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Post by Lu on Oct 31, 2010 4:39:22 GMT -5
I recently finished The Giver by Lois Lowry, I loved it! I've added the other books of the trilogy to my tbr list, I can't wait to read them.
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randomgirl
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Post by randomgirl on Nov 1, 2010 3:40:10 GMT -5
I started and finished Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote. I loved the movie and I'm glad I read the book too! I could not picture Holly any other way than the way she was portrayed by the legend, Audrey Hepburn. =)
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Post by godstar on Nov 2, 2010 12:44:03 GMT -5
I just finished H.G. Wells "The Time Machine". Very good book, a bit different than the movie interpretations I've seen, but resembled them nontheless. The books focus on class warfare being the downfall of man was quite different than some of the other metaphors I've seen used in the films. Also, the Morlocks are less ghastly and human looking than has been portrayed in the films in my minds eye. I surmise it's due to using costume actors for the most part, but the ending was the most different. Never in any film do they take a trip to the end of time to see what happens to the world, and then come back again. That part was my favorite.
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Post by Isa on Nov 2, 2010 16:18:28 GMT -5
"A Wolf at the Table" by Augusten Burroughs, and I really enjoyed it. He's had such a crazy life and he's good at communicating emotions, I thought the book was really moving.
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Kristie
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Post by Kristie on Nov 3, 2010 11:04:40 GMT -5
I finished the Mischief of the Mistletoe by Lauren Willig this morning. Loved it, but not as much as the previous books.
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Post by Hanna on Nov 7, 2010 10:36:22 GMT -5
Today I've spent most of the day in bed and thus finished two books:
Christian for a Good Reason by Stefan Gustavsson Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
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Post by Isa on Nov 7, 2010 18:17:23 GMT -5
The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen, by Syrie James. I enjoyed it, I like the way she mixed what we know of Jane Austen's life with what comes up in her novels.
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Post by Isa on Nov 8, 2010 7:47:17 GMT -5
lol, what a strange resolution! At least 2010 is almost over
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Kristie
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Post by Kristie on Nov 8, 2010 8:24:35 GMT -5
Well, the resolution was more or less to get me to stop rereading her novels. I tend to read a book or two of hers every year. But I wanted to read more books I've never read instead of rereading Austen.
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Post by Hanna on Nov 8, 2010 10:35:57 GMT -5
Today I finished The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne for school.
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Post by Lu on Nov 8, 2010 17:58:43 GMT -5
The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen, by Syrie James. I enjoyed it, I like the way she mixed what we know of Jane Austen's life with what comes up in her novels. As a JA fan, I think I'm going to look into this But I can't read it until next year, as I "gave up" Austen for the 2010 year, as a resolution haha I'm going to look into this too. Lol I have reread Jane Austen novels thousands times...
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Post by erin on Nov 10, 2010 3:33:23 GMT -5
I finished reading Forever Mine by Elizabeth Reyes
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Rubina
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Post by Rubina on Nov 13, 2010 5:20:20 GMT -5
I recently finished The Giver by Lois Lowry, I loved it! I've added the other books of the trilogy to my tbr list, I can't wait to read them. I read that recently, too. Didn't know it was a trilogy though, yay for that! ;D I finished the second Maisie Dobbs book, Birds of a Feather, which I enjoyed much more than the first one; I just might keep reading this series. And I finished Falling Man, which was for uni. Didn't hate it as much as Cosmopolis, in fact, the first half was quite good, but after that the coldness and the robot-like dialogue got on my nerves.
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Post by Isa on Nov 14, 2010 7:36:13 GMT -5
I finished "Pygmalion" last night. It was good, the only thing I wasn't too crazy about was the "What happens next" section at the end of the play. It says in the introduction that Shaw felt he had to write it to stop directors from trying to add a happy ending element to the play, but for me it killed some of the magic.
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