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[Chrissie]

I just completed and totally loved The Lady and the Unicorn. Here is why: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/... do not enjoy this book as much as Chevalier's Girl With a Pearl Earring. Maybe this is because much of the Unicorn takes place in Brussels and I know Brussels....

I am listening to Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson, my attempt to enjoy mystery crime novels. It is good. this audiobook has excellent narration by Simon Vance. Everybody says he is good, and I certainly agree.

I will start the DTB Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan. Books about Bhutan interest me!

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Just started "Breathless" by Scott Prussing

[Kimberly]

I think I may start .

[Helena]

CeeAnne wrote: "Helena,
I really liked The Complete Persepolis and also enjoyed her other book, ."

I'm loving Persepolis so far, so I'll definitely be looking for her next book!

[Kimberly]

Helena wrote: "CeeAnne wrote: "Helena,
I really liked The Complete Persepolis and also enjoyed her other book, ."

I'm loving Persepolis so far, so I'll..."

was the first book of hers I read and I loved it!

[Chrissie]

I finished today
Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan
Review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

and

Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson
Review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

With these two books, so very different from each other, I could manage to keep them separated in my head.

I will now read Kasztner's Train: The True Story of an Unknown Hero of the Holocaust and listen to Wild Steps of Heaven. I ought to be able to keep them apart too since one takes place in Hungary during the Holocaust and the other during the Mexican Revolution. The author of the book I am reading is outstanding. I have read her before. The one that takes place in Mexico is historical fiction, but based on the author's father's life and family.

I always get so excited when I start a new book. :0)

[Kimberly]

I'm starting

[Chrissie]

I finished Wild Steps of Heaven, narrated by Dick Hill. I was all over the place with this one.
My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

I will continue in Latin America with Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life. This book is suppose to give you everything about him. Everything. I picked it up at the BOGO sale. :0)

[Aoibhínn]

I've finished reading by Dodie Smith and I've started by Jane Casey this morning.

[[deleted user]]

What a pretty cover for I Capture the Cover. I love the book and the movie!

[Brenda]

Going to start Graceling on audiobook.

[[deleted user]]

It's a good story, Brenda. I hope you enjoy it.

[Brenda]

Jeannette wrote: "It's a good story, Brenda. I hope you enjoy it."

I think I got the idea from Lisa's review.

[Beth]

I am reading , before I read her new book,it's the prequel In a way to the inn at rose harbor!!!

[Lisa]

Which Lisa, Brenda? I hope you like it. I really liked it, although I haven't read the companion books, yet anyway.

[Brenda]

Lisa wrote: "Which Lisa, Brenda? I hope you like it. I really liked it, although I haven't read the companion books, yet anyway."


oops, I did mean you Lisa.

[[deleted user]]

You did rate it highly, Lisa, so I assumed she meant you. :)

I didn't like Fire as much, and I haven't read Bitterblue yet.

[Lisa]

Thanks, Brenda and Jeannette. Yes, I did really like it, but I haven't run to read the other two. Some friends here have given them good reviews, some have not.

[[deleted user]]

Have either of you read Chalice? I read it around the same time, and really enjoyed it.

[Lisa]

Jeannette wrote: "Have either of you read Chalice? I read it around the same time, and really enjoyed it."

No, I've never heard of it. Off to check...

[Tracey]

I have both Chalice and Graceling coming up soon - treated myself to both. Full price! (*waits for shocked response*) I love McKinley to pieces and have heard great things about Graceling, so here's hoping.

[Brenda]

Jeannette wrote: "Have either of you read Chalice? I read it around the same time, and really enjoyed it."

I haven't but will certainly give it a looksie.

[Chrissie]

I stopped reading Kasztner's Train: The True Story of an Unknown Hero of the Holocaust and here is why: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

So now I will read
Armenian Golgotha. I explain a bit about it here: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

The main thing is, non-fiction does NOT have to be dry and confusing. They can be just as engaging as novels. I started reading "Armenian Golgotha" and I just don't want to stop. It is about the Armenian Genocide, but begins in Berlin when WW1 commences. It is riveting.

[[deleted user]]

I just started Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson. (Thanks Tracey and Chrissie!)

I'm having a hard time deciding on Holmes and Watson's look, having too many film and tv versions competing in my head. I think Basil Rathbone is winning.

[Tracey]

Yay! Hope you love it.

I think I had Jeremy Brett and David Burke in my head - Simon Vance's voices just sounded like them. Are you listening or reading?

[[deleted user]]

reading, so I get to confuse myself...

[Tracey]

I'm looking forward to seeing what you think because of that especially. I think Chrissie and I both wondered how much Simon Vance's reading influenced us. I believe it's a genuinely good book – but listening to that man reading it just elevated it a bit.

