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Oh, yes, at that point I think I had read Emma and part of P&P but just couldn't get into it. I still can't stand Emma but have re-read the rest at least twice each. On another board I'm on, we were just recently discussing liking Emma or not, vs liking Mansfield Park or not, and it seems most people who love one hate the other, b/c the two heroines are SO dramatically opposite!
Yes, I can see with your family how J. might be Mr. Darcy for you! (No offense, just going on what you've told me over the years!)
OTOH, I used to think MY family was so strange, until I got to know dh's family and realized mine were much more normal after all!
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Well, I stayed up last night until I finished The Book Thief by Mark Zusak What a beautiful story of a girl growing up in Nazi Germany. So beautifully sad, so well written... I just loved it!
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Natalia wrote:
| Well, I stayed up last night until I finished The Book Thief by Mark Zusak What a beautiful story of a girl growing up in Nazi Germany. So beautifully sad, so well written... I just loved it! |
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Natalia, I really liked The Book Thief as well. Thanks to the generosity of a deceased local Jewish philanthropist, our library system has a One Book One Community program each year. Paperback books are available free for the taking and the library sponsors discussion groups, speaker series, etc. related to the book.
The Book Thief was the book chosen for the program last year. (They are often Holocaust related books due to the donor's desire to raise awareness.) I don't think I would have happened upon the book otherwise. I agree, it was a beautiful story!
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You've definitely piqued my interest! I have it on reserve at the library, but the wait will be long. It must be very popular. I thought I'd try our neighboring county's system in case there was a shorter waiting list. I am something like number 300 in the queue there! 
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teachingmom wrote:
You've definitely piqued my interest! I have it on reserve at the library, but the wait will be long. It must be very popular. I thought I'd try our neighboring county's system in case there was a shorter waiting list. I am something like number 300 in the queue there! |
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I checked our library last night......I'm hold-number 482 !!  I usually only get that far back on a new-release-MOVIE! Very Popular!
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It's been many months since I've updated my reading list here. I read up on our new puppy with the Monks of New Skete. I've read a few mysteries - both Agatha Christie and Ralph McInerny. I wanted to like the Father Dowling Mystery, but it was a bit of a letdown. Too formulaic maybe?
I went on a Gene Stratton-Porter kick after reading The Girl of the Limberlost. Loved her books!!! I was also thrilled to happen upon the latest #1 Ladies Detective Agency book and enjoyed that. And I finally got around to reading Austenland, after reading about it here last spring. I really loved that book - it was just plain fun!
So here is my list:
Death on the Nile: A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie
A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter
Freckles by Gene Stratton-Porter
The Harvester by Gene Stratton-Porter
Laddie: A True Blue Story by Gene Stratton-Porter
Keeper of the Bees by Gene Stratton-Porter
The Art of Raising a Puppy by The Monks of New Skete
Michael O’Halloran by Gene Stratton-Porter
The Miracle at Speedy Motors (#1 Ladies Detective Agency series) by Alexander McCall Smith
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (pre-reading for the girls)
Austenland by Shannon Hale
Ash Wednesday (A Father Dowling Mystery) by Ralph McInerny
Green Thumb (A Mystery Set at the University of Notre Dame) by Ralph McInerny
The Great Wheel by Robert Lawson (Children's lit.family read aloud - everyone enjoyed it and it stretched my ability to read with an Irish brogue  )
Murder at the Vicarage: A Miss Marple Mystery by Agatha Christie
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SuzanneG wrote:
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I checked our library last night......I'm hold-number 482 !! I usually only get that far back on a new-release-MOVIE! Very Popular! |
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Yikes! I was able to get it reserved at my library - no here is reading it! But when i checked on the downloadable audio version, that had a wait of about 5 people (meaning 10 weeks to availability) - the online audio serves our whole state, though, so it must just be my backwards county that has never heard of it!
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Karen T wrote:
SuzanneG wrote:
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I checked our library last night......I'm hold-number 482 !! I usually only get that far back on a new-release-MOVIE! Very Popular! |
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Yikes! I was able to get it reserved at my library - no here is reading it! But when i checked on the downloadable audio version, that had a wait of about 5 people (meaning 10 weeks to availability) - the online audio serves our whole state, though, so it must just be my backwards county that has never heard of it!
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We have 1 of 2 copies available AND the book on tape (CD) is available at our library, too. Maybe I'll check it out to read while we're doing all our Christmas driving...
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Finished two more books.
One was Prayer Primer by Fr. Thomas Dubay. Second book I've read by him in 2008, and the third overall. Fr. Dubay backs up what he says really well with citations from Scripture, other official Church teaching, and the writings of the saints. This book, from before I even finished it, has already had a substantial influence on my prayer life (for a change, not just my "thinking.")
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Thank you very much, Melinda, and the other members of the 4 Real Literary Society!
I just finished The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society today and also loved it! What joy I get from reading these days. I sometimes wonder how I ever got so busy that I stopped reading for fun for a few years there.
Before that I read The Wolves of Willoughy Chase, which my girls and I had somehow missed up until now. That took me on a Joan Aiken rabbit trail. I learned that she has written some Jane Austen sequels.
There was a time when I was a Jane Austen snob. How dare an author attempt to write a sequel to Austen??! But enough time has gone by since reading Austen's novels, and I really wish there were more, so I decided to give Aiken's sequels a try.
I am really enjoying them after all! I read Mansfield Park Revisited and Jane Fairfax. (Although Jane Fairfax was a very enjoyable book, I was completely disappointed in the entirely too flat and jarring ending.) Now, this evening I've begun reading Lady Catherine's Necklace, which is a companion to P&P.
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I also just finished The Guernsey Literary Society, etc book a few days ago - it was wonderful and I don't know that I'd ever have picked it up were it not for the recommendation here.
Otherwise I am still in the throes of C.S. Lewis adoration - read The Great Divorce last weekend, am in the midst of reading Surprised by Joy (along with Seastar for discussion!) and today at the library I checked out The World's Last Night, The Case for Christianity, The Quotable Lewis and C.S. Lewis, My Godfather by Laurence Harwood. So far I'm reading the Quotable book - it's got quotes from everything he ever published, categorized into things like Adoration, Affection, Authority, etc. Very interesting so far.
I absolutely adored The Great Divorce and it's a quick read, too. Great allegory, like many of his books.
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I'm so glad everyone liked the Literary Society book. I wish there were more like that!
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
I have had this on reserve from the library for two months.....I can't wait!
All I can remember reading is
CS Lewis' THE FOUR LOVES and I just finished The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne...I LOVED it. Not the story line so much...but the the writing itself. If you have not read it yet...DO! Just keep in mind...the first 60 pages are a bit slow...as he prepares you for the story itself.
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"4 Real Literary Society!"
I LOVE this Irene!! It is SO true! I LOVE this thread.......this forum.
Thanks, ladies, for sharing so freely! Let's go get 2009 started!
Oh, but first...finish up your last titles here for 2008!
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Topic: Our 2008 Book List
