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Has anyone read

The Help by Kathryn Stockett?  I want to read it so bad and all 10 copies are either out or on hold at my library! 

I know I could just buy it but it's only in hardcover and I kind of don't like to buy hardcovers b/c a.) they take up more space on my bookshelf and b.) they are not as easy to hold during my commute. 

Re: Has anyone read

  • I haven't read that book, but I know exactly what you mean about hard backs! Plus they always seem to be more expensive, and I find that annoying.

    Actually I really, really wish you could somehow order books online and have them spiral bound. That would make it so much easier for me to read them anytime, and read them while I'm on the treadmill/elliptical at the gym.

  • Hmmm...maybe we should buy Kindles :)
  • imagenataliejp519:
    Hmmm...maybe we should buy Kindles :)

    I really thought I wanted an e-reader, but I love books. I love holding them, I love how they smell, I love the creases that get in the binding. I don't know if I would really like a Kindle, Nook, or any other e-reader. Maybe in a couple of years when they are (hopefully) cheaper! Then we'll see.

  • imagesarlah:

    imagenataliejp519:
    Hmmm...maybe we should buy Kindles :)

    I really thought I wanted an e-reader, but I love books. I love holding them, I love how they smell, I love the creases that get in the binding. I don't know if I would really like a Kindle, Nook, or any other e-reader. Maybe in a couple of years when they are (hopefully) cheaper! Then we'll see.

    My thoughts exactly!

  • imagesarlah:

    imagenataliejp519:
    Hmmm...maybe we should buy Kindles :)

    I really thought I wanted an e-reader, but I love books. I love holding them, I love how they smell, I love the creases that get in the binding. I don't know if I would really like a Kindle, Nook, or any other e-reader. Maybe in a couple of years when they are (hopefully) cheaper! Then we'll see.

    I'm exactly the same way!  I love books so much that my dream is to own a bookstore.  :)

    As for Natalie's question, I haven't read it either but I heard it's really good!  I might cave in and buy the hardback soon.   

    Anniversary
  • I'm reading it right now!! I'm about 1/4 of the way through and I REALLY like it! I'm just really busy right now can't find time to read.  I would send it to you after I'm finished, but I'm a slow reader which means you probably won't get it for a month or so.
    Married 6/10/09 in Bermuda.
  • imagemkerr09:
    I'm reading it right now!! I'm about 1/4 of the way through and I REALLY like it! I'm just really busy right now can't find time to read.  I would send it to you after I'm finished, but I'm a slow reader which means you probably won't get it for a month or so.

    That would be awesome!  I anticipate finishing the book I'm reading now that Esther let me borrow tomorrow and then I have 2 others in line...The Soloist and The Lovely Bones.  And of course, I can send it back to you once I'm through.

  • Natalie - please let me know how The Lovely Bones it. I own it, and I tried to read it... but I couldn't get through the first chapter. I totally do not want to ruin it or spoil it for you in any way, it wasn't that I didn't like the book so far, it was that I had a physically negative reaction to the first part. I know, sounds crazy. It's never happened to be before that or since. So now that book is sitting next to the bed, taunting me, daring me to pick it up again. I have to read it! I can't let a book beat me. lol.
  • imagesarlah:
    Natalie - please let me know how The Lovely Bones it. I own it, and I tried to read it... but I couldn't get through the first chapter. I totally do not want to ruin it or spoil it for you in any way, it wasn't that I didn't like the book so far, it was that I had a physically negative reaction to the first part. I know, sounds crazy. It's never happened to be before that or since. So now that book is sitting next to the bed, taunting me, daring me to pick it up again. I have to read it! I can't let a book beat me. lol.

    I definitely will.  My mom just finished it and gave it to me.  She liked it. 

  • imagenataliejp519:

    imagemkerr09:
    I'm reading it right now!! I'm about 1/4 of the way through and I REALLY like it! I'm just really busy right now can't find time to read.  I would send it to you after I'm finished, but I'm a slow reader which means you probably won't get it for a month or so.

    That would be awesome!  I anticipate finishing the book I'm reading now that Esther let me borrow tomorrow and then I have 2 others in line...The Soloist and The Lovely Bones.  And of course, I can send it back to you once I'm through.

