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Kiki68

Kiki68

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http://www.shelfari.com/groups/48213/discussions/170930/Kikis-Books-of-2010

I love to read (too much) and usually have several books going at once. If you want to know more about who I am, please see more info following!





I live in Birmingham, Alabama with my incredibly good looking, super intelligent, sexy... more »
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  • Jill

    Jill says

    Saw you gave Cloud Atlas 5 stars. I am about to start it tonight. Hope to like it as much as you did!

    posted 2 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • Karen

    Karen says

    I a sorry that my invite to you for 2012 book group has come so late, but I do have a good reason. I am in Australia and we were driving along the Great Ocean Road from Melbourne (where my husband attended the Australian Open) to Adelaide, then we flew to Alice Springs and drove a 4WD to Uluru. We flew back to Brisbane today where we are staying with my niece (who married an Australian) and her family. On our trip we did not have our computer, but now I do again. I hope you didn't think I was ignoring you. Welcome toour group.

    posted 2 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • BBR

    BBR says

    Well that was we connected in the first place. So how are you and happy 2012. Bad year for getting to read last year but am off on holiday in February so will be picking the reading shortly; love that bit.

    posted 3 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • jane v

    jane v says

    Hi Kiki. Thanks so much for letting me know about "The Magicians"....I liked it, will probably read the next one, thought it needed some character development but liked the concept....I have a middle schooler who loved Harry Potter and is pining away and thought it might be good to branch into for her, but the drinking and such seemed too much, so you were dead right...should be a high schooler. Thanks for your help though, it is appreciated. Best, Jane PS Reading "The Marriage Plot", you might like it, kind of a modern day literary Jane Austen fable.....

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • jane v

    jane v says

    Hi Kiki! I love your reviews....the one on "London Train" was excellent, as was "The Leftovers". I don't know if you have read "The Magicians" by Lev Grossman, but wondered if you thought it was appropriate for ya? It is very Harry Potter like, but with older college age kids, and has a ton of references to Narnia, etc.....just curious if you had an opinion on it. Thanks, Jane

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Darlene

    Darlene says

    Sorry Kiki, just realized upon further reading you WILL be reading this. Hope you enjoy it.

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Darlene

    Darlene says

    I am 1/2 way thru "The City of Thieves" by David Benioff and am enjoying it. WWII, Leningrad. Have you read it?

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )
  • BookwormErin

    BookwormErin says

    I just read your review for The Bronze Horseman. One of my all time favorite books. I did forget though that she wrote about 75 pgs of them having sex. It probably should have a disclaimer warning of soft porn. I'm glad you enjoyed it, that aside.

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • wendy w

    wendy w says

    Is New York fiction or non-fiction?

    I'm such a book nerd I've done no reading today. I spent the whole day listing all the winners, shortlisted and longlisted Booker books, and all the Nobel winners in a small binder to keep in my bag so I have a reference book when I'm at the Half-Price books stores! I print the lists from the internet but the pages don't last long banging around in my bag.

    I just realized I have a book by Vikram Seth, Two Lives about his great-uncle and great-aunt. One an Indian immigrant to Berlin to study in 1932 and the other a Jewish woman! Doesn't that sound fascinating?! That's what I'm going to read now I think.

    Enjoy your books!

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • wendy w

    wendy w says

    That sounds like a good idea. I have so many books I've picked up recently I can't settle on one to read! I joined the CROAH Civil War reading group but I have a feeling I'll flake out on that one too. I am very interested in history and I descend directly from a Revolutionary War veteran (I can name them from my mother-grandmother-etc but I won't here) so I should educate myself.

    I was complaning to a friend that I want to stop paying attention to politics because I get so frustrated and he suggested I see Seabiscuit. Maybe I should read that!

    I'm off the bookstore now to look for Feast of the Goat for the Nobel reading group. I stuck with book focused groups: Nobel Winners and Booker Winners.

    Happy reading!

