I'm not sure if anyone else has mentioned these books but I'm going to give them an announcement anyway.



A child called It

The Lost boy

A Man named Dave.



They are all written by David Pelzer and it tells the story of his life. It's horrible the things that he had to go through. I definitely recommend these books.

-Demona-



If anything should move your soul, it would have to be that of the fatal touch. The prick of death leads you either into the true virtues of goodness or to the true deceit of evil. Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub228.ezboard.com/bsiriusblackfanclub.showUserPublicProfile?gid=devilsobsession>Devils Obsession[/url] at: 1/1/04 8:03 pm

I'm reading two great books right now. The first is a fiction novel about two cousins that get into the comic book business during World war two, called The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon. My cousins gave it to me for the holidays, and it's really pretty good, although I'm only slightly more than halfway done.



The second is a history book, believe it or not, Lies Across America. It's by James Loewen, and it's fantastic. Basically what he did was go around to all these historical markers and monuments around the country, and then shows how they omit important facts, or just flat out lie about what supposedly happened at the sites. I've previously read his other book, Lies My Teacher Told Me, and I recommend both, even for those not specifically interested in American history. They're so well written, and so brutally and unabashedly honest, I think it's worth anyone's while to read them.



I just felt the need to share. I get so excited about good books that I just can't help myself. :DD



ife



<span style="color:black;font-family:Geneva;font-size:large;]Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.[/color]<span style="color:black;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:small;] - Kurt Vonnegut[/color]Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub228.ezboard.com/bsiriusblackfanclub.showUserPublicProfile?gid=aoife@siriusblackfanclub>aoife[/url]&nbsp; at: 1/2/04 9:16 pm

My mom came home from one of her friend's house with a huge armful of books yesterday and although we only sometimes share the same interest in books, she picked great ones this time. After hearing about the new Girl With a Pearl Earringmovie and being guinely interesting in it, I wanted to read the book. Well, included in the books my mom brought home was that one. I immediately snatched it up and finished reading it this morning. It is so good. I love the historical fiction type books so this one was right up my alley. It was great and certainly not what I was expecting, it managed to take the famous painting a draw a completely enthralling story line from it. I would definately recommend it.



Edit: Ah...Ms. E put a post about this book in the cinema forum. Sorry for repeating anything. Cheers Ms. E, seems we have good taste.

<span style="color:maroon;font-family:arial narrow font;font-size:small;]-atomi



*Success is the best revenge



*The fact that no one understands you doesn't make you an artist.



*&quot;We're not sheep&quot;[/color]Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub228.ezboard.com/bsiriusblackfanclub.showUserPublicProfile?gid=atomicice>atomic ice[/url]&nbsp; at: 1/18/04 9:44 pm

Ohhhh.. Yes, now I can post my favorite books.



Right now, I'm reading the series &quot;So, you want to be a wizard?&quot; by: Diane Duane.. only on the second page because I just got it.. but so far, so good. Another great series, extremely hilarious are the books by Louise Rennison, such as Dancing in my Nuddy Pants.. My cousin showed me the book and ever since I have been hooked on the series.



Anywho, I think it was Crimson who first made the comment about LoTR--same here, I tried reading the series in eighth grade and just gave up by chapter two, it does kill.



Oh, The Dark is Rising series is awesome.. I love it.



The Count of Monte Cristo BY Alexandre Dumas



The Mists Of Avalon.. awesome series.. I love all books on Merlin and history.



I'm pretty sure someone mentioned The Royal Diaries.. They are children's books, but I love them dearly, I love all historic Fiction.. One of my personal favorites is Fever 1793.



One of my favorite authors is James Patterson.. and I can't wait to read his new Novel: The Big Bad Wolf...I recommend Kiss the Girls by him



Hmm.. I've read one of Anne Rice's novels and Loved it--Pandora, pretty great.



Another great book is Blood and Chocolate.. I recommend.. a werewolf book.



And The Redwall series by Brian Jacques... awesome series.. totally loved it.. all the different accents were great.



Has anyone else ever read a book where a character has a harsh or different accent and then start thinking in that accent in your mind.. because that happens to me all the time.<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :shrug --><img src=http://pages.prodigy.net/siriusblack/boards/smilies/shrug.gif ALT=":shrug]<!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> maybe it's just me.



Well, enough of my rambling.. If I go on and list all my favorite books--I might have to make this post three pages.



Oh.. just a quick tidbit--I've read The Horse Whisperer and it's an awesome book, but the end.. is horrible.. got me very mad.* One by one the Muggles steal my sanity... *



~semper ubi sub ubi~



--Circe Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub228.ezboard.com/bsiriusblackfanclub.showUserPublicProfile?gid=chibicirce>ChibiCirce[/url] at: 3/14/04 3:11 pm

Oooh, Circe, I LOVE the Louise Rennison books! I've read them all, but I borrowed them off a friend so I want to buy them all at some point. They're hilarious.



