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tracirenae
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# Posted: 4 Jun 2008 13:48
finished marley & me last night
4/20
definately a good book for animal lovers!!
i plan on starting middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
anyone read it yet?
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allison11
Vogue SISter (3423)
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# Posted: 4 Jun 2008 14:49
just started reading the thirteenth tale.
just a few chapters into it and i'm loving it already.
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allison11
Vogue SISter (3423)
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# Posted: 4 Jun 2008 14:50
Jeffrey Eugenides
i finished the virgin suicides that he wrote.
his writing style in that book was very different and took me a while to get used to.
i enjoyed the book, but that took some adjusting to.
hope you enjoy another one of his books.
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tracirenae
Model SISter (2111)
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# Posted: 4 Jun 2008 15:21
i finished the virgin suicides that he wrote.
i was wondering about that book....
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scrapprincess2002
Model SISter (2574)
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# Posted: 4 Jun 2008 15:47
16/50wooo hooo I finished New Moon.... it was so so good i bought eclipse yesterday at sams it was pretty cheap there like 9$ every where else i had seen it was over 15$ i will be so sad when i finish it since the next one isn't out till aug so sad i am so hooked on these books!
any other series this good i would love to have another set to keep me busy while waiting .....
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rumor
Style Addict (1492)
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# Posted: 4 Jun 2008 18:18
oh! i am such a nerd, kara. or maybe i just have been out of school long enough to want to learn again, but this actually sounds so interesting. how did the paper go? learn anything that knocked your socks off? how about george clooney? did you include any pictures of george clooney . . . because you know, he is a big advocate. but also quite cute. okay, i totally just dated myself. yes, yes, i had pictures of kirk cameron and nicholas cage on my closets and walls in middle school.
okay, that is plenty of non-sense for now. hope you enjoyed writing the paper.
Oh, Cara. Ha! Kirk Cameron? I think I love you more than ever before. :)
Uh... I haven't finished it? Yeah. It's all really fascinating and horrifying and definitely am thinking of including George. You know I don't really care that he is probably as old as my grandpa. I really don't.
I'm about half way through. It's a lot about how the US as a society sort of pushes these things off to stuff that is "happening in other places". Like, we don't really care. I mean, we do, but we don't. I suck at writing. I like the researching, just not the translating it into coherent sentences.
Sort of like this post. :)
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Plastic
Big SIS (4379)
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# Posted: 4 Jun 2008 22:23
dude i need to read tonight
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Lindalou
Stylin' SIS (209)
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# Posted: 4 Jun 2008 23:02
Can I join the fun????
I have a goal to read 30 books. I have read 11 so far this year according to my goodreads. But I think I missed one or two....
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rhirhi
Big SIS (4280)
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# Posted: 5 Jun 2008 06:50
of course linda :)
coloradocara+(25)
Lindalou+ (11/30)
i did a trauma literature module last year, kara. it was hard. having to write, and be critical almost, of such soul destroying events like Darfur was not something i enjoyed doing.
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jocelynneb
Style Addict (1322)
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# Posted: 5 Jun 2008 14:41
HarajukuChic...I've never heard of shelfsafari! lol So I'm not one to say.
allison11...what I've been doing is if a book sounds good on here, I'm going and adding it to my list in goodreads. So I can keep track. Otherwise I will totally forget!
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jocelynneb
Style Addict (1322)
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# Posted: 5 Jun 2008 14:44
I'm really bad at geography (as rhi will attest to) but where is Darfur? I've heard of it, but I'm not sure if it's a country or a city, and where it is. Help!
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allison11
Vogue SISter (3423)
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# Posted: 5 Jun 2008 14:50
darfur is in africa.
from what i understand the people who think they are right + in control are doing something like a so-called "racial cleansing".
i've heard it likened to the holocaust, expect that nobody seems to give a shit.
now, i'm definatly not the most educated person about this, but i do know that whatever is going on over there is a tradegy of the greatest proportions.
and i pretty much add everything on here to a to-read list that i take to the library. it's worked really well so far!
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mellymel
Big SIS (4356)
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# Posted: 5 Jun 2008 15:13
if you haven't read What is the What yet, I highly recommend it. It doesn't take place in Darfur, but it is about Sudanese refugees and what it was like when this mess started.
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Stacijo
Favorite SISter (5406)
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# Posted: 5 Jun 2008 17:56
f you haven't read What is the What yet, I highly recommend it. It doesn't take place in Darfur, but it is about Sudanese refugees and what it was like when this mess started.
Thanks Mel, I had this on my list to read but if you recommend it then I will certainly read it!
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Stacijo
Favorite SISter (5406)
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# Posted: 5 Jun 2008 18:08
35/50
Bad Girls Club by Judy Gregerson
I found this book to be a very good read because I recognized similarities between the oldest daughter and my adopted daughter. My adopted daughter has reactive/attachment disorder. We had no idea how our lives were going to be impacted by this disorder but let me tell you it can be hell, not only for you but for your adopted child too. They (the child) just doesn't know how to make lasting and "real" relationships. My daughter will tell anyone, and I mean anyone her entire life story as soon as she meets them and has no boundaries. She also tends to be very, very huggy, and immature (she's 16). Little did I know that she is suffering from emotional abandonment and she became a parentified child. This is when the child takes on the role of the parent in the household. She took care of herself and her little brother for many years. Making sure he went to school while she stayed home to do whatever their mother wanted. Finding and cooking food so that they could eat. Trying to keep her brother safe from their physically violent father....the list goes on.
