Anna Begins

It was really interesting. Have you read anything by Alison Weir? I guess this could be a Kindle only problem. But I never appreciated the book page count continue with notes either, after the story/ book was finished. It was easier to flip to the back, with a tree book, I guess. But also with Kindle, the time remaining might reflect the authors next book except, it doesn't feature on page counts, so it can be disappointing.

Me too

Oh, I don't mind extra's, I've found some good authors in the Further Reading. It's just if it says the book is 400 pages, I want 400 pages, not 320. *also goes for book previews

I'm glad you liked The Heart Goes Last, I loved it. Oryx and Crake, was possibility the strangest book I've ever read. It was difficult to read because it was just so out there. Next comes Year of the Flood, the most normal of the three (normal is used marginally). I couldn't hack the third, MaddAddam. It was sort of inbetween the two in weirdness. I'm fact, the whole series made me hate Attwood until The Heart Goes Last.

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath?

Any plans for New Year's? I hope your migraine is better now

It slipped my mind that you're not crazy about short stories, maybe that's why you didn't like Mistletoe.

War of the Worlds by HG Wells

Is it silly to be excited about children's books The history series my 8 year old is reading, the Who is/ What Was series, is releasing Princess Diana and Jackie Kennedy.

Thanks! It was a nice read. That is a pet peeve of mine! It makes me so mad!

Congratulations on your book count!! I hope your test turns out ok and that you're feeling better soon

Well, I know neither of us believe in free will and objectivism is the opposite. I've always (ok, the last 25 years) been interested in existentialism. Objectivism supports the individual right to seek happiness, saying that is the goal of life. In a Capitalist way, objectivism believes in a restricted government, the individuals ability to create independently and advocates... well, free will. *Existentialism isn't the same as objectivism. The differences are interesting. A Google search for Objectivism vs existentialism will bring you to atlas society. Edit: I feel like I should add that there are different interpretations of Objectivism. My interpretation is why I like Ayn Rand. Also: We the Living was one of my favorite books this year and is much shorter.

I've finished my first book in a month and a half! I also received Catherine Ryan Hyde's new book, Say Goodbye For Now.

Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth Century Europe by Sara Gristwood (394 pages) This was a great book, with the first half focusing on Anne de Beaujeu and Isabella of Castile. It builds to Katherine of Aragon's marriage and struggle with Henry, while weaving in relationships between Margaret of Austria and Louise of Savoy. Anne Boleyn is slowly brought into the book, as her impact on the period was significant. Basically, the women who ruled behind Kings and Emperors, but then a change occurs as Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici come to power and rule in their own right. After these two women passed, Gristwood points to the decline of women as heads of state, but her reasons are weak. She concludes, as she wrote the book, Hilary Clinton was running for President, Theresa May was negotiating with Nicola Sturgeon and Angela Merkel. Griswold proposes a new Age of Queens. *book ends with an astounding 80 pages of Acknowledgments, Notes, Further Reading, Illustration Credits, Index and About the Author. Disappointing.

Imo, Anne Frank's diary is so tragic because she is just a young girl. You experience her changes as becoming a young woman, knowing the sadness that she would die a horrible death in a concentration camp. She put a humanistic image on innocence people who were murdered for no reason, other than who they were. Anne Frank represents that. For me.

I don't know if they'd be your thing, but you might/ I do like the philosophy. But I'm in the minority here

I thought Atlas Shrugged was better, it took me 22 days to read The Fountainhead.

I'm reading 3 books atm. Game of Queens is about the women who ruled the Sixteenth Century Europe. (73%) Millennium is about the changes in civilization by centuries, from the year 1000. (31%, I just gave this to my mom as an early Christmas present. We're going to read it together) The Holy Thief is a crime novel set in Stalinist Russia (47%). Enjoying all of them, and hopefully will have time for one more in December! This is the most reading I've done since August!

Oh god, Grey's Anatomy! Fer sure I can also add Earth's Children (Clan of the Cave Bear) series. After Plains of Passage...

The Century Trilogy by Ken Follett comes to mind. I read Fall of Giants, but it had so many characters and was so confusing, I just couldn't read Winter of the World of Edge of Eternity. For TV, Two and a Half Men! Ugh.

I bought a few books for my mom, she just loves books: My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsberg Millennium - How Civilization Has Changed Over A Thousand Years by Ian Mortimer The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell and A Brief History of time by Stephen Hawking I hope she doesn't get mad at me, she hates when I spend money on her.

That's a lot of books read! What's next?

The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

Here are mine, although I have 11. 1) The Pact by Jodi Picoult 2) When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation (1940- 1944) by Ronald C. Rosbottom 3)Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer 4) The Girl From Krakow by Alex Rosenberg 5) The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin 6) Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin 7) We the Living by Ayn Rand 8) Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said by Phillip K Dick 9) Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K Massie 10) She-Wolves: Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by Helen Castor 10) The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

It was an artist space and makeshift living space for poor artists. So, not an apartment building, but a warehouse that people were living in.