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ajsmom
9 yrs ago
"Like geocaching".
ajsmom
9 yrs ago
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I left this book in a location 1.5 hours drive north of where I live 7 years ago, and it just got a journal entry in a city 1.5 hours south of where I live! I love this site.
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/3406…
ajsmom
10 yrs ago
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I LOVED Adrian Mole - they came out at exactly the right time for me. I also enjoyed The Queen and I. I just handed AJ (now 12) my battered copies of AM and sequel last week, not knowing that she had passed. RIP.
ajsmom
10 yrs ago
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"I think your reaction to The Orenda is precisely why Canadians should read it. We need to understand the history to understand the present-day. Boyden researched the book thoroughly and I can believe that the violence h…
ajsmom
10 yrs ago
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I have read 3! The Orenda, Half-Blood Blues and Annabel. I have no plans to read either The Year of the Flood, nor Cockroach (I'm with you on DeNiro's Game, and I read another of his earlier works last year and didn't …
ajsmom
10 yrs ago
I just finished The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton and am DYING to chat about it! Has anyone else read it and enjoyed it?? I thought it was brilliant.
ajsmom
10 yrs ago
I had 11 pages of TBR for ages and ages, but I've been diligent this year and have kept it at 10 for the past six months. I was actually doing really well, and then I had a birthday which meant presents and RABCKs and a…
ajsmom
10 yrs ago
I am so very saddened to hear this. I had some lovely exchanges with kayjay - we both live in British Columbia - and I think followed each other on a number of bookrings back in the day. My most heartfelt condolences t…
ajsmom
10 yrs ago
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http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Small+town+picks+pieces+after+devastating+fire/8766189/story.html A tiny, very hard to access community in the north central coast of British Columbia has lost their library of 3000 donat…
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Sad news about Dunzy (now including a thank you message from Kathleen).
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Sad news about Dunzy
ajsmom
10 yrs ago
I haven't been active in the fora for ages, but just wild released a book this weekend that Dunzy handed to me personally, many years ago when we managed to meet in his city. i did a search and am so saddened to find of…
ajsmom
11 yrs ago
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I've crossed lots of books but I seem to keep accumulating! I think there have been 11 pages on Mt. TBR since I joined! :)
ajsmom
11 yrs ago
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I'm almost at 7...amazing, isn't it?
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Help! My bookworm daughter is out of control!
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RE: So take advantage of her BC membership
ajsmom
11 yrs ago
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Thanks for all the great suggestions! We will retrieve her BC membership login and password and build a wishlist!
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My daughter and granddaughter have forbidden me to read Fifty Shades of Grey UPDATE
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RE: RE: Here's a review (with photos!) that is hilarious
ajsmom
11 yrs ago
OMG, GD, I've read the one on goodreads, but Dan Bergstein's blogging is AWESOME! I'd share it with all my facebook friends, but they all think Twilight is Nobel-worthy.
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Help! My bookworm daughter is out of control!
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RE: Your daughter's sounds like me when I was a girl!
ajsmom
11 yrs ago
At her age I moved on to Young Adult books and some adult books - Dickens, etc. My poor mum paid out for loads of books for me.She's moved quite nicely through Madeline L'Engle, and most…
ajsmom
11 yrs ago
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Or you could try paperbackswap.com, bookmooch.com, titletrader.com or betterworldbooks.com for cheaper books? I don't have much money and those sites defintiely keep my book habit going (along with bookcross…
ajsmom
11 yrs ago
I think that library book sales are the way to go to keep expenses down, and they're great for discovering new treasures! Used book stores that take books in exchange for a discount on their already fairl…
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Help! My bookworm daughter is out of control!
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RE: RE: Help! My bookworm daughter is out of control!
ajsmom
11 yrs ago
Thanks - I hadn't thought of the interlibrary loan program! We will do that for sure! The school librarian is helpful with book suggestions, but it doesn't always mean they have them. (Odd, isn't it?)
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Anne Rice Re-Releases Her "Sleeping Beauty" Erotica Trilogy
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RE: Anne Rice Re-Releases Her "Sleeping Beauty" Erotica Trilogy
ajsmom
11 yrs ago
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Yes, I've read Rice's trilogy. They're good and from all reviews I've read, better written than 50 Shades. I just included her trilogy in another thread asking for erotica suggestions, in fact!
ajsmom
11 yrs ago
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Not really - the problem is that I can't keep up with her. My almost-11-year-old devours books, reading a Harry Potter sized volume in less than a day. She has read everything age-appropriate in the house, has exhausted…
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Erotica suggestions (better writing than 50 Shades)
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RE: Erotica suggestions (better writing than 50 Shades)
ajsmom
11 yrs ago
Vox by Nicholson Baker. The Delta of Venus by Anais Nin. The "Beauty" series by A.N. Rocquelaire (aka Anne Rice). Slow Hand, edited by Michelle Slung.
Enjoy!!
ajsmom
11 yrs ago
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Congratulations!! A huge milestone that I just passed not too long ago. Enjoy all that reading...and all that MT. TBR climbing!
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I just registered my 1000th book!
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RE: RE: I just registered my 1000th book!
ajsmom
12 yrs ago
I have to admit to having started registering some of AJ's grown-out-of books, so that's helping. I can say that I have definitely read those ones, though - some of them many, many, many times!
ajsmom
12 yrs ago
Ha! Thank you! I purposely asked for NO books this Christmas, as Mt. TBR looms tall these days....
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Dec. 5th and 6th: What are you reading?
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Just started One of Our Thursdays is Missing by Jasper Fforde
ajsmom
12 yrs ago
...having finished Moloka'i by Allan Brennert last night (excellent, btw).
