I am about 100 pages in and really enjoying it!
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Im reading Fellside by M.R. Carey. It is good but so far not the little masterpiece that his previous, The Girl With All The Gifts, was.
I also stumbled in to a used bookstore today. ... ......... I promise, i only intended to look but somehow i found myself buying three books anyway. Dont know how it happened. Two historical novels by C.J. Sansom that takes place in the regn of Henry VIII. I have read his alternate history novel The Dominion before and it was good so i thought i give these a chance. Also, a sentimental impulsive buy, a book by Maria Gripe. She is, after Astrid Lindgren , our most celebrated children books writer. Her best are, or were (she is dead now), full with some rather grown up themes. YA before the term was invented or at least used here. It is called Glasblåsarens barn (means The glassblowers children) and i have very fond memories of it. Wonder if i still think it is good?
I also stumbled in to a used bookstore today. ... ......... I promise, i only intended to look but somehow i found myself buying three books anyway. Dont know how it happened. Two historical novels by C.J. Sansom that takes place in the regn of Henry VIII. I have read his alternate history novel The Dominion before and it was good so i thought i give these a chance. Also, a sentimental impulsive buy, a book by Maria Gripe. She is, after Astrid Lindgren , our most celebrated children books writer. Her best are, or were (she is dead now), full with some rather grown up themes. YA before the term was invented or at least used here. It is called Glasblåsarens barn (means The glassblowers children) and i have very fond memories of it. Wonder if i still think it is good?
I was looking on Michael Koryta's website checking on a release date for his next book and I saw something interesting in the events section. He has a few signings scheduled and there is one in Tampa in August that he is doing with Michael Connelly. That's a good two for one.
I'm halfway through End of Watch. There's nothing like a well-written, tightly plotted SK book to keep one engaged, amused and satisfied. It's like comfort food for the mind.
Digging my first re-read of Night Shift since, golly, way back in high school, I think. Wow, these are some dark tales...not a lot of happy endings here.
Might have to swear off cheap canned beer forever...
Might have to swear off cheap canned beer forever...
PBR me, ASAP!
Careful, too much Pabst and you'll get the Blatz, maybe even a case of the screamin Schlitz.
What made Milwaukee famous has made a grey, gelatinous homicidal blob out of me...
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Agreed on Fellside. I liked it, but it wasn't quite as good as The Girl With All The Gifts. Well worth reading, though.
I finally got my youngest interested in Pippi! I loved those books, and my older kids still think fondly of them (the part in the first book where Pippi is making pancakes made my oldest daughter laugh until she threw up--lol), but LilMan would have none of it...until I caught him at a weak moment
He was tired and hot, right after a hike, and I picked up Pippi and started reading it aloud. It made him laugh a lot! I read until dinner, and then he finished it himself Have you tried her a bit more grownup stuff, her YA if you want, like The Robbers Daughter or The Brothers Lionheart? I still like them alot. I still can read them. Great books. Pippi and Emil and Madicken and so on are great to but in another way.Agreed on Fellside. I liked it, but it wasn't quite as good as The Girl With All The Gifts. Well worth reading, though.
I finally got my youngest interested in Pippi! I loved those books, and my older kids still think fondly of them (the part in the first book where Pippi is making pancakes made my oldest daughter laugh until she threw up--lol), but LilMan would have none of it...until I caught him at a weak moment
So about the same time I stopped being a regular around here - I went back to school and my reading time has slowly crept down to nothing. However I have managed to 99% finish all the SK books, I am happy to say - but at a bit of a loss where to go next.
Do you like British humour? If so, head for the Discworld! Terry Pratchett (rest him) wrote dozens of Discworld books. That ought to keep you busy
Mmmm, is he the guy that writes sort of fantasy / other dimensiony stories?
Well, Discworld is another world. It runs on magick rather than electricity like our world. It's quite hilarious stuff. Begin with The Colour of Magick and The Light Fantastic. Then go from there... There are some characters who appear in their own "series" and some who cross all the book, Death being the main one. He really is a wonderful take on that archetype. When he speaks it's LIKE THIS. Oh, now I have to go read Reaper Man. That's okay, though. I love it.
This is Pratchett's Death (whom he finally met last year
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I haven't--in fact, I didn't even know she had older kids' books. I'll look for them here. Thank you!
Tery, have you read/ do you like the Xanth books (Piers Anthony) or Myth books (Robert Asprin)? I loved those series. Oh, and Zelazny's Amber series. Now I want to go read some old school fantasy.Do you like British humour? If so, head for the Discworld! Terry Pratchett (rest him) wrote dozens of Discworld books. That ought to keep you busy
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Another in the same way, but not quite as good, is Mio, My Son. A children fantasy book written in 1954. A child from this world must fight evil in another world, Farawayland. An oldfashioned fairytale that is fun to read.
Se did not write many of them but Ronia, the Robbers Daughter (1981) and The Brothers Lionheart (1973) are great. I always cry when i read Lionheart. ...... These are not just funny stories but Adventures with very grownup themes in them like death, Friendship, standing up for what you believe and courage written in an easy flowing narrative. Not so many laughs here but stories that are capable of keeping you locked to the book. From 8 to 12 depending on the child and up. I know many adults that reads them.
Another in the same way, but not quite as good, is Mio, My Son. A children fantasy book written in 1954. A child from this world must fight evil in another world, Farawayland. An oldfashioned fairytale that is fun to read.
I'm not Tery, but I've read about the first 20 of the Xanth books in order (I see there are 41). I'd say the first 3 are quite good, the next 7 good and the next 10 were OK and VERY formulaic. The puns get old after 10 or so books but I loved reading Anthony's end notes because he always gave a shout out out fans who sent in puns, names, etc. that he used in that particular book.
WOW! I had no idea there were so many! I can't imagine any 41 book series being any good, long term--I can rarely stomach anything over a trilogy, and at least one of those is usually a 'filler book'. I read maybe 15 or so of the Xanth books, I think. It's been a while
I was thinking of getting the first few for my son to start.
A Dweller On two planets. It's a free online book that can be found here;
A Dweller on Two Planets Index
http://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/dtp/index.htm
Next up is the Milton.
A Dweller on Two Planets Index
http://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/dtp/index.htm
Next up is the Milton.
Read a couple of Xanth books. I prefer his Incarnations of Immortality series. Have not read the Asprin books. I read the first in the Amber series. Don't know why I stopped. Maybe I'll revisit it.
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