What Are You Reading? Part Deux

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kingricefan

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Has anyone read McCammon's The Night Boat? I found a copy at the thrifty (and bought it, of course), but I really don't know what to think after reading the back cover. Is it interesting?
It's an early McCammon novel and has its shares of flaws but overall it is a good read. It's an interesting premise to begin with, one that I thought sounded hoakey when I read the back cover but it held my interest when I read it. Good, solid characters.
 

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I've finished the Silo trilogy by Hugh Howey. A fun read although writing characters is'nt Howey's strong suit. Quit a few of them die but because none of them really have a background and there is'nt really any investment in the main characters i could'nt care less when they go...
Still an interesting read though...

Last night i started The '86 Fix by Keith A. Pearson, a time travelling book. Always fun when people go back to the eighties...:)

Imagine if you could travel back in time to when you were sixteen.

Imagine if you could spend one weekend reliving your past — would you change anything?

Everything wrong with Craig Pelling’s life can be traced back to 1986 and the moment he popped in to a newsagent for a can of Coke. Now in his mid-forties, he lives in a loveless marriage and earns a living in a dead-end job managing an electrical store. He could have been so much more, achieved so much more.

But as bitter as Craig feels about his mundane existence, fate hasn't finished with him yet. A series of unfortunate events pushes the hapless Craig to breaking point as his life crumbles around him. All looks lost until he's thrown a lifeline — the miraculous lifeline of a brief trip back to 1986, to relive one weekend as his sixteen year-old self. Will he be able to fix his mundane life? Is it as simple as just reverting one decision he made over thirty years ago?

Craig is about to find out.
 

Paddy C

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I've finished the Silo trilogy by Hugh Howey. A fun read although writing characters is'nt Howey's strong suit. Quit a few of them die but because none of them really have a background and there is'nt really any investment in the main characters i could'nt care less when they go...
Still an interesting read though...

Last night i started The '86 Fix by Keith A. Pearson, a time travelling book. Always fun when people go back to the eighties...:)

Imagine if you could travel back in time to when you were sixteen.

Imagine if you could spend one weekend reliving your past — would you change anything?

Everything wrong with Craig Pelling’s life can be traced back to 1986 and the moment he popped in to a newsagent for a can of Coke. Now in his mid-forties, he lives in a loveless marriage and earns a living in a dead-end job managing an electrical store. He could have been so much more, achieved so much more.

But as bitter as Craig feels about his mundane existence, fate hasn't finished with him yet. A series of unfortunate events pushes the hapless Craig to breaking point as his life crumbles around him. All looks lost until he's thrown a lifeline — the miraculous lifeline of a brief trip back to 1986, to relive one weekend as his sixteen year-old self. Will he be able to fix his mundane life? Is it as simple as just reverting one decision he made over thirty years ago?

Craig is about to find out.

The '86 Fix sounds interesting.
 
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ancestrydotcom will tell you for sure.

(jk)

I'd love to do one of those DNA tests :) I think they're half priced at the moment.

Lack of chin?? Heavy browridges?? A bit shorter than usual but much stronger?? The authors by the way are Dimitra Papagianni & Michael Morse.

My facial bone structure is boringly common... I can blend right into wallpaper lol. I could rob a bank in broad daylight in front of 40 people and no one would be able to identify me :) But I have large bones for a female and really pale skin - the kind that burns rather than tans :)

I'm about 3/4 through Josh Malerman's Bird Box and really liking it. Well written and thought out, it lives up to its good reviews so far. I have read that some were disappointed in the ending though. I'll wait and see to make my final judgment.

I liked the ending. That's all I'm going to say :)
 

Dana Jean

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I'd love to do one of those DNA tests :) I think they're half priced at the moment.



My facial bone structure is boringly common... I can blend right into wallpaper lol. I could rob a bank in broad daylight in front of 40 people and no one would be able to identify me :) But I have large bones for a female and really pale skin - the kind that burns rather than tans :)



I liked the ending. That's all I'm going to say :)
Seriously, I know people are so bored with listening to me rattle on about this DNA test, but it is great fun. It has been just great great fun. And seriously, I am just a little bit of so many things! It's crazy how many. Most I had no idea. None. But I was thrilled to be made up of so many unique cultures.
 