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • wendy w

    wendy w says

    Hi Kiki,

    I left the BTS group (and the political group) not because it wasn't interesting or because anybody was offensive on the political group, but I find I spend way more time posting about topics other than books or reading on those groups. I have read less books since joining shelfari then I did before because it's hard to not look at what others are posting and before I know over an hour has passed and all I've done it post. I do enjoy our exchanges though so I wanted to let you know that I'm still here, just not in the groups. Please stay in touch when you have time.

    I was told about a book we might enjoy and wondered if you had heard about it. Unbroken by Laura Hildebrand (I think Hildebrand, it's Laura H...), it's about a man who survived WWII, it's popular book now. The friend that told me about said that anyone interested in WWII would like it.

    I'm going to put it on my wish list.

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Darlene

    Darlene says

    Oops...sorry I didn't answer you sooner. So, the novel evolves into a scotland yard/police thing and altho the female character returns through out the book.....not that good. Tried another of his novels, but quickly gave up.

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • wendy w

    wendy w says

    One of my favorire WWII books is The Dark Room by Rachael Seiffert. It's 3 stories about life in Germany during and right at the end of the war.
    I am interested in that era but I haven't read much about it. I'll have to check out your shelf for some ideas.

    I sometimes have 2 books going at a time but they are usually not both fiction. Now that my kids are grown I have the luxury of time (ah...time) to just sit and read so if the book is very engaging I can finish it in a day or two. If I am reading a second book it will be a history book or short stories.

    Blindness seems to be the most read of Saramago's books and it's my least favorite. I would say it dystopian so I was not crazy about it. It's brilliant of course, but I didn't like reading it. My favorite of his is All the Names.

    I do love Marquez although I have to admit his books all tend to feel the same, which is not true of Saramago. I like magic realism like Marquez, Isabel Allende, Like Water for Chocolate.

    If you have a favorite WWII fiction let me know.

    W

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • wendy w

    wendy w says

    Hi Kiki
    I was born in Montgomery Al. I also have a useless degree-philosophy, I have a husband, 4 kids and a step-son. 29, 28, 27, 26, and 15 (next month) and 3 granddaughters.
    I love literary fiction and now have been particularly interested in WWI WWII Eastern European books. I don't generally read popular fiction, although my mother said she thinks I would enjoy Maeve Binchy.
    My faves are Marquez, Saramago, Penelope Lively, Mahfouz. I've read enough books set in India to last a while but I'm about to start Sea of Poppies so I guess I'm just drawn to that part of the country.

    I enjoyed our exchanges and glad you requested me!
    W

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Book Concierge

    Book Concierge says

    A-ok here in the frozen north. Actually we're getting hints of Spring ... high daily temps are hovering JUST above freezing ... so we get a little melting, which then freezes again overnight. Early morning can have slippery roads with that little thin layer of ice where the pavement was wet from yesterday's melt. S I G H

    Reading some good books for F2F book clubs this month. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, The Club Dumas and The Monuments Men are all in progress as I type. In fact ... I should get off Shelfari and get back to reading ... LOL

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Book Concierge

    Book Concierge says

    Hi KiKi ... long time since we chatted. Are you friends with Linda? She's also in Book Chat and also lives in Birmingham.

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Jesse Battle

    Jesse Battle says

    I would like to suggest reading THE ENDLESS HOUR- The True Story of a Haunted Soul.I completed publication
    in November 2010.

    Over eighteen years in the making,THE ENDLESS HOUR is about an illustration I created in 1988 that became
    reality two years later,which involves a spiritual death experience.

    This touching and terrifying true story is not only about me.It is also about... you.

    For more information go to theendlesshour.com. Once you enter the website you can watch the book video and
    read reviews. You may also want to visit amazon.com and read the first seven chapters of THE ENDLESS HOUR.

    Thanks,
    Jesse

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • BBR

    BBR says

    Thanks, was having trouble (while on holiday) deciding between two books which to read next and your review of THE HELP really helped.

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Hazel C

    Hazel C says

    Hi thanks so much for the add :)
    Hope you have a lovely day :D

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Darlene

    Darlene says

    I just began a book by John Lawton, "A Lilly of the Field" Vienna Austria, 1934. I am immediately hooked and was wondering if you have read it? He also wrote a couple more about WW2 and Europe. Fiction, mystery....but am definately interested.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )

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