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Post by Melissa G. on May 15, 2008 19:22:35 GMT -5
Well, since i got sucked into Twilight, I would say that New Moon, Eclipse, and then Breaking Dawn are my biggest TBR contenders. ;D My list exactly! I can't wait (and I am hoping for) Midnight Sun.
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Kristie
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Post by Kristie on Nov 16, 2008 15:29:55 GMT -5
Anyone got any new books on their TBR lists?
My newest is The Temptation of the Night Jasmine by Lauren Willig. It's the 5th in the continuing series of romance, history, and spies! lol The series is purely a pleasure read--not too much depth involved. It could be in a mystery genre or even romance, but I think it's just with fiction. It comes out in January 2009. She writes about one book a year for the series
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Post by Halie on Nov 16, 2008 20:42:01 GMT -5
Because I just saw the movie and loved it:
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street The Wonderful and Surprising History of Sweeney Todd: The Life and Times of an Urban Legend
Also: The Go-Between (one of my Shelfari groups read it a while back, it looked good) Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (my friend wrote some paper on it for a class so I thought I'd read it) Pride, Prejudice and Jasmin Field : A Novel (looked cute) Farm Fatale: A Comedy of Country Manors (ditto) Backpack (ditto) The Masters Forever: A Novel La Dame aux Camelias (Je ne sais pas pourquoi je voulais le lire... j'ai oublié) The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate: Two Novels
So you see, I have so many books on my TBR list that I never post here. It'd be updated every day or so!
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Kristie
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Post by Kristie on Nov 17, 2008 16:46:41 GMT -5
Because I just saw the movie and loved it: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street The Wonderful and Surprising History of Sweeney Todd: The Life and Times of an Urban Legend Also: The Go-Between (one of my Shelfari groups read it a while back, it looked good) Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (my friend wrote some paper on it for a class so I thought I'd read it) Pride, Prejudice and Jasmin Field : A Novel (looked cute) Farm Fatale: A Comedy of Country Manors (ditto) Backpack (ditto) The Masters Forever: A Novel La Dame aux Camelias (Je ne sais pas pourquoi je voulais le lire... j'ai oublié) The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate: Two Novels So you see, I have so many books on my TBR list that I never post here. It'd be updated every day or so! We did Perfume for one of our first book discussions. I really did like the book, but it was really weird
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Post by Dominique on Dec 6, 2008 19:21:28 GMT -5
Lately I really want to read Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh because I really enjoyed the movie, and also The Curious Tale of Benjamin Button and other Stories by F Scott Fitzgerald as I'd like to see it before the movie comes out.
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Post by sunshine83 on Dec 10, 2008 4:00:48 GMT -5
Waiting for the Twilight series to arrive from Chapters...
then after those I plan on reading:
The Memory Keepers Daughter The Time Traveler's Wife The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time Marley & Me Bright Shiny Morning The Secret Life of Bees Into The Wild
Anyone read those? Good reads? Which should I start with??
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Post by Hanna on Dec 10, 2008 9:47:10 GMT -5
I've read The Secret Life of Bees and The Curious Incident og the Dog in the Nighttim, and I liked both of them a lot, but they are very, very different from each other, so I don't really think it matters which one you start with, it all depends on your mood:)
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Post by Lu on Dec 11, 2008 14:39:59 GMT -5
I read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and The Time Traveler's Wife and I enjoyed both, I actually liked the former better...so I'd suggest to start with it. I'm not very sure though...beacause I'd REALLY like to read The Secret Life of Bees, as well as The Memory Keepers Daughter...yeah, I'm not helping much ;D
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Post by sunshine83 on Dec 12, 2008 22:36:17 GMT -5
I read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and The Time Traveler's Wife and I enjoyed both, I actually liked the former better...so I'd suggest to start with it. I'm not very sure though...beacause I'd REALLY like to read The Secret Life of Bees, as well as The Memory Keepers Daughter...yeah, I'm not helping much ;D Hey it's helpful! Least I know they are worth reading!
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Post by neh on Dec 15, 2008 1:48:53 GMT -5
Off-topic query: although i'm anxious to see it, does anyone else feel that Time Traveller's Wife is going to be extraordinarily difficult to translate onto screen? Not soley for the issue of age alterations and time travel, but for how some of these may appear in context? (for example, when he's quite a bit older than her, but clearly courting...?)
Am anxiously awaiting some HP goodies - The Tales of Beedle the Bard - Harry, a History (fan-written book)
and some Amazon finds - Kissing the Witch: Old tales in New Skins - The Power of Myth (transcripts of the miniseries)
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Post by neveralone on Dec 21, 2008 11:48:27 GMT -5
The Cross by Arthur Blessitt Dating Jesus by Susan Campbell Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin Hands of My father by Myron Uhlberg Honeymoon in Tehran by Azadeh Moaveni Monique and the Mango Rains by Kris Holloway
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Post by Lu on Dec 22, 2008 14:44:13 GMT -5
Inkworld trilogy by Cornelia Funke.
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Post by Halie on Dec 22, 2008 15:51:26 GMT -5
First Love by Adrienne Sharp Chez Moi by Agnes Desarthe Paris Tales, a collection of works by Maupassant, Colette, etc. My Life in France by Julia Child The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery A Geisha's Journey by Komomo Subway Art by Martha Cooper
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Post by bookishgirl on Mar 10, 2009 19:31:03 GMT -5
hmmm let me think...
Tess of D'ubervilles, Wicked, Mr. Darcy's Diary, Oliver Twist, Persuasion, Daniel Deronda, The Bell Jar, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall...theres more but thats all i can think of right now.
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Post by Dominique on Mar 11, 2009 4:12:13 GMT -5
Next thing I think I'll start is The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman if I can fit it in before I have to start I Capture the Castle for Book Club discussions. The only other book I've read by him is Good Omens, which he cowrote with Terry Pratchett and it's one of my favourites so I have high expectations. Other than that a few that I've noticed that sound interesting to me right now are The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society (not sure if I got the title right but something along those lines). Neither of those are at my library though.
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