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Post by Mini Mia on Nov 10, 2016 19:11:11 GMT -6
The Chemist by Stephenie Meyer.
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Post by Phalon on Nov 11, 2016 5:30:19 GMT -6
I am woefully underread when it comes to the classics, many of which were required reading by most high school English classes - I had a few progressive teachers who chose books that, while still on required reading lists, weren't the books most other classes were reading.
I just started "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee.
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Post by Mini Mia on Nov 11, 2016 18:46:51 GMT -6
I only had one or two English classes that had us do any reading of old, literary works. So, I've read very few. I have the book, if you want I can read it too.
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Post by stepper on Nov 11, 2016 20:06:42 GMT -6
I'm reading mail order magazines. Steppet bought a couple things and now we average 4 of those stupid things a day.
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Post by Mini Mia on Nov 11, 2016 22:32:17 GMT -6
I used to love junk mail. Actually, I'd rather get junk mail than make a wasted trip to the mailbox.
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Post by stepper on Nov 11, 2016 22:35:45 GMT -6
They have a few things that catch my eye. The thing for Spock came from one of them.
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Post by Phalon on Nov 18, 2016 0:50:15 GMT -6
I think that'd be fun. I've always declined invitations to join book clubs, mainly because of the time involved - if I didn't get around to reading the required number of chapters for the week, I didn't want to get behind, or for the more informal groups, to hold them up.
I'm off work now for the winter, and have more time...although with Thanksgiving next week, and the holiday market that weekend and the next, I don't know how much I'll get around to reading. I don't think I've picked up the book since I wrote that I started it!
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Post by Mini Mia on Nov 18, 2016 1:12:40 GMT -6
No worries. You can work up a schedule if you'd like. I got Jury Duty tomorrow, so I best be off to bed now. Night.
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Post by Phalon on Nov 19, 2016 7:00:11 GMT -6
A schedule...hmmmm....how about we wing it, taking it week-by-week, instead of setting down something in advance? Let's start slow and maybe by the end of the weekend, we read chapters 1-5? I just checked my bookmark; I've only previously read the first two chapters, and will have to reread those so we can discuss.
The edition I'm reading, btw, is from 2011 published by Barnes and Noble. It has no "Introduction", but it does have a Foreward written by Harper Lee in 1993 (requesting that there be no Introduction).
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Post by Mini Mia on Nov 19, 2016 18:27:52 GMT -6
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Post by Mini Mia on Dec 10, 2016 22:02:51 GMT -6
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Post by Mini Mia on Apr 11, 2017 11:21:05 GMT -6
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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Post by Mini Mia on Jun 1, 2017 23:11:08 GMT -6
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Post by Phalon on Jun 3, 2017 4:39:01 GMT -6
Scrappy asked me that same question - "What are you reading?" - a week or so ago, and I'm still reading the same thing now as I was then...and the same thing I've been reading since Christmas.
"The Magnolia Story" by Chip and Johanna Gaines, the couple on the HGTV show "Fixer Upper". I started watching the show during all the house renovations last year to get ideas, so BP got me the book for Christmas. It's not something I'd normally read, and not something I'm particularly interested in, but for appearances sake, I pick it up every-so-often and read a couple of chapters.
Other than that, short stories about gardening from a subscription I get called "Weeder's Digest"; the issues piled up over the renovation process, so I'm catching up.
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Post by Mini Mia on Jun 3, 2017 23:21:44 GMT -6
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Post by Mini Mia on Jun 4, 2017 23:48:52 GMT -6
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Post by Phalon on Jun 5, 2017 7:30:19 GMT -6
Hhmmmm. You are a binge reader? I've never been able to do that. No matter how much I like an author, I can't read multiple books by them back-to-back-to-back without taking a break by reading something by someone else in-between for a different writing style or "voice".
It'd be like eating the same thing day after day - I need different flavors.
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Post by Mini Mia on Jun 6, 2017 3:45:01 GMT -6
I like to eat the same meal for a week. It's a good thing I do since I live alone and I have to eat a crockpot of food all by myself. Or a casserole, etc. There's been a couple of times I've had to switch other authors and then return to the author I was reading, but it seems to be rare.
Night Shift by Charlaine Harris
www.goodreads.com/book/show/25250449-night-shift
This book series has a TV series that is starting its first season in a month. But from the video, it seems it won't be following the books all that closely.
www.youtube.com/channel/UCHec0SQGbWtMK3fqu1mdtnA/
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Post by Phalon on Jun 6, 2017 4:46:13 GMT -6
Is that why you're reading the series so quickly - to get the books read before the television show starts?
I tried to finish "The Magnolia Story" last night - I've only got a handful of chapters left. Couldn't do it though; I read a couple of chapters, and that was it - I find myself getting irritated with the Gaines couple. Determined to get to the end though, and be done with it.
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Post by Mini Mia on Jun 6, 2017 4:56:28 GMT -6
One of the reasons. But from the video, I can see reading the books really wasn't necessary ... though it still might give me more insight into some of the characters. The show seems to be taking the characters and the town and reworking the books into something different.
The psychic didn't have a ghost bring him to town. And there seem to be characters not in the book/s. Or they're combining all three books and adding more stuff to the story.
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Post by Mini Mia on Feb 20, 2018 20:29:14 GMT -6
November 2017: I reread 'The Chemist' by Stephenie Meyer. -- It's going to become a TV series.
January 2018: 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Brontë
February 2018:
I came across a book suggestion being shared on Facebook, and the first eBook in the series was free on Amazon, so I got it and read it. It was okay. I don't think I'll purchase the rest in the series.
'Vampire Girl' by Karpov Kinrade.
I came across a video on Facebook, and it intrigued me. It was the first book in the series, and the eBook was free on Amazon, so I downloaded and read it.
