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I just finished Sarah's Key. It was fantastic.

I tried for the second time to get through a Laurell K. Hamilton book and am now accepting that it's just not my thing.

Now I'm finally starting The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. And of course I have something smutty going on the side but I can't remember the name.
 

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Finished What the Night Knows by Dean Koontz. Arguably his best in years. Really enjoyed it. A creepy ghost story with a twist.

Also finished The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Was on hold at the library for months, but so worth the wait. One of the best dystopian books I have read. Read it in a little over a day. If you like YA, and want a strong female MC that doesn't need saving, you need to read it.

Now I am reading the second book in the series, Catching Fire.
 

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Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman's Manufacturing Consent, a little break from fiction and also a useful source of information about media manipulation, which has given me some lovely new vocabulary for my screenplay about spin doctors.
 

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The Help by Kathryn Sockett. It's a huge relief to read a great novel after the last two crappy ones I've read.
 

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When the Killing's Done

Not what I normally read but, it is well written, good read.
 

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Finished Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins. I am obsessed with this series! If I can't pick up Mockingjay at the library, I might just go out and buy it.
 

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I started reading Pistol Whipped Bee's memoir, Saturation, and couldn't stop. Thanks a lot, PWB, don't you know I am supposed to be doing my workout? ;)
 

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Just finished A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness...FANTASTIC!

Next up is Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer.
 

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"Fair Warning" by Robert Olen Butler
 

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Finished Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher. Now reading Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, based on my sister's recommendation.
 

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Horns, by Joe Hill.


The writing is unbelievable! I loved Heart-Shaped Box so had to read Horns. Now I'm a Joe Hill addict.

Talent runs in that family for sure!
 

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I'm reading Mordecai: The Life and Times by Charles Foran. It's a 700-page biography of Mordecai Richler. He was an interesting dude. I saw him lecture once at my university.
 

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Life As We Knew It by Susan Pfeffer and Floodland by Marcus Sedgwick were okay. Very young YA.
Next up Exodus by Julie Bertagna
and Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver.
 

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I read Hunger Games just a week ago, and in a little over a day. Loved it. Just finished Catching Fire, and that one was great too.

If I had the time, I think I could finish it in a day. I am enjoying it, though, and trying to read every chance I get.
 

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Nearly finished with Joan Hess, The Merry Wives of Maggody. Good thing I don't have to pass a quiz on it.

The concept of a golf tournament in a quickly made golf course in a backwoods hillbilly town to benefit the golf widows is funny, though, as are the bizarre characters. The names alone are worth the price of the book. But she does weird things with point of view. She knows what she is doing, but the jumps are still jarring sometimes.

--Ken