    Will do! I'll let you know when I'm finished =)

    Married 6/10/09 in Bermuda.
  • I liked The Lovely Bones too!  Oh and Natalie, I just read another memoir book....When I was a kid, I absoutely LOVED 'Full House' (the tv show...yes, go ahead and make fun, haha). I really liked the middle daughter, Stephanie (Jodie Sweetin IRL) and I even got to meet her! Well she wrote a memoir about her drug and alcohol addition, being married twice and having a baby all before the age of 27!
    Married 6/10/09 in Bermuda.
  • imagemkerr09:
    I liked The Lovely Bones too!  Oh and Natalie, I just read another memoir book....When I was a kid, I absoutely LOVED 'Full House' (the tv show...yes, go ahead and make fun, haha). I really liked the middle daughter, Stephanie (Jodie Sweetin IRL) and I even got to meet her! Well she wrote a memoir about her drug and alcohol addition, being married twice and having a baby all before the age of 27!

    Why would I make fun of you when I also absolutely LOVED Full House!  Me and my bff at the time would write all the actors and actresses on the show letters asking for autographs...I have some vintage Mary Kate & Ashley autographs!  My friend got a Kimmy Gibbler one too haha!  John Stamos never sent us his :(

    I'll have to add her book to my list.  I just finished an ok memoir called The Liars Club by Mary Karr.  I'd give it a 5.

  • imagenataliejp519:

    imagemkerr09:
    I liked The Lovely Bones too!  Oh and Natalie, I just read another memoir book....When I was a kid, I absoutely LOVED 'Full House' (the tv show...yes, go ahead and make fun, haha). I really liked the middle daughter, Stephanie (Jodie Sweetin IRL) and I even got to meet her! Well she wrote a memoir about her drug and alcohol addition, being married twice and having a baby all before the age of 27!

    Why would I make fun of you when I also absolutely LOVED Full House!  Me and my bff at the time would write all the actors and actresses on the show letters asking for autographs...I have some vintage Mary Kate & Ashley autographs!  My friend got a Kimmy Gibbler one too haha!  John Stamos never sent us his :(

    I'll have to add her book to my list.  I just finished an ok memoir called The Liars Club by Mary Karr.  I'd give it a 5.

    That is AWESOME! Jodie's book is called 'Unsweetin'. I can send this one to you as well if you'd like.

    Oh I had The Liars Club on my list too...but now that you say that, I won't waste my time.

    Married 6/10/09 in Bermuda.
  • imagemkerr09:
    imagenataliejp519:

    imagemkerr09:
    I liked The Lovely Bones too!  Oh and Natalie, I just read another memoir book....When I was a kid, I absoutely LOVED 'Full House' (the tv show...yes, go ahead and make fun, haha). I really liked the middle daughter, Stephanie (Jodie Sweetin IRL) and I even got to meet her! Well she wrote a memoir about her drug and alcohol addition, being married twice and having a baby all before the age of 27!

    Why would I make fun of you when I also absolutely LOVED Full House!  Me and my bff at the time would write all the actors and actresses on the show letters asking for autographs...I have some vintage Mary Kate & Ashley autographs!  My friend got a Kimmy Gibbler one too haha!  John Stamos never sent us his :(

    I'll have to add her book to my list.  I just finished an ok memoir called The Liars Club by Mary Karr.  I'd give it a 5.

    That is AWESOME! Jodie's book is called 'Unsweetin'. I can send this one to you as well if you'd like.

    Oh I had The Liars Club on my list too...but now that you say that, I won't waste my time.

    That'd be double awesome of you, we're throwing around a lot of awesomes here!  Have you read Swallow the Ocean or Map of the World?  Those are 2 really good memoirs that I could let you borrow too. 

    Oh yeah, I just lent my mom The Crying Tree :)

  • Sarah - I LOVED The Lovely Bones, you have to give it another shot!  I know a lot of people who said once they got past the beginning it was much easier to get through.  

    And man, I'm loving this thread... so many book recs! 

    Anniversary
  • it was so freakin good. i could not put it down. i was trying to get it from the library, but there were like 300 people in front of me. i finally got it on my kindle. it was more than i usually spend on kindle books, but it was sooo worth it. get it. it is a must read.
    June 13, 2009 ~ Ocho Rios, Jamaica
  • imageBlueMnM:
    it was so freakin good. i could not put it down. i was trying to get it from the library, but there were like 300 people in front of me. i finally got it on my kindle. it was more than i usually spend on kindle books, but it was sooo worth it. get it. it is a must read.

