Well, I posted a request for input on Sharon Shinn, and got nada.. so I dived in and purchased several ( series) books used. I hope they are good. I imagine that I will read all five once they arrive.
#3 LG - which Hobb is that? I'm guessing by that comment that its Soldier Son???
#5 No actually, Ship of Destiny. It's only taking me so long because I have become mesmerized by a bomb thread on the Battlestar blogs. (flee will understand this) Must read all the bombs!
The book is good.
#3 and 5 - I've never read anything by
Robin Hobb. I know I'll get strange looks from some for that. :) Would you suggest I try something? Where would I start?
#6 LG - Liveships is one of my fave trilogies ever, i love to hear others are enjoying it :)
#8 Georgia, you have to start with
Assassins Apprentice, the begining. However it's a trilogy of trilogies so be prepared to set aside some time!
eta After finishing the Wardstone Chronicles by
Joseph Delaney I'm going to read the Coldfire trilogy,
Tigana,
Deluge, Start the dragonbone chair series and finish
the Saliva Tree, convince my mum to buy a new series for my 14 yr old brother which I can then read, something by
j v jones, more
Nancy Springer...Tanith Lee...Sanderson...Poe...CA Smith
Nope this is too much hard work thinking of my TBR pile - I've got over 800
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Wandering through
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters very slowly. I just can't seem to read it very quickly. On the other hand, I'm whipping through the Pagan Chronicles for the umpteenth time.
#10 I haven't read the Farseer Trilogy yet (starts with Assassin's Apprentice), and I'm almost done with the 2nd trilogy (Liveship Traders). I really like it. I'll def read the other ones eventually.
My friend gave me the Liveship books first because she knows I'm a sucker for maritime stuff. I love Patrick O'Brian.
Robin Hobb - yes, best to start with the 'beginning'.
To allay any confusion, Georgia, she has four trilogies and a bunch of other books under her pen name Meghan Lindholm.
The first of her trilogies is 'The Farseer Trilogy' comprising:
Assassin's Apprentice,
Royal Assassin, and
Assassin's Quest Then, her second trilogy stays in the same world of the Assassin books, but jumps to a different locale, with different character and a different style of book. However, things link back to the first trilogy, and things from this trilogy link to the third.
Second Trilogy is 'The Liveship Traders' comprising:
Ship of Magic,
The Mad Ship,
Ship of DestinyThird trilogy is 'Tawny Man' comprising:
Fool's Errand,
The Golden Fool,
Fool's Fate, which returns to the characters and place of the first trilogy.
Right now I'm reading Roma by
Steven Saylor and
Ilario by Mary Gentle.
eta- oh, the fourth trilogy is 'The Soldier Son', which hasn't been so popular...
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I'm not sure what I will be reading. Depends on what turns up on the library's 'new acquisitions' shelves. I have
Triumph of Caesar by Steven Saylor and
One Year Off by David Cohen sitting on my nightstand currently and a friend is supposed to lend me
Tales of a Female Nomad this week. Other than that anything is possible.
#10 and 13 - Musereader and severn - Thanks for the help! I'll give it a try.
#8 GD - sorry I didnt see your post!
I'll definately add my voice to the recommenders, all nine six duchies books (The Farseer Trilogy, The Liveship Traders & Tawny Man - they are all set in the six duchies) are big faves of mine & I'd recommend them to the whole world if i could, lol...
The liveships trilogy would definately make sense on its own (I started with it), but you'll get more out of all 9 books if you read the trilogies in order.
Please do tell us what your thoughts are once you've had a chance to get into the stories :)
I'll add my 2 b0b's w0rth as well f0r the
liveship traders I haven't read any 0ther H0bb b00ks but this tril0gy was an amazing experience!
I'm currently reading The Spirit St0ne by Katharine Kerr It's the umpteenth b00k in her Deverry series which I can als0 highly rec0mmend.
Edited t try and fix s0me bad speling and ...why did I even bther trying!! argh!!!
