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What are your reading goals for 2009?
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4 Peaches means- Don't wait for it to come out in paperback. Buy it now and get it in hardback because you will have everyone asking you to borrow it.
3 Peaches - means- you can probably wait until it is out in paperback.
2 Peaches- means wait and borrow this book from a friend if you want to read it.
1 Peach - means, I would walk up to the author and pat them on the back and say something like "I don't care what everyone says about how bad it is, I am just proud you got that thing published!"
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Shining Through
The love story comes first in the book, or so you think, and then towards the end of the book, she has her adventure.She becomes a totally different person at this point because she enters Nazi Germany as a spy, plus she herself is half-Jew… Continue
Posted on March 14, 2009 at 11:30am —
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LETS FIND… Continue
Posted on February 22, 2009 at 10:19pm —
Book Goals for 2009
I hope that I have read either all or half of the books listed below at the end of 2009.
- Charlotte Gray, by Sebastian Faulks
- Shining Through, by Susan Isaacs
- The Other Queen, by Philppa Gregory
I would also like to revisit a couple of books that I haven't read in several years. They are listed below.
- The Painted Veil, by W. Somerset Maugham
- Jamaica Inn, by Daphne Du Maurier
- Kidnapped, by Robert Louis St
Posted on January 3, 2009 at 6:30pm —
2008 Reading List
- Twilight: 2 Peaches
- Eclipse: 3 Peaches
- New Moon: 4 Peaches
- Breaking Dawn: Hmmm, I liked some parts of it and others I was kinda "Nah!" on. It is an overall pretty good book, so I will give it 3 1/1 Peaches.
- The Constant Princess: 4 Peaches
- * see my blog for review.
- Life of Pi: 4 Peaches
- * see my blog for review.
Posted on November 7, 2008 at 1:30pm —
The Constant Princess, By: Phillippa Gregory Book Review: 4 Peaches
"The Constant Princess", it is about Kathryn of Aragon in her younger years and tells the tale of… Continue
Posted on November 6, 2008 at 8:17am —
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- If I had to narrow it down to one..... Jamaica Inn. I don't think a book addict should have to pick just one though! It isn't fair to us!
- About Me:
- I love books. I own membership cards to Borders, Barnes and Noble, Books A Million, and if Gottwals Books had a card, I would have it. Someone should probably call that show "Intervention" for my book habit.
Gottwal Books is what I call a recyclable book store. You can sell your old books to them and they will give you a store credit or cash for the books. Then other people can come in and buy them at discounted rates. Visit the website at http://www.gottwalsbooks.com/ or visit the book store itself!
I am a big Daphne Du Maurier fan. I also like Philippa Gregory, Paulo Coelho, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Ian Fleming.
I just finished reading "Life of Pi". I love these types of books. There is just this almost melodic quality to stories like this and it causes the book to have special rhythm to it as you read. It reminds me of "The Alchemist" because it too also had a melodic quality as I read it.
This is a list of books I read during 2007:
Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows - Read it and liked it, I thought Order of the Phoenix was better. I have read Philliapa Gregory's "The Virgin's Lover",which is about the relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and Lord Dudley. Her books are packaged as romance
novels, but she has historically correct facts on the characteristics of the characters. I also read the Other Boleyn Girl. It is a historical piece by Philippa Gregory, not a bodice ripper like some books are! Just a good story and assumptions of how these people thought by the author. The Zahir by Paulo Coelho : Gosh, I love this author, but I don't like this book. I believe it is semi autobiographical and it makes me not really like him all that much as a person. He seems to have little regard for his wife or her feelings in the book. I just plain didn't like it.
These were my 2006 Books - The Lady and The Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier ( i loved "girl with the pearl earing" but i wasn't too crazy about this one) DaVinci Code - not too thrilled with it, The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman (Very good and an unusual romance in it), The Red Tent by Anita Diamant (I enjoyed the religious aspects of the book but I don't agree with her perception of how Joseph turned out), The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant (Boring!), Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (A good book about friendship but I didn't agree with all the blame falling on one of the characters in the end - you will have to read it to know what I mean), The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho - by far the best book I have read in a long time. Forever by Pete Hamill (this could of been good, but I think he let current tragic events effect his work), Ancient Egypt by Lorna Oaks and Lucia Gahlin (comprehensive study of ancient Egypt - really wonderful)
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The sleepy town of Newbury, Connecticut, is shocked when a little girl is found brutally murdered. The town s top detective, perplexed by a complete lack of leads, calls in FBI agent Leia Bines, an expert in cases involving children.
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