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What are you reading?
Topic Started: Jun 7 2008, 09:15 AM (97 Views)
Lykaios	Jun 7 2008, 09:15 AM Post #1
Administrator Posts: 669 Group: Admins Member #1 Joined: May 23, 2008	I am reading The Dragonfly Pool by Eva Ibbotson. It's set during WW2 London and a girl called Tally is offered the chance to attend a progressive school in Devon where things aren't like they are in normal schools. The teachers are as mad as the kids, mad biology lessons at four in the morning and a school trip to a magical country where the young prince is in danger . . . Please include: Title Author Book Number (if it's a series) Brief description/blurb.
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Lightning	Jun 9 2008, 07:00 PM Post #2
Bring it on Posts: 198 Group: Members Member #2 Joined: Jun 3, 2008	I'm reading Dariy of a Teenage Girl. It's very good! Title Diary of a Teenage Girl Author Melody Carlson Book Number 3 Brief description/blurb. A girl name Catlin O'Conner is strugling with friends and God, and she wants to become a missionary... (3ed book. The first one is A LOT more interesting!) Edited by Lightning, Jun 10 2008, 06:21 PM.



Argentum	Jun 24 2008, 07:07 PM Post #3
Pirate Wannabe Posts: 129 Group: Moderator Member #8 Joined: Jun 21, 2008	The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde Dorian Gray, an extremely handsome young man, has an artist paint a picture of him, which turns out to be the artist's finest work. Dorian is so much in raptures with his beauty that he wishes that the painting will age while he remains the same. As you expect, he gets his wish, and as the story goes on, the picture begins to show his true inner ugilness.
	'People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... ...and I keep it in a jar on my desk.' - Stephen King


Lykaios	Aug 22 2009, 06:39 PM Post #4
Administrator Posts: 669 Group: Admins Member #1 Joined: May 23, 2008	My Sister's Keeper By Jodi Picoult Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate - a life and a role that she has never questioned… until now. Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to question who she truly is. But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister - and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable… a decision that will tear her family apart and have perhaps fatal consequences for the sister she loves. She decides to sue her parents for the rights to her own body.
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Wannabe Writer	Aug 23 2009, 07:58 PM Post #5
Fountain Pen Posts: 251 Group: Moderator Member #27 Joined: Feb 8, 2009	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix J.K. Rowling Book 5 Um, I'm re-reading this, but it's about a boy named Harry who's a wizard and goes to a wizarding school called Hogwarts. Basically, this book is about Harry and the Order of the Phoenix as they fight against Voldemort and the Death Eaters grow stronger.



Lykaios	Sep 3 2009, 09:41 PM Post #6
Administrator Posts: 669 Group: Admins Member #1 Joined: May 23, 2008	The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins. Twenty-four are forced to enter. Only the winner survives. In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Each year, the districts are forced by the Capitol to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the Hunger Games, a brutal and terrifying ﬁght to the death - televised for all of Panem to see. Survival is second nature for sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who struggles to feed her mother and younger sister by secretly hunting and gathering beyond the fences of District 12. When Katniss steps in to take the place of her sister in the Hunger Games, she knows it may be her death sentence. If she is to survive, she must weigh survival against humanity and life against love. --- From the book's website. I read the first chapter online after a reccomendation and have now bought the first two books. So far, so good, they're fast-paced, engaging and different. The writing's not brilliant with random flashbacks and occasional infodumps, but I'm loving it so far. Edited by Lykaios, Sep 3 2009, 09:43 PM.
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Wannabe Writer	Sep 4 2009, 11:52 AM Post #7
Fountain Pen Posts: 251 Group: Moderator Member #27 Joined: Feb 8, 2009	Over Sea, Under Stone The Dark is Rising Sequence, #1 By Susan Cooper On holiday in Cornwall, the three Drew children discover an ancient map in the attic of the house that they are staying in. They know immediately that it is special. It is even more than that- the key to finding a grail, a source of power to fight the forces of evil known as the Dark. And in searching for it themselves, the Drew put their very lives in peril. That's from the back of the book, and that's all I know right now, anyway. But it's a really good book so far.



Lykaios	Sep 11 2009, 10:23 PM Post #8
Administrator Posts: 669 Group: Admins Member #1 Joined: May 23, 2008	The Street Philosopher By Matthew Plampin There was another war, some 150 years ago, which was unpopular at home -- the death rate shocking, the military strategy confused -- and the first on which the media had a major influence. Ambitious young journalist Thomas Kitson arrives at the battlefields of the Crimea as the London Courier's man on the ground. It is a dangerous place, full of the worst horrors of war but Kitson is determined to make his mark. Under the tutelage of his hard-bitten Irish boss Cracknell, and assisted by artist Robert Styles, he sets about exposing the incompetence of the army generals. Two years later, as Sebastopol burns, Thomas returns to England under mysterious circumstances. Desperate to forget the atrocities of the Crimea, he takes a job as a 'street philosopher', a society writer reporting on the gossip of the day. But on the eve of the great Art Treasures Exhibition, as Manchester prepares to welcome Queen Victoria, Thomas's past returns to haunt him in the most horrifying way... I bought this because I had money and the cover was pretty . . . xD It's very good so far, lovely writing and an engaging story.
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