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I'm reading The Time Traders by Andre Norton (
http://manybooks.net/titles/nortona19145... ) using ereader on my Palm Pilot, as well as rereading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Slaughterhouse by Gail Eisnitz
As a bedtime story for my little boy, reading Greenwitch by Susan Cooper.
oh, I forgot to mention that
The Winter King from the Arthurian read is still awaiting my attention. I am about half way thru.
Just started
Murder with Puffins. Pretty entertainig so far. Decided to try these because the author is coming to my neck of the woods this month.
#25 - I read
Gods Behaving Badly recently - it was hilarious! Setting it in London was what made it worthwhile to me.
My friend hooked me up with a bunch of ARC's, and I'm in the middle of
The Other Queen by
Philippa Gregory. Pretty good so far. I'm also reading
Battle of the Labyrinth, another modern rendering of Greek mythology, and
Girls Like Us which is basically a biography of all my mom's favorite singers, (but I like them too.) I'm in a couple of other books too, but these are the ones I've gotten the deepest into.
Five Quarters of the Orange. It was fantastic! I read it all in one sitting, which is why I was finishing it early this AM. It's not fantasy, so it's probably not GD fare...
#29 - That was an amazing book...and helped me identify what kind of headaches I was suffering from :')
I'm currently reading The Lancelot Closes at Five by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat (amusing style of writing) and Devil World (Star Trek) by Gordon Eklund. No idea what I'll read after ... whatever takes my interest.
OH! Vacation helps with focus? I have so much trouble with focus because I haven't taken sufficient vacations! Yes! That must be the reason... *traipses off to schedule some more vacations*
LOL!
i'm just starting
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield...which i bought because i read so many good things about it here on LT.
we will see...
I just finished Neil Gaiman´s
Neverwhere which I really enjoyed and am now starting
American Gods which is even better so far!
Just finished "what are you reading now" and about to start "Morph's humour of the day".
say, where's that "what are you writing now" thread...
I'm about half way through my first ever reading of a Neil Gaiman book,
Neverwhere. Plus, I bought Stardust and Mirrormask on DVD last weekend. I'm besotted by Gaiman's work!
Hopefully I'll get
America America soon, since I'm next on the list at the public library!
#27 -- that's next on my TBR pile! I picked it up on a whim, but now I think of it every time someone mentions puffins in this group :o)
Currently reading
The Well of Lost Plots -- I haven't read anything else by this author before. A very different kind of book!
#42 - Hmmm. Did you pick up the threads of the story ok? The first one leaves some plot elements hanging as continuing threads through several of the books.
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I'm hoping to finish
The Battle for Skandia by
John Flanagan today. I've been pretty preoccupied and have had trouble concentrating on it. :(
After that, I've got to read
This Gaming Life by
Jim Rossignol so I can review it for the ER program, then The Host by Stephenie Meyer and two X-Men graphic novels so I can get 'em all back to the library.
After that, I'm hoping to read
Robin Hobb's Solider Son trilogy, at long last.
46 - You gave me a start, mentioning The Battle for Skandia. I thought there was a new one out already. I don't like intercontinental book retitling. It's very confoozling.
I'm finishing up The White Mary by
Kira Salak and then I have no clue what I'm reading next. I got 25 books for my birthday (I'm still rather amazed that I didn't wake up on the floor a few minutes after that realization) and I'm at a loss as to where to start!
Just finished
The Hobbit. Now reading the 1st book of the series Warriors
Into the Wild by Evan Hunter which is a YA series my 12 yr old Granddaughter has been reading avidly. I tried to get her to read some of the
Redwall series which i've read quite a few of & she asked me to read one of he Warrior series which is about clans of ferral cats. I am reading this & she will read one of the
Redwall books when she has finished her series. So far this book is not nearly as enjoyable for me as the Redwall books are as there seems to be constant warfare amongst these felines while there are plenty of lighter moments in the Redwall books & there are a regular UN of critters in the Redwall books which brings to mind the poem The Animal's School because each of the animals uses their own best skills to help the group survive.
The Warriors series is super popular w/the 'tween' set right now but my grandsons who are quite a bit older now enjoyed the Redwall books when they were Hannah's age! 8^)
Finished About a Boy for the second time. Still fabulous.
