DB in NJ Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Oh, I'm in HEAVEN!!! I just listened to chapter 1 while I was playing around online. *awesome* THANK YOU!!!!!! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoraida Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 I'm currently trying to read my way through all of the Man Booker Prize winners (Britain's Major Literary Prize) I began with the 1969 award winners and nominees and am working my way through the list. I have just recently started the 1976 list beginning with David Storey's novel Saville. I got this idea to read all these award winners when I was browsing Amazon one day looking for something to read. I noticed in their side bar they had an award winner category. So I started browsing the different lists and came up with the idea of reading all the Booker awards and I have been having great fun doing so and meeting great authors like my favorite Iris Murdoch. I was telling another mother about this and she said that there is a Booker Yahoo group where they pick different Booker books to read each month. I was thinking about joining but I belong to so many Yahoo groups already I decided not to join. I'm starting to think that reading through major award lists is a popular thing to do these days. Yesterday I received my new issue of Entertainment Weekly. The cover story was about what to do during the writers strike and everything is in repeats on television. One of the reviewers wrote that her and her friend just recently started the Pulitzer Prize Book Club. They started with the 1917 winner and are working their way to 2008. Blessings Zoraida Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenKitty Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 Die Broke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle in MO Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 The Fellowship of the Ring again, The Writer's Jungle by Julie Bogart, just finished What's So Great About Christianity? by Dinesh D'Souza. My husband just finished Mornings on Horseback by David McCollough, and I want to read that, too! However, when I finally get a chance to read for fun, it's 9:30 at night and I fall asleep after the first few pages! I'm also studying for the GRE in March, so that's taking up the little spare time I have! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArwenA Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 Macbeth from the Shakespeare on the Double series, though I'm not using the translation. I'm glad that DD likes it but it's hard when we both can't put it down!:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lorna Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 I am reading 'A Hundred Secret Senses' by Amy Tan. I normally read old classics but I am really enjoying this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawn in MI Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 Just led a discussion/activity for my daughter's Tween Book Club on The Mouse & the Motorcycle (by Beverly Cleary) on Monday night & then discussed The Zookeeper's Wife (true story about a Polish family during WWII) with my own book group on Tuesday night. Quite a contrast in both reading level and subject matter, but I enjoyed both! I also just finished Northhanger Abbey (by Jane Austen) and Strong Poison (by Dorothy Sayers.) Currently I'm reading Have His Carcass by Sayers, despite the awful title! Gaudy Night is the 3rd book in this particular Sayer's series about Harriet Vance & so that is next on my list, along with the Thirteenth Tale for my book group. Also, I'm about 2/3 of the way through Teach Like Your Hair is on Fire and have just started a devotional (?) book/novel called The Shack. --Dawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erica471 Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 I'm reading Murder in Belleville. It's the second in the Aimee Le Duc mystery series set in Paris. I'm really enjoying this series. I'm still slogging my way through Don Quixote. Also, after seeing Masterpiece Theater on Sunday, I'd like to start Northanger Abbey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandra in NC Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 I am reading 'A Hundred Secret Senses' by Amy Tan. I normally read old classics but I am really enjoying this. The Hundred Secret Senses is my favorite Amy Tan book! I had to read it twice to "get it" but I enjoyed both times! Isn't Kwan funny? (I met Amy Tan and she autographed my copy!) Saving Fish from Drowning is a good Amy Tan book, too, and is especially interesting reading in light of Burma's recent re-emergence in the news. I think it's a shame that so many high schools have their students read the Joy Luck Club when Tan has superior books out.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beth in SW WA Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 How Should We Then Live by Francis Shaeffer Revolutionary Parenting by George Barna Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis The Case For Christ by Lee Stroebel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anne/Ankara Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 I'm reading Birds Without Wings, a story set in the 1920's in Turkey. Very interesting read! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.