. I have the Platinum Account right now,…
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Alternatives to audible.com?
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Re: Sorry you're having trouble with Audible; while I did find the new...
PostMuse
18 yrs ago
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Mostly it is the lack of customer service that is bothering me with Audible. I had lots of books in the My Next Listen section of the site, and that section is not available now. I don't know if it is something permanent…
PostMuse
18 yrs ago
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I've been an audible.com subscriber for a few years, and though I've always had issues with their site design, the newest release is a nightmare. Tech support is currently only available by telephone, and the connection …
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Where's a good place to look for "coming soon" titles?
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Re: Where's a good place to look for "coming soon" titles?
PostMuse
18 yrs ago
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I think Powells.com has the all time best Coming Soon pages, http://www.powells.com/psection/ComingSoon.html Just look at how nice and simple the page is, and the MANY categories of titles on the left. Plus, it is very …
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OK. Enough fooling. =^.^= posts actual photo of herself.
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Re: And here is something educational
PostMuse
18 yrs ago
> Did you know that the horseshoe crab's
> blood is blue? http://tinyurl.com/9cmyn
> (This info & link from the people
> who help find all these auctions.)
I didn't know that, but I know a few blue b…
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OK. Enough fooling. =^.^= posts actual photo of herself.
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Re: OK. Enough fooling. =^.^= posts actual photo of herself.
PostMuse
18 yrs ago
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Okay, that would be fun to take down to the seashore when the waves are not rolling hard and place it just below water level, sit back and watch the beachstrollers jump back in absolute horror when they see a tiger looki…
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Yo - GoryDetails! What do you think of "The Ghost & Mrs. Muir"? Book version, that
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I love this book, and the movie!
PostMuse
18 yrs ago
I spent way too much money on a hardcopy, bookclub edition a while back. The movie has always been my all-time favorite movie (Lucy is getting ready for bed on her first night in her new [haunted] home and Capt Gregg boo…
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question for people who read 100 or more books a year
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Re: question for people who read 100 or more books a year
PostMuse
18 yrs ago
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> What's
> "housecleaning"? ;-))
Yeah, what she said.
I don't think I am a fast reader, but I don't have trouble going through 7 books a week. But, I also have reading material wherever I am, and the 15 minut…
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What new releases are you eagerly awaiting in 2006?
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Re: What new releases are you eagerly awaiting in 2006?
PostMuse
18 yrs ago
What We Believe But Cannot Prove edited by John Brockman (edge.org)
Seeing by Jose Saramago
Third installment in the Sisters Grimm series, Powers of Deduction
Duchess of Nothing by Heather Mcgowan
1001 Books You Mu…
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What's your favourite non-fiction subject to read about?
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Travel, social science, nature, food, world history
PostMuse
18 yrs ago
Specific topics are bees and honey as a social science interest, water scarcity as nature issue, slow food movement and food supply, and world history that traces one item through time, like salt (Kurlansky), words (many…
Chit-Chat
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Every BookCrosser's favorite Twilight Zone
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Re: Every BookCrosser's favorite Twilight Zone
PostMuse
18 yrs ago
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> "Look! There's something on the wing!"
Okay, was that the original series, or the remake in the 1990s? I enjoyed almost all Twilight Zone stories, even though I would be afraid to get off the sofa and walk into t…
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The last two days in 2005... What are you all reading?
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Re: The last two days in 2005... What are you all reading?
PostMuse
18 yrs ago
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> and reading! I´m finishing Alessandro
> Baricco's Silk, a beautiful story.
Oh, yes. It is. Lovely little book, too. I liked Baricco's "Ocean Sea" better, though. I read them both in translation since I can't…
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The last two days in 2005... What are you all reading?
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Re: The last two days in 2005... What are you all reading?
PostMuse
18 yrs ago
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> 300 books? I am impressed. How many do
> you think you will actually read of the
> 300.
All of them. I read about 300 this year, too, just didn't keep track of the titles. Journaling them is the hard part. I…
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The last two days in 2005... What are you all reading?
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Re: The last two days in 2005... What are you all reading?
PostMuse
18 yrs ago
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Finishing up Vonnegut's "Breakfast of Champions" and a couple way overdue bookrings (my last ever....too much pressure in bookrings). Got my reading queue all piled up to start a reading challenge in 2006, 300 books, hal…
PostMuse
18 yrs ago
Got the first in the series in a bookring a while back, but just couldn't get excited about the story. Reread just a month ago and this time it all clicked. The story gets a bit drawn out at times, which is I think what …
PostMuse
18 yrs ago
> This is a wonderful and quirky kid's book
> that my mom discovered a few years ago.
> Now it's part of the Christmas tradition
> to read it, even though there's no young
> children in the family. Check it out i…
PostMuse
18 yrs ago
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> Today I
> think I'll read Bee Season.
"Bee Season" was one of my surprise read of 2005. I read it because it has "bee" in the title but didn't expect much of it because it always seemed like "woman's literature," …
PostMuse
18 yrs ago
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I have no idea who you are, but I was absolutely thrilled to notice them today. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
PostMuse
18 yrs ago
> Tammy1985: The answer to your
> question. .. and the same question I had
> after I picked myself up off the floor. ..
> is on Sonora's main page. I'm still
> chuckling. (smile) Bob
I love Son…
PostMuse
18 yrs ago
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I never have set a reading goal, but after reading so many posts about reaching reading goals, I'm setting one for myself this year. I read about 200 this year, so I'm setting my goal at 300 for 2006, and I am making a s…
