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I'm reading My First Ladies and Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune. So far both are equally interesting and equally different!
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Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer. I just started. My mom recommended it. She has read a lot of his work and said he's pretty good. We'll see.
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05-18-2014, 01:01 AM
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Just started Bob Saget: Dirty Daddy tonight. So far it's interesting but definitely not for the easily offended.
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06-08-2014, 01:11 AM
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The Bletchley Park Code Breakers.
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06-08-2014, 09:31 AM
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The Bletchley Park Code Breakers.
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We discuss this (specifically, Turing and his Bombe machine) in my logic class. The students always seem to get into the lesson. There's a related movie coming out later this year - The Imitation Game. I'm really looking forward to it!
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The Casual Vacancy - J.K. Rowling
So far, I'm a bit disappointed. I haven't read much, though, so I'm hoping my assessment is off-base.
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06-08-2014, 09:38 AM
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Darwins Children.
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06-08-2014, 12:57 PM
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Originally Posted by SydneyK
What I'm reading:
The Casual Vacancy - J.K. Rowling
So far, I'm a bit disappointed. I haven't read much, though, so I'm hoping my assessment is off-base.
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I felt the same way...none of the characters are likeable. I'm glad I stuck with it, though...I was moved to tears by the end. I felt it explained J.K. Rowling's Lumos Foundation focus. Please come back and tell me what you think after you've finished reading it!
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07-24-2014, 10:40 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SydneyK
What I'm reading:
The Casual Vacancy - J.K. Rowling
So far, I'm a bit disappointed. I haven't read much, though, so I'm hoping my assessment is off-base.
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Originally Posted by Sciencewoman
I felt the same way...none of the characters are likeable. I'm glad I stuck with it, though...I was moved to tears by the end. I felt it explained J.K. Rowling's Lumos Foundation focus. Please come back and tell me what you think after you've finished reading it!
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Well, I'd like to report back with my thoughts, but I simply never got into it enough to finish it. I very rarely start a book and not finish it - I feel like a quitter when I do that. But The Casual Vacancy just didn't do anything for me. When I had spare time, I wasn't inclined to read it. When I tried to read it, my mind wandered and I'd find myself reading the same sentence over and over. It just couldn't hold my attention when I was reading it, so I gave up.
So, now, I'm reading The Circle by Dave Eggers. I'm loving this one! I picked it up yesterday and am a third of the way through. It's tough to put down.
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07-24-2014, 12:43 PM
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Mistress. ....by James Patterson
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Trying to finish "The Fault In Our Stars" so I can see the movie Tuesday!
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06-09-2014, 01:58 AM
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Roma Eterna by Robert Silverberg. It's a fantasy/historical fiction about the possibility of the Roman Empire never falling in the Middle Ages, nor the Hebrew Exodus from Egypt. It's rather dense, and every time the characters bring up certain ethnicities, they have to always stereotype them. It's getting annoying, but I really want to see how it turns out, because it ends up ending in about 1970 in our time.
That's the other annoying thing about it; all the dates are in A.U.C., so I have to constantly subtract 753 from the dates on the chapters. Right now I'm in the 1500's A.D., so I still have awhile.
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06-09-2014, 05:18 AM
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"Past Imperfect" by Julian Fellowes. It's a very enjoyable read - perfect summer beachy book.
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07-05-2014, 01:14 PM
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Just finished Toxic Bachelors and now reading Crossings.
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07-05-2014, 06:47 PM
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I just finished "An Officer and a Spy" and it was GREAT. Novel-ized story of the Dreyfus Affair. It's by Robert Harris.
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