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(Message started by: teagirl on Feb 28th, 2004, 8:26pm)
Title: What Are You Reading Right Now??
Post by teagirl on Feb 28th, 2004, 8:26pm
Be it  a book, a magazine or a manual, will you share with us what you are reading?

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Post by mylane on Feb 28th, 2004, 10:33pm

Some Useful Linux Commands by Steve Ambler

And  Professional PHP Programming Book
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Post by teagirl on Feb 29th, 2004, 2:09am
Pocket Companion to Robbins Pathologic Basis of Disease
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Post by thebeast on Feb 29th, 2004, 2:35am
The Guinness Book of World Records 2004 editon
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Post by cebuanalyn on Feb 29th, 2004, 6:58am
i'm reading the posts now....

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Post by keensryche on Feb 29th, 2004, 7:36pm
Good one Analyn, that was   ;D

12 steps to a closer walk with God, the workbook.
It's helping me in fighting my alcohol addiction.
(sober for 2 1/2 years)
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Post by madd on Mar 1st, 2004, 8:15pm

on 02/29/04 at 06:58:06, cebuanalyn wrote:
i'm reading the posts now....


:O you stole my idea  :D

:P
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Post by ReeBop on Mar 1st, 2004, 9:06pm
I'm reading your reply to analyn's post that she is reading the forum....
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Post by cebuanalyn on Mar 2nd, 2004, 2:37am

on 03/01/04 at 20:15:33, madd wrote:
:O you stole my idea  :D

:P



nope..it just happens that you are thinking what i'm thinking  :P
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Post by teagirl on Mar 2nd, 2004, 6:46pm
well, mattmatten, I think Ana stole your idea. So I think you'd better wear this aluminum cap so no one can steal your ideas. Not even the aliens.
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Post by madd on Mar 2nd, 2004, 7:33pm
ty tea, i need that cap ;D
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Post by teagirl on Jun 2nd, 2004, 5:51am
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
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Post by teagirl on Jul 20th, 2004, 3:26pm
Compton's Review on Pathology  :'( :'( :'(
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Post by killerabbit on Jul 22nd, 2004, 6:10pm
The fight in the forum between dale and cathy ::)
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Post by MissFartyPants on Jul 22nd, 2004, 9:53pm

on 07/22/04 at 18:10:52, killerabbit wrote:
The fight in the forum between dale and cathy ::)


LMAO. I guess you could say we were fighting. But now that I've REALLY cooled down. I realized how stupid I was for opening my mouth in the first place. Now I'm thinking I should just let it slide.

But hell he called my Eli a starving artist - that's what got the whole thing started. Damage is done.

You may go back to your knitting folks.
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Post by kianna_andrea on Jul 23rd, 2004, 8:05am


Chasing Away The Clouds.... by Douglas Pagels...        
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Post by gal_fr_unknown on Sep 13th, 2004, 1:29am
nuthing lasts forever by Sidney sheldon  :P and lecture Notes on Ophthalmology by Patrick D. Trevor-Roper  8)
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Post by chelle on Sep 14th, 2004, 11:17am
clintons book lmao [smiley=boat.gif]
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Post by gal_fr_unknown on Sep 22nd, 2004, 1:26am
lecture notes on cardiology by JS Fleming and MV Braimbridge  ::) and The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown  ;D
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Post by chelle on Sep 26th, 2004, 2:27am
chocolate for a womans spirit by Kay allenbaugh, and daily news papers :P
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Post by norkay on Nov 11th, 2004, 11:38am
I enjoy reading this book YOU JUST DONT UNDERSTAND(women and men in conversation) by Deborah Tannen.I want to learn more and more about men since i have no man yet yo learn personally ;D
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Post by nelson3082000 on Nov 29th, 2004, 10:46pm
kris books dont know us they think they do but the real thing is unpredictable u need to know that
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Post by okasantina on Dec 1st, 2004, 6:22am
been reading the forum for 3 hours! :-/ still its all nelson's senseless comments...wish i could read something new...aniwai...keep on posting roomies ;D
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Post by norkay on Dec 1st, 2004, 7:37am

on 12/01/04 at 06:22:34, okasantina wrote:
been reading the forum for 3 hours! :-/ still its all nelson's senseless comments...wish i could read something new...aniwai...keep on posting roomies ;D


Thank you thank you Tina, someone has finally spoken!!! ;) ;D



Anyway,I am reading Message In A Bottle by Nicholas Sparks ;D
huh, i feel in love and emotional reading it :'( :)
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Post by deerhunter74105 on Dec 1st, 2004, 2:54pm
im rereading winters heart(wheel of time series by robert jorden) ;Dvery good books :D
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Post by KiAnNa on Dec 1st, 2004, 5:50pm


I decided I should read more these days.:D I bought books to keep me busy and entertained for quite a while. Here's my list:

*The Little Prince - Antoine De St. Exupery
*Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
*Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
*The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
*The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
*An Eight of August - Dawn Turner Trice
*Kelly Park - Jean Stubbs
 
  I'm done reading The Little Prince by Antoine De St. Exupery, special thanks to Teamay, I became interested in the book and resolved to read it. I enjoyed it immensely. I loved the story and the illustrations as well. Favorite phrases from the book:


(of course:  ;D) "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye..."


" You know-- one loves the sunset when one is so sad..."


(the flower to the little prince)
"Of course I love you,... it is my fault that you have not known it all the while. That is of no importance. But you-- you have been just as foolish as I. Try to be happy..."



(the fox to the 'lil prince)
"One only understands the things that one tames. Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things already made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends anymore..."  


I am reading Wuthering Heights at the moment, 15th chapter. (Reading posts here in the forum altered my reading time... lol) I'll post again after I'm done with it. I hope Catherine and Heathcliff's lovestory will move me...   :P





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Post by ReeBop on Dec 1st, 2004, 8:34pm
I am now reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
[smiley=firejump.gif] [smiley=firejump.gif] [smiley=firejump.gif]
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Post by Slayer on Dec 2nd, 2004, 9:00pm

on 12/01/04 at 06:22:34, okasantina wrote:
been reading the forum for 3 hours! :-/ still its all nelson's senseless comments...wish i could read something new...aniwai...keep on posting roomies ;D


I see his post everywhere :o

now he got more post than me ???
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Post by norkay on Dec 3rd, 2004, 12:45pm

on 12/02/04 at 21:00:31, Slayer wrote:
I see his post everywhere :o

now he got more post than me ???


Thats why stay with us here Slayer ;) ;D
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Post by okasantina on Dec 3rd, 2004, 4:21pm
He has no part time job eh slayer  ;D
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Post by norkay on Dec 4th, 2004, 8:16am

Me,starting to read The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
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Post by KiAnNa on Dec 4th, 2004, 3:06pm


Done reading  Wuthering Heights; two days without electricity has its rewards for if not, I doubt if I'm done reading it at this time.  :D Anyway, I did like it, though not as much as I liked Little Women or Harry Potter so to speak. Emily Bronte used old English which I sometimes don't understand fully. I'm not really very good at comprehending trite expressions that I sometimes get confused, but generally Catherine and Heathcliff's passionate lovestory is a good read, though I more enjoyed the other Catherine's lovestory with Linton, (though it didn't turn out good in the end) and  Hareton Earnshaw. I did hate Heathcliff though in the later part of the story. I just couldn't imagine anyone being as cruel and heartless as he had been. But Catherine and Heathcliff's love for each other,(even to the point of madness) that not even death can hinder is a feeling so strong that a reader could not help but shudder at the thought of loving someone as much as they loved each other.


Memorable phrases in the book for me:

(Catherine referring to Heatcliff)
"My great miseries in this world have been Heatcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger. I should not seem a part of it....."

"Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am a pleasure to myself, but as my own being..."

