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[Pam]

Finishing "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" and going back to "Freedom"

[Janice]

I just started The Princess Bride. I usually read forwards, but this edition has TWO forwards and they take up half the book. I finally gave up and moved ahead to the beginning of the story.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Justine.
Track of the Cat.

[Janice]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Track of the Cat."

What a great cover! It sounds like an interesting book. I'd love to know what you think of it when you're finished.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Janice wrote: "Lobstergirl wrote: "Track of the Cat."

What a great cover! It sounds like an interesting book. I'd love to know what you think of it when you're finished."

The book has taken a lesbian turn, making me wonder if "track of the cat" is a double entendre.

[Sally, la reina]

LG you read a lot.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I know, I wish I could slow down sometimes.

[Sally, la reina]

Huh. Did J&tC slow you down at all? It is like eating a big bowl of gooey oatmeal.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Justine could be a slow read, it is kind of gooey. Track of the Cat is a very fast read.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Sometimes if I find myself in a really slow, goopy book, I'll read a fast one at the same time.

[Sally, la reina]

Yeah. It is like having a fruit smoothie to go with and to wash it down as well as a glass of iced tea.

[Janice]

It's a chaser.

[Cynthia]

Beer and a bump.

[Jim]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Sometimes if I find myself in a really slow, goopy book, I'll read a fast one at the same time."

Do you hold one in each hand, and just read across both of them?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Jim wrote: "Lobstergirl wrote: "Sometimes if I find myself in a really slow, goopy book, I'll read a fast one at the same time."

Do you hold one in each hand, and just read across both of them?"

That would be fun, I ought to try it. Normally I'll be reading the goopy one, get mired in the goop, and put it down to read 20 pages of the fast one. Then I'll feel guilty and go back and read two paragraphs of the goopy one.

[Janice]

Please define 'goopy'. :)

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Janice wrote: "Please define 'goopy'. :)"

Thick, dense. If fiction, may suggest heavy, poetical language.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Janice wrote: "Lobstergirl wrote: "Track of the Cat."

What a great cover! It sounds like an interesting book. I'd love to know what you think of it when you're finished."

It was a good, quick read. I'm going to read through the whole Anna Pigeon series even though a few things about the two I've read so far have bugged me. I like the way each one is set in a National Park. One of the things she does well is describe the terrain and flora.

[Janice]

Thanks LG for both the definition and the review.

[Knarik]

Passage to Ararat Michael J. Arlen A captivating story, I am really enjoying it.

[Phil]

Just finished the Black Magician Trilogy and am now ready to begin my first Murakami book, Kafka on the shore.

[ms.petra]

I am starting Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.

[Lori]

I'm supposed to read World War Z next but I'm too poor to buy a book right now lol. But when I buy one that's next. :)

[ms.petra]

don't you have a library?

[RandomAnthony]

ms.petra wrote: "I am starting Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World."

Yay!

[Lori]

Yes I'm in a library right now but they don't have it. :x (Crummy school library :P)

[Jim]

Phil wrote: "Just finished the Black Magician Trilogy and am now ready to begin my first Murakami book, Kafka on the shore."

I'll be interested to know what you think about Murakami Phil.

[Jammies]

The Book Thief and while I will put up with a lot for a good story, I'm not sure if I will put up with sentences like "He ran a hand through his sleepy hair." WTF?

[Janice]

I've just started Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. I'm barely into it and already there are some editting problems. Internet grief support groups in 1986? Internet wasn't widely available at that time - Bulletin Boards like AOL and CompuServe, maybe. Brandon Lee died in 1993, so he couldn't have been buried in a Seattle cemetary in 1986.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Odd, Janice!

I'm reading Deception on His Mind and The Art Detective: Fakes, Frauds, and Finds and the Search for Lost Treasures.

[Janice]

The Art Detective looks interesting.

I'm still undecided about Hotel on the Corner. I'll give it till tomorrow and if it doesn't pick up, I'll drop it.

[Lori]

[B:The Crippled God]

I'm sad I'm almost at the end of this ongoing obsession for the last 3 years.

[Jammies]

Barb wrote: "He needed some mousse to liven it up?"

Clearly, only espresso mousse would do!

[Sally, la reina]

I finished two library books in two days and started Watership Down. It is gooooood.

I had to take J&tC back, Lg, because the library sent me a mean letter demanding 10$ or else and hurt my feelings. I guess four weeks overdue is kind of excessive.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Pfft.

[Sally, la reina]

Bless you.

[Phil]

See, Sally? Someone queefed.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

OHHHHHHHH no he dit int.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I just wanted to be post #1000.

[Phil]

Winner, winner, chicken dinner!

Or chicken jello mold.

[Félix]

Lobstergirl wrote: "I just wanted to be post #1000."

Everyone needs a goal.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Harumph.

[Sally, la reina]

Bless you.

[Janice]

I couldn't do it. I've shelved Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet under 'abandoned'. I'm starting The Lace Reader. Has anyone here read it?

[Pam]

Why did you shelve it? I'm 'slogging' through Freedom by Jonathan Franzen right now.. very slow going..

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Janice wrote: "I couldn't do it. I've shelved Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet under 'abandoned'. I'm starting The Lace Reader. Has anyone here read it?"

I haven't, but one of my Goodreads friends read it and loved it. I think she recommended it to me but it didn't look like the sort of book I'd enjoy.

[Sally, la reina]

I don't want to read that, Pam. Should I? Is it worth it?

And would it have been worth it, after all,
After the cups, the marmalade, the tea,
Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me,

[Janice]

Pam wrote: "Why did you shelve it? I'm 'slogging' through Freedom by Jonathan Franzen right now.. very slow going.."

The first chapter had a few anachronisms that had me grinding my teeth. It appeared to me that the book needed a good editor. I had difficulty trusting the historical facts and decided not to bother.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Like what anachronisms, Janice?

[Janice]

Lobstergirl wrote: "I haven't, but one of my Goodreads friends read it and loved it. I think she recommended it to me but it didn't look like the sort of book I'd enjoy.

It's a mystery, both in genre and whether or not it's a good read. I'll let you know when I'm finished.