Kickin' Off July with Current Reads ?

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Kickin' Off July with Current Reads ?
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Fri, 07-01-2005 - 3:59pm

Is your current read so excellent you'd like to set off fireworks, or so lame you'd like to throw it onto the BBQ coals?

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Fri, 07-01-2005 - 4:23pm

John Steinbeck's "The Moon is Down" was mildly depressing ... about a tiny village taken over by Germans in WWII ... but it also showed the simple townspeople to be incredibly loyal to each other and discovering bravery in their spirits they never realized they were capable of.

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Fri, 07-01-2005 - 7:14pm
Dean Koontz's Velocity was very good.

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Fri, 07-01-2005 - 7:45pm
I just got back from vacation--it was a beach vac so naturally I took a few books, but I read them too fast!! Luckily the resort we stayed at had a book exchange program, and I stumbled across a book that I vaguely remembered from childhood as a TV movie--"The Far Pavilions" by M.M. Kaye. So I picked it up--started reading--and got totally, totally hooked.
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Sat, 07-02-2005 - 8:40am
I haven't quite decided yet
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Sat, 07-02-2005 - 10:18am

I am reading _Big Cherry Holler_ by Adirana Trigiani. It's the sequel to _Big Stone Gap_. I'm liking this more than the first one, which I read a few weeks ago. A lot of it takes place in Italy which is more interesting to me than her home town.

The main character seems a lot more sophisticated than the rest of the townspeople, including her husband, and I am having a hard time believing that she could relate so well to these people and be happy to stay there. Probably just my own Northeast prejudice.

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Sat, 07-02-2005 - 9:50pm

How 'bout a list of what I WISH I were reading??


 


Mich

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Sun, 07-03-2005 - 12:21pm

Hi Michelle!


Nice to see you again :)

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Sun, 07-03-2005 - 2:44pm

Oh yes, Half.com!


 


Mich

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Mon, 07-04-2005 - 7:44am
Fireworks for sure!! I am nearing the last 200 pages of Diana Gabaldon's "Drums of Autumn" and I can't put it down!!!


I stayed up way too late last night, almost missed my bus stop for work this morning and I can't stop thinking about the book! I just want to go hide in the bathroom and read! LOL


P.S. See my new siggy to match the book?!?!

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Mon, 07-04-2005 - 11:20am
I'm reading One for the Money by Janet Evanovich.

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