(Heathcliff to Catherine after she died)
 
"Catherine may you not rest as long as I'm living! Haunt me then! Be with me always-- take any form-- drive me mad! only do not leave me in this dark alone, where I cannot find you!"
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Post by KiAnNa on Dec 5th, 2004, 5:18pm


on 12/01/04 at 20:34:42, ReeBop wrote:
I am now reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
[smiley=firejump.gif] [smiley=firejump.gif] [smiley=firejump.gif]


wow,...that's nice Ree. Have you finished it yet? I hope you enjoyed it. ;)

Anyway, I'd like to post some more of my favorite phrases from The Little Prince hope it's okay. 'Just that I reread it this afternoon and I realized there are a lot of wonderful and touching phrases from the book still. I picked out some:



(The author)
"To forget a friend is sad. not every one has had a friend..."


(fox to the 'lil prince)
"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.."


(The Little prince)
"Men, set out on their way in express trains, but they do not know what they are looking for. Then they rush about and get excited, and turn round and round..." It is not worth the trouble..."


(The author)
"One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed..."

And this one I find really touching. The 'Lil Prince said this just before he died. I wish I can say these to all the people I have loved and all the friends I have made in my lifetime before I leave the world....

('Lil prince)
    "All men have stars, but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travellers, the stars are guides. For others, they are no more than little lights in the sky. For other's, who are scholars, they are problems. But all these stars are silent. You---you alone-- will have the stars as no one else has them--."
    "In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing, when you look at the sky at night.... you--only you-- will have stars that can laugh..."
    "And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure..."
    "It will be as if, in place of the stars, I had given you a great number of little bells that knew how to laugh..."
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Post by mylane on Dec 5th, 2004, 5:44pm
dang....I hope my 1st future ex-husband will give me books as in all books of barbara taylor bradford especially the harte clan collection. :-/
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Post by kim on Dec 6th, 2004, 8:57am
da vinci's code
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Post by KiAnNa on Dec 6th, 2004, 3:51pm

Wow what a coincidence Kim.  :D I am also reading The Da Vinci Code as well. (just on my 5th chapter though) How do you find Robert Langdon so far? I hope we'll both enjoy it Kim. Enjoy reading!   ;)
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Post by kim on Dec 7th, 2004, 5:21am
aw i've just started reading the first pages kia :D i'l let you know when i get far  ;)
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Post by teagirl on Dec 21st, 2004, 6:09am
The Hours
by Michael Cunningham

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/teagirl/hours.jpg

A book review by Cynthia Penn

Winner of the WordWeaving Award for Excellence

THE HOURS begins with the gifted author, poet and visionary Virginia Woolf drowning herself rather than facing another period of madness. The subsequent text entwines three narrative paths: Virginia Woolf as she writes MRS DALLOWAY during the 1920s; California housewife Mrs. Laura Brown whose favorite book is MRS DALLOWAY during the 1940s; and book editor Mrs. Clarissa Vaughan, nicknamed "Mrs. Dalloway" in the 1950s. Three women, three different timeframes, all bound together in a shimmering conclusion that is destined to haunt the reader long after the last page is turned.

Clarissa Vaughan plans a party for her friend Richard, who has just won a major literary award for his poetry. Housewife Laura Brown struggles to find more meaning to her life than a simple existence than just as a wife and as a mother. The text brilliantly exposes their psyches, capturing the subtle nuances and flavors with a graceful pen; thereby exploring the contradictions and compromises that create our existence; deftly detailing fluidity of time and existence.

While mass-market readers may be a bit baffled by THE HOURS, literary scholars and classics lovers will adore it. Readers who bring a through knowledge of Virginia Woolf, a love of her novel MRS DALLOWAY, and an appreciation of the poetry of language will discover an amazing gift of beauty within this finely woven novel. Indeed, Virginia Woolf scholars will recognize the influence of ORLANDO, THE WAVES and A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN, as well as MRS DALLOWAY. In addition, admirers of the beauty of language will be stunned by Cunningham's ability to capture Woolf's voice and style in her sections, to flavor it with his own voice in the Clarissa Dalloway's sections, and then to exhibit his own unique voice and style in the Laura Brown's sections. A memorable novel to treasure, THE HOURS earns the WordWeaving Award for Excellence.

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Post by teagirl on Dec 29th, 2004, 3:52am

Angels and Demons
by Dan Brown
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Post by teagirl on Jan 2nd, 2005, 2:11am

The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
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Post by KiAnNa on Jan 2nd, 2005, 3:16pm

Yeheyyyyyyyy. I can't wait for you to finish reading it Teamay, I'm sure you'll love it. I am waiting for my copy of Angels @ Demons, (hopefully on the 10th I have it na) I can't wait, I'm already giddy with excitement.  ;D
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Post by KiAnNa on Jan 12th, 2005, 3:47am





Suzanne's Diary For Nicholas

~~ James Patterson ~~


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Post by norkay on Jan 15th, 2005, 8:11am
I've just read this short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Winter Dreams". This guy made a whole bunch of money by making his own laundrymat franchise. But apparenty, he will never be as good as other rich people because he's not from "old money". So, he wastes his whole life chasing this girl whom he doesn't really love, but thinks he has to be accepted by her. Anyway, in the end she gets ugly and he cries. Really monumental story.....
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Post by KiAnNa on Jan 16th, 2005, 4:32pm


Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood   ~~Rebecca Wells~~
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Post by teagirl on Jan 21st, 2005, 5:53am

The Nanny Diaries
by Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus

Girl, Interrupted
by Susanna Kaysen

Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
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Post by beth on Jan 23rd, 2005, 11:46am
just finish readin a manual for my pda fone.

readin "My Dear Child" by Colin Urquhart
lt's a very good book to know how precious we are.
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Post by teagirl on Jan 23rd, 2005, 5:22pm

Have It Your Way, Charlie Brown
by Charles M. Schulz
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Post by beth on Jan 27th, 2005, 8:41pm
TEEN LOVE ~ ON RELATIONSHIP

by Kimberly Kirberger
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Post by killerabbit on Feb 15th, 2005, 4:29am
The Vampire Chronicles
Anne Rice
Picking up where I left off....I have 5 books to read :o
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Post by KiAnNa on Feb 16th, 2005, 2:16pm

Finally!

Angels and Demons ~ Dan Brown (I've waited for over a month for this book)
To Kill a Mockingbird ~ Harper Lee
Where You Belong ~ Barbara Taylor Bradford
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Post by mylane on Feb 16th, 2005, 4:03pm
Palomino- Danielle Steel
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Post by beth on Feb 19th, 2005, 1:55pm
Benny Hinn ~ Good Morning Holy Spirit
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Post by nelson3082000 on Feb 24th, 2005, 6:09am
kamasutra- wow didnt know it would be this interesting
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Post by beth on Mar 15th, 2005, 6:51am
sellular magazine
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Post by teagirl on Mar 17th, 2005, 9:06am

The Deposition of Patient ___________.
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Post by kim on Mar 17th, 2005, 9:44am
i was reading "the davinci code" but when i finished reading the introduction someone took the book and no one knows who did so now its lost  [smiley=wall.gif]. So now i am reading a book entittled "how to teach your baby to read" and it is very interesting because it teaches you how to teach a baby as young as 2 yrs old how to read
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Post by theworstofthewest on Apr 26th, 2005, 5:30am
The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul--Douglas Adams

I'm reading this for the second time.
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Post by killerabbit on Apr 27th, 2005, 9:54am
Sounds interesting worst.Is it related to HHGTTG? ;D ;D
I enjoy his writings but I never read anything he wrote.Usually I watched his creations on tv.Be it Monty Python,Dr Who,or HHGTTG plus his association with "Pink Floyd" which was his inspiration for Disaster Area featured in HHGTTG.
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Post by theworstofthewest on Apr 27th, 2005, 11:21pm

on 04/27/05 at 09:54:14, killerabbit wrote:
Sounds interesting worst.Is it related to HHGTTG? ;D ;D
I enjoy his writings but I never read anything he wrote.Usually I watched his creations on tv.Be it Monty Python,Dr Who,or HHGTTG plus his association with "Pink Floyd" which was his inspiration for Disaster Area featured in HHGTTG.


