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  • rarghrargh-brownstar
    rarghrargh-brownstar Posts: 1,272
    just started "One Hundred Years of Solitude" last night.

    cant wait to finish it.
    Rarghstarfarian.
  • seagoat2
    seagoat2 Posts: 241
    Just finished "Wintergreen: Rambles in a Ravaged Land" by Robert M. Pyle. Good book about the forests in Willapa, WA.

    Reading "Reason for Hope" by Jane Goodall right now. She was quite the adventurer in her youth & a brave woman.
  • rarghrargh-brownstar
    rarghrargh-brownstar Posts: 1,272
    seagoat2 wrote:
    Just finished "Wintergreen: Rambles in a Ravaged Land" by Robert M. Pyle. Good book about the forests in Willapa, WA.

    Reading "Reason for Hope" by Jane Goodall right now. She was quite the adventurer in her youth & a brave woman.
    those BOTH sound good!!!

    i gotta read the second one!!! shes awesome. thanks!
    Rarghstarfarian.
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,368
    Sextants of Beijing by Joanna Waley-Cohen for a book club next week. I finished The Manual by Steve Santagati recently which was the best relationship book I've read because it is blunt yet humorous. Makes me want to start dating again just to see how much fun it could be :) I wrote a review on my blog http://bibliobella.blogspot.com
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    nfanel wrote:
    i'm reading a thousand splendid suns now. i thought the kite runner was the best book i had read in years and i'm equally enthused about this one...i can't put it down!
    You are the only other person I know that's reading it!!! Let me know when you're finished. I think I'm in "Part 3".
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • TrixieCat
    TrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    AmentsChick wrote:
    You are the only other person I know that's reading it!!! Let me know when you're finished. I think I'm in "Part 3".
    I am also psyched to read that. The dummy that chose the book for this month's book club didn't pick it even though we were all emailing each other about it. Kite Runner was amazing. I used to tell people in the line at the market to read it. My heart swells just to think about it.
    Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
    And I don't feel right when you're gone away
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    TrixieCat wrote:
    I am also psyched to read that. The dummy that chose the book for this month's book club didn't pick it even though we were all emailing each other about it. Kite Runner was amazing. I used to tell people in the line at the market to read it. My heart swells just to think about it.


    Really? Swells?? It is one of the saddest, if not THE saddest book I have ever read! BUT SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FUCKING GOOD!
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    AmentsChick wrote:
    You are the only other person I know that's reading it!!! Let me know when you're finished. I think I'm in "Part 3".
    I bought it the day it was released and finished it in two days .... couldn't put it down, I highly recommend it!
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    hippiemom wrote:
    I bought it the day it was released and finished it in two days .... couldn't put it down, I highly recommend it!

    Yeah, it's really really really good. I still don't think it's as good as Kite Runner, but definitely a recommended. I haven't finished it as I haven't had alot of time to read lately.
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    AmentsChick wrote:
    Yeah, it's really really really good. I still don't think it's as good as Kite Runner, but definitely a recommended. I haven't finished it as I haven't had alot of time to read lately.
    I'd have to agree that it wasn't quite as good as The Kite Runner, at least it didn't take my breath away to the same degree, but I still enjoyed it a lot. My daughter is reading it now and really likes it. She never read Kite Runner, but when I told her it was even better she decided that she's going to read it next.
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    hippiemom wrote:
    I'd have to agree that it wasn't quite as good as The Kite Runner, at least it didn't take my breath away to the same degree, but I still enjoyed it a lot. My daughter is reading it now and really likes it. She never read Kite Runner, but when I told her it was even better she decided that she's going to read it next.

    Oh, she's going to love it!!!

    Tell her to read Angels and Demons, too!
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • nfanel
    nfanel Posts: 2,558
    AmentsChick wrote:
    You are the only other person I know that's reading it!!! Let me know when you're finished. I think I'm in "Part 3".
    i just started part 3, too. there's a good chance i'll finish it at the pool this weekend. and then i'll be sad that he has no more books for me to read!

    i agree kite runner was one of the saddest books i ever read...like angela's ashes...sooooo depressing, but soooo good that i was unable to put it down.
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    nfanel wrote:
    i just started part 3, too. there's a good chance i'll finish it at the pool this weekend. and then i'll be sad that he has no more books for me to read!

    i agree kite runner was one of the saddest books i ever read...like angela's ashes...sooooo depressing, but soooo good that i was unable to put it down.
    I've heard of that one, but know nothing about it. I take it it's good?

    P.S. I plan on finishing it by the pool this weekend too! :D
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    nfanel wrote:
    i just started part 3, too. there's a good chance i'll finish it at the pool this weekend. and then i'll be sad that he has no more books for me to read!

    i agree kite runner was one of the saddest books i ever read...like angela's ashes...sooooo depressing, but soooo good that i was unable to put it down.

    Oh, Nic...have you read "A Million Little Pieces" or "My Friend Leonard"????
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • nfanel
    nfanel Posts: 2,558
    AmentsChick wrote:
    Oh, Nic...have you read "A Million Little Pieces" or "My Friend Leonard"????
    i haven't! i only heard the oprah scandal surrounding a million little pieces. lol. are they as good as the others we were talking about?
  • nfanel
    nfanel Posts: 2,558
    AmentsChick wrote:
    I've heard of that one, but know nothing about it. I take it it's good?

    P.S. I plan on finishing it by the pool this weekend too! :D
    i think angela's ashes is my favorite modern book. it's about a kid growing up poor in ireland. really depressing but i couldn't get enough. then again i have an obsession with all things irish. :D
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    nfanel wrote:
    i haven't! i only heard the oprah scandal surrounding a million little pieces. lol. are they as good as the others we were talking about?

    OMG! That whole Oprah scandal thing is a bunch of absolute PISS! "They" act like the entire book is a fabrication...it's not. YOu can go on smokinggun.com and find out exactly what is real and what's not. Anyways, YES YES YES! READ IT! He is AMMMMMMAZING! My Friend Leonard is in my top 5 favorite books!
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • nfanel
    nfanel Posts: 2,558
    AmentsChick wrote:
    OMG! That whole Oprah scandal thing is a bunch of absolute PISS! "They" act like the entire book is a fabrication...it's not. YOu can go on smokinggun.com and find out exactly what is real and what's not. Anyways, YES YES YES! READ IT! He is AMMMMMMAZING! My Friend Leonard is in my top 5 favorite books!
    nice! thanks for the recommendations! i'll need something for when i'm done with this one. i bought middlesex and it took me about a month to read the first 20 pages...i just can't get into it.
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    nfanel wrote:
    nice! thanks for the recommendations! i'll need something for when i'm done with this one. i bought middlesex and it took me about a month to read the first 20 pages...i just can't get into it.
    You will thank me when you read AMLP. I finished it and MFL in two seperate weekends.

    P.S. You do need to read AMLP first.
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • rarghrargh-brownstar
    rarghrargh-brownstar Posts: 1,272
    The Blind Assassin
    -Margaret Atwood
    Rarghstarfarian.

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