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Haunted

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Just finished If You Only Knew by Kristin Higgins. Just a nice story about two sisters and their loves. Towards the end, Jenny is putting her drunken and grief stricken boyfriend to bed, "On the night table is, Pet Semetary by the master of sleep deprivation, Stephen King. I slip it onto the floor so Leo won't get any ideas."
 

fljoe0

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Tonight I Say Goodbye - Michael Koryta

I haven't read his earlier books, so I think it's time to do that.


Note about Koryota's next book - There was supposed to to be a sequel to Last Words coming out this year. There was even an excerpt for the sequel at the end of Last Words. I saw this note on his website:
The first-person Markus Novak novel promised there didn’t want to be written—and who am I to argue? I just listen to the characters.
I was looking forward to a sequel but I'm glad he isn't forcing something that isn't there.
 

skimom2

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I havn't read any of her novels. I'm not real crazy about romances but I do like historical romances sometimes. Have you read any that stand out?
I'm okay with historical, too. I was sent Devereaux's next one (out in May, I think) to review, and I've never read anything by her. I was wondering what to expect :) Let me see if I can think of any historical romances I liked. I'm more likely to read a historical with lighter romantic aspects, if you get what I mean. There was one I reviewed that made me laugh--What Happens in Scotland is the title, and I think the author was Jennifer McQuiston. That one was clever and funny--a historical version of "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas"--and focussed on that rather than overblown sex scenes. And I learned something I didn't know: the blacksmith kept the register of marriages! I thought that was made up, but nope--historically accurate :)
 
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skimom2

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I started another series (I will live but I will not learn *sigh*). I'm reading Wool by Hugh Howey. It's a post appocaliptic story. I'm having problems visualizing the silo and I'm beginning to think some sci-fi works better on the screen than in print.
I was just looking at this one in B&N and wondering if it was worth picking up! Let me know what you think as you get further along :)
 

80sFan

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Gave up on "the Woods".
Now starting "In the Quiet" by Eliza Henry Jones.


Gave up on "In the Quiet" after a day or two (might go back to it...good premise, but didn't hold my interest at the time ).

Now reading "The Candidate's Daughter" by Catherine Lea. Not horrible, kind of a simple, fast read. Reminds me of James Patterson's stuff.
 

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Just finished The Last Warrior by Bernard Cornwell. All about Danes invading England in the 9th century. I know it's historical fiction, which I don't normally go for, but the author obviously went to a lot of trouble to put a story around actual facts. Very enjoyable and managed to show both sides of the story.
 

muskrat

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Re-reading the Vantage Original Frankenstein double edition--it has two versions, one with Percy Shelley's additions and alterations (in italics), and one without--printed from Mary's earliest draft, which is a real eye opener--faster, less flowery, more plot driven and modern. Kinda makes you want a go back in time and slap Percy in his ethereal face, say, "just leave the chick alone, man--she ain't writing a damn poem, she's writing horror."

Then I'd go beat on Coleridge's door every time the old junkie sat down to write a poem. That's how we roll in Porlock.
 

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Just finished The Death House by Sarah Pinborough. How good is it? Well it pulled off a cover blurb by Mr. King himself - "Moving and totally involving. I couldn't out it down." A heartbreaking yet joyous celebration of the human spirit. This one stands deftly on the shoulders of such books as - The Lord Of The Flies.
 

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Dug through my pot luck pile of obscure used paperbacks, looking for some seventies trash gold. Reading something called Belinda by someone called Mary Loos--all about the wheelers and dealers of old school Hollywood. Not bad so far--I guess it's a sort of sequel to another book about old, old school Hollywood called The Beggars Are Coming. Shades of Harold Robbins, The Carpetbaggers. Not bad. Sometimes, after reading great literature, you gotta cleanse yer palate with a little trash.

Gonna write my own homage to 70s style trash fiction one of these days. Something over-the-top, borderline stupid, about decadent fat cats boozing it up, snorting coke, having depraved sex and flying around the world. Just go overboard with degenerate cliches, just fer the fun of it.

Yeesh, my trouble is I have TOO MANY ideas.
 

not_nadine

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Dug through my pot luck pile of obscure used paperbacks, looking for some seventies trash gold. Reading something called Belinda by someone called Mary Loos--all about the wheelers and dealers of old school Hollywood. Not bad so far--I guess it's a sort of sequel to another book about old, old school Hollywood called The Beggars Are Coming. Shades of Harold Robbins, The Carpetbaggers. Not bad. Sometimes, after reading great literature, you gotta cleanse yer palate with a little trash.

Gonna write my own homage to 70s style trash fiction one of these days. Something over-the-top, borderline stupid, about decadent fat cats boozing it up, snorting coke, having depraved sex and flying around the world. Just go overboard with degenerate cliches, just fer the fun of it.

Yeesh, my trouble is I have TOO MANY ideas.

This making me want to ready 'Lucky' and 'Chances' by Jackie Collins again. Good stuff. Secret loved it. We all did, and passed it around.
But most of it was set in the 80's, I think? But went trashy good all over the place.

:smile:
 
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