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Post by marianparoo on Jan 14, 2020 6:04:36 GMT -5
Ordered the remaining volumes of The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories collection. That is all I have been able to deal with for quite some time.
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Post by Miss Prudey on Jan 15, 2020 16:45:21 GMT -5
Finally read Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.
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Post by Peachy on Jan 15, 2020 20:41:42 GMT -5
Finally read Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Did you like it? I’ve never read it.
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Post by Miss Prudey on Jan 15, 2020 21:56:27 GMT -5
Finally read Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Did you like it? I’ve never read it. Like? Hmmm, not sure, but I’m glad I read it. I read the 50th anniversary edition which has an afterword by Bradbury, as well as some Q&A, which I did enjoy. I think a lot of the ideas are very pertinent today.
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Post by mmeblue on Jan 15, 2020 22:03:36 GMT -5
I loved Fahrenheit 451. It was the first book that made me decide it was okay to like books that were assigned to me in high school. But it's been a long time - I should reread it. My current read is Carl B. Boyer's The History of the Calculus and Its Conceptual Development.
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Jan 18, 2020 11:51:44 GMT -5
I'm knee deep in my Jane Austen/Jane Eyre retellings month of reading. I finished Sense and Sensibility. I was reading a Jane Eyre "retelling" called My Plain Jane - it's sadly a DNF for me. Which is weird because owning it was the whole reason I read Jane Eyre in the first place I also read The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner and oh what a lovely book A disparate group of people who (for the most part) all grew up in the same small village that Austen lived in right before she died. The book takes place in 1945 and this group of people who are all suffering from some form of a trauma come together over their love of Austen to try to preserve her memory. It's a 100% fiction book - but obviously Austen and the town are real. It was so lovely. I've just started Burning Brightly by Alexa Donne which is a Jane Eyre retelling in space
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Post by coachgrrl on Jan 18, 2020 15:52:29 GMT -5
I’m reading “Disappearance at Devil’s Rock” by Paul Trembly, who also wrote “Many Ghosts in her Head”. Both are creepy and well written
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Post by Miss Prudey on Jan 18, 2020 16:49:27 GMT -5
I’ve started Brave New World. This year, I’m trying to read stuff that a lot of people *had* to read for school that I didn’t. I might even make myself read Lord of The Flies, which my sixth grade teacher tried to get me to read. I’m sure there will be plenty of fluff & brain candy this year, too.
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Post by Peachy on Jan 18, 2020 16:55:03 GMT -5
I’ve started Brave New World. This year, I’m trying to read stuff that a lot of people *had* to read for school that I didn’t. I might even make myself read Lord of The Flies, which my sixth grade teacher tried to get me to read. I’m sure there will be plenty of fluff & brain candy this year, too. I tried to read Lord of the Flies last year or the year before. I couldn’t do it. Maybe I’ll try again this year.
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Post by Miss Prudey on Jan 19, 2020 17:38:29 GMT -5
I also read The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner and oh what a lovely book A disparate group of people who (for the most part) all grew up in the same small village that Austen lived in right before she died. The book takes place in 1945 and this group of people who are all suffering from some form of a trauma come together over their love of Austen to try to preserve her memory. It's a 100% fiction book - but obviously Austen and the town are real. It was so lovely. I've just started Burning Brightly by Alexa Donne which is a Jane Eyre retelling in space My sister messaged me today that this audiobook will be released in May, read by Richard Armitage, so if I was on the fence about reading it, this news may have pushed me from “maybe” to “definite possibility.” 😂😂
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Post by Peachy on Jan 19, 2020 21:02:44 GMT -5
I’m struggling with The Nickel Boys. It’s not holding my attention. 🙁 Time to set it aside for something else, what, TBD.
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Post by marianparoo on Jan 23, 2020 6:25:05 GMT -5
I’ve started Brave New World. This year, I’m trying to read stuff that a lot of people *had* to read for school that I didn’t. I might even make myself read Lord of The Flies, which my sixth grade teacher tried to get me to read. I’m sure there will be plenty of fluff & brain candy this year, too. I have the same project lined up. Don't read Lord of the Flies if you were bullied. I had to read it in High School and it tore me into pieces. No trigger warnings or asked to be excused in those days.
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Post by Mabel on Jan 23, 2020 16:43:02 GMT -5
I can’t get into anything
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Jan 24, 2020 10:43:53 GMT -5
I also read The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner and oh what a lovely book A disparate group of people who (for the most part) all grew up in the same small village that Austen lived in right before she died. The book takes place in 1945 and this group of people who are all suffering from some form of a trauma come together over their love of Austen to try to preserve her memory. It's a 100% fiction book - but obviously Austen and the town are real. It was so lovely. I've just started Burning Brightly by Alexa Donne which is a Jane Eyre retelling in space My sister messaged me today that this audiobook will be released in May, read by Richard Armitage, so if I was on the fence about reading it, this news may have pushed me from “maybe” to “definite possibility.” 😂😂 I've never done an audiobook....but tempting
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Post by Peachy on Jan 24, 2020 13:21:04 GMT -5
My sister messaged me today that this audiobook will be released in May, read by Richard Armitage, so if I was on the fence about reading it, this news may have pushed me from “maybe” to “definite possibility.” 😂😂 I've never done an audiobook....but tempting I was very anti-audiobook for a long time, but I finally tried them last year. I like listening to them at work when I need to take a break from music and podcasts. My favorite so far is Dolores Claiborne. It’s perfection. 😂
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Post by maurinsky on Jan 29, 2020 11:58:52 GMT -5
Financial Management for Public Service Organizations by Finkler. Riveting page turner.
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Post by junebug on Jan 30, 2020 11:23:24 GMT -5
I'm listening to Small Fry by Lisa Brennan Jobs. And reading The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs by Katherine Howe. It's just okay so far.
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Post by stellarfeller on Jan 30, 2020 12:17:17 GMT -5
I just finished Dam Busters by Ted Barris. It’s about the Canadian airmen who bombed the German industrial heartland in 1943 as part of the British Royal Air Force. I bought the book for my father last year, and he lent it to me when he finished reading it. One thing that stood out to me is their youth - most of them were in their early twenties, yet they had already been in the war for two or three years.
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Post by Inky on Feb 2, 2020 18:45:10 GMT -5
I just finished An Innocent Man - another John Grisham novel. Now I'm reading Black Klansman - I'm going to have to watch the movie - the book is excellent.
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Feb 3, 2020 15:35:39 GMT -5
I just finished An Innocent Man - another John Grisham novel. Now I'm reading Black Klansman - I'm going to have to watch the movie - the book is excellent. The movie was outstanding!
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