cauthoncrazy
First short story featured in regional newspaper
I've got the dreamers disease.
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Post by cauthoncrazy on Feb 5, 2007 20:29:16 GMT -5
So what books are you longingly staring at just waiting to find that afternoon, week, weekend to read? Can't wait to buy something at the store? Write it here! And I guess it's a given that my list is CRAZY long. I have a place on my bookshelf for all the books I need to read. It's my fault, I just went to the library and bought books recently. Hopefully people will be able to use this thread to find books to read and add to their lists! The Boy Book by E. Lockhart She Got Up Off the Couch by Haven Kimmel (thanks to zeldafitzgerald for reminding me of this one!) We Tell Ourselves Stories in order to Live: Collected NonFiction by Joan Didion The Price of Admission by Daniel Colden Bolt by Dick Francis The Edge by Dick Francis Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (I've actually never read the full version--just the Illustrated Classics..lol) Pretty Girls by Garret Weyr (started) A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean (for my thesis) My Life Starring Dara Falcon by Ann Beattie Isabel's Bed by Elinor Lipman The Heidi Chronicles & Other Plays by Wendy Wasserstein Marie Antionette by Antonia Frasier The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (started) Bait and Switch by Barbara Ehrenreich The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford (halfway through--seriously underappreciated novel) Going Home by Harriet Evans Whew. Sorry if that was overly excessive. Can't wait to see what everyone else is reading!
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zeldafitzgerald
Collection of short stories bought by Random House
ancora imparo
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Post by zeldafitzgerald on Feb 5, 2007 21:32:06 GMT -5
My To Be Read list is ungodly long, but there are definitely some titles that really pop out saying "READ ME!" that I can't wait to read.
The God of Small Things The Memory Keeper's Daughter Breakfast of Champions Water for Elephants The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Motherless Brooklyn The Fortress of Solitude Bill Bryson's African Diary David Copperfield The Awakening George and Sam
many many more, but these are the ones that come immediately to mind.
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cauthoncrazy
First short story featured in regional newspaper
I've got the dreamers disease.
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Post by cauthoncrazy on Feb 5, 2007 22:34:38 GMT -5
zelda, I work at a bookstore and Memory Keeper's Daughter is in big demand.
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shels
First piece published in the school’s newspaper
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Post by shels on Feb 6, 2007 0:12:12 GMT -5
here are just some of them...
Journals of Ayn Rand The Passion of Ayn Rand The Art of Fiction by Ayn Rand Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck East of Eden by John Steinbeck Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl Swann's Way by Marcel Proust Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Hamlet by William Shakespeare Sybil by Flora Schreiber The Jungle by Upton Sinclair The Gogol: The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
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sagedautumn
Collection of short stories bought by Random House
You Might Need This!
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Post by sagedautumn on Feb 6, 2007 14:41:45 GMT -5
I can't wait to read:
The Time Travelers Wife Portable Dorothy Parker Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
I know i'll add on later
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bookworm148
Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
"Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of a sky of a tree called life."
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Post by bookworm148 on Feb 6, 2007 14:44:49 GMT -5
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Nicholas Nickleby On the Road The Woman in White The Complete Shakespeare Northanger Abbey The Life of Pi The Lovely Bones The Jane Austen Book Club Reading Lolita in Teheran Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
etc.
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Post by bookaddict on Feb 6, 2007 14:59:47 GMT -5
Reading Lolita in Teheran The Time Travelers Wife Portable Dorothy Parker Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl Wicked and all of McGuire's books True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters Abundance Helen of Troy ...and many many more
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Kristie
Novel turned into BBC miniseries
"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
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Post by Kristie on Feb 6, 2007 16:14:53 GMT -5
From what you guys have listed so far, I've read some of them and I would recommend them all to you (Little Women, Lovely Bones, Grapes of Wrath, Hamlet, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Time Traveler's Wife, and Northanger Abbey). They're great reads, although Shakespeare isn't really my style, Hamlet was still so interesting.
bookworm148 said she wanted to read Jane Austen Book Club & Reading Lolita in Tehran, among others, and those are definitely 2 on my list. bookaddict mentioned Abundance, which I bought months ago and have yet to open it.
As for a real list I suppose:
- Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows
- Tiare by Celestine Vaite (the 3rd in a series. I read #2 first, now I'm reading #1, so I want to read #3)
- A Sweet Far Thing
- Forever in Blue
- Mansfield Park (the only Austen I have yet to finish)
I do have a list of about 250 books to read, so these are the main ones (most new or haven't even come out yet)
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Lu
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Post by Lu on Feb 10, 2007 10:35:24 GMT -5
I can't wait to read Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, but it isn't on my bookshelf yet. Just some books saying READ ME, on my to be read pile: - Jane Austen Book Club by Karen J. Fower
- Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
- The Boy Who loved Anne Frank by Ellen Feldman
- To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- The Posthumous Paper Of The Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens
- A Room Of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
- Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
- Swann's way by Marcel Proust
- Stories of the Spanish war by Ernest Hmingway
And some italian authors: - Aspirapolvere di stelle by Stefania Bertola
- L'italia è malata by Giorgio Bocca
- Le bambine dell'Avana non hanno paura di niente by Bianca Pitzorno
- Lettere dal carcere by Antonio Gramsci
Maybe I shouldn't buy other books now...but how can I resist?? I want to buy a Complete Writings by Sylvia Plath, it says BUY ME!
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Post by whitewarrior on Feb 20, 2007 1:40:31 GMT -5
The Book of Lost Things The Namesake Blankets Secret Life of Bees Anna Karenina Lisi's Story Neverending Story Swann's Way Green Mile Sophie's World Atlas Shrugged East of Eden
There are a lot more, but I don't have my pile with me right now lol...
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taylor
First poem written for Mother’s Day
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Post by taylor on Aug 1, 2007 13:22:23 GMT -5
Sense and Sensibility Mansfield Park (last two Austen books I havn't read) The Count of Monte Cristo Anna Karenina Rebecca Ivanhoe Eclipse The Sweet Far Thing Chocolat Villette North and South
To those who mentioned East of Eden and All Quiet on the Western Front- those are both amazing books!
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bookworm
Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
"Everything you can imagine is real" - Pablo Picasso
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Post by bookworm on Aug 1, 2007 16:16:53 GMT -5
I have a list saved on my computer with about three pages of 'to be read books'... The ones I plan on reading this month are: 1. The time traveler's wife 2. The kite runner 3. Tuesdays with Morrie
Also I am going to the library tomorrow to get 'Dead Souls' for our book club, hope I'll read it in time!
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Michelle
First novel published
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Post by Michelle on Aug 1, 2007 16:28:01 GMT -5
Those are all very good choices (especially the first two). Hope you enjoy them.
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neh
Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
"I live in two worlds; one is a world of books"
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Post by neh on Aug 1, 2007 17:40:23 GMT -5
- The Time Traveller's Wife - A Certain Slant of Light - The Thirteenth Tale - Eclipse - The Far Sweeter Thing and about a million classic works!
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