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AzzaNZ 
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 Posted: 01 August 2010 at 11:02am |
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Only one? Impossible!!
I am never not reading.
Hmm... Anita Diamant's The Red Tent would be up there, Neil Gaiman's American Gods, Stephen King's Gunslinger series, Mitch Albom's Tuesday's with Morrie... there are just too many.
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kittie
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Posted: 02 August 2010 at 9:10am |
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Another series that i have been getting into is the Into the Wilderness series by Sara Donati.
Yeh this series is awesome! although i thought the last book seemed far to rushed!
I'm also a big Jodi Picoult fan! Favs would have to be either plain truth or the pact
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mummy_becks
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Posted: 02 August 2010 at 9:34am |
I haven't read To Kill a Mockingbird  ever.
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I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived!
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.Mel
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Posted: 02 August 2010 at 9:47am |
Jaycee, I really really want to read The Passage, I've heard so many good things about it... it's at our library but I'm 430 of 535 holds!
I also like Mitch Albom - his other books are just as good as Tuesdays with Morrie.. (which I've read so many times the poor book is on it's last legs). Seen the movie too. 
I use Visual Bookshelf on Facebook to keep track of what I've read..
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Bizzy
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Posted: 02 August 2010 at 10:27am |
 TaliP wrote:
We should set up a book club on here! We could choose a few books to select from each month (since we are not all into the same stuff) and then have a discussion at the end of the month...
Or we could have it on facebook??? |
we did have one on here at some stage.
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Bizzy
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Posted: 02 August 2010 at 10:31am |
if you do a search for book club it comes up with about 5 threads... 2007 it was - i thought it was only last year 
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kandk
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Posted: 05 August 2010 at 9:22pm |
All time top favourite author is...Georgette Heyer - the Queen of Regency romance  Subtle and so funny! (But her mysteries aren't in the same league)
Not keen on Twilight, but do try her other book - The Host. I've just read it three times in the last two weeks
Stephen Donaldson's Thomas Covenant series is great fantasy, but intense.
And since I was seven years old, I can't be without I Am David, by Anne Holm. My blueprint for life!
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astral_monkey
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Posted: 06 August 2010 at 10:32am |
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To Kill A Mockingbird
Angela's Ashes
The Great Gatsby
I got very into classics a few years ago so I have read a whole lot of Dickens, Tolstoy, Hemingway etc. some of which I loved, some not so much. Anna Karenina I couldn't put down, even though I couldn't pronounce most of the russian names. The Sun Also Rises I am going to have to re-read as I couldn't decide how I felt about it.
Books that have been made into movies - Lovely Bones and The Notebook are probably my favourites.
Never read Twilight, but I'm a big Harry Potter fan.
I also like Nick Hornby - High Fidelity, About a Boy, The Long Way Down, etc. (a ton of his books have been made into movies too).
I read a lot of books from the discount table at Whitcoulls and the Warehouse - LOL. Most of which I can't remember, which is why my favourites are generally ones that have already stood the test of time.
There's a really good second hand bookstore in Tirau. I'm thinking I might con DH into a day trip some time soon.
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kiwisj
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Posted: 06 August 2010 at 1:39pm |
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I'm up for a book club! I've been trying to find a RL one but it's not really happening.
I loved Anna Karenina. I love how you can buy the Penguin Classics super cheap (well, they are here lol).
I also enjoyed the Into the Wilderness series. What's the most recent title in that series? I started it before we moved overseas and have never seen the books in a shop in Asia, or the library. Would probably have to buy them all on Amazon or Book Depository or something!
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Aroz
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Posted: 06 August 2010 at 2:21pm |
Kiwisj the most recent book in the Into the Wilderness series is titled The Endless Forest. A good book but I agree with another post that it was very rushed at the end. I just felt like way too much had been packed into the last few pages, the same way as the last book of Diana Gabaldon's was, but worth reading anyway.
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kiwisj
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Posted: 06 August 2010 at 5:12pm |
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Ooh I definitely haven't read that and I think there is one before that that I haven't read either. Might look them up later on .... thanks!
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Whats your favourite book?
