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Matriarch
Just finished "Life of Pi" - Mann Booker prize winner 5 years ago. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Halfway through "Like the Flowing River" - Paulo Coelho. A collection of his short stories and newspaper column. Have to say it's rather too "Christian" and preachy for my liking.
Halfway through "Like the Flowing River" - Paulo Coelho. A collection of his short stories and newspaper column. Have to say it's rather too "Christian" and preachy for my liking.
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A few weeks ago I read "Memoirs of a Geisha" and found it compulsive. Not until the end did I discover it was a novel. Beautifully written and very descriptive of pre WWII Japan.
Now re-reading for the third time, SHOGUN by James Clavell. Wonderful stuff.
Now re-reading for the third time, SHOGUN by James Clavell. Wonderful stuff.
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A few weeks ago I read "Memoirs of a Geish" and found it compulsive. Not until the end did I discover it was a novel. Beautifully written and very descriptive of pre WWII Japan.
Now re-reading for the third time, SHOGUN by James Clavell. Wonderful stuff.
I liked the movie of Memoirs. And remember seeing the TV series of Shogun when I was v young. Showing my age now
I've started reading Bill Bryson's "A short history of nearly everything" - pretty heavy going but extremely interesting.
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I love reading; the first book that made me cry, though, was The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. It's a rather moving novel, in my opinion. Paradise Lost by John Milton's a good read too. 
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Oh, and if it's autobiographical books you're into, Stephen Fry's Moab Is My Washpot should definitely be on your list! 
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Matriarch
Thanks AutumnNymph, and welcome to the site 
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i was reading "motor mouth" the other day (it's the sequel to "metro girl" by janet evanovich, who writes the stephanie plum novels)... it made me howl with laughter but i wanted more smut, lol.
if anyone is into graphic novels, they should pick up neil gaiman's "sandman" books... they are absolutely fabulous.
if anyone is into graphic novels, they should pick up neil gaiman's "sandman" books... they are absolutely fabulous.
Matriarch
What genre are you interested in Joj?
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Imagica by Clive Barker. My favorite is one I can't even classify. Sci/fi-fantasy, some eroticism and it sometimes seems as a female and male version of the story told at the same time in the same book. Just my favorite read.
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I love reading; the first book that made me cry, though, was The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. It's a rather moving novel, in my opinion. Paradise Lost by John Milton's a good read too.
paradise lost i prefer it
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if you want a midieval novel try reading The Pillars of the Earth or World Without End, both fantastic books
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yes both by ken follett
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One of my favorite books Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America with Interruptions
Jenny Diski
And yes I picked it for its title one day when I really wanted something new to read.
Even though it's like a biography I totally adore it, or maybe just because of it.
I haven't read anything else from her.
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A series that the ladies will love is The Empire series by Raymond Feist and Janny Wurts. It's fantasy series set in a Japanese type of culture where Mara of the Acoma comes to rule her family, and all she has to do is stay alive while most of the other families and clans plot her death. She does, however, do far far more than survive.
She made my all time heroines list, which includes Mame Dennis and Scarlett O'Hara...so you know just how awesome she is.
She made my all time heroines list, which includes Mame Dennis and Scarlett O'Hara...so you know just how awesome she is.
"A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere." - Groucho Marx
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Very good series Castlequeen. Love Raymond Feist.
"Basic Economics" by Thomas Sowell.
I am reading this now and although I have a educated sense of economics, this book makes many things very clear. Unfortunately, the average person on the street knows dip-shit about what runs the economy. Not to mention how politicians, all parties, take advantage of this ignorance. I wish it would be required reading in high schools and colleges....it will "Change" their perspective.
"This was a great book. I think all voting Americans should read it. No math or numbers, just commonsense explanations about how economics work. If only we all understood better how the economy worked and didn't allow politicians to make decisions based on populist agendas we'd be much better off as would the rest of the world. Concerned about 3rd world poverty? Read this book. Concerned about gas prices? Again, read this book."
Jonathan
I am reading this now and although I have a educated sense of economics, this book makes many things very clear. Unfortunately, the average person on the street knows dip-shit about what runs the economy. Not to mention how politicians, all parties, take advantage of this ignorance. I wish it would be required reading in high schools and colleges....it will "Change" their perspective.
"This was a great book. I think all voting Americans should read it. No math or numbers, just commonsense explanations about how economics work. If only we all understood better how the economy worked and didn't allow politicians to make decisions based on populist agendas we'd be much better off as would the rest of the world. Concerned about 3rd world poverty? Read this book. Concerned about gas prices? Again, read this book."
Jonathan
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Concerned about gas prices? Again, read this book."
Jonathan
If you are concerned about that, just go to Sweden, then be quiet about how high they are in the US.
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"Basic Economics" by Thomas Sowell.
I am reading this now and although I have a educated sense of economics, this book makes many things very clear. Unfortunately, the average person on the street knows dip-shit about what runs the economy. Not to mention how politicians, all parties, take advantage of this ignorance. I wish it would be required reading in high schools and colleges....it will "Change" their perspective.
"This was a great book. I think all voting Americans should read it. No math or numbers, just commonsense explanations about how economics work. If only we all understood better how the economy worked and didn't allow politicians to make decisions based on populist agendas we'd be much better off as would the rest of the world. Concerned about 3rd world poverty? Read this book. Concerned about gas prices? Again, read this book."
Jonathan
I don't really like Sowell. He put far too much faith in the free market.
Matriarch
I've started to enjoy autobiographies.
Just finished the Richard Branson autobio, "Losing my Virginity" - it's an excellent read. He's one incredible man, and shares some amazing stories.
Just finished the Richard Branson autobio, "Losing my Virginity" - it's an excellent read. He's one incredible man, and shares some amazing stories.
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I am reading Jungle Pilot.....very good read
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P. R Frost Hounding the Moon, Moon in the Mirror and Fairy Moon. Currently reading first book in True Blood series.
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Just started getting into the Dresden Files series of books by Jim Butcher..
Wizards, werewolves, vampires and everything in the nevernever land. Easy to read and enjoyable characters and involved story lines.
Wizards, werewolves, vampires and everything in the nevernever land. Easy to read and enjoyable characters and involved story lines.