What Are You Reading?

[Haunted]

I started reading Miss Perigrine's Home for Peculiar Children as it seems right up my alley. I also wanted to read it before Tim Burton's version hits the big screen. I'm about a 1/4 of the way in and it has yet to capture me. Maybe I'm just jaded to this genre since I've read it all my life? I also find that writing around the photos is a bit forced. I thought I would love the idea behind it but so far I just find it lackluster.

Side Note: This is the first hard copy of a book I have read in ages; I have been reading exclusively on my Kindle for quite some time now. I thought reading a hard copy of this book would be better for viewing the photos. Among other things: The other day I found myself wanting to tap on words so I could look them up in the dictionary. I also hate that I can't easily search for characters, place names, etc. like I can with my Kindle. Believe it or not, I also find it difficult to hold the book while reading in bed; the Kindle is much more user friendly for that. And lastly, I went to look for the book on my Kindle even though I don't own a digital version of it! I feel like the Kindle has become an organic part of me. A bit creepy, but kind of cool too.

I started reading Miss Perigrine's Home for Peculiar Children as it seems right up my alley. I also wanted to read it before Tim Burton's version hits the big screen. I'm about a 1/4 of the way in and it has yet to capture me. Maybe I'm just jaded to this genre since I've read it all my life? I also find that writing around the photos is a bit forced. I thought I would love the idea behind it but so far I just find it lackluster.

I gave up on it at exactly the point where you say you are!! I had such high hopes as it is part of a series. Booo Hisss

 

[carrie's younger brother]

I started reading Miss Perigrine's Home for Peculiar Children as it seems right up my alley. I also wanted to read it before Tim Burton's version hits the big screen. I'm about a 1/4 of the way in and it has yet to capture me. Maybe I'm just jaded to this genre since I've read it all my life? I also find that writing around the photos is a bit forced. I thought I would love the idea behind it but so far I just find it lackluster.

I gave up on it at exactly the point where you say you are!! I had such high hopes as it is part of a series. Booo Hisss

I'm going to see it through. I will report back on my thoughts once I am finished. But who knows when that might be since it really is a struggle to not only force myself to read it but read more than just a few pages at a time.

 

[skimom2]

I'm going to see it through. I will report back on my thoughts once I am finished. But who knows when that might be since it really is a struggle to not only force myself to read it but read more than just a few pages at a time.

I'd be interested in what you think. When my daughter couldn't make it through, I set it aside for probably never. The pictures were cool

 

[cat in a bag]

Moderator TrueGeneration

I found a new Outlander novella yesterday! It has been out a couple weeks. $1.99 for kindle, it is called Virgins. From the description...A young Jamie Fraser learns what it really means to become a man in this Outlander prequel novella.

Will be a while til I can read it, probably, but didn't remember seeing it mentioned anywhere here, I just stumbled across it while browsing yesterday.

 

[Moderator]

Moderator TrueGeneration

I found a new Outlander novella yesterday! It has been out a couple weeks. $1.99 for kindle, it is called Virgins. From the description...A young Jamie Fraser learns what it really means to become a man in this Outlander prequel novella.

Will be a while til I can read it, probably, but didn't remember seeing it mentioned anywhere here, I just stumbled across it while browsing yesterday.

Thanks--hadn't heard of that one!

 

[danie]

I started reading Miss Perigrine's Home for Peculiar Children as it seems right up my alley. I also wanted to read it before Tim Burton's version hits the big screen. I'm about a 1/4 of the way in and it has yet to capture me. Maybe I'm just jaded to this genre since I've read it all my life? I also find that writing around the photos is a bit forced. I thought I would love the idea behind it but so far I just find it lackluster.

I gave up on it at exactly the point where you say you are!! I had such high hopes as it is part of a series. Booo Hisss

I made it through it but was disappointed.

Spoiler

It's just a set up for the next book in the series.

 

[carrie's younger brother]

I'd be interested in what you think. When my daughter couldn't make it through, I set it aside for probably never. The pictures were cool

Yes, I love the pictures and the concept. It's the execution of the thing that I find disappointing.

