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[Elisabeth]

Catching up a bit here. I finished The Gabriel Hounds almost a couple weeks ago, and enjoyed it. Mary Stewart is definitely my find of the year. Since then I've read a couple short novellas by early Western writer Eugene Manlove Rhodes. His dialogue is just a riot, full of banter and play on words and literary allusions - almost O. Henry-ish, but with more of a tendency to get tangled up in the elaborateness of his own words sometimes!

Right now I'm not doing too much reading, since I'm working hard trying to finish a story for a writing challenge.

[[deleted user]]

Now I'm not much of a Western girl, but that description of Rhodes' writing is tantalizing. :D I love bantering characters, which is part of the reason I like Katie's supervillain books, actually...

[Jenni]

I don't know what I'm reading next... I finished Scoundrels (a Han Solo book by Timothy Zahn) and keep carrying around The Ocean At the End of the Lane and The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul because they're both half-finished...but dunno. I should find another manga to keep me happy.

[Elisabeth]

Aubrey wrote: "Now I'm not much of a Western girl, but that description of Rhodes' writing is tantalizing. :D I love bantering characters, which is part of the reason I like Katie's supervillain books, actually..."

Me too! That's one of the main reasons I like them as well.

The titles of the Rhodes books, which I forgot to mention, were Good Men and True, and Hit the Line Hard—they're together in one free ebook I got from Internet Archive. Most of the stuff you find there is pretty messily formatted (automatic conversions, I suspect), but they've got quite a few public-domain rarities that haven't made it to Amazon or Project Gutenberg yet!

[[deleted user]]

Pandora Hearts, Mel! Or Library Wars.

[Jenni]

Hehe. I should....

[[deleted user]]

So does the Bible count as 66 books? :)

[[deleted user]]

No. It counts as one if you read the whole thing, sorry. ;)

[[deleted user]]

That's fine. I was mostly kidding. ;)

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Hey, it's worth asking, right? ;)

[Leah]

Aubrey wrote: "I love bantering characters, which is part of the reason I like Katie's supervillain books, actually..."

Same here!

[Shadow]

I read Supervillain of the Day. Great book! I did not see that twist near the end coming. Very well done, Katie. And I love the Morgenstern-esque style. ^_^

Before that book, I completed the Uglies series in finishing Extras! Not the best plot, but the world and characters make it definitely worth reading, in my opinion.

Now I'm reading Operation Garbo: The Personal Story of the Most Successful Double Agent of World War II. Nonfiction, guys! Aren't you proud of me? Anyway, it's great so far. ^_^

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Of course we're proud of you, Shadow, but I'm more proud of you for reading Katie's book than anything. ;)

[Shadow]

Aubrey wrote: "Of course we're proud of you, Shadow, but I'm more proud of you for reading Katie's book than anything. ;)"

It wasn't easy, but I soldiered through it... I'm kidding! It was a great book. ;) And I just wrote my review of it too, so.. ^.^

[Katie]

(And incidentally I did try to work on the next book in the series today... but I wrote songs instead. Shoot me.)

I finished reading "Shatner Rules." It was funny... but I still like Spock better. (I loved Leonard Nimoy's "I Am Spock.") Not sure what to tackle next. I really, really need to put books in boxes and I feel guilty doing that without reading them first!

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Well, howdy there, Paul! I'm so glad to see people joining late in the year! 19 books ain't shabby, and that's 19 entries into the random giveaways, so welcome!

And thanks so much for reading my book and leaving a review! I greatly appreciate it. :)

I should read some of these ST books, Katie. I bet I would like them...

[[deleted user]]

In other news, I was horrid last week and wrote instead of reading. And this week I have two coauthored scripts, two coauthored books, and Peter's Ally to work on. Actually make that three coauthored books? So that will be interesting to say the least.

[Faith]

Aubrey wrote: "In other news, I was horrid last week and wrote instead of reading."

That's horrid! It just means those books will be published sooner. *sly grin* No, I don't want more Aubrey Hansen books on my shelf. Why would you ask that?

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Dinnae. I'm a bad person to ask. It takes heroic effort for me to read one of my published books all the way through... Can't imagine what it's like for you guys!

[Faith]

Aubrey wrote: "Dinnae. I'm a bad person to ask. It takes heroic effort for me to read one of my published books all the way through... Can't imagine what it's like for you guys!"

Reading your own work is always harder than reading someone elses. That's why editing is so hard for me. :P

[Leah]

Yay! Your working on Peter's Ally. :)

Finally finished a book (I've been writing instead of reading too....), Burying the Sun.

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Paul, there's actually some summer giveaways going on in another thread that aren't dependent on how many books you've read at all. (Mostly because I have been lazy about getting all the entry slips written up, eh heehee.) We're just having fun over here. ;)

I actually have no problems editing. I reread my unpublished works frequently, even for pleasure. But once they're published it's different somehow. It's very bizarre...

[Katie]

Ha! I did two books in one day when I finished "Doctor Faustus" last night, by Christopher Marlowe. I must confess, however, that it was a rather poorly written play. I'm sure the original story is pretty amazing but that play...

