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Old 01-27-2012, 09:16 AM   #61  
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I was in school with Margaret Attwood many years ago. The Handmaid's Tale is her best book, IMHO. The later ones seemed to get a tad too weird for me.

My Book Club is currently reading The Girl With The Pearl Earring which I'm enjoying mightily. I love peeking into lives in the past, especially in Europe. This one is set in Delft at the time of Vermeer and told by the servant girl who modeled for the famous picture which is sometimes called "The Dutch Mona Lisa".
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Old 01-27-2012, 10:16 AM   #62  
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Love the Handmaid's Tale!

Just finished reading Night Strangers. Awesome start, supremely ridiculous ending. I was almost angry at the end of the book! Thank goodness I checked it out of the library and didn't buy it.
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Old 01-27-2012, 10:40 AM   #63  
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Love this thread, I get great ideas for new reads!!

Anyone read The Night Circus by Erin Morgensen? I did, and really enjoyed it.
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Old 01-29-2012, 02:48 PM   #64  
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Finished Rescue by Anita Shreve, read Kill Alex Cross...James Patterson and Blue Nights by Joan Didion and now am reading A Vist from The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan.
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Old 01-31-2012, 12:06 PM   #65  
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I'm reading "The Pillars of the Earth", I can't remember who wrote it but it's really good. It's set in the 1200's and told from several different points of view and that makes it really interesting.
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Finishing the Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest (the 3rd book in the Dragon Tattoo series) and next up is The Hunger Games and Stephen King's The Long Walk
My Kindle (whom I affectionately call: NerdFlow2 because my first kindle NerdFlow died a horrible death) is going to be the reason I am up to ears in debt. I cannot stay off amazon buying books, its so DARN FUN!
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Old 01-31-2012, 06:25 PM   #67  
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Someone gave me a Kindle for Christmas but I haven't set it up yet. Wish I'd known that before I bought the hardback of 1q84 which is sitting on my pile waiting to be read. I recently finished my first Wallander mystery, "firewall" which I loved. I'm reading a book by Henning Mankell called "Italian Shoes." I thought it was another Wallander book but it's a novel about a Swedish surgeon who lives an isolated life after he makes a terrible mistake. It's very good.
I've read the Stieg Larsen trilogy and seen all the films. I've always been fascinated with computer hackers. Don't know why, since I have mediocre computer skills.
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