Happy New Year & Thank you!!

[Anna_Louise]

Happy New Year to everyone! May the new year bring us all dreams, hope, love and joy! 

Thanks, Paul & B&N...received my book yesterday and can't wait to get started reading on this snowy day in Maryland!

Anna Louise

[retromom]

Thank you Donna! Happy New Year to all the book clubbers! May your New Year be full of great books and stories! I am ringing in the New Year at home with family, food and some reading. I just started Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman. What a great book so far! A great book to start the New Year with.

[kitkat2230]

I see that a few people are reading or have just read Her Fearful Symmetry. That was such a great book! I loved reading it and I hope that whom ever is reading it is enjoying as much as I did. I also see that there were a few people who have just read The Historian. I loved that book as well. The author of that book as a new book coming out on January 12 called The Swan Thieves. I can't wait to get it! I'm currently reading Prophecy of the Sisters, yes I love to read young adult books! So far it's a great book. I can't wait to finish it in order to start the first look book! I hope everyone has a good New Year!

[jb70]

My book arrived yesterday as well, it was waiting for me when I brought me kids back from a holiday festival! 

I guess I am going to have to move Her Fearful Symmetry up my TBR pile, I won it in a contest a month or so ago and just haven't gotten around to starting it.  I am trying to finish books that I borrowed from friends and family or agreed to review first.  Also I need to stop going places where I might buy books because my house is ready to explode!

[babzilla41]

Happy New Year everyone!  "Eternal" has arrived in central New York...just in time for the snowy long weekend.

[AIRKNITTER]

I have only one regret in this life...that I have not had the opportunity to "stand Cormac McCarthy to a whiskey". There is a minor concern I have about what his childhood was like though.

[coffee_luvr]

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kitkat2230 wrote:

I see that a few people are reading or have just read Her Fearful Symmetry. That was such a great book! I loved reading it and I hope that whom ever is reading it is enjoying as much as I did. I also see that there were a few people who have just read The Historian. I loved that book as well. The author of that book as a new book coming out on January 12 called The Swan Thieves. I can't wait to get it! I'm currently reading Prophecy of the Sisters, yes I love to read young adult books! So far it's a great book. I can't wait to finish it in order to start the first look book! I hope everyone has a good New Year!

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Thank-you for sharing about the new book from Elizabeth Kostova; The Historian is one of my all time favs so I appreciate your sharing that she has a new book coming out.  I love to read books by the same author.

[coffee_luvr]

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Anna_Louise wrote:

Happy New Year to everyone! May the new year bring us all dreams, hope, love and joy! 

Thanks, Paul & B&N...received my book yesterday and can't wait to get started reading on this snowy day in Maryland!

Anna Louise

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Oh, I hope my copy comes to No. VA soon!!!  I am trying to wait to start anything else before it arrives.......

[GadgetgirlKS]

The Historian is one of my favorite books of all time. I was extremely lucky to be given an advance copy of The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova and finished it before Christmas. While it is completely different than the Historian (a much lighter read), I really enjoyed it.

On another note, I haven't been to work since yesterday morning and won't be back until Monday. I am wondering if my book is sitting in my work mailbox patiently waiting for me.

Happy New Years!

[scnole]

Thanks for the update on the new book by the author of "The Historian".  I throughly enjoyed that book - and look forward to reading " The Swan Thieves."   The First Look Book club is a great place for recommendations on new reading material.

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kitkat2230 wrote:

I see that a few people are reading or have just read Her Fearful Symmetry. That was such a great book! I loved reading it and I hope that whom ever is reading it is enjoying as much as I did. I also see that there were a few people who have just read The Historian. I loved that book as well. The author of that book as a new book coming out on January 12 called The Swan Thieves. I can't wait to get it! I'm currently reading Prophecy of the Sisters, yes I love to read young adult books! So far it's a great book. I can't wait to finish it in order to start the first look book! I hope everyone has a good New Year!

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[Vermontcozy]

Happy New Year ..My Post Office closed early..Book is waiting for me..Looking forward to Saturday to pick it up.....A  Toast to all.!!.Vtc....

