I did that on purpose.....TWHS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!......
What Are You Reading? Part Deux
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I did that on purpose.
I bought a book yesterday based on a blurb on the front cover by Stephen King. The book is Final Girls by Riley Sager. $16 New Releases. There was another that King had a blurb on I might by that next. I also really like the colouring of the book( it has pink on the side and top of the pages) it stands out but not in a unclassy way.
Re-read The Friends of Eddie Coyle on the plane ride to and from D.C.
Great book. Movie is almost as good. Have to re-watch that now that I think of it.
Great book. Movie is almost as good. Have to re-watch that now that I think of it.
Reading The Hour Of The Donkey. A thriller/war novel with an original explanation (that is different but still reasonable than historys) for Dunkirk and why so many english got away to fight another day instead of laying dead in the fields of France. Written by Anthony Price in the 70,s.
Also Foundation. First part in Peter Ackroyds ambitious project History of England. This part starts in the stoneage and ends with Richard III (Henry VII are there too mostly.). The second vulume is The Tudors and then Civil War which is about the Stuarts and Cromwell. There is a fourth part out which i forgot the name of but it is good popular history. A place to get context and then go on if there is a special person or period that interests you more than other.
Also Foundation. First part in Peter Ackroyds ambitious project History of England. This part starts in the stoneage and ends with Richard III (Henry VII are there too mostly.). The second vulume is The Tudors and then Civil War which is about the Stuarts and Cromwell. There is a fourth part out which i forgot the name of but it is good popular history. A place to get context and then go on if there is a special person or period that interests you more than other.
Lonesome Dove is one of my favorite books but I did not like Streets of Laredo, I kept reading because I wanted to know what happened with the villain (he was interesting) but the whole thing was a pretty bleak read.
...just embarking on a cruise thru CD's "Screamplays" and Steve's "The General".....
A few pages back in this very thread, I posted that I was unsure what to read with Sleeping Beauties landing so soon.
I didn't want to start anything too hefty as I may not get as much reading time as I would like and be mid novel when SB finally finds it's way through my letter box.
Since then I have had a seemingly ridiculous amount of reading time on my hands. I have read -
20th Century Ghosts
Coraline
Thin Air
A Head Full of Ghosts
SAND
The Store
...and now making steady progress through The Books of Blood.
I should have just read Drood in the first place!!
Still waiting on a "dispatched" email from Amazon too
I didn't want to start anything too hefty as I may not get as much reading time as I would like and be mid novel when SB finally finds it's way through my letter box.
Since then I have had a seemingly ridiculous amount of reading time on my hands. I have read -
20th Century Ghosts
Coraline
Thin Air
A Head Full of Ghosts
SAND
The Store
...and now making steady progress through The Books of Blood.
I should have just read Drood in the first place!!
Still waiting on a "dispatched" email from Amazon too
Arkay Lynchpin
Preserve wildlife; pickle a squirrel.
Edward Lee's White Trash Gothic.
I even get a mention in the aknowledgements.
I even get a mention in the aknowledgements.
A Long December - Richard Chizmar
Pretty good, he manages to capture with the first sentence of each story. That rarely happens to me with short storys, usually it takes me a while...
Pretty good, he manages to capture with the first sentence of each story. That rarely happens to me with short storys, usually it takes me a while...
I'm currently bouncing between Fleas, Flies, and Friars: Children's Poetry from the Middle Ages (Nicholas Orme), Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village (Laura Amy Schlitz), and Early Irish Myths and Sagas
Just finished Last Words, by Michael Koryta.
Exceptionally good thriller.
Waiting for Sleeping Beauties, not gonna start anything else before that, maybe just light re-reads here and there to kill the time...
Exceptionally good thriller.
Waiting for Sleeping Beauties, not gonna start anything else before that, maybe just light re-reads here and there to kill the time...
The Nameless
M-O-O-N - That spells Nameless
I finished let the right one in yesterday, I started it quite a while ago and as i often do, went through periods of not reading or only a page or 2 a night. It was good but not without its flaws.
I have started the talisman by King and straub today.
I have started the talisman by King and straub today.
Love The Talisman. First book to make me cry.
Just finished The Omen...waiting (im)patiently for the mailman to deliver Sleeping Beauties into my greedy hands.
How was that compared to the movie?
I noticed that the kindle version of Owen King's Double Feature is $2.99 right now on Amazon