What are you currently reading?

[Honoruru]

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I just started Netherland by Joseph O’Neill. Less than 50 pages into it, and so far, it has strong echoes of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, with cricket thrown in.

[leashlaws]

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I'm reading the biography of the Vueve Cliquot and it is fascinating! Cheers to the yellow label!No wonder they bottle a special vintage labeled "Le Grande Dame"!

[Leo Lakio]

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Pico Iyer's bio of the Dalai Lama, "The Open Road."

[Barry]

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Jeffery Deaver, the Cold Moon.

[Betsey]

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OK, I'm going on holiday for 3 weeks, so I've packed War and Peace. We'll see...

[salmoned]

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Has anyone read 'Name of the Wind'? It's been suggested to me as worthwhile...

[Barry]

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OK, I'm going on holiday for 3 weeks, so I've packed War and Peace. We'll see...

Don't know where you are going for yer hols Betsey but that book will certainly get you off to sleep.
Why not come to sunny Dingle in Liverpool ?

[surlygirly]

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Valley of the Dolls. And it's really not as scandalous as I'd been led to believe. Although it did come out in 1966, so maybe it was at the time.

[lilr3]

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I am one of those people who love to read an entire series from the beginning to the end, and I have been reading The Chronicles of Narnia in between grad classes. I read part of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe as a child, but I really didn't care for the fantasy genre, so I didn't finish it until after I had read The Magician's Nephew this summer.

I finished the last book yesterday, so now I am looking for a new series to start reading. As a teacher, I like to read what the kids are reading, and I guess that means Twilight . Or maybe I will go back to some of the classics that I have only read portions of.

Most of my reading has been for school these past few years, so it is nice to read some fiction once in a while.

[HanaleiRay]

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Currently Reading 3 books:
The Monkey Wrench Gang - Ed Abby
Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
Canaries on the Rim - Chip Ward

I was also reading Cat's Cradle - Vonnegut, but my son took it back to the library before I finished it. Dang... I was almost through it too.

I don't normally do this much reading, but I've been on some short vacations and tend to pick up whatever is lying around if I can't find my other book.

[Leo Lakio]

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I am one of those people who love to read an entire series from the beginning to the end, and I have been reading The Chronicles of Narnia in between grad classes. I read part of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe as a child, but I really didn't care for the fantasy genre, so I didn't finish it until after I had read The Magician's Nephew this summer.

I finished the last book yesterday, so now I am looking for a new series to start reading. As a teacher, I like to read what the kids are reading, and I guess that means Twilight . Or maybe I will go back to some of the classics that I have only read portions of.

Have you considered Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea series, or Madeleine L'Engle's Wrinkle In Time saga?

[anapuni808]

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Today a friend gave me a big bag of paperback books - they are mostly mysteries. Haven't looked through the bag yet but since she likes the same kinds of books I do, I'm sure I will find lots to enjoy. Nothing better than re-cycling books. When I'm pau they will move on to my landlord's wife. First one I saw in the bag was by Tami Hoag titled "Ashes to Ashes".

[Leo Lakio]

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Pico Iyer's bio of the Dalai Lama, "The Open Road."

Hoping to finish this weekend, so I can start something else for a couple upcoming flights - planning to turn to an American classic, Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mockingbird." I realized not long ago, during a conversation about the book, that I had seen the film, but never read the novel. Time to rectify that.

[StinkyTheGrump]

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Have you considered Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea series

I second this series.

My wife just finished reading the Twilight series and is *obsessed* with it (she's watched the movie three times now ) Any men out there read it? She says its a total sappy love story and I wouldn't like it for that reason.

[Ron Whitfield]

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