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do1you9love?

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Dying here in pain. Kindle for something to read. "Dark Screams Vol 3" It was cheap, first volume was ok - 2nd not so much. This one so far.. Short stories.
Someone by the name of Daryanda Jones, titled 'Nancy' Here are a few tidbits from this wonderful story. :hopelessness:

'recently showered football players strolled past wet hair gleaming. Green eyes sparkled like a moonlit sea. I tore my gaze off Toby MacAfees azz and blinked.. I saw Toby pick the book up, the muscles in his long arms shifting with the the effort, flexing like the swell and rise of an ocean tide.'

Do arms do that? Must have been a huge book. I will keep a look out.
Probably going to be a movie soon. It mentioned something about a ghost at the beginning. ?

gah
:rofl: Not much else I can say.;-D
 

kingricefan

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An oxfam charity shop actually asked people to stop donating copies of 50 shades of grey after being given enough to build a fort with.
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Holy crap, Batman! :O_O:
 

skimom2

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Dying here in pain. Kindle for something to read. "Dark Screams Vol 3" It was cheap, first volume was ok - 2nd not so much. This one so far.. Short stories.
Someone by the name of Daryanda Jones, titled 'Nancy' Here are a few tidbits from this wonderful story. :hopelessness:

'recently showered football players strolled past wet hair gleaming. Green eyes sparkled like a moonlit sea. I tore my gaze off Toby MacAfees azz and blinked.. I saw Toby pick the book up, the muscles in his long arms shifting with the the effort, flexing like the swell and rise of an ocean tide.'

Do arms do that? Must have been a huge book. I will keep a look out.
Probably going to be a movie soon. It mentioned something about a ghost at the beginning. ?

gah
Hahahaha! Ghastly, isn't it?
 

Doc Creed

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To The Lighthouse: Oy, the commas! Oy, the run on sentences!
She's definitely a stylist and her experimental prose can be challenging depending on the book. The Waves is not all stream-of-consciousness but feels like it since it is a blur of inner monologues, a sea of voices. Mrs. Dalloway uses it to a lesser degree, which is one of the reasons I liked it better; the second being the events of the story all exist within one day. Faulkner also uses Woolf's (and Joyce's) writing device with The Sound and the Fury, a book that I had to read twice to fully understand. Readers either love it or hate it. I appreciate her pioneering spirit and her contribution to World Literature but when it comes to this device, I prefer a minimalistic approach.

As for the abundance of commas, I'm a transgressor, too. :heheh:
I'm trying to curtail this bad habit.
 

skimom2

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She's definitely a stylist and her experimental prose can be challenging depending on the book. The Waves is not all stream-of-consciousness but feels like it since it is a blur of inner monologues, a sea of voices. Mrs. Dalloway uses it to a lesser degree, which is one of the reasons I liked it better; the second being the events of the story all exist within one day. Faulkner also uses Woolf's (and Joyce's) writing device with The Sound and the Fury, a book that I had to read twice to fully understand. Readers either love it or hate it. I appreciate her pioneering spirit and her contribution to World Literature but when it comes to this device, I prefer a minimalistic approach.

As for the abundance of commas, I'm a transgressor, too. :heheh:
I'm trying to curtail this bad habit.
I'm the Comma Queen, as my editor called me, but Woolf leaves me in the dust--lol.

It is semi Faulknerian, and I don't like his writing either. :p

I'll persevere, and then pick this week's book. The theme is book to movie, and this is one where I haven't read any of the choices: The Zookeeper's Wife (Ackerman ), Murder on the Orient Express (Christie), Wonder (Palacio), Hidden Figures (Shetterly), The Shack (Young). Anyone read any of these? I'm leaning toward the Christie, because I've never read anything by her and Kurben seems to adore her :)
 

Kurben

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I'm the Comma Queen, as my editor called me, but Woolf leaves me in the dust--lol.

It is semi Faulknerian, and I don't like his writing either. :p

I'll persevere, and then pick this week's book. The theme is book to movie, and this is one where I haven't read any of the choices: The Zookeeper's Wife (Ackerman ), Murder on the Orient Express (Christie), Wonder (Palacio), Hidden Figures (Shetterly), The Shack (Young). Anyone read any of these? I'm leaning toward the Christie, because I've never read anything by her and Kurben seems to adore her :)
Only read the Christie myself. It is a classic and as usual with Christie the plot is good. Not her best though very good. The plot device was, for its time, totally new. She introduced quite a few new devices into the crime writing trade. She is easy to read, she wrote during the time when a crime novel should not be so bloody long. Most of her books are under 200 pages which i find to be a plus. I admit that i have read every novel and nearly every short story she has writtten. Probably one of the few that has nowadays. After all she wrote about 80 books. If you can stand a crime story she is a good place to start. It has some atypical aspects for a Christie but i cant tell you what until after you read it.....
 
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