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[Ema]

I'm currently working on Hiroshima.

[Kim (BritishLass929)]

Youndyc wrote: "I'm about to start The Passage. The Passage

Has anybody read it? What did you think?"

I know this is an old post, but because I'm new I'm just getting to it now. "The Passage" is the second best book I've ever read - after "The Great Gatsby". I passed it on to my cousin, who declared it the best book he's ever read (This is a huge compliment, as he usually only reads Clive Barker and Dean Koontz and I am FOREVER trying to get him into more authors). It is also the first of a trilogy.

[Leslie]

I'm reading Thunderstruck by Eric Larsson--it's really good!

[Kim (BritishLass929)]

L.J. wrote: "I'm reading Case Histories by Kate Atkinson. I loved When Will There Be Good News? so I have high hopes for this one too.
L.J.
The Sex ClubNow $.99!"

Case Histories was awesome. I had a problem putting it down and kept telling my fiance to stop talking please so I could finish it!

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I loathed Case Histories.

I was going to read Wolf Hall until I found out it was in the present tense.

[~Geektastic~]

Lobstergirl wrote: "I loathed Case Histories.

I was going to read Wolf Hall until I found out it was in the present tense."

Her characterization and dialogue more than make up for it, if you ever decide to give Wolf Hall a second chance.

[Cheri]

Just finished 'The Forger's Spell' by Edward Dolinick. Liked it so much that I am now reading his first book 'The Rescue Artist' which is great too.

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

Just finished On the Jellicoe Road and it has to be one of the best books I've ever read. I cried over and over and over, but not even for sappy or sentimental reasons. It was like reaching a truth in the story, then reaching another truth, and then reaching another. So hard to explain, but wow...

The first 150 pages are so odd and you don't get what's happening at all, but then it starts to come together piece by piece as the mystery starts to become less hazy. I think the book is a good one for both males and female because it's not a romance type book.

I have to do a group read next of Vixen but I have the feeling it will be hard to get as hyped now after coming down off such a good book.

[Jim]

Next up from a local writer. The Wind Knot he has a pretty good set of murder mysteries.

[Jammies]

Sarah Pi wrote: "I started Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and Dreadnought but I decided to try to finish the latter first while there are lots of people around."

Wise choice! They're both good books, but the former doesn't require a support staff. ;)

Kim wrote: "Youndyc wrote: "I'm about to start The Passage. The Passage

Has anybody read it? What did you think?"

I know this is an old post, but because I'm new I'm just getting to it now. "The Passage" is the second best book I've ever read - after "The Great Gatsby". I passed it on to my cousin, who declared it the best book he's ever read (This is a huge compliment, as he usually only reads Clive Barker and Dean Koontz and I am FOREVER trying to get him into more authors). It is also the first of a trilogy."

I adored The Passage and have recommended it to several people.

Leslie wrote: "I'm reading Thunderstruck by Eric Larsson--it's really good!"

Larson is a great writer, isn't he?

[Sarah]

Jammies wrote: "Wise choice! They're both good books, but the former doesn't require a support staff. ;) "

Ha!

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

I own both The Passage and Miss Peregrine's but haven't read them yet.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Gabby wrote: "I would be starting Cannery Row from tomorrow."

Intriguing syntax, Gabby.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I started The Last of the Lairds: Or the Life and Opinions of Malachi Mailings Esq. of Auldbiggings.

[Angela~twistedmind~]

Barb wrote: "I often refer to my cleavage as "my crumb catchers".
That is all."

I brag that I have my own personal place to rest my plate at bbq's and other such things without enough seating. No pockets or purse to hold my cell? No prob, baby. I slide that little bastard in the, uh, in between space :S No one is the wiser until my breasts start singing "Ma na ma na".

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

We have a thread about that, somewhere...

[Kevin]

a second vince flynn book

[Kim (BritishLass929)]

I am currently finishing off the Dean Koontz Frankenstein set, as I promised my cousin I would. After that, I would like to go back to my noir short stories - the ones that are all set in a different city. I've read Baltimore because I'm from there, but I've read other in the set and enjoyed them.

Anyone else familiar with them?

[Leslie]

Jammies--this is my first book by Larson--he is really good. I want to read more by him!

