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 Apr 17, 2007 15:18:37 GMT -5
Dom, I highly recommend Kite Runner and Northanger Abbey, which are the only two of that list I've read. Both are great books (obviously for very different reasons).
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Post by Hanna on Apr 18, 2007 17:29:45 GMT -5
Book cataloges are dangerous! I just added The Children of Hurin by JRR and Christopher Tolkien and The Book Thief by Martin Zusak
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Bina
First novel published
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Post by Bina on Apr 20, 2007 11:44:51 GMT -5
Too true I made the mistake to go through the children´s section today, added quite a few classics and modern.
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Post by Hanna on Apr 30, 2007 8:51:42 GMT -5
Katherine Mansfield's Short Stories
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pageturner37
First short story featured in regional newspaper
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Post by pageturner37 on Apr 30, 2007 15:51:55 GMT -5
i am for sure going to read coffee at lukes when it comes out. i found it on barnes&noble and it comes out may 28. its about gilmore girls of course, and im excited to read it
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Kristie
Novel turned into BBC miniseries
"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
Posts: 7,214
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Post by Kristie on May 1, 2007 15:38:45 GMT -5
I found out that Tiare in Bloom is due out sometime next month, so I'm anxiously waiting it's arrival. I could buy it new for $10 off Amazon, but I don't know if I should wait and just get it from the library. The reason I hesitate is that I've read the first 2 in this series and don't have either, and I hate starting to buy books in a series when you haven't bought previous ones. That's why I haven't ordered A Sweet Far Thing because I don't have the other two books before it
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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 May 1, 2007 17:22:47 GMT -5
You have a while to wait for The Sweet Far Thing as it is!
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zeldafitzgerald
Collection of short stories bought by Random House
ancora imparo
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Post by zeldafitzgerald on May 5, 2007 9:32:56 GMT -5
"Reading Like a Writer" is putting a TON of things on my TBR list. In fact, she has a long list at the back of "Books to be read immediately." She uses a lot of examples in her book, a lot of passages and paragraphs that are great examples of writing. Reading those passages makes me want to read the whole book it came from!
One of the highest on my list is "I Sailed With Magellan" by Stuart Dybek. I'm going to the library today to get it.
I looked at it in Barnes and Noble yesterday, and it said Stuart Dybek is from my hometown, Kalamazoo, Michigan. How extremely cool!
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Bina
First novel published
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Post by Bina on May 5, 2007 10:18:05 GMT -5
That is cool I added The Secrets of a Fire King: Stories by Kim Edwards and Allah is Not Obliged by Ahmadou Kourouma.
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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 May 5, 2007 10:56:25 GMT -5
Ummm.... I wasn't actually sure where to post this and I feel like I'm missing something but what happened to the Harry Potter Forum/Thread thingy???
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Post by Dominique on May 5, 2007 19:45:04 GMT -5
I took it down because no one seemed that interested... but feel free to start the threads you were talking about like about the old books and stuff I would like to read Reading Like A Writer too I think
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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 May 6, 2007 12:24:21 GMT -5
Nice Avatar!! I think it's better to leave it as it is, we have enough Harry Potter threads that no one really uses anyway. Anyway, next on my TBR list is The Fight Club. Hopefully! I finished Harry Potter 4 and I also want to get a head start on the book club book
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Post by Hanna on May 9, 2007 8:09:59 GMT -5
Reading like a Writer Armageddon by Leon Uris Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
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Post by Dominique on May 9, 2007 8:48:25 GMT -5
Thanks!
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zeldafitzgerald
Collection of short stories bought by Random House
ancora imparo
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Post by zeldafitzgerald on May 13, 2007 9:44:34 GMT -5
Barnes and Noble released their Summer "Discover New Writers" list, and there are several I'd love to read. I have found GREAT books as a part of this program, and two of my all time favorites: The Book Thief and The History of Love.
The one I want to read most from this summer's list is called "A Circle is a Balloon and Compass Both by Ben Greenman.
Here's what they say about it:
A never-ending circle, a collection of infinite points, provides the ideal metaphor for Greenman (an editor at The New Yorker), who recognizes the fragility of love and its power to center us within its own perfect universe. In his 14 stories, the problem of communicating the delicate, often elusory elements of affection is a consistent theme.
"Black, Gray, Green, Red, Blue" is written in letters from a painter to the muse he once summoned the courage to love, despite the distance between them. In "Signs," a spoiled young woman berates and belittles the men in her life in order to make even the most basic human connection. In "The Duck Knows How to Make the Most of Things," a divorced, aging music teacher uses children's music to communicate his adult feelings and drifts away from both his friendly ex-wife and his acerbic new lover. "My Decorous Pornography" details a man's attempt to overcome his romantic failures through an unusual correspondence with a woman. And "Clutching and Glancing" details the affair between a seasonal bartender and a married doctor, a relationship that progresses from an initial indifference to a cruel destruction.
Greenman's spare language simultaneously showcases a devastating wit and a deep understanding of the transcendence and disorientation that hold the power to unhinge us, but when in balance, create the sublime experience we call being "in love." (Summer 2007 Selection)
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