Thanks. That's very helpful.
What Are You Reading?
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Thanks. That's very helpful.
Finally started "20th Century Ghosts" 
She reminds me of my little kitty I lost in November.((Haunted)) Your little kitty avatar is wearing me out!
Love that book. Just did a reread recently and find it to be so well written. The sequels to it just don't stand up to it though.
(((Haunted))) I feel ya! Just had to put down one of my fur faces a few weeks ago.
I finished it today and it was so good. ..can't imagine why I wasn't into it the first time.
(((Haunted))) Sorry for your loss.
I've read both of them. The second one has a serial killer storyline and much more is revealed about Jacob Lev's mother and her connection to the Golem. I like the mixture of genres and look forward to what I assume will be the concluding volume.
Over the break, I finished Killing Floor by Lee Child. Liked it well enough that I will continue on with the Reacher books. The writing style was a little choppy, short sentences. But I got used to it soon enough.
Then I read Last Words by Michael Koryta. Liked it a lot, except the ending. But I calmed down when I saw there is a sequel coming later this year. First Koryta book for me, got it because @fljoe liked it so much!
Now I am 3/4 way through The Dog Who Knew Too Much, the 4th Chet and Bernie mystery, by Spencer Quinn. Chet is the best.
Then I read Last Words by Michael Koryta. Liked it a lot, except the ending. But I calmed down when I saw there is a sequel coming later this year. First Koryta book for me, got it because @fljoe liked it so much!
Now I am 3/4 way through The Dog Who Knew Too Much, the 4th Chet and Bernie mystery, by Spencer Quinn. Chet is the best.
((((krf)))) They leave such a hole when they are gone, don't they?
Before picking up The Girl in the Spider's Web, I was reading Prince Lestat and was wondering if anyone else had trouble getting it started? I had to put it down but hope when I get back to it, it will take off. Any guidance?
I've not read Prince Lestat, but sometimes a book just isn't right at the moment. Sometimes when you put a book down and pick it up later it feels better. I've done that a few times. If it doesn't grab me for a second time I tend to leave it alone.
Second time is a charm, it's just unusual for me to not pick up on Rice's flow right away.
She is bringing up all of Lestat's histories so maybe that's why I got bogged down.
Actually i'm reading Harry Harrison Trylogy aboyt Eden - Back to the Eden
This is completely true for me as well.
I got One Year After (sequel to One Second Later) for Christmas and immediatly devoured it.If these books dont make you want a bunker in the woods nothing will.They are so very good and a third is on the way.I am still making my way through To Kill A Mockingbird.I have to admit that for the first fifty or so pages I didn't get what all the hoopla was about but I have now been sucked in and am finding it an enjoyable read.
So glad!!
Glad you liked it! His retellings of Snow White (Mirror, Mirror) and Cinderella (Confessions of an ugly Stepsister) are good too.
I think that with Wicked, some people (myself included) go into it thinking that like the source material, it will be a children's book or at least easy to read. But his style can be dense and literary at times plus there is a lot of sociopolitical ideas being bandied about and discussed. Not an easy read at all, in my opinion.
For me, I think the Lestat train has left the station, climbed a mountain, crossed a rickety bridge and fallen into the ravine never to be heard from again. After all the time I invested in reading the original books, Ms. Rice's swearing she wouldn't write anymore, embracing Catholicism (again), rebuking Catholicism (again) and then writing about werewolves, well, I just can no longer take her or Lestat, for that matter.
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