What Are You Reading? Part Deux

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HollyGolightly

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Those of you who read Bird Box - is it worth the read after seeing the movie? I feel like a bad reading girl for asking, but sometimes when you know how it ends - it's not worth the read. But sometimes the book is way better in spite of the end - or the end is different. So it's hard to know. The movie captivated me. Some of the scenes made me think of The Mist. Anyone else?

I'm reading short stories. Here's what the Ogre got me for Christmas:- well drat - it's not working. A stack of short story collections: Best American 2018, Best European, Best Nonrequired Reading, PEN American, the O'Henrys and something titled :Everything is Strange: I'm so pleased.

I'm in heaven. My favorite has been the PEN American Best Debut Writers - so much talent on the horizon. Very exciting. I'm always surprised by the different ways to tell a story.
 

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Those of you who read Bird Box - is it worth the read after seeing the movie? I feel like a bad reading girl for asking, but sometimes when you know how it ends - it's not worth the read. But sometimes the book is way better in spite of the end - or the end is different. So it's hard to know. The movie captivated me. Some of the scenes made me think of The Mist. Anyone else?

I'm reading short stories. Here's what the Ogre got me for Christmas:- well drat - it's not working. A stack of short story collections: Best American 2018, Best European, Best Nonrequired Reading, PEN American, the O'Henrys and something titled :Everything is Strange: I'm so pleased.

I'm in heaven. My favorite has been the PEN American Best Debut Writers - so much talent on the horizon. Very exciting. I'm always surprised by the different ways to tell a story.

What is bird box anyway?
 

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Those of you who read Bird Box - is it worth the read after seeing the movie? I feel like a bad reading girl for asking, but sometimes when you know how it ends - it's not worth the read. But sometimes the book is way better in spite of the end - or the end is different. So it's hard to know. The movie captivated me. Some of the scenes made me think of The Mist. Anyone else?

I'm reading short stories. Here's what the Ogre got me for Christmas:- well drat - it's not working. A stack of short story collections: Best American 2018, Best European, Best Nonrequired Reading, PEN American, the O'Henrys and something titled :Everything is Strange: I'm so pleased.

I'm in heaven. My favorite has been the PEN American Best Debut Writers - so much talent on the horizon. Very exciting. I'm always surprised by the different ways to tell a story.
I recommend reading the book. There are a lot of differences between the two.
 

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HollyGolightly

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In the movie you can't see what everyone is afraid of. It seems to be different for everyone. It is whatever YOU fear. For me that might be very different than what it would be for YOU. There is a scene where one of the really bad guys draws portraits of what he sees and they are loathsome for certain. I was really impressed with the movie.

Thanks cat in a bag

I am looking forward to the book. I've been toying with the idea of a book reading/cooking blog and when I googled that last year, I found a blog already happening just like that. Within that blog are also reading lists and one her picks last year was Bird Box, which she finally read and it wasn't as "scary" as she expected. So this has been on my radar for a while. I was excited to see it had become a movie. I liked it very much.

The book blog is
thehungrybookworm
if you're interested. I read book blogs when I'm searching for new things to read and this one has me hooked.

I'm seriously considering blogging. I'm going to be adrift when the SKMB closes. I've got some things to say, but I don't know they are anything anyone would pay for - it would just be some thoughts shared with friends. Maybe. Maybe maybe maybe.
 

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I been reading some secondhand magazines from second hand shop. Also some comics. they have this new manthing comic that is written my R.L.Stine so I was reading that. I got hold of about six old cavalier mags, at five dollars each. also started reading the Stand , I couldn't find my hardback 1990 copy which I think is is the plastic container in the corner. I have two copies of each of King's books, I keep the better quality ones with the dust jackers in containers so they don't get ruined. I got all the paperbacks on the shelf. also going to read another one of his books haven't decided which one.
 
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Started A History of Babylon. Its a new history (2018) of Mesopotamia, the first narrative history in a very long time about Mesopotamia.. Starts before cities existed and the energence of the first cities Uruk and Ur, puts the Elamites and Amorites and the Akkadian interventions in context which leads to Babylon under Hammurabi and much later to the Assyrians under Assurbanipal and the new babylonia under Nebudkadnessar (the jews living in Babylon borrowed a few ideas that they took back to Israel, calender among them) and the Persian Conquest which in turn where conquered by Alexander which became the seleucid empire in this area which was conquered by the Parthians and now were at approximately 200 AD. We know a lot about egypt in the same time and tons of books have been written but mesopotamia has suffered from a shortage of good books. This has started very promising.
 

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Started A History of Babylon. Its a new history (2018) of Mesopotamia, the first narrative history in a very long time about Mesopotamia.. Starts before cities existed and the energence of the first cities Uruk and Ur, puts the Elamites and Amorites and the Akkadian interventions in context which leads to Babylon under Hammurabi and much later to the Assyrians under Assurbanipal and the new babylonia under Nebudkadnessar (the jews living in Babylon borrowed a few ideas that they took back to Israel, calender among them) and the Persian Conquest which in turn where conquered by Alexander which became the seleucid empire in this area which was conquered by the Parthians and now were at approximately 200 AD. We know a lot about egypt in the same time and tons of books have been written but mesopotamia has suffered from a shortage of good books. This has started very promising.
You always find the most interesting historical books!
 

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You always find the most interesting historical books!
Have looked for something like this for years but the ones i found were either rather outdated (written more than 50 years ago) or focusing on a very narrow piece of the whole. I like narrative history with context and chronology. doesn't have to be a "popular" history but it has to have a broad view of its subject.