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Everything posted by Anna Begins
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Oooh- is it that boy who you didn't meet earlier? I also added The Cipher to my list, saw you post about it and got the sample. Sounds scary Edited: The author Holly Black just rang a bell... I just downloaded her sample for her latest, The Darkest Part of the Forrest. Is she YA?
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I've been reading Jack Reacher #9, One Shot by Lee Child and I have quite the review coming up.
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This is a list of books I am trying to choose from for Amsterdam. I will be there 7 days, with 2 travel days. My plane ride and total travel time one way will be over 13 hours. Any suggestions or recommendations? The Girl on the Train- Paula Hawkins (326 pages) Only Ever Yours- Louise O’Neal (400 pages) Inferno: The World at War 1939- 1945- Max Hastings (821 pages) At the Water’s Edge- Sara Gruen (369 pages) The Round House- Louise Erdrich (353 pages) The Darkest Part of the Forest- Holly Black (331 pages) Holes- Louis Sachar (241 pages) The Fever- Megan Abbott (321 pages) The End of the World Running Club- Adrian J Walker (422 pages) Together Apart- Natalie Martin (268 pages) Audio: Breakfast at Tiffany’s- Truman Capote (2:52) Born Standing Up: A Comics Life- Steve Martin (4:03)
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Thanks and thanks for the recommendation! Thanks! Ya, I think you'd like it, but I might have said that about The Man in the High Castle Have you read any Jodi Picoult? Oh, I am so glad he didn't spoil it! I'd love to go there, just not in 1829 or in the winter lol I liked the Northern Lights part. And I liked Agnes like you, she drew me in.
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Not as far in Lee Child's One Shot as I'd like to be, but I hope to finish today or tomorrow at the latest and then finish up with some shorter stories like Picoult's Color War.
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My English teacher (yes love the subject, its my major too) said he didn't care which search engine we chose, as long as we had it in the Works Cited. With is another pain in the But that Purdue OWL might be helpful in finding a book or "scholarly journal" :roll:Since the class and lab are not linked, I think I will just make something up for the lab and hope for the best, we have to link 5 sources for the paper we are writing and they must be each from a newspaper/ magazine, scholarly journal, website and book, plus the summery and "evidence" for finding and using the material
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I look forward to seeing how many you get through!
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Well, I think you will like War of the Worlds. I think, after, if you were curious, you could find the radio broadcast from it online for free. It's very good. I know you like the Stilton books so I've read Blaze but can't remember much about it, which is unusual, I mostly remember the books I've read
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Anyone know what an Annotated Bibliography is? Ya well, I do too and have to do one for school, which I am miserable about. I think I might even fail the lab that is attached to the class over it My paper is on the cost of going to college/ university (if anyone has anything to add, PM me, I am interested how other countries handle their University costs).
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Was sorry to see it end Started Jack Reacher #9, One Shot... the one the movie is based on This is my last Reacher, then I am caught up on all 19 of them.
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Title: Burial Rites Author: Hannah Kent Genre: Fiction Pages: 353 Dates: 4/26- 4/29 Criminal. The word hangs in the air. Heavy, unmoved by the bluster of the wind. I want to shake my head. That word does not belong to me, I want to say. It doesn’t fit me or who I am. It’s another word, and it belongs to another person. Burial Rites take a few pages to get into, but once you get through some (actual) official documents to the narrator of Agnes, an Icelandic woman sentenced to death and held in a dank prison cell, the book sets a bleak tone. Although it gets lighter as Agnes is sent to a farm to await the death penalty and who conveniently will not pray with her Spiritual Advisor but will only tell him of her life. Author Hannah Kent makes you want to know Agnes’ story and her explanation for the murders and arson she is accused of. It’s a good read, one I can compare with Jodi Picoult’s Plain Truth- not bad company at all. Some sentences seemed on the verge of silly, trying too hard to be pretty. But mostly, I found it well written and liked the footnote of how the author researched the story that was based on a true Icelandic woman. I also loved the setting of 1829 in Iceland. Edited: Recommended
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I think I have to go to all my previous posts and retrieve it all And woohoo for Amsterdam as well!
