The book topic

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Katy wrote:

The Witch of Blackbird Pond--read that in 8th Grade English and really enjoyed it.

Haha! Everyone loves that book. I remember it from Year 6 - we were on a road trip around the US over your summer, and I spent so much time reading books. Mostly cheap ones from second hand bookstores and op shops - living out the car the whole summer so couldn't take heaps back with us therefore no point in buying lots of new books. But I reread that one a few times - I hope I still have it, actually. I want to give it to any daughters I might have in case they'd like to read it too.

Regarding Ted Dekker and such - I don't know why, but I don't like his books. Neither Frank Peretti. Or that "Left Behind" series. I realise I'm definitely a minority in this. I'm not sure why, I just can't get into them. I read another Christian fiction book and liked it, but can't remember the title or the author. The book had a blue cover, if that helps. Laughing

I've read a few other Christian fiction books come to think of it, but the main names people mention (except the romance ones) I don't seem to enjoy reading.

At the moment, I'm reading Middlemarch. This will continue for a long time, seeing as I'm also reading about 20 textbooks at the same time...

Subject: Re: The book topic Sat May 09, 2009 2:55 am

I'm with you there, Kim. I don't really like Christian fiction either. Embarassed

I enjoyed quite a few of the Thoenes' books (not the recent ones because they seem to have gone downhill, but the earlier ones), but beyond that I've always been disappointed so I've given up reading them. There are far too many good books to be read in the world to waste time on them!

Hmmm, Middlemarch...good luck! It's huge! Razz

I wasn't massively keen, but I do know people who have loved it so you might fall into that group!

Subject: Re: The book topic Sun May 10, 2009 8:50 pm

I'm reading "Tamar" by Francine Rivers, it's part of her Lineage of Grace series. It's pretty good so far!

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Subject: Re: The book topic Sun May 10, 2009 9:21 pm

EnglishRose wrote:

I enjoyed quite a few of the Thoenes' books (not the recent ones because they seem to have gone downhill, but the earlier ones)

Mmm, I concur Sad

I'm fussy with any books I read - they need to be well written, and not just be on the "right" topic, and not just the same old story re-hashed by a different author (ie. like a lot of the Christian romance stuff).

I've just finished The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas... wow, good book! It's funny, as it's written from a 9yo boy's perspective (a German boy, the son of someone very high up in the Nazi regime) - ie. he refers to a man called the Fury (Fuhrer) and his dad moves the family for his new job to a place called "Out With" (Auchswitz). Which is actually a bit of an inconsistency, as only someone who spoke English would make that mistake, not a 9yo German boy, but anyway!! I'm going to go see the movie with mum sometime soon.

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queenbee wrote:

I've just finished The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas... wow, good book! It's funny, as it's written from a 9yo boy's perspective (a German boy, the son of someone very high up in the Nazi regime) - ie. he refers to a man called the Fury (Fuhrer) and his dad moves the family for his new job to a place called "Out With" (Auchswitz). Which is actually a bit of an inconsistency, as only someone who spoke English would make that mistake, not a 9yo German boy, but anyway!! I'm going to go see the movie with mum sometime soon.

Let me tell you, the movie is really really gripping. I heard it was good and my family decided to rent it, only knowing the basic gist of the story. Get tissues, really. I'm not a person who really cries about movies (except you know, when they Old Yeller dies at the end of his movie and when Marley dies at the end of Marley and Me, but I'm a big softie when it comes to my dogs) but this one I just had to bawl at the end. It was heartbreaking. I'd say it is a good movie to watch to understand the horrors of concentration camps, but not one to see more than once. At least in my opinion.

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Subject: Re: The book topic Mon May 11, 2009 3:12 pm

Yeah, I saw the film recently too and found it really really moving. Sad

I didn't know the ending so it was even more powerful!

Subject: Re: The book topic Mon May 11, 2009 6:27 pm

yeah I thought it was really sad. Sad

Subject: Re: The book topic Mon May 11, 2009 6:31 pm

Yeah, the ending was such a shock reading it! Kind of expected given previous references to the fence wires, but still, I didn't expect THAT!! Shocked

But I won't say more, because I don't want to spoil it for others!!

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Subject: Re: The book topic Tue Jun 09, 2009 4:52 am

I'm reading A Thousand Splendid Suns, about women in Afghanistan. It's so sad...I had no idea. Sad

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I finished A Tale of Two Cities the other day. GREAT book!
Now I'm reading The Great Gatsby...which is really strange.

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Subject: Re: The book topic Tue Jun 09, 2009 7:26 pm

I'm reading "Equipped to Love: Building Idolatry-free Relationships" by Norm Wakefield. It's most excellent and I highly recommend it.

My favourite paragraph so far:

Norm Wakefield wrote:

Love can only take place when a relationship is free from idolatry and a person recognizes God as the source of everything. The moment we look to someone to be the source of supplying our happiness or comfort, we put them in the place of God. At that point, loving that person with the love of God becomes an impossibility.

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Lily Among Thorns wrote:

I finished A Tale of Two Cities the other day. GREAT book!
Now I'm reading The Great Gatsby...which is really strange.

One of the weirdest books ever...even worse was the movie version of the Grapes of Wrath. We should have listened to our teacher when she said we wouldn't want to watch it!

I just finished a Princess Diaries book (a "brain candy" book admist all my textbooks)..and I'm really looking forward to the new Katie Weldon book coming out

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*gasp* When does the new Katie Weldon book come out?! I'm so excited now!!

If I remember correctly, I really liked The Great Gatsby when we read it my junior year...

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Katy wrote:

*gasp* When does the new Katie Weldon book come out?! I'm so excited now!!

If I remember correctly, I really liked The Great Gatsby when we read it my junior year...

I think they said July 1st..and from the summary, it sounds like it's really going to wrap up the series completely Shocked

which is sad!

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It's only the third book in the series!!!!!!!! affraid

Didn't the Christy and Sierra series both have 12 books?? Grumpy

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