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Thanks for the welcome! So far I'm really enjoying joining in the discussions on the boards
Happy to hear you're enjoying the forum. It really is a wonderful community of book lovers!
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Thank you so much. You're the first person here that I see has a Borges' quote, he's really good,
But I prefer read him in Spanish, also I have to say, Borges is one of the most difficult authors I've read. . 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! =)
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Welcome, ShineOn! Enjoy!
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Welcome, Rebecca! Enjoy!
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Welcome to the forum, Timmo! Enjoy!
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These are all fantastic books. Have you read Maggie O'Farrell before? If not, you have picked the right ones to start with.
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!
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The Civil Wars.
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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.
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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
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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.
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I've just discovered Mumford and Sons and have fallen in love with them.
Love them too! Enjoy!
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The 2nd season of Breaking Bad.
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Catching up on some reading.
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Reserved.
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Reserved.
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To Be Read (W - Z)
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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 *
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The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
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To Be Read (T - V)
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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
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Ulysses by James Joyce
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell *
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
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To Be Read (Q - S)
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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
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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)
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To Be Read (N - P)
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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
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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
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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
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To Be Read (K - M)
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The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini *
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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 *
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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
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To Be Read (H - J)
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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 *
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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 *
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë * (RR)
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
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To Be Read (E - G)
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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 *
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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) *
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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
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To Be Read (C - D)
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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer *
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger *(RR)
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Game Series #2) *
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White * (RR)
Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult
Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by Chelsea Handler
The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Choice by Nicholas Sparks *
Columbine by Dave Cullen *
Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire *
The Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
A Cure for Dreams by Kaye Gibbons *
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night -Time by Mark Haddon *
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Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende *
Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse Series #9)
Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse Series #5) *
Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse Series #10)
Dear John by Nicholas Sparks *
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse Series #6) *
The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx
The Distance Between Us by Maggie O’Farrell
Don't Sing at the Table: Life Lessons from My Grandmothers by Adriana Trigiani *
Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv
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To Be Read (A - B)
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse Series #7) *
I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak *
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld *
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy *
Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables Series #2) *
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables Series #1) *
Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables Series #5) *
Anne of Ingleside by L. M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables Series #6) *
Anne of the Island by L. M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables Series #3) *
Anne of Windy Poplars by L. M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables Series #4) *
Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein *
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner *
At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks *
Atonement by Ian McEwan Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
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Babycakes by Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City Series #4)
Baby Proof by Emily Giffin *
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton *
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Breakfast at Tiffany'sby Truman Capote *
By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House Series #5) *
Your book activity in 2012
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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.