'A Harmless Little Game' by Meli Raine. -- If you ask me the book had no ending. I guess you're supposed to read the whole series. I see it as more like the old days when books were sold in volumes. The volumes made up one whole book. Not like today when most books in a book series has a complete story with parts of that story continuing on in the sequels. Not sure I'll finish this series.
www.facebook.com/jkentauthor/videos/10155773590981217/
I'm currently reading: 'Emma' by Jane Austen. -- It's a slow read as the old-timey language and writing style are off-putting to me.
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Post by Phalon on Feb 22, 2018 22:48:14 GMT -6
I've been really loving "The New Yorker" magazine; I got the subscription for Hubs for Christmas, but I read more of it than he does - pretty much cover-to-cover. A new edition comes every week, and after we're done, I pass it on to a friend, and after he and his Hubs read it, they pass it on to a friend who is recovering from the same shoulder surgery as Hubs. It's only a twelve week subscription, and we're all going to miss it when it's done!
It always takes me a while into Austen's books to get into the flow of her writing style...kind of weird, I know, but once I do, I think in 'Austen speak' in my head. Funny - while LX was here, she picked up the book and read a bit - "OMG, Jane to quit with the long sentences!" She read one aloud, and then went back and counted the words - 83 words in one sentence!
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Post by Phalon on Mar 3, 2018 8:56:02 GMT -6
I started reading "A 1000-Mile Walk on the Beach: One Women's Trek of the Perimeter of Lake Michigan". It's one of those books that I've been meaning to read every time I've heard it mentioned off and on since it was first published about 5-6 years ago. A friend picked it up on his way to our coffee-klatch last week; he found it in one of those little mailbox type free libraries while he was walking to the coffee shop, and graciously lent it to me before he started reading it.
It's only about 200 pages, but very interesting - and the pressure is on to get it read by our coffee-klatch next week; I hate having borrowed books around the house for long....they have a way of getting shelved and forgotten for months.
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Post by Phalon on Jan 11, 2019 8:17:34 GMT -6
I recently read "Becoming" by Michelle Obama. I admire her a lot, but I think the book has a much broader appeal than to an audience of her admirers - especially to women in general; a central theme of it is daughters, mothers, wives in their different roles throughout their lives. Family too plays a large role in the book.
Policy is mentioned some, but it's not dwelled on, only mentioned in reference to what's going on in other aspects of her life. What's really interesting also, is how, no matter what administration, it's like to live in the White House. There's a lot that I didn't know, or didn't think about, regarding how First Families live. Fascinating stuff.
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Post by Mini Mia on Jan 11, 2019 17:44:17 GMT -6
I'm currently reading: 'Emma' by Jane Austen. -- It's a slow read as the old-timey language and writing style are off-putting to me.
I still haven't finished Emma ... and at this point I'll need to start over at the beginning. Maybe I should try reading a chapter or two per day.
A few months ago I read: Every Day by David Levithan -- I think the book/s didn't have to be broken up into a series. Other than making more money.
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Post by Phalon on Jan 12, 2019 8:41:51 GMT -6
Ooooo, speaking of which, it's that time of year again...
Our once-a-year book "group" discussion. You wanna read another one together?
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Post by Mini Mia on Jan 12, 2019 19:53:07 GMT -6
Sure, I guess. Maybe I'll finish reading this one. Let me guess, Emma?
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Post by Phalon on Jan 13, 2019 8:11:57 GMT -6
BOLL!!! No, not Emma - I've read Emma.
I'm up for anything I haven't read (or seen a movie that's based on a book). One of the classics or something more recent. Fiction or nonfiction, any genre, although science fiction would probably be at the bottom of my preferences.
I'd prefer to stay away from something that's part of a series too.
Other than that, I'm open to almost anything. Any suggestions?
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Post by Phalon on Jan 13, 2019 13:03:57 GMT -6
Did a bit of drilling of book lists, ranging from classic books, high-school reading lists (because a couple of my teachers at the time choose to read books more on the fringes of the lists than what the teachers of most of my friends in other English classes taught), non-fiction "must reads", and book club reading lists.
Here are some of my choices; maybe we can find a few to pick from that overlap with your choices, and decide from there?
Classics I never read in high-school that I'd like to read (I promise to leave off any Jane Austen books I haven't read!):
A Tree That Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou)
Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Crucible (Arthur Miller)
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
and one that wasn't around when I was in high-school, but LX keeps bugging me to read - The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
Others that make "the classics" book club lists:
The Alchemist (Paula Coelho)
The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros)
And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie)
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Mitch Albom)
Nonfiction best-sellers or recommended nonfiction book club reads (there seems to be a lot of nonfiction on my 'want to read' lists!):
I Am Malala (Malala Yousafzai)
Killers of the Flower Moon (David Grann)
Truevine (Beth Macy)
Mrs. Sherlock Holmes (Brad Ricca)
The Spider and the Fly (Claudia Rowe)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Rebecca Skloot)
Bullies (Alex Abramavich)
The Blood of Emmett Till (Timothy B. Tyson)
A Season with the Witch (J.W. Ocker)
The Radium Girls; The Dark Story of America's Shining Women (Kate Moore)
'Liar Temptress Soldier Spy': the Civil War's Female Spies (Karen Abbott)
Just some of what I've been wanting to read. Very open to anything else you suggest.
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Post by Mini Mia on Jan 13, 2019 21:35:01 GMT -6
I'll have to think up a list. We could just put them in a hat and draw one out? Toss them up in the air and pick up the closest scrap of paper?
I'm wondering if we should discuss a book chapter by chapter, instead of waiting until we've read the whole book? Maybe I would have finished Emma that way?
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