Admittedly, you had to really pay close attention to whatever Tru was saying as he had such weird diction when he spoke.
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Yes, he was highly sophisticated and intelligent, too. He had audiences eating out of his hand when he was in one of his jocund moods.
Yeah, I saw that one. About the only time I ever saw anyone out-quip Capote.
Read it when it came out. Second this!
It didn't get better.
Now reading Good As Gone by Amy Gentry. Very into it so far.
I found it on Prime Reading (free Kindle books for Amazon Prime members)
The Avengers: Behold the Vision.
reading the Mating Season by Wodehouse. I'm gonna try to read all the novels in the right order which I, for some reason, haven't done before. This one is about halfway through. He wrote, i think, 11 Jeeves novels. I've been a bit down lately for unknown reasons so I need some smiles.
Many smiles for you, Kurben.
Gotham Central Omnibus. Pretty good...
Finished Good as Gone.
This is a good one.
A 13 year old girl goes missing, but is it really the same girl who returns 8 years later?
Told by alternating narrators: the mother's chapters tell the current goings on, while the other chapters unravel backwards to the day the girl went missing.
(If you're an Amazon Prime member, you can read it for free on your Kindle app.)
This is a good one.
A 13 year old girl goes missing, but is it really the same girl who returns 8 years later?
Told by alternating narrators: the mother's chapters tell the current goings on, while the other chapters unravel backwards to the day the girl went missing.
(If you're an Amazon Prime member, you can read it for free on your Kindle app.)
Finished The Penelopiad by Atwood last night. Much more fun than the mythology reading I had to do in college. 
Started The Quickie by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. kingricefan I understand now what you meant about his collaborations. I felt an immediate disconnect within the first few chapters. Will put this one aside as soon as my copy of Hag-Seed becomes available at the library.
Started The Quickie by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. kingricefan I understand now what you meant about his collaborations. I felt an immediate disconnect within the first few chapters. Will put this one aside as soon as my copy of Hag-Seed becomes available at the library.
...just finished the Graphic Novel collection called Shadow Show.....it's a collection of authors, including Joe Hill-writing various homages to the memory of Ray Bradbury.....well worth the time and money....
just finished A Thousand Splendid Suns and I LOVED it. Better than kite runner. Sad. Makes me appreciate my life.
Now reading Dear Life by Alice Munro
Now reading Dear Life by Alice Munro
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
Haven't seen the movie yet, but the book was so good I couldn't put it down
I know the picture says "read by..." but I just read the actual book.
Kurben- keep your chin up, my friend. Life goes in cycles so the good stuff is on the way.
Finished The Penelopiad by Atwood last night. Much more fun than the mythology reading I had to do in college.
Started The Quickie by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. kingricefan I understand now what you meant about his collaborations. I felt an immediate disconnect within the first few chapters. Will put this one aside as soon as my copy of Hag-Seed becomes available at the library.
I loved Shadow Show.
Just finished The Annihilation Score by Charles Stross and am about to start on As You Wish, which is a behind the scenes book on The Princess Bride by Carry Elwes. Can I just take a second to vent about the former book? First things first: SPOILER ALERT to anybody who might be a fan of the Laundry Files series and hasn't gotten to that entry yet.
Maybe I'm just projecting. Any thoughts?
The series revolves around Bob Howard, a computer geek who gets drafted into a secret branch of the British government called the Laundry after almost accidentally unleashing a Great Old One on the English country side. The first the five of the existing seven books follow Bob as he goes from a clueless young man with very little regard for his unwanted new job to middle age where he becomes extremely cynical but also has a far greater understanding of how important his job and the branch of the government that owns him actually is. Along the way he rescues and ultimately marries a woman named Mo, who also gets drafted for unwittingly tampering with the supernatural. At the end of book five they ending up having to separate because the weapon Mo has been entrusted with, a possessed violin made by one Erich Zahn (this series is equal parts Lovecraft, Bond and Monty Python, for those who don't know), tries to eat Bob. The sixth book, the one I just finished reading, is narrated by Mo instead of Bob for a change, and it relates the story of what she does in the aftermath of this devastating development. She and Bob try and figure out what to do, but it's made difficult by virtue of Bob being sent around the world to gather intel on a condition he was accidentally conferred with and certainly didn't want, and by Mo being put in charge of a Laundry operation to deal with people who have gained super powers from a forth coming end of the world scenario that has significantly enhanced the levels of magic in the world to the point where permeates nearly everything. On top of that, Mo can't give up her violin as it's a very powerful artifact and far too useful to the Laundry, and she can't simply separate herself from it after hours because Bob's aforementioned newly acquired condition is what caused to want to consume him in the first place. Mo is tasked with creating a super hero team to deal with any who would misuse their powers, and to help keep things under control, a highly respected police officer named Jim, who also gained powers, is sent to join her team. She ends up falling for him, and at one point in the book opines that while it's nice to be taken out by somebody unaffected by the job and a bit more mature than her husband (a real adult is closer to how she puts it) she also says that she is no way done with Bob. I feel like that's incredibly contradictory and has had me steamed all night ( when I say just finished, I mean I turned the last page about 20 minutes ago). The desire for more adult romantic situations is all well and fine, but wouldn't also be very adult to deal with her existing, far more established, long standing and ultimately more important relationship first? Granted, it turns out that her side piece in blue was part of the book's central conspiracy, albeit unwittingly, which puts her off of him pretty strongly, but still.
Just finishing up on the trail with Roland and the gang,
Not sure where Ill wander from here,,,,,,
Tried my hardest to go slow in the parts where Steve shows up,(but blew through that book in records time)
Began this journey with re-reading Salem's Lot and have followed Father Calla trail where it picks up with the "tet"
Getting close to meeting up with Branaggen(spell check) and the Breakers.
Began this journey with re-reading Salem's Lot and have followed Father Calla trail where it picks up with the "tet"
Getting close to meeting up with Branaggen(spell check) and the Breakers.
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Re-reading 1984! Can't wait to see how our future pans out.
Thanks to your advice i've decided what to buy a friend for birthday. Hes getting a Sandford and a Pearson. But they were difficult to find here. You could of course get any sent to you but that wouldn't have been fast enough. Called 6 big bookchains before i found one that had them. I'm picking them up after work tomorrow at the store.
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