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lucybrown
2 yrs ago
A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House - Jon Meacham
A Pilgrim at Tinker’s Creek - Annie Dillard
Lorrie Moore’s Collected Stories
lucybrown
4 yrs ago
I don’t care about the ocasional typo; however, if on page 14 a person is drinking tea and on page 15 she drains her beer, yet in between no one has served her a beer nor has she gotten one for herself, I become peeved. …
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The June First Sentence Thread
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Picture a summer stolen whole from a coming of age film set in small-town 1950s
lucybrown
4 yrs ago
In the Wood by Tana French
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17 to 19 June: What are you reading this weekend?
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The Heart of the Matter by G. Greene
lucybrown
12 yrs ago
It is brilliantly brutal. Choose self-flagellation or this English colonial masterpiece, they are of a piece. I love it.
lucybrown
12 yrs ago
A lot like asking who my favorite child is, but here goes. I would have to go with Wallace Stevens, John Donne, Alexander Pushkin or Marianne Moore. Or....
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Feb 9&10: What are you reading? and does the plot...
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Just laid by Geraldine Brooks' March
lucybrown
13 yrs ago
The plot follows what might have been the path of Capt. March, the beloved father of Little Women's March family who is serving as a chaplain in the American Civil War. Brooks borrows heavily on Alcott's father Bronson …
lucybrown
13 yrs ago
I was just given Brooklyn as a gift and it is lying in wait.
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Do you read for the pleasure of reading or the satisfaction of having read?
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RE: I read because I must
lucybrown
13 yrs ago
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As a child at the post office with nothing else to read I was morbidly drawn to reading the FBI wanted posters which scared the daylights out of me. I would tell myself, "don't look, don't look," and then I would and no…
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Do you read for the pleasure of reading or the satisfaction of having read?
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RE: I enjoy the whole process of reading
lucybrown
13 yrs ago
For me it is a visceral physical joy. Just the smell and feel of the paper, the print and cover pictures. I love it on so many levels
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Do you read for the pleasure of reading or the satisfaction of having read?
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The two seem to be the same for me
lucybrown
13 yrs ago
I am too far along in life to bother with reading something just because I feel I ought to. For every book for which I might feel a twinkling of guilt about not having read, there is one that is probably just as brillia…
lucybrown
13 yrs ago
I often do that with series too.
lucybrown
13 yrs ago
Instance is a brilliant book, and, yes better than the mysteries. However the Italian art mysteries are fun outings for that genre.
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August 14th & 15th - What are you reading, where's it from, and how do you like it?
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The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating-wonderful book
lucybrown
13 yrs ago
This is a true story about a woman who is incapaciated for years by a mysterious illness. Just sitting up is more than she can do. One day a friend is walking in the woods and finds a small snail and decides to bring i…
lucybrown
13 yrs ago
I suppose I am putting it aside for a bit. It's just my bit has been 2 years. It's by my bed and I know I will finish it someday. I did what MM is talking about with The Idiot by Dostoevsky. Slowed way down at the en…
lucybrown
13 yrs ago
That is a book which is certainly in my top ten. Someone, can't remember who, said it was the wisest book ever written.
lucybrown
13 yrs ago
It is a galley a local bookseller gave me to review.
lucybrown
13 yrs ago
Yes. I really became close to Inman as I was reading it, and I really can't face him dying yet. I am assuming he does. Don't really know, just doesn't see like it could end well for him.
Admitedly it took three start…
lucybrown
13 yrs ago
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Have you ever not finished a book because you didn't want it to be over? I've never finished Cold Mountain because I don't want it to end, plus I figure it can't end well for Inman. Maybe one day I will go to the looko…
lucybrown
13 yrs ago
I think I will give it a try. I don't mind whiny protagonist if at some point they grow. My stepdaughter who is a globetrotter herself liked it, but said it torqued her because her travel stories are so much better. I…
lucybrown
13 yrs ago
What about The Mystery of Edwin Drood?Drood is fun, but since it is incomplete it is hard to add it to a list as one of his great works.
lucybrown
13 yrs ago
But I do like Dickens. I just don't love him, except for a few of his works which I adore. As an English major, then grad student, then teacher you end up reading a lot of stuff that isn't always your exact cup of tea…
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8/10 - 8/11 What are you reading and what do you think of it?
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RE: Ode To Billy Joe by Herman Raucher.
lucybrown
13 yrs ago
When I was in 9th grade I read this for a book report. I thought it was going to be your standard book report, but no! I had a one on one chat about the book with my teacher. The most awkward point was when she asked …
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8/10 - 8/11 What are you reading and what do you think of it?
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RE: I've got three on the go this week
lucybrown
13 yrs ago
The House of Mirth. Brilliant book. I was absolutely captivated by Lily.
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8/10 - 8/11 What are you reading and what do you think of it?
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RE: Just started The Shawdow of the Wind by Carlos Ruis Zafon ....
lucybrown
13 yrs ago
Very much. Gets a little gothic.