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Finished Little Women yesterday and I adored it. Can't believe I waited so long to read it. I knew I had a hard copy somewhere, so went looking for it. I found it, but it is abridged. Maybe that is why I never read that particular copy. I will be getting a hard copy of it, for sure.

Then started I Travel By Night by McCammon...wow, I love it so far! I started it because Evan had a dentist appointment yesterday and the kindle is easy to pack with me to read while waiting and it is only a hundred some odd pages. Strange Weather is out of the bookcase and jacket and into book cover and is still next!
 

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Finished Little Women yesterday and I adored it. Can't believe I waited so long to read it. I knew I had a hard copy somewhere, so went looking for it. I found it, but it is abridged. Maybe that is why I never read that particular copy. I will be getting a hard copy of it, for sure.

Then started I Travel By Night by McCammon...wow, I love it so far! I started it because Evan had a dentist appointment yesterday and the kindle is easy to pack with me to read while waiting and it is only a hundred some odd pages. Strange Weather is out of the bookcase and jacket and into book cover and is still next!
I was a big Louisa May Alcott fan when I was in junior high/high school. Think I read all of her books and my mom even took me to visit her house/museum in Concord, MA. That was really interesting to see where she lived and hear more about her life. That was when I first learned that Concord and the surrounding area had sort of a writer's community at that time including Thoreau, Hawthorne, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Also, that she was the one who was providing much of the income for her family because her father wasn't a great provider.
 

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I was a big Louisa May Alcott fan when I was in junior high/high school. Think I read all of her books and my mom even took me to visit her house/museum in Concord, MA. That was really interesting to see where she lived and hear more about her life. That was when I first learned that Concord and the surrounding area had sort of a writer's community at that time including Thoreau, Hawthorne, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Also, that she was the one who was providing much of the income for her family because her father wasn't a great provider.
I will have to get the rest of her books for kindle. I think they are all public domain. That would be interesting to see where she lived!
 

not_nadine

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Seriously, I know people are so bored with listening to me rattle on about this DNA test, but it is great fun. It has been just great great fun. And seriously, I am just a little bit of so many things! It's crazy how many. Most I had no idea. None. But I was thrilled to be made up of so many unique cultures.

Agree! Thought I was 100% one heritage. Found out that I was actually 89% of what was told to me.
3% close by the region - and 8% other.

damn Vikings. heh.

Not to mention all the info on the website you can access. Saw birth certificates, work records, immigration papers, pictures and family that you are most likely related to.


If I had the bucks, I would give it out for Christmas presents.
 
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Dana Jean

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Agree! Thought I was 100% one heritage. Found out that I was actually 89% of what was told to me.
3% close by the region - and 8% other.

damn Vikings. heh.

Not to mention all the info on the website you can access. Saw birth certificates, work records, immigration papers, pictures and family that you are most likely related to.


If I had the bucks, I would give it out for Christmas presents.
I'm so glad you are having fun with it. When you get on a roll with ancestors, it is just a ride! Stumbling block walls in your way totally suck, but if you are the type of person who likes to do research, you will soon find yourself lost in your history. I did buy one when they were having their great sale for a christmas present this year.
 

not_nadine

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I'm so glad you are having fun with it. When you get on a roll with ancestors, it is just a ride! Stumbling block walls in your way totally suck, but if you are the type of person who likes to do research, you will soon find yourself lost in your history. I did buy one when they were having their great sale for a christmas present this year.

Can't tell you how many of these I found this summer, without even looking.


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Had them taped to books I was carrying. Quinkydink? Don't know. Gave them away. Every time I looked I spotted one, it seemed.
Must have been mutant patches of them. All I can explain it. Or Ancestry dot com haunting me.
 

Dana Jean

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Can't tell you how many of these I found this summer, without even looking.


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Had them taped to books I was carrying. Quinkydink? Don't know. Gave them away. Every time I looked I spotted one, it seemed.
Must have been by a mutant patch of them. All I can explain it. Or Ancestry dot come haunting me.
Mutant patch? :lol:

You must have that sharp eye lucky people get. I don't have that. I could be sitting right next to some huge celebrity and never realize it. duh.