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post #601 of 846
10/25/12 at 2:11am
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Originally Posted by fredricktoo View Post

Saturday by Ian McEwan...

my second book by this author. First was Atonement a few years ago.

Saturday is on my reading list, how is it? As good as Atonement?
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post #602 of 846
10/25/12 at 3:46am
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Originally Posted by heavenscent1 View Post

Saturday is on my reading list, how is it? As good as Atonement?

The writing is just as good as Atonement but the story is nothing like it. It follows a day in the life of an English neurosurgeon and Ian McEwan spent a long time in the operating theaters learning about neurosurgery first hand. It reads fast, brisk, for me, he sweeps you along as you meet his family and sort through the inner thoughts of a highly functional member of contemporary English society on one particular Saturday. There are a lot of references to politics and the Iraq War.
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post #603 of 846
10/25/12 at 7:31am
FREEDOM / Jonathan Franzen

A sweeping modern family chronicle; epic and penetrating in every way that makes reading a great novel so good.
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post #604 of 846
10/25/12 at 8:14am
I saw the thread on reading, and I am curious if Basenoters are on Goodreads. I just opened an account (I know I am a late bloomer , and I am thinking of reviewing a couple of perfume books. I usually read historical fiction for fun, but not only.

If you'd like, p.m. me with your Goodreads name, and I'll "friend" you

I am currently reading A Dangerous Inheritance by Alison Weir.
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post #605 of 846
10/25/12 at 8:48am
Reading Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood.
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post #606 of 846
10/25/12 at 9:18am
Live Wire by Harlan Coben
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post #607 of 846
10/28/12 at 7:13am
Listening to the audiobook
The Professor and the Madman
By: Simon Winchester
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post #608 of 846
10/29/12 at 2:29am
The Affair (Jack Reacher Novel) by Lee Child.
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post #609 of 846
10/29/12 at 3:56am
"When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery" by Frank Vertosick Jr.

based on Ian McEwan's recommendation in his book "Saturday"
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post #610 of 846
10/29/12 at 9:24am
Reading Drift by Rachel Maddow.
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post #611 of 846
10/29/12 at 12:49pm
She by Rider Haggard

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post #612 of 846
10/30/12 at 11:20am
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
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post #613 of 846
10/30/12 at 11:37am
The House of Velvet and Glass by Katherine Howe: situated in Boston, circa 1915.
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post #614 of 846
10/31/12 at 5:08am
The Excalibur Disaster by Jack Bickham
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post #615 of 846
11/3/12 at 9:39am
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
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post #616 of 846
11/3/12 at 9:46am
Critical Decisions: How You and Your Doctor Can Make the Right Medical Choices Together (2012)
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post #617 of 846
11/3/12 at 9:47am
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Originally Posted by Jack Hunter View Post

The Affair (Jack Reacher Novel) by Lee Child.

Just finished that one, myself, recently.

Also read- Careless in Red by Elizabeth George

Currently reading Gideon's Corpse by Preston & Child
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post #618 of 846
11/5/12 at 4:38am
Just started Siege by Richard Hoyt
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post #619 of 846
11/6/12 at 10:02am
Just finished reading Nobody's Home--a collection of cultural essays--by Dubravka Ugresic.
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post #620 of 846
11/6/12 at 12:29pm
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan. (Frank Lloyd Wright) Page turner for sure.
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post #621 of 846
11/6/12 at 1:08pm
LONDON FIELDS / Martin Amis

Amis is a stylistic genius, no doubt about it. An observation, a turn of phrase, can make me gasp with admiration. But his nihilistic characters and relentless amorality can be nauseating.
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post #622 of 846
11/7/12 at 8:56am
Both Flesh And Not - essays by David Foster Wallace
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post #623 of 846
11/10/12 at 5:52am
Relic - Preston & Child
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post #624 of 846
11/10/12 at 6:52am
Kill Me If You Can by James Patterson
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post #625 of 846
11/15/12 at 6:29am
Wuthering Heights

