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What are you reading?
« on: February 27, 2008, 08:40:03 PM »
All this Stephen King talk made me curious as to what you guys have been reading.

At the moment i'm reading Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Piquolt (spelling?) I hope tat's hjer name. The book is in the car but i'm pretty sure that's it. It's an awesome book about a horrible school shooting told from the view point of everyone from the vitims and their families to the shooter and his. I highly recommend it!'



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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2008, 08:43:39 PM »
Actually, funny that you mention Stephen King (He's my favorite author. I've read nearly everything he's ever written), cause I'm reading his new book Duma Key and also his other new-ish book Lisey's Story. I'm also reading Atonement and The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. I'm a reading fiend! lol

Nineteen Minutes sounds really interesting! I might have to check into that.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2008, 08:44:31 PM »
Well obviously you know I picked up some Richard Bachman but other than that I'm reading The Dwelling by Susi Moloney which is about a house that is haunted and kills the owners. So it goes through all these different owners of the house and how the house gets rid of them, and ultimately the spirits are searching for the "right" owner of the house.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2008, 08:46:49 PM »
ooh that sounds good.

I think I might buy Stephen King's new book when i'm done with this one, although I still have a book waiting in the wings. Deception Point by Dan Brown was really great too. It was one of those 'you can't put it down' type books.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2008, 08:48:27 PM »
I like Stephen King too, but I haven't read an adult book in awhile LOL.  I think the last one was Nicholas Sparks "A Bend in the Road" over Christmas break.  Now I'm reading "Otis Spoffard" by Beverly Cleary. :D
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2008, 08:49:39 PM »
LOL I just read The Remarkable Farkle McBride.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #6 on: February 27, 2008, 08:51:48 PM »
Over Christmas I spent most of my time reading I Am America (And So Can You) by Stephen Colbert... I think I truely busted a gut a couple times. And there's this Canadian humour writer named Will Ferguson who has written many books but I read his latest called Bastards & Boneheads: Canada's Glorious Leaders Past and Present... it's very entertaining.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2008, 08:52:56 PM »
LMAO I really want to read Stephen Colbert's book and Jon Stewarts. Those guys crack me up!
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #8 on: February 27, 2008, 08:54:32 PM »
I love those two too!  Haven't read their books either though.  Although I did look at Jon Stewart's "America" book (the one that is like a mock textbook) in a bookstore, and it was pretty funny looking.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #9 on: February 27, 2008, 09:00:37 PM »
Quote from: mare on February 27, 2008, 08:52:56 PM
LMAO I really want to read Stephen Colbert's book and Jon Stewarts. Those guys crack me up!

The footnotes in Colbert's book absolutely killed me.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #10 on: February 27, 2008, 09:09:09 PM »
I haven't read a book for pleasure in like forever. I'm with Julie in the only books I feel like I read anymore or geared towards an elementary schooler.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #11 on: February 27, 2008, 09:10:36 PM »
For a lot of you that makes sense but if I were reading the Hardy Boys or something you'd all think I was a freak cuz I'm not a teacher lol
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #12 on: February 27, 2008, 09:13:49 PM »
not true lol I just read a Hardy Boys book just for fun because I had to teach in the school's library.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #13 on: February 27, 2008, 09:16:53 PM »
I just got "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" for my birthday, so I'll probably start reading that soon.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #14 on: February 27, 2008, 09:27:57 PM »
Well, for class I'm reading "Native Speaker" which is actually pretty good. Outside of class, I'm reading "Girl in the Tangerine Scarf".

Mare, I loved Deception Point, too! It was so interesting even though I'm not a super science-y person. His books are always so well-written and make me think they're really happening somewhere in the world lol
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