I'm a big fan of Revival. I hope you like it!I just started Revival. I have that in hardcover. Read UR and Mile 81 last weekend on my Kindle. Loved both of those.
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Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
John Steinbeck - Travels with Charley - read that one in school - I liked the way his poodle would make that little "ftttt" sound when he wanted something.
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I just finished reading Enders Game, I thought it was an extremely bleak story.
Me too. Very much. . . .I don't enjoy reading Si-Fi. But, I love to see them on the screen.
The Pearl...finished The Log From The Sea of Cortez.
The Closers - Michael Connelly
Just finished "Henderson the Rain King". Great book, and funny!!!
The Enchanted by Rene Denfield
Either my King type of story telling sensibilities are permeating the way I perceive other stories or other writers are similarly influenced by him. Or maybe it's a combination of the two but the last two books(the previous one was Consumption by Heather Herrman coming out in May) I have read feel very heavily King inspired.
In this book, Rene Denfield puts her background, personal and professional, to craft a raw, bleak and yet very uplifting story.
From her bio:
"Rene has written for many publications including The New York Times Magazine, The Oregonian, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. She has published three non-fiction books.In addition to her writing career, Rene Denfeld is a death penalty investigator who works with men and women facing execution. She is the happy mother of three children she adopted from state foster care"
This is a prison based story that further explores a setting where under the worst of conditions the most magical things occur. Sound familiar? Echoes of The Green Mile and Shawshank Redemption resonate through this story. Denfield employs an interesting conceit where only the inmates have proper names and everyone else, including the protagonists, are only known by labels - the prison of their own making? - ; the lady, the priest, the warden, the guards, the blackshirts etc
This is a story of prisons not just of stone and steel but of the, if not more confining, mind that people build. The language of this story is the real enchantment as it pulls you into this tale full with horror, beauty, and longing. It is grim but uplifting. It is a raw edged wonder. It is Del Toro's - Pan's Labyrinth - done as a prison movie.
Highly recommended.
Either my King type of story telling sensibilities are permeating the way I perceive other stories or other writers are similarly influenced by him. Or maybe it's a combination of the two but the last two books(the previous one was Consumption by Heather Herrman coming out in May) I have read feel very heavily King inspired.
In this book, Rene Denfield puts her background, personal and professional, to craft a raw, bleak and yet very uplifting story.
From her bio:
"Rene has written for many publications including The New York Times Magazine, The Oregonian, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. She has published three non-fiction books.In addition to her writing career, Rene Denfeld is a death penalty investigator who works with men and women facing execution. She is the happy mother of three children she adopted from state foster care"
This is a prison based story that further explores a setting where under the worst of conditions the most magical things occur. Sound familiar? Echoes of The Green Mile and Shawshank Redemption resonate through this story. Denfield employs an interesting conceit where only the inmates have proper names and everyone else, including the protagonists, are only known by labels - the prison of their own making? - ; the lady, the priest, the warden, the guards, the blackshirts etc
This is a story of prisons not just of stone and steel but of the, if not more confining, mind that people build. The language of this story is the real enchantment as it pulls you into this tale full with horror, beauty, and longing. It is grim but uplifting. It is a raw edged wonder. It is Del Toro's - Pan's Labyrinth - done as a prison movie.
Highly recommended.
NOS4A2. It's really hard to read while in the ICU, so I just got home and have continued it.
John
John
The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb. Fantasy. I absolutely loved the first two books. I'm starting on the third tonight. This is the kind of book I'm going to rant to all my friends about. 
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
What were you doing in the ICU?
I hope you are okay now!
Doing lots better now. Just still pretty weak. Went in late Monday night and got home Friday evening. I had a severe GI bleed. Just part of getting old.
John
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
Well - take care of yourself and heal fast - I am getting up in years myself - so far no major issues (knock on wood she says, as she raps her knuckles up again the side of her head)
Still reading Swan Song. Highly enjoying it.
WHAT THE HECK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ICU!!!!!!!!!! Are you alright?? GI bleed? Whoa. Please mend soon.
I am about 3/4 through Last Days by Adam Neville' wish it would get down to business
(((John))) I hope you're fully healed soon... very scary stuff!
Certainly hope you are feeling better.ICU thats scary.
finished The Pearl...good story...Steinbeck used some of the details from The Log from the Sea of Cortez. Adornment...something to consider. Now on to The Red Pony...probably not like McCarthy does it but it should be interesting.
Take it very easy, John. I want to see you on here for a long, long time, my friend!
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