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  | .Mel   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 10 February 2008 at 4:53pm | 
 
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   Slightly OTT:  I was reading yesterday that Ryan Gosling is no longer going to be in The Lovely Bones.. Instead it's going to be....... Mark Wahlberg!      Soo that could be interesting to see how he portrays Salmon.
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  | caitlynsmygirl   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 10 February 2008 at 5:17pm | 
 
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   yeah, its mark wahlberg now.
Neither of them are who i would imagine as the dad , Ryan seemed to young, and mark seems too tough .
 
 I love Marian Keyes, Jodi picoult but i havent read any of theirs for a while
 
 and i cant remember what i have read that was good lately either
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  | Brenna   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 10 February 2008 at 7:36pm | 
 
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   I'm reading 'The Memory of Running' by Ron McLarty at the moment.  It's really good!
I also just read 'I know this much is true' by Wally Lamb and it was amazing!!!
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  | Brenna   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 Rachel I'm the same, I go to the library all the time, I'm forever requesting books for them to buy just so I can read them :)
 
 
 
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      My beautiful 2 girls...nearly 4 and 13 months   | 
 
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  | missy_girl   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 10 February 2008 at 10:10pm | 
 
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   Brenna, I just finished 'I know this much is true' too.  I loved it.  I started reading 'The memory of Running' the night before I went into labour with Zoe.  Such a great easy read.
I'm on the hunt for a new book to read.
 I'm going to go see The Kite Runner this week at the movies.  The book was fantastic.
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  | MorgansMum   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 11 February 2008 at 1:51pm | 
 
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   I really like anything from Martina Cole, and read alot of Jodi Piccolt.
I also enjoyed the princess series written ny Jean Sasson
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  | Mazzy   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 11 February 2008 at 1:57pm | 
 
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   The Kite Runner was a great book, but I'm scared to see the movie because I really liked reading it and don't want it stuffed up on the screen! 
Since reading it I've gone on a bit of a Middle Eastern author kick, the book club I've just joined has Reading Lolita in Tehran as one of our books coming up.
 
 I also really liked My Year of Meat by Ruth Ozeki, about a Japanese-American documentary maker making shows for the American Beef industry to air in Japan - really good.  And The Eyre Affair, which if you like the literary stuff is hilarious.
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  | bookwyrm   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 11 February 2008 at 5:48pm | 
 
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   Books are never portrayed right on screen, but then again it can be quite hard to get a books worth of stuff in an hour and a half.  It's always hard too when you have an idea of what a character is like and they are portrayed completely different.
 I enjoyed Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden.  Absolutely a great read.  I didn't mind the film, but I know some people detested it.
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  | caitlynsmygirl   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 11 February 2008 at 9:49pm | 
 
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   I've just read through all the posts lol and if i was able to do many quotes i would cos there are so many books mentioned that ive read
 The Red Tent, very well written book, and so clever i thought
 
 Harry Potter, i love Harry Potter, i made sure i ordered my copy when the last one came out, don't think Dumbledore is portrayed right in the movies tho, by either actor.
 
 Martina Cole, shes COOL, i always feel like a bad a*se when i read one of her books
 
 Terry Pratchett novels are witty and funny too
 
 Never got into Lord of the rings, i think its cos he spends half the page describing things "the grass was a brilliant shade of emerald green with a tint of yellow in it " type thing
 
 Tony Parsons " one for my baby " is good, and nice to get a mans view on life sometimes
 
 Cage of stars by Jacqueline Mitchard is very good, about a girl whos baby sitting her younger sisters and playing hide and seek and when she comes out to find them they are lying on the ground with their throats slit and their killer is sitting on the table in shock (i didnt say it was a happy book)
 
 my DP's mum is a big fan of Diana Gabaldon, but i cant get into them
 
 Im reading The Mermaids chair atm by Sue Monk Kidd, but ive only read about 2 pages so far
 
 and im also reading "The Boleyn inheritence" by Phillipa Gregory
 
 Another good one (sorry i keep meaning to post then i remember another book) is Lullabies for little criminals
 
 there is also one that i cant remember the name of, it starts off with a mother who's baby daughter has been kidnapped....I must text my friend (since she has my book) and ask her, or better yet,ask her to bring back my book! that story was very clever with a good twist
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  | The_Stuarts   Senior Member
 
   
 
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 12 February 2008 at 8:26am | 
 
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   I love Harry Potter too.  I've read a few Terry Pratchett as well and enjoyed them but I don't care if I read the whole series or not.
 caitlynsmygirl my MIL lent me a Diana Gabaldon last year.  I read a few chapters but on every second page someone was either havign sex or thinking about it and I just couldn't get into it.  I'm forever having her on about giving me 'raunchy filth' to read - LOL.
 
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  | susieq   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 12 February 2008 at 8:38am | 
 
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   haha she is a bit like that isnt she ? and with innocent titles like "cross stich" sounds more like a knitting novel thajavascript:AddSmileyIcon('  ')
  n a book with everyone getting their freak on 
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  | bookwyrm   Senior Member
 
   
   
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   Almost finished my current book, so may pick one out of the lists here for my next read.  Or I could always revert to the many unread books in my bookshelf that I picked up from Whitcoulls.
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  | MonicaMouse   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 12 February 2008 at 1:38pm | 
 
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   Another Harry Potter fan here.  Have read the series many times over.
 Jodi Picoult, Lesley Pearse, James Patterson, Nicholas Sparkes(The Notebook/Walk to Remember/Message in a Bottle etc)
 
 I currently have 2 books on the go at the moment and not getting very far with either.
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  | alexbabe   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 12 February 2008 at 1:48pm | 
 
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   currently reading magick of reiki. and some kristin hannah book  my mother took out for me
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  | bookwyrm   Senior Member
 
   
   
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   That's a book for my list, The Notebook :)
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  | bookwyrm   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 14 February 2008 at 1:13pm | 
 
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   Left the book I was reading at my Mums place :(
 So, started reading Life Swap by Jane Green - easy chick read.
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