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What are you reading right now? CURRENT THREAD
Gundula, Yes, it is modern. I do like it though, but that's no recommendation since I like all kinds of mysteries, including other modern ones.
I'd read a mystery set in the HP universe in about 2 seconds, yeah.
Just started What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty. Loving it!!
I am reading the Sookie Stackhouse books by Charlaine Harris and I am really surprised how much I am enjoying them. I have just started the fourth ine Dead to the World.
Just started on Kindle, "Shackles of Honor" by Marcia Lynn McClure
Just started in hardcover. Unfortunately, I skipped over 20. Oh well, I'll just go back. Can't get enough of Stepanie and Morelli anyways.
Becky, apparently they do not have be read in order.
I've finished The Eye of the World and so there's another series I had to complete (in this case 14 books!). Now I went back to "The dark Tower" series and I'm reading The Waste Lands.
Erica wrote: "Becky, apparently they do not have be read in order."
Not really, if you read at least the first couple to really understnad who the characters are,.
Not really, if you read at least the first couple to really understnad who the characters are,.
Just started in Paperback and taking with me on vacation
I'm almost halfway through Those in Peril, my first book of Wilbur Smith. I'm also reading Watership Down.
" by Sidney W Frost on Kindle.
I just finished What Is Visible and I'm now reading Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison.Neither is really a comfort read, but I'm finding them enjoyable.
Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison, for me the opposite of a comfort read, but it's worth reading.
Since the last time I wrote, I finished Watership Down, Ready Player One, The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch and now I'm reading Wizard and Glass.
I'm aiming to start
by Michael Crichton. I read
by him and I couldn't put it down.
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I read a fantastic urban fantasy called California Bones by Greg Van Eekhout a few weeks ago. I'd definitely recommend that if you like the genre.
I discovered a kick-ass female protagonist in the military science fiction series "Confederation" by Tanya Huff. The first book in the series is called Valor's Choice.
After reading Lisa's review, I put a hold on What Is Visible at the library. Picked up mu copy today and am looking forward to reading it.Have also been reading and mostly enjoying the third Bridget Jones book, Mad About the Boy (although I wish that the author did not (view spoiler), I understand (a bit grudgingly perhaps) why she did it , as it certainly has led to an interesting romp through Bridget Jones' life.
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What Is Visible looks like it might be hard to read.....
Lee wrote: "I didn't realize there was a third Bridget Jones book out. What Is Visible looks like it might be hard to read....."
Interesting but with rather heavy themes, but I've always been interested in Helen Keller and Laura Bridgeman (ever since we did a project on blindness in children's literature at school, I read a short chapter book on Laura Bridgeman as part of a group project, Child of the Silent Night: The Inspiring Story of Laura Bridgman, Both Deaf and Blind).
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Lee wrote: "I just finished reading Lisa's review and a few others. I'll be interested to hear how you react to the book, Gundula."I'll let you know.
Gundula, If I know you, and I think I do, you'll get at least as angry as I did when reading What Is Visible. But, if you like it/finish it, I'll be really, really interested in your thoughts about it! Lee, I have always had the same interest in Keller, in my case probably since I saw The Miracle Worker.
Lisa wrote: "Gundula, If I know you, and I think I do, you'll get at least as angry as I did when reading What Is Visible. But, if you like it/finish it, I'll be really, really interested in you..."I'm pretty sure I will get angry, I just hope that the events featured and the characters portrayed are done as historically accurate as possible (I don't mind getting angry at something that is historically accurate, but if I get angry at things that are not or don't seem to be historically accurate, that's a different story entirely).
Gundula, In the back the author says what is history and what is fiction.It is a novel. I kept reading it as non-fiction and continually had to remind myself it was a fictional novel.
Of course, much of the detailed interior life of Laura would have to be fictionalized, not all, but much of it.
Having things maybe not be perfectly accurate, which normally drives me nuts, wasn't what made me angry here. Well, I'll let you/any others who are interested, and see for yourself. It was what was and what could have been, how people were treated, how people were trapped, some of the ideologies, etc. etc. etc.
Today I finished So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish and tomorrow I'll start Mostly Harmless, the next book in the series.
Just started "Off Sides" by Sawyer Bennett on Kindle
The Secret of Saturday Cove, which was definitely from my era though I don't remember reading it. If I didn't, it was most likely because of the pesky boy main protagonist. Ha!
Just started on Kindle, "Nothing to Commend Her" by Jo Barret and "Never Love A Stranger" by Harold Robbins in hardcover
I have umpteen unfinished reads on my kindle, but I bet tonight I play the "what new book looks interesting?" game.
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the drawback of an ereader is to many books! so lets see..i'm reading now 1:the white tiger (booker shortlist 2008) very good! 2:arthur & george(2005 booker shortlist), good but makes me angry so i can't read it before sleep 3:room(2010 booker), well i got it started but not likely to finish 4: the burning land #5 in the saxon chronicles, got tired of the series but will get back to it.sigh, so many books......so little time:)
Lee wrote: "Having too much choice can definitely be a problem. I wish I could stick to reading one book at a time!"Yeah, I did that, and the winner was a Georgette Heyer, The Nonesuch.
Lee wrote: "It is good but I'm still having a bit of trouble distinguishing the voices and the way the dialogue runs together."I'd assume that anytime you see "He" it's probably Cromwell himself.
This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace EarlI love cancer books but I'm particularly interested in this one because I LOVED The Fault in Our Stars and that was dedicated to this girl, Esther Earl.
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It's too bad the book is a modern mystery; I'm just not into that genre (now if the books featured HP characters, I might reconsider, or if it were a historical mystery).