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post #626 of 846
11/15/12 at 7:26am
Just started Lost Empire by Clive Cussler
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post #627 of 846
11/15/12 at 9:30am
Daughter Of The Empire by Janny Wurts & Raymond Feist.
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post #628 of 846
11/15/12 at 8:28pm
Finally finished my noon time read Burr by Gore Vidal (RIP) and on to the next in the series, Lincoln.
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post #629 of 846
11/15/12 at 9:22pm
I started to read In Search of Lost Time in late September and have progressed to volume five: The Prisoner.
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post #630 of 846
11/15/12 at 10:59pm
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Wuthering Heights


Love this one and have been thinking of re-reading it (again) as it has been a while now...maybe I will do that over the holidays
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post #631 of 846
11/16/12 at 4:51am
Tim Harford — The Undercover Economist
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post #632 of 846
11/16/12 at 6:11am
Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson the author of Gilead.
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post #633 of 846
11/16/12 at 6:16am
I am reading Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk now:
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post #634 of 846
11/16/12 at 7:26pm
No Country For Old Men.
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post #635 of 846
11/17/12 at 2:22am
Dragon of Autumn Twilight By Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.
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post #636 of 846
11/17/12 at 2:44am
Still reading, No country For Old Men.
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post #637 of 846
11/19/12 at 5:06am
The Coil by Gayle Lynds
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post #638 of 846
11/19/12 at 5:11am
Two biographies....Buddy Guy and Muddy Waters.
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post #639 of 846
11/19/12 at 7:21am
The Rings of Saturn
by WG Sebald (1995)
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post #640 of 846
11/19/12 at 7:35am
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Originally Posted by Bartlebooth View Post

The Rings of Saturn
by WG Sebald (1995)

I have been wanting to read Sebald - is this the first of his books you are reading?
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post #641 of 846
11/20/12 at 6:39am
Gone Girl.
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post #642 of 846
11/20/12 at 11:24pm
Beginning "The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo" over Thanksgiving for my evening read. I like to read the book before I see the movie if I can, but am always way behind the current trend.
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post #643 of 846
11/21/12 at 7:06am
Relic by Preston & Child
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post #644 of 846
11/21/12 at 7:33am
Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman by Stefan Zweig. I've been busy with other things lately, so it's a slow read, but the research and perspective are very interesting.
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post #645 of 846
11/21/12 at 7:51am
currently re-reading The Shining.
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post #646 of 846
11/23/12 at 6:15am
Just started Cold Rock River by Jackie Lee Miles. I believe I need to put it down for awhile until I can quit dwelling on Gone Girl. The ending of the book is bothering me. Don't know why.
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post #647 of 846
11/23/12 at 2:31pm
The Leopard
Tomasi Di Lampedusa
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post #648 of 846
11/24/12 at 8:00am
Spycatcher by Matthew Dunn
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post #649 of 846
11/26/12 at 9:12am
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

I'm struggling to finish this book. The story seems twice as long as it needs to be. Past Murakami books I've inhaled, it seemed that they went so quickly.
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post #650 of 846
11/26/12 at 6:02pm
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The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley. Again.
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post #651 of 846
11/28/12 at 6:21am
The French Lieutenant's Woman
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post #652 of 846
11/29/12 at 3:24am
Just started Black List by Brad Thor
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post #653 of 846
12/3/12 at 7:37am
Best Friends by Martha Moody
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post #654 of 846
12/3/12 at 1:07pm
The Last Convertible by Anton Myrer
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post #655 of 846
12/6/12 at 6:03am
Just started .........Gone Baby Gone by Dennis Lehan
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post #656 of 846
12/6/12 at 7:05am
THE CORRECTIONS / Jonathan Franzen
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post #657 of 846
12/8/12 at 5:11pm
Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
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post #658 of 846
12/8/12 at 7:49pm
The Racketeer - John Grisham
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post #659 of 846
12/9/12 at 1:48am
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles.
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post #660 of 846
12/9/12 at 5:15am
Hobbit BY J R R Tolkien.
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