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Just finished The Deadly Space Between by Elizabeth Duncker last night. I read it over the weekend. I enjoy a guilty-pleasure book and this is one of them. Plus, it's so addictive I took it with me everywhere and couldn't put it down till the very last page was devoured.
 

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Dreamcatcher by Stephen King

Tis one weird book, it's pretty fun though :)
 

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Finished Polar Shift by Clive Cussler.

Plot better than the last Cusslers but a too short. I would have loved it to be much longer, detail on all the subplots.
 

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I've heard that's not all that good but I enjoyed 20th Centuary Ghosts and Horns so would be interested to know what you make of it.

I'm about half way through and enjoying it so far. I really enjoyed Pop Art. Which story was your favorite?
 

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I just finished The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Quite a bit of detail and such,but Lisbeth Salander rocks and once the gory crazy started,I loved it.
 

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Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. by Sam Wesson. It's about the making of the film version of Breakfast At Tiffany's and how it helped shape the portrayal of independent women in movies.
 

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Just finished reading : American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century. I highly recommend this book - I listened to the audio version, and the narrator, John H. Mayer, does a fantastic job. The book is the true story of the 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles.
 

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Just finished One Shot by Lee Child. It's my second Jack Reacher novel, and the second one in July. I'll read more as they are entertaining.

Started Blood Meridian yesterday. I love me some Cormac, and really needed something the I must pay attention to every sentence and every detail or else my weak mind will get lost. Better to get lost inside the book.
 

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I just finished Jack the Ripper: The Final Chapter by Paul Feldman. He makes a hard to deny argument that the Diary discovered in the 90's is real and that the Ripper is James Maybrick.
 

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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

It's epistolary and sort of slow to get going, but picks up once you figure out the characters.

It's required reading for all HS students this summer so my son will have to slog through it quite soon.
 

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"Shadow Play" by Charles Baxter
 

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Finished The Boy in the Moon, upon which I hugged my kids and had a good cry, much to their bewilderment. If you want to appreciate your lot in life, read this book!

I just finished The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Quite a bit of detail and such,but Lisbeth Salander rocks and once the gory crazy started,I loved it.
I started this one recently too! So far, so good.
 

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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

It's epistolary and sort of slow to get going, but picks up once you figure out the characters.

It's required reading for all HS students this summer so my son will have to slog through it quite soon.

I loved that book!
 

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The Lord of the Rings. Has a reputation among its detractors for being portentous, and I remembered it as such, but the style reads a lot more like a novelized Mabinogion than a King James Bible-wannabe (Harold Bloom's condemnation). Tolkien likened it more to a romance than a novel, and I find its prose folksy in places as I do much of the works that influenced it.
 

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I'm about to crack open the audio version of Native Son, my first time reading anything by Richard Wright.