Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
I went to Walmart hoping they would have a copy but no luck - guess I will have to venture further afield to a book store. Glad to hear you enjoyed it - I'm really looking forward to this one
What Are You Reading? Part Deux
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Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
Still reading Nomadland by Jessica Bruder - "Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century" - this book is about transient older Americans.
With social security coming up short, these invisible casualties of the the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands, forming a growing community of migrant laborers dubbed "workampers".
In a secondhand vehicle christened "Van Halen" Bruder hits the road to tell an eye-opening tale of the American economy's dark underbelly.
The above description was taken from the back cover of the book.
With social security coming up short, these invisible casualties of the the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands, forming a growing community of migrant laborers dubbed "workampers".
In a secondhand vehicle christened "Van Halen" Bruder hits the road to tell an eye-opening tale of the American economy's dark underbelly.
The above description was taken from the back cover of the book.
I keep obsessively checking the catalog at work to see if it's been added, so I can put it on hold.
We wants it, preciousss!!!
I'm reading the paperback of Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter. I also found and bought a cheesy horror novel called Sleep Tight from a Dollar General. Sleep Tight is about bed bugs. Yes a horror novel finally dealing with bed bugs in in the most off the wall way
I am reading The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah for my book club. Just getting into it since last night, but so far it has promise. A Vietnam POW returns home to his wife and daughter with PTSD and is having a hard time coping, moving around each time he loses a job. He inherits land and a small house in Alaska from a buddy who didn't make it home, so he picks up the family and moves yet again, this time to Homer, Alaska.
....since my wife and I are into things of the paranormal variety.....I just picked up several "Haunted Ohio" books from Thrift Books.....plus, I'm piddling away money by putting together my own "ghost hunting" kit.......
Re-read of 'Traveller' - Richard Adams.
'The Outsider'
Both excellent.
'The Outsider'
Both excellent.
Finished End of an Era. A very amusing timetravel story about two scientists going back 65 million years in time to find out why the dinosaurs died out. They have rather diverging opinions both based in actual facts. When they get there they soon find out they are both wrong and the real answer is something noone had imagined...... Wellwritten, not overlong and wellresearched. And wellimagined too of course.
Also finished 1901, an alternative history story about the war between germany and the united states that started then. Based on the historical fact that Germany, on orders from the kaiser made up plans for war against the states then. This was because the welldocumented longing germany had for an empire. To be an empire you need colonies. The states had just aqquired Cuba, puerto Rico, and several other island possessions and germany wanted them as the basis for their future colonial power. Wellresearched, actionpacked story but with good characters in it.
Now started Sleeping In The Ground, the new DCI Banks story. Peter Robinson is good at this kind of crimestory.
Also finished 1901, an alternative history story about the war between germany and the united states that started then. Based on the historical fact that Germany, on orders from the kaiser made up plans for war against the states then. This was because the welldocumented longing germany had for an empire. To be an empire you need colonies. The states had just aqquired Cuba, puerto Rico, and several other island possessions and germany wanted them as the basis for their future colonial power. Wellresearched, actionpacked story but with good characters in it.
Now started Sleeping In The Ground, the new DCI Banks story. Peter Robinson is good at this kind of crimestory.
That's one of the first Swampys I ever read. Damn creepy for a pre-Alan Moore issue. Great stuff, Crank.
Finished Sleeping in The Ground. Started A Column Of Fire by Ken Follett. A historical novel starting 1558 when Elizabeth becomes queen after Bloody Marys death and how she steered up the kingdom. Have hopes for it. He has written good historical novels earlier. Pillars Of The Earth was great.
Decided to wait with A Column of Fire for awhile. Its a looong book and i'm not really in that mood right now. Finished The Sect by Chris Jordan. A chance choice i made when i bought a bundle of books (10 for a dollar) at a sale. Well, long story short, it was not a good one. Gonna give it back to the second hand store.
The Outsider finally landed in the library's catalog and I was able to snag it in time for the weekend. About a hundred pages in, and I can already see that sai King does not disappoint.
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
I love your avatar! I'm planning to go to my library to pick up a copy of The Outsider as well - Happy Friday!
I love your avatar! I'm planning to go to my library to pick up a copy of The Outsider as well - Happy Friday!
Thank you! That's Tanni, my semi-retired Guild Wars 2 chronomancer.
So, I'm just about finished with my Botany class (YAY!)-book full of scientific stuff, of course, and I read Crichton's Next as my laundry room book--all about biogenetics, which was well-researched... and now I can't enjoy Cutter's The Deep very much. The science is so WACK! The main character is supposed to be a veterinarian--a scientifically literate profession--and his brother is supposed to be a supergenius geneticist, but a lot of the info dumps so far have been silly. *sigh* I'll have to wait to finish this one until some of the good sciency stuff has done leaked out of my head (and it will).
Next was very unsettling for me. The scenario depicted could happen! Yikes!
I started Strange Weather last night. I had already read the first tale in the special 'Joe Hill' issue of Cemetery Dance so I skipped that one, but am halfway into the second tale and it's a corker!
Reading Illegal Alien. A strange mix of SF and courtroomdrama. Alien lands and they are friendly. We learn to cummunicate and they want our help to build repair parts for their spaceship against insight in their technology. We agree. All is well and then one alien supposedly kills, murders to say it straight, a human who was thought to be their best friend. The science is wellresearched the story fastpaced, rather welltold and in a way a little amusing. Mixing genres is a risky business but so far the author carries it off. More storydriven than ideadriven. the ideas are there but are not allowed to slow down the story.
...I think there was a bit of "adjusting" done to the first tale prior to the re-release.....