Kandice's Reading Progress

[Kandice]

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.

[Kandice]

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.

[Kandice]

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!!!!!!!!

[Rachel]

I'm 30 pages in, it's sooo good!

[Becky]

You haven't been updating here either, miss! :(

[Kandice]

I've only finished two since the last time. I added those, but it's not very impressive:(

[Kandice]

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.

[Becky]

oooh Which graphics??

[Kandice]

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.

[Becky]

Never heard of any of them (as GNs anyway).

[Kandice]

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.

[Becky]

Gotcha. :)

[Kandice]

I am going to miss Michael Crichton so much. Reading this very last book just reminded me how much.:*(

[Becky]

Awww... yeah. Is it good? I don't even know what that one is about. Have you read all of his books?

[Kandice]

Yes, numerous times. He's one of my top 5 favorites. Or was.

It's realistic, non-Disney Pirates Of The Carribean.

[Kandice]

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.

[Becky]

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.

[Becky]

Is the reader good, K? Is it just one reader?

[Kandice]

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.

[Becky]

Oh, I'd like to listen to it. I think I'll ask Thomas to get it for me.

[Kandice]

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.

[Jeane]

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.

[Kandice]

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.

[Liz]

Yay Kandice!

[Kandice]

Thanks, Liz.:)

[Dan]

Congratulations on passing your goal, Kandice.

[Kandice]

Thanks, Dan! I saw that you did too, right?

Congrats:)

[Lisa Julianna]

Congratz Kandice!!!

[Beth]

Congratulations, Kandice!