The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul was published in 1988. In this one, the soul of the god Odin is being possessed by an advertiser and a lawyer. Dirk Gently investigates the matter. I would still read the HHGTTG trilogy first if you haven't read any Adams.
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Post by theworstofthewest on May 1st, 2005, 11:58pm
I saw the HHGTTG movie. It was campy but condensed.

Now I'm reading Baudolino by Umberto Eco
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Post by teagirl on May 2nd, 2005, 9:30am

Tuesdays With Morrie
Mitch Albom
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Post by theworstofthewest on May 4th, 2005, 3:07am

on 05/02/05 at 09:30:51, teagirl wrote:
Tuesdays With Morrie
Mitch Albom


Do you like that one so far?
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Post by teagirl on May 4th, 2005, 6:58am

on 05/04/05 at 03:07:15, theworstofthewest wrote:
Do you like that one so far?


I'm 3/4s into the book, almost finishing it. While it certainly is an exemplary read, its attempt to encourage and bring into focus the most important things in life is quite superficial. I have read far more inspirational books than this one like The Choice and The Greatest Miracle In the World both by Og Mandino, just to name a few.  

A cheerful sick person is still totally alien to me. For someone who has dealt with a lot of sick people, while, of course, their lives and courage were very inspirational to me, I still have to meet a real Morrie.

But this book has served its purpose, if only to remind me what the important things in life are. So, its not so bad.

Have you read it? If so, what are your thoughts?
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Post by isseymiyake on May 4th, 2005, 11:23am
i'm reading right now "the Da Vinci Code" it's worth reading... 8) 8)
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Post by teagirl on May 4th, 2005, 11:38am

on 05/04/05 at 11:23:34, isseymiyake wrote:
i'm reading right now "the Da Vinci Code" it's worth reading... 8) 8)


Da Vinci Code was entertaining but I was truly more entertained with Angels and Demons by the same author.
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Post by kianna on May 5th, 2005, 6:37pm


Same here, same here Teamay. I think it'll be much better if they'll make a movie out of Angels and Demons instead of Da Vinci don't you think so Teamay?  ???
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Post by theworstofthewest on May 5th, 2005, 6:57pm
I found The DaVinci Code improbable and a little contrived, but it was entertaining. His earlier books were better.
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Post by teagirl on May 10th, 2005, 1:42am

MOBY-DICK
Herman Melville
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Post by kianna on May 20th, 2005, 7:32pm


Red Dragon
~Thomas Harris~

real scary
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Post by teagirl on May 21st, 2005, 12:49am

on 05/20/05 at 19:32:45, kianna wrote:
Red Dragon
~Thomas Harris~

real scary


Kianna, I loved that book! You're right it's scary and quite gruesome, really, but I thought it was better than Silence of the Lambs and well, when I read it I was just delving into forensics, so I was really impressed by whole thing. That is Thomas Harris' best book to date. Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal didn't really cut it out for me but they were still okay.
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Post by kianna on May 21st, 2005, 8:08pm

Teamay, I am enjoying every minute of reading Red Dragon. I am on my last 4 chapters. If I won't get too sleepy, maybe I'll be able to finish it tonight. Gruesome, I think is the right word Teamay, this book give me goosebumps but it's okay with me for a change.  I found this book on sale, along with The Silence of The Lambs and it has been on my shelf for more than a year already. I just haven't got around to reading it for I've already seen the movie. But I am glad I finally decided to read it. Silence of the Lambs is next on my list and I'll try to find Hannibal. Awww, you read Tuesdays with Morrie already. A friend suggested  I read it for she really liked it daw, made her cry. I'll put it on my to-buy list.
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Post by teagirl on May 21st, 2005, 10:23pm

on 05/21/05 at 20:08:47, kianna wrote:
Teamay, I am enjoying every minute of reading Red Dragon. I am on my last 4 chapters. If I won't get too sleepy, maybe I'll be able to finish it tonight. Gruesome, I think is the right word Teamay, this book give me goosebumps but it's okay with me for a change.  I found this book on sale, along with The Silence of The Lambs and it has been on my shelf for more than a year already. I just haven't got around to reading it for I've already seen the movie. But I am glad I finally decided to read it. Silence of the Lambs is next on my list and I'll try to find Hannibal. Awww, you read Tuesdays with Morrie already. A friend suggested  I read it for she really liked it daw, made her cry. I'll put it on my to-buy list.


Kianna, Red Dragon is a good book and I'm glad you are enjoying it. If it failed to make you feel icky, then I guess it didnt serve its purpose as being a "suspense" book.

Anyway, yes,  I've read Tuesdays With Morrie and maybe your friend was right. My office mate cried when he was reading it too. But to be honest, I was very disappointed when I read it. The truth of the matter was, I found it too cliche-y. Morrie was too cheerful (the has to be an exaggeration because that sick people I have encountered even when they've made their peace were never, NEVER cheerful) and it was just some sort of a variation to a theme. The book didnt offer any new inspiration that other books have. If  you are seeking to be inspired and wanting your eyes to open quite suddenly at the realization of something then you're better off reading Og Mandino.

I dont know. Maybe I read this book at the wrong time  in my life. Who knows? But I still suggest you read it really.  
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Post by teagirl on May 29th, 2005, 1:05pm

Heart of Darkness
  Joseph Conrad


"...In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign faces, the  changing immensity of life, glide past, veiled not by a sense of mystery but  by a slightly  disdainful ignorance; for there is nothing mysterious  to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence and as inscrutable as destiny."
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Post by teagirl on Jun 3rd, 2005, 11:07am

Deposition of Patient #09-8780-1364 - L.A.S. volumes I, II, & III
arrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhh!!

"...Torn lateral meniscus and chondral fracture patella medial femoral condyle with chondromalacia."
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Post by skepticzero on Jun 11th, 2005, 12:37am
Non-fiction:
War in a Time of Peace by David Halberstam
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Post by beth on Jun 13th, 2005, 3:34pm
The Purpose Driven Live  --  Rick Warren
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Post by gracia on Jun 14th, 2005, 3:46am
The Road Less Travelled byL  M. Scott Peck
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Post by teagirl on Jun 14th, 2005, 5:15am
For Doctors Only
Francis L. Golden, M.D.


A compilation of hilarious medical bloopers and anecdotes. Laughter is still the best medicine.  ;)
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Post by teagirl on Jun 24th, 2005, 12:27am

Re-reading an old favorite:

The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas


"...Wait  and hope."
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Post by teagirl on Jun 27th, 2005, 5:32pm

You've  Done It Again, Charlie Brown
Charles Schultz

Linus: You  did it! You did it! You  have been crabby for 1000 days in a row! You have just set an all time record! I knew you could  do it! Let  me  shake your  hand again! I'd also  like to present  this specially inscribed scroll  commemorating this historical event...Again, may I say, "Congratulations!"  You are an inspiration to all crabby people in this world!

Lucy: One  rarely gets a chance to see such carefully  prepared sarcasm.  
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Post by teagirl on Jun 28th, 2005, 5:49pm

Anguished English
Richard Lederer

"The greatest writer of the Rennaissance was William Shakespeare. Shakespeare was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday. He never made much money and is famous only because of his plays. He lived at Windsor with his merry wives, writing tragedies, comedies, and errors...In another play, Lady Macbeth tries to convince Macbeth to kill the King by attacking his manhood. The proof that the witches in Macbeth were supernatural is that no one could eat what they cooked. Romeo and Juliet are an example of heroic couplet.

Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes. He wrote Donkey Hote. The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained."
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Post by teagirl on Jun 30th, 2005, 3:42pm

Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury

"Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of thing we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at  all. The magic is  only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe into one garment for us."
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Post by kianna on Jun 30th, 2005, 6:28pm

on 06/28/05 at 17:49:11, teagirl wrote:
Anguished English
Richard Lederer

"The greatest writer of the Rennaissance was William Shakespeare. Shakespeare was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday. He never made much money and is famous only because of his plays. He lived at Windsor with his merry wives, writing tragedies, comedies, and errors...In another play, Lady Macbeth tries to convince Macbeth to kill the King by attacking his manhood. The proof that the witches in Macbeth were supernatural is that no one could eat what they cooked. Romeo and Juliet are an example of heroic couplet.

Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes. He wrote Donkey Hote. The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained."



;D ;D ;D Thanks for the laugh Teamay, this is really funny. The one on my e-mail made me laugh as well. Thanks!  :)
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Post by teagirl on Jul 10th, 2005, 5:35pm
Anthem
Ayn Rand

I am. I think. I will.
My hands . . . My spirit . . . My sky . . . My forest . . . This earth of mine. . . . What must I say besides? These are the words. This is the answer.

I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and spirit, this is the end of the quest. I wished to know the meaning of things. I am the meaning. I wished to find a warrant for being. I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth. It is my ears which hear, and the hearing of my ears gives its song to the world. It is my mind which thinks, and the judgement of my mind is the only searchlight that can find the truth. It is my will which chooses, and the choice of my will is the only edict I must respect.

Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: "I will it!"


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Post by teagirl on Jul 12th, 2005, 2:40pm

The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde

 "...And Beauty is a form of Genius -- is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or spring-time, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has its divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it..."
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Post by kianna on Jul 13th, 2005, 5:37pm


'tuesdays with Morrie"
 ~Mitch Albom~

'The Count of Monte Cristo'
  ~Alexandre Dumas~
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Post by teagirl on Jul 16th, 2005, 3:52am

The Art Of War
Sun-Tzu



All warfare is based on deception.
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Post by Orange Pekoe on Jul 17th, 2005, 3:38am


Re-reading a book from childhood:

Aesop's Fables
Aesop
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Post by Saffire_65 on Jul 17th, 2005, 5:23am
Errrr i'm trying to read all the postings in every thread here. Dang you guys are so scholarstic. I havent touched any books for ages. gotta go to the library and catch some good books. any recommendations on fiction?   ;D
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Post by Orange Pekoe on Jul 18th, 2005, 3:59pm
Poems of W.B. Yeats: A New Selection
Selected by A. Norman Jeffares



...How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face...
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Post by Orange Pekoe on Jul 19th, 2005, 5:32pm

Shadowlands
Leonore Fleischer

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers any more. Only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I've been given the choice; as a boy and as a man. The boy chose safety, man chooses suffering. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.
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Post by teagirl on Jul 29th, 2005, 3:23pm

Unleashed
Poems by Writers' Dogs




Untitled

All dogs prefer prose, especially this one; I died in the summer of 1965, following an episode with unrisen bread---I ate a bowl of dough and then went to sleep in the sun.

Big mistake.



---Marrow
by John Irving
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Post by teagirl on Jul 30th, 2005, 2:29pm

Disputed Questions
Thomas Merton


The difference between real and unreal love is not to be sought in the intensity of the love, or in its subjective sincerity, or in its articulateness. These three are very valuable qualities when they exist in a love that is real. But they are very dangerous when they are associated with a love that is fictitious.
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Post by beth on Jul 31st, 2005, 6:26pm
dictionaries [smiley=roll.gif] lol lol
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Post by psyche on Aug 1st, 2005, 4:23pm



Finally!  ;D
1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
~~J.K. Rowling~~

2. The Diary of a Young Girl
~~Anne Frank~~

3. Deception Point
~~Dan Brown~~

I think I've to sacrifice the internet for the meantime to read all three. 'Tis alright though. I'm sure it'll be worth it.  :)
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Post by teagirl on Aug 9th, 2005, 3:28pm

Tales From The Arabian Nights
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Post by teagirl on Aug 13th, 2005, 5:55am

The Tale of Murasaki
Lisa Dalby


I had come to feel that there are moments when our hearts latch onto some aspect of nature with special intensity. The burning hue of the sky when the sun sets behind a bare-branched tree in autumn resonates in our hearts with the lonely resplendence of dying beauty. This is why a poet uses the image of sunset to burn autumn into his poem---sunset is the essence of autumn. Each season has its own images that express its essence reflected by poetic sensibility.

Izure zo to    irowaku hodo ni    asagao no     aru ka naki ka     naru zo wabishiki
Where did it come from?
As I was wondering, the morning glory flower faded into pitiful nothingness.



Uki mi yo ni    yagate kienaha     tazunetemo    kusa no hara o ba   towaji to ya omon
If I were to vanish away,
would you come seeking my name even unto the grave?
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Post by Forgettable on Aug 17th, 2005, 1:34pm
Alone
by Lisa Gardner

Expect nothing more than an adrenalin rush from Alone and you'll be satisfied.From start to finish.A hostage drama at the start results in a bullet to the head of Catherine Gagnon's husband.Policeman Bobby Dodge fires the shot because he thinks the deranged man is about to kill his wife.Taking a life to save another is tough but all in the line of duty.His split second-descision,however,sets in motion a roller-coaster ride.Catherine,it seems,isn't the innocent wife she appears.The victim years ago of a paedophile who locked her up for 28 days,she may have survived,but is far from recovered.Money was Catherine's prime motivation for marrying in the the Gagnon family and it's not long before the marriage starts unravel.The couple's child becomes a pawn she uses to prevent a divorce.Just as the story appears to have rounded its last corner,the paedophile is released early and heads straight for his former captive.

Readers might find the plot predictable and even improbable.But once you're on the thrilling ride,there's no turning back.
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Post by psyche on Aug 17th, 2005, 5:19pm


Ivanhoe
~Sir Walter Scott~
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Post by Wicked_Witch on Aug 18th, 2005, 9:56am
WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE by Barbara Bradford Taylor, she's dead but she's my favorite writer.
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Post by Forgettable on Aug 19th, 2005, 1:11pm


The Constant Gardener
By:John le Carre
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Post by mercedeezman on Aug 21st, 2005, 3:11am
Re-reading A Crown of Swords by Robert Jordan.... the saga is 10 novels long now, about 7500 pages or so.... the guy is making me mervous coz i can see no end in sight and i'm worried he's gonna die before he finishes the story.

Fantasy, love fantasy, screw all that reality crap to read, if i want crime murder lotsa rotten things i'll turn on the news..... read fantasy coz all things are possible, and there are MUCH better than tolkien's lord of the rings... even tho i tip my hat to him for starting it all.
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Post by earthlingorgeous on Aug 22nd, 2005, 8:47am
Me reading The Number of the Beast by Robert Heinlein ... am 10 pages away from finishing it ...
next in line would be
The Cat Walks Through Wall same author
its a good follow-up for that book too.

First you read The Man Who Sold the Moon...then Friday...then Number of the Beast ... then The Cat walks ... all by the same author all science fiction.


He is hard to find now here in Philippines coz he doesn't have much followers here but in Canada I heard he does... so mahal don't forget to dig in to 2nd hand book stalls to find a book by him for me and my sister ok? lol
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Post by NorKay on Aug 26th, 2005, 10:38am

Behind Closed Doors
-by Jenny Tomlin
A girl survives physical and sexual abuse to emerge as a loving parent.


I have just finished the The Constant Gardener but I know someone will be reading it,so,I don't want to tell yet the story.
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Post by Chamomile on Aug 28th, 2005, 3:33am

Re-reading an old favorite:

The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran


On Love
When love beckons to you follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,
So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.
Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.
He threshes you to make you naked.
He sifts you to free you from your husks.
He grinds you to whiteness.
He kneads you until you are pliant;
And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast.
All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.
But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure,
Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor,
Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.

Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.


On Reason and Passion
Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.
If either your sails or our rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas.
For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion; that it may sing;
And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.

On Friendship
Your friend is your needs answered.
And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart;
For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed.
And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.



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Post by apric0t on Aug 28th, 2005, 4:51pm


I just love The Prophet Teamay. I think it's perfect.
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Post by Chamomile on Aug 29th, 2005, 3:18pm

Kianna
Me too, me too!
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Post by WinGaRdiuM LeVioSa on Sep 27th, 2005, 7:51pm



The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction
~Kate Chopin~

Little Altars Everywhere
~Rebecca Wells~

Emma
~Jane Austen
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Post by teagirl on Sep 28th, 2005, 2:50am

I have seen The Secrets of Divine Ya-Ya Sisterhood but I haven't read the book written by Rebecca Wells. I've seen her books around, Kianna. Is she any good?
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Post by WinGaRdiuM LeVioSa on Sep 28th, 2005, 2:47pm



Teamay!  :) I haven't seen Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood yet but I have read the book already. The book talks about family, love, and most of all, a true and great friendship. As one critic says, 'The book speaks eloquently to what it means to be a mother, a daughter, a wife--- and somehow, at last, a person.' I find the book funny, sensitive, touching, breathtaking,.... it has very poignant characters as well. I was actually planning to buy Ya-yas In Bloom, it's the sequel to Divine Secrets, but then I thought, I'd better start with the prequel first, Little Altars Everywhere. I'm just in my first four chapters though, but so far enjoying it. Rebecca Wells writes real good Teamay. You'll enjoy her storytelling, and I'm sure you'll love the Ya-yas.  ;) They make me remember my own circle of best girl friends, and I even find that in one way or the other we share some things in common.
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Post by WinGaRdiuM LeVioSa on Sep 28th, 2005, 2:55pm




From the pages of The Awakening:


But the beginning of things, of  a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!



She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.



There were days when she was happy without knowing why. She was happy to be alive and breathing, when her whole being seemed to be one with the sunlight, the color, the odors, the luxuriant warmth of some perfect Southern day. She liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places. She discovered many a sunny, sleepy corner,fashioned to dream in. And she found it good to dream and to be alone and unmolested.



There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why--- when it did not seem worth while to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation. She could not work on such a day, nor weave fancies to stir her pulses and warm her blood.



She felt as if a mist had been lifted from her eyes, enabling her to look upon and comprehend the significance of life, that monster made up of beauty and brutality. But among the conflicting sensations which assailed her, there was neither shame nor remorse. There was a dull pang of regret because it was not the kiss of love which has inflamed her, because it was not love which had held this cup of life to her lips.



The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation.The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.


She went on and on. She remembered the night she swam far out, and recalled the terror that seized her at the fear of being unable to regain the shore. She did not look back now, but went on and on, thinking of the blue-grass meadow that she had traversed when a little child, believing that it had no beginning and no end.







Memorable phrases for me:

'Your manner has not misled me. My own emotions have done that. I couldn't help it. When I'm near you, how could I help it? Don't think anything of it, don't bother please. You see, I go when you command me. If you wish me to stay away, I shall do so. If you let me come back, I -- oh! you will let me come back?'
~ Alcee Arobin ~

'Does he write to you? Never a line. Does he send you a message? Never a word. It is because he loves you, poor fool, and is trying to forget you,...'
~ Madame Reisz ~


'You don't know anything about it. Why should you know? I never was so exhausted in my life. But it isn't unpleasant. Athousand emotions have swept through me tonight. I don't comprehend half of them.'
~ Edna ~


'I love you,' she whispered, 'only you; no one but you. It was you who awoke me last summer out of a life-long, stupid dream. Oh! you have made me so unhappy with your indifference.
Oh! I have suffered, suffered!'
~ Edna Pontellier~


'I love you. Good-by --- because I love you.'
~ Robert Lebrun ~


'Good-by -- because I love you.' He did not know; he did not understand. He would never understand.
~ Edna ~
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Post by teagirl on Sep 28th, 2005, 3:31pm

on 09/28/05 at 14:55:47, WinGaRdiuM LeVioSa wrote:
From the pages of The Awakening:

She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.

There were days when she was happy without knowing why. She was happy to be alive and breathing, when her whole being seemed to be one with the sunlight, the color, the odors, the luxuriant warmth of some perfect Southern day. She liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places. She discovered many a sunny, sleepy corner,fashioned to dream in. And she found it good to dream and to be alone and unmolested.

There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why--- when it did not seem worth while to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation. She could not work on such a day, nor weave fancies to stir her pulses and warm her blood.

She felt as if a mist had been lifted from her eyes, enabling her to look upon and comprehend the significance of life, that monster made up of beauty and brutality. But among the conflicting sensations which assailed her, there was neither shame nor remorse. There was a dull pang of regret because it was not the kiss of love which has inflamed her, because it was not love which had held this cup of life to her lips.

The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation.The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.



Kianna, this looks like a very good book. I like what's being written. What is it all about? Who wrote it?


Quote:
'Your manner has not misled me. My own emotions have done that. I couldn't help it. When I'm near you, how could I help it? Don't think anything of it, don't bother please. You see, I go when you command me. If you wish me to stay away, I shall do so. If you let me come back, I -- oh! you will let me come back?'
~ Alcee Arobin ~



Story of my life. <sad smile>


Quote:
'Does he write to you? Never a line. Does he send you a message? Never a word. It is because he loves you, poor fool, and is trying to forget you,...'
~ Madame Reisz ~



Nawwwwwwww. He's just not that into me, Madame. LOL!



Quote:
'I love you,' she whispered, 'only you; no one but you. It was you who awoke me last summer out of a life-long, stupid dream. Oh! you have made me so unhappy with your indifference. Oh! I have suffered, suffered!'
~ Edna Pontellier~



She read my mind.



Quote:
'I love you. Good-by --- because I love you.'
~ Robert Lebrun ~

'Good-by -- because I love you.' He did not know; he did not understand. He would never understand.
~ Edna ~



Sigh.
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Post by Sweet and Sour on Sep 28th, 2005, 6:45pm


on 09/28/05 at 14:55:47, WinGaRdiuM LeVioSa wrote:
From the pages of The Awakening:

Kianna,
Awww,I am glad to know you have read this too and Im glad you did share.I had read it,long time ago.It's an old book of mine.I loved it.  ;D

What about the "The Thorn Birds", "An Indecent Obsession" ? Have you seen these ones? I wanted to, but I had never the chance to check on them.




May,
It's Kate Chopin's book (190-page)

It's the compelling story of a surprisingly modern woman trapped in a dehumanizing marriage and struggling to establish herself as an individual.
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Post by ChAntiQ on Sep 28th, 2005, 8:04pm
The Screwtape Letters
C.S. Lewis

He starts off by saying, "There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other, is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight."

Its protagonists are two demons, Wormwood and his uncle, Screwtape. Through letters, Screwtape strives to teach Wormwood how to exploit all the weaknesses of this "foolish two-legged animals" called humans and keep their mind on everything except God.

I find Screwtape's assessment of man as so true that it has me burst out laughing many times.
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Post by teagirl on Sep 29th, 2005, 2:27am


on 09/28/05 at 18:45:11, Sweet and Sour wrote:
Kianna,
What about the "The Thorn Birds", "An Indecent Obsession" ? Have you seen these ones? I wanted to, but I had never the chance to check on them.


Krissy, I have read The Thorn Birds a long time ago and honestly, I can't remember how well it was written except that it was about an illicit affair she had with a priest. I saw the tv series when I was in highschool though and that was okay, I guess. Can't remember too much now.


Quote:
May,
It's Kate Chopin's book (190-page) It's the compelling story of a surprisingly modern woman trapped in a dehumanizing marriage and struggling to establish herself as an individual.