I also love the 'Shopaholic' series by Sophie Kinsella, about a woman who loves to shop in a big way - her spending is out of control, she's getting more and more into debt and her bank manager's out for blood - she knows all this - but she just has to have that new jumper! And those shoes. And that book. And surely a couple of magazines can't hurt?? And maybe a new coat?



I loved it because I'm a hell of a shopaholic myself, and the parts where she was justifying her spending to herself just rang so true with me, even though you can see she doesn't really need the things.



I've also just started reading The Fellowship of the Ring, and thus far have found it pretty hard going. There seems to be a heckuva lot about trees. But things are starting to pick up now and get more interesting, and I'm sure by the time I reach The Two Towers I will be hooked. I know there's more trees coming, though... <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :sweat --><img src=http://pages.prodigy.net/siriusblack/boards/smilies/sweatdrop.gif ALT=":sweat]<!--EZCODE EMOTICON END-->



I also read Midnight and Best Friends by Jacqueline Wilson, her two most recent releases. (I'm a sucker for kids books.) Of the two I preferred Midnight, though I could identify with the theme of being scared you'd lose your best friend if they moved away that was in 'Best Friends', as my friends have all moved away to Uni so I don't see them much. Midnight was about a girl who loved this series of books about fairies, and how loving fairies at her age was seen as being a bit sad by a lot of kids her age, but how she didn't care. She admired the author greatly and in the end she ... well, I won't spoil it for you. A great book, with some lovely descriptions.



I doubt I'll read much else for a while now I've got LOTR on the go (and despite the over-abundance of trees, I am really enjoying it), but I've got a huge list of to-be-reads, including Northern Lights, Sabriel and a load of others. Which should keep me going for a while. :DD



madzilla -x-

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Just finished a new book a while ago, so of course I've got to babble about it now. It was A Heatbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, and as a matter of fact, the title is not entirely devoid of truth. I'm not much of an autobiography reader typically, but it was astoundingly well written.



Oddly enough, I'd read the first 40 pages or so Last June, as I was waiting for my copy of OotP at Barnes and Noble. It was on my list of 'must buys' for nearly a year, but I did finally get around to reading the whole thing, and it was worth it. It makes me wonder if I'm ever again going to read a book that I don't love, because it seems like I've been enjoying every book I have bought for years.



*knocks on wood*



Don't want to break my winning streak now, do I?



ife



Some mornings it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps. [/b] - Emo Phillips<span style="color:black;font-family:Geneva;font-size:medium;]Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.[/color] <span style="color:black;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:small;] - Kurt Vonnegut[/color]Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub228.ezboard.com/bsiriusblackfanclub.showUserPublicProfile?gid=aoife@siriusblackfanclub>aoife[/url]&nbsp; at: 3/29/04 9:28 pm

I hope to God this wasn't put here before... it would only point out that I didn't bother to read everything before. But I just read the a really good book. It was a simple children's book, but honestly, its one of the best I've ever read, except the fact that its at a grade 5 reading level. Loser is a really good book. Its all about the one kid who is picked on, and it shows how his brain works and everything. I would know, its almost exactly what goes through that kind of child's mind. It also shows that sometimes a really good kid is killed by the behaviour of other kids and the kind of personality everyone should have is present in this kind of kid but when the other kids act the way they do it takes that out of the poor kid. I loved it anyways, it made me cry.

~Trish~



To Fanfics



To Bob Comix

Mrs. T. Norris,

I read Loser, too, and found it so sad, yet it gave me an insight to how a mildly retarded child sees the world around him.

I love Jerry Spinelli. Right now, I am reading Milkweed, by Jerry Spinelli. When a book flows and it takes very little effort to read (almost like the words turn into pictures as you go along) you know it is good.

Another book I just finished and am still reading which are very good are: The Silver Wolf, by Anne Borschardt, and The Dragon Queen (tales of a ruthless Guinevere) also by Anne Borschardt.

As you will probably notice, I read, A LOT!!

I am currently reading, The Lovely Bones, and have read half the book already in two days. Though it can be a little morbid and sad, it really takes into the mind of this fourteen year old girl who has been brutally murdered and dismembered. Shje tells of her experiences in heaven and how she watches her family and others deal with her death. I recommend this as much as I recommend, Milkweed, by Jerry Spinelli..

AA

Hmm . . . let's see. For a while now, I have been reading a lot of detective novels. As Siri will tell you, I am a big fan of the detective, Hercule Poirot, written in 33 novels and many collections of short stories by Agatha Christie. I have also been through a lot of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes as well. To me, the most telling comment Holmes gave on himself (other than Siri and Aoife's Holmesian gesture, "He threw up his hands") was from the case of the Mazarin Stone, that, if you have read a good deal of Holmes, you understand it completely and immediately. He told Watson after looking rather ragged, "I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is mere appendage." I have also started to take a look at Jules Maigret, a French detective written in a series of novels by Georges Simenon. The last detective that I have seen a few of the movies of (translated, of course, from Sicilian to English), is Inspector Salvo Montalbano, a fairly recent creation by Andrea Camilleri.



