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10-09-2008, 11:16 PM
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 Provoked  Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: bear country
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| Re: What are you reading? Quote:
 Hamilton House is a Winnipeg landmark with an odd history - back in the '30's, a medical doctor who dabbled in psychic research lived there and conducted seances. The novel that my brother's friend wrote discusses some of that history (apparently it was her master's thesis topic) but the main plot is a sad love story with a twist.I enjoyed The Historian as well.  I did get a bit tired of the long narrative passages, though - I had to read it in small doses. It took me somewhat longer to read it than I usually take to finish a book.
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10-09-2008, 11:18 PM
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| Buster and Little Thing  Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: So Cal
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| Re: What are you reading? AJane, don't you love it when you can really visualize the places mentioned in books? I've read a couple that take place in Southern California and I always get jazzed when I can think "I've driven down that freeway!"
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10-10-2008, 10:00 AM
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| FORT Fogey  Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Somewhere way South of the North Pole Age: 46
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Blog Entries: 7 | Re: What are you reading? I like that feeling too. Recently read Duma Key by Stephen King and knew everyplace he talked about (except Duma as that's fictional, but the other landmarks and stuff were real).
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10-10-2008, 10:45 AM
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| Jam  Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Watching Christian the Lion videos on youtube
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| Re: What are you reading? Quote:
 Thanks for enlightening me, AJane.
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10-12-2008, 11:15 PM
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| Buster and Little Thing Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: So Cal
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| Re: What are you reading? Currently reading a book titled "Unleashed" by Kristopher Reisz. Although it is a 'young adult' book (and I'm neither young nor adult!), it's pretty good and I'm enjoying it.
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10-13-2008, 11:24 AM
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| Triple Dog Dare Ya  Join Date: Feb 2004
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| Re: What are you reading? Last week, I got On Borrowed Wings by Chandra Prasad at the library because the cover caught my attention. I finally picked it up last night and couldn't put it down until I'd finished. The story of Adele, who went to Yale disguised as her brother, sucked me in. It's an intriguing coming of age story, well worth the read. 
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10-14-2008, 07:47 PM
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| FORT Fan  Join Date: Jul 2008
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| Re: What are you reading? The latest John Grisham, The Appeal. It's very interesting and topical. A chemical company in Mississippi has been illegally dumping its toxic waste for decades resulting in an inordinate amount of cancer deaths in the community. Husband & wife legal team win a $41 million lawsuit against them. The chemical company's unscrupulous billionaire owner seeks to exact his own form of justice in appealing the ruling, trying to install a new Supreme Court justice in Mississippi and, in so doing, have an elected official who is more "sympathetic" to big business and will overturn the verdict. There are just so many parallels that can be made with the current election - very thought provoking. |
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10-15-2008, 02:15 AM
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| FORT Fogey  Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Silverton, Or Age: 26
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| Re: What are you reading? Our next book club book is Tully..havent ever heard of it..should be interesting
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10-15-2008, 05:14 PM
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| Re: What are you reading? Darkly Dreaming Dexter. I'm nearly finished and just bought it a couple of days ago. I'm passing it on to my son as soon as I'm done.
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10-15-2008, 05:58 PM
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| FORT Newbie Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Illinois
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| Re: What are you reading? My next book group book is Loving Frank, which I hope to buy this weekend. |
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