[[deleted user]]

I'm happy to be the test case. I was surprised at Chrissie's 4-star review; I know she enjoyed the narration, too.

[Chrissie]

Tracey and Jeanette, yup, I am curious to know how much of my enjoyment of Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson was due to Simon Vance's narration. Jeanette, since you have chosen to read it, can be the test case! Will you think it is as good as Tracey and I did? We both listened to it. I kind of wish you had chosen to listen to Simon Vance's narration.....

[[deleted user]]

If I enjoy the book, I plan to look for the audiobook for our next family road trip, in November. Then, I will be able to say if the narrator improves the book. I think it highly likely, as this is a book written in a diary, so it lends itself to good narration just based on the format alone.

[Tracey]

Chrissie wrote: "I kind of wish you had chosen to listen to Simon Vance's narration..."

Me too. :)

On the other hand, even he couldn't save The Anatomist's Apprentice, which I ended up giving one star, so hopefully the book will stand on its own. (It was just such a great narration!)

[Chrissie]

Jeanette, I am hoping you listen to the book too. It would be so cool to see how the two versions compare for one person.

Tracey, I am certainly not going to read The Anatomist's Apprentice! One friend couldn't manage to finish it and another gave it two stars.

I was considering Gail Tsukiyama's new A Hundred Flowers. Jeanette and I were talking about it. I gave The Samurai's Garden, by the same author three stars. Thus I am no jumping to read another by Tsukiyama, BUT, and this is why I brought up the author, the new book is narrated by Simon Vance!!!! I thought the prose was wonderful in TSG but didn't think the relationships between the Chinese and the Japanese were believable.

Jeanette, have you finished "A Hundred Flowers". I would love to try Vance with another book.

[[deleted user]]

I have a review up:

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

[Chrissie]

Thanks, Jeanette!

[Beth]

I am reading [bookcover:Grimsley Hollow Eve of the Beginning|15731922

[Janice]

Just finished . It was great! Now reading - very good so far.

[Aoibhínn]

I finished the 3rd book in the Maeve Kerrigan series by Jane Casey last night - I really enjoyed this novel and I can't wait till the next one! Jane Casey is becoming one of my favourite crime authors. This morning, I began reading by Heather Gudenkauf.

[Chrissie]

I finished Armenian Golgotha. Here is another book filled with gruesome events. It is about the Armenian genocide that occurred during WW1. You know me, I enjoy memoirs! This is a seminal work. My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Now I will start The Long Song, another book set in the Caribbean, as I listen to Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life. I have only praise for this book on Che. I am learning so much about this icon, the truth about his life and ideology. Did you know that Che means "You, there"?

[[deleted user]]

Reading The Witch's Daughter ...so far it's not grabbing me.

[Aoibhínn]

I finished reading by Heather Gudenkauf yesterday - It's a brilliant novel. I couldn't put it down! I honestly couldn't recommend it highly enough.

Now I'm about to start the 9th book in the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich.

[Kimberly]

I'm reading and

[Beth]

I am reading

[Lee, Mod Mama]

I picked up Insurgent yesterday and whipped through it. A fast paced, YA, speculative fiction novel.

[Chrissie]

I finished The Long Song last night and started A Three Dog Life. It is so short, I am half way through. Wonderful lines:
"When periodically I went through closets and threw things away wholesale, he joked that if he weren't careful he'd be on the dustheap too." (page 28)

I needed a book with dogs to cheer my up after the last book! My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

[Tracey]

Just finished My Loving Vigil Keeping, which I expected to be typical romance schlock and which turned out to be a really lovely book that reminded me of Anne of the Island and Christy and may just become one of my reread-when-in-need-of-comfort books. Loved it.

Now I've gone to another extreme and am reading The Hallowed Ones, which is about a vampire apocalypse (as opposed to a zombie apocalypse) as seen from the relative safety of an Amish community. And which, while very good and not graphic (so far), is proving all the reasons I don't read horror. *turns on more lights and ties garlic around neck*

[[deleted user]]

Of all the monsters out there, I have always been most afraid of vampires..... *shudder*

[Tracey]

And I don't think these are the sparkly/Byronic type.

[[deleted user]]

That's something else to be afraid of, all by itself! lol

[Tracey]

Jeannette wrote: "That's something else to be afraid of, all by itself! lol"

*nods vigorously*

[Tracey]

It might just be a tie for me between the two - partly because for me the biggest Horror aspect is both of them can come at you in the body of someone you know – worst of all, a family member – and while you're still saying "Bob? You look a little off –" they can kill you a lot.