That just applies to men, right?I think we have rules against that--something about sexual harassment in the workplace.
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I must have missed that memo.
So tired this evening. To tired to read anything new. I think i will go to bed with Jean Auels The Mammoth Hunters tonight. Not a masterpiece but likeable even if she is not a great stylist. But she has done her research. Far from everyone who writes about the Stone Age has done that.
The one I liked best by her was her first. The further along they got, the more they became Stone Age soft core porn--lol. Clan of the Cave Bear was pretty damned good, though.
I'm curious how you like it. I finished her Galbraith mysteries a couple of weeks ago and preferred them to CV.
I am reading a trilogy I got free on Kindle from Book Bub... Girl in Box. Just into the second book. The "girl in box" is a "metahuman" who has powers we humans made into myths. So far it's interesting, but I am cool that it was free.
I'm at the beginning, so I don't have a strong opinion yet. I'm still learning the characters and how they're all related, and there isn't a lot that's happened yet. It's very dark, and I find I'm more forming opinions of J.K.R. than the characters! She doesn't miss a trick in real life, I imagine, and I know all (good) authors are observers of people, but it's just an adjustment on my part to hear certain things coming from her after years of pumpkin juice and house elves!
Very much so!
I'm taking a break from Tabby for the rest of the month and next month (I always read straight-up horror during October) but I'll be reading Pearl in November....probably.
Thanks! I had trouble a few times with the timeline, I'd be a couple of paragraphs into a chapter before I would realize what era it was set in. I loved the story tho!
The Sepulchre by James Herbert. I love how the author builds up the tension slowly - everybody has secrets, even the house (especially the house), plus there's a character named Halloran, just like in King's The Shining (even though it's spelled "Hallorann" there). I thought that was a nice touch.
I can't choose between The Abominable - Simmons, Edge of Eternity - Follett, Fools Assassin - Hobb, The Twelve - Cronin or Mr. Mercedes - King. King should be a no brainer, but I just finished Bag of Bones.
They're all latest releases by authors, and 3 are part of an unfinished series!
Asimov it is, until I decide.
Opinions if you like!
They're all latest releases by authors, and 3 are part of an unfinished series!
Asimov it is, until I decide.
Opinions if you like!
I love Larry McMurtry. I hunted him down after I saw Terms of Endearment in 1983 (no google then, had to sit through the credits to read the "based on a novel by"). That book, as always, was so different from the movie, but I'd found a new writer to love. He cracks me up. Did you know he helped Annie Proulx with the screen play of Brokeback Mountain. He's one of those very diverse writers. Love him much!
I loved this book!
I thought it was well enough executed (Rowling is a good storyteller), but I don't get along with "well-off white people filled with ennui and behaving badly" books. They frustrate (and ultimately bore) me. I personally preferred her Galbraith books, and I'm not much of a mystery reader.
I'm finishing a re-read of Mennonite in a Little Black Dress. It's hilarious.
I'm re-reading Boy's Life by Robert McCammon. Mucho fantastico.
True. Somehow you had the feeling she wasn't interested either. It was as if she had some hastily written sexscenes that she put in whenever it was deemed necessary. They are so similar that they are boring. The first is obviuosly best. Partly because she is a girl there, not a grown woman and partly because Jondalar isn't in it. Her 'hero' is probably one of the most boring and uninteresting persona i know. What is good is the description of the neanderthal society in Clan of the cave bear and the cromagnon society in the Mammoth Hunters. Then she is not good enough a storyteller to handle well the situations when she has to tell what happened in previous books. The story doesn't just slow down, it stops. There is a lot of this retelling in the later books that should have been done much less of it and much better. Gabaldon handles a similar problem much better in her series because she is a better writer. When i read Auel i just read the good bits and skip the rest.
I think we have rules against that--something about sexual harassment in the workplace.
I guess a big hug would be out of line, huh?
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