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Physically I can only read one at a time. I'm on 4 books at the moment, 3 I'm reading (2 fiction 1 nonfiction) & one is audio. I have a Kindle so it is much easier to read more than one book at once, since you don't have to carry them around. And when you are tired of reading one book, you just hit a button and go to another.

I've only read "A Christmas Carol", but I am currently reading "Bleak House". That should take me forever.

I love Jane Green, I really liked "The Beach House", but I really loved "Jemima J", that is my favorite book of hers.

I watch certain ones, American Idol, Hell's Kitchen (American TV), but I'm not a die hard fan of them. I'll watch one or two episodes of a new show, and if I'm not hooked by then, I don't bother watching. I think there are too many of them on TV anyway.

I just finished "Vernonika Decides to Die" by Paulo Coelho. I didn't like it, I heard such good things about it, and although I got the 'message', I didn't like the writing, could it have been the translation? I thought Mr. Coelho went off on a tangent more often than he should have and the story lost my interest because by the time I got back to the main plot, I had forgotten what was happeing. 2.5 / 5 for me.

It will be very different. The miniseries/book took place in 1958 when they were kids and 1985 when they were adults. The new movie moves the timeline up to present. So the kids are in the 80s and the adults are now. I'm just a Stephen King purest and if he didn't write it with mobile phones and the internet, it shouldn't be there (but it will be).

1. To Kill a Mockingbird 2. The Giver 3. The Good Earth 4. Harry Potter Series 5. Gone With The Wind

When I know some more, I'll let you guys know.

Ahhh, probably won't be as good as "Stephen King's It". I like the movies he is involved in. It doesn't look like he is involved in this one, thus it is just called "It". Very few of the movies that he has no hand in, I don't like. The last one that I liked was "The Mist". Edit: Just went to the Stephen King board, and found out he just found out about this Remake. He had no clue. So he is looking into that. So how can they option a movie from his book w/o his knowledge?

No not at all. I just finished Stephen King's new Novella, which I know is less than 100 pages (it was on my Kindle), and it was great, well developed, suspensful...a real page turner. I usually don't--but I'm not put off.

Then maybe that is what was wrong with it. LOL! Maybe it wasn't even an accent at all, whatever he was doing, didn't work for me. I also saw Much Ado and thought URGH! Why him? But then the rest of the cast was no better (except Emma and Kenneth). Can we also go the other way? I love Alan Rickman, I could eat him, but his American accent drives me nuts (not in a good way). That voice was not made for the flatness of our accent.

I finished Outlander last week, it was great, can't wait to read the rest. However, it took a lot out of me, what a dense read. I think I'll need a month off between books.

I never knew what the line was. WWI sounds like a good place. I read a fair amount of classics, but they are usually known classics with no question. Now I know where to draw the line.

I'm all over the place with music. 70s music Heavy Metal 80s music (I loved New Wave) Classical (religious and non)

Doorstep for 2011 The Given Day - Dennis Lehane (720) 2009 was not a good year for my chunkies. Let's try again. Since I joined a Historical Fiction Challenge for 2010, I think we'll see a lot more. Doorsteps for 2010 Dragonfly in Amber - Diane Gabaldon (743) Notebooks - Tennessee Williams (765) Roses - Leila Meacham (624)

I just read "UR" by Stephen King. It is only available for the Amazon Kindle. So if you guys haven't heard of it, that is probably why. It is a novella, but hard to tell how many pages it is. It starts out like a long advertisement for the Amazon Kindle, the first few pages seems to head in that direction, but toward the middle of the story it gets really interesting. In true Stephen King fashion, it is creepy and obviously only from the mind of Stephen King.

2010 LIST Last year I managed 14 Classics w/o trying very hard (list is below). Let's see if this year I can at least match that number. 1. The Life and Death of Harriet Frean (1922) - May Sinclair Intersting read, haven't read anything like it 2. The Rats in the Walls (1923) - H.P. Lovecraft Short Fiction (about 50 pages), very chilling 3. The Dunwich Horror (1928) - H.P. Lovecraft Novella, not as good as "Rats". 4. The Man Who Would Be King (1898) - Rudyard Kipling Novella.

The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell And I think Agnes Gray - Anne Bronte, will take the place of one of these. I just finished it and I loved it.

Oh yeah, I'm a big fan of Stephen King!

Thanks everyone for all the warm welcomes.

I chose non-fiction, because my fav genre is memoirs/autobiographies/biographies. When I was in my 20s I found that I read a lot of books about rock stars and actresses, as I got older, I did read other types of books, but to this day I find that branch of non-fiction to be one I go back to again and again. I just think other people's lives are fascinating.

