sagedautumn
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Post by sagedautumn on Aug 21, 2007 10:51:44 GMT -5
i like the middlesex idea. i actually have that book!
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bluejay765
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Post by bluejay765 on Aug 21, 2007 11:19:24 GMT -5
I like the idea of Middlesex or Kavalier and Clay, but how about "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"?
I don't know if we've read it yet, though.
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sagedautumn
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Post by sagedautumn on Aug 21, 2007 12:22:01 GMT -5
No we have never read that book . I love that book so I would not mind
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Post by Isa on Aug 21, 2007 14:31:50 GMT -5
I'd love to read A tree grows in Brooklyn but since we're doing contemporary novels this time around (and it was published in 1948), we'll have to wait until the next book club.
What about Melissa Bank's The Wonder Spot? I think there were a few of us interested in reading it...
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sagedautumn
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Post by sagedautumn on Aug 21, 2007 14:40:09 GMT -5
hmmmmm...... Never heard of it!
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Post by bookaddict on Aug 21, 2007 15:25:08 GMT -5
I also own Middlesex, and I think it would be easy for others to get. Oprah's choice has made it cheaper as well.
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Post by katiaisme on Aug 21, 2007 16:26:22 GMT -5
I would like to read Middlesex.
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Post by Kristie on Aug 21, 2007 16:27:54 GMT -5
Okay, I looked through everyone's suggestions and here are the ones I'd really like to read: A Thousand Splendid Suns, Lucky, Secret Life of Bees, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night, Bel Canto, Red Tent, and Lake of Dead Languages. I need to look into the Middlesex thing because I don't really know what it's about.
I'm not really gonna suggest anything because with school starting, I'm not sure if I'll be able to keep up.
I looked up the new book Dom mentioned by Lisa See and it looks wonderful. Here's the Amazon.com description of it if anyone else wants to look at it:
Peony in Love by Lisa See Set in 17th-century China, See's fifth novel is a coming-of-age story, a ghost story, a family saga and a work of musical and social history. As Peony, the 15-year-old daughter of the wealthy Chen family, approaches an arranged marriage, she commits an unthinkable breach of etiquette when she accidentally comes upon a man who has entered the family garden. Unusually for a girl of her time, Peony has been educated and revels in studying The Peony Pavilion, a real opera published in 1598, as the repercussions of the meeting unfold. The novel's plot mirrors that of the opera, and eternal themes abound: an intelligent girl chafing against the restrictions of expected behavior; fiction's educative powers; the rocky path of love between lovers and in families. It figures into the plot that generations of young Chinese women, known as the lovesick maidens, became obsessed with The Peony Pavilion, and, in a Werther-like passion, many starved themselves to death. See (Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, etc.) offers meticulous depiction of women's roles in Qing and Ming dynasty China (including horrifying foot-binding scenes) and vivid descriptions of daily Qing life, festivals and rituals. Peony's vibrant voice, perfectly pitched between the novel's historical and passionate depths, carries her story beautifully—in life and afterlife.
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wvrunna221
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Post by wvrunna221 on Aug 21, 2007 19:15:48 GMT -5
I've read Middlesex with Oprah's book club. I would love to read A Thousand Splendid Suns.
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sagedautumn
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Post by sagedautumn on Aug 22, 2007 13:22:04 GMT -5
Did you like it??
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wvrunna221
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Post by wvrunna221 on Aug 22, 2007 19:02:46 GMT -5
Yes, I liked it. It's a disturbing, make you think kind of book.
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Post by jess on Aug 23, 2007 7:21:27 GMT -5
I've read middlesex, I liked it also. I would like to read The Secret Life of Bees, The Red Tent or Peony in Love.
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Post by bookaddict on Aug 23, 2007 16:50:40 GMT -5
Ella Minnow Pea would be great to discuss...
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Post by mv on Aug 24, 2007 2:28:18 GMT -5
I wasn't able to participate in Deas Souls discussion because I took too many summer classes... but this time I'm gonna take part and I'm OK pretty much with any book. My suggestion is something by Haruki Murakami, maybe Sputnik Sweetheart?
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Post by Lu on Aug 24, 2007 4:32:59 GMT -5
I want to read most of the books mentioned, although I don't own all of them yet..a book discussion is a good excuse to buy a book I'd like to read Thousand Splendid Suns, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night, A Long Way Down, The Nanny Diaries, A Great And Terrible Beauty, Middlesex, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.
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