What Are You Reading?
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Trust me... it comes and goes.I'm hoping to mature one day
I'm mainly reading posts on this board of late. I'm 2 weeks into a book I should have knocked off in a week.
As the actress said to the bishop.
(Thank you (maybe) once again, Urban Dictionary--I didn't mean it that way, FYI.)
I see innuendos in the most innocent statements.My customer who's in her late 70's has just told me she's got a bad back with all the humping she's been doing!!!
Just finished re-reading this after quite a long gap. A most excellent book, which I would recomend to anyone here. Quite an imagination has Mr Barker.
I've read a few Clive Barker, The Great and Secret Show and Everville are brilliant also Imajica which I think is in the same league as Lord of the Rings. I have to say Weaveworld is my favourite I've read it a few times.
Right now I am reading, Flesh Eaters by Joe McKinney, Bones Never Lie by Kathy Reichs, and Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty. All very different themes, 100 pages, shift 100 pages, shift and 100 pages, shift; I am thoroughly enjoying them all.
I have Big Little Lies on my 'to-read' list. I've heard good things! Would love to hear your thoughts about it when you're done with it
Enjoy!
The Nameless
M-O-O-N - That spells Nameless
I recently posted in a different thread about the back stories in IT and made a flippant off the cuff remark that because a few things were slipping from my memory, it may be time to re read IT. That was 137 pages ago, and I've just finished the 1st interlude, about to start part 2 - June of 1958.
This book is just so damn readable.
I didn't buy revival because it was close to my birthday and I knew someone would get it for me, and if not then Christmas. Well my nan has sent me a rather book shaped present for me to open tomorrow so that will probably be my next read.
This book is just so damn readable.
I didn't buy revival because it was close to my birthday and I knew someone would get it for me, and if not then Christmas. Well my nan has sent me a rather book shaped present for me to open tomorrow so that will probably be my next read.
Second go round on Atwood's Stone Mattress in just a few days. She just gets better and better, and this book of shorts hit a note for me. Library book, so I'll definitely be looking for my own copy to keep.
I posted on this book a while back. I love Atwood, but not a fan of the short story form by any author. While I did not LOVE Stone Mattress, I did like it very much. As always, her writing is beautifully fluid and intelligent.
Has anyone read anything by Norman Prentiss?
I personally thought his works rather uneven. He is quite celebratyed here but some are real clunkers. That said, haven't read troubled man. It is a late addition to his series of wallander books. His best in my opinion (have read about 8) is Murderer without a face and Red Herring. Guessing the english titles of course since i read them in swedish.
Good thinking! Haven't read The Gold Finch yet, it is on my table but The Secret history is great and The Little Friend is also very good. As far as i know she has only written these three.
Just finished "Rose Madder", and realized I had read it, a very long time ago, when I was apparently too young to realize the importance of what I was reading. This is a very serious and somber story, but enlightening to those of us who have no idea what it must be like to live with spousal abuse. A horrible subject, a horrible character, not an easy read. Nor should it be. The best stories are the ones we think we'll never be able to relate to, but find out in the end that they've made us think about them more than we ever imagined we would. And, the very best stories help us to understand a little better what that part of us that we call our humanity is all about. "Rose Madder" did that for me.
Sorry I was replying to "Revival" post
I will get through it. You say true. I don't think I have ever read a SK book that was so hard to read.
Not that it is not excellent. Just hard to read. This one makes you feel every emotion. I am not even halfway through.
No wonder there is a special website for it...
I will get through it. You say true. I don't think I have ever read a SK book that was so hard to read.
Not that it is not excellent. Just hard to read. This one makes you feel every emotion. I am not even halfway through.
No wonder there is a special website for it...
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