Christine M

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Jay R says

Hi Christine - glad you enjoyed Oryx and Crake. I can now recommend to you, The Year of the Flood.
happy reading, Jay

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Bogdan P says

Thank you i'll look for them:)

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Bogdan P says

I like poetry, but i didn't get the chance to read so much russian poetry. That's a good ideea, thx!
Dina Rubina, who's she?, i don't know her.. i don't think she's been published in Romania.

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Bogdan P says

Are you kidding? I totally love Dostoievsky:). I hope you could recommend other russian writters to, because i've read all of his books.

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Dr.Ali A says

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Jay R says

hello Christine and thanks for the friend add. And for your compliment as well... nice to meet you here.
Favourites: Russian - Chekhov, American - Kurt Vonnegut, British - Michael Freyn, New Zealander - Laurence Fearnley, German - Gunter Grass.
I have a little Russian and a little German in addition to English, and would like to read in the original languages at some point.
I have always liked the Grand Inquisitor scene in D's writing - very powerful.
best, Jay

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Jerseygirl / Mrs. Constance (Oodles) Oxford-Whapdoodle, B.C., D.C. says

The History Non-Fiction Group is voting for the Oct-Dec Quarterly Group read. We've had several interesting books nominated. Please take a look and vote if you'd like to join in.

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Jerseygirl / Mrs. Constance (Oodles) Oxford-Whapdoodle, B.C., D.C. says

Nominations for the Oct-Dec Quarterly read in the Non-Fiction History group are in progress. Please feel free to nominate a book you'd like to see us read together.

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Silvana says

Hi Christine, Welcome to the Bibliophile Club Group. We hope that you will enjoy your new group, and will find our discussions interesting. Please feel free to participate in our discussions and our book of the months thread anytime. We welcome your input and any recommendations and suggestions you have that will help make our group more interesting and enjoyable. We are glad that you are part of our team, all the best, and enjoy your reading, Silvana

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Jerseygirl / Mrs. Constance (Oodles) Oxford-Whapdoodle, B.C., D.C. says

Hi Christine - Welcome to the History Non-Fiction Group. I'm the Admin for the group and am interested in what our members like to read and what they want to get out of this group. If you haven't already done so, please introduce yourself in our "Welcome and Introduction" thread and tell us what your interests are. The group is currently reading The Linguist and the Emperor: Napoleon and Champollion's Quest to Decipher the Rosetta Stone by Daniel Meyerson for the Jul-Sep quarter. This book discusses the two men whose lives intersected over a love of all things Egypt and led to Campollion solving the mystery of the language on the Rosetta Stone. The book is fairly short - only 271 pages including the Author's Note at the end - and easy to read so it's a good book for the first ever quarterly read. Discussion thread will be posted mid-September. Please join us. Again, glad to have you with us.
Jan

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Mosi W says

Christine I suggest that you read SOLITAIRE MONGOOSE, it is the first in a series of novels that I am writing and they progress in a well written series. SOLITAIRE MONGOOSE is the first in the series and tells the story of an ex-con supercriminal who was exonerated from escape charges after being on the run after 5 years from a crazed U.S. Marshal who goes psychologically over the edge in his pursuit. Agent Wells, no relation to the author, is given 300,000 dollars and a job as an F.B.I. in a one division called the 'Suicide Unit' not because his superiors like him but because it is how they plan on killing him. Agent Wells ducks, dodges, runs, and shoots for his life in this labryinth of mystery as he searches for answers to who and why he is being used as a major piece to be sacrificed in this grand game of chess. You can purchase it online at http://redleadbooks.com/somo.html or call 412-288-4543 ext 220 and place your order. It is the first in a series that only gets better!

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Dawn B says

I am apologize, I haven't been on the web site in some time. Did you read the book ? Dawn

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vinz_scorpian21 says

Ohh.. Wish u a speedy recovery!.. :)

So did u manage to read The Book Thief??

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vinz_scorpian21 says

how ru ??

wat u reading these days??