I like book shops but I become inundated when I'm in one, and I cannot decide on books. When I shop online, I can read the synopsis and the reviews, and make my decision. Sometimes I'll do the research on line and then go to the store, sometimes I just buy. I can get books in 1 day here in NYC from Barnes & Noble, so it isn't much of a wait.

I did read that somewhere here, but I'm past 10 post and still can't. But I will once it 'kicks in'. I thought "LOLITA" was just OK. Before I read it I heard mixed reviews but I wanted to judge for myself, but I wasn't thrilled. I would say 2 1/2 out of 5 stars.

Hi. If I were to go through what I've read in the past 3 years, I lean more toward Memoirs/autobiographies. I've been trying to branch out, and read more historical fiction and horror.

This is a running tally of what I have read in 2009. Goal is 75. January 1. The China Study - Colin & Thomas Cambpell 2. Sugar Blues - William Dufty 3. Daisy Miller - Henry James 4. 1001 Books for Every Mood - Hallie Ephron February 5. The Beach House - Jane Green 6. The Rosary - Gary Jansen 7. A Short Guide to a Happy Life - Anna Quindlen 8. Being Perfect - Anna Quindlen 9. Showboat – Edna Ferber 10. I Never Promised You A Rose Garden – Joanne Greenberg 11. How Starbucks Saved My Life – Michael Gates Gill 12. The Prodigal God – Timothy Keller March 13. Outlander – Diana Gabaldon 14. Agnes Gray – Anne Bronte (audio) 15. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 16. UR - Stephen King 17. Summer - Edith Wharton (audio) 18. Lamb - Christopher Moore 19. Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho 20. Silas Marner - George Eliot (audio) 21. Beasts of New York - Jon Evans 22. You Can Heal Your Life - Louise Hay 23. Go Ask Alice - Anonymous (Beatirice Sparks) 24. Biblical Mysteries - Lonely Soul April 25. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (audio) 26. Turbulent Souls - Stephen J. Dubner 27. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing a Novel - Thomas Monteleone 28. The Glimpses of the Moon - Edith Wharton (audio) 29. The 80/10/10 Diet - Dr. Douglas Graham May 30. Shades Children - Garth Nix 31. Singer and the Sewing Machine: A Capitalist Romance - Ruth Brandon June 32. Odd Thomas - Dean Koontz 33. Called Out of Darkness - Anne Rice 34. Blink - Malcolm Gladwell (audio) 35. Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt - Anne Rice July 36. The Roman Pronunciation of Latin why we use it and how to use it - Francis Lord 37. Believe - Daniel Oran 38. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (audio) 39. Roasting in Hell's Kitchen - Gordon Ramsey 40. The Little Lame Prince - Dinah Mulock Craik 41. Heroic Measures - Jill Ciment August 42. Old New York - Edith Wharton 43. Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing - Stephen King 44. Rage to Survive: The Etta James Story - Etta James 45. Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia - Marya Hornbacher 46. The Third Jesus - Deepak Chopra 47. The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch 48. Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury 49. Finding Peace - Dr. Charles Stanley September 50. The Year of Living Biblically - A.J. Jacobs 51. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 52. The Sunflower - Richard Paul Evans 53. Duma Key - Stephen King 54. Dead Man's Cell Phone - Sarah Ruhl 55. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 56. What Difference do It Make? - Ron Hall et al. 57. Einstein: His Life and Universe (audio) - Walter Isaacson October 58. When the Heart Cries - Cindy Woodsmall 59. The Last Song - Nicholas Sparks 60. Have A Little Faith - Mitch Albom 61. Night Flight - Antoine de Saint-Exupery 62. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate - Jacqueline Kelly 63. The Christmas List - Richard Paul Evans 64. The Well - Mildred Taylor 65. Finding Purpose Beyond Our Pain - Meier & Henderson 66. Crossing Over - Ruth Irene Garrett November 67. When The Morning Comes - Cindy Woodsmall 68. A Treasury of Christmas Miracles - Karen Kingsbury 69. Skipping Christmas - John Grisham 70. The Liturgical Year - Joan Chittister 71. Goodbye Mr. Chips - James Hilton 72. The Thirteenth Tale (audio) - Diane Setterfield December 73. A Victorian Christmas - Catherine Palmer 74. You: Staying Young (audio)- Dr. Roizen & Dr. Oz 75. SuperFreakonomics - S. Levitt, S. Dubner 76. The Golden Ring: A Christmas Story - John Snyder 77. The Next Queen of Heaven - Gregory Maguire 78. Doctor Yourself: Natural Healing That Works (audio) - Andrew Saul 79. Angel Time - Anne Rice