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Welcome back, Amesy!

Kylie, how are you liking the series? I got the box set for Christmas and can't wait to get started! The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society was one of my favorite reads last year. I to found myself looking up facts and details about WWII, I wanted to soak up all the information I could about that time and what it was really like for those living through it. Looking forward to reading your final thoughts on Ellis Island, as I've just bought it and plan on starting it soon. Hoping to finish The Crimson Petal and the White today, and then I'm thinking I'll read The Help next.

Happy to hear you're enjoying the forum. It really is a wonderful community of book lovers!

Unfortunately I haven't read much of his work, just a few pieces that a friend of mine suggested. I should really make the effort this year to read more of his work. Thanks for the reminder! =)

Welcome, ShineOn! Enjoy!

Welcome, Rebecca! Enjoy!

Welcome to the forum, Timmo! Enjoy!

Thanks! I've read only one book of hers, After You'd Gone, which I loved! I was actually looking to buy My Lovers Lover and Distance Between Us, but both books are not easy to find here in the US for some reason. I read about 300 pages of The Crimson Petal and the White over the weekend. Getting close to the end and I'm dying to see what happens!

The Civil Wars.

Did some book shopping today with the gift cards I received for Christmas. I got: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Ellis Island by Kate Kerrigan North and South by John Jakes The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell The Hand That Fist Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell The Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson Fleetwood Mac: The Definitive History by Mike Evans Off to hopefully get some reading done before bed.

Haven't done any reading yet today, but I did find time to do a little book shopping. I got: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Ellis Island by Kate Kerrigan North and South by John Jakes The Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson The Hand That Fist Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell Fleetwood Mac: The Definitive History by Mike Evans

Your favourite read of the year? Three way tie between The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen, and Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín.

Love them too! Enjoy!

The 2nd season of Breaking Bad.

Catching up on some reading.

Reserved.

Reserved.

To Be Read (W - Z) (alphabetized by title) Own ~ * Re-read ~ (RR) Rory Gilmore Challenge ~ pink W Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah * Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë * X Y The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawling Z

To Be Read (T - V) (alphabetized by title) Own ~ * Re-read ~ (RR) Rory Gilmore Challenge ~ pink T A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City Series #1) * Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House Series #8) * Things I Want My Daughters to Know by Elizabeth Noble The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough * A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini * The Time of My Life by Patrick Swayze & Lisa Niemi * The Town and the City by Jack Kerouac A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith* (RR) The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett U Ulysses by James Joyce The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe V The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell * Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

To Be Read (Q - S) (alphabetized by title) Own ~ * Re-read ~ (RR) Rory Gilmore Challenge ~ pink Q R Rainbow Valley by L. M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables Series #7) * Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers * The Reader by Bernhard Schlink * The Reading Group by Elizabeth Noble * Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi * Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables Series #8) * A Room with a View by E. M. Forster Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin S Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks * Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult Sammy’s Hill by Kristin Gore * The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett * Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen * A Separate Peace by John Knowles * She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb * Significant Others by Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City Series #5) Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers * Songbook by Nick Hornby Sophie's Choice by William Styron The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner * Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach The Story of My Life by Helen Keller Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Sure of You by Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City Series #6)

To Be Read (N - P) (alphabetized by title) Own ~ * Re-read ~ (RR) Rory Gilmore Challenge ~ pink N Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult * North and South by John Jakes (North and South Trilogy #1) * Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen O Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck * (RR) On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House Series #4) * One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens P Paris Without End: The True Story of Hemingway's First Wife by Gioia Diliberto * Peyton Place by Grace Metalious The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (RR) The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld * Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen * Property by Valerie Martin Pushby Sapphire Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

To Be Read (K - M) (alphabetized by title) Own ~ * Re-read ~ (RR) Rory Gilmore Challenge ~ pink K The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini * L The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks Le Divorce by Diane Johnson * Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis Light in August by William Faulkner * Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House Series #1) * Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House Series #2) * Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House Series #7) * Little Women by Louisa May Alcott * Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov * The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House Series #6) * Lord of the Flies by William Golding The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson Love Story by Erich Segal Love and War by John Jakes (North and South Trilogy #2) Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez * The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold *(RR) The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks * M Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Mansfield Park by by Jane Austen * A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton * Mary Ann in Autumn by Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City Series #8) The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards* Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks * Michael Tolliver Lives by Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City Series #7) Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides * The Miracle Worker by William Gibson Mocking Jay by Suzanne Collins (The Hunger games series #3) * The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin More Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City Series #2) * A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf My Friend Leonard by James Frey * My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands by Chelsea Handler My Lover's Lover by Maggie O'Farrell

To Be Read (H - J) (alphabetized by title) Own ~* Re-read ~ (RR) Rory Gilmore Challenge ~ pink H The Hand that First Held Mine by Maggie O’Farrell * Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life by Gretchen Rubin * Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling (#2) * Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling (#7) * Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling (#4) * Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K Rowling (#6) * Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (#5) * Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling (#3) * Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling (#1) * A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story by Dave Eggers Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger * High Fidelity by Nick Hornby Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins * I I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb * The Island by Elin Hilderbrand * I'm with the Band by Pamela des Barres Irish Born Trilogy by Nora Roberts * I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella * J Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë * (RR) The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito

To Be Read (E - G) (alphabetized by title) Own ~ * Re-read ~ (RR) Rory Gilmore Challenge ~ pink E East of Eden by John Steinbeck * Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One: 1884-1933 by Blanche Wiesen Cook * Eleanot Roosevelt: Volume Two:1933-1938 by Blanche Wiesen Cook The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe Ellis Island by Kate Kerrigan * Emma by Jane Austen * Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer * F Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury * A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway * Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House Series #3) * Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House Series #9) * Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse Series #8) * Further Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City Series #3) * G Gidget by Fredrick Kohner Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier * The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson (Millennium Trilogy Series #3) * The Graduate by Charles Webb The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Great Expectations by Charles Dickens * The Group by Mary McCarthy