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phil m says

Yes, I enjoyed the books I recommended. Perhaps "enjoy" isn't the proper word. It would probably be better to say that I felt enightened by them. As my profile says, I read to learn more about being a human being, and I am often amazed at the unspeakable tragedies some people have been forced to live through. "Andersonville" by MacKinlay Kantor, is about a military prison during the American civil war. The author used nothing but documented fact (even actual letters written from the prison that have been preserved) to build his Prize-winning novel (c1951). The events at Andersonville prison were so deeply grieving that after reading it I was embarassed for the confederate Americans, knowing that something like that was ever allowed to happen in their country (America hides its uglier history from its citizens, as I am sure most other governments do, too.) The story would run side-by-side with Gone With the Wind, except that it is told through the eyes of the poor, uneducated, and frighteningly superstitious people of the South rather than through the glamour of Rhett and Scarlet O'Hara. It is amazing how the same historical event can be told so differently, yet both accounts be completely accurate. Much as War and Peace is told through the experiences of the Russian aristocracy, so was Gone With the Wind told through the last remaining American aristocracy (which vanished with the defeat of the old south). Like GWTW, Andersonville is a big book (my copy was 893 pages), but it is worth the time to read. Then again, perhaps I am reporting all of this from the male point of view. There are books that women the world over adore (Jane Austen's novels, Wuthering Heights) that don't hold a man's interest in quite the same way, and perhaps Andersonville wouldn't capture a woman's imagination like did mine. You might not like it. The same may be true of "Pillars of the Earth", though most women I know who have read it liked it very much and read the sequel. Pillars of the Earth is about the lawlessness of England during the dark ages when kings and earls were so busy fighting each other that they forgot to govern their citizens, leaving that duty to the Catholic clergy (who were often as corrupt as the kings and earls). As for your passion for the British classics: I have mixed emotions about them. The whole world loves Dickens, as do I. Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd is one of my very favorite books, and most of Hardy's others are enlightening when not entertaining (which they usually aren't). George Elliot (I've read Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner) did not entertain me. Elliot was obviously brilliant, particularly in her abillity to dig into human emotion and outline its cause & effects, but her characters were somehow not endearing to me. Could you recommend a good Elliot? As for Jane Austen? I'm just not into her, though I know that women the world over will think I am a creep for that! Amazingly, I did like Jane Eyre very much! It was as if Stephen King had written a victorian romance. I loved it ! As for Wuthering Heights, I thought it began with such promise, but I was disappointed as it progressed. Hadn't any of those British women at W.H. heard of Arsenic! Heathcliff was so mean! The book should have been entitled "Heathcliff got angry so everybody got sick and died." Before I conclude I must mention the British author Marie Corelli (sounds Italian, but she was British). I read her book "Ardath" copyright 1889, and found it to be one of the most amazing stories I've ever read. It was very Victorian, but for some reason I loved it! In America, Marie Corelli novels are impossible to find except in ancient used book stores (I love going to old used bookstores to find old novels with woodcut illustrations) The copy of Ardath I read had brittle brown pages that crumbled as I turned them; it was as if I been beamed back to 1889 ! Sorry if I've gone on a bit long, but I think it is nice to be talking with someone who lives in Russia. My little town gets so....little. I'm glad you're out there!

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phil m says

I like what your profile says about reading; books being your best friends and teachers. I, too, have tried to read most of the classics from all over Europe, but I have found that the French classics are my favorites. Victor Hugo, in spite of his tendency to stray from the storyline for as much as fifty or sixty pages before returning, is my favorite. I also really love The Count of Monte Cristo, and The Red and the Black. As for the more modern books, there are many recent and very good historical fictions out there. Have you tried Ken Follet's "Pillars of the Earth"? Or the Classic about the American Civil War "Gone With the Wind"? There is so much history to learn, and the well-researched historic fiction is the most fun way! Have you read "The Fixer" by barnard Malamud? It takes place in your county...it is a painful read, but it tells us of ugly realities that we'd rather not know! Same is true of "Andersonville", perhaps the ugliest secret in American history.

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vinz_scorpian21 says

Book Theif... Excellent Book!.. Read it!..

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Kim P says

The Book Thief is an amazing book. You will never regret picking this one up. The hard part is putting it down.

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Ken F says

Hi Christine,

Hope you enjoy it. Lots of reading groups have been choosing it for discussion. I really think it can be enjoyed by teens as well as adults.

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J says

Thanks for the advice!

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