Started reading
The Catcher In The Rye. Not so fabulous. This Holden Caulfield fellow needs to stop whining about how all the adults in the world suck and get on with his life. It's like reading modernist Emo poetry, only this guy hates most people around him. Such disregard for any form of academia!
#43 -- I think I'm picking up on everything ok. The whole premise was kind of a shock to me, but I think it's really clever.
Just about halfway through
The Monster of Florence. Turns out some of
Hannibal was based on the events of this serial killer's heyday back in the 80's. Amazing what a screwed up job of investigation the Italian authorities did. Three different people were tried for the killings, and all were exonerated, mostly due to screwed up crime scene and evidence handling. Definitely not CSI material!
Agreed. But at least you didn't have to mail order it from Australia!
I am definitely reading
My Stroke of Insight in hopes of getting some help dealing with a friend who has been having seizures of an unidentified cause. I really wish the Dr.s knew more.
Having finished and reviewed
Two Towers I'm now onto
the return of the king hurray no more crawling in the swamps of the dead marshes.
Not sure what to take with me for a week's holiday though.
I am reading
Reap The Wind another Iris Johansen.. I want to send this and another to my daughter, as I think she will enjoy them... But I think Not In Kansas Anymore: A Curious Tale of How Magic Is Transforming America by
Christine Wicker is my next read. I was going to start the Shin series, but I believe I will be putting that aside for a while. I just ordered some books that make me drool. Shinn is still a mystery to me.
clamairy: Let me know how you go with Oscar Wao, I really enjoyed it!
I've completly dismissed everything in my TBR from what I said in message #10 and read two and a half of the first 3 Earth's children Books by Auel instead.
See I get thing out, put them in a pile, thinking that's what I'm going to read next, then I read something completly different, at least this thread has made me use a TBR tag. I previously only had an Unread one, but Unread includes things I'm not going to or can't read so I know I've got 803 Unread, but 283 TBR.
Had good luck at library: Just finished "Mister Pip" by Lloyd Jones (liked it very much). Now beginning "The Night Climbers" by Ivo Stourton (not sure about it, but will go further. . . have you read it?)
I finished
Dark Visions at the doctor's office this morning, and I'll be starting
Stardust later today.
Have just started reading
Always Coming Home by
Ursula K. Le Guin which is about a culture which exists in the future long after our culture is gone. To me that is an intriguing premise. She writes from the standpoint of a historian/anthropolgist learning about this culture through archeological methods. It promises to be a good summer read! 8^)
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I started
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley over the weekend. It has been interesting so far.
I was trying to read
Persuasion by
Jane Austen, but it is boring me to
tears so I switched to
Sense and Sensibility. Which still has the same stylistic quirks that I find odd and sometimes annoying, but at least things happen, which is more than I can say for Persuasion (I got halfway through the book and I was still waiting for
something, anything, to happen).
I'm reading Garth Nix's
Sabriel & enjoying it so far :)
I currently reading the Fourth SFBC
Elric omnibus. Really, I am just marking time until the new
Vlad Taltos,
Mistborn, and
Shadowmarch books come out, plus I have three books coming from Amazon soon. This collection is not as good as the first three. There is too much pontification of views and not enough story.
#77 - Seanie, glad to hear it! According to my daughter each book in that trilogy is better than the previous one, so you have more to look forward to!
Finished The King's Shield by Sherwood Smith and have started
The Blade Itself by
Joe Abercrombie - about a quarter of the way in...this is a very strange story. A lot of tongue in cheek, but the cruelty in tone for some reason doesn't make me laugh, yet. Did anybody else find that the characters in this series seem distanced from the reader? It may not be quite my cuppa, but it's too soon to determine the author's game, at least until it gets further into play. A tone of clever cynicism doesn't always work for me, even if I may admire the slick crafting. So I'm reading this one in short takes, to find out where it goes.
Library sale had a copy of
Shadowplay by Tad Williams - I haven't tried a book of his since
Dragonbone Chair so I guess I need to get the prequel.