[scnole]

I feel your pain about your house ready to explode with books.   I have the same problem - books are everywhere.  

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jb70 wrote:

My book arrived yesterday as well, it was waiting for me when I brought me kids back from a holiday festival! 

I guess I am going to have to move Her Fearful Symmetry up my TBR pile, I won it in a contest a month or so ago and just haven't gotten around to starting it.  I am trying to finish books that I borrowed from friends and family or agreed to review first.  Also I need to stop going places where I might buy books because my house is ready to explode!

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[Sunltcloud]

Happy New Year to all of you First Lookers. I guess I won't get my book until next year; California is too far from the mothership to be first in line for delivery. But I do wish everybody in the group who has gotten a copy Happy Reading.

[milkamilka]

Happy New Year to all! I can't wait to receive my copy of the book!

I just read 'Wintergirls' by Laurie Halse Andersen. First time for a long time a book made me speecless. I had to stay up late to finish with the book, I just couldn't put it down.

[Popper19]

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coffee_luvr wrote:

Day after Night

  

My bookclub just selected the latest Anita Diamant book for our next read.  I read The Red Tent a few years ago and really liked it.  Has anyone read her new one and if so, what did you think of it?

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I just finished this a week ago. I loved it.  Have you started it yet?

[Popper19]

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pen21 wrote:

I read the Road this year. That was one of the best books I have read.

I was completely involved with the characters, but not one name was used in the book.

That still baffles me to have a whole book without a name used, just son, father, etc.

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Zia01 wrote:

I just finished listening to the audiobook version of the road. What a powerfully dark read. It will stick with me for some time to come.

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 I agree....it was one of the best books I've read too.  It evoked so much emotion in me.  I think it hit me hard also because I have a young son and I just kept putting myself in the father's shoes and it was heartbreaking.

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[Coral50]

Hi Deb

I read The Historian a year or so ago. I remember it took awhile but I have labeled it a keeper for my bookshelf so it did make an impression on me.

I like to take books to my used book store and get credit towards more books, but there are many books I still can't part with for one reason or another.

Cora

<<<<<<Also finally finished The Historian in December. That one took me a while. I was visiting family in North Carolina: kept starting and stopping for various reasons during the trip. One break from the book was because I needed to reread Dracula by Bram Stoker.goin<<<<<

[CharminKB]

Happy New Year to all!!  I am very excited to get my book and begin reading it!  I have had the good fortune to read many books this past year and hope to have the time for just as many this coming year!!  I am working on my masters degree, so my reading has turned towards very light reads - and one of my very favorite that I read this year was "Confessions of a Shopaholic" - as a big shopper myself, this not only hit home but was the perfect book to relax and get a good chuckle with!!!  I also stumbled upon a book browsing the bookstore called "Fairest of them All" - it was the story of the evil queen from Disney's Snow White.  While it was a YA book, it was also a very light, quick read that was really quite interesting!! 

This year I opened up to lots of different authors ranging from Stephenie Meyer to Rocko Mediate (PGA Golfer!) and my favorite, Stephen King.  I will also say that of all the books I read this year, I didn't find one that I didn't like:-)  It was a good year!

I hope for a good new year to all!!!

Kristina

[Amanda-Louise]

Thanks for the tip - I'll definitely keep with it as I want to stick with the series.  I've had to put it aside, though as I needed to read The Mistress of the Art of Death for my local bookclub.   I really hate to think of the time I wasted on that one.

A friend of mine also loaned me Under The Dome which I also have to put aside now and again to read other things.  I'm reading it right now while I wait for the first look, but I'll pick it up again.  It will be what I read between session of our new book.

Amanda

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Fozzie wrote:

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I just finished Drums of Autumn.  It really picks up about 300 pages in.   I liked it so much that I immediately began The Fiery Cross.

[floreader]

Happy New Year to all!

I can't wait to get the book and start reading.  I just finished Gone to the Dogs by Mary Guterson (LOVED it!)  and am ready for the new First Look to arrive on my doorstep!