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A friend is letting me borrow Divergent, and so far it's really fascinating.
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\o/ YAY!
Sorry, I just loooooove that book xD Although I suggest running away while you can....Allegiant will kill you...and most of the characters. xD (Allegiant is the third and last book, BTW.)

I just finished reading The Hate List by Jennifer Brown. Very thought provoking. It's about a school shooting, so it's not a happy book, but I still enjoyed it.
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I'm reading Chosen by Ted Dekker. I wasn't sure about it at first, but it's getting un-put-downable.
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My book, Justice Lost, is on Amazon Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JM1XFCI
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I am reading The Man Who Was Thursday. All I can think of is the Triangle.
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GratiaDei wrote:I am reading The Man Who Was Thursday. All I can think of is the Triangle.
I read that book because of the Triangle. I'd never heard of GK Chesterton before that ep.
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Helios wrote:Look for Margaret Peterson Haddix...she's wonderful! :D
YOU JUST DESCRIBED MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY. I actually just lent one of her books to my friend. I love her books so much!!!
Has anyone read any books by Scott David Westerfeild? The Uglies "trilogy" (which actually has FOUR books, long story.... wait, actually five, if you count "Bogus to Bubbly"...), perhaps?
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I've read the Uglies trilogy! They were really good. I actually haven't read the other two.
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I finished Divergent a few days ago. It was fantastic. I would highly recommend it.
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I am reading The Long Way Home by Andrew Klavan. SO suspenseful!
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I am reading the Glass Menagerie for school, the Valley of Vision which I got for my birthday, and the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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Mara wrote:I finished Divergent a few days ago. It was fantastic. I would highly recommend it.
Did you cry when Al died? I was so close to.
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The Bat Girl wrote:
Mara wrote:I finished Divergent a few days ago. It was fantastic. I would highly recommend it.
Did you cry when Al died? I was so close to.
Same here! All the deaths in the book made me sad... :(
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I'm halfway done with the first book. >:D
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I just finished the book Eyes Wide Open by Ted Dekker.

(Actually, I finished it Sunday evening, after receiving it in a book exchange Sunday afternoon)

It was the first Ted Dekker book I read...and very interesting...
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I finished Treasure Island (again) and Macbeth a few days ago. Hmm...now I'm wishing Shakespeare hadn't killed of Macduff's family or young Siward. :(
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Helios wrote:I finished Treasure Island (again) and Macbeth a few days ago. Hmm...now I'm wishing Shakespeare hadn't killed of Macduff's family or young Siward. :(
My humanities class read that a few months ago and we got to act it out. It was pretty fun! I was a few small parts, and one of the three witches.
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I just started reading The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell and Amish Vampires in Space by Kerry Nietz.
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Just got done with "Tuck Everlasting". It was WAAAAY to short. :( But it was so good, I did not cry at the sad ending but at the fact that the book was over.
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I'm reading "Graceful (For Young Women)" by Emily P. Freeman. So far it's pretty good. ;)
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I got the book Do Hard Things from my friend and I just finished reading it for the 2nd time -
it's really good!
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