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Aly, don't be a grapefruit hog!

Confessions:
I didn't like the Lovely Bones either

I think Heath Ledger is an ugly monkey man

I say "Whatev" and I don't care if it's immature

I don't think the tag line is very funny


And my original-thought confession:
I have gained at least three pounds this Christmas. OINK!

I'm reading a really good book called Mme. Proust and the Kosher Kitchen. Go read it now.

I guess I have the "Aly bug" too. I don't see anything.

I see nothing. I wasn't aware she had an avatar. Is it a palm tree? Jimmy Buffet?

I can't see Marie's??

I love "Mmm... posting"

No particular order, and I really can't pick only five: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker How To Be Canadian by Will Ferguson Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safron Foer cathy, I found Zen painfully boring. Painful! ;) See...

For Jax Let's show her that the books we pick aren't a) all the same "boring, depressing" thing, and b) that we don't all have the same tastes and she's not the Great Freak.

Top 5, can be any genre, but you had to find them really engrossing.

Well Jax, I don't think they are all depressing. Are you READING the Amazon.com blurbs? :lol Kite Runner was depressing. The Secret Life of Bees was pretty uplifting, and Life of Pi was... hmm... kind of like an adult fairy tale. But for the record, I'm exactly like you when it comes to movies. I ca...

How can you be an "odd duck" when it comes to books? There are BILLIONS of books! Truthfully, I'm surprised that we find *any* we can agree on with all the choices out there. Besides, you and I both read classics, so if you're odd, then I'm odd. I usually read a mix of classics, CanLit, an...

Here are my picks:
Diary
Interpreter of Maladies
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
The Namesake

These books I've read, so could discuss anyway:
Poisonwood Bible
Pride & Prejudice
Life of Pi
No Logo

Gross!

But where's the anger, the retribution, the demand for justice?

I'm reading In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje. It may be one of the most beautifully written books I've ever read.

I'm also reading No Logo. Is anyone else reading this for the book club? It's interesting, but it reads very slowly, like a textbook.

Oh well... pshaw!

Do you want traditional, feel-good type holiday reading? Because there's a book called "The Stupidest Angel" by Christopher Moore that's really funny and screwball but not exactly... heartwarming. :lol There's always "A Christmas Carol" for traditional reading. And John Grisham a...

It's okay. Totally brainless. Like Shopaholic, she has that way of making her main character sound like a dithering airhead. But I can't read anything "literary" while I'm in school. You know how you're thinking all day, you don't want to come home and have to think too? :-? You can borrow...

Um... I'm reading Can You Keep A Secret by Sophie Kinsella. But really I'm posting because there were 6 6 6 posts in this forum and it was creeping me out.

ALY! EW!

*Crystal can't even think about mites and bed bugs. Now she needs to go scrub her body with a metal brush*

What's that book that Oprah was talking about? It's not the Frey "Oprah's Book Club" book. I think it's called "The Known World"? She was talking about it one day on her show. She said she was reading it in the middle of the night, and she had to pick up the phone and call the au...