What Are You Reading? Part Deux
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The Associate by John Grisham, i'm rushing this beause i'm going to read, Smaller and Smaller Circles By F.H. Batacan (because it's a crime fiction)
I just started a novel by Jane Harper called The Dry. I am only a few pages in, but it looks promising.
I thought it was from Spaceballs... The Movie!
Doesn't schwarz mean black in English?
I really like Picoult. Read Nineteen Minutes a while ago. It may be time for a re-read. Her Small, Great Things is also very powerful.
I just re-read Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped for the thousandth time, and will now be going around speaking in a (terrible) Scottish accent for the next few weeks 
. But, seriously, that book is so fantastic. I loved it at age 11, and I love it equally now.
. But, seriously, that book is so fantastic. I loved it at age 11, and I love it equally now.
Small Great Things was my introduction to Picoult. So far, she's 2 for 2 with me.
Reading All Hell Broke Loose. An excellent one volume history of WWII, all fronts and theaters. I like that not only the military and political decisions are here but also the common soldier and the civilians. We hear their voices in diaries and so on and he manages to fit everything into a narrative. Its just a little under 700 pages. With such a wide subject it is difficult to keep a narrative flow going without missing important facts on some arena but so far he is doing great. (France is about to meet its destiny right now)
Haven't been able to read squat lately, not even comics. Been writing my butt off on something, started as a throw away lark, but whoops! A hundred thousand words or so later, damn thing has become a novella, and is on it's way to being a full flavored Novel.
A weird, 1970s style trashy road book, teenage hitchhiker into the Heart of Darkness. A little tip of the hat to Harold Robbins here, maybe a little Camus. I dunno. Cornballs.
A weird, 1970s style trashy road book, teenage hitchhiker into the Heart of Darkness. A little tip of the hat to Harold Robbins here, maybe a little Camus. I dunno. Cornballs.
I think I'm over my cozy mystery kick. Some cozy mysteries are quite fun but a lot of them are just plain silly... too much dialog about food and coffee. I gave up on the last one I tried when the cats started talking to each other.
I'm on a re-read kick now. Yesterday, I started a re-read of Today We Choose Faces by Roger Zelazny. Its sci-fi (not fantasy like Zelazny's Amber series) and it's very imaginative - sometimes confusingly so, but the confusion lifts. I wish a movie could be made of this novel. The special effects might be horribly costly though. The "House" has sidewalks similar to the roads in Heinlein's The Roads Must Roll.
I'm on a re-read kick now. Yesterday, I started a re-read of Today We Choose Faces by Roger Zelazny. Its sci-fi (not fantasy like Zelazny's Amber series) and it's very imaginative - sometimes confusingly so, but the confusion lifts. I wish a movie could be made of this novel. The special effects might be horribly costly though. The "House" has sidewalks similar to the roads in Heinlein's The Roads Must Roll.
The Parable of the Talents. It's the second book in what was supposed to be a trilogy by Octavia Butler. The first book, The Parable of the Sower, was terrific. This books is good but a bit hard to take due to some scenes. Plus, there are aspects of it that are eerily close to what is going on in this country right now so there is that to deal with as well.
Currently reading Dante's 'The Divine Comedy' translated by Allen Mandelbaum. It's a hoot!
Hi Anduan Pirate Princess, It's a great big beautiful weddled. (Weddled sounds like 'world' in a bad Scottish accent). I have read Kidnapped only once when I was a kid. I'll have to re-read that one soon. All the best, mal.I just re-read Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped for the thousandth time, and will now be going around speaking in a (terrible) Scottish accent for the next few weeks
Really enjoying The Book Thief at the moment.
It has a similar magical feel good quirkiness to the style and characters that I got from Gaiman's Ocean at the end of the lane.
Really need to set aside a bit more reading time, only getting to read a few chapters here and there at the moment
It has a similar magical feel good quirkiness to the style and characters that I got from Gaiman's Ocean at the end of the lane.
Really need to set aside a bit more reading time, only getting to read a few chapters here and there at the moment
Borne by Jeff Vandermeer. post apocalyptic city, bio-engineering gone mad, a strange and wonderful creature that the main character finds and "raises" (certainly not in the traditional sense, as the creature evolves at a rapid pace on its own).vandermeer has an interesting style.
I am reading my first tabby book. One on one. I am so far enjoying it, I am finding small little bits and traces of joe personality in Sam. Has anyone on hear read the book of rubean? Because Sam is Rubens so pn, and she keeps in referencing his mom. And the conterversy soundering her, and am wondering what that is all about.
Most of Tabby's books--Caretakers, The Trap, Pearl, One on One, and Book of Reuben--take place in Nodd's Ridge and work as a loose series of sorts, but can be read in any order.
Yes this is true, but I am just wondering what she means by it, I do not have the book of Reuben to,reference
I fell back on an old child fave of mine and reread a Three Investigators story: The Mystery Of The Silver Spider. I can see why i liked that series so much back then. In their way i think they hold up still. Not bad for a youth mystery novel written in the early 70-ties.