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I'm looking for recommandation of books set i San Francisco. It would be great with historical novels (but I also would like to read novels from nowadays). Thanks in advance. (I'm going to the USA this summer, and one of the cities I'm visiting is San Francisco)

It's in my TBR-pile besides my bed. Maybe I find time to read it this summer. I really enjoyed her sister's book Jane Eyre.

Im going to Bon Jovi's consert at Ullevål Stadium, Oslo, Norway 18th of June:cool: Have any of you been to their resent conserts? I really hope the play alot of stuff from other records then their last one, Lost Highway.

The Presidents Choise -Anne Holt To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee Parfume: the story of a murderer - Patrick Sûskind The great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald The Pillars of the Earth part 1 - Ken Follett The Pillars of the Earth part 2 - Ken Follett Home - Anne Karin Elstad The saver - Jo Nesbø...

I'm reading Dracula right now, highly recommended!

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 4/5 The Snowman - Jo Nesbø 5/5 A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini 4/5

1001 books you must read before you die (seems like I have alot to do the next years)...

I was a big fan of Mary Higgins Clark some years ago. Witch of her books have you read/are you reading?

Velkommen (welcome), Puffin! Nice to see that there are more scandinavians joining the board (I'm Norwegain). Totally agree with you that books are better in their native language, normally English. The Norwegian and Swedish language is a very simple, and our vocabulary is small compared to English.

The Thirteenth Tale by Setterfield 5/5 (read it last month)

September wasn't a good reading month for me. Only finished two books: The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd (4/5) The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (5/5) Started on: Special topics in calamity physics by Marisha Pessl (don't know if I'll finish this one. Have read the first 100 pages, but...

It's really good that the board is back on track. I checked the page several times in the weekend without luck. Was afriad that it was gone 4 ever. This is my all time fav. board!

I don't own a gun, and will never do so. In my country most of the people who owns guns use them for hunting. I think that to many people own guns. It shouldn't be nesecary to have a gun in your house to feel safe.

This might be because John's parents got divorced when he was only two years old (1944). He grew up without ever meeting his biological father. When his mother re-married in 1948 he was renamed John Winslow Irving. During the writing of Until I Find You (2004), Irving was contacted for the...

Read it when it came out in Norwegian in 2002. Doesn't remember the entier story. I enjoyed it but, it wasn't among John Irving's best books. Of those I have read i rate them as followed; A Widow for One Year The Cider House Rules The Hotel New Hampshire The Fourth Hand I've only...

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I read "The Secret Life of Bees" in august. I found the book through a Norwegian online bookstore. It was one of the new pocket releases. It seemed like a good read and I bought it. It was laying in my TBRpile for some weeks. I really enjoyed Sue Monk Kidd's easy way of writing. She told a...

1) One Book that made you read it More Than Once: Non, so far. There are so many books out there that I want to read, that I don't find time to reread. But there is hips of books that are worth to be reread. For exampel: Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides 2) One book you would want on a desert...

Welcome to both Annie and Mothermaythem! Enjoy your stay and keep comming back.

Well....Tlaxcala said this in the first post about "The Da Vinci Code" - Da Vinci Code: lots of action and pace, but somehow I didn't enjoy it that much. But I've been thinking about reading one of J. Patterson's books myself. Witch should I start with?