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My daughter sucked my husband and me into the 39 Clues books. I have to know what happens next...they only take me about 2 hours to read and now I am stuck waiting for book 8 adn there are only 10 books out...

 

They are for that 8-12 year ld range, but are surprisingly intriguing:tongue_smilie:

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I just finished Plain Secrets: An Outsider Among the Amish by Joe MacKall. It's a non-fiction about the Swartzentruber Amish, the most conservative Amish group there is. It was very good.

 

I'm also reading The Telling by Beverly Lewis. And I'm going to skim through my copy of TWTM (got it free from a fellow homeschooler!). I think it's the 2nd edition, and I've read one of the versions cover-to-cover, except for the high school years, but it's time to go through it again.

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I'm sticking with my light fare. Just finished Artemis Fowl: the Time Paradox and am now in the middle of Sweater Quest: My Year of Knitting Dangerously by Adrienne Martini. On audiobook: Magyk, book one of the Septimus Heap series. Not sure what I'll read next. Probably the next Artemis Fowl story. :D

 

Cinder

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I'm currently reading the third book in the "Wideacre" trilogy by Philippa Gregory. (Wideacre was her very first book).

 

I've been alternating between this series and "The Hunger Games" series. (finished the Hunger Games books and now finishing up the Wideacre books).

 

Just ordered Wideacre from the library...Thanks! I like Philipa Gregory...

 

Faithe (who read and loved Hunger Games.)

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Thanks everyone...and keep'em coming. i am filling up my library que right now. My librarian loves me:001_smile:

 

I am so totally stressed out, I need a week in bed with a stack of books and as soon as I am finished cleaning out my Mom's apartment and closing all those loose ends...I am off to bed with a big bar of chocolate and my stack of books...then December will be school planning/ Christmas Fun month!

 

More books please,

Faithe (who is truly a book addict...my dd says I need intervention:D)

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Some that I have enjoyed in the past couple of years:

 

C by Tom McCarthy

Packing for Mars by Mary Roach

Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

Born to Run by Christopher McDougall

City of Thieves by David Benioff

The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl

Waiting for Snow in Havana by Carlos Eire

Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls

The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers

Iron & Silk by Mark Salzman

The Wee Free Men (YA) by Terry Pratchett

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Hogfather by Terry Pratchett

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

The Astounding Life of Octavian Nothing (YA) by M. T. Anderson

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

The Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livinstone by Martin Dugard

The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King

Dancer by Colum McCann

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I am reading the Mennonite Mystery series by Tamar Myers right now. http://www.amazon.com/Crooks-Spoil-Pennsylvania-Dutch-Mystery-Recipes/dp/0451182960/ref=sr_1_12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1290207007&sr=1-12 The reviewers didn't seem to like the books but I thought they were nice---just enough humor to keep things going and nothing gruesome with the mysteries. There is a whole series of these books.

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