Douglas’s Comments (group member since Jun 15, 2017)

Douglas’s comments from the Read, Reading, Planning to Read and More group.

Now was going to catch up with Melindeeloo and start Disturbing the Dead which is another amazing series I highly recommended to anyone but I looked and I had skipped over an ARC that I was granted back in July of last year called The Tainted Cup that I must read first so sooner or later I can get back to A Rip Through Time series

Well I am glad I read Soul Taken & Winter Lost back to back since as it turns out they really are a bit of a 2 book story. I found both exceptional as expected and could hardly put Winter Lost down for the last 25% or so when everything was coming together since she does an amazing job of keeping you guessing.

For some reason I had gotten a bit burned out on Patricia Briggs "Mercy" series and had not read any of them in awhile but when looking over my TBR I saw I had 2 ARCs Soul Taken and Winter Lost I thought I better get them read and about 3/4 of the way through the first one and wondering why I stopped, this is really good stuff although if you have not read every book you can get lost in a hurry. Looks like I will be reading Patricia Briggs for the next few days

Saw this and thought maybe a few of you might find it interesting
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When he began writing The Lord of the Rings in the 1920s, J.R.R. Tolkien was a professor at the University of Oxford.
At the time, fantasy was not considered a “serious” genre.
So, one of his contemporaries explains, Tolkien was mocked by his Oxford colleagues.
They said he was wasting his time “lavishing such incredible pains upon a genre which is, for them, trifling by definition.”
One of Tolkien's biographers writes, “He was regularly asked in a mocking manner, 'How is your hobbit?'”
Amidst a crowd of people who make fun of you, who tell you you're wasting your time, who encourage you to do something less trifling and more prestigious—sometimes, all it takes is one person's support.
For Tolkien, that person was the great writer C.S. Lewis.
“The unpayable debt that I owe to [Lewis] was not influence but sheer encouragement,” Tolkien said. “He was for long my only audience. Only from him did
I ever get the idea that my 'stuff' could be more than a private hobby.”
Takeaway 1:
In his essay, How To Do What You Love, Paul Graham writes, “You shouldn't worry
about prestige...Prestige is like a powerful magnet that warps even your beliefs about what you enjoy. It causes you to work not on what you like, but what you'd like to like.”
Tolkien wasn't warped by his Oxford colleagues and their belief that what he was working on wasn't prestigious.
And after his works of fantasy went on to sell more than 600 million copies, Tolkien would eventually be widely called the “father of high fantasy.”
He is just one example to remind us that what is considered “prestigious” isn't stable in time, and that “if you do anything well enough,” to quote Graham again, “you’ll make it prestigious.”

I did not even know this Dean Koontz series existed, has anyone read it? Book 1 is on sale for $1.99

The Silent Corner

not sure I want to get involved with it since all the other books are $8

Disturbing the Dead the latest book in the Rip Through Time series is up on NetGalley

Vanessa wrote: "The latest, (last?), book in Faith Hunter's Soulwood series, "Rift in the Soul" is out & I am savoring Nell's world.
I'm almost finished with "A Grave Robbery". I really like how the relationship ..."

I finished Rift in the Soul and loved it, as usual she has about 3-5 sub-plots going and I hope this is not the last one but I can see how it could easily be.

HappyBookWorm2020 wrote: "Darn you. I read the first few paragraphs, and it's adorable. I need another book like the Sahara needs sand.."

Welcome to my world :)

This is why my TBR overflowed, this looked shiny and was only 99 cents for the next 4 days so I grabbed it. Who can't love a story with a HEA and billionaire with a dog :)

Billionaire's Dog Nanny: An Enemies to Lovers Romantic Comedy

DemetraP wrote: "Doug, I have never read Dean Koontz."
I don't read his horror stuff but he has some REALLY good series "Odd Thomas" being the best (they made a movie of the first one) but I think this group might like the NAMELESS series In the Heart of the Fire is book 1 and they are all on KU and are good quick reading. The last book has some real surprises. He must have thought it was going to be a tv series since the first few books are labeled "Season 1" and the last ones are "Season 2". Highly recommended IMHO

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "If you want something a bit more than paranormal romance this is a great series. . Book 2 is just being released now. [bookcover:Empire of the Damned|12691..."

I have book 1 in my TBR, sounds like I need to get it out soon :)

Well I have been busy with some remodeling but I did squeeze in a Dean Koontz book The Bad Weather Friend and while I found the story addicting the overall feeling when I was done was a bit disappointing since it felt a bit thrown together and pages that did nothing and some questions that never got answered or were covered in a paragraph when we need a chapter. So I give it 4 Stars and felt it should have been a 5 Star story that was bungled a bit (yeah, this is me telling one of the most popular and prolific writers in the world how to write LOL)

re: Facebook - yes somebody sent a spam message to my whole friends list, it is now private so that should prevent any future hacks and changed my password.

Been reading Assassin which I liked but it was WAY brutal and one of those I could not put down but at the same time not exactly enjoyable reading. Still deciding if I will continue the series

Well whoever it was that recommended The Lies of Vampires and Slayers it was really good but you have ruined my reading schedule since now I have to read book 2 and then wait for book 3 but KM Shea has never written anything of hers I read that was not captivating.

DemetraP wrote: "So I didn't want to read the new release by KM Shea because it is about a vampire and a vampire slayer. I feel this theme is sooooo overdone. But then I said it's KM Shea and you love her books so ..."

She seldom disappoints and I was bored to death on my current book so I grabbed this one and it already seems like a better choice :) Good recommendation

My reading has suffered due to several things including a busted water pipe in the wall but what REALLY is easting my spare time is I started watching "Yellowstone" from episode 1 ... Holy shit, I see now why it is such a hit, it is just slightly less addicting than Game of Thrones

I have had some leaking pipes and getting them fixed has kept me from doing much reading and I also decided I wanted to see what all the hype about Yellowstone was about and WOW. I just 4 episodes in and it is riveting and additive.

@Frisco

"The early Drake Sisters books" they were some of the first books I read outside of science fiction years ago and loved them all

Been dealing with a water leak damage for the last few days :)

About 3-4 years ago Grace Draven told me that A Deal with the Elf King was on her list of all-time favorites for a great story and great writing. It has been in my TBR all this time but I have started it now and can already see the thing since I started it on my phone while waiting to get a haircut and after a few chapters I wanted to get finished and get home so I could read it on my kindle. It may be a very late night ....