(Cleek) Bookwormzzz

I just did

I just finished the constant princes by Phillipa Clark (?)  she is the same author as the other Bolyn Girl.  it was interesting.  not a must read but not too bad either.
I woud love some referrals.  I read all kinds of things in the summer I like lighter novel "brain candy" while in winter I will read something more serious or scarry

Thanks, I really hope this group takes off.  I don't care if you just read a cookbook or a 2000 page novel, just come here and talk about it!  HA!!!

It took me ages to learn to read
I think the last book i read was: of mice and men
It made me cry. Loved it though.
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That is a great book Smurf!  I used to read constantly.  I was reading newspapers when I was four and books like "A Clockwork Orange" when I was 10.  By the way, that is another fabulous book!

Random question here.  Do any of you find the smell of old books exciting?  I LOVE to go to the library because of that smell.  I absolutely adore books!

Yeah Clockwork is really twisted.  It's really thought provoking too though.  It shows how much supreme control and trying to change who you are can mess a person up.

Ok, here are some books I have loved over the years...

To Kill a Mockingbird
A Clockwork Orange
Catcher in the Rye
The Outsiders
I Know This Much Is True
Of Beetles and Angels
Tigana
A Song for Arbonne
The Hobbit
Lord of the Rings
Lord of the Flies
Fahrenheit 451
The Dragonlance books.  A quick, easy and enjoyable read
Oh gosh, there are so many more but they have slipped my mind.  I will have to add more later!

edited to add more books

Last edited by Saralin (07-30-2008 21:47)

I'm such a bookworm! So much so that my college career has been pretty much dedicated to studying literature; I'm getting my Masters in literature. Favorite authors anyone? Two of my faves are Faulkner and Nabokov. My favorite book ever is Lolita. Some other faves are: Their Eyes Were Watching God, Frankenstein, Poor Things, As I Lay Dying, The Cement Garden, Light in August, The Sound and the Fury, most of Poe's works, and the list goes on.

I love Malorie Blackman's Noughts and Crosses series, I started reading them about 3 years ago and have just heard that a new one's coming out! Yay!!!

The Life Before Us - Romain Gary

This sensitive, slightly macabre story of Momo, an orphaned street kid, and Madame Rosa, a dying prostitute, has a supporting cast of transvestites, pimps, and witchdoctors from Paris's immigrant slum, Belleville. Because this novel was originally published under the pseudonym "Emile Ajar", Romain Gary remains the only author to ever win France's once-per-lifetime highest literary honor, the Prix Goncourt, twice.

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Cool the image thingy worked!

This is such a beautifully written novel. I first heard of Romain Gary from the book Darkness Falls, an autobiography of depression an attempted suicide from William Styron. I had to read Sophie's Choice in college and admired it so much that I bought Darkness Falls, he recommended Romain Gary so I got this book. Nearly every page has 2 or 3 lines that are immensely touching.

Basically Madame Rosa is a French, Jewish ex-prostitute living in Belleville closely after WW2. She is kind, alcoholic, obese and terrified of N azi raids. She has decaying health, cancer most likely, which prevents her from caring for the b astard children of local prostitutes. Momo is one such child, 7 years old but more street smart than any of us would want to be. He cares for Mme Rosa, and spends time thinking about life.



(everytime I tryed to type N azi the program rewrote it as "person of questionable standards" LOL)

(reread my post again an when I typed b astard, they edited as "I'm an unhappy person" wtfudge?)

Last edited by BinkyC (07-31-2008 00:33)

i hated saying good bye to harry potter

MISS INFORMED wrote:

Sometimes I dont want to finish a book because its like saying goodby to a friend. Does that sound silly? I love reading my mom said I was reading at age 3 and would hug my books instead of my bearI still put my book under my pillow before I shut the light off.

I'm the same way!! Surprisingly it's a method of reading, I think called absorption and it is how life-long readers come to be. I'm so attached to the characters I read about.

I'm going to get that The Life Before Us. It looks very interesting!