So, in this interest, maybe I am a Chief Auror after all.



One other thing that has piqued my interest a little is the works of don Miguel Ruiz, in his inspirational works bringing forth ancient Toltec wisdom from the past and applying it for today. Some of his works include, The Four Agreements, The Mastery of Love, and, The Voice of Knowledge. There are some intriguing ideas in those works, but oh well.



But wait . . . there is one other thing I found most joyfully. I believe that Aoife will stand up, throw confetti, and cheer her heart out when she reads this little comment. Recently out on the Leaky Cauldron, an author defended JKR's works, particularly when some try to compare them to C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkein, or others thereof. The author in question is John Irving who wrote such works as A Prayer for Owen Meany (a personal favorite of both Aoife and myself) and The World According to Garp, tales that have such laugh out loud humorous moments as well as tear jerking tragic moments. And his comments were these:



John Irving, author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and The World According to Garp, is speaking next Friday at the 27th annual Marian McFadden Memorial Lecture in Indianapolis, and the Indianapolis Star has an interview with him in this Sunday's edition. He speaks about the Harry Potter books, saying:





Every time I read some kind of ... condescending commentary on Ms. Rowling's work, &quot;Oh, it's not Lewis Carroll, it's not 'Wind in the Willows,' or some [junk]. . .&quot; I think, God, these people have it all wrong. It's difficult stuff, it's challenging vocabulary. They should give her a medal.&quot;





Well, there you have it. Happy reading to all!





Moody





<span style="color:darkblue;] "The essential things are seen with the heart, not with the eyes"-- said the Fox to the Little Prince[/color]

*Stands up, throws confetti and cheers*



More proof that John Irving can do no wrong. (With the possible exception of Simon Birch, the worst movie ever made, but he really didn't have much to do with that, except for giving permission for poor Owen to be re-imagined in such a disgusting way.)



I actually had the pleasure of listening to him give a lecture many years ago, at Michigan State University. I don't remember the exact date, but it was the same night of the Academy Awards where Susan Sarandon won for Dead Man Walking. (Is it sad that I often mark time through television? Perhaps.)



I was seated in the balcony, so he was little more than a grey haired blob, but *dreamy sigh* boy, was that a great night. I don't remember much about what he said, but I do recall that he read the first chapter for the then unreleased Widow for One Year. (which I've heard they're turning into a movie) He also said, quite emphatically, that A Prayer For Owen Meany would never be made into a movie, because no actor on earth would be able to do Owen justice.



*snort* Oh well, I can be forgiving...on occasion.



ife



"Sherlock Holmes threw up his hands"









<span style="color:maroon;font-size:x-small;]If you love something, let it go; If it doesn't come back to you, hunt it down and kill it. [/color]<span style="color:black;font-family:Geneva;font-size:medium;]Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.[/color]<span style="color:black;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:small;] - Kurt Vonnegut[/color]

<span style="color:white;](I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize)[/color]

Hermione20 - I love The Little Prince Here's a link of an e-book for other people who want to know what it is: www.spiritual.com.au/arti...ntents.htm

My other favourite books are:

Don Quixote by Cervates - you have to get the full version of the book for the side stories, which are the main purpose of the book itself. Those stories are wonderful!

The Red and the Black by Stendahl, in fact here's another e-book link I just found www.gutenberg.net.au/eboo...300261.txt it's a romance, though you have to read quite a few chapters to get to that, and the end is shocking.

Oi, %%WORD1%r, I just finished The Lovely Books... it is a great book. Though I didn't like the ending.



Anywho,



I've just finished some other great books, One of them was "Son of the Mob"... I can't remember the author's name, but it was a hilarious book. It's about the son of a mobster just trying to be a normal kid. It's a humorous book and anyone who has liked "The Sopranos" or "The Godfather" would probably like this also.



Be warned: You will laugh your 'head' off ^_^





* One by one the Muggles steal my sanity... *



~semper ubi sub ubi~



--Circe

I agree with Alastor Moody and aoife about A Prayer for Owen Meany and Widow for One Year, which were both great novels. Another that I am quite fond of, outside of the realm of Jane Austen and Shakespeare, is She's Come Undoneby Wally Lamb, a moving novel about a girl suffering with the demons of appearance, rape, life, etc. There is a strange Sci-Fi series by Philip Jose Farmer, the Riverworld saga, that had my interest for a while about a year ago, but the ending was pretty lame.



Other than that, my shelf mainly contains works from classical authors: Tolstoy, Dante, Shakespeare, Austen, the Bronte sisters, etc. Most of these authors are required readings for many students, so undoubtedly many would have read works from them.



And, I must admit, there are a few romance novels on my shelf, those love stories by Nicholas Sparks and Anita Shreve.<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START --><img src=http://pages.prodigy.net/siriusblack/boards/smilies/blush.gif ALT=":blush]<!--EZCODE EMOTICON END-->