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"The Street of a Thousand Blossoms" by Gail Tsukiyama

I'm reading 'The tent, the bucket and me' by Emma Kennedy. I am really looking forward to this one.

I am also supposed to be reading about 25 pages of Gone with the wind every day- but haven't got past the first 25 pages yet! I will have to read about 100 at a time when I start concentrating on that one!

Laura wrote: "I'm currently reading 'The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates 1973-1982' and I just started Wilkie Collins, 'The Woman in White' last night while taking a bath...I'm trying to make a dent in my "to read"..."

Laura, I love Joyce Carol Oates. How are her journals to read?

I'm currently reading War and Peace. Wow - it's a bit tough to start this one with all the references to Napoleon and his wars and just keeping all the characters straight. I'm glad I've read Anna Karenina earlier this year so I'm somewhat familiar with Tolstoy's style. I think I will like it though.
When I'm finally done with that, I have the Steinbeck books for Steinbeck summer (loved East of Eden) and also Catch 22 for another group...

I'm currently reading Pride and Prejudice, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and re-reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

For a change of pace (after just completing a fantasy trilogy in three days), I've started reading Daniel Silva's Moscow Rules. I'm only about 30 pages in but it's pretty intense so far. I'm also slowly getting through The World Was Going Our Way The KGB and the Battle for The Third World, just for a brush up on Soviet history and 20c International history for the fall semester =)

I have just started Where am I Wearing A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People that Make Our Clothes as it was on my night table and within easy reach when I finished my last book. I am hoping that it is a good read. I believe it is more observation than political statement but I'll know better once I get into it further.

Shannon wrote: "I have just started Where am I Wearing A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People that Make Our Clothes as it was on my night table and within easy reach when I finished ..."

That sounds really good. Please write a review and let me know.

I used to get clothes made in Bali (did some design for a UK company) and would buy absolutely genuine Calvin Klein jeans there for $11. No one was selling them to me cheap either, but that was at the factory. The tourist shops sold them from $18-$22. Fabric and labour is very cheap there, as is the cost of living, but the conditions aren't exactly sweat shop and there is no child labour.

I am reading Night Mare by Peirs Anthony I have always enjoyed his books though mainly the xanth ones...

I've started reading David Benioff's City of Thieves, a book that I've been meaning to get around to for some time now. I'm about 70 pages in and enjoying it so far =D

I didn't read a single word of a single book yesterday. I just didn't feel like it. I hope I'm not sickening for anything.

E.M. Forster's 'A Room with a View' and 'Miss Pettigrw Lives for a Day' by Winifred Watson.

Hey I'm reading A Room with a View also. So far it's not my favorite...

Lisa wrote: ""The Street of a Thousand Blossoms" by Gail Tsukiyama"

I just finished that book!!!

Emily wrote: "Hey I'm reading A Room with a View also. So far it's not my favorite..."

It's my 1st Forster. Do you not much like it because it's written so simply, with so little description? I found it surprising, because A Passage to India looks quite heavygoing. I like it though.

Maybe, I'm not sure why I don't like it. I'm not very far maybe 50 pages into it, maybe it will get better.

I seem to be in an England/WW I/WW II phase right now. I just started Billy Boyle A World War II Mystery and it seems very good. Has anyone else read this?

I just started The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey.

"All We Every Wanted Was Everything" by Janelle Brown

I just started reading The Thief Lord.

Donna wrote: "I seem to be in an England/WW I/WW II phase right now. "

Then you should put The House at Riverton on your TBR. It's very good.

Hi Marsha, I think it is buried in my TBR list but I just looked at the reviews of The House at Riverton and I am going to have to move it up. Thanks for the recommendation.

I am currently reading "The Kite Runner", and at the rate I'm going, I'll be through with it very soon.
Very captivating book.

Terri wrote: "I am currently reading "The Kite Runner", and at the rate I'm going, I'll be through with it very soon.
Very captivating book."

I loved the Kite Runner . It was not what I expected it to be. I found it to be well written and engrossing.

I believe that Hosseini's next book was A Thousand Splendid Suns . This was also good - but, I liked KR better.

Enjoy!

Cathyb wrote: "Terri wrote: "I am currently reading "The Kite Runner", and at the rate I'm going, I'll be through with it very soon.
Very captivating book."

I loved the Kite Runner. It was not what I expected..."

Cathy I agree- both were good reads but the KR was a way better book...

