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Post by Fate on Oct 10, 2007 13:56:30 GMT -5
The Boxcar Children - The Yellow House Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner welll actually my son is reading it to me.
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thea
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Post by thea on Oct 10, 2007 16:30:26 GMT -5
The Broker by John Grisham
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Post by laurelin on Oct 10, 2007 18:46:42 GMT -5
The Boxcar Children - The Yellow House Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner welll actually my son is reading it to me. My third grade teacher read those books to us! Lately I've been thinking about trying to find some of them. Are they as good as I remember?
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Post by Fate on Oct 11, 2007 14:54:06 GMT -5
They are not too bad. Still they are no Hardy Boys.
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Post by laurelin on Oct 20, 2007 21:09:05 GMT -5
Just received the newest Terry Pratchett "Making Money"! Oh, life is wonderful! And I noticed that the next installment of "The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant" is available as well. Just to let everyone know...
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Post by Quintare on Nov 2, 2007 11:49:28 GMT -5
In Search of Fatima ~ Ghada Karmi Tudor Women: Queens and Commoners ~ Alison Plowden
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Post by thea on Nov 2, 2007 15:32:16 GMT -5
Skipping Christmas - John Grisham
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Post by Fate on Nov 7, 2007 12:48:01 GMT -5
The Boxcar Children - The Ranch Mystery
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Post by Eldarion on Nov 10, 2007 17:26:51 GMT -5
The Children of Hurin by J. R. R. Tolkien (as channeled by Christopher Tolkien).
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Post by Quintare on Nov 12, 2007 2:13:55 GMT -5
I really didn't like Children of Hurin. I wish that weren't true but there it is. Cant even tell you why... just blah. I wish you better luck with it. Maybe it was only because I read it while the father of 1 month old twins? Could be...
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Post by Eldarion on Nov 12, 2007 10:37:56 GMT -5
lol, I'll let you know, Quint.
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Post by laurelin on Nov 13, 2007 11:12:56 GMT -5
I enjoyed the book. Then again, I've always liked the tale to begin with (though not as much as I love the tale of Beren and Luthien).
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Post by Indagatrix on Nov 23, 2007 8:47:27 GMT -5
Read books 4 & 7 of the Sandman Series -- liked the story but didn't care much for the illustration style.
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Post by Tremor on Nov 23, 2007 23:21:23 GMT -5
Borrowing books from the library does not indicate if you are rich or poor. It indicates if you are smart or dumb. Alot of rich people did not get rich by spending money foolishly, for example: buying books you read a couple chapters only to find out you can't seem to get into it and give it away or sell it for less.
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Post by Indagatrix on Nov 25, 2007 12:38:04 GMT -5
Personally I think borrowing books from a library is indicative of you being an active participant in and supporter of a community that values educational opportunity and intellectual growth for all....but I might be bias.
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Post by Indagatrix on Dec 12, 2007 11:04:30 GMT -5
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Post by Fate on Dec 12, 2007 14:38:36 GMT -5
Glad to see he has a good sense of humor even now. It will probably help.
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Post by Eldarion on Dec 12, 2007 17:18:38 GMT -5
Anyone read the Artemis Fowl series? I'm looking for a gift for my 13-year-old nephew.
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Post by Aeron Serabien on Dec 12, 2007 17:47:04 GMT -5
Yes, actually, NP and I have read them all. They are very clever and entertaining even for adults. There's lots of smart, "punny" humor in them that not all kids will get, but I think a 13 year old will be fine.
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Post by Eldarion on Dec 12, 2007 21:53:25 GMT -5
Sold! Your opinion is good enough for me. Thanks!
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Post by Aeron Serabien on Dec 13, 2007 13:51:14 GMT -5
aww. thanks! Now I just hope he likes them!
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Post by Indagatrix on Jan 20, 2008 20:42:40 GMT -5
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Post by laurelin on Jan 21, 2008 14:45:03 GMT -5
Just finished Forest Mage by Robin Hobb. Working on Fatal Revenant by Stephen Donaldson (and I mean working, boy does this book start slow....)
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Post by Eldarion on Jan 21, 2008 17:37:39 GMT -5
Invader, book two of the Foreigner trilogy by C. J. Cherryh. Oh, excuse me, book two of the first trilogy, because I see that she's written two more trilogies set in the same universe. And the fourth is underway! I'll never catch up! Wahhh!!
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Post by laurelin on Jan 22, 2008 10:00:14 GMT -5
Yes you will. Trust me, those books read fast. I stumbled across that series last year and in no time at all found myself waiting for the next book. Enjoy!
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Post by Quintare on Jan 25, 2008 0:08:51 GMT -5
Is Fatal Revenant a Thomas Covenant book? I'm still kind of torn as to whether I want to risk my wonderful memories of Thomas on a new outing with his son as the martyr and Linden as the hero...
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Post by laurelin on Jan 25, 2008 13:02:55 GMT -5
Yes....yes it is. Well, right now it's a Linden Avery book. I can only hope that the deceased Thomas Covenant shows up at some point. I still want to know who gave this author a thesaurus...that person needs to be shot. Donaldson is the only author who has sent me running for my dictionary since I was 10 (who uses the word unhermentuticable? ). On page 230 I found the words contumely and opprobrium. I can't be the only one who has never (never never never) seen these words before. I keep telling myself that at least I'm learning new words (even if I'll never use them again). While reading the second series I actually kept a log of all the strange new words I came across (I was able to find about 60% in Webster's Dictionary...another 20% I found in an extremely old dictionary). Words like pellucid. Okay, I'll stop ranting now.....
Oh, and (at this point anyway) his son is NOT a martyr.
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Post by Quintare on Jan 26, 2008 2:51:37 GMT -5
I checked out what Donaldson had to say about going back to The Land a year or so ago, I think on his website. Essentially he said he hasn't done it before because he 'wasn't a good enough writer' to handle it. So I read the first one and he ticked me off with his use of the word 'persipience' every three sentences, and yet I slogged on fascinated with the glimpses of Vain and Kevin and other remembered characters from the first chronicle and hoping to see some unique interaction between them and Linden, who had really no right to know much about them as her time in the Land was so different, and took her clear to Elohim. But anyway...
I hever heard the unhermentuticable word you mention... I'd have to guess it's the smear left behind after you sneeze on your book. The other two I do know... though I cant imagine myself ever using them. Well, opprobrium I might use, but contumely sounds more like something DH Lawrence might write.
Anyway, now that I know it's out I guess I'll snoop my local library and see if it's available there. If I turn out to like the series I'm sure I'll buy them eventually, but I can't help thinking I'd much rather see him do something more like the Gap series than a rehash of ground he covered pretty thoroughly 20 years ago.
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Post by laurelin on Jan 26, 2008 16:24:53 GMT -5
I love the Gap series. Way better by far. Of course, how can anyone pass up a series that has This Day All Gods Die as the title of one of the books? Stopped at B. Dalton (Barnes and Nobel) and they had hardcover Fatal Revenant books on sale for around $5 (of course, 2 weeks after I spent $12 on mine...and I no longer have the receipt) *grumble grumble*
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Post by Julie Sturbridge on Jan 27, 2008 12:03:44 GMT -5
I'm reading Caitlin R. Kiernan's Threshold. I'm about 60% through and it's pretty good so far. We'll see how it all turns out, though, because horror writing seems to go downhill at the end moreso than other genres. I'm not sure if her other books are similar, but her style is very unique; everything is written in present tense, she creates her own compound words (to good effect), etc. I have a book of short stories by her that I haven't read yet, but I'm looking forward to reading that and more of her novels. Has anyone out there read her?
JS
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