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fado · Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:57 am Post subject: Book lovers, register here!

All bookworms, come here! I think it would be nice to have a corner to discuss what we are reading, what we enjoy (or do not).

Myself, I am practically in love with J. M. Coetzee's work. Also, I like Umberto Eco, Iris Murdoch, and many many others. I'm currently reading A Word Child by Murdoch - quite good, but The Sea, the Sea also by her was, for me, more enjoyable.

Waiting for everyone's book-related musings Smile

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Daysleeper · Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:55 am Post subject:

I like reading, but I don't consider myself a bookworm. I don't have enough time to read because I like cooking and watching movies too! Smile

But WHEN I read, I like to read the Harry Potter books, everything from Sophie Kinsella, Karyn Bosnak, Roald Dahl, Nick Hornby and Helen Fielding.
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lpsmith · Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:57 am Post subject:

I love to read Fantasy Fiction, particularly David Eddings, Melanie Rawn, Katherine Kerr and Anne McCaffrey.
I also love Shakespeare and Jane Austen.
I am a regular visitor to my local Library and pick up Fantasy and Science Fiction by practically anyone (though I'm not a great fan of Terry Pratchett).

Lorraine
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Marie · Rickmaniac Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Posts: 922 Location: Sweden

I love to read, and I have all my life. My parents read to me a lot when I was a kid, and ever since I learned to read myself I´ve been a HUGE bookworm!
I love to read real bloody horror-stories, and I just adore Stephen King! Twisted Evil

If you havent read his"The long walk" I strongly recommend it! "Bag of bones" and "The girl who loved Tom Gordon" are also wonderful!
I have actually just finished reading "A heartshaped box" by Joe Hill (Stephen Kings son) and I enjoyed it a lot! A really scary ghost story but also a story about a son being let down by his father.
Oh, and I love Harry Potter! Very Happy

Dungeon_Butterfly · Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:32 pm Post subject:

I would consider myslef a book worm. I love to read whether it be a book or fan fiction, I love it!

I love all the Harry Potter books and have read them all countless times.There's 2 really good series out that I love. One is called the Pellinor Series. It's a 4 part set but only books 1 and 2 have been written so far. THe first one is called The Naming, the second is The Riddle. They are almost on the lines of Lord of the Rings (though I hated the LotR books LOL). Very very good. The second series doesn't have a name but the first book is called Witch Child and the second is Sorceress. They follow the life of a young Puritan girl named Mary as she lives with and is then cast out of a Puritan settlement for being a 'witch'. Very good!

Magenta · Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 8:20 am Post subject:

I am a bookworm, yes !!!

I like books by Andrew M. Greeley, Dick Francis, Sue Grafton, Amanda Cross, Rita Mae Brown, Martha Grimes, I like the Death in series by J.D.Robb. I also like classical stuff by Goethe, Schiller, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing or Brecht. I read the German weekly DIE ZEIT and newspapers. I read fanfiction

You write... I read

fado · Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 11:07 pm Post subject:

Wow, so many names i haven't heard, so many books to look through! Yay!

I myself am now reading Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov. Can't say what it's like because i've only just started... but i believe it will be a worthy read. Mmm, i could live on books only Smile

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journalista · Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 12:25 am Post subject:

Magenta · Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 4:00 am Post subject:

Thank you FADO,

the bookworm thread has been a very good idea.

best wishes,
Magenta

Cherry · Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 12:37 pm Post subject:

I'm reading Charles Dicken's Bleak House at the moment.

madamtorsion · Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 4:22 pm Post subject:

I'm re-reading Making a Priest in the Fifties: Memoir of a Nervous Seminarian by James O'Brien. I'm in the process of adapting it into a screenplay, so this is about the 3rd time I've gone through it.

I like reading non-fiction academic work, other than Harry Potter I don't remember the last fictional book I read. I enjoy philosophy, theology and history more than anything else.

LadyIntellect

"UP High In Trees" By Kiara Brinkman

This book is brillant, loved it. here is a decription.

Sebby Lane is an autistic 8 year old grieving his pregnat mothers sudden death. He comforts himself by hiding under tables and under the kitchen sink. He bites the insides of he cheeks and the blood make him feel better. WHen his memories become too painful, he walks in circles. But when sebby father suffers a nervious brakedown, mournfully lying on the floor for hours at end, and his older brother and sister withdraw into their sorry, the vivid intensity with wich sebby experiances life also helps him heal. Told in the boys (sebbys) voice, which brinkman has called "a more distilled, visceal version of her own, the novels spare poetic language and repetive candences underscore his sensitve conditon. Drawing from her first hand experiance totoring autistic kids, brinkman has broken out with an inventive emontally arresting debut, with his unfilterd vulnerablity and wide-eyed resilence, sebby lane will brake your heart and delitght your soul!

For a newbie it was a peslure to read. a bit slow on the frirst few chaptures and a bit too sappy and childish endevours overall he dose capature ones need to step out of our own shoes and try on a new pair for a day.

Also read David peltzers first few books, "A child called it" "A Child Called It" and "A Man Named Dave".

The very first one had me in tears or remberance, shock and curiousity. The shock is becuse its a very very ture story. Yes this happend in a neighborhood right around your house! Sad

Happy Reading fellow bookwormys!

Jen

Daysleeper · Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 8:51 am Post subject:

Forgot the most important book for me: the bible. I try to read in it every day.
2 years ago there was a new translation released in Holland with more modern words, and it is easier to read now. I bought a great pink(!!!) bible especially for ladies. Laughing

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Marie · Rickmaniac Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Posts: 922 Location: Sweden

I just finished reading the most wonderful book: "Marley and me. Life and love with the world´s worst dog". I loved it! It made me laugh and cry, and sometimes both at once! Of course its a great book for us dog-lovers, but everyone can enjoy it, cause its basically a story about love and being willing to love somebody who´s far from perfect.
Read it! Very Happy

njf61 · Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 5:34 pm Post subject:

I've thought about reading Marley and me, but I'm worried about crying too much. Animal things that are sad really get to me! Can't watch Old Yeller or Where the Red Fern Grows, any of that sort of stuff! I'm really pitiful. I recently read "The Guardian" by Nicholas Sparks and cried like a baby. (It had a Great Dane in it, and we used to have a Dane, so that made it even worse!)
I'm a baby. Embarassed

Nora