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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #480 on: November 28, 2012, 02:56:51 am »
Why don't you start up one in your area Amy?
There may be a few other young people who would be interested  ;)

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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #481 on: November 28, 2012, 03:53:33 am »
I'm reading The Queen's Fool by Phillipa Gregory - not one of her best IMO.
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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #482 on: November 28, 2012, 11:11:30 am »
My friend and myself are giving up smoking, we decided today we are going to find 2 good book to buy each other for christmas to read to help keep our hands and minds busy :)
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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #483 on: November 28, 2012, 11:17:13 am »
Hope you haven't got 50 Shades in mind  8)
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« Reply #484 on: November 28, 2012, 11:23:31 am »
Haven't read it myself but that would keep you occupied

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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #485 on: November 28, 2012, 11:35:20 am »
Hope you haven't got 50 Shades in mind  8)

No I don't think so CP, I love true story's, not into romance books (or erotic books) ;D
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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #486 on: November 28, 2012, 11:43:31 am »
My friend and myself are giving up smoking, we decided today we are going to find 2 good book to buy each other for christmas to read to help keep our hands and minds busy :)

Hope you haven't got 50 Shades in mind  8)


LOL   :D :D ;D

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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #487 on: November 29, 2012, 10:19:31 am »
Yes Cookie - found it disturbing but very good for bookclub discussions!
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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #488 on: November 29, 2012, 10:30:41 am »
I think I might suggest it to my book club group.
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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #489 on: November 29, 2012, 10:45:00 am »
My book club is reading "The Slap" as our final book for the year.. It should be an interesting discussion as we all have kids.
Has anyone read the Christmas Cookie Club book? We are going to try it this year. For every person who attends, we have to bring a dozen biscuits to give to them, plus an additional dozen to give to a charity. We will all come away with dozens of biscuits :)
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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #490 on: November 29, 2012, 11:26:10 am »
That's a great idea ES. We did The Slap and surprisingly there wasn't as much discussion as I thought. I lived it but others really didn't like the story or the writing.

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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #491 on: November 30, 2012, 05:32:12 am »
Usually our book club does ancient books as we have quite a few pensioners in the group. (who often don't turn up)The books are obtained through the local library so there have to be 12 copies. This restricts things a lot.

When I lived in the bush we had a great book club. It consisted of 12 members (one for each month), they had to be an assortment of ages to get different points of view. Then we chose our book and bought 12 copies and on sold them to the other members. We all managed to slect new, topical books of both fiction and non fiction. I don't know if this sort of book club exists in the city. Anyone know please?
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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #492 on: November 30, 2012, 06:54:10 am »
I read the Slap, and basically it seemed to start off ok...a..y... but then it just got boring. I wanted some fireworks and it was just a fizzler. Very so so.
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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #493 on: November 30, 2012, 06:58:09 am »
The T.V. seris was good.  ;D

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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #494 on: November 30, 2012, 08:41:01 am »
I felt much the same as you did CP. I felt they just needed to grow up and get on with life.
Our latest book club book is "The Help" which is a beautiful book.
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