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May 12, 2018 06:42PM
I realized that Wilkie Collins, being deceased, was never going to write a sequel to THE WOMAN IN WHITE. So I did it, and it's coming out later this month.
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I'm finally reading a recommendation from a good friend, The Japanese Lover. I decided to get the audio book so that I could listen to something on the drives around town when I go on errands and to appointments. This has kept me busy "reading" even when I can't pick up a physical book.
I just finished The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot and a terrific children's book The Irish Famine: The Birth of Irish America by Tony Allan.
Leslie wrote: "I just finished The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot and a terrific children's book The Irish Famine: The Birth of Irish America by Tony Allan."The Irish famine for children!?! I'm intrigued.
It was really good. Honestly, it was a much better history of Ireland than any of my private school lecturers on it. :-)
Interesting. Well, I'm always up for something new. I've added it to my (ridiculously long) "to be read" list.
I'm reading The Men with the Pink Triangle: The True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps by Heinz Heger. I accidentally found it in my school's library and it interested me.
I'm just reading effi briest by theodor fontane
I just finished it...well I definitely like it.i choose this book(effie briest)because it compares to some other 19th novels like anna karennina and madame bovari.i was going to read anna karenina couple of years ago but unfortunately I couldn't finished it(I decided to read it this summer)I love the story of anna karenina so when i saw fontane book comapres to that i read it...it's about a 17 years old girl named effi briest and her marriage to a man who is older than her for like 30years and his name is instetten.so they get married and effi feels so lonely on her husband house and she having illusions about a Chinese man who was living on that house years ago.As i sayed i liked this book but it wasn't like what i was thinking it would be unlike anna karenina everything happens so fast(I think most of the classic novels are like this)but I liked the characters(I really care about characters in books)i liked conversations(especially between effi's parents)generally I think it was a good book and I recommend it to classic books fans who like female classic characters and conversations in books(as much as i do)
It seems interesting! And apparently this book is available in a library next to my house, so I might read it.
I just finished reading the 600 page book "Children of Time" which was a really good science fiction story about intelligent spiders but also about the last surviving humans on a 2000+ year old spaceship. Their only hope for survival is to land on the spider infested planet. This is not horror but world building. Now I'm reading the 600+ Dan Simmons novel "Abominable" and I'm really enjoying it too, but it is a bit more technical as it deals with climbing Mount Everest so I go to Google and look up terms so I'll understand it better..like what a crampton looks like and what these different parts of Everest are located. I also watched the documentary "Summit" about climbing K2 before I really started the book. Ok, I had read the long prologue already...anyway the story is set in 1925 and the characters are supposed to be searching for a rich lady's missing son who vanished on Everest in 1924. While it's supposed to be a body recovery mission, they also want to summit the 🗻 and get the glory. But there are rumors floating around that there are yetis on the mountain right now and that the time is bad. So the suspense is building,it's getting hard to breathe at the altitude they are at and the weather is just awful. The base camp was -20 F below. So just imagine what it's up on the mountain!! Simmons is good at writing very vivid settings. I loved his book "The Terror". Which is why I'm reading this one as it seems to be very similar.
Currently reading: Beloved by Toni Morrison
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Sarah wrote: "I just finished reading the 600 page book "Children of Time" which was a really good science fiction story about intelligent spiders but also about the last surviving humans on a 2000+ year old spa..."
You're good at writing vivid detailed settings as well! Topics like this are not my cup of tea, but this seems interesting.
Call It Sleep - Henry RothA tale of Jewish immigrants in NYC, early 1
Thank you, Daniel. I've written a lot of stories before so I can be good at vivid descriptions. I'm also pretty good at memorizing stuff. .just not numbers! But descriptions are easy. These are the non classic books I've read since I finished The Abominable...
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant which was about a mission to find killer mermaids in the marina trench,
Bloodwitch is a young adult story about a young man who can turn into a bird and lives a very protected life with a bunch of vampires but learns that maybe the vampires are not really so nice...,
X Isle by Steve Augardie - a story set in a drowned world and a bunch of boys who go to an island for a better life only to find things are worse there,
Redshirts and Lock In by John Scalzi. Redshirts is a parody of classic star trek and lock in is about how in the future one can go into another person's head to borrow their body and the dangers inherited in that.
Pure by Julianne Baggott...it's set in a world after a bunch of bombs went off and society is split into two groups...those that live in the Domes where everything is controlled and those that live outside where just finding food is a struggle. Very good book and part
made me cry.
I started to read The Empire of Ants by Bernard Werber. I remember I read this back in the late 90s and decided to reread it. Already one page 111 and enjoying it. The look at the ant society is quite fascinating. Reading that book about the spiders (Children of Time) made me think of this one...🐜 🐜 🐜
I just finished reading Faerie Tale by Raymond e Feist. It was excellent!! Creepy story set in the woods about faeries and the Wild Hunt and a family that gets tangled up in it...
Slowly working my way through the things I had lining up on my library wagon + bookshelf...Stuff I'm still knee-deep in:
- The Eye of the World, Wheel of Time, Robert Jordan: Yeah, I know. 14 books. 14 HEAVY books. But I got a sour taste in my mouth after the GoT-series ended so I wanted some epic fantasy to wash it clean with. And it's nostalgia for me, where kid-me never really managed to get to the end. So I want to get to the end!
- Unholy Ghosts, Stacia Kane: A friend recommended this gritty YA-series to me, and I kind of want to read it in order to talk about it with her! It's a fun ride, and with some really neat world-building. Old rockabilly meets supernatural church-society.
- The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien: Taking me forever. I think I need to get it in paperback. I've been reading it on my kindle and it's not doing me any favors...
"Milkman" by Anna Burns! it's unlike anything I've read before.
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Stuff I'm still knee-deep in:
- The Eye of the World, Wheel of Time, Robert Jordan: Yeah, I know. 14 boo..."
I think the fantasy market had a global resurgence as a result of GOT ending so poorly.
...do people read non-classics?ha, i very, very seldom (read that as 'almost never') do.
but I do have a paperback copy of Tangerine by Christine Mangan
Read a few chapters, but forgot about it, then found it under my bed, so might start it again. I was absolutely smitten with the cover when I passed the bookshop as it was in the window for a bit, then found a copy at a charity shop and picked it up.
The Unwavering Resolve of Jonathan Edwards by Steven J. Lawson
I'm reading an omnibus volume, a biography of John Ruskin. It is damned dull.
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Topic: Virtual Silent Book Club
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In the silent book club everyone brings their own book or E-reader and reads together quietly for an hour, then we all nerd out about books afterward.
We kick off the meeting with a quick round of introductions where everyone says their name and a little about what they're reading. We love hearing about what people are reading (often in their other book clubs).
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Topic: Virtual Silent Book Club
Time: Apr 3, 2020 06:30 PM Indiana (East)
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In the silent book club everyone brings their own book or E-reader and reads together quietly for an hour, then we all nerd out about books afterward.
We kick off the meeting with a quick round of introductions where everyone says their name and a little about what they're reading. We love hearing about what people are reading (often in their other book clubs).
I'm currently reading 1022 by Stephen King
sorry correction 1922 by Stephen King
Just finished Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates.Debating whether to read Rebecca, The Diviners, or A Game of Thrones next.
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