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11 December 2015
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I finished the GE food book and returned it to the library today. I also checked out two more books today.

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God , No!: Signs You May Already Be An Atheist and Other Magical Tales by Penn Jillette. 

 

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History Of The American Cinema: An Evening’s Entertainment: The Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1915-1928 by Richard Koszarski.

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I’ll be starting 

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this afternoon, it looks like I’ll be finished the series before Christmas so yay! 

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Reading this book in my English class:

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Just finished reading the first chapter. I can already tell I’m going to like this book

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Still. I’ve picked up others here and there tho.

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natureaker said

Reading this book in my English class:

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Just finished reading the first chapter. I can already tell I’m going to like this book

S.E. Hinton came to speak to my library association just a few years ago. She is from Oklahoma! What a cool woman!

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Still struggling on with Shelby Foote, I’ve almost reached the end of part 1 god help me.

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Browsing a variety of classical music dictionaries and encyclopaedias to support the classical music tsunami that is just commencing at my place.

I think the move of house triggered it, though it may have been about time in my music-listening cycle anyway.

Even though my CD collection is now a lot more compact in shelf space, it’s still reasonably large (even after giving away around 350 CDs last month) – HKL was rather amazed when she saw it. I have somehow gone from 2 complete Beethoven symphony cycles to 3, with a few extras of my 3 favourites (5, 6 and 9).

Same with the books; lesser in number – higher in quality.

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Still. I’ve picked up others here and there tho.

Less then 50 pages to go. I might get it finished before the end of the year.

Absolutely no idea what I will read next. Will be strange not lugging around a tome everywhere I go.

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 Currently Reading:

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I’m onto the final one, I’ll be sad when I’ve finished it- I really, really like the Harry Potter series and I still think it is my favourite series of all time.

I haven’t read this one in at least 4 years so I’m looking forward to it- I read the first chapter and I was just really excited to keep on going- but I’ll have to wait until tonight before I can pick it up again 🙁

 

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AppleScruffJunior said
I’ll be sad when I’ve finished it

They are making a canon play that continues the story so you’re kinda not done with the main series. Also there are the little stories like the fairy tales, the sports book and fantastic beast and where to find them (They are making a movie out of that one)

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ewe2 said
Still struggling on with Shelby Foote, I’ve almost reached the end of part 1 god help me.

Stick with it, @ewe2.  They are worth it.  I took some time off between and sometimes during my read of the books, but they are so well written and so full of descriptive detail that they keep drawing you back. I can still remember certain vivid passages, like the death of JEB Stuart, and many of the vignettes featuring Lincoln. 

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Stick with it, @ewe2.  They are worth it.  I took some time off between and sometimes during my read of the books, but they are so well written and so full of descriptive detail that they keep drawing you back.

Yes, I’m aware its not history in any sense that satisfies an academic, but he gets the spirit of the times and the personalities so right, I’m quite happy to settle for a great tale even if he repeats urban myths like the soldier who diaried his own death. I find it an amazingly fair account from a Southerner, he doesn’t spare Davis nor the secessionists. And whether his insight into Lincoln is valid or not (has any biography really grasped the man?), I love Lincoln’s jokes and his ability to manage all those maniacs yelling at him to do this or that or the other. I will read a “proper” history later.

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Annadog40 said
They are making a canon play that continues the story so you’re kinda not done with the main series. Also there are the little stories like the fairy tales, the sports book and fantastic beast and where to find them (They are making a movie out of that one)

Do you know what the play is called?

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KaleidoscopeMusic said

Annadog40 said
They are making a canon play that continues the story so you’re kinda not done with the main series. Also there are the little stories like the fairy tales, the sports book and fantastic beast and where to find them (They are making a movie out of that one)

Do you know what the play is called?

The Cursed Child

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Annadog40 said

AppleScruffJunior said
I’ll be sad when I’ve finished it

They are making a canon play that continues the story so you’re kinda not done with the main series. Also there are the little stories like the fairy tales, the sports book and fantastic beast and where to find them (They are making a movie out of that one)

I’ve read all of them- The Fantastic Beasts’ trailer looks…interesting but it does seem like just a massive cash-in making a movie based on a textbook in the HP universe. The Tales of Beedle the Bard would make a great mini-tv series, if they animated them in a similar way to the the way ‘The Tale of the Three Brothers’ was done in the film and extended them a bit.

I won’t be going to London at any time soon to see the Cursed Child but I hope they do a live cinema broadcast sometime.

 

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I think there’s little doubt that if The Cursed Child is judged a success then it will soon be a two part movie (the stage production is already a two-parter).

It does seem JK is starting to accept that she is trapped in HP’s world as a writer. TCC could just be the beginning, just testing the waters to see how the world responds to a grown-up Harry.

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Maybe she’ll ghost write some books to escape the fame.

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She’s already published three crime novels under the name Robert Galbraith since HP, @Starr Shine?. While they were moderate successes, much of the success could be said to be down to the revelation that RG was really JK.

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I knew she wrote one other novel. I never knew about her crime novels.

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I read and enjoyed her first adult-novel The Casual Vacancy and I read her first detective novel and liked it as well but Jo won’t ever escape the ‘Author of Harry Potter’ image and I think she’s fine with that. She never expected HP to blow up the way it did and the fact that she had it planned out since the early ’90’s shows that she wasn’t just in it for ‘take the money and go’.

 

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