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Whoa! I'm afraid of that book! Oh goody, your not giving up on him just yet! I don't mean to be all rah rah PKD, but I just finished A Scanner Darkly, and it was fantastic! I have about 90 pages left in Burial Rites by Hannah Kent, so I should be finished today. It's been so good!
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Gone With the Wind- Margaret Mitchell Valley of the Dolls- Jacqueline Susann For Whom the Bell Tolls- Ernest Hemmingway The Good Earth- Pearl S. Buck A Scanner Darkly- Phillip K. Dick Man's Search for Meaning- Viktor E. Frankl Night- Elie Wiesel The Thorn Birds- Colleen McCullough Hiroshima- John Hersey Prozac Nation/ More, Now, Again- Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Seriously, we could talk about the book all day! I only hope Legend will be as thought provoking. 4 weeks to go til Amsterdam! On a side note, I have lost all the stuff I should have saved when my computer was dying a slow death, now, I have lost everything since it wasn't backed up. This includes my reading plan for my vacation in Amsterdam
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I will be reading... pay day is the 1st- woohoo! I will be buying Brandon Sanderson's novella, Perfect State and also have Brave New World planned. I believe we will be doing Jodi Picoult's short story Color War together, so if anyone wants to join in that, I believe it is only 30 pages.
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That's too bad- Phillip K Dick is one of my favorite authors right now. GL with Girl on the Train, I am taking it on vacation with me
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OF THE YEAR!! Amazing!
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It is my favorite read of this year so far and of last year. Actually, it makes the top 10 list. Just don't know what I'd replace lol The more I think about it and the more I learn about Phillip K Dick, the more I like it.
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I just finished the sample to Burial Rites and decided to buy it for my next read. I need something totally different from A Scanner Darkly, cause it was one of the best books I have read.
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Wow- TDV review was great! What an epic and all those series you've read I also really love the cover for 1001 Ways to Live in the Moment.
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Title: A Scanner Darkly Author: Phillip K Dick Genre: Science Fiction, Dystopian Age: Adult Pages: 307 Dates: 4/21 -4/25 I can see a lot of other writers being inspired by Phillip K. Dick and I can see it more in A Scanner Darkly than The Man in the High Castle. In perhaps an ode to William S. Burrows, and a guiding light to Chuck Palahniuk, A Scanner Darkly is about: Bob Arctor, a junkie and a drug dealer, both using and selling the mind-altering Substance D. Fred is a law enforcement agent, tasked with bringing Bob down. It sounds like a standard case. The only problem is that Bob and Fred are the same person. Substance D doesn’t just alter the mind, it splits it in two, and neither side knows what the other is doing or that it even exists. Now, both sides are growing increasingly paranoid as Bob tries to evade Fred while Fred tries to evade his suspicious bosses. (Amazon). From the mind of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Ubik and the short story Total Recall, Dick tells what could be an incredibly complicated storyline, with ease and clarity. This story blew my mind and is one I will probably read a few times in my life. A Scanner Darkly is a fictionalized account of real events, based on Dick's experiences in the 70's drug culture. Dick said in an interview, "Everything in A Scanner Darkly I actually saw." (Wiki) That says quite a bit. Great read, definitely recommended.
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I just finished A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K Dick. What an awesome read! I can't sleep cause my mind is spinning! I love yummy books
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Do we wish you a Happy King's Day?
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Thanks- my grandpa (Perry) loved L'Amour and I've always wanted to read his stories. Also, I think if I catch on to them, they would be a good for read a thons and a good contrast to my dystopia/ post apocalyptic stuff. Plus, I am down to only 1 more Reacher book. Maybe the Sackett is a good contender for Amsterdam Soon the list will be 20