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starfyre		#101	[url]	[-]
07/04/08 12:54 PM	irishonstars wrote: "Transgressional fiction Source: - The Indological Knowledgebase Transgressional fiction is a form of fiction in which the story centers around one or more characters who feel confined by the current norms and expectations of society. These characters, throughout the course of the story, attempt to break out from those boundaries and find that which they are looking for, be it better self-identity, inner peace, or anything else that they are unable to attain within the current boundaries. Almost by definition, the actions these characters perform are frequently anti-social. Famous examples of transgressional literature, such as those cited below, have aroused controversy, as the characters' anti-social lifestyles may emphasize the negative or violent connotations that adjective carries. At the same time, transgressional fiction is less bound by societal restrictions, and it is capable of pungent commentary upon the society its characters inhabit. Welcome Mari, new here myself. Most readers I know have a "transgressional life"..LOL I will have to check out this fellow. He sounds very interesting.
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graceinthewind		#102	[url]	[-]
07/19/08 03:16 PM	Hello! I'm a fellow book lover and read a variety of books, mostly nonfiction these days. I especially like the classics and historical novels but have been on a big Alexander McCall Smith kick lately.
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BCCJillster		#103	[url]	[-]
07/19/08 05:02 PM BCC ZEN BOOKIE COOKIE Administrator	Hi ya Grace--love your bibliophile What sort of nonfiction do you like most? This group has a mixture of readers of fiction and nonfiction; I tend mot toward fiction, particularly set in foreign cultures. I think we have a bunch of McCall Smith fans too. Jump on into the threads and tell us all :) Currently reading: Monsters of Templeton Just finished: The Runner; No Time for Goodbye, Snakehead; Chasing Darkness, Highest Tide, Hungry Tide
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riverblue		#104	[url]	[-]
07/19/08 07:23 PM	Hi Grace - welcome. I've read quite a few of Alexander McCall Smith's - really like the Scotland St. series and the Isobel Dalhousie ones. Hope to see you in other threads and hear what else you're reading. Barb
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graceinthewind		#105	[url]	[-]
07/19/08 10:44 PM	Oops, I should edit that post to read "mostly FICTION" these days. That is after many years of many books on home and health, my youngest children are teens now. Anyway, thanks for the welcomes. I just finished the first of Scotland Street series and enjoyed it very much. :) Do you ever have group reads here? I have a literature board, too, but there are not enough for that kind of discussion.
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BCCJillster		#106	[url]	[-]
07/20/08 06:28 AM BCC ZEN BOOKIE COOKIE Administrator	Grace, we have group reads each month--board discussion for the 2 weeks or so leading up to a live chat date. Our books are shown at the top of the page you enter from. This coming month it will be MONSTERS OF TEMPLETON. Hope you'll join in Currently reading: Monsters of Templeton Just finished: The Runner; No Time for Goodbye, Snakehead; Chasing Darkness, Highest Tide, Hungry Tide
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RedStorm26ca		#107	[url]	[-]
07/28/08 11:14 AM	Hi everyone, My name is RedStorm26ca, but you can also call me Claire. I'm 33, married and have 3 fuzzbutts, Rudy, Sasha & Mia. It's hard to find an active community about reading. Reading is my first passion. Have stayed up through the night, even this year, while reading a book I couldn't put down. Cross Stitch is my second passion. Again, have stayed up almost all night stitching too. I'm also a beaded jewelry maker, soap and bath product maker, and a hobby photography. (My DH is the trained photographer, not me) I guess that's it for now. I look forward to a lot of reading, and getting to know everyone. ~Claire~
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wernoclue		#108	[url]	[-]
07/28/08 11:48 AM BCC ZEN Bookie MASTER	Well, Claire, you're certainly in good company here! Every one of us has stayed up too late reading and there are at least two passionate cross-stitchers. There are threads for general chat as well as for books so come join us! Karen I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. - Anna Quindlen
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BCCJillster		#109	[url]	[-]
07/28/08 12:22 PM BCC ZEN BOOKIE COOKIE Administrator	Hi ya Claire--delighted to have new faces and new reading experiences join in. And your fuzzbutts too LOL. jump in on our regular threads and let us know what you like to read, what you dislike and why etc We're reading a goodie if you have a chance to join in for Monsters of Templeton,, there's still time. Currently reading: Monsters of Templeton Just finished: The Runner; No Time for Goodbye, Snakehead; Chasing Darkness, Highest Tide, Hungry Tide
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Olle		#110	[url]	[-]
07/29/08 01:18 PM	Hi Claire, welcome! The number of threads can be daunting (even to me after I was away for a week this month) so just jump in at the end if you like, sometimes that's the only way to get into it all. :) Olle
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irishonstars	Welcome...	#111	[url]	[-]
07/30/08 01:07 AM	Hi RedStorm26ca, ummm, Claire, lol. I'm a relative "newbie" myself and like you, couldn't find a local f2f bookclub in my area, (NE Ohio) and joined this one! I just wanted to tell you that you made an excellent choice of online book forums/chats. Members here are not only welcoming and very nice, I'm already being exposed to books that I normally don't read and/or like AND LIKING THEM... A LOT! LOL For me, exposure, that's very important... The diversity too. I'm sure you'll enjoy it "here"! MAR! Just finished: The Tin Roof Blowdown, James Lee Burke & Monsters of Templeton, Lauren Goff Reading: Anatomy of Fear, Jonathon Santlofer, The Savage Garden, Mark Mills
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starfyre		#112	[url]	[-]
07/30/08 07:21 PM	Hello Claire, another relatively newbie here. Love stitching myself and have 5 fuzzbutts.. I haven't been able to be here a lot but so far everyone has been nice. Nice to find a place to talk with fellow booklovers. --After all is said and done, usually more is said than done!--
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MizPam		#113	[url]	[-]
07/31/08 09:15 AM BCC BookieMonster	Yuppers. This be the place. "The pleasures provided by books and reading are enhanced many times over in the context of a successful club..." Martha Rosen Pam
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mrianah	HELLLLOOO!!!!	#114	[url]	[-]
08/31/08 12:05 PM	Hi, so my name Mariana but everybody calls me Mary, i'm 21 yo, i live in houston tx i move here two years ago. i love reading its just my favorite thing in the world, and i like everything, fiction, historicals, novel, everything, i think that wen i read i become an obsesive compulsive person, because i can spend the entire day reading, i forgot to eat, to sleep, to do the things a i have to do. One sunday i spend the entire day reading, i just had to finish it so i wen t to bed at 4 am cuase i just couldn't leave the book hehe, that looser am I hehe. but i love it.
