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Red Sox Nation ( member #26358) posted at 9:34 PM on Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
Finished Colm Tóibin's "Brooklyn" last night. I've already forgotten most of it, though the Irish chicklet is none too honorable and all too triggery.
When someone tells you who she is, listen; when someone shows you who she is, listen carefully.
ImNellNow ( member #28753) posted at 11:17 PM on Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
Read Outliers (Malcolm Gladwell) and am starting on the "U" in Sue Grafton's series. Then will read Outliers again. Slogged through his Tipping Point... LOVED Outliers. Then maybe the second The Girl Who... [whatever she did after she got her dragon tattoo].
BS & D
Drinking wine and thinking bliss is on the other side of this.
dreamerinnc ( member #21670) posted at 12:46 AM on Thursday, January 6th, 2011
"Water for Elephants" and loving it. Can't wait for the movie in APril with Reese Witherspoon, the cinematography(SP) looks wonderful!!!
Married 30 years
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STBXH-57
1 OW that I know about
2 Boys 24 & 26
D-Day 9/13/08 to many to mention since then-I enabled
11/3/10-Finally got the paperwork going to move on with my life!
2011-R ????
2015-WTF!!!
manAscending ( member #26919) posted at 3:02 AM on Saturday, January 8th, 2011
I really enjoyed Water for Elephants. Glad you're liking it. 
BrokenRoad ( member #15334) posted at 3:10 AM on Saturday, January 8th, 2011
The last book left in the collection of Marlena Di Blasi book that are non fiction.
Shes a traveler, writer, and chef. I just LOVE her.
The one I'm reading now is Lady in the Palazzo.
{Him}FBH - 51 (WifeHad5){Me} FWW - 52 2 kids: 16 & 21 Reconciled :)*Learning is a gift. Even when pain is your teacher.*
lucie ( member #6773) posted at 3:35 AM on Sunday, January 9th, 2011
I just started Flirting with Forty by Jane Porter. So far, so good
Very happy, the rest doesn't matter anymore.
kernel ( member #27035) posted at 1:12 AM on Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
The Help, Kathryn Stockett. A good read.
"On particularly rough days when I'm sure I can't possibly endure, I like to remind myself that my track record for getting through bad days so far is 100% and that's pretty good."
teach5 ( member #18445) posted at 2:27 AM on Thursday, January 20th, 2011
Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah- a fast easy read with a great happy ending!
InnerLight ( member #19946) posted at 6:42 AM on Friday, January 21st, 2011
I loved The Help. And I just started Winter Garden. So far so good.
BS, 64 yearsD-day 6-2-08D after 20 years together
The journey from Armageddon to Amazing Life happens one step at a time. Don't ever give up!
sharim ( member #11937) posted at 10:58 PM on Saturday, February 19th, 2011
Just bumping to keep this active.
I use to be a voracious reader and then with kids, work, etc totally stopped. Thanks to a gift of a Kindle from my sister (which I did nothing with for 1 1/2 years) and all of your suggestions - I'm reading like crazy again.
I just finished Water for Elephants. I loved how she wrote about the Jacob when he was older (plus I have always liked Hal Holbrook so I kept picturing him in the trailer). I definitely could have done without the sex scenes (and I am not prudish - I just thought some of them were gross and not necessary). I saw the movie may be rated R - I hope they tone it down as of course with Robert Pattinson in it - my DD wants to see it.
I am now on to The Help.
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tuscandreamer ( member #17406) posted at 2:36 AM on Sunday, February 20th, 2011
I am reading The Girl Who Played with Fire.
I just finished reading the Lost Hero. It is technically young people's literature, but it was still good. The author has now written 6 books, similar to Harry Potter style. Instead the characters in the books are all Greek demi-gods. My daughter is reading them with me.
BS 52
WH 49
Dday #1 6/20/07, Dday #2 (different OW) 5/16/09
3 DDs (19, 14, 12)
Reconciling???
Skye ( member #325) posted at 4:01 PM on Sunday, February 20th, 2011
The author of "Water for Elephants" has a new book titled "The Ape House." I would highly recommend it.
MzMagoo ( member #30978) posted at 4:28 PM on Sunday, February 20th, 2011
Working my way through Codependent No More and a re-read of I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb. It seems from this thread that I will have to pick up Water for Elephants
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M 13 years/together 18
DD 1~ 8-10/ DD 2~ 11-10
3 kids~ S 14, D 10, D 10
Filed for D: 11-10
R: Trying to trust it is real
If you walk around the pool long enough, you are bound to fall in.
manAscending ( member #26919) posted at 12:22 AM on Monday, February 21st, 2011
A month ago I read Never Let Me Go and liked it, despite the frustration that many people seem to have toward the ending. Right now I'm working through Room by Emma Donoghue. I say "work" because it really is hard for me to get into. Her narrator is a five year-old boy, but I don't think it sounds at all what the five year-olds I know sould like. I think it sounds like an adult writer trying to sound like she thinks a kid would talk like, but that she isn't able to pull it off. Of course, many people disagree with me because the book was nominated for a Man Booker prize, so yeah.
The best book I've read this year, however, is Essays in Love by Alain de Botton. He's my new favourite author, and yesterday I just ponied up twenty bucks to buy his book How Proust Can Change Your Life. With chapters like "How to Read for Yourself," "How to Suffer Successfully," and "How to Put Books Down," I know I'll enjoy it. Do check out Essays in Love, definitely the best book without an infidelity focus that I've read in the last year.
Skye ( member #325) posted at 12:44 PM on Monday, February 21st, 2011
I just finished "Room," and I, too, worked my way through it, but for the exact opposite reason you did. I think the voice was perfect and found it very creepy. I did finish it and was glad I did.
Emerald Eyes ( member #7977) posted at 7:48 PM on Friday, February 25th, 2011
I'm on book 2 of the Outlander series. What an addiction this is going to be! Laundry, groceries, work - none of it matters now. 
Tuscandreamer - we've read all of the Percy Jackson/Lost Heroes/Red Pyramid books. They are really good, too.
MzMagoo ( member #30978) posted at 8:21 PM on Friday, February 25th, 2011
Love the Outlander series. I have yet to find any others in the same genre that compare.
BS (me) 37/WS (him)37
M 13 years/together 18
DD 1~ 8-10/ DD 2~ 11-10
3 kids~ S 14, D 10, D 10
Filed for D: 11-10
R: Trying to trust it is real
If you walk around the pool long enough, you are bound to fall in.
heart_in_a_blend ( member #24191) posted at 9:11 PM on Friday, February 25th, 2011
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb.
That was one of my favorite books. Last book my dad and I shared before he died.
I'm now reading Dreamfever.
In life, much of what one grieves one never had.
lost43 ( member #30828) posted at 12:17 AM on Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
I just finished Between Friends by Debbie Macomber...Loved it...
Now I am reading Transcending Post-infidelity Stress Disorder...Over half way done.
ME-BS 34
Jackass 32
Married 4.5 years
2 wonderful kids 12 and 3
been together off and on for 13 years.
I know my heart will never be the same..but I"m telling myself I'll be ok..Even on my weakest days..I get a little bit stronger-Sara
slippedhalo ( member #31159) posted at 1:25 AM on Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
I've been reading what i call my "junk food books" since my son was born. Its just too hard to concentrate on the stuff I used to read.
I love Jennifer Weiner and Lisa Jewell.
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