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I am truly smitten with Michael Romkey. The London Vampire Panic has so much atmosphere. It is charming and cozy and enlightening. He has several more for me to enjoy. I am truly lucky to have stumbled onto this book. It is hard to get a goodly vamp story these days. Sadly, I just finished this book and I want to read it again. lol
 
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Becks19 said:
I am going through a reading slump where nothing suits me. I have rejected dozens of books lately ( usually 10% in) The book that I settled on last night is Midwives by Chris Bohjalian. Maybe I will be able to finish it. One book that I really did enjoy is called The Ridge by Michael Koryta.
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I usually have two on the go, one ebook and one paper. But for about a week all I could read was my paper book, it seemed like everything in my e-reader was gibberish.

BTW, Rebecca. I heard about a study that claimed too many chores can inhibit your reading proficiency. Just sayin'. ;)
 
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EMARX said:
I usually have two on the go, one ebook and one paper. But for about a week all I could read was my paper book, it seemed like everything in my e-reader was gibberish.

BTW, Rebecca. I heard about a study that claimed too many chores can inhibit your reading proficiency. Just sayin'. ;)
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Wow, I think you might be on to something.....Too many chores turns your brain to mush! Hugs to you!
 
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Becks19 said:
I am going through a reading slump where nothing suits me. I have rejected dozens of books lately ( usually 10% in) The book that I settled on last night is Midwives by Chris Bohjalian. Maybe I will be able to finish it. One book that I really did enjoy is called The Ridge by Michael Koryta.
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Midwives was okay. Nothing out of this world, but okay.
 
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Reading Crash and Burn by Lisa Gardner for review. I've not read her before--so far it's all right. I was weak and checked out John Scalzi's Lock In yesterday--it's a better book so far, and it's distracting me (lol), as is Love In The Time of the Dead (just misses being really good by weird emphasis on an awkward romantic story--I think the writer shoehorned it in for the publisher, to be honest) on my kindle. Just got the notice that They Thirst (McCammon) is in at the library, too. So many books, so little time...
 
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Mr Larry Underwood said:
Novels without cardboard characters :)
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Ah, Candidly, I don't read a lot of current authors of realistic fiction. King, Crichton, and Ludlum (assuming the last 2 are still alive, I don't even know), would be pretty close to it. I read a lot of Jakes and Michener before. Still have some to read. I find it hard to read all that I want to. I have limited time. So I narrow it down and choose things that I already believe, by reputation or whatever, are going to be very good before I even get to them.

But I'll tell you that I find the persons contained in Joseph Conrad, Henry James and Hemingway to be as real as possible. But they aren't current.

Kelly
 
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krwhiting said:
Ah, Candidly, I don't read a lot of current authors of realistic fiction. King, Crichton, and Ludlum (assuming the last 2 are still alive, I don't even know), would be pretty close to it. I read a lot of Jakes and Michener before. Still have some to read. I find it hard to read all that I want to. I have limited time. So I narrow it down and choose things that I already believe, by reputation or whatever, are going to be very good before I even get to them.

But I'll tell you that I find the persons contained in Joseph Conrad, Henry James and Hemingway to be as real as possible. But they aren't current.

Kelly
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Thank You Kelly! Those are really classic authors you recommended me ;)
 
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Mr Larry Underwood said:
Thank You Kelly! Those are really classic authors you recommended me ;)
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If I were to choose, I'd read Conrad's "Lord Jim" and "The Secret Agent," then James' "The Bostonians," then his "Portrait of a Lady," then some of his short stories: "Turn of the Screw," "Beast in the Jungle," "Washington Square". Those are each and every one masterpieces. All of Hemingway is so good as to be wonderful, but his "Garden of Eden" and "The Sun Also Rises" are my two favorite novels, then his short stories are all so powerful that it is difficult to choose. But I've always been partial to "Hills Like White Elephants" and "The Short Happy Life of Francis M. Macomber." My spelling may be a little off as I'm typing these from memory without checking them.

Kelly
 
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krwhiting said:
Just finished Black House. Starting Night Shift.

Kelly
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You know Kelly if you're on a Kingrun we have a thread called rereading King in 2015 where we post what we read and what we think. Do you care to join us? You're probably way ahead of us but that doesn't matter. I'm on my fifth King since the beginning of January.
 
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