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knocked another book off. In a rather quick pace. Finding Noel by Richard Paul Evans was HORRIBLE! the story moved at such a quick pace that for one, I was quite confused, two it just bad story writing. It's as if Evans had no idea what he wanted to write about, so he just scrambled for everything with details. there was no good detail. this was just a poorly poorly written book. glad it's OVER. Now I am moving on to the Blue Sky by Galsan Tschinag. It's a slim read, but looks really good.

I finished The History of Love by Nicole Krauss, and an transitioning to Finding Noel Richard Paul Evans.

Finished For one More Day Have now started, and in the middle of The History of Love by Nicole Krauss. Very very interesting so far. I am loving it. I took home some more pre-pubs. that pile is at 17 books and after The History of Love, I start Singing with the Top Down

i'm horribly geeky, and I use a colored notecards, put the title up on the top, the date started on the next line, and then the pages i ended on each night before bed, and then on the very last line, the date finished. that's my bookmark. and then to add to that extreme geekiness, I put the bookmarks/cards in a card container alphabetically. buuuuut. as geeky as i am.... i have never turned down a corner of a book page. atleast not for a really long time.

if you enjoyed Five People You Meet in Heaven, I definitely reccomend For One More Day by Mitch Albom. I am almost finished with it, and it is honestly delicious.

Finished Horns & Wrinkes. I thought it was a wonderful kids fantasy book, and i found it to go in somewhat tedious repetitiveness, which I guess, if you're a kid, that's a good thing. knocked one down and feeling rather proud. Next I'm going to start For One More Day by Mitch Albom. anyone read this?

I dropped yet another book, On Beauty by Zadie Smith was pretty slow, and a mediocre book. I couldn't get into the plot, even on 80th page. and to think there's about 360 more pages of this? too much. And I've added 5 more books to my TBR pile, and have started Horns and Wrinkes, which is, so far, a wonderful kids book about present day somewhere in Amerca, with some magic twisted into it, and I am enjoying it very much! I am expected to be done with it by sometime Tuesday at the latest.

I finished Black and Blue, and pretty quickly too. I enjoyed it, it was a good book. But of all the books I have read on that list, it's my least favorite. Which maybe isn't saying that much. But it was good. There are just much much better books Now I'm reading On Beauty by Zadie Smith. I'm reading this one really slow. Only on the 34th page after three days of reading. I've had almost no time to read. Has anyone read it or planning on reading it?

Now I am a bit confused... I went to the site that was posted, and I was just not even sure at that point if it had anything to do with the novel The Glass Book of the Dream Eaters or if it was completely different and on it's own... Though they're both my the same author, same description, and almost the same title.. hmm...

I have the whole actual book of The Glass Book of the Dream Eaters in my TBR pile. and I think the whole book as one is 700 something pages. any way to reassure me it was worth that large amount of pages?

I remember reading that book a year ago. I remember the beginning was really amazing, and then after that, the plot just kinda fizzled. I remember I only had fifty pages left and stopped. it was almost painful to continue.

So I finished Becoming Anna by Anna Michener, and I moved onto Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen (she currently has Rise and Shine out). It's about domestic violence and how this woman Fran and her son Robert move away from her husband Bobby. It's about what they endure and the painful move they make away from Bobby with the help of a woman named Patty and her organization to help battered women get away. She creates a new life and a new identity, as well as her son, so they aren't traced by Bobby.

True, Breakable You has not recieved much talk, though it is wonderful. Each Character is haunted and tested by something of their past. Eleanor, a recently divorced older woman, is feeling resented and sorry for herself, as her ex-husband has a purely physical fling with a twenty-something. In the novel, you never really get the sense that she is in her own, but she grows to put her needs first at the end of the book. You see her as a title, none of which include: "woman". She is a mother and guide to her daughter, a therapist, and a bitter ex-wife. Maud, Eleanor's thirty-something daughter, highly intellegent, teaches philosiphy at a local university, and full of life and energy. Though, when she was in college, she had two breakdowns which are noted (not very clear why they were in there though). She then meet's Samir, and they both change eachothers lives in many many ways. Samir, and Arab-American (Maud a Jew) lost his daughter when she was three to a blood disorder. He hates life and everything apart of it. But slowly and surely, Maud in a way, wakens him up. After six months of Maud and Samir being together, Maud realizes she is pregnant. After both being having heavy religious background, they keep the baby. and Just when you think Samir is making wonderful progress, tragic hits. With Maud to take care of the baby on her own, she nearly has another breakdown. Adam, a successful Jewish American author, who had a few great books in his time, he is way past his prime. Though, recently divorced, with no shame on that, is dating a 20-something beauty. his role importancy is the following; he had a more sucessful rival and friend author Cantor, has a secret manuscript of an unknown and unpublished novel, only to the knowledge of Adam and his recently deceased wife. He takes the novel and publishes it as his own to rekindle his career. The novel doesn't finish tragically, but there is no wonderful happy ending. Morton leaves things unfinished, and loose ends loose for ones imagination. A very fine ending.

Google told me

August 10th After the Wreck, I picked myself up, spread my wings, and flew away By Joyce Carol Oates 12th Breakable You by Brian Morton September 3rd Hot and Bothered by Annie Downey 24th Becoming Anna by Anna Michener 30th Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen October 16th Horns and Wrinkles by Joseph Helgerson 19th For One More Day by Mitch Alboom 25th The History of Love by Nicole Krauss November 2nd Finding Noel by Richard Paul Evans 9th The Handmaid and the Carpenter by Elizabeth Berg 22nd Overture by Yael Goldstein December 24th Astrid and Veronika by Linda Olsson To Be Read: Charming Billy by Alice McDermott Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro March by Geraldine Brooks We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver Light From Heaven by Jan Karon Gilead by Marilynn Robinson The Photograph by Penelope Lively The Sense of Paper by Taylor Holden Returning to Earth by Jim Harrison The Sisters Mortland by Sally Beauman The Kommandant's girl by Pam Jenoff Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris The Far Country by Mason You Don't Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem April in Paris by Michael Wallner Like Trees Walking by Ravi Howard The Color of a Dog Running Away by Richard Gwyn Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult The Beautiful Things that Heaven bears by Dinaw Mengestu Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Vannora Bennet The Gravediggers Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates

That's on my huge list of books to be read. How is it?