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"A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head."
John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces
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I finished Stardust last night. The book was a bit disappointing as it started off quite nicely. It didn't manage to keep me interested all the way through
And the ending was predictable. However, I will not be discouraged: BF told me that Stardust is the worst of Gaiman's books and the others are amazing. I'm eagerly waiting to get a chance to read American Gods and Anansi Boys. I started A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole last night.
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Small Island is also on my TBR (my Rory's list of books TBR to be accurate, Rory being the bookworm in Gilmore Girls). I didn't know anything about the book before I read this thread, but it seems like worth reading!
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Hello Zeta and welcome! I hope your plan with the bulldog works out
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I didn't know what chutney is so I googled it. Sounds yummy
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Hi!
I'm glad to hear you're enjoying LITTOC, I happened to stumble upon that book in a bookshop today and was wondering if it would be worth a read. I'll probably give it a try.
Have you read anything other by Dennis Lehane? A Drink Before the War sounds good, too.
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Bookwormmum I love you organized shelves too! They make me wanna come over and take a closer look
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I haven't even seen the end of series 4 of Desperate Housewives yet. That doesn't mean I'm not excited about the 5th. I adore this show and it just keeps getting better and better in my opinion. Roll on the next series.
Season 4 is absolutely amazing and so exciting, just you wait!
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I'll turn 27 by the end of the year...
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Dexter season 2 started here about a month ago so I don't have to wait for that anymore
Right now I'm eagerly waiting for Desperate housewives season 5 that will start in November. Oh, and must not forget: Britain's next top model season 1 will start in a couple of weeks. -
Anastasia-series by Lois Lowry
anything by Astrid Lindgren
Story Girl -series by L. M. Montgomery
The Little Vampire -series by Angela Sommer-Bodenburg
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Thanks kb.marsh, I'm a bit better now
Yesterday I managed to read for my exam that's on Friday so I felt better about that and didn't feel guilty about recreational reading. I finished Mister Pip last night. I don't really know what to make of that book. It was a good read, but I feel that there were so many levels to that book that I missed because I didn't take it seriously enough. Nursenblack, I really loved Me & Emma as well, although it was quite a disturbing book. But Inside I'm Screaming was also really good, it was very therapeutic and I almost read it in one sitting.
Last night I started Neil Gaiman's Stardust.
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Wow Kylie, that's amazing! I love how organized your shelves are! And I love what you've done with the corner peace, making it a smooth link between the other two shelves. I also like the tiling on that wall, but maybe that was there to begin with
I'm so envious of all you guys with open shelves, I'm allergic to dust and I hate dust anyways so I have to have bookshelves with glass doors.
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When I was in elementary school, probably in the 6th grade, our teacher tried to encourage us to read books and he gave us all little notebooks where to record the books we've read (author, title, date, number of pages and thoughts on that novel). I remember reading a lot, and I had to ask my teacher for another notebook because the first notebook was full. I've spent so many hours trying to find those notebooks but so far no success
I also remember that during that 6th grade all of the girls in our class watched Twin Peaks on the telly and then one of us found The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer in the library! The book circulated among the girls, most of us read it. I remember when I was the next to get it and I just couldn't wait for my friend to finish it and give it to me! It was important to read the book also because it was a grownup's book and it had 266 pages which was a huge deal for us those days
The current notebook that I have dates from 14.6.1999, almost 10 years ago
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Currently I am reading Lloyd Jones's Mister Pip, but I'm really struggling with it. Not that the book is bad, but I'm kinda stressed out with school at the moment.
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So here are the books that I've read so far 2008
January
Bret Easton Ellis: Lunar Park
Tuija Lehtinen: Mies taskussa
Alain de Botton: How Proust Can Change Your Life
Cornelia Funke: Inkheart
Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones's Diary
Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Elizabeth Flock: Me & Emma
Virpi Hämeen-Anttila: Suden vuosi
February
Tuula-Liina Varis: Kilpikonna ja olkimarsalkka
Ronald Hayman: The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath
Stephen King: It
Marie Hermanson: Hembiträdet
March
L. M. Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables
Patricia Cornwell: Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed
Carol Shields: Jane Austen
L. M. Montgomery:Anne of Avonlea
April
Sue Townsend: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4
Sue Townsend: The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
Sue Townsend: True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole
Sue Townsend: Adrian Mole and the Small Amphibians
Sue Townsend: Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
L. M. Montgomery: Anne of the Island
Joanne Harris: Gentlemen & Players
Sue Townsend: Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction
Emma Tenant: Pemberley
Diane Setterfield: The Thirteenth Tale
May
Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White
June
Pentti Saarikoski: Toipilaan päiväkirjat
Virginia Ironside: No! I Don’t Want to Join a Bookclub
Amelie Nothomb: Antichrista
Douglas Adams: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Amelie Nothomb: Fear and Trembling
Susanna Clarke: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Charles Bukowski: Post Office
July
Marina Lewycka: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Sarah Waters: Fingersmith
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Annikki Alexandersson: Ruokahirviö
Sean Stewart: Perfect Circle
Kathleen Tessaro: Elegance
August
Mark Twain: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse
Augusten Burroughs: Dry
Terry Pratchett: Feet of Clay
Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
N. V. Gogol: The Nose
Anja Snellman: Lemmikkikaupan tytöt
Markus Zusak: The Book Thief
Carol Shields: Unless
September
Augusten Burroughs: A Wolf at the Table
Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Ben Elton: Dead Famous
Elizabeth Flock: But Inside I'm ScreamingOctober
John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: The Little Prince
Roald Dahl: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Sophie Kinsella: Shopaholic & Baby
Jeff Lindsay: Dearly Devoted Dexter
November
Alan Bennett: The Uncommon Reader
Cormac McCarthy: No Country for Old Men
December
D. H. Lawrence: Lady Chatterley's Lover
Philip Roth: Portnoy's Complaint
Gaetan Soucy: The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches
Diane Wynne Jones: Fire and Hemlock
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Bones the TV-series aired here in Finland some years ago and I tried watching it, but it was so boring and I didn't like the characters. Only after that did I find out that the show was based on Kathy Reichs's novels. Last weekend I visited a friend who had read some of her books and she really liked them, almost better than Patricia Cornwell's Scarpetta-novels which I really like. So I have to give these a try
I hope the local library has those books.I forgot: Thank you Maureen for the list in which order the books should preferably be read
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Hello Sisse, hvordan g
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Oh that is so true about Sex and the City. The characters in the book are just horrible, and (fortunately) totally unrecognisable from the characters they became in the tv show. I know quite a few people who read the book because they were fans of the show - so far, I have not met anyone who actually liked the book.
I have never met a person who likes the book either
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I cannot say about movies, but Dexter the TV series definitely outshines the novel. Sex and the City is also better as a TV series, the book was awful.
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Janet, I can't blame you at all. I read A Room with a View maybe a year ago, I bought it because it was cheap and it was a classic and it sounded interesting and I thought I'd enjoy it. But it was so booooring, I really had to struggle to finish it. If I were you I'd bin it and choose something else, there must be loads of better reads written in the 1900s!
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"Sam Vimes sighed when he heard the scream, but he finished shaving before he did anything about it."
Terry Pratchett: Night Watch
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Welcome Wordsgood, glad you found us and at the same time found out that you're not alone
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I was very disappointed with Librarything when I'd spent a couple of hours cataloging my books and when I reached 200 books, it said that free memberships are limited to 200 books
Adrian Mole
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I've read them all about 3-4 times in my teens, and I just bought the first three volumes cause I found them cheap and read them again. They're wonderful and make me laugh every time