I downloaded Oscar Wao last night and intend to start listening today at work. It's so boring around here lately, I'm losing my mind....aaaghghghghghg
Working on Maire MacNeill's 'The Festival of Lughnasa: A Study of the Survival of the Celtic Festival of the Beginning of the Harvest'. . . all 700 pages of it. (Borrowed it via ILL to see how badly I wanted it, and decided I did, but I'm going to have to give the ILL copy back before I'm done. Got one on order now.)
Alternating with re-reading Lindsey Davis' Falco series (mysteries set in 1st c Roman Empire) when I want something lighter.
>#81: aaaghghghghghg indeed. You can't lose something that you never had.
ooooooh, I'm so insulted, MrA. At least I don't go around touting myself as an answer man, and then refuse to do sports questions.
#27 - I honestly thought that was a joke at first! Good thing the touchstone worked or I would not have believed that was an actual book. :)
I'm reading
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson and I really can't decide if it's amazing storytelling or total rubbish.... probably depends how it ends....
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Well, I
would be reading
Finn, by Jon Clinch, if I ever had the time to do so.
Stupid life, always getting in the way.
#80 - For what it's worth, I thought the first Abercrombie was fairly average too. Word on the street is that the trilogy gets better with each successive volume, with the third knocking people's socks off. So, yes, I'll read the second, despite having the same hang-ups as you.
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I just finished
The Neverending Story; now I'm reading
Nineteen Minutes. I'm also over halfway through
I Am Charlotte Simmons, and I will finish it, but it's getting tedious. I'm reading a book for school too called
Georgia Stories. Yep. just as I thought, the touchstone didn't work. The book is a collection of short fiction from Georgia that I plan to teach from this year. I have to make sure I don't try to tackle some story that will get me in trouble!
#89 hobbitprincess - I'm interested to hear what you think about
Nineteen Minutes. It's one of those books that stays with you.
I just got a copy of
The Neverending Story last week. I should begin it sometime during the week.
I'm ready for one of those books that you simply can't put down; one you stay up all night reading. If anyone has any suggestions, let me know!
#79 Clam - Oh goody :)
Something that I've found funny is that there's a character called Touchstone :)
I read
The Year Of Magical Thinking in less than twenty-four hours (see? Being unemployed has a plus side!), but now I can't settle on what to read next. I keep picking up books, reading a chapter, and putting them down. Even good ones. It's like... reader's block.
#87 - mikepatrick - thanks.
I do tend to stick with stuff - given the human tendency that truly new things, and the unfamiliar, often feel (falsely) uncomfortable (survival instincts rear up and tell you to watch it!) until one gets oriented to the material. This will be a book I read "sandwiched" between other stuff, due to its type casting of reprehensible caricatures. I will see, indeed, if my socks get knocked. Applause, regardless, for originality.
For clever cynicism, I personally prefer Lindsey Davis as the slighting outlook comes paired with characters with heart.
Checked 4 out of local library: "Mister Pip" by Lloyd Jones, a lovely little book. "The Night Climbers" by Ivo Stourton,328 page shaggy-dog story. Now reading "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz. (I'm 1/2 way thru and fascinated.) The fourth is "His Illegal Self," by Peter Carey.
I finished
Seven Seasons of Buffy, (a critical response to the television show; very good!), yesterday and am now going to start The Host by Stephenie Meyer. I'm looking forward to the story, but I am NOT pleased with the book's weight. Tomes like this are why I prefer mass market paperbacks. I haul my current read around with me for my bus ride and break times, so thick hardcovers cause me some problems.
Does anyone else read two or more books at the same time? I am reading
Good Omens and
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. I know most people have read these books already but I have a lot of catching up to do in terms of my reading.
yep but not if i can avoid it. i get confused and lose interest.
I just started
A Game of Thrones, so far so good. I'm also reading
Lamb, well I was reading it until I misplaced it.
#97 - Always. It's my bane. Clam's Bane... The Curse of Multiple Reads. I have dozens of books with the bookmark at the halfway point sitting around.
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Clam's bane:
#97 - WOW, what great stories to juggle, too! I don't usually juggle fiction. I'll usually have a fiction and one or two nonfictions working at the same time.
