Scarlette
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I have been looking forward to reading this novel for the longest time. I think I'd like to have it just for light reading.
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I bought a purple lily, today. At least I think it's a lily - this is what happens when they don't have those little name stickers on the plant holders...
. It's such a gorgeous deep purple, though. I just hope I'll be able to take care of it... anything with flowers usually doesn't last long in my care *mourns her past attempts at looking after African violets*. -
Hello! You're going to have lots of fun, here.
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Sin City. I just couldn't stand it.
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Thanks for the recommendations of The Book of Lost Things. I hope nobody bought it at the book sale, though, since they only had one copy. I guess I'll see tomorrow!
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I knew this book sounded familiar when someone mentioned it in the book activity thread! I've read it, too. I thought it was quite entertaining. I don't usually read chicklit, but I love chocolate, so I thought I'd give it a go.
It was very funny, quite sad, and a good read overall. -
I'm about to start The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly.
I saw this book at a book sale and wasn't sure whether to buy it or not. HAve you started it, yet? What do you think of it?
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I buy most of my books new. I love having a look through the sale shelves, because usually they have a lot more interesting books on there than in the rest of the store - my experience, anyway. If I have the time to, though, I visit the secondhand bookstore.
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Those Who Save Us - Jenna Blum:
'Impossible' Max breathes. 'This is impossible - ' Anna bends to put her lips to his ear 'No, it's not' she whispers. 'I know where to hide you. I have the perfect place.' For fifty years Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph: a family portrait showing Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmfuhrer of Buchenwald. Driven by guilt about her supposed Trudy, now a professor of German history, begins investigating the past and finally unearths the dramatic and heartbreaking truth about her mother's life.
Love Without Resistance - Gilles Rozier:
An exquisite novel about love, faith and the transforming power of language. With a passion for the limpid, crystalline prose of the great German writers, the narrator of Gilles Rozier's sublime novel lives, in other respects, on the fringes of life. A tutor in occupied France, it is the conjugation of verbs rather than the mystery of conjugal relations that comes naturally. Marriage was a duty. Language is a passion. But not, even remotely, the living language of love. That exists only in the literature devoured in the basement; the forbidden volumes of Heine, Mann and Rilke. Then Herman appears, awakening desire of the deepest sort. Impelled by adolescent memories, the narrator saves him, a Polish Jew, from the Germans. Hidden with the other secret, buried passions in the basement, Herman also shares them, unexpectedly devouring the literature of love. And so develops an extraordinary and shattering affair within which two bodies and two antagonistic languages, Yiddish and German, are magnetically attracted. Sparely told, compelling, and both morally precise and uncertain, Gilles Rozier's novel invites comparison with Bernhard Schlink's The Reader. An achingly beautiful exercise in emotional intelligence, it sees its protagonists wrestle with collective guilt, individual motivation and the power of words - words that are written, spoken and left unsaid.
Two of the best (and most disturbing) WWII novels I've read.
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Oh, I loved the Goosebumps series! They really scared me.
There were two books in particular (although their titles elude me now) that was particularly creepy. One was about a camera that takes horrific pictures that actually come true, and the other about a mirror that makes people disappear - I love it when everyday objects take on a sinister quality in stories. -
Hahaha this information amuses me. What on earth will they think of, next... One can only imagine...
Twilight breakfast cereal, anyone? Oh, no, wait, I'd better shut my mouth before that one actually happens...
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My grandmother loves to read - these days she complains that she's read everything the library has to offer! - and my mother adores books, aswell. So I think part of my love for literature is genetic.
But, growing up, I really couldn't find anything else that made me as happy as reading did, anyway. -
I very much wanted to read Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, but then I realized that I already know the plot and the plot twist - I think everyone does, by now, since the story has been retold in a hundred different mediums - so I didn't think there would be much left for me to enjoy...
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I don't have the time to spend on books I'm not enjoying any more - I have far better things to do!
Agreed. If I had to finish every single book, no matter how much I disliked it, I would never get to read all the things I really want to. I simply don't have enough reading time as it is, to waste on books that aren't worth it.
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Those sound like awfully big bookstores.
I suppose I'm lucky because my local bookstores only have a few sections and they're very easy to navigate. -
I've read it and loved Twilight. The rest of the saga was alright until... the fourth book which will not be named...
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I love tea. As a baby I refused to drink milk, so my mother gave me Rooibos (red bush) tea, instead. I still drink several cups a day.
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I like being surrounded by books, so I tend to collect every book I can get my hands on. I have, however, recently parted - reluctantly - with quite a few, mainly because they didn't make such a big impact on me or because I knew I would never read/finish them... and I was running out of bookshelf space.
I am very cautious about lending my books to others. I've lent a book to my cousin and she never returned it to me - I had to "steal" it from her bookshelf while visiting her once, and the book was in a much worse state than when it had left me.
That has made me think twice about lending out my books. I will on the odd occasion let my sister read one of my books. But only because we live in the same house and I can keep an eye on her... -
I love your username.
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The greatest love stories for me are Pride & Prejudice, Wuthering Heights and The Time Traveller's Wife - all amazing love stories in one way or another
That one definitely makes my list of great love stories.
Also, I haven't read it yet, but Love in the Time of Cholera sounds (from the synopsis) to be a very romantic love story.
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I think I mentioned this in another thread, but my only complaint about the film is that it seemed much too short to me. I would have liked it to be just a bit longer, as I really enjoyed it. I've never read the books, and after having all the "blanks" filled in for me by someone who has, I don't feel they left out anything that seems particularly important or interesting (to me, anyway).
I had no idea who the Half-blood Prince really was, so I was quite surprised at that. I thought Malfoy was simply excellent in this film - previously he seemed like a bit of a background bully to me, so I enjoyed seeing a bit of personality and struggle from him. Voldemort was just fabulous. I loved the extra info on him and his life at Hogwarts. He's probably the best bad guy ever written. And Bellatrix is wow - no one could play her better than Helena-Bonham Carter. Dumbledore also came to the forefront a bit more in this film, and that was interesting to watch. Thinking about it now, though, I don't think Harry and his circle of friends did anything very remarkable in this film... The other characters (and actors) overshadowed them. I thought the film was brilliant, though. Looking forward to the last two.
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I didn't like Breaking Dawn at all.
Reasons:
The books were all leading up to Edward and Bella having 'relations' and when they finally got to it Meyer went to a page break
I think that's probably because the books are aimed at teens and they do have quite a large audience much younger than that, so I've noticed.
On the topic of Bella and Edward's 'relations', though: I think that could have been left out entirely. It made me feel a bit awkward, since the books are aimed at a young audience and it felt like Meyer was trying to be a bit too grown-up about it - I mean, really, biting pillows? Fun. But not for kids.
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why not? weren't some of dickens novels first published as serials? what's the difference?
The difference is that a mobile phone "book", will never be a real book to me. Furthermore, I don't think one can compare Dickens to what will inevitably end up as being nothing more than a fad - if it does happen. I don't think anything good can come from something like that.
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Personally, i think micro-payments and mobile phones will combine to create new text formats. Howsabout a 10p/chapter neverending text novel that's updated daily?
Dear heaven, no. I hope things never come to that...
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Hello, Prue! I'm a huge fan of war stories and mysteries, myself.