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Old 07-21-2016, 01:35 PM

I just started my 30th book. The last book I read "Dove Arising" was amazing! I wasn't expecting to like it that much!

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Old 07-22-2016, 01:18 AM

This year has been so busy.. I think I've only read six books all year.

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Old 07-23-2016, 02:53 PM

Well I just found this..again?

yesterday I read August,Die she must by Barbara Corcoran

today I'm reading The case of the Missing Diplomat by E.V. Cunningham

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Old 07-23-2016, 03:39 PM

Just finished Dawn's Early Light the past couple days, one of the few upsides to not going anywhere thanks to the heat. I'm already a third of the way through The Diamond Conspiracy.

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Old 07-23-2016, 03:42 PM

That's awesome :D i polished off a book yesterday cause of the heat. granted.. it wasn't very big...

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Old 07-25-2016, 05:53 PM

As long as it's a book.

Aaand go figure, the library doesn't have the first book of the Dresden Files. They've got a bunch from the middle of the series, but not the first one. Thanks, library, this is one of the times where you're useless.

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Old 07-25-2016, 08:28 PM

that happens way to often

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Old 07-25-2016, 09:19 PM

Pretty sure I would be at the half way mark if I wrote down all the books I have read for the year, perhaps even more. Does re-reading a book, or series count in the 50 Book Challenge?

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Old 07-25-2016, 11:05 PM

i would think it does cause you just read it :D

I just completed "The Case of the Russian Diplomat" by E.V. Cunningham. great book. I want to pick up more of the Masao Masuto Mysteries now.

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Old 07-26-2016, 06:31 PM

Anyone else read trashy romance novels as a guilty pleasure? Or is that just me?

Really want to get the Clan of the Cave Bear series by Jean M. Auel, read it in my teens, kind of want to revisit the series. Just the first four though, really only Clan of the Cave Bear, Valley of the Horses and The Long Journey. Mammoth Hunters was a bit too predictable for my tastes. Five and Six repeat a lot of the same themes and don't revisit some lost characters that I am sure many other fans would have liked to see show up.

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Old 07-26-2016, 06:34 PM

not very often. my mom does. she tries to get me into them. and i like murder mysteries better. xD

course i don't really care for chick flicks very often either.

there was some i read that had unique things like the girl was in a wheelchair. one girl was blind. one of the guys... oh what was it... i don't remember now. he had something wrong with him. they're really sweet.

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Old 07-26-2016, 06:44 PM

I read all kinds, mysteries, fantasy, nonfiction, there is just something fun about throwing in a bodice ripper to spice things up.

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Old 07-26-2016, 06:52 PM

xD i read alot of different books. Tamora Pierce being my favorite author :3

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Old 07-27-2016, 07:01 PM

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that happens way to often
Indeed. And with my library, it could easily take anywhere from a few days to a week to months, depending on availability and whether or not the last person who checked it out actually decided to return it. So I'm just going to start on the Elminster series while I wait =_=

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Old 07-27-2016, 07:35 PM

Hope it comes in soon.
I just took out 3 books from the library and put 3 others on hold to come in.

oops i was suppossed to go to the school today....

So i'm currently reading two books. I started on "The Body on the Beach" and it was so dull i've only made it to page 3.
So i started one of the library books I picked up today. So book 3 is probably going to be "Who Could That Be at This Hour?" by Lemony Snicket. xD

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Old 07-27-2016, 08:48 PM

Oh gods I've had books like that. We had to read Pride and Prejudice back in high school and it bored me to death.

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Old 07-27-2016, 08:50 PM

I'm pretty sure i wouldn't have gotten through that one either.

let's see what was it...It was something in high school. john Steinman maybe? whoever it was. it was all so dry . i couldnt' stand it.

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Old 07-27-2016, 08:53 PM

Steinbeck? I think we had to read something by him but I can't remember the title.

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Old 07-27-2016, 08:55 PM

of mice and men is him... so i think it was someone else. crap...

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Old 07-27-2016, 09:06 PM

There's so many books we had to read in high school that were boring as hell it's ridiculous @[email protected] Not all of them were like that, but it seems like the school board picks out the dullest novels they can find and sticks them in the curriculum.

I remember I asked one of my English teachers that and she said they were "the classics". I then proceeded to point out that the Lord of The Rings was also considered a classic and wasn't boring as old bread.

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Old 07-27-2016, 09:54 PM

All right, I will name off the books I had to read in High School:
Lord of the Flies - Sophomore year
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (Wasn't terrible, but still kind of boring)
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger....most godawful boring book I've ever been forced to read. Both of these books were required for Junior Year. I might have fallen asleep in class while we were reading The Catcher in the Rye and what woke me up was the book slipping from my hand and hitting the ground. Oops. O.O Needless to say I was called out by the teacher, she asked me if the book was boring me, to which I replied, "Immensely." Got a note home for that one.

Romeo & Juliet
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Othello
I had Shakespeare my Senior year of high school. Best class, hands down. It was only half the year though, the other half was Writing Comprehension. Basically we got to write papers on whatever we wanted. Had three weeks to write each paper and hand it in. Loved that class. In fact, had the same teacher Freshman year and Senior year, he's a friend on my Facebook page. Mr. Storer, actually taught English and the passion for writing.

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Old 07-27-2016, 11:22 PM

Catcher in the rye i pushed my way through. grapes of wratgh.. holy hell i couldn't do it!

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Old 07-28-2016, 07:46 PM

EUGH we had to read Romeo & Juliet my Freshman year. That story made me sick with all the sappy. Of course, this is also coming from someone who can't farking stand romance novels in general. Just...ew. I can't read many without wanting to retch. The only exception to the rule seem to be the Dark-Hunter novels, and I don't even put those in the "romance" genre . I put them under fantasy and a little bit of comedy .

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Old 07-29-2016, 05:55 AM

High school reading..
Okay.. let me see..

Romeo & Juliet, Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm, Flowers for Algernon, Of Mice and Men.. That was all in freshman year.
Julius Caesar, Twelve Angry Men, The Salesman, The Crucible ... I forget what else we went into in tenth grade. Junior year Shakespeare was Hamlet. Beyond that I'm drawing a blank. I think we spent most of that year doing term papers based on our own choice of book, so it didn't leave a lot of room for other reading.

Summer between junior and senior years, required reading list included Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale". Then it got yanked off the list when a bunch of parents complained. So I read it just to figure out why they were complaining. To this day I don't understand. I absolutely loved it, and went out to buy my own copy, which I still keep on my bedside table.
The rest of required reading included Old Man and the Sea (couldn't get past the first two pages - Hemingway just bores me to tears), Things Fall Apart, and The House on Mango Street (couldn't force myself to get past the first chapter)

Senior year.. [the Scottish play], and Oedipus Rex.

Freshman year of college I took an Ancient History course that required us to read Lysistrata - HIGHLY recommend it!, The Prince by Macchiavelli, and something else that I'm forgetting right now.

It wasn't until after school was over that I really started enjoying the classics more. Pride & Prejudice today is my favorite book of all time, though I couldn't stand Austen when I was in high school. Now I've read all her novels - except Northanger Abbey, which I have yet to find a copy of, mostly due to interest in other books first. Charles Dickens.... still bores me.

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[COLOR="Indigo"]Anyone else read trashy romance novels as a guilty pleasure? Or is that just me?
Paige Tyler. Look her up.

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Old 07-30-2016, 06:23 PM

Rrrrgh...dammit library, get those books in already!

 


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