Krissy, thanks. The author's name seems so familiar but but I don't believe I have read any of her work. Is she a romance paperback writer?



on 09/28/05 at 20:04:21, ChAntiQ wrote:
The Screwtape Letters
C.S. Lewis


Chantiq, it's soooo kewl that you've read this book and I'm so envious. I've been looking all over the city for The Screwtape Letters as well as A Grief Observed. Thanks for posting this. I'm determined more than ever now to look for the books.







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Post by ChAntiQ on Sep 29th, 2005, 3:32pm

on 09/29/05 at 02:27:59, teagirl wrote:
Chantiq, it's soooo kewl that you've read this book and I'm so envious. I've been looking all over the city for The Screwtape Letters as well as A Grief Observed. Thanks for posting this. I'm determined more than ever now to look for the books.


Hi Tea :) Yes, I've mucho respect for C.S. Lewis works after I have read The Chronicles of Narnia and shortly thereafter did the musical "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe".  I also got to meet his stepson in person who came to the Manila twice years ago.  The book The Screwtape Letters was a gift sent to me by a good friend who lives in Boston now.  Have you tried looking for it at online stores like Barnes & Noble?

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Post by WinGaRdiuM LeVioSa on Oct 9th, 2005, 7:19am

Finally,


*The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
*Like Water For Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
*Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
*She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
*White Oleander - Janet Fitch
*The Rescue - Nicholas Sparks
*Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk
*Charming Billy - Alice McDermott
*Yesterday I Cried - Iyanla Vanzant
*Teatime Stories for Women - Inspirational Stories compiled by Linda Evans Shepherd
*The Greatest Salesman in the World - Og Mandino
*Love is Letting Go of Fear - Gerald Jampolsky

I feel like I am just gonna read my life away. I am not going to sleep anymore if I plan to finish all these in a month. I wish Teamay's just my neighbor so we can read these books together.
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Post by mylane on Oct 9th, 2005, 7:26am
Power of a Woman by Barbara Taylor Bradford

courtesy of TeagirlMay ;D
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Post by Gracia on Oct 13th, 2005, 4:41am
Done with the First Wives Club and The Winter Soldier. Both were very nice book.  First Wives Club was kind of very religious, Christ is always present and so is f****...hmmm confusing....thanks Doki :)

Now i'm reading parenting book....Discipline without shouting or spanking by Jerry Wyckoff and Barbara C. Unell.
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Post by teagirl on Oct 15th, 2005, 1:15am

The Constant Gardener
John LeCarre


The Confessions of A Shopaholic
Sophie Kinsella


Written On The Body
Jeanette Winterson
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Post by teagirl on Oct 15th, 2005, 1:22am


on 10/09/05 at 07:19:35, WinGaRdiuM LeVioSa wrote:
Finally,


*The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
*Like Water For Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
*Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
*She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
*White Oleander - Janet Fitch
*The Rescue - Nicholas Sparks
*Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk
*Charming Billy - Alice McDermott
*Yesterday I Cried - Iyanla Vanzant
*Teatime Stories for Women - Inspirational Stories compiled by Linda Evans Shepherd
*The Greatest Salesman in the World - Og Mandino
*Love is Letting Go of Fear - Gerald Jampolsky

I feel like I am just gonna read my life away. I am not going to sleep anymore if I plan to finish all these in a month. I wish Teamay's just my neighbor so we can read these books together.



Oh My God. WOW. Wouldn't it be nice if I can just read my life away, though. LOL. Those are good books, Kianna. I have most of them except for one or two titles. Among your titles, my favorite is Anna Karenina. She's the most conflicted character I've ever read. Well, one of and I know the book is thick and there will be moments when feel bored with it...but you will just have to read and read til you get to the end and you will have that wonderful satisfied feeling. And of course, it's really a wonderful book.

Just this month alone, I bought around 20 or so books. Don't ask me when I am going to read them but I will. I will share the titles with you soon. Dadburnit, I wish we are neighbors!
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Post by teagirl on Oct 15th, 2005, 1:51am

on 09/29/05 at 15:32:12, ChAntiQ wrote:
Hi Tea :) Yes, I've mucho respect for C.S. Lewis works after I have read The Chronicles of Narnia and shortly thereafter did the musical "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe".  I also got to meet his stepson in person who came to the Manila twice years ago.  The book The Screwtape Letters was a gift sent to me by a good friend who lives in Boston now.  Have you tried looking for it at online stores like Barnes & Noble?

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Chantiq
I got into CS Lewis because of the suggestions of a couple of special people in my life. Well, ex-special. LOL. First CS Lewis I read was The Chronicles of Narnia. Then I was given the Shadowlands movie and book. The book touched me so much that since then, I have been looking for A Grief Observed. I know I should order online but I just don't do transactions online, Chant. I'm not comfy with it. :(
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Post by teagirl on Oct 21st, 2005, 2:50am

Mere Christianity
CS Lewis

This the first of my CS Lewis purchases (Aside from The Chronicles of Narnia. The Screwtape Letters and A Grief Observed will be arriving next week) and upon my excitement, the moment I received the book, I started reading it immediately. Oh wow. I can't put it down.

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Post by nOrKAy on Oct 24th, 2005, 9:19am



Black Ice
Lorene Cary

It's an autobiography of a young African-American girl and I thought in some way I could relate.The reason why this books gives me ineterest,although not really,was because it talks about how "blacks" and "whites" used to be segregated.
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Post by CooCHie on Oct 25th, 2005, 7:26pm
A Million Little Piecesby James Frey
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Post by teagirl on Oct 31st, 2005, 2:11am

Confessions of a Shopaholic
Shopaholic Takes Manhattan
Sophie Kinsella


British author Sophie Kinsella takes us into a world, not so different from our own---that of a shopaholic. Funny accounts of how the shopaholic, Bex, rationalizes her purchases. It's a light read, funny and not really cerebrally taxing.
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Post by teagirl on Nov 9th, 2005, 4:30pm

Shopaholic Ties the Knot
Sophie Kinsella
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Post by nOrKAy on Nov 23rd, 2005, 3:35pm


Shadowlands
CS Lewis
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Post by nOrKAy on Dec 16th, 2005, 10:15am




Tess Of The D'Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy
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Post by CapuchinO on Jan 6th, 2006, 7:45pm
Manga....japanese comic...back to old habit...  ;D...
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Post by Nathy on Jan 23rd, 2006, 4:47pm
Dan Brown === Da Vince Code...

Man!! That guy is really smart, I dont know if it is fiction or not...but I like the books  8)
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Post by Wicked_Witch on Jan 25th, 2006, 2:35am
The Conquest..by Jude Deveraux. She is a great author and one of my most favorites. I like her combination of romance and humor. I like Barbara Bradford Taylor the best. She can combine her romance with the normalities of everyday life, no fairy tales for her. ;D
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Post by WinGaRdiuM LeVioSa on Mar 17th, 2006, 7:54am




Follow Your Heart Susana Tamaro
The Pilot's Wife Anita Shreve
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
Vinegar Hill Annette Ansay
Black and Blue Anna Quindlen
Girl with the Pearl EaringTracy Chevalier
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Post by nOrKAy on Mar 23rd, 2006, 10:43am

on 03/17/06 at 07:54:24, WinGaRdiuM LeVioSa wrote:

The Pilot's Wife Anita Shreve

Kianna, I wish you would give me an insight of the book after reading. I have read the Weight of Water which written also by the same author of that book. ;D


The book I am reading right now:

