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Can we do a book poll? what are you reading and do you recommend it? -- nm

Posted by Andie (aka Andie) Feb 5 '09, 08:49

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I always fail so hard at these :-/ - con_carne Feb 5, 09:07
a friend of mine loaned me The Power of Intention to help me through my existential crisis. - znufrii Feb 5, 09:03 2
- Wayne Dyer? new age pap. you'll feel better though. -- nm - loosilu Feb 5, 09:05 1
  - and the ideas aren't anything I didn't read about in my Neale Donald Walsch phase 10 years ago. - znufrii Feb 5, 09:07
Amsterdam, by Ian McEwan. I like it as much as I have his other books that I've read. - Callisto Feb 5, 09:02
Young Stalin (nm) - Brian Feb 5, 08:58 2
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  - Very good so far. I'm right around the 1905 revolution (nm) - Brian Feb 5, 09:06
The Alienist by Caleb Carr, great book -- nm - CQ Feb 5, 08:58 3
- I loved the historical aspect and the descriptions of that era - amoxy Feb 5, 09:03
- Alienist is great ... highly recommended -- nm - rollo Feb 5, 09:03
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oh, and for Preston/Child fans: Child's Terminal Freeze comes out in just over 2 weeks (24th) -- nm - decline Feb 5, 08:58 1
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Just finished The Graveyard Book (which, in a fit of prescience, I checked out from the library 2 days PRIOR to its winning the Newberry). Yes, great. - landbeck Feb 5, 08:57 5
- *sobs* -- nm - znufrii Feb 5, 08:57 4
  - I'm letting my librarian brother-in-law read it next. It's been through almost a dozen family members in two weeks. -- nm - landbeck Feb 5, 09:01 3
    - I was supposed to get a signed copy of it for christmas from my brother ans sister-in-law. - znufrii Feb 5, 09:02 2
      - *wince* Those pre-award covers are probably more collectible now. *comfort* -- nm - landbeck Feb 5, 09:03 1
        
        f*cking post office! -- nm - znufrii Feb 5, 09:04
Currently reading Stardust, just finishing script called Pride and Predetor, reading The Graveyard Books next. -- nm - LMS Feb 5, 08:55 1
- The Graveyard Book is wonderful -- nm - The Coraline Cat Coalition Feb 5, 09:02
The Ridiculous Race yes, Outliers sorta -- nm - Reagen Feb 5, 08:54
Still reading New Moon... -- nm - kelly Feb 5, 08:54
Death Star and no...I'm 200 pages in and waiting for something to happen. - Mel Profit Feb 5, 08:54
Ancestors of American Presidents 2nd Ed.! -- nm - Max Feb 5, 08:53
No time for fiction these days. It's all about the VCP test prep. - Subversive Feb 5, 08:52
Just about finish re-reading HPOT7. Yes. -- nm - Strongbad Feb 5, 08:51
Starting Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell this weekend hopefully. -- nm - TFox Feb 5, 08:51
I just started Netherland by Joseph O'Neill, good so far. -- nm - Krusty Feb 5, 08:51 5
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  - Can I touch you??? - Krusty Feb 5, 08:53 2
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      - I'm not surprised the fans came out and showed him the love. - Krusty Feb 5, 08:58
  - I don't think joe torre will let you wash his hand then anyway. -- nm - mafic Feb 5, 08:53
last dark tower book. can't say I would. -- nm - mafic Feb 5, 08:51
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- Cone has nothing better to do apparently. Anything about O -- nm - Krusty Feb 5, 08:54 3
  - *sfek* Anything about O'Neill yet? -- nm - Krusty Feb 5, 08:54 2
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      - Interesting...I'll probably pick it up next week. -- nm - Krusty Feb 5, 08:59
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith - highly recommend it -- nm - decline Feb 5, 08:50
I read one chapter of Friday Night Knitting Club. It's awful. I don't know why anyone would want to read fiction about reading. -- nm - loosilu Feb 5, 08:50 12
- Well you know that the backstabbing and intrigue and manipulation of those knitters is intense. - Walt_Disney Feb 5, 08:52 2
  - OMG, it's going to be a movie with Julia Roberts. Everybody promise to boycott this contrived piece of shit. -- nm - loosilu Feb 5, 08:53 1
    - oh good God... -- nm - znufrii Feb 5, 08:57
- er, fiction about knitting. -- nm - loosilu Feb 5, 08:50 8
  - either, really. :) -- nm - TFox Feb 5, 08:51 7
    - This reminds me. A friend gave this to me thinking I would love it. What's the polite way to say I hated it? -- nm - loosilu Feb 5, 08:55 6
      - "Thank you." -- nm - TFox Feb 5, 08:57 4
        
        she wants to discuss it, is the problem. -- nm - loosilu Feb 5, 08:57 3
        
        "While I love knitting, I really didn't enjoy the style of the book, so I didn't get very far". -- nm - landbeck Feb 5, 09:00 2
        
        thanks. -- nm - loosilu Feb 5, 09:03
        
        Yup, just be honest and tell her it's not for you. -- nm - Krusty Feb 5, 09:01
      - (not a gift, a loan) -- nm - loosilu Feb 5, 08:56
Winter Prey. I'm working my way through the Prey series which is excellent -- nm - oblique, eighth best slackertalker Feb 5, 08:50
i'm starting New Moon (a little late to the Twilight saga) tomorrow. -- nm - Andie Feb 5, 08:49
Just started Hot, Flat, and Crowded. Can't say yet. -- nm - ty97 Feb 5, 08:49

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