=~* Current Reads, 8/4 *~=

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Thu, 08-04-2005 - 11:42am

Time to kick off August's reading check in.

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Thu, 08-04-2005 - 11:59am

Just finished "Like a Watered Garden: A Novel", first novel by Patti Hill.

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Thu, 08-04-2005 - 12:03pm

I just started taking the train to work, so I have about an hour a day to myself to actually read! I'm so excited!!!

I'm about halfway through Good In Bed and I'm liking it so far. I read Little Earthquakes by her and it seems that her characters in both books are pretty similar (I was wondering if they were modeled after herself).

I have also started Drowning Ruth. It's kind of strange (set in the 1920s in Wisconsin), but I'm enjoying that as well. I'm about halfway through that book as well. It revolves around a woman's drowning and jumps around a lot (the story is told through several of the main characters). I'm guessing that somewhere near the end I'll find out what happened that night of the drowning but I'm being good about not skipping to the end of the book to see.

I'm so awful that way, I jump around a book to see what happens next (blushing). I've always done that and it drives my husband crazy. He's always making fun of me asking why I bother to read the whole book, I should just read every other chapter. :)

Anyway, I'm thinking that after I'm done with these two books I'll start on The House of Sand and Fog. I've heard good things about it, so I'm hoping I enjoy it (my mom loved the book and recommended it to me).

Happy reading everyone!

Sarenna

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Thu, 08-04-2005 - 12:38pm
Last night, I started Target for Murder, and I'm really liking it!

She's a tough Native American detective (I'm not sure where that detective thing comes from) from Duluth - living by her wits and meting out her own brand of justice...

What do you do when your oldest friend shows up on your doorstep - pregnant, penniless - and crying bloody murder? If you're Anishinabe princess Angela Biwaban - newly sprung from a South Dakota Correctional Facility, courtesy of an embezzlement charge - you first throw your parole officer off the scent. Then hightail it to Tilford, Michigan to track down the creep who killed Mary Beth Tolliver's husband and squeezed her out of her land.

But pulling off a sting to beat a big-time developer and his corrupt construction outfit at their own greedy game can be a dirty, deadly business. Especially when Angie's digging turns up another murder - and turns her into a sitting duck for a cunning killer who never misses the mark.


In "personality", she reminds me a lot of Kat Colorado, from Karen Kijewski's books, if anyone's familiar with them

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Thu, 08-04-2005 - 4:05pm

I'm reading Heartburn by Nora Ephron. It's a quick funny read. I decided to squeeze it in between Cane River and The Poisonwood Bible. However, I'm not contemplating reading Speak Softly, She Can Hear before Poisonwood.


So you all know you have created a monster!. At PBS I've requested like 19 books. Why???? I have way too many at home to read already. Again why????? It's not all your guys' fault, I have way too much time on my hands at work.


Well I better get reading!

Gretchen


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Thu, 08-04-2005 - 4:25pm

Just finished "Open House" by Elizabeth Berg last night. Today I started "Lamb, the Gospel according to Biff" by Christopher Moore. Then I have "Dead Run" by P.J. Tracy, "Sammy's Hill" by Kristin Gore & "Vanishing Acts" by Jodi Picoult (finally!!) waiting for me at the library.

Liz

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Thu, 08-04-2005 - 7:09pm
I just started Desireable Daughers by Bharati Mukherjee. This story is told from the standpoint of Tara Bhaterjee (sp?) the youngest of 3 daughters raised in upper class Calcutta. Tara immigrated to California when she got married, has one son and is divorced. The story takes place in present day with memories from her childhood and family lore from generations past. So far, it is pretty interesting.
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Thu, 08-04-2005 - 7:10pm
I just finished The Five People You Meet In Heaven by: Mitch Albom (short, sweet, well told story....title pretty much describes the plot though lol) I am now reading: The Undomestic Goddess by: Sophie Kinsella. I'm only a few chapters in, but my friend upon looking it over said it reminds her of the book: I Don't Know How She Does It by: Allison Pearson (probably because the main characters are both workaholics and their stories are quite humorous?) We'll see (-;
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Thu, 08-04-2005 - 8:57pm

I'm reading two right now...

Sarum by Edward Rutherfurd...historical fiction about Salisbury, England and Stonehenge from prehistoric to present time. I'm only three chapters in (about 130 pages) and I love it. Only 767 pages to go! LOL

Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham...three stories set in New York City during three different time periods...the beginning of the Industrial Revolution around 1850 (a ghost story), the turn of the twenty-first century (terrorists bomb the city in a seemingly random pattern) and 150 years from now (the first aliens to contact Earth have now over run the city). All three stories are woven together through Walt Whitman's poetry. This is not an easy read and I'm almost finished the first story...but, I am enjoying it. I love a good challenge!

Jenn

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Fri, 08-05-2005 - 2:48am
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Fri, 08-05-2005 - 7:51am

I'm still reading American Gods, by Neil Gaiman.


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