Until I Find You
John Irving
~Tracing the experiences of a movie star named Jack Burns, whose life has revolved around his relationships with older women.
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Post by Wicked_Witch on Mar 24th, 2006, 3:30am
Bridey's Mountain by Judith Mcnaught, she's a lot like barbara bradford taylor, combining real life with myths and passions and stories that run from generations to generations.
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Post by bad_day_me on Feb 6th, 2007, 3:20pm
;D ;D ;D

 rock climbers guide book by phill watts...
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Post by bad_day_me on Feb 8th, 2007, 3:10pm
:) our daily bread...
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Post by WinGaRdiuM LeVioSa on Nov 26th, 2008, 10:05pm

For One More Day
~ Mitch Albom ~

Gap Creek
~Robert Morgan~
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Post by teagirl on Dec 15th, 2008, 3:20pm


Ocean Silk - Alessandro Baricco
Oh, The Places You'll Go - Dr. Seuss
Gardening With Kids - Catherine Woram
Key To Living The Law of Attraction - Jack Canfield
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Post by WinGaRdiuM LeVioSa on Dec 16th, 2008, 5:35am

Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
New Moon - Stephenie Meyer
The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards

:D ;D
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Post by teagirl on Dec 16th, 2008, 12:47pm

on 12/16/08 at 05:35:36, WinGaRdiuM LeVioSa wrote:
Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
New Moon - Stephenie Meyer
The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards

:D ;D



Oooooo, someone's over the moon!  ;D ;D ;D
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Post by WinGaRdiuM LeVioSa on Dec 16th, 2008, 3:15pm

You bet Teamay!  ;)
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Post by mrs_nj on Dec 18th, 2008, 3:48am
I finished all 4 books of Stephanie Meyer recently.

I am reading couple of books at once...
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb and many many more.  
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Post by teagirl on Dec 18th, 2008, 9:28pm

on 12/18/08 at 03:48:02, mrs_nj wrote:
I finished all 4 books of Stephanie Meyer recently.

I am reading couple of books at once...
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb and many many more.  



Mrs NJ --- enjoy "I Know This Much Is True" by Lamb. It's quite a satisfying read.

Reading now:
(1) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer

(2) French Country Living - Carolyn Clifton-Mogg

(3) Eat Fresh - Annabel Langbein

(4) Book Smart - Jane Mallison
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Post by K.... on Dec 19th, 2008, 3:46pm

Mrs. NJ, Teamay, I've been meaning to read "I Know This Much Is True". It's on Oprah's Book Club right?  After christmas, I'm gonna go on a book hunt, and I'll put this on my must have list.
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Post by 3iNnA on Dec 19th, 2008, 4:32pm
Yes K... it's on oprah's book club.  I just started.  I am up to page 113 (893 pages...)  :-/
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Post by K.... on Dec 21st, 2008, 3:59pm

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I'm done reading Twilight, started about 3 chapters of New Moon, couple of pages of The Memory Keeper's Daughter and, I just couldn't resist buying The Tales of Beedle the Bard (JK Rowling). Maybe it's because since the HP book series ended, I feel that I must read anything that has something to do with Harry Potter.
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Post by 3iNnA on Dec 21st, 2008, 8:18pm
I didn't read any of my Harry Potter books even though I bought it couple of months ago.  Ever since I watch the movie I stop reading it.  

You love to read multiple at once K...just like me.  I do the same also.  Read couple of books at once...
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Post by 3iNnA on Dec 22nd, 2008, 10:46pm
Having an urge to read another book addition to the ones I am reading...I am eyeing "The Constant Princess" by Philippa Gregory.    :-/
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Post by teagirl on Dec 22nd, 2008, 11:11pm

on 12/21/08 at 15:59:54, K.... wrote:

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I'm done reading Twilight, started about 3 chapters of New Moon, couple of pages of The Memory Keeper's Daughter and, I just couldn't resist buying The Tales of Beedle the Bard (JK Rowling). Maybe it's because since the HP book series ended, I feel that I must read anything that has something to do with Harry Potter.


I must say I am intrigued by this book, K. I wanted to get it for someone but I'm just concerned that maybe he has outgrown Harry Potter and the genre.


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Post by 3iNnA on Dec 23rd, 2008, 3:00am
I think you should get it for him...he might still have the collection.  
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Post by teagirl on Dec 24th, 2008, 7:57pm


Reading:

(1) Discover's 20 Things You Didn't Know About Everything

(2) Marley and Me: Life and Love With The World's Worst Dog - John Grogan

(3) The Secret Things Of God  - Dr. Henry Cloud
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Post by K.... on Dec 25th, 2008, 3:34pm

on 12/22/08 at 23:11:08, teagirl wrote:
I must say I am intrigued by this book, K. I wanted to get it for someone but I'm just concerned that maybe he has outgrown Harry Potter and the genre.


Teamay, sorry for the rather late reply. Anyway, I have read the book, it's so thin, only a hundred seven pages, you could read it for like an hour or less. I did enjoy it in a way, in a childlike kinda way I guess, 'coz it's really a kids book. I think Teamay, if that someone did like Harry Potter, then I guess giving this book is not a bad idea especially since the last story ( there are four) "The Tale of the Three Brothers" was actually where the last installment of HP (Deathly Hollows) revolved around, so in a way, those who have read HP can still relate to this book. And there's one good thing about buying the book because part of the proceeds will go to the Children's High Level Group, a charity cofounded by JK Rowling.  ;)
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Post by 3iNnA on Dec 26th, 2008, 8:18pm
I am also reading a book my friend send me from KS.  She sent it to me couple of months ago but never had the chance to read...Now I am reading 3 books....

the new one I am reading is "A Place of Quiet Rest" by Nancy Leigh Demoss.  usually i don't read these types of books but my friend bought it.  
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Post by teagirl on Jan 2nd, 2009, 1:39am

on 12/25/08 at 15:34:02, K.... wrote:
Teamay, sorry for the rather late reply. Anyway, I have read the book, it's so thin, only a hundred seven pages, you could read it for like an hour or less. I did enjoy it in a way, in a childlike kinda way I guess, 'coz it's really a kids book. I think Teamay, if that someone did like Harry Potter, then I guess giving this book is not a bad idea especially since the last story ( there are four) "The Tale of the Three Brothers" was actually where the last installment of HP (Deathly Hollows) revolved around, so in a way, those who have read HP can still relate to this book. And there's one good thing about buying the book because part of the proceeds will go to the Children's High Level Group, a charity cofounded by JK Rowling.  ;)



Hi, K --- I finally asked him if he wanted to read the book and he said he does want to. Problem is, it's no longer on sale and has gone up to $19 instead of $12. Argh. Well, I can get this for him later --- wayyyy later. Haha.


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Post by teagirl on Jan 2nd, 2009, 1:41am

Reading:

(1) The Hour I First Believed - Wally Lamb. I think I'm off to a poor start. I certainly think that "I Know This Much Is True" was more of a compelling read at the very start than this one. But it's too soon to tell, really. I'm still on page 83/734. Almost 600+ pages yet for the story to develop!   :P

(2) Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith

(3) This Is Not A Book (Adventures in Popular Philosophy)
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Post by 3iNnA on Jan 2nd, 2009, 7:53pm
Teagirl I am reading I Know This Much is True...I have a long way to go also.   :-/

Wow you read fasttttttt ;D ;D
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Post by teagirl on Jan 2nd, 2009, 9:14pm

on 01/02/09 at 19:53:12, 3iNnA wrote:
Teagirl I am reading I Know This Much is True...I have a long way to go also.   :-/

Wow you read fasttttttt ;D ;D



Annie, I am on page 239/600+ of "The Hour I First Believed", so that's almost halfway, right? Well, I still think that "I Know This Much Is True" was more of a compelling read than this latest Wally Lamb novel.  I don't know --- I'm just detached. Hopefully though, it will soon start to grip me like the other book did. Did you like "The Hour I First Believed"? You've read it right?
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Post by K.... on Jan 5th, 2009, 5:21pm

* The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
* Hope For The Flowers - Trina Paulus
* Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer
* Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer

:)
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Post by teagirl on Jan 5th, 2009, 8:12pm

on 01/05/09 at 17:21:08, K.... wrote:
* The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
* Hope For The Flowers - Trina Paulus
* Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer
* Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer

:)



I love "Hope For The Flowers", K. Everytime I see a favorite book being featured or mentioned, I long for all my books that I left in Cebu.

