I just finished Doctor Sleep. 
Will be starting Someone Else's Love Story by Joshilyn Jackson this week.
Will be starting Someone Else's Love Story by Joshilyn Jackson this week.
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I have read all but her newest book. She's an interesting writer!
Lots of 'for review' books have dropped on me lately, combined with finishing up a manuscript, being stuck into another, and an interesting proposal from a publisher (courtesy of a friend who shared a half finished story fragment I sent her and forgot about--lol). Busy times 
Anyway, finished Speaks the Nightbird, but will have to put off the rest of the volumes of this series for a while. I liked it My time with Swan Song expired before I could finish it, but I'll try again soon. As much as I read, it was interesting. I laughed through a rather clever chick lit book called Girl Before a Mirror (Liza Palmer). It drops tomorrow, I think, and if you like that type of book it's well worth reading. Flying through Nick Hornby's newest (Funny Girl) before diving into Lisa Gardiner's Crash and Burn; both publish on Feb. 3, and I have to have the reviews finished before that, then another two need to be read/reviewed right quick after that 
. I've not read anything by Gardiner before--has anyone here read her?
Anyway, finished Speaks the Nightbird, but will have to put off the rest of the volumes of this series for a while. I liked it
My time with Swan Song expired before I could finish it, but I'll try again soon. As much as I read, it was interesting. I laughed through a rather clever chick lit book called Girl Before a Mirror (Liza Palmer). It drops tomorrow, I think, and if you like that type of book it's well worth reading. Flying through Nick Hornby's newest (Funny Girl) before diving into Lisa Gardiner's Crash and Burn; both publish on Feb. 3, and I have to have the reviews finished before that, then another two need to be read/reviewed right quick after that . I've not read anything by Gardiner before--has anyone here read her?
So I'm 170 pages into Black House. This is one very dark book. The name should give that away I guess, but with titles you never know.
Kelly
Kelly
Gerald's Game
Got to a part where I had to make conscious effort to repress screaming in shrieks of terror.
Well done Mr. King, great job at being scary
Got to a part where I had to make conscious effort to repress screaming in shrieks of terror. Well done Mr. King, great job at being scary
Just recently finished Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand,which the film that is now out now is based on,of Olympic runner Louis Zamperini and his WW2 experiences,including the hellish time he spent in Japanese POW camps.Now finishing up Band of Brothers,by Stephen Ambrose,again a WW2 book,you may have seen the HBO miniseries..guess I am on a WW2 kick,but I find the bravery of the young guys then and their unselfish dedication fascinating.Funny,when I was in school,I had some difficulty with history,always seemed dry and boring,but I guess the older I get the more I enjoy it..
I loved the TV series "Band of Brothers", let me know what you think of the book.
I just finished Doctor Sleep.
Will be starting Someone Else's Love Story by Joshilyn Jackson this week.
This was a good one.
I really want to read Unbroken! Band of Brothers is one of my favorite books and the TV show is one of the best. Hope you enjoy the book!
I am going to take Some Luck back to the library unfinished. Don't know whether I am just too distracted or that the pace of the book is just too slow. The library is holding for me: Cold cold heart
by Tami Hoag, Hope to die by James Patterson, and Wildalone by Krassi Zourkova.
by Tami Hoag, Hope to die by James Patterson, and Wildalone by Krassi Zourkova.
As I'm reading Black House, I came upon the passage where they begin reading Bleak House by Dickens. Bleak House holds a special place in my heart. When I decided, in 1993, while stationed at Fort Polk, to begin serious reading (by that I mean read the great works and become fully aquainted with our literary heritage, something I'd never done before), the first book I read was a copy of Bleak House taken out of the Base Library. I remember reading it all night (between security checks) while I was Officer of the Day in our Regimental Headquarters. Later, the mini-series by BBC with Gillian Anderson (I loved the X-Files too and her character on it; I always appreciated how quickly she reached for her weapon) became my wife's favorite mini-series. She's watched it a dozen times. The sould-destroying case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce is one of the most effective social critiques Dickens ever wrote. And he wrote a lot of such critiques.
Kelly
Kelly
It's very good Flake,you would recognize many of the incidents from the series,but as with most books,there are details included that a tv show just can't get to..Ambrose does a great job with his research in his books,I also have his D
ay,and Citizen Soldiers,which I have yet to read,did finish The Wild Blue last month..
Enjoyed it a lot,almost through..Unbroken is good too,there are some details that the Japanese guards did to the POW's that are just crazy..so many did not survive,and they out and out murdered so many others,not just Americans but Chinese,and Koreans,and various other nationalities,when you read the numbers it is unbelievable..I really want to read Unbroken! Band of Brothers is one of my favorite books and the TV show is one of the best. Hope you enjoy the book!
I finished my reread of The Shining and have started a reread of David R. Palmer's Emergence. One great story!
John
John
I'm trying to read Peter Hamilton's The Dreaming Void, but it's just not working for some reason. Same thing happened when I tried to start Helliconia (Brian Aldiss) and Revelation Space (Alastair Reynolds).
Maybe I just can't wrap the old noggin around sci-fi anymore.
Maybe I just can't wrap the old noggin around sci-fi anymore.
Finished Funny Girl (Nick Hornby). Definitely not his best. I think there was the germ of two different decent stories in there, but one was shorted by poor character development (the storyline about the actual funny girl) and the other (about the writers of her show) because it wasn't given enough time, maybe? It was definitely the strongest storyline, but came off as a bit gutted.
I reckon he peaked with Fever Pitch and maybe High Fidelity, myself. (Actually, if pushed I'd go for Fever Pitch, but only because I'm an Arsenal fan. )
)In a strange way, great swaths of this reminded me of Maeve Binchy's plucky 60s Irish lasses (though this character is from Blackpool), but without Binchy's heart or understanding of the character.
I'm in to factbooks at the moment. Reading two about the Roman rebublic. One i already mentioned, the other is David Gwynns The Roman Rebublic. They compliment eachother in a good way. Matyszaks book tells more about the persons involved but Gwynn is a good overview on how different actions led to another. So by reading both in parallell I get a lot of info.
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