What Are You Reading? Part Deux

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HollyGolightly

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I just finished The Woman in the Window by AJ Finn yesterday. It was really good. Little bit Rear Window, little bit Girl on the Train (but much better than that one) and little bit Copycat, that movie with Sigourney Weaver. I enjoyed it.
I am excited to hear this from you, cat! I've got it in and waiting for me. I'm finishing another Liane Moriarty book and then I'm on it!
 

Kurben

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Started In The Name of Rome. Short biographies over 15 of Romes best (at least most successful) Generals starting with Fabius from the third century BC during the second punic war on until Belisarius active in the seventh century. The biggies, like Caesar, Pompey and Scipio, are in here too of course but the more forgotten ones are often more interesting.
 

Neesy

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Doing a re-read of IT in anticipation of the KON in two weeks!!!:cool:

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Ooooo - :icon_eek: - that's a good idea!
 

Neesy

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I am about half way into a new book, set on an island in Maine. It's sort of a romantic mystery but actually quite well written.



"New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips is back with a delightful novel filled with her sassy wit and dazzling charm
Deepest winter.
An isolated island off the coast of Maine.
A man. A woman.
Puppets. (Yes, puppets . . .)
And . . .
A mysterious house looming over the sea . . .

He's a reclusive writer whose imagination creates chilling horror novels. She's a down-on-her-luck actress reduced to staging kids' puppet shows. He knows a dozen ways to kill his characters with his bare hands. She knows a dozen ways to kill an audience with laughs. But she's not laughing now."
 

Kurben

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Reading a little book called Military blunders. Its about some really bad handled battles in history and the man or men behind them. Custer is here and so is McClellan ( The leader of the northern side in 1862). Quite a bunch of british ones (which prhaps is not so strange because until WW 1 they appointed military commanders by class (a lords son, youve got it!) not by competence or experience). Most wellknown is perhaps Lord Raglan who handled the Charge of the light brigade. Also many i hadn't heard of before. 30 in total stretching from roman times til Vietnam.
 

Neesy

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Reading a little book called Military blunders. Its about some really bad handled battles in history and the man or men behind them. Custer is here and so is McClellan ( The leader of the northern side in 1862). Quite a bunch of british ones (which prhaps is not so strange because until WW 1 they appointed military commanders by class (a lords son, youve got it!) not by competence or experience). Most wellknown is perhaps Lord Raglan who handled the Charge of the light brigade. Also many i hadn't heard of before. 30 in total stretching from roman times til Vietnam.
That sounds so much more educational than the fluff I am reading at the moment! Hope you enjoy it :thumbs_up:
 

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Finished my Kon-inspired re-read of IT. Also finally got a chance to watch the movie, but I'll chat about that on the movie thread.

Also fit in a quick re-read of a much loved book from my childhood that is about to be released as a movie - The House with a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs. This one and A Figure in the Shadows were two of my favorites as a kid. I didn't realize until recently how many more he did. Hope the movie is a success and they do a few more.
 

Kurben

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Found Nocturnal by Scott Sigler in a second hand store for half a buck in excellent condition. Have read his infected trilogy before and liked it and i can feel this one looking at me waiting for me to pick it up. Gonna finish Ararat by Chris Golden first (about halfway through) and then make a choice between Nocturnal or Annihilation by Vandermeer. Why is there always more books than time?
 

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I recently finished Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects and Riley Sager's (Todd Ritter) Final Girls. Both were fun reads, that had a number of overlapping themes, but of the two I enjoyed Sager's the most. All of the horror/psychological thriller references (of course SK is there with a mention of Bangor, Maine) were fun. The author's choice of a pseudonym is pretty interesting, and the novel definitely had some points that would be good for an analysis of gender, sexuality, trauma and horror. Final Girls will make an interesting film adaptation. My next read is Sue Burke's Semiosis.
 

Coolallosaurus

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About halfway through The Outsider - it's so good! Also started a re-read of Joyland and hope it will be the next SK book my mom reads. :)

I've gotten my mom to read SK, too! She's not a horror fan at all, so I've stuck to the non-overtly horror SK in my recommendations. It's fun to see her responses to his novels. Some she loves and thinks are brilliant and others she tells me she can't finish. Our responses to the novels tend to be pretty different and makes for interesting conversation.
 

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About halfway through The Outsider - it's so good! Also started a re-read of Joyland and hope it will be the next SK book my mom reads. :)
Hopefully she will read them all.
I've gotten my mom to read SK, too! She's not a horror fan at all, so I've stuck to the non-overtly horror SK in my recommendations. It's fun to see her responses to his novels. Some she loves and thinks are brilliant and others she tells me she can't finish. Our responses to the novels tend to be pretty different and makes for interesting conversation.
I was able to persuade my mother to read one Stephen King novel: The Shining. She said the woman in room 217 scared her so bad that she, to this day, needs a few lights on to sleep. My sister won't even try one. She says she's still frightened from my merely explaining parts of Gerald's Game to her when we were teenagers. As her brother, this delights me to no end. Heheheheh