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Post by lilyella on Jul 10, 2005 20:25:10 GMT -5
I'm reading The Pact by Jodi Picoult... it's reeeeaaallllyyy good so far... It's about a suicide pact... I'd reccomend it to anyone... The funny thing is... is that it's a summer reading book for school but it's totally inappropiate for school... it has sex and violence (not too much in excess) but still... I like it I read that last year and loved it. I recommend Jodi's "My Sister's Keeper" if you like Picoult's work. I just finished it today and it had me completely surprised at the end...and crying like an idiot! |
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Post by ♥Jana♥ on Jul 10, 2005 21:36:30 GMT -5
I am gonig to start possessing the secret of joy tonight.
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Post by redcloud on Jul 17, 2005 14:29:27 GMT -5
reading Marc Lévy's La Prochaine Fois (Next Time)
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Post by lilyella on Jul 17, 2005 15:02:15 GMT -5
HARRY POTTER AND THE HALFBLOOD PRINCE!
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Post by matzy on Jul 18, 2005 1:36:32 GMT -5
Absalom, Absalom! ~ Faulkner carly, elizabeth - i also love faulkner, but personally i think "absalom, absalom!" is so hard to get into. i started reading it a couple of days ago, but i had to put it away after a few pages because i got so confused. i should read it in german instead, maybe... i did love "the sound and the fury", though. that's a brilliant book. |
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Post by elizabeth on Jul 18, 2005 16:13:34 GMT -5
Absalom, Absalom! ~ Faulkner carly, elizabeth - i also love faulkner, but personally i think "absalom, absalom!" is so hard to get into. i started reading it a couple of days ago, but i had to put it away after a few pages because i got so confused. i should read it in german instead, maybe... i did love "the sound and the fury", though. that's a brilliant book. Matt, I understand-Faulkner uses the densest language I have ever read, and Absalom, Absalom is one of the densest. The themes are very Southern,too-the main story takes place during the Civil War, and really revolves around the illegitimate son of Sutpen and a Creole? woman so the main issue is race--in a very southern, historical context. But it's a beautiful story and you should read it in German maybe? |
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Post by Chels on Jul 18, 2005 20:40:51 GMT -5
I just finished Harry Potter and the half-blood prince it was really sad... and well w/e I'm gonna cry later.
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Post by Aims on Jul 19, 2005 1:01:29 GMT -5
HARRY POTTER AND THE HALFBLOOD PRINCE! DITTO!!  Only up to like ........ chapter.... hmm, I dunno. Around 7 or something. So nobody say ANYTHING about any parts of the book at all. Or I'll die. |
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Post by :~:fishdust:~: on Jul 19, 2005 1:05:57 GMT -5
oh yes pls dun!
i bought my copy just yesterday but i only intend to read it when im back in melbourne.... so give LARGE spoilers warning if you guys intend to discuss it first alright?
love love jrie~
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Post by Aims on Jul 19, 2005 1:07:57 GMT -5
It's ok Jrie, I won't say ANYTHING related to the storyline at all. (and if I did want to, I'll start a brand new spoiler thread or something, but I can't see that happening here anyway) How are you anyway?!  |
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Post by ♣Miranda♣ on Jul 19, 2005 1:27:39 GMT -5
I just finished Harry Potter and the half-blood prince it was really sad... and well w/e I'm gonna cry later. lol I just finished it now and cried my way through the last three chapters. I was not expecting that at all!  |
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Post by Chels on Jul 19, 2005 10:51:47 GMT -5
SPOILER TALK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DON'T READ IF YOU HAVEN'T FINISHED HP!!!!!!!
I was sadly expecting it cause he was in such a bad place all book but the ending of the relationship that just started.... grrrrrrr I'm angry cause it was cute and she never made the other two come out with it totally and I wanmt them to have a big dramatic confession scene... and what she said to Harry was so wrong and sad because that's not how he really feels ok I'll shut up...
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Post by lilyella on Jul 19, 2005 10:57:25 GMT -5
AHHHH! no Harry Potter spoilers! Make a new thread...my eyes keep going down the page and I don't want it to be spoiled!
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Post by redcloud on Jul 19, 2005 11:01:30 GMT -5
SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SCROLL DOWN NOW!!!!!!!!!!
well, in my opinioin, Harry shouldn't have eaten the mushrooms!! LOL Just kidding!!
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Post by :~:fishdust:~: on Jul 19, 2005 11:29:25 GMT -5
HEY! im not coming to this thread no more!!!! so many spoiler warnings! im getting mini heart attacks!
just wanted to let aims noe im fine...
im good aims! miss ya!
n this is it... this thread is off limits for me now.....
tsk tsk....
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Post by sweetsangria on Jul 25, 2005 10:37:55 GMT -5
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Post by redcloud on Jul 25, 2005 11:41:22 GMT -5
why scary?
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Post by Mary on Jul 26, 2005 18:33:13 GMT -5
I've read it. I think Ruiz's grandfather was the 'shaman'. It's a quick read and it's all common-sense type stuff when you think about it, but still, that book really made an impression on me. I still try to do better with agreements 2 & 3. Those are the hardest for me, especially 2. |
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Post by *Herry* on Jul 27, 2005 0:49:56 GMT -5
I'm doing lots of reading this semester for uni.
One of the readings this week for my Writing As Social Practice subject was quite confronting:
"Available Discourses on Aborigines" by Stephen Muecke
You are a white Australian. Aborigines first appear in your discourse in pronouns of the third person plural and according to a politics of case-marking: You talk about them (not with them); the third person plural is here both objective (accusative) and beneficiary: you do things to them, and for them. This is not a pronoun of passive action (by them) or location (to them, or with, next to, beside them); you might be vigilant over them and you are never under them in any metaphoric displacement of your postition....
And it goes on...
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Post by redcloud on Jul 27, 2005 2:37:28 GMT -5
"Available Discourses on Aborigines" by Stephen Muecke You are a white Australian. Aborigines first appear in your discourse in pronouns of the third person plural and according to a politics of case-marking: You talk about them (not with them); the third person plural is here both objective (accusative) and beneficiary: you do things to them, and for them. This is not a pronoun of passive action ( by them) or location ( to them, or with, next to, beside them); you might be vigilant over them and you are never under them in any metaphoric displacement of your postition.... And it goes on... Why do they have to write instructions in Chinese?? |
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