I'm reading "The Next Time You See Me" by Holly Goddard Jones. I'm doing a 50 books in 2015 reading challenge on another forum, this is number 17. Only two Kings so far. Need to get that number up 
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Just finished Foundation by Asimov, and decided to give Salem's Lot another spin. New Kindle and all, felt I owed it to myself to read a SK book on there to make it official.
I am currently reading Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay. I watched Dexter the tv show and now feel the need to read the books. Almost done. Then onto Dearly Devoted Dexter.
I read it as a child and loved it.
Natchez Burning by Greg Iles . . .this is a very good book. I hate to put it down and can hardly wait to pick it up again.
It is so very Southern . . .history.
It is so very Southern . . .history.
Almost finished with The Waste Lands. I forgot how enthralling and horrorific this one really is.
Trying to get thru the Nine Meals by Mike Kilroy. Plot kind of fizzles out and gets a little too "It's the apocalypse but I'm still convinced of the overall goodness of humanity". Going to finish it just to see what happens but overall, not that great. Also, main character keeps getting the drop on people with a bow and arrow when other party is armed with a shotgun or handgun when they are in the same room with him. Not sure about that one. Usually, if you bring a bow and arrow to a gunfight, it doesn't work out too well for the bow and arrow guy...lol
I LOVED this, Mz. MM, the second of his trilogy comes out on the 21st of this month, called The Bone Tree.
I finished Rebecca this morning. I very much enjoyed it. Would like to see the Hitchcock movie now. I had the impression going in that it was more of a gothic ghost story. It was a ghost story, for sure, just not in the way I expected it to be. I liked it a lot.
Started The Straw Men by Michael Marshall this afternoon. Got an email about a CD edition, and thought it sounded good, especially after reading this...
The Straw Men is brilliantly written and scary as hell. Be the first on your block to stay up all night with this one; it's a masterpiece.
--Stephen King
It's not new, but apparently newly available in the U.S. as an ebook. First of a trilogy. I am really liking it so far, having a hard time putting it down.
Started The Straw Men by Michael Marshall this afternoon. Got an email about a CD edition, and thought it sounded good, especially after reading this...
The Straw Men is brilliantly written and scary as hell. Be the first on your block to stay up all night with this one; it's a masterpiece.
--Stephen King
It's not new, but apparently newly available in the U.S. as an ebook. First of a trilogy. I am really liking it so far, having a hard time putting it down.
About halfway through Emma Straub's Other People We Married. So good.
I just finished Odd Thomas, after being encouraged to read it by many people. I liked it, but it had its flaws. I doubt I'll continue with the series.
I know a lot of people love Koontz, and I am happy for them that he writes, because I'm sure that they'd be sad without his books. But for me, I just have trouble getting into his stuff. I can never forget that I'm reading a book, because in my mind's eye I can always see him writing. The too-clever phrases, the elephantine foreshadowing, the axes he has to grind, the light characterizations ... I just have a really hard time getting into the story. Even Odd Thomas, which is maybe the best book I've ever read by him, had some of those qualities.
I know a lot of people love Koontz, and I am happy for them that he writes, because I'm sure that they'd be sad without his books. But for me, I just have trouble getting into his stuff. I can never forget that I'm reading a book, because in my mind's eye I can always see him writing. The too-clever phrases, the elephantine foreshadowing, the axes he has to grind, the light characterizations ... I just have a really hard time getting into the story. Even Odd Thomas, which is maybe the best book I've ever read by him, had some of those qualities.
Do not forget the children and dogs who should be canonized saints.
I am reading the Historian....it hurts lol.
The Light of the World by Elizabeth Alexander. She's the poet who read at President Obama's inauguration, and a professor of African American studies at Yale. This is a memoir of the year after her husband died, with liberal side stories from their life together, and a few recipes from his restaurant thrown in for good measure. I've never been so affected by a book, ever, and I can't imagine anyone who has lost someone they loved remaining unaffected. Cried my eyes out for a good deal of it. Definitely the best memoir of this time in life that I've ever read (especially coming close after Jai Pausch's stilted, precious book on the same theme). It was crushing and lovely and hopeful and POWERFUL. Prose, but it reads like poetry. Comes out in a couple of days--it has made my lifetime top 10 books.
Side note: the first person I thought of while reading it was John D. He would have loved this book, even through his tears.
Side note: the first person I thought of while reading it was John D. He would have loved this book, even through his tears.
Wow, now you know your twinner will be ordering this one!
LOL ... How could I forget those? He certainly reminds his readers often enough.
I agree, Todash. The only book by Koontz I really liked was Intensity. I have tried and tried to like others of his, but simply have not.
I read the description of Intensity and had to pass. I've got a very low tolerance for violence in books and movies and such. I know, I'm a big weenie, but even telling myself "It's just a story" does not help.
There are certain King books I'll probably never reread because of this.
I did like Life Expectancy...do not like many of his books, though.
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