#76
I started Persuasion in Feb and lost it. Now it is found and I started it again. It seems lovely at the beginning, I hope I don't put it down after all I've been through. I love to hate the father who thinks so little of his own children because they are just daughters.
i'm still reading
Hungry by
Alethea Eason due to hectic from worng. >.
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#103 - So, do you enjoy
The Code book? I had a reading spree on crypto history some years ago and I remember that one as educational. After I read that one I could actually speak with the security hacks here at work without feeling flustered ;-)
I finally started
House of Leaves yesterday. It's very different and tough to read, but so far I'm really enjoying it.
I finished off
Oscar Wao the other day, but have been so insanely busy that I've only gotten 16 pages into
That Old Ace in the Hole for Wednesday night's book club.
Don't expect to see too much of me until I'm finished with it.
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I haven't been in the mood to ready anything lately.
bleh
i know that feeling. sometimes you just can't get into books, especially when there is other stuff going on. It'll pass.
Meanwhile, nice creepy-crawly photos on the "icky" thread, i must say.
Thanks.
I seem to be more interested in my camera than in reading. Makes me feel guilty for some odd reason.
Oh no fleela, no guilt, your books will wait. I go through phases of reading too. I always come back to it.
Right now, in addition to a couple of earlier mentioned books, I'm reading
Caesar and Christ by Will Durant and
City of Gold and Shadows by Ellis Peters. Just finished
One Fine Day the Rabbi Bought a Cross by Harry Kemelman. I read mysteries much faster than I read nonfiction. :)
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#109 - Reading-Fox -
Jerusalem Fire by
R. M. Meluch? That story is one of my all time favorites! yes, it is unpredictable, but the resolution is bound to blow you away. I think it's one of the most underrated books, ever.
People who liked Lions of Al-Rassan may well enjoy this story. It has the same vein of poignancy, amazing interpersonal insights, but tapped from a slightly different angle. And so well done! A cut well above the usual, by my lights, anyway.
Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Slow starting, but I didn't have my good reading glasses with me and that may have mattered.
I rarely, rarely abandon a book, but I finally did just that yesterday. It was
I Am Charlotte Simmons. I do not consider myself a prude by any means, but the continual use of the "f" word, multiple times on virtually every page, got to me after awhile.
I'm reading
Rhett Butler's People, a book I forgot I had. It's pretty good, so far. Should be a quick read.
107 - I'm completely with it until it gets to the computer tech stuff. That's where the maths gets too scary. I'm fascinated by Rejewski and his Enigma decryption, though. It's amazing.
Finally finished Ilario. Took ages! Slow reading place, but I enjoyed it. Hell, I even did a review, and for some reason I really struggle to get motivated to do those.
Then I read
The Madonnas of Leningrad which was just gorgeous, poignant and horrifying all in one.
Now I'm reading
The King of Elfland's Daughter by his worshipfulness, Dunsany.
I had four going on simultaneously (why is the book you're reading never where you think you left it?)
I just finished
Already Dead by Charlie Huston. I enjoyed it and just added it to my LT.
The Sultan's Seal - the mystery is fairly light-weight, but the setting of Ottoman-era Turkey is interesting. I have a long commute, so there's always an audio book—this time it's
Pride and Prejudice. One disk left to go. Finally, I've just started Naomi Novik's latest,
Victory of Eagles because I left The Sultan's Seal in my wife's car. :-)
Finished a mystery by
Ellis Peters on my trip and began
Good Omens, which I am loving! I didn't want to bring all the heavy hardbound histories I'm still in the middle of on my trip, so I'll have to get back to them now I'm home. Think I'll finish Good Omens first though, it's hard to put down.
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I just finished
Passage by Connie Willis
This was a wonderful, gripping, un-put-downable read.
I loved all of it. I am trying to think of something not positive to say, but no luck. I liked it better than
The Doomsday Book, and I did like that one a lot.
This is going to sit next to TheLace Readeron my favorites shelf. I can hardly believe that I found two reads like these in the same week!
I'm about halfway through
The Day Freedom Died about a mass killing of blacks by whites in central Louisiana in 1873. It's been a weird read for me since I lived for about a decade near where the book is set. And my parents own land about 15 miles from Colfax. I keep reading about places I know and yet I never heard about this happening. It's a really good book and I'm having trouble putting it down but given the subject, I can't say I'm enjoying it.