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BCCJillster		#115	[url]	[-]
08/31/08 01:18 PM BCC ZEN BOOKIE COOKIE Administrator	Hi Mary--welcome aboard--Make sure you look up from your book for Gustav. We'll be thinking aout all of you down there. You found another bunch of book obsessives so pull up a chair and tell us what you're reading in our WHAT I'M READING thread Currently reading: The Crow Eaters by Bapsi Sidhwa, Monsters of Florence, Doug Preston Just finished Savage Garden, WHEN WE WERE ROMANS by Matthew Kneale , WHITE NIGHTS, a mystery by Anne Cleeves, OUT OF THE BLACKOUT by Robert Barnard., Monsters of Templeton
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KScribe		#116	[url]	[-]
09/01/08 11:26 AM BCC Frequent Poster	Hi Mary and welcome to our group!! Sounds like you found the right place to be! Just remember to come back here between books to tell us all what you are reading -- especially those books that keep you up into the wee hours of the night and you just cannot put them down -- we want to hear about them and share that experience TOO! :) You said you are a loser here and in another post you made. You are NOT a loser. Reading is a "win win" situation -- no losers there. And nobody here, certainly, judges one another because we all LOVE books and reading here! You are among friends here. Looking forward to hearing about some of those books you love and can't put down so I can check them out too. If you haven't read The Lace Reader yet, it's our book for this month and it's very good. Check it out if you can get your hands on it and join in the discussion when we have it on Sept 24th. Be well my friend! Kevin Kevin "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." --- Groucho Marx
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KScribe		#117	[url]	[-]
09/01/08 11:32 AM BCC Frequent Poster	Welcome Claire!! Fellow book lover and cross stitch addict here as well! There are a few stitching groups on YUKU too that you may want to check out as well. Lots of good friends to be made and always fun to show each other our works in progress and talk about books we're reading now or stitching projects we love to work on. What kind of stitching do you like to do (any favorite designer or style)? I love the older sampler-type pieces. For some reason, I just feel like they connect me with the past and kind of keep the history and the passion of this hobby alive. It's becoming a lost art (like reading, dare I say?) I just read an article about how so many kids these days do not like reading BOOKS, but prefer to read on the Net. Well, I like both -but LOVE the tactile feeling of holding a book in my hand (versus reading from a screen). Perhaps I am just an "old soul" and long for the past. But I do love the Internet as well, and love coming to this chat room to see what my friends are reading here and to get suggestions for great books. MY day is pretty much divided into four segments lately: 1. exercising (physical therapy for my back, stretching, running to doctor appts) 2. stitching -- exercise for my soul and relaxing for me 3. reading -- to escape the real world for a while and to exercise my mind 4. Internet -- browsing chat rooms (like this one) and checking email, etc.. Of course - -eating and sleeping are in there too -- but the above four are the crux of my day. :) We're glad you found us! Kevin Kevin "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." --- Groucho Marx
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KScribe		#118	[url]	[-]
09/01/08 11:36 AM BCC Frequent Poster	Welcome Mari! Thanks for the info on transgressional fiction. I am an English teacher, and I must admit that I was unfamiliar with that term. I have a few of Chuck's books here on my TBR pile, and my teenage students seem to love his writing. I will have to give them a whirl. I've seen Fight Club (the film) but have to admit I haven't read any of his work. Glad to have you as part of our group here - and thanks for the reading advice and for expanding my knowledge of literary terms! Kevin Kevin "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." --- Groucho Marx
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jnol74.genrestew	A Newbie's Hello	#119	[url]	[-]
09/20/08 01:10 PM	I just stumbled upon the group here and it looks like it's going to be full of goodies about authors I know, and don't know. Oh man! Just what I need! More reasons for buying books! Anyway, my favorite genres are crime fiction/suspense/mystery/thrillers, and historical fiction, with the occasional youth fantasy tossed into the mix. I've already seen a couple of people here I know from another book club I belong to online. Hi Karen and Anne! Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
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BCCJillster		#120	[url]	[-]
09/20/08 05:01 PM BCC ZEN BOOKIE COOKIE Administrator	Hi Hi Jnol--what do we call you? I looked at your profile (which feels like cheating somehow) and your quotes cracked me up. Come on in, settle down. We're reading a goodie now in The Lace Reader--have you read it? Welcome a-board and jump into any of the threads and start typing away. Currently reading: The Crow Eaters by Bapsi Sidhwa, Monsters of Florence, Doug Preston Just finished Savage Garden, WHEN WE WERE ROMANS by Matthew Kneale , WHITE NIGHTS, a mystery by Anne Cleeves, OUT OF THE BLACKOUT by Robert Barnard., Monsters of Templeton
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