[Jonathan]

I've been nominally "currently reading" the first volume of the Institutes for a couple of years now, after getting about half-way through the volume my senior year of high school (when I had a free period for some months that I could devote to it) and then stopping when I went off to college. It's on my list of books everyone ought to read even though I haven't finished it (and even though it's a tremendously difficult book to get through).

I haven't published anything yet (other than on my blog and such, which is "publishing" for the purposes of copyright but not for the purposes of this discussion :)), but I usually have a very hard time reading anything I wrote more than a year or two ago, because the emotional resonance has worn off and all its flaws are laid bare to my eyes: "I wrote that?"

[Leah]

Just finished Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw and loved it. Here's the link to my review.

[Hannah]

Finally finished something else..."A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23" by Phillip Keller. Three and a half stars.
To be honest, I too have been doing some writing whenever I get the chance. Three weeks now of ten pages per week...feels pretty good. If only I could stay on this streak and finish writing the book I would feel better about being so far behind in my reading for the year!!!!
On Tuesday I find out if I get a job in AR or not, so I might be moving there in mid August!

[M F]

Finished The Catcher In The Rye. Absolutely hated it. Wanted to murder Holden Caulfield by, like, page 5. SO annoying. Ugh.

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Eep, lots going on, Hannah! What book are you currently writing, anywho?

Today I've been taking it easy. No reading as of yet, but I have been shopping for prizes... *whistles*

[Faith]

I have decided to read the books on my Kindle in a more orderly fashion. Since they are organized in the files alphabetically, that is how I am going to read them. A, B, C... So, the next five books I have on my list are:

Across the Creek by Jeremy Asher (this one was free and may get ditched)
Beauty and the Beast (written by a French woman a long time ago)
California Homecoming by Casey Dawes (this one was free and may get ditched)
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (again, another free one that I might end up ditching)
Eagle Lady by Rose Victory

[M F]

Going to Ireland tomorrow. Should be more relaxing than the music tour from which I just returned, so I might actually get some reading done.

Taking the following books:

Red Glove
Cloud Atlas
In Search of the Dark Ages
La Confrérie Des Mages Du Nord

plus my Kindle. That last book is in French, so it's taking me a while....

[[deleted user]]

This weekend my goal is to finally read Harry Potter. Hopefully in its entirety.

[Theodora]

*hasn't finished a single book in exactly a month* :P

[Faith]

Aubrey wrote: "This weekend my goal is to finally read Harry Potter. Hopefully in its entirety."

The whole series or just the first book?

[[deleted user]]

*glances sideways at Renna with a raised eyebrow*

[[deleted user]]

Just the first book for starters, Faith. :D

[Faith]

Aubrey wrote: "Just the first book for starters, Faith. :D"

That's what I thought. Or rather what I was hoping. After all, aren't there something like 7 or 8 books in the series? And I don't think any of them are very short. That would be a LOT of reading for one weekend. :P

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Um yeah. O.O

[Elisabeth]

I've been on vacation (at home) this week, so I've been doing quite a bit of reading. A lightweight older Western, The Rider of Golden Bar. Then David Gaughran's Let's Get Visible: How To Get Noticed And Sell More Books—if you're an indie author, I highly recommend it! And I finally finished Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, which I've been reading off and on for several months.

I am now reading Firmament: Radialloy and enjoying it very much so far. (*waits for Aubrey's reaction*) Incidentally, since I discovered the beautiful new cover wasn't on Goodreads, I went ahead and added the Kindle edition to the database and combined the editions.

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*pleased nod* Feeling formal tonight. ;)

[Katie]

I just finished "Back on Murder" by Mark Bertrand. It's free on Kindle right now and I highly recommend it. The author combines the best of crime thriller and Christianity while avoid the cliches of both. One of the best crime thrillers I've ever read, and definitely one of the best Christian novels.

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*has downloaded it also*

[Leah]

Thanks for the tips. Downloaded the mystery and 3 R.C. Sprouls.

[Elisabeth]

Finished Firmament: Radialloy. Finished it yesterday, actually! Loved it—and reviewed it: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Also been reading The Elements of Style, and I think I may try A Room with a View next.

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Ahh! The Elements of Style is the only writing theory book I have ever whole-heartedly recommended. And about the only one I truly remember.

[Theodora]

Aubrey wrote: "*glances sideways at Renna with a raised eyebrow*"


I'm pathetic. :P And lazy.

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And what are you going to do about that, Renna, hmm? :)

[Elisabeth]

Finished The Elements of Style, which was excellent. I'd recommend it too. Then an interlibrary book I'd ordered came in—another collection of Western stories by Dorothy Johnson—so I'm going to be reading that next.

[[deleted user]]

Finally cracked open Harry Potter this week and have been making casual progress. I like Rowling's style overall, although I am highly annoyed that she has a snake "opening its eyes" and "winking." I realize this is fantasy and animals are entitled to do all sorts of unnatural things, but even in fantasy it is physically impossible for a boa constrictor to blink. SNAKES DON'T HAVE EYELIDS OKAY. #herppetpeeves

[Jenni]

Suddenly I went out of doors and read 2 books and three chapters out of another. 0.o

Ocean at the End of the Lane is finally finished and I really shouldn't have put it off because it was good and I want to read it again.

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Wow. That's impressive, Mel. o.O