OK, I just finished The Kite Runner. Parts of it were very sad, and difficult to read, but it was also very captivating, and moving. A good read.

I've just finished The English Teacher by R.K. Narayan. I enjoyed the writing and the story quite a lot but it was presented as credible and wasn't, not believable at all.

I'm about to start Watership Down

Oh Emily, that is one of my all time favorite books. If you have never read it before, you are in for a treat! Enjoy

I've just started Penelope Fitzgerald's At Freddie's. I enjoyed The Bookshop A Novel so much I thought I'd try another one. I've only read three pages and already I'm sucked in.

I am currently reading "Don Quixote." It's a library copy, so will have to read the Introduction by A.J. Close and pick out some portions of the book to read for now. This copy is a translation from the Spanish by P.A. Motteau, done in the 1700s. Will have to buy the book and pick away at it for years, as I have done with "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William L. Shirer.

I've been trying to read The Left Hand of Darkness. It's been going rather slowly.
It's interesting, and a short book. I don't know why it's taking me so long to finish.

Beth A. wrote: "I've been trying to read The Left Hand of Darkness. It's been going rather slowly.
It's interesting, and a short book. I don't know why it's taking me so long to finish."

Beth, I was in the same boat as you with The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey. I loved the subject matter, but it seemed to take me forever to read the short, 200-page book.

Phyllis, I have Don Quixote on my to-read list as well. I'm actually looking forward to reading it as I expect it to be rather humorous. How is it to read?

Well I finished "A Death in Vienna" by Daniel Silva, at 2 o' clock in the morning and started this morning "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck. I am only a couple of pages in to the book.

I'm reading In the Woods by Tana French. I think it's going to live up to its hype.

I am rereading The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan. I am so glad I decided to pick this one up again. Such a good book. Man I hate that Wen-Fu!!

Nora wrote: "I am rereading The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan. I am so glad I decided to pick this one up again. Such a good book. Man I hate that Wen-Fu!!"

Nora, that's a Tan that I haven't read. Good to hear you like it. I plan on getting to it eventually. My favorite so far is Saving Fish from Drowning A Novel.

Nora wrote: "I am rereading The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan. I am so glad I decided to pick this one up again. Such a good book. Man I hate that Wen-Fu!!"

One of my favourite Amy Tan books. The other is the Hundred Secret Senses.

I am going to read A Winter's Tale - Mark Helprin (ML).

I am currently reading Founding Brothers The Revolutionary Generation and The American Patriot's Almanac Daily Readings on America. I will soon resume General George Washington A Military Life and start American Heroes Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America.

I tried A Winter's Tale - Mark Helprin & I tried The Dante's Club - Matthew Pearl. So I am gonna read Over The Edge - Jonathan Kellerman.

Loved A Room with a View, so now I'm starting Where Angels Fear To Tread by E.M. Forster.

Started Tortilla Flats last night!

I've just started Children of the Flames Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz by Lucette Matalon Lagnado. Its written a bit oddly - memories of the children then about Mengele, their torturer. Still, its absorbing enough.

Petra X wrote: "I've just started Children of the Flames Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz by Lucette Matalon Lagnado. Its written a bit oddly - memori..."

I have come to the realization, Petra, that about 80% of the books you are reading/or finished are books that have never heard of and yet immediately put on my TBR list... You have an amazing ability to find books that appeal to me- I just wanted to say thanks, for indirectly, expanding my list of books :)

Have to put my books aside and read a ML (Mobile Library) book called Wedding Babylon - Imogen Edwards-Jones & Anonymous.

Shelley wrote: "I have come to the realization, Petra, that about 80% of the books you are reading/or finished are books that have never heard of and yet immediately put on my TBR list... You have an amazing ability to find books that appeal to me- I just wanted to say thanks, for indirectly, expanding my list of books :)
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Thank you. I have a bookshop and spend endless hours online playing with Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ buying books. I do have some sources of non-mainstream books that I particularly like. I'm glad you like them too.

I'm currently reading Fire in the Blood by Irene Nemirovsky.

I just started Case Histories A Novel by Kate Atkinson.

Just started Triumph of the Nomads A History of Aboriginal Australia by Geoffrey Blainey. Ever since I read Kangaroo Dreaming (last month I think) I've been looking for a book on the history and culture of aborigines. The preface of this book wasn't promising - a bit 'noble savage' but I'm hoping the body of the book is really solid.