The strangeness of the pictures bring to mind a book my friend and I were obsessed with when we were in high school called The Wisconsin Death Trip. Wisconsin Death Trip - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Spoiler: warning: link to some disturbing pictures

Wisconsin Death Trip Photographs | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

 

[carrie's younger brother]

I made it through it but was disappointed.

Spoiler

It's just a set up for the next book in the series.

I figured as much. Thanks Danie.

 

[Haunted]

I made it through it but was disappointed.

Spoiler

It's just a set up for the next book in the series.

I take it you are not going on with it? Isnt it classified as a YA? Is that our problem?

 

[danie]

I take it you are not going on with it? Isnt it classified as a YA? Is that our problem?

It surely seemed YA; maybe that is the problem. I will definitely not be continuing.

 

[The Nameless]

You are going to love Duma Key the characters are just wonderful. Why are you not sleeping? This is most concerning. No wonder you cannot make a decision. Picking a new book is hard, there are so many stories to read, I usually just take a deep breath and reshuffle my TBR pile and grab, no thinking, just grab. Please get some rest.

Nah, don't worry about me, my sleep pattern is a bit different. I usually sleep from around 6am to around 1 or 2pm, but I do voluntary work as an I.T tutor on Monday and have to be up at 8.15am and I can't just go to sleep at 1am on Sunday night, I just lay awake in bed. Then on a Monday night/Tuesday morning, sleep doesn't come that much earlier despite my lack of sleep the day before, I just sleep longer the next day.

I will start duma key tonight or tomorrow, I'm just reading the monkey (from skeleton crew) at the moment.

 

[Kurben]

Has any of you read Shantaram by Gregory Davis Roberts? I've heard rather diverging opinions about it. Anyone here read it?

 

[carrie's younger brother]

I take it you are not going on with it? Isnt it classified as a YA? Is that our problem?

I love YA Fantasy books and have read them all my life. I'm just wondering if the genre has reached its zenith for me. Maybe there's just nothing new to be said.

 

[skimom2]

Has any of you read Shantaram by Gregory Davis Roberts? I've heard rather diverging opinions about it. Anyone here read it?

I did, on a long trip a few years ago. It started slowly, but I ended up just fascinated by it. It's not often I want someone to go the long way anywhere (lol), but for this one I didn't care if it took a long time to get where we were going.

 

[skimom2]

Almost forgot! Bookperk has NOS4A2 (Joe Hill) for $1.99 today.

 

[Haunted]

I love YA Fantasy books and have read them all my life. I'm just wondering if the genre has reached its zenith for me. Maybe there's just nothing new to be said.

I ordinarily have a problem with YA, but there was something missing for me. I really wanted to find it but no success.

 

[AchtungBaby]

Nah, don't worry about me, my sleep pattern is a bit different. I usually sleep from around 6am to around 1 or 2pm, but I do voluntary work as an I.T tutor on Monday and have to be up at 8.15am and I can't just go to sleep at 1am on Sunday night, I just lay awake in bed. Then on a Monday night/Tuesday morning, sleep doesn't come that much earlier despite my lack of sleep the day before, I just sleep longer the next day.

I will start duma key tonight or tomorrow, I'm just reading the monkey (from skeleton crew) at the moment.

Duma Key is one of my very favorites. Top 5 material. Enjoy!

 

[Tery]

Finishing up my re-read of 11/22/63. Then will try to complete A Tale Of Two Cities. I have so many books in my Kindle library I could read until 2112

 

[Spideyman]

Finishing up my re-read of 11/22/63. Then will try to complete A Tale Of Two Cities. I have so many books in my Kindle library I could read until 2112

 

[muskrat]

Been binge reading silver age Marvel stuff in various formats, mainly stale newsprint reprint comics from the silver age themselves--love that stuffy attic scent. Old, old stuff, like lumpy, lava rock Ben Grimm; grey, nighttime Hulk; heavy, golden Iron Man armor and webbed-armpit Spidey. Submariner popping up everywhere and starting s**t. Human Torch a mouthy punk. Stan's strange mixture of self-deprecating humor and hard-sell grandstanding. Kirby and Ditko all over the place. They don't make em like that anymore.