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  • #76
    Originally posted by Thirteen View Post
    Re-reading Ender's Game.

    #nerd


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    lol then so am I. I did that last winter.

    I read Defending Jacob. I guess I am the dissenting voice here. I thought it was good, but not great. It was really slow and repetitive at points for me.

    I am currently reading Allegiant and listening to the Uglies series and am on book four, Extras. It hasn't been a great series, but easy listening. I've also picked up Scored from the library. Not sure if I will end up reading it. Yes. I am a young adult genre whore.
    -L.Jane

    Wife to a wonderful General Surgeon
    Mom to a sweet but stubborn boy born April 2014
    Rock Chalk Jayhawk GO KU!!!

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    • #77
      My daughter (14) loved the Uglies series but hated Divergent series. Just goes to show you, reading is personal. Lol
      Angie
      Gyn-Onc fellowship survivor - 10 years out of the training years; reluctant suburbanite
      Mom to DS (18) and DD (15) (and many many pets)

      "Where are we going - and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

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      • #78
        Originally posted by Sheherezade View Post
        My daughter (14) loved the Uglies series but hated Divergent series. Just goes to show you, reading is personal. Lol
        I can 100 percent appreciate why she felt that way about them. I personally wasn't attached to either like I have been other books (Hunger Games, Graceling.. ). You are right, reading is very personal.
        -L.Jane

        Wife to a wonderful General Surgeon
        Mom to a sweet but stubborn boy born April 2014
        Rock Chalk Jayhawk GO KU!!!

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        • #79
          LJane, I also didn't care for Defending Jacob. I just wanted everybody to shut up in that book. Although, I did appreciate the surprise ending!
          I'm just trying to make it out alive!

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          • #80
            I've just joined a book club that a few friends also belong to and I'm not really feeling their selections. It's a lot of SUPER religious older (60s+) ladies and a couple of us in our 30s. They apparently really like mid-life, angsty, Sweet-Valley-High-turns-50-and-cheats-on-their-cancer-riddled-spouse-and-begs-forgiveness-by-signing-up-for-cooking-classes kinds of stories. That isn't my bag.

            If I'm stuck reading a shitty story that I couldn't care less about, I'd at LEAST like the writing to be decent. No such luck.

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            • #81
              DD, not a fan of those either. They have a huge following though....
              Angie
              Gyn-Onc fellowship survivor - 10 years out of the training years; reluctant suburbanite
              Mom to DS (18) and DD (15) (and many many pets)

              "Where are we going - and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

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              • #82
                Apparently, it's not uncommon in this "club" for people to bag the book and just go to hang out and chat, which is fine. I holding out hope some of the hostesses start making better choices, though. I have accepted that there won't be any edgy choices, but it kinda bums me out.

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                • #83
                  Maybe we should start up the iMSN book club again. The only book club I've ever been in didn't invite me back after I disclosed my agnosticism. To be fair, they did want to discuss religious books.

                  Did you guys know there is such a thing as...Amish romance?! Our library has a ton of them on ebook.

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                  • #84
                    Recently finished Jan Guillou's "The road to Jerusalem". It was solid historical fiction and the first instalment of a trilogy.

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                    • #85
                      My only book club is a mother daughter one with my teenager. We are starting to read some better books now that they are older. It's been a lot of dystopia YA thus far. At least it's interesting.

                      We just did a poetry month with Caroline Kennedy's collection "She walks in Beauty" because we were all feeling lazy at the start of the school year and wanted to just each pick a few poems we liked. And then, there is chatting.

                      I'd be up for an iMSN book club again.


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                      Angie
                      Gyn-Onc fellowship survivor - 10 years out of the training years; reluctant suburbanite
                      Mom to DS (18) and DD (15) (and many many pets)

                      "Where are we going - and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

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                      • #86
                        Originally posted by BonBon View Post
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                        Did you guys know there is such a thing as...Amish romance?! Our library has a ton of them on ebook.
                        STOP!!! That's SO funny! (I went to school in a very Amish area, so I think I find this more amusing than I should).

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                        • #87
                          Originally posted by Sheherezade View Post
                          My only book club is a mother daughter one with my teenager. We are starting to read some better books now that they are older. It's been a lot of dystopia YA thus far. At least it's interesting.

                          We just did a poetry month with Caroline Kennedy's collection "She walks in Beauty" because we were all feeling lazy at the start of the school year and wanted to just each pick a few poems we liked. And then, there is chatting.

                          I'd be up for an iMSN book club again.


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                          Which dystopian YA did you read? I've read a few books that could be described that way recently, and enjoyed them.
                          Sandy
                          Wife of EM Attending, Web Programmer, mom to one older lady scaredy-cat and one sweet-but-dumb younger boy kitty

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                          • #88
                            Originally posted by BonBon View Post
                            Did you guys know there is such a thing as...Amish romance?! Our library has a ton of them on ebook.
                            MIL LOVES those.
                            Wife of PGY-4 (of 6), cat herder, and mom to a sassy-pants four-nager.

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                            • #89
                              What are you reading?

                              Matched series, Divergent series, Ship Breaker, City of Ember, the latest Lowry book (can't remember the name) and...there's a series with like 13 books that's usually shelved with the adult fiction that we started awhile back. Main character is something like Walker? I read the first and my daughter plowed through the remaining 12. She's also read the Uglies series. Lately, she's in to urban fantasy though. She reads a lot. I thought I read a lot but she laps me. Crazy voracious.

                              ETA: I enjoyed these too but I think after Hunger Games kicked off as such a trend my uber hipster daughter decided dystopia had to go. Lol I'm so glad beyond worrying about how what books I like reflect on my coolness. Then again, maybe it's just that adults don't talk about books as much as teen girls.
                              Last edited by Sheherezade; 11-16-2013, 09:53 AM.
                              Angie
                              Gyn-Onc fellowship survivor - 10 years out of the training years; reluctant suburbanite
                              Mom to DS (18) and DD (15) (and many many pets)

                              "Where are we going - and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

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                              • #90
                                iMSN book club, FTW!

                                Those of you who read "Defending Jacob" and thought it was so-so, I can agree with you on it being a little long winded. After finishing it up and getting to the courtroom scenes, I definitely found it to be a little cumbersome and repetitive. I get that real courtroom proceedings can sometimes be like that but it read like a very, very long court transcript. The story, however, I really enjoyed. After wrapping it up on Sunday, overall I thought it was a great read, if a little dull during the trial parts. The surprise ending, though - whoa!

                                Now I've moved on to the audio version of "Dark Places" and I am officially 7 books shy of my 50 book goal for 2013!!
                                Wife, support system, and partner-in-crime to PGY-3 (IM) and spoiler of our 11 y/o yellow lab

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