I read
Twilight and
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer because my daughter read them, I like vampire stuff, and I wanted to talk with her about them. They got me out of my reading slump.
Now I'm reading
Stealing Athena by
Karen Essex, a freebie. I'm really enjoying it, and compared to
The Aviary Gate by
Katie Hickman, which also has two story lines going, one in Contantinople, it's heaven.
I've also still got
The Power Makers in process.
Next on the fiction list is probably
Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet for August bookclub meeting. I'm really looking forward to reading it.
I've been rereading Sandman. I'm currently on
The Season of Mists, which was my favourite volume for a long, long time. I'm looking forward to diving back in.
I am re reading Catcher in the Rye as I need a paperback book for the bathtub. All the rest of my stuff is on the Kindle. I am seeing Catcher from a different perspective. I think I first read it when I was in my 20s; now in my 60s. I see the world and Holden a wee tad differently.
I'm reading
Marcus Herniman's
Siege of Arrandin. I'm enjoying it so far, but hoping i end up loving it coz books 2 & 3 in the trilogy were very hard to find & I ended up paying more for them than I usually would for books I havn't read yet...
I am reading
You Only Live Twice. And I thought Terry Pratchett books were funny, I couldn't stop laughing about how RACIST James Bond books are. I literally LOLed when the Australian agent helping Bond declared the Japanese to be a "completely different human species" as he barges through a crowd of them paying no courtesy to their culture's manners. Such characters make me embarrassed to think Aussies may or may not have acted exactly like that when abroad in the 50s.
Just finished
antarctica which is absolutely superb. Near future eco-SF in a similar vein (and maybe the inspiration of) the
forty signs of rain trilogy. very very vivid outdoor imagery.
I started
Trinity by Leon Uris last night. It's on my list of 5 large books to read this year. I was afraid it would be dull and large, but so far I'm liking it a lot.
oh,
Trinity is fantastic! I read it ages ago... and loved it.
Rereading
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch, in preparation to read number two of the series. I only read this a year ago, however I adore this book, and have no problem rereading it again so soon.
Before that, and after finishing with
Elflands, I read
No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod, which was STUNNING. Oh, it tore my heart out by the end. I think it's going to find its way into the top 35.
Even tho I already have a stack of "reading now" I am cracking open
The Lions of Al-Rassan because it just looks so juicy. I can't help myself.
I read
Lord of Light a few days ago, and I think I will re-read it again Friday. I haven't decided on much else (fiction-wise) to read this month. Maybe tomorrow I will re-read
Ubik.
This month has been sort of a lukewarm book interest month -- with my interests spanning only books I've read before. My Amazon/LT recommendations aren't helping, either (OH YUCK!).
An excellent book, maggie1944!
I'm currently somewhere in the middle of the following books:
Jumper (read half of it at the bookstore last week)
I Am LegendSimplexity (ER book)
Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age (which I got distracted from, ha ha ha, by other books)
I'm this minute in the middle of the Torchwood audiobook Border Princes, which I'll be done with in about 45 minutes.
bluesalamanders, I went to Amazon to look at
Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age and although it does not look like a book that will lift one out of depression, it does look very interesting. Are you finding it relatively easy to read? I mean I know some academic books are harder than stones to read, others are quite readable. How does this book rate? And do you agree with her point of view?
144 maggie
I haven't gotten too far into it yet - I find nonfiction books really hard going. But the concept is very interesting (I heard about it on NPR, which is why I went out and bought it) and I think it is well written so far. And yes, I agree with what I've read so far, too.
I'm not reading it right now - I'll probably read more of Simplexity since it's an ER book and also fairly mood-neutral. It may be a while before I get back to Distracted.
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Oh you gave me a panic attack then readafew, I thought the new Artemis was out in august, and it is - in the UK - Dammit, it's not fair.
8P~
neener, neener ;)
>138 I'm glad to hear you're reading
A Tramp Abroad. Are you liking it so far? So many people overlook most of his books, settling for only reading
Tom Sawyer or
Huckleberry Finn.
