My daughter is reading that right now (& I'm next
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Just started "No Country for Old Men". I am about 30 pages in, good so far.
I loved, loved that book!! In fact I was reading it when I first discovered this website way back in the dark ages. Did not much care for Arcadia; wish she would write another story like Monsters.My daughter is reading that right now (& I'm next
Really enjoying Bad Things Happen by Dolan, lots of characters, lots of mystery, find myself smiling a lot.
Still reading Rose Madder (a really scary book for me...but a good one). For the next few days I'll make a change as I am leaving the town and I can't take a book with me (too heavy to have it all the time in my bag), so I decided to take my tablet and uploaded the collection of Sweet Valley High books by Francine Pascal, I used to read the books when I was young, and now it will be cool to reread them, this time in the original.
I liked the first 2/3 of Arcadia, but the third act fell flat. Too bad, too.
I tried to read Life after Life and I could not. Bored the crap outta me . . .felt like that movie Ground Hog day. . . .not my type of groove . . .
I downloaded Ray Bradbury's "Something Wicked This Way Comes" for my son the other night on his Nook tablet. He was skeptical when I told him how good of a read it was, but I peered into his bedroom last night and saw him curled up in his rocker chair pretty much absorbed in the book. There is nothing like seeing a kid getting into a book..lol
Oh I hope he loves it! It really speaks to a young man of a certain age. I know it did for me. I've always thought that SK could not have written many of his best books had it not been for Something Wicked This Way Comes.
One of that type that did work for me was Lauren Oliver's Before I Fall. Well done YA.
I went to the library to return some movies and a book, totally not intending to check out a single thing... and you know how that worked out. I was surprised to see another posthumous Maeve Binchy (Chestnut Street), so I had to get it. The last book, rushed into publication right after she died, was somewhat of a mess--a lot looked like an author's working notes, barely cleaned up to make them fit the narrative line. I think there is no way she would have chosen to publish the book in that state. Anyway, I've been pleasantly surprised by this book. It's a series of short (some very short--barely two pages) stories she'd been putting out for decades, stuck in a drawer for 'someday'. The first three (as far as I've gotten in the book) were really good.
I also got Valerie Martin's new one (The Ghost of the Mary Celeste), as I liked Property and Mary Reilly very much. Last: Dean Koontz' first Frankenstein book--curse the Koontz thread for getting him into my brain (lol)! So far... eh. Lots and lots of adverbs and adjectives... we'll see.
I also got Valerie Martin's new one (The Ghost of the Mary Celeste), as I liked Property and Mary Reilly very much. Last: Dean Koontz' first Frankenstein book--curse the Koontz thread for getting him into my brain (lol)! So far... eh. Lots and lots of adverbs and adjectives... we'll see.
I really like the Frankenstein books- they're a hodgepodge mix of horror, suspense and humor. Koontz knows exactly when to make you laugh. I thought the new twist on the Frankenstein story was good.
The Backs of My Eyelids. Unfortunately, I doubt it will be permanent this time through.
Pretty sure I'll be finishing that story soon, though.
Pretty sure I'll be finishing that story soon, though.
I liked how the story was outlined on the book jackets, so I took a chance on the first one
I remember liking some of his older books, and I liked a couple of the Odd books & Fear Nothing. I'm not very far in yet, but I wanted something light-ish.
Skulduggery Pleasant-The Faceless Ones. (Mike Hammer meets Doctor Strange for adolescents; and 49 year olds.)
My daughter loved those books!
Finished Podkayne of Mars...ok. Read a hardback that includes an ending the way Heinlein intended. My copy has an alternative ending...Putnam's his publisher at the time was unhappy w/Heinlein's ending. He anticipates handheld GPS units. Did a quick run through at Goodreads...forget the exact numbers, but their page one of reviews has...9 I think 1-star reviews...out of a total of 54. Many of them are female...or, they have female pics for avatars, and a few spank Heinlein for blatant sexism. Didn't read more, caught that in the first sentence, so can't say if they elaborate on that theme but my experience has been that few do. Politics. Trumps everything, hey? War is simply an extension of politics. Their numbers don't seem "fair" but it's all relative, nessy pas?
Now it is either a John Sanford, Phantom Prey or Jose Saramago, All The Names. I've read some from both but I've already my index paper in the Sanford so who am I kidding.
Now it is either a John Sanford, Phantom Prey or Jose Saramago, All The Names. I've read some from both but I've already my index paper in the Sanford so who am I kidding.
Almost finished Bad Things Happen, great story, lots of talk about editing and writers. Picked up Greg Iles newest Natchez Burning today, 788 pages, gonna be a real journey!! HOOOHOOO
I agree. I read Something Wicked This Way Comes several times as a teenager and was always riveted by it. Some books by Bradbury I couldn't get into, but SWTWC is my favorite of his.
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