This book made me understand her just a little bit more and for that I am very grateful!!
Next book up is : Phantom Prey by John Sanford
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rumor
Style Addict (1492)
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# Posted: 5 Jun 2008 18:50
Some info on Darfur
It's really all sickening and unsettling. I've heard numbers around 300,000 in estimation of deaths. I just can't ever imagine something like that happening here and have people be so... nonchalant. It pisses me off. So, yeah, not easy to write.
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HeatherJ
Model SISter (2283)
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# Posted: 5 Jun 2008 19:54
7/30
Finished 1st to Die today and am on to Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult.
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tracirenae
Model SISter (2111)
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# Posted: 5 Jun 2008 20:02
by Jodi Picoult.
love her books!
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tracirenae
Model SISter (2111)
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# Posted: 6 Jun 2008 12:13
has anyone read Middlesex by jeffrey eugenides?
if so is this a true story? my sister got it for me for christmas....
or are parts of the story true?
(not sure if found in non-fiction or fiction section)
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allison11
Vogue SISter (3423)
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# Posted: 6 Jun 2008 12:19
(not sure if found in non-fiction or fiction section)
it's fiction.
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tia0220
Model SISter (2649)
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# Posted: 6 Jun 2008 12:27
I just finished Nora Roberts' High Noon. LOVED it!
That would be 2 for me.
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HarajukuChic
Fashion Plate (250)
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# Posted: 6 Jun 2008 14:15
HarajukuChic...I've never heard of shelfsafari! lol So I'm not one to say.
you know i even got it wrong, it's shelfari.com
I use it cause I can post my shelf on my blog and facebook.
But do they have 'book clubs' on your list?? I'm reading Tuesdays with Morrie and it's so good. I want to talk w/ other ppl!!
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allison11
Vogue SISter (3423)
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# Posted: 6 Jun 2008 15:37
But do they have 'book clubs' on your list?? I'm reading Tuesdays with Morrie and it's so good. I want to talk w/ other ppl!!
there are 1000s of different discussion on different books.
or you can always ask who's read it on here.
we love to talk books.
i've read it.
not that impressed, considering all the hype that surrounded it.
what did you want to discuss??
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HarajukuChic
Fashion Plate (250)
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# Posted: 6 Jun 2008 16:33
what did you want to discuss??
The book itself is a real quick read. I think for me what I'm getting from it is the different ways I'm looking taking a look at myself. And maybe it's just cause this year Ive endured so much that death seemed close for me a few times. So, rather than the book itself I wanted to see if there was further inner reflection for anyone reading it. And if so what was it that they reflected on in each chapter.
So, for example When mitch asks himself what's happened to him. I turned that question to me and looked to see What happened to me. Am I where I wanted to be? And what I did was journal about it, but it could be good topics and focus for an 'art' journal. I dunno just some thoughts out loud.
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allison11
Vogue SISter (3423)
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# Posted: 6 Jun 2008 16:37
i agree that the book did more for me in turning it back towards myself than the actual reading of the book.
i almost feel like i read the book a little too late.
i read it right after i lost 5 very important people in my life (not at once, but over way too close of a time perios).
i found myself looking back and wishing that i had read this sooner, because i think i could have benefitted from the reflections that it brought out in me that i could have shared/spent more valuable time with these people.
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scrapprincess2002
Model SISter (2574)
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# Posted: 6 Jun 2008 22:29
oh had a cool trip to the book store got The Host by stphenie Myer
and a book the girl who worked there sais was just as cool as the Stephenie Meyer books its a series by Cassandra Clare...I bought the first one City of Bones
anyone read either of them yet??? let me know what ya think
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rhirhi
Big SIS (4280)
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# Posted: 9 Jun 2008 05:07
i love anne lamott.
the end.
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asksmommy
Style Addict (1122)
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# Posted: 9 Jun 2008 07:02
In the last 3 weeks I've read all 3 of the Twilight series books. I literally just finished New Moon and I'm sad that I have to wait until August for the next one. I'm weird and get a little to involved with my characters. lol I mourn their loss when the book is over. I MISS them! lol
I know what you mean -- I'm the same. :)
I am actually re-reading all of the Harry Potter books now, as I was so sad to let go after finishing the 7th. And just finished book 5, so I am at 5/30[b][/b]
Thanks for all the wonderful recommendations you girls make!! Making a list for my summer vacation!
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allison11
Vogue SISter (3423)
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# Posted: 9 Jun 2008 09:41
+21/50
finished the thirteenth tale, which i absolutely loved. would really enjoy discussing it.
also read the last lecture by randy pausch. amazing man. he is a professor at carnegie mellon who is 46 and has terminal pancreatic cancer. he has very little time left to live. he also has 3 children under 6 years. this book is all about the legacy he wants to leave for his children and following your childhood dreams. a very quick read, but enjoyable.
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mellymel
Big SIS (4356)
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# Posted: 9 Jun 2008 10:03
i love anne lamott
me too, although her last book was disappointing, she lost a bit of her spunk...
13th tale....go allison! if you want to talk spoilers, pm me. i don't know where my copy is, but i remember the end!
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