[Leslie]

Lobstergirl--you don't like present tense?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Leslie wrote: "Lobstergirl--you don't like present tense?"

Nein! Read all about it here...

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/4...

[Phil]

Leslie wrote: "Lobstergirl--you don't like present tense?"

Maybe she likes pup tents?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

The Cost of Rights: Why Liberty Depends on Taxes.

[Ema]

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

[Leslie]

Charley--I want to read Devil in the White City--I'm sure it will be really good!

[Susieville]

FingersmithFingersmith

[Cynthia]

Welcome to Terminal Coffee, Susieville!

[Susieville]

Thanks Cynthia!

[RandomAnthony]

I'm reading Bob Mould's autobiography.

[Phil]

RandomAnthony wrote: "I'm reading Bob Mould's autobiography."

Does Bob know you borrowed it?

[Leslie]

Now I'm reading Mao's Last Dancer. I saw the movie and it was incredible and the book is turning out to be really good.

[Leslie]

Who is Bob Mould, RA? I've never heard of him. Is the book interesting?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I'm starting Hangover Square.

[Lee]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Mould

[Sarah]

Leslie wrote: "Now I'm reading Mao's Last Dancer. I saw the movie and it was incredible and the book is turning out to be really good."

I liked the movie. I'll bet the book has a lot of details that had to be left out of the film.

[Leslie]

It does. The first half of the book is about his life in China before he came to the US. It's really good!! :)

[Leslie]

Thanks Lee--that was interesting.

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

Finished Lolita starting The Demon King

[Lee]

Up next... , Joe Kurtz #2

[Cheri]

I just finished The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Centuryand liked it so much that I am now reading The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece and yesterday a Rembrandt drawing was stolen in LA. How weird is that?

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It’s hard to imagine any Aerosmith soul-purge topping 1997’s “Walk This Way,” a tome so seedy with tales of Class 1 narcotic hoovering, shooting, and gulping that it’ll make you either run for a hazmat disinfect or crawl off into the bathroom and start chasing the dragon yourself.

I prefer my Aerosmith with a twist of heroin so I'm mainly interested in that section of their CV covering their first five or six albums, when they stalked the planet’s hockey barns and arenas on their own personal crusade to liberate most of middle America’s hearing, frilly undergarments, and wage packet.

I don't think I can stomach hearing why they started pandering to the MTV crowd with the epic power ballad. If Tyler maintains it was for anything other than big coin, he's so full of it his eyes are brown.

[Janice]

I have just started Shanghai Girls.

[Angela~twistedmind~]

Since I last posted I've read The Intelligencer byLeslie Silbert, Shimmerspell: A Faerie Tale Girl Novella, #1 byKimberly Spencer, a few other novellas not worth mentioning and I've made a bit of headway in Les Misérables. Started Bitten byKelley Armstrong this morning. I'm only on chap 3 so I'm not far enough into it to form an opinion yet. I've heard alot of favorable reviews, so I wanted to see what all the hype was about. Funny, though. For some reason, I thought the series is about witches. Whatever gave me that idea? :D

[Jammies]

Re-reading Support Your Local Wizard.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner. And, probably (I've gone so far as to take it off the shelf) The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America.

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

Angela wrote: "I wanted to see what all the hype was about. Funny, though. For some reason, I thought the series is about witches. Whatever gave me that idea? :D ..."

I think that the later books do feature witches as main characters. It's supposed to feature different characters in each book possibly?

I only read the first book so I couldn't tell you. The series was too similar to another one that I loved, so it was hard for me to get past that.

The Demon King is a long ass fantasy book, so I might try to squeeze in some of The Dovekeepers on the side.

[Janice]

I'm about to start The Gaslight Dogs. It will be my first foray into the steampunk genre.

[Julie]

I just started Sworn to Silence by Linda Castillo a couple of days ago. It's gruesome, graphic and creepy (which I usually don't do) but it's sucked me in and I can't quit.

[Pam]

West of Here

[Jammies]

Angela, the thing I like about that series is that Ms. Armstrong takes minor characters from one novel and makes them major characters in a following novel. In other words, yes, the witches get their own books later.

Janice, that one sounds intriguing!