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I am reading What Happened To You? by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah.


Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A edited by Ben Bova
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and I started the second part

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II B edited by Ben Bova


The Cool Cottontail by John Dudley Ball
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and I started reading the third James Bond book

Moonraker by Ian Fleming


The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and I started reading

Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist


Jumping into my first Joe Abercrombie with Half a King and I am excited.


The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and I started reading

The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
much of which I have already read in the collections A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories and Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories


I'm still slogging away at my doorstop....28 cds of Robert Galbraith.


Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and I started reading

To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer



In the author's note, Cañas features a quote from Cheno Cortina, a paramilitary leader who defended the Mexican border against white settlers during the Texas Revolution. He used the word "vampires" to describe the invading force, and that is where Cañas got her next book idea. Obviously, the vampires in this book are supposed to be an allegory for the Yanquis. Key words: supposed to. The plot choice Cañas chose completely nips that in the bud to the point that the inclusion of the vampires, are first of all sparse, and second, irrelevant.
Full review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...



The most horrific scene of this novel isn't regarding the supernatural or unusual, but the...
full review HERE



Moonraker by Ian Fleming
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and I started reading the second book in the Kensie and Gennaro series

Darkness, Take My Hand by Dennis Lehane


Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Rating: 2 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
so go ahead and call me a Philistine, I deserve it

I am now reading Metro Girl by Janet Evanovich and so far I'm enjoying it very much!!
I am thinking of starting either Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin or The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich this weekend.....any recommendations as to which I should read first??

Also was reading Scott Sigler's Pandemic but it was an Interlibrary loan and I had to give it back. Will be putting a hold on it again soon.
And now I have decided to go into "Massive Tome" reading mode. I have started The Charm School by Nelson DeMille which is over 800 pages and River of Stars by Guy Gavriel Kay which is more than 600. Sigh. But to offset these I have also started Radigan by Louis L'Amour, which is barely over 200 pages.


To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and I started reading another Science Fiction classic

Immortality, Inc. by Robert Sheckley

Read All Systems Red by Martha Wells in one sitting yesterday so I'm jumping into Artificial Condition.
Thank you Martha!

Huge fan of the movie and finally got around to reading the book.



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