    I know absolutely nothing about Kindles, but what are the prices like for downloads? 

  • imagenataliejp519:
    imagemkerr09:
    imagenataliejp519:

    imagemkerr09:
    I liked The Lovely Bones too!  Oh and Natalie, I just read another memoir book....When I was a kid, I absoutely LOVED 'Full House' (the tv show...yes, go ahead and make fun, haha). I really liked the middle daughter, Stephanie (Jodie Sweetin IRL) and I even got to meet her! Well she wrote a memoir about her drug and alcohol addition, being married twice and having a baby all before the age of 27!

    Why would I make fun of you when I also absolutely LOVED Full House!  Me and my bff at the time would write all the actors and actresses on the show letters asking for autographs...I have some vintage Mary Kate & Ashley autographs!  My friend got a Kimmy Gibbler one too haha!  John Stamos never sent us his :(

    I'll have to add her book to my list.  I just finished an ok memoir called The Liars Club by Mary Karr.  I'd give it a 5.

    That is AWESOME! Jodie's book is called 'Unsweetin'. I can send this one to you as well if you'd like.

    Oh I had The Liars Club on my list too...but now that you say that, I won't waste my time.

    That'd be double awesome of you, we're throwing around a lot of awesomes here!  Have you read Swallow the Ocean or Map of the World?  Those are 2 really good memoirs that I could let you borrow too. 

    Oh yeah, I just lent my mom The Crying Tree :)

    No I haven't read those - but I would love to! Thanks =)

    Married 6/10/09 in Bermuda.
  • Oh and Natalie, you HAVE to read The Hunger Games and Catching Fire...its not a memoir but its seriously one of my favorites! It's a series and the 3rd book, isn't due out til August and I can't wait! I have those too, if you can't get your hands on those....but you won't be diasspointed!
    Married 6/10/09 in Bermuda.
  • I'd highly suggest the "Girl with dragon tattoo" series if you haven't read them yet! Yes
  • imagemkerr09:
    imagenataliejp519:
    imagemkerr09:
    imagenataliejp519:

    imagemkerr09:
    I liked The Lovely Bones too!  Oh and Natalie, I just read another memoir book....When I was a kid, I absoutely LOVED 'Full House' (the tv show...yes, go ahead and make fun, haha). I really liked the middle daughter, Stephanie (Jodie Sweetin IRL) and I even got to meet her! Well she wrote a memoir about her drug and alcohol addition, being married twice and having a baby all before the age of 27!

    Why would I make fun of you when I also absolutely LOVED Full House!  Me and my bff at the time would write all the actors and actresses on the show letters asking for autographs...I have some vintage Mary Kate & Ashley autographs!  My friend got a Kimmy Gibbler one too haha!  John Stamos never sent us his :(

    I'll have to add her book to my list.  I just finished an ok memoir called The Liars Club by Mary Karr.  I'd give it a 5.

    That is AWESOME! Jodie's book is called 'Unsweetin'. I can send this one to you as well if you'd like.

    Oh I had The Liars Club on my list too...but now that you say that, I won't waste my time.

    That'd be double awesome of you, we're throwing around a lot of awesomes here!  Have you read Swallow the Ocean or Map of the World?  Those are 2 really good memoirs that I could let you borrow too. 

    Oh yeah, I just lent my mom The Crying Tree :)

    No I haven't read those - but I would love to! Thanks =)

    Yeah, book swap!

  • The Lovely Bones is FANTASTIC!!!!!!  I agree about books too, I love physical books too much to get a kindle!
  • imagesarlah:
    Natalie - please let me know how The Lovely Bones it. I own it, and I tried to read it... but I couldn't get through the first chapter. I totally do not want to ruin it or spoil it for you in any way, it wasn't that I didn't like the book so far, it was that I had a physically negative reaction to the first part. I know, sounds crazy. It's never happened to be before that or since. So now that book is sitting next to the bed, taunting me, daring me to pick it up again. I have to read it! I can't let a book beat me. lol.

    Sarah I was the same way. I couldn't get past the first chapter.

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