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What Book Are You Currently Reading 2

Posted: 01:45PM Oct 14, 2009
dswilborn*
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List (and feel free to discuss) what book you are currently reading!


Angry Conversations with God - Susan Issacson
Posted: 12:08AM Oct 15, 2009
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The Lieutenant- Kate Grenville

Great 2nd book for Kate - 1st was "The Secret River" which gave us the story of a poor english man in the 1800's who was sent out to Australia as one of the first settlers. In "The Lieutenant", Kate goes back even further to the late 1700's to the arrival of the very firts fleet. The story maps the life of "Lieutenant Daniel Rooke" who grows up different (smarter) than the rest of his co-hort. He desperately wants to be an astronomer, but as all spaces are filled, takes a chance on the first fleet to be the first astronomer of Australia.

The story accounts dealings with "the savages" (aboriginies), and his experience in meeting them and trying to learn thier cultures and languages.

Both the "Secret River" and "The Lieutenant" are amazing books. They are not at all boring (even though when I read the flyleaf I though "ooooohhhhhhhhh god....."), they are really entertaining and make you think about the way we act, think and live.



The next book i'd like to read is "The art of looking sideways", which I've been told is fabulous!


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Posted: 02:14PM Oct 18, 2009
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Snow in August- Pete Hamill

"You said you read me like a book, but the pages all are torn and frayed." My Chemical Romance (I'm Not Okay)
Posted: 05:40PM Oct 18, 2009
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Good Enough - Paula Yoo
Posted: 11:35PM Oct 18, 2009
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The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Yeah, I finally got around to it.


"Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go, be what you want to be. Because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do."
Posted: 01:42AM Oct 19, 2009
dswilborn*
Posts: 2120

U2 by U2


Hey mods - can you sticky this - or at least unsticky the old one??
Posted: 01:20PM Oct 23, 2009
Avatar for Trickster1992 Trickster1992Aen
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I'm not currently reading so much as writing (barely, but I'm trying.. been tired and uninspired and unmotivated lately..)

But I did pre-order "Burn" by Ted Dekker and Erin Healy. It doesn't come out until January though.

I also ordered the Inhuman Rampage tab book. Does that count?


There's something that's missing if we can't recognize that our own existence is the miracle before our eyes. --Michael Tait
Posted: 06:15PM Oct 23, 2009
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Posts: 57

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them. ~ James Fallows
Posted: 07:49PM Oct 23, 2009
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

"Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go, be what you want to be. Because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do."
Posted: 11:12PM Oct 25, 2009
Avatar for Gerrard10 Gerrard10Aus
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Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga

They call me Gerrard.
Posted: 07:32PM Oct 26, 2009
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Dreamcatcher - Stephen King

"You said you read me like a book, but the pages all are torn and frayed." My Chemical Romance (I'm Not Okay)
Posted: 06:49AM Oct 28, 2009
Avatar for abokabear abokabearAau
Posts: 100

Harry Potter 6

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it!
Posted: 11:18PM Oct 29, 2009
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Telling Tales

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They call me Gerrard.
Posted: 01:34PM Nov 2, 2009
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Posts: 646

Northanger abbey

what is sense??and if i am not making sense, then why i say it?? I SAY IT COZ IT MAKE SENSE TO ME BUT WHY IT DON'T MAKE SENSE TO YOU????????? sorry!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: 02:23PM Nov 2, 2009
bella_edward*
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Succubus Blues by Richelle Mead
Posted: 02:31PM Nov 2, 2009
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Posts: 361

Skelliton Key by Anthony Horowitz

Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
Posted: 04:14PM Nov 2, 2009
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Succubus On Top by Richelle Mead
Posted: 08:25PM Nov 2, 2009
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The life of Manet 1832-1863

[ In case you do not know he was a painter]

I like it so far


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Posted: 06:29PM Nov 7, 2009
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Broken Wings by V.C. Andrew

"You said you read me like a book, but the pages all are torn and frayed." My Chemical Romance (I'm Not Okay)
Posted: 11:30AM Nov 8, 2009
Avatar for ilovemyhuskydog ilovemyhuskydogAdo
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I'm reading Jingle Belles, No More Dead Dogs, and Rattlesnake Rock.

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