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Scentual Dreamer |
Lovey- I hear ya on John Grisham
 and am definitely wanting to read Angel and Demons...I've been meaning to read this for a while now and never got around to it. I must.Noelle- I love biographies as well ...and read Freddie Mercurie's biography/auto-biography quite a few times (I am crazy about Queen).I definitely recommend Angela's Ashes, 'Tis, and A Child Called It . I'd suggest reading The Painted Bird as well, but this one is about the holocaust and is VERY hard to read. Very explicit and "graphic". I think Jerzy Kosinski (the man who wrote The Painted Bird - who is a holocaust survivor) killed himself after writing this book  .Anan- I agree with you on The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, very good book .The movie annoyed me though...Alexis Bledel annoys the living daylights out of me. The "wrong actress" can ruin a movie for me especially if the movie is based on a book that has me creating the image of the character in my mind already. |
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Caramel Queen |
I think when you've read the book, then see the movie, you definitely have some preconceived notions. It can be very disappointing if the script doesn't conjure up the same emotions.
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Eternal Redhead |
I hear that, Lovey! I have been constantly disappointed by great books made into mediocre movies.
Love from Becky |
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Peachy Keen |
Has anyone read "Blue Blood" or "The Good Girls Guide to Murder" by Susan McBride? Kind of a fluff read, but fun all the same!
 ***Katy*** aka Yankee Belle |
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Scentual Dreamer |
I am setting a challenge for myself to read the following books this month:
- Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks - The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold - The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger I've been meaning to read these and never got around to them. This month I am hoping to make a dent in this pile  . |
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Beauty Product Aficionado |
I'm re-reading "The Russians" by Hedrick Smith. Even though the USSR is no longer in existence, it's still fascinating, imo, to read about life in Russia during communism.
Several years ago I developed a fascination with Soviet history and read a ton of books dealing with it. Some of them were from the library, but this one is part of my collection, so I decided to re-read it.  |
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Beauty Guru |
(Originally posted by Kimmer)
Noelle- I love biographies as well ...and read Freddie Mercurie's biography/auto-biography quite a few times (I am crazy about Queen).I definitely recommend Angela's Ashes, 'Tis, and A Child Called It . Kimmer, I read Angela's Ashes and A Child called it. They were excellent books. I think you will also like The Lovely Bones too. Becky, I know what you mean about reading the book and then seeing the movie. I recently saw Memoirs of a Geisha, and although it was okay, the book was just too great to be able to translate it into the movie. I just saw a book that I wanted to read although it's "fluff". A women who was a personal assistant to different celebrities for a long time talks about what it's like. For the life of me, I can't remember what the name of the book is, but this time I wrote it down. Now if I remember where I put it.   |
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Beauty Product Aficionado |
Ooh - if you remember the name, let us know, noelle. That sounds like a fun book.
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Scentual Dreamer |
Noelle - You should seriously read "The Giver" by Joseph Lowry if you haven't already . It isn't a bio/auto-bio but it is definitely very symbolic and introspective enough to be a worthy read.Another good one is "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Alexander Solzhenitsyn .I 2nd what BBW Rawks said...that's sounding like a good book (what you mentioned you cannot recall the name of ). Here's to your remembering where you placed the note with its name on it  . |
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Beauty Guru |
BBW Rawks and Kimmer,
How I could NOT remember the name of this book, is too funny. With a name of a book called "Chore Whore", you would think it wouldn't be that difficult. Yes.... "Chore Whore" Adventures of a Celebrity Personal Assistant, by Heather H. Howard. I still think it will be interesting.  |
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Scentual Dreamer |
Thanks Noelle
...I am off to Amazon to read the synopsis. The name is certainly...errr...catchy  LOL. |
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Beauty Product Aficionado |
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Full Member |
Here are some of my favorites:
Nicholas Sparks (he can not write fast enough John Grisham Harry Potter Series The Pianist To Kill a Mockingbird Les Miserables Vanity Fair The English Patient Shakespeare Lord of the Rings Series Gone With the Wind Crime & Punishment War & Peace Diary of Anne Frank I just purchased the following and will be starting on them after I finish boards: Flags of Our Fathers, 1776, Band of Brothers, Empire of the Sun (I LOVED this movie), and Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kinertransport (this book is about Britiains rescue of more than 10,000 children from the holocaust). I LOVE to read. I am a fast reader and once I start I normally read a book in one to three days. I can't read at night when I try to sleep because I get too into the book and I HAVE to know what happens next, so reading to try to help me sleep is out of the question. I also collect books. I always purchase hardbacks (first addition if possible) or I will purchase the nicer larger size paperback. I have really gotten into history as of late and I could spend DAYS in this used book store in Fayetteville where I went to college. Oh - for the "non book type reading"  I love In Style, Real Simple, Elle, Allure, and a couple of different beading magazines to help with some ideas for my jewelry***-Carrie-*** It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not. ~Author Unknown "To take the first step in faith, you don't have to see the whole staircase: just take the first step." Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Escada Expert/Use It Up Guru |
I'm starting the Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants 2nd book in that series. I love it, it is very nostalgic for me.
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Scentual Dreamer |
You've got some great picks there Carrie . It's awesome that you're as much of a "book worm" as I am  . You need to move to Israel so that we can start our own book club .. |
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Full Member |
Sounds like a plan. Just let me find a way to get the IV drip attached to my arm inorder to get on the plane and I will be there shortly because you know that is what it will take to get my  on a plane***-Carrie-*** It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not. ~Author Unknown "To take the first step in faith, you don't have to see the whole staircase: just take the first step." Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Scentual Dreamer |
But I am taunting you with unlimited chat fests, shopping days, and...and...dang it what else would it take to get you to get your bootey over here? . |
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Scentual Dreamer |
Currently reading:
"Shutter Island" by: Dennis Lehane. This book is incredible on so many levels. I HIGHLY recommend it! Synopsis: Summer, 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped patient, a murderess named Rachel Solando, as a hurricane bears down upon them. But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. And neither is Teddy Daniels. Is he there to find a missing patient? Or has he been sent to look into rumors of Ashecliffe’s radical approach to psychiatry? An approach that may include drug experimentation, hideous surgical trials, and lethal countermoves in the shadow war against Soviet brainwashing. . . Or is there another, more personal reason why he has come there? As the investigation deepens, the questions only mount: How has a barefoot woman escaped the island from a locked room? Who is leaving clues in the form of cryptic codes? Why is there no record of a patient committed there just one year before? What really goes on in Ward C? Why is an empty lighthouse surrounded by an electrified fence and armed guards? The closer Teddy and Chuck get to the truth, the more elusive it becomes, and the more they begin to believe that they may never leave Shutter Island. Because someone is trying to drive them insane. . . |
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Beauty Product Aficionado |
Oooh, sounds good, Kimmer. Maybe I'll read it after I get through the long list of books that I already have "on deck."
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Scentual Dreamer |
BBW Rawks- This is seriously worth taking a gander
. This is one book that makes you stop and think. As you go it makes you question everything you thought you knew when you first started it. Two thumbs up ! |
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