Got the title wrong: Looking Through Water is the actual title. Still meh. Lots of telling without showing, lots of preachy. Finished, though (very short book), so I can go on to other books
Well... after the review *sigh*What Are You Reading?
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Well... after the review *sigh*
Started Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood. Really liking it. Are about halfway in. (just finished the story about that poor freak of nature....). Bought it on impulse (bookstores are deadly) but in this case it was a good impulse. Thank you, Skimom, for recommending this book. That was the final push that made me buy it when i saw it.Got the title wrong: Looking Through Water is the actual title. Still meh. Lots of telling without showing, lots of preachy. Finished, though (very short book), so I can go on to other books
Currently reading The View From Saturday, a Newberry medal winner. It's okay so far.
FAB8 is not a well loved book by many. It took me a re-read a few years after it was published to really like it.
Haven't read that one in a while. Good book. Not a bad movie either...
I've got ten pages left in The Unremembered, by Peter Orullian. Too tired to finish last night. Still dipping into the Bazaar as well. Just started The Golem of Paris, by Father and Son Kellerman and finally in the car, Killer, by Jonathan Kellerman. A month ago I couldn't read a damn thing, now I can't seem to get enough. Weird.
Though for anybody out there who are having a hard time holding on to any kind of text.....IT SUCKS!.....((((troubled readers))))
Though for anybody out there who are having a hard time holding on to any kind of text.....IT SUCKS!.....((((troubled readers))))
I can relate to that!! I'm in a reading phase now. Right now i'm reading 5 books. Bazaar, one Atwood, One Poul Anderson, One Sarah Lotz, and World War Z. And have no problems keeping them apart.
I just finished Lauren Groff's Delicate Edible Birds, her short story collection, and I have to say that she is quickly becoming a favorite author and someone that I (and perhaps you) should keep an eye on as her story telling prowess knows no bounds. No wonder Steve included one of her stories in The Best American Short Stories 2007 that he edited. She writes of a group of people rushing to get out of Paris after it has fallen to the German army in WWII. She writes of the wife of a dictator. She writes of a years-long friendship between two unlikely female friends. Her stories are delightful and amazing. Her prose is magnificent!
Divebombing into a Christmas romance because of a last minute plea from my editor. British, at least, so it will have much more humor than sap (that's more of an American thing). Grumbling a bit, but I'm trying to whip through it tonight so I can go on to something else
Thanks KRF. I'll keep an eye out for that one.
Have you read her newest (I think it's called Fates & Furies)? I've heard good things about that one. I liked Monsters of Templeton and most of Arcadia, but I haven't read the SS collection yet (my daughter is in the middle of it & says its very good).
Just finished Fates and Furies and as I mentioned earlier at the 200 page mark I was wondering where Ms. Groff was going; around page 201 she started to tell the story through the wife's eyes, I was enthralled. So glad I stuck with it. I loved her Monsters of Templeton and Fates and Furies made me feel that I had revisited that old friend. Would love to hear what you think.
You would recommend Rickman? I've got some B&N gift cards burning a hole in my pocket.
Faye's 23rd Lazarus book is out, anxious to read. Father and sons' books on reserve at library.
The way that book was structured it could have gone off the rails quite easily. I can understand why the first half would have left you wondering. As I read Mathildes story and every time something was revealed little sparks would go off as events of the first half became clear. As for Mathilde I never knew whether to be horrified or heartbroken, or both at the same time.
The first one was good fun and this one seems to be carrying on with same. An interesting mix of crime novel mixed with Jewish lore with smatterings of supernatural goings on.
Years ago I tried some of Rickmans early horror novels and one of the Merrily Watkins and found them sluggish. Now it's a different story. He's got a style that I think once you find the rhythm, it just moves along. I have ebook versions of the next two Watkins waiting.
I know, I know, she is a many faceted character.
There was so much revealed about her, I kept having to slow myself down so as not to miss anything! I think horrified/heartbroken fits her to a T.
Now that I have found a wonderful charity that loves to sell my gently read books for the sake of abused children, I am going to B&N after lunch and use my gift card to by all of the Kellerman books and maybe I can find a Rickman also.
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