Hi Lman,

Sorry for the delay in answering - wickedly busy week with school-type stuff.
Thanks SO much for mooching the book for me. Surface mail is fine, I know it can take 2-3 months to get here, but I'm happy to wait.
I did notice, after the fact, that you had another book mooched from that user - hopefully she'll ship them promptly and together.
Thanks again!
Brenda

posted by ealaindraoi at 3:06 pm (EST) on Oct 10, 2008

Hi Lyn

the audiobooks are narrated by Jonathan Cecil, who does a great job as both Wooster and as Jeeves (as well as Aunt Agatha and Bingo, etc!) :) I am still buying from TBD where it is cheaper than the local bookstores but I've started using my local library for new(ish) books and selected audiobooks.

regards

Laura

posted by digifish_books at 8:02 pm (EST) on Oct 5, 2008

Hi Lyn
Yeah I got a couple of William Trevor at the sale.I recently read "Felecias Journey" and really liked it so keen to try more.Yes I have managed to mooch "The Shadow of the Wind" its in the post.I have also mooched John Dunnings "Booked to Die" so I will have the first in that series to start with.The Mankell books I found were "Dogs of Riga" and "Return of the Dancing Master" so I will have to keep an eye out for "Faceless Killers" the first in the Wallander series.

Cheers

Pete

posted by ozpierre at 3:52 pm (EST) on Sep 29, 2008

Hi Lyn
I have read quite a few of Jeffery Deaver but not for a little while.He is an author who really knows how to hook the reader early in a book.He has written many stand alone novels as well as some in a series.You know this website? http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/ Any author you can think of they have their bibliography as well as series names and order they were written.Very usefull for reading books in a series.
When I start with a new crime fiction writer I usually decide after 2 or 3 books if I like them and then continue to buy or recently mooch them till I have them all.I think I only need a couple of Deavers to have the lot.I pretty much have all of John Grisham,Michael Connelly,Patricia Cornwell,Dennis Lehane,Lee Child,Steve Martini,Peter Robinson,Richard North Patterson,Ian Rankin,P.D.James,Harlan Coben,Scott Turow and James Ellroy.Authors I have discovered lately and liked and therefore collecting now are Barry Maitland,Gary Disher and Donna Leon.A few authors that I have heard good things about and aquired some books but not read yet are Mark Billigham,Michael Robotham and George Pelacanos.
I usually try to read this crime genre fiction alternately with something more literary for a bit of balance :-) I am reading "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Steig Larsson (which could be situated in both camps) at the moment and it is excellent.

Cheers

Peter

posted by ozpierre at 2:25 am (EST) on Sep 16, 2008

Hi Lyn!

It was great to hear from you - no worries about the timing, I completely understand. Frankly, I don't know where the year has gone to. It seems only yesterday that we were welcoming 2008 and here we are almost into Sept!! I can't imagine where it went. Cold winters are a thing of the imagination here in the tropics. We just finished a 10 day stint of rain with tropical storm Fay sitting on our heads. It was fun for a while, but after the 4th day or so, everyone gets grumpy and long faced. We Floridians are addicted to our sunshine, clearly.

Now the lakes are all full, the frogs are happy, and everything is green green green. Including things that shouldn't be, like the white fence in my yard!
Happy to send you some warmth... This time of year I am starting to feel homesick for the mountains and the change of seasons. In FL, our autumn drags it's appearance - we might see some briskness by November, but elsewhere it comes in September. I miss it. Love that morning crispness, when its comfortable to go for a walk with a big sweater and watch my dog act like a puppy in the cool air. The good thing is, when that temperature does show up here, we get to keep it for about 4 months, then it's back to the heat. But Dec-March or so, wow!

My reading has been sporadic. I've so many books on the list to read that I haven't even bothered putting them into LT! One day I will do it, but right now I'm spending all my spare moments making hay while the sun is shining (so to speak!). I found a small writing group that focuses on fantasy/SF - they are about 40 minutes away from my home, and all a bit younger than me, but they companionship is great. There is nothing like a deadline (of sorts) to put the muse on notice. Feeling a bit harried now and then, but enjoying the creative process more and more!

Happy reading!

Iris

posted by villandry at 9:26 am (EST) on Aug 27, 2008

That is good work getting all the Black Company pretty much, too.

From what I have read of the first book, Erickson is like that a bit, but with a few powerups.

posted by bluetyson at 9:21 am (EST) on Jun 22, 2008

Hi L,

I have read first 150 pages of Gardens of the Moon, keep borrowing it from the library and not getting to it. :) Someone said one of the later ones is 1200, a bit off-putting.

Yeah, Cryptonomicon is a bit on the slow side. Stephen King talks about having bloat disease, I am pretty sure Stephenson has it too, after things like Snow Crash and Interface.

I still have a couple of Robson to get too, still been reading a lot of anthologies - and bunch of magazines this week.

posted by bluetyson at 9:18 am (EST) on Jun 22, 2008