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Post by Isa on Sept 17, 2006 8:25:38 GMT -5
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So...what is everyone reading?
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Post by Dominique on Sept 18, 2006 6:21:59 GMT -5
I'm reading Wuthering Heights for the first time and loving it thus far. I have no idea how it ends either which I'm pleased about, I've always tried to tune out when that awful Kate Bush summary of the song comes on. Ugh, so high pitched.
So far I've found I don't have very much sympathy for Cathy, but I do for Heathcliff. I'm only up to about pg 70 though so don't hold me to that!
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Post by Isa on Sept 18, 2006 7:32:00 GMT -5
It's great to read your first impressions of Wuthering Heights! And don't worry, I won't spoil the ending for you I'm still stuck on Little Women (though I've only about 30 pages left). It's a great read, and I love the character of Jo! It's very interesting because it lets you know so much about the hard time Alcott was having, trying to be a respectable woman (by 19th century standards) and a writer at the same time.
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Kristie
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Post by Kristie on Sept 18, 2006 14:07:13 GMT -5
I loved Little Women. I don't really know why because it was just simple and there was no twisted plot really. I always loved the movies when I was younger. Actually, I'm the 2nd of 4 sisters and we used to play we were the March sisters. Because I was the 2nd and loved reading I got to be Jo. It always made me happy.
Right now I'm reading, rather slowly (slowly because I'm swamped with work), Darcy and Elizabeth. It's the second in a small series of books that continue Pride and Prejudice. I heard there's going to be a third book soon. But being in school, I'm also reading A Different Mirror by Ronald Takaki. I really love it, but I wouldn't recommend it to any conservative American because they'd prolly get very angry.
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Post by Isa on Sept 18, 2006 18:01:58 GMT -5
You playing the March sisters sounds so much more appealing than the March sisters playing Pilgrims Progress!!
I gotta say, I've read pretty much everything Jane Austen ever wrote, including her letters and juvenilia, but I've never read any of the "sequels" or "prequels" that came out. Would you say Mr. Darcy takes a wife is the best one?
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Post by Bina on Sept 19, 2006 7:29:14 GMT -5
I loved Wuthering Heights. Its one of the most intense novels I´ve ever read!
I just finished the 10th Stephanie Plum novel so I´ll start "The secret Life of Bees" later tonight. I´ve heard so much about it that I´m really curious if it´s that good a book.
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Post by czarval on Sept 19, 2006 11:57:53 GMT -5
I have a few things started here and there. I'm just about finished Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. Good book, about women in China.
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Post by Paige on Sept 20, 2006 12:59:36 GMT -5
I just finished the time traveler's wife...finally...it was so sad!!! i cried during the last 100 pages or so. now im gonna reread the sisterhood of the traveling pants 1 and 2 so i can read the 3rd one that i finally got!
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Post by Isa on Sept 20, 2006 16:55:54 GMT -5
I've just picked up The Five People You Meet in Heaven last night - I had a hard time putting it down and went to bed way too late!! The description of Eddie's last minutes before dying was spellbinding, what a great way to start a novel!
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Post by Bina on Sept 21, 2006 8:37:44 GMT -5
Mitch Albom makes me cry! "The 5 people you meet in heaven" is even better than "tuesdays with Morrie". What do you think? I´m halfway through "the secret life of bees" anf I love it. I want to buy it!
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Post by Paige on Sept 21, 2006 10:23:42 GMT -5
I´m halfway through "the secret life of bees" anf I love it. I want to buy it! ooooo! i read that book this summer!!! it is sooooooo good!!!!
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Post by Bina on Sept 21, 2006 12:30:57 GMT -5
ooooo! i read that book this summer!!! it is sooooooo good!!!![/quote]
It really is. I was kind of sceptic at first because I didn´t enjoy "the mermaid chair" that much.
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Post by Kristie on Sept 21, 2006 17:14:05 GMT -5
I have a few things started here and there. I'm just about finished Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. Good book, about women in China.
That is such a good book! I loved it! My younger sister is actually doing a report on the pains women will go to to look "appealing" so she's using the footbinding thing juxtaposed with an eating disorder. But yeah, let me know how you like it!
I'm just about to start reading Finding Man`ana by Mirta Ojito. My sister recommended it to me after she read it for a class.
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Post by Paige on Sept 21, 2006 17:59:09 GMT -5
ooooo! i read that book this summer!!! it is sooooooo good!!!! It really is. I was kind of sceptic at first because I didn´t enjoy "the mermaid chair" that much. [/quote] so is the mermaid chair worth reading even tho its not as good cuz i was thinking about getting it?
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Post by Dominique on Sept 23, 2006 6:20:08 GMT -5
I have a few things started here and there. I'm just about finished Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. Good book, about women in China. I saw that on oprah the other day. She brought in a tiny shoe that the women had their feet binded to fit in. I had heard of foot binding before, but I had no idea it was THAT bad. This shoe was the size of a little baby's bootie. Apparently when they bind their feet they break every bone in the foot.
That is such a good book! I loved it! My younger sister is actually doing a report on the pains women will go to to look "appealing" so she's using the footbinding thing juxtaposed with an eating disorder. But yeah, let me know how you like it!
That's a really interesting topic for an essay! It's like eastern vs western objectification of women and it's consequences, I really like it! I should read this book. It sounds interesting.
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