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My last two books took a looooong time, but I passed my goal by quite a bit, so I'm happy. I'm currently reading Too Many Murders and it's excellent. I'm sure I'll be adding at least one more by New Years.
Kandice wrote: "I'm sure you'd like it as an audio. Her voice adds so much. I'm certain I would have liked reading it, but I'm glad I audio-ed it, just the same. I think I'll READ The Kite Runner."
Kandice wrote: "I'm currently reading Pirate Latitudes A Novel, which I was thrilled to get at the library, and audio-ing A Thousand Splendid Suns. During the same library trip I scor..."</
Kandice, I am curious to hear what you would think about the kite runner. I read first Thousand splendud uns and liked it a lot. Later I read the kite runner and didn't like it at all.
I'm sure you'd like it as an audio. Her voice adds so much. I'm certain I would have liked reading it, but I'm glad I audio-ed it, just the same. I think I'll READ The Kite Runner.
It's one reader and she has a beautiful, calm, melodious voice. Her accent sounds to me about like what I would have imagined Miriam and Laila's to be. She rolls her r's but not in a Spanish way, and there's a beautiful lilt to words where you wouldn't find it in English.
I thought the same thing. I believe that the author grew up in the US, and if so, he had a different perspective, but still, the way that he portrays Laila and Mariam... just pokes something in my heart and I couldn't stop thinking about the ways that I was incredibly amazingly lucky to be who I am, where I am.
I'm on disc 7 of A Thousand Splendid Suns. The main characters have finally bonded. I am amazed at this man's ability to write through a woman's eyes. Maybe I am wrong in thinking this, but it seems in his culture, it would be harder for a man to really understand the perspective of a woman which makes it all that more amazing.
Yes, numerous times. He's one of my top 5 favorites. Or was.
It's realistic, non-Disney Pirates Of The Carribean.
I am going to miss Michael Crichton so much. Reading this very last book just reminded me how much.:*(
I like STORY GNs, not comic-y ones if that makes sense. All of these are more like novels in color. Well, not Spirit, but I love Eisner, so that won't count.
The Professor's Daughter
Will Eisner's The Spirit, Book 1
Saint Germaine Shadows Fall
Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Guilty Pleasures, Volume 1
The Magic Flute
And I checked out From Hell again to look up a few things.
I'm currently reading Pirate Latitudes A Novel, which I was thrilled to get at the library, and audio-ing A Thousand Splendid Suns. During the same library trip I scored 6 graphic novels I have been wanting to read, so I'll slip them in the cracks.
I received my copy of Under The Dome last night. I wont be able to even look at another book until I've read it. I'm only about 20 pages in, but it's obvious he is still the KING!!!!!!!!
I also just started From Hell and Moore is such a genius. It's always funny to me that no matter what illustrator he's working with, it's his style that's most prevalent on the page. He is just so recognizable. I know he's a bit of a strange nut, but I love him.
I'm listening to Grave Surprise and really enjoying it. It's not the first in the series, but I'm not lost. She fills you in. I may want to go back and read the first just because I really like Harper and Tolliver.
115.The Tea Rose 675 pgs
116. Queen's Own Fool 400 pgs
117. "Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity 320 pgs
118. Duma Key 769 pgs (audio-ed, really)
119. Indian by Choice 136 pgs
120. secret 214 pgs
121. secret 400 pgs
122. Grave Surprise 295 pgs
123. From Hell 576 pgs
124. secret 349 pgs
125. Across the Nightingale Floor 320 pgs
126. The Giver 208 pgs
127. I Am the Messenger 357 pgs
128. Messenger 192 pgs
129. Heart Songs and Other Stories
130. Under the Dome A Novel 1072 pgs
131. Neverwhere A Novel 370 pgs
132. Antony and Cleopatra 567 pgs
133. Invasion of the Body Snatchers 224 pgs
134. The Lost Symbol 508 pgs
135. Pirate Latitudes A Novel 312 pgs
136. The Professor's Daughter 80 pgs
137. Will Eisner's The Spirit, Book 1 192 pgs
138. A Thousand Splendid Suns
139. Somewhere In Time 316 pgs
140. Saint Germaine Shadows Fall 168 pgs
141. A Ship Made of Paper 352 pages
Fiona wrote: "ha ha ha!
But he is... isn't he? >.>
Hahahaha, oooh..I heard that in my head with such a simple, honest, pure voice...
What? I was just being honest. I mean... I WAS (and still am) ready anytime he wants. :PI just thought it was hilarious that you both said the exact same thing at the exact same time.
Becky wrote: "Really? HMPH. Come on Henry Cavill, I'm ready now. :P"
Hahaha, Becky you make me laugh so much!
No way! I would have been wrecked the whole time with no respite! I'm too old for that;)
Next time I read them, I will probably do that, but I'm glad that I didn't this time. I really needed the small recovery periods. I was very, very emotionally vested.
HMPH away sweet Becky!♥
HMPH. And see... You should have read them straight through. Can you imagine how engrossed and absorbed in the story you'd have been if you didn't interrupt it with other stuff?
It's so true. This has come up a few times in the last few days, and I've never felt it more than now. I am so sad I will never read this for the first time again. I didn't grasp the significance of Becky's excitement for me to read them straight through for the first time, but I know, If anyone, with an opinion I care about, does in the future, I will be so thrilled.
Kandice that message is exactly how I felt finishing up the series. The end is perfect because most fans do read those books again. I think I almost wanted to cry reading your message!
I think I may be in the minority, but I didn't feel the actual ending was sad. The events leading up to it? Absolute tragedy! But, the ending itself was actually full of hope. The fact that it really was the end to all those books, that long journey and the fact that I would never read about their adventures for the first time again was super sad. I know I'll read it again over the years, but there's never a time like the first.
*sigh*
It's a bit sad in parts but it'll be nice recovery from such a big series you've finished and I know loved.Was the ending sad or just because it was THE END?
I just hope it's not super-emotional. Like I said, the last DT just left me a wreck! That's a good thing for a book, but, still...A WRECK!
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