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by Rowan
Mon Dec 05, 2011 10:24 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: December! What are you reading?
Replies: 8
Views: 7488

Re: December! What are you reading?

Spudd, I've heard good things about that book. You'll have to let me know how it is once you're done (if you remember). :)
by Rowan
Mon Dec 05, 2011 8:44 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: December! What are you reading?
Replies: 8
Views: 7488

December! What are you reading?

Need to start a new book...

Just thought I would put in a placeholder.

Is it possible to read 18 books this month so that I can hit 100 books this year? Very unlikely I think.
by Rowan
Mon Nov 07, 2011 8:48 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: November! What are you reading?
Replies: 14
Views: 10251

Re: November! What are you reading?

Blush...I would have the same concerns. In CT, you can go to any state library as long as you hold a library card in your town/city. My city's library is great but is downtown, no parking, out of the way but the next town over is decent and has great parking. There is also interlibrary loan at the l...
by Rowan
Thu Nov 03, 2011 9:45 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: November! What are you reading?
Replies: 14
Views: 10251

Re: November! What are you reading?

Finished The Girl Who Played with Fire. Thumbs up. Its funny though sometimes you see where the translation is just awkward. I don't normally read translated books so it may be more obvious for me. I've got the 3rd in my pile from the library but there's a few I need to tackle first. Last night I al...
by Rowan
Tue Nov 01, 2011 8:00 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: November! What are you reading?
Replies: 14
Views: 10251

November! What are you reading?

I'm still on The Girl Who Played with Fire. Last night was Trick or Treating so no time to read. Hopefully will finish tonight!
by Rowan
Mon Oct 31, 2011 11:34 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: October! What are you reading?
Replies: 21
Views: 16083

Re: October! What are you reading?

I'm almost done The Girl Who Played with Fire. Love it! HOpefully I can finish tonight but we're going out TOTing so who knows when we'll be back. I placed a hold at the library for the final book in the series.

I've got a stack of Kathy Reichs that I need to get to.
by Rowan
Mon Oct 31, 2011 11:32 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: October! What are you reading?
Replies: 21
Views: 16083

Re: October! What are you reading?

Spudd, that's hilarious! Are those 2 books written by the same author?
by Rowan
Mon Oct 03, 2011 3:38 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: October! What are you reading?
Replies: 21
Views: 16083

Re: October! What are you reading?

Oooh! I really liked A Thousand Splendid Suns. Hope you enjoy it Spudd!
by Rowan
Mon Oct 03, 2011 12:37 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: October! What are you reading?
Replies: 21
Views: 16083

October! What are you reading?

So after trying to get interested in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo at least 3 separate times I took it on the plane to Germany with me. I'm finally into it enough (took about 50 pgs) and I'm really enjoying it. I know that I'm pretty much the last human on the planet that hasn't read it but I'm gl...
by Rowan
Wed Aug 03, 2011 10:51 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: It's August - what are you reading?
Replies: 14
Views: 11369

Re: It's August - what are you reading?

Mellen, about half of what you picked up at the library I have on my list of holds at the library. Too funny! I started Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante last night. Its the story of a 60 something doctor who has dementia and is accused of murdering her best friend. It's written from her point of view ...
by Rowan
Tue Aug 02, 2011 2:44 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: It's August - what are you reading?
Replies: 14
Views: 11369

It's August - what are you reading?

New thread!

I've had some good ones recently.

One Summer by David Baldacci. He usually does thriller type novels but this is more character/family/drama driven. I really enjoyed it.

Creep by Jennifer Hillier. Nice scary murder thriller. Her debut and she did a nice job with it. 2 thumbs up.
by Rowan
Fri Jul 29, 2011 8:08 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: July! What are you reading?
Replies: 28
Views: 20742

Re: July! What are you reading?

I read The Cradle by Patrick Somerville last night. It was soooo good. I really enjoyed it and highly recommend it. Its hard to describe it without giving it all away but it revolves around a married pregnant couple and in particular the husband's journey to find the wife an old cradle that she *has...
by Rowan
Thu Jul 28, 2011 8:43 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: July! What are you reading?
Replies: 28
Views: 20742

Re: July! What are you reading?

Swamplandia! was good but weird at times. In Zanesville was a recommendation from a daily book email I get. It was a story about 2 teenage girls (in the late 1970s?). Easy read with a few parts that I laughed out loud. I read Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich which is a new character series for her...
by Rowan
Thu Jul 21, 2011 8:05 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: July! What are you reading?
Replies: 28
Views: 20742

Re: July! What are you reading?

I finished Faith by Jennifer Haigh earlier in the week. I really like it but I have liked almost all of her books. It takes place in Boston in the 90's when all the priest controversies were going down. Its told in the voice of a woman who's brother (a priest) has been accused of molesting a young b...
by Rowan
Thu Jul 07, 2011 3:07 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: July! What are you reading?
Replies: 28
Views: 20742

July! What are you reading?

Knocked out a bunch this past weekend, will update later.
by Rowan
Thu Jun 30, 2011 1:33 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: June: What are you reading?
Replies: 20
Views: 16292

Re: June: What are you reading?

I finished Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult this morning. I know people either really like her or really don't. I admit that I'm in the "like" camp although I felt that this story was very thrown together, the husband was made out to be a moron and the pieces just fit together too well. I wou...
by Rowan
Fri Jun 10, 2011 3:24 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: June: What are you reading?
Replies: 20
Views: 16292

Re: June: What are you reading?

I've read:

PMBOK - 4th Edition

Passing the PMP exam on your first try - Andy Crowe

Passing the PMP exam - Rita Mulcahy

Can't wait to be done studying so that I can read for pleasure again!
by Rowan
Thu Apr 14, 2011 8:38 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: April! What are you reading?
Replies: 27
Views: 20420

Re: April! What are you reading?

Sil, I have to say I really skipped over all the snooker descriptions because frankly I don't know what that is and don't really care....hope it gets better for you. Funny, I couldn't get through We have to talk about Kevin.
by Rowan
Tue Apr 12, 2011 10:53 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: April! What are you reading?
Replies: 27
Views: 20420

Re: April! What are you reading?

mellen, I'm going for my Project Mgmt certification (PMP). The reading is just dreadful. I can't have any good fiction lying around or it will distract me. :| I have Bossypants too -- that type of book I can read on the bike so its ok to have in my pile. I"m in a few chapters - its funny but no...
by Rowan
Mon Apr 11, 2011 2:56 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: April! What are you reading?
Replies: 27
Views: 20420

Re: April! What are you reading?

Silvia, I really liked the Post-Birthday World. Hope you do too.

I've cut out all fun reading until July after I've (hopefully) passed my exam. :(