I put up a list of other lesser known Twain books you might like over on
my blog.
And because I wasn't already in the middle of enough books, I picked up
Soul Music when I was at the bookstore today.
>150 Hi Whicker. I'm not far in...maybe 100 pages...but I'm enjoying it a lot. I had read
The Innocents Abroad and found it quite funny, so I thought I'd move onward through his works. I think I'm enjoying this one a bit more as he seems to have deliberately set himself up as the central figure of ridicule, whereas in IA there was more a sense of him laughing at the others.
I picked up about 15 volumes of Twain at a used book sale, so I've got enough material to read one every so often for quite a while. :-)
I've found myself reading this whole list:
Q's Legacy Marley & Meby
John Grogan The Picnic & other inimitable StoriesbyG Durrel
You Are What You Eat Change One for Diabetes
I'm reading the last 2 because i was told recently that i'm borderline pre diabetic-so am doing my best to keep it from becoming full blown diabetes! I am also reading a lot of product labels. 8^)
Harry Potter As I finally now have the 7th in paperback I get to read the series through.
I just finished
Moonraker. It was my first James Bond book, and it was a lot of fun. Plus the
cover art on the copy I found was enough to make me read the thing.
I'm back into
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. I took a break from it this weekend so I could focus on some nonfiction and a couple of graphic novels. It's very enjoyable, but I'm a little disappointed that I'm not OMGINVOLVED with it. I'd heard tons of good things before I'm started; while they're all true, I find that I'm experiencing them to a lesser degree than others have done.
I'm also in the midst of a big, involved reread of
Neil Gaiman's Sandman series. My love for these books knows no bounds. I'm enjoying them just as much now as I did the first time I read them all. I've had a great time trying to write reviews for them, too. I have so many thoughts on the series that I'm sure they're all over the place, but it's been an interesting exercise.
I finished
The Eight which I had but hadn't read. I picked it up because I scored
The Fire: A Novel from Early Reviewers...and will be moving on to
Angelica.
I mentioned elsewhere that
The Eight was okay, but in my opinion had way too much of everything. Too many historical figures, too many near misses, too much that made you say "Oh come one now!" Jut too much of everything. I wonder what The Fire will be like?
I am looking forward to Angelica. That one called out to me from Amazon......( used)
July have been slow to me, bookwise - too much socialising going on, but that's a good thing so I don't complain.
Finished
Sailing from Byzantium, which I bought earlier due to Flee's mentioning of it, and it was worth both the time and the money.
Some weeks ago I found a bag of forgotten books in the cellar, and I decided to read one of them -
Out of the silent planet - before continuing with cutting volumes off my non-fiction TBR stack.
Else I'm forcing myself to read a book that roughly translates to User Centred Systems Design. I get very upset by it but I figure the assignment I'm about to begin next week will benefit from the reading... sigh.
#119 - Usually I skip the math in books like that. I don't need to understand the details as long as I get the general concept ;-)
If you thought that one interesting you might want to read
Battle of Wits...
#133 - You Only Live Twice is one of my fave Bond films, mainly for the interior designs but also for the truly outdated ideas about race and women. At some point those things stop being outrageously aggravating and start being outrageously fun ;-)
I don't know about the books but the classic films are all VERY racist, playing off archetypes of about every nation or culture you can think of.
#162 - It has led to at least two more 'to buy' books noted down in my small black book - similar or associated topics - and new ideas in my head; a good thing! Thanks! :D
Which books? Do tell!
Persuasion by
Jane Austen. Just never read it. I love the "older" heroine, Anne. The passing glances in the book are more telling then the movies I have watched. I love her details in storytelling.
I'm about halfway through
Sunshine, which I'm getting a huge kick out of. I love the worldbuilding McKinley's done! I'm still not sure that it's a keeper, though. I think it's all gonna depend on how this plays out.
Rereading "Ebenezer LePage" By G. B. Edwards , and "The Horse of Pride" by Pierre-Jakez Helias because they resonate with the book about Guernsey everyone was excited about (lost its title!! it's about Guernsey Islands WW2). . . I mentioned this a day or so ago. . .plz xcus if repeating now/here
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