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What are you all reading at the moment?
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9/12/03, 6:18 am
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Nothing ATM, but I've got to read Pinocchio for a book report. :roar:
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9/12/03, 3:57 pm
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I posted this topic then realised I'm only at the beginning of my new book. 
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9/12/03, 4:01 pm
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Well, I have 20 books I've got started-- 3 more than halfway done, lol-- and still have to take care of school reading! Last book I completed was for a paper last spring, so I'll do that...
Author: Willa Cather
Title: My ntonia
Plot summary: the reflections of a man on his childhood friend ntonia, a Bohemian Czech immigrant. Set in Nebraska, very much a book of remembrance and longing.
Comments: Good but a bit hard for younger people like myself. I found out that Cather never wanted high school students to read it-- a bit late found that-- saying she 'didn't want them to hate [her]'. I don't hate her, but I can see the wisdom because I am at a very different point in my life-- very much looking forward-- whereas this book is more mid-life, and very much looking back.
Rating: 7/10
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9/13/03, 9:03 am
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Thea
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Sounds quite good Zee  Good luck with all that reading lol.
Sorry your last book was so stupid Cheers :unsure: 
I've never read Pinocchio Luth, let us know what it's like!
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9/13/03, 11:33 am
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I have been reading:
Author: Chaim Potok
Title: The Chosen
Plot summary: Reuven Malter, a conservative Jew, and Danny Saunders, an Orthodox Hassidic Jew, form a friendship and struggle through the religious conflict between their fathers and their own beliefs. And that's a really silly summary but oh well. 
Comments: I love this book.  Read it.
Rating: 9/10
AND ALSO:
Author: Chaim Potok
Title: The Promise
Plot summary: (This time I'm stealing from the back of the book) For young Reuven Malter, it is a time of testing. With his teachers, he struggles for recognition of his radical methods of scholarship. With his old friend Danny Saunders - who himself had abandoned his legacy as the chosen heir to his father's rabbinical dynasty for the uncertain life of a healer - he battles to save a sensitive boy imprisoned by his genius and rage, defeated by the same forces of an unyielding past that challenge Reuven. Painfully and, at last, triumphantly, Reuven grows into a guardian of the ancient, sacred promise to his people, while earning his hard-fought right to make his own beginning. (whew!)
Comments: The sequel to The Chosen. I love Chaim Potok. If you want to know about them, ask me. Otherwise I don't quite know what to say.
Rating: 9/10
So, I was and am reading those, but I was talking to emilyandilse last night about children's books, which is my favorite thing of all, so I got kind of nostalgic last night and now I'm also reading:
Author: Eloise McGraw
Title: The Moorchild
Plot summary: A child that doesn't fit in discovers she's a changeling, "an ugly, stupid, or strange child superstitiously believed to have been left by fairies in place of a pretty, charming child", and decides to retrieve her parent's lost child.
Comments: I read this when I was about in 3rd grade and I still love it. :teehee:
Rating: 7/10
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Author: Noel Streatfield
Title: Ballet Shoes
Plot summary: A to-some-people-very-boring-but-to-me-lovely book about three orphans who are adopted as babies and make up the "Fossil" family, who join The Children's Academy of Dancing and Training in London to earn money for their family, and learn to act, dance, sing, etc. Read it at Christmas.
Comments: Aww....I love this book....
Rating: 7/10
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9/13/03, 1:28 pm
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Author: Noel Streatfield
Title: Ballet Shoes
Wasn't this the book mentioned in You've Got Mail? 
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9/14/03, 12:56 pm
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Yepperoni. But I read it waaay before I saw that movie.
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