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Post by Me on Apr 11, 2006 21:11:45 GMT -5
I'm trying to put off reading Locke. I'm getting to be incredibly lazy...
I didn't like the that I didn't see the ending coming in The Da Vinci Code. I thought the good guys were the bad guys and vice versa. I do want to see the movie when it comes out though. I think my sister and I are supposed to watch it together and do some sisterly bonding?
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Post by KoNeko on Apr 14, 2006 0:00:39 GMT -5
Yeah I want to see the movie too. It'll be interesting to say the least.
I'm reading a book called "Beyond Borders" by Paula Rothenberg. It's a textbook I'm considering using for my class and it deals with lots of interesting global issues, so yeah. The good thing about teaching is that publishers send you free textbooks.
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Post by hermoine on May 12, 2006 12:36:10 GMT -5
Today I finished reading The Time Traveller's Wife. I know you read it Ko, and it's a fabulous book! Gets you hooked on from the very beginning. I happened to have an Italian exam on the day I started reading it. You can imagine how much time was actually dedicated to reading my italian notes.
I'd really suggest this book to anyone looking into Romance. It's got a very interesting and original plot, and far different from the soppy kind of books you get at times with the handsome guy and all that stuff. So don't expect the usual stereotypical plot!
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Post by superstitious13 on May 24, 2006 11:30:26 GMT -5
I'm reading The Romanov Prophecy By Steve Berry. Excellent book. I suggest this book if you liked The DaVinci Code. or if you like historical books.
Another book is Paris 1919. Another historical fiction. can you tell what one of my favourite genres is? lol Books that have historical facts but a completely fictional plot are some of my favourites..
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Post by Ritsu on May 28, 2006 11:12:41 GMT -5
Re-reading The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath and William Naphy's Born to Be Gay, history of homossexuality book.
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Post by Me on May 30, 2006 19:27:28 GMT -5
I'm about halfway through Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin. I'm liking it a lot thus far. I haven't read much lately though because I'm busy with school. So close to summer, just a few more weeks.
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Post by KoNeko on Jun 11, 2006 22:36:56 GMT -5
I'm reading a bunch of stuff for my class on Reid. But my fun reading list is switching between Merchant of Venice (I love Portia), Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy (since I've never read it and Zack made me get it from the library), my book on Norse mythology and Catch-22.
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Post by hermoine on Jun 12, 2006 14:33:21 GMT -5
I was supposed to be reading a book in Maltese but stopped because I bought a new book in English. It's Russian(though obviously translated) called The Master and Margarita and might just include elements to be match with those posed by The Da Vinci Code though they don't touch on the same subject.
Oh oh I'm still trying to find The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. All I've found is the book related to the movie. There are 4 of them in all am I correct?
Hehe gotta love Portia's ingenious part in the play. I need to read Twelfth Night this summer since I happen to have it, and I must reread King Lear a couple of times for school. *does macchiavellian voice* "now gods, stand up for bastards!"
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Post by Calantha on Jun 26, 2006 17:11:58 GMT -5
Reading Beloved by Toni Morrison and it's probably one of the best books I've read in a very long time. It's capitivating and heartbreaking. It takes place during the Reconstruction period and follows the life of Sethe, an ex-slave, and her connections to life and death, including the spirit of her dead baby.
Also just finished Cahill's How the Irish Saved Civilization, if you don't mind nonfiction it's a great read--entertaining and thoughtful.
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Post by Ritsu on Jun 27, 2006 7:38:27 GMT -5
Reading Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel García Marquez.
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Post by nancy on Jun 27, 2006 21:18:11 GMT -5
You are so awesome! You're reading García Márquez! I love that guy! ok, now that we got that settled... I'm actually reading him right now. In spanish, obviously. El Coronel no tiene quién le escriba, which literally translates as The colonel has no correspondents. Or somehting of the sort, but I doubt that's the actual name. When I'm done, I'm gonna read that one you're reading Rits, if I can get my friend to lend it to me; and then, when I'm done with that one, I'm reading La Increíble y triste historia de la Cándida Erendira y su abuela desalmada, and maybe re-read 100 years of solitude or Chronicles of a Death Foretold. Then I'll finish my García Márquez streak for a while. I wish it were cheaper to read him though. I dunno about the english versions or anything, but the editorial he's in for all of his books in spanish is SO expensive... that's terrible 'cause reading shouldn't be expensive, and I've always been curious about all of García Márquez... and I wish I'd read more. So yeah. I'm wrapping this up.
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Post by Me on Jun 28, 2006 0:05:35 GMT -5
I finished reading The Virgin Suicides last week. I finally finished with Villette the other day. I am now not reading anything... although I should be reading my history textbook.
I'm going to go to the bookstore one of these days... or at least try to unpack an unread book. My room is a mess, I haven't unpacked anything since I got back.
I found the list of books to read I made a few years ago. I have made no progress since the last time I had it. That's sad. I have been reading, I just haven't gotten around to the books on that list.
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Post by Ritsu on Jun 28, 2006 8:23:33 GMT -5
You are so awesome! You're reading García Márquez! I love that guy! I know. I rule. Give me karma, baby.
I've already read One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cem Anos de Solidão) and that's making it hard for me to finish the one I'm reading now. Because 100 is so, so, SO brilliant that... people say that "Love in the Time of Cholera" follows that one in brilliance, but I can't. You should never start reading an author through his masterpiece. It makes all the rest extremely difficult.
Hey, if we weren't so lazy and if I liked the thought of borrowing books, we could start a Ravenclaw book chain. One of us would send a book to other member, then the member sent to other member who'd be interested and we'd start a cycle. Then we could write things on the book and everything so there were signs the other person read it. And then of course the book would come back to it's rightful owner. Like The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants but with books. Thing is I don't like borrowing books and I know we're so lazy some books would never get returned. I speak for myself.
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Post by Zicdeh on Jun 29, 2006 10:11:46 GMT -5
El Coronel no tiene quién le escriba, which literally translates as The colonel has no correspondents. Heh. There's a very, very famous russian song that goes by that name, too. (Polkovniku nikto ne pishet': Nobody writes to the Colonel). I wonder if there's any similarities between the book and the lyrics? Right now though I'm re-reading A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth. Quite a large book, but it's very very good.
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Post by Ritsu on Jun 30, 2006 5:20:24 GMT -5
Finished O Amor nos Tempos de Cólera, by García Marquez and started A Filha do Capitão by José Rodrigues dos Santos, a Portuguese journalist/writer and I'm getting annoyed. Not that the story's not good, but the way he writes is just... he uses too much commas and I came to the conclusion he never heard of conjunctions like "and", "because", "so" and so on. There are lots of conjunctions like these in Portuguese, so in Portuguese my annoyance makes a lot more sence. Funny how even pet peeves can be multi-language-ish.
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