Ohh! I just recently read "Talented Mr. Ripley" too --- the book is quite simple but the movie version was fascinating with Matt Damon, Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow. Enjoy reading!!

I'm still "struggling" with

(1) The Hour I First Believed - Wally Lamb. I haven't moved a page at all.  :-/

(2) The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
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Post by 3iNnA on Jan 6th, 2009, 3:39am
I didn't read the book The Hour I First Believed...not yet but I bought it though.  

Can you bring or tell your family to mail the books to you little by little or if you were to visit...can you bring it along?  
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Post by 3iNnA on Jan 6th, 2009, 3:41am
I am still reading 3 books... :-/ :-/  its getting there... [smiley=book2.gif] nonstop...different books at different area...
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Post by K.... on Jan 6th, 2009, 4:35pm

on 01/05/09 at 20:12:54, teagirl wrote:
I love "Hope For The Flowers", K. Everytime I see a favorite book being featured or mentioned, I long for all my books that I left in Cebu.


Teamay! I just read it. I love it too. So much. It's very thought provoking, and touching, and real. Reading it made me realize quite a lot of things. If I haven't seen it on your favorite books on Shelfari, I would never have thought of reading it. Thank you.



on 01/05/09 at 20:12:54, teagirl wrote:
Ohh! I just recently read "Talented Mr. Ripley" too --- the book is quite simple but the movie version was fascinating with Matt Damon, Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow. Enjoy reading!!


I haven't seen the movie yet. I'll look for it when I'm done with the book.



on 01/05/09 at 20:12:54, teagirl wrote:
I'm still "struggling" with

(1) The Hour I First Believed - Wally Lamb. [i] I haven't moved a page at all.  :-/



Same with The Memory Keeper's Daughter Teamay, I don't know why, I guess it's because reading it makes me sad. And now that I've additional books to read, I think that prolongs the possibility of me ever finishing it.
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Post by teagirl on Jan 13th, 2009, 11:43pm


(1) She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb. Witty, funny and so familiar is Wally Lamb with a the female thought processes that you can't believe he's male. Haha.

(2) The Secret Scripture - Sebastian Barry
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Post by teagirl on Jan 13th, 2009, 11:49pm

on 01/06/09 at 03:39:59, 3iNnA wrote:
I didn't read the book The Hour I First Believed...not yet but I bought it though.  

Can you bring or tell your family to mail the books to you little by little or if you were to visit...can you bring it along?  


I will have to go back sometime in the next few years and put them all in a courier box or something. There has to be a way!
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Post by 3iNnA on Jan 14th, 2009, 3:41am
I have She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb...

I added to my wish list The Secret Scripture - Sebastian Barry...looks good...

yes definitely there must be a way, teagirl.
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Post by 3iNnA on Jan 16th, 2009, 5:09am
Annie is reading "Moloka'i"...almost done with "The Grapes of Wrath." ;D ;D
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Post by teagirl on Jan 18th, 2009, 8:24pm

on 01/16/09 at 05:09:50, 3iNnA wrote:
Annie is reading "Moloka'i"...almost done with "The Grapes of Wrath." ;D ;D


What's Moloka'i? Sounds interesting. I don't think I can ever read The Grapes of Wrath, Annie! It looks boring!  :o Kudos to you though!!!

Reading:

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
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Post by 3iNnA on Jan 22nd, 2009, 4:26pm
Moloka'i is a story about a little girl (around 7 yrs old) who has leprosy and had to be ship to this island called Moloka'i....story is very intense.  While reading I feel as though I am at Hawaii...

389 pgs & I am up to pg. 141.  The reason why I am so slow reading this is I like to read different kinds of books....

The Grapes of Wrath is very interesting though...shocking a little bit....some of the the terms they used I didn't get it...I had to ask around...but overall it is very interesting.  I can't imagine being raise during the great depression...how some can't do nothing about it and how some would not give up...
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Post by teagirl on Jan 28th, 2009, 1:11pm


(1) Jamie's Ministry of Food: Anyone Can Learn To Cook in 24 Hours - Jamie Oliver

(2) Sarah: Women of Genesis - Orson Scott Card

(3) Make Your Creative Dreams Real - Sark

(4) History of Art - Sarah Goulding
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Post by 3iNnA on Jan 29th, 2009, 3:17am
Wow Teagirl.... you read FAST!!!
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Post by teagirl on Jan 30th, 2009, 2:45am

on 01/29/09 at 03:17:14, 3iNnA wrote:
Wow Teagirl.... you read FAST!!!



so many books, so little time, Annie!


Reading Now:

Translations of Beauty - Mia Yun
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Post by 3iNnA on Feb 1st, 2009, 4:38am
I agree...lots of books... ;D

also lots of hobbies....never have time for all.
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Post by teagirl on Feb 3rd, 2009, 2:48am

(1) Twilight - Stephenie Meyer

(2) Obsession - Jonathan Kellerman

(3) The Shack - William P. Young

(4) Q & A - Vikas Swarup

I have just finished reading Book Of Lies which was not really satisfying. However, I also finished another book Sold which was very heart-breaking.
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Post by 3iNnA on Feb 4th, 2009, 6:08pm
:o :o  you are definitely a fast reader...

I also reading other books addition to this one...
"Just a Housewife" by Glenna Matthews.  
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Post by K.... on Feb 6th, 2009, 11:55am

Written on the Body  
Jeanette Winterson

Mother Voices a compilation of stories about motherhood
edited by Traci Dyer
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Post by 3iNnA on Feb 7th, 2009, 4:22am
Wow...K....you read fast also.  I forgot if I have this book (written on the body) or not...hmmmm...
Lately I can't recall....
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Post by 3iNnA on Feb 8th, 2009, 9:39pm
I am reading online: http://www.russellmeans.com/

I never knew some info. till now....it takes time to read but I enjoy the site.  I am learning alot...even though I learn it from school it is not that much detail...I am glad I found the site.
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Post by 3iNnA on Feb 14th, 2009, 2:39am
Finally finished reading Moloka'i...I love it.  Sad, happy, funny....

Thinking to read Susan La Flesche Picotte, M.D. Omaha Indian Leader & Reformer by Benson Tong.
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Post by 3iNnA on Feb 15th, 2009, 6:37am
Changing my mind...reading this first...A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska: The Story of Hannah Breece by Hannah Breece
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Post by 3iNnA on Feb 20th, 2009, 8:11pm
also reading http://www.itvs.org/homeland/index.html

This month I am very interested about Indigenous people.  Trying to learn as much as I can....
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Post by 3iNnA on Mar 1st, 2009, 11:51pm
*Rosebud Sioux by Donovin Arleigh Sprague
*The Ice Master-The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk by Jennifer Niven
*Identity by Design by Smithsonian
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Post by 3iNnA on Mar 13th, 2009, 4:25am
Also reading 1491.   ::) ::) I know I know I am reading too many books at once but can't help it.  Not enough time.... ;D ;D
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Post by 3iNnA on Apr 11th, 2009, 9:45pm
Reading Earth Abides by George R. Stewart...
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Post by 3iNnA on May 8th, 2009, 5:28am
Night and Day by Virginia Woolf.
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Post by 3iNnA on Jun 14th, 2009, 6:37am
Books about or related to Tasha Tudor.   ;D
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Post by 3iNnA on Jul 1st, 2009, 8:26pm
Finished reading within a week...Shaker: Life, Work and Art By June Spring
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Post by 3iNnA on Oct 5th, 2009, 5:39am
Finally finished reading "Daily Life-In the United States, 1920-1940" by David E. Kyvig.


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