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Angel on a Leash: Therapy Dogs and the Lives They Touch wonderful if you watch the Dog Shows you'll love it ;-)
I'm just about to start Carry Yourself Back to Me by Deb Reed, and downloaded a sample of Tolle's the Power of Now. The closer I get to 40, the more I'm attracted to the more spiritual/self-helpy kind of writing (despite some of the criticisms).
I am reading The Hunger Games book two but will start book three tonight. The Hunger Games
Catching Fire
Mockingjay
Suzanne Collins
Immediately after finishing book two I raced off to Costco and bought book three. Those books are amazing!
Almost finished with A Rising Thunder, the latest in the Honorverse sci-fi series. This is an advance e-copy, not due to be released until March.
Tina wrote: "Immediately after finishing book two I raced off to Costco and bought book three. Those books are amazing!"Tina, that is a great advantage of having the Kindle. I didn't have to rush off to Costco. I just used the Buy With One Click button at Amazon and the books appear on the Kindle. Dangerous too as I have now too many books to be read. When I was buying print I might get two or three books at a time. Now I end up buying more. Guess that is Amazon's plan. Hehe.
I just started Flash and Bones by Kathy Reichs after really struggling to get through my first Terry Pratchett book and giving up.
Shame you didn't like Pratchett. He is very funny, but very British. And he tends to get a bit precious. But I like that in an author ...
I honestly never felt stupider reading a book! I just couldn't understand a thing he was saying and every time I came back to it I couldn't remember the names/words so I got confused.It was just.. not something I like to read. I like easy things that don't require much thinking :P
I am reading cozy mysteries right now. I finished Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich and Death by the Dozen by Jenn McKinlay. I have over 300 books on my kindle that I have not read yet.
Louise-Lesley wrote: "I made a count last night and I have 1876 - *addict*"And here I was thinking I had an addiction! :)
You'll never be out of reading material. I have well over 300 & can anyone tell me why I keep downloading more??!! Oh yea...that's right...I have a slight addiction.. :)
I don't even read descriptions anymore. I just download EVERYTHING then when I go through it I delete if it is rubbish :P
Louise-Lesley wrote: "I don't even read descriptions anymore. I just download EVERYTHING then when I go through it I delete if it is rubbish :P"I have to read descriptions or else I won't buy unless it happens to be by my fav author. I can understand if they're freebies, but if it's more than 2.99 or so, I just can't do it. I'm still unemployed & I just can't afford to download everything. I like your idea, Louise-Lesley, but just can't do it. :)
Oh most of mine are free!Poor student here :P
I only have about 50 or so bought ones and those are over the last year and a lot of them are in series that I know I will love.
Louise-Lesley wrote: "Oh most of mine are free!Poor student here :P
I only have about 50 or so bought ones and those are over the last year and a lot of them are in series that I know I will love."
OHHHH! Ok, I gotcha! That makes sense to me. I was thinking you must have unlimited funds to download everything...LOL....we poor students/unemployed folks love them freebies!!! LOL
Ohhh noo, not at all. Although all I've asked for Christmas is Amazon Vouchers so heres hoping for a great stock pile to buy loads :D
Louise-Lesley wrote: "Ohhh noo, not at all. Although all I've asked for Christmas is Amazon Vouchers so heres hoping for a great stock pile to buy loads :D"I did the same thing!! Just give me Amazon gift cards and I'll be in 7th heaven!! I love all kinds of gift cards anyway!
Karen M wrote: "I'm reading a free download, A Simple Amish Christmas which is part of my reading "Christmas" plan."I downloaded that one myself, but haven't had a chance to read it yet. Hope it's a good book. Enjoy!
I'm reading Moon Called which I am really enjoying! I've heard a lot of A Song of Ice and Fire which I am thinking of buying my husband for Christmas.
Ginger wrote: "Karen M wrote: "I'm reading a free download, A Simple Amish Christmas which is part of my reading "Christmas" plan."I downloaded that one myself, but haven't had a chance to read..."
So far, sweet, maybe a little predictable, but a very nice read.
I just started Acadia, Book I: The Lost King and the Goddess of Time. I was given this to review but kept putting it off for some reason.
Ashley wrote: "I'm reading the second book in the series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin.
. So good!"Would you be willing to lend this book?
And book 1 if you have it?
Louise-Lesley wrote: "I honestly never felt stupider reading a book! I just couldn't understand a thing he was saying and every time I came back to it I couldn't remember the names/words so I got confused.It was just...."
I had to LOL at your last line. I also like easy things that don't require much thinking. Although I do enjoy a good mystery. I'm just not a 'deep thinker' and avoid books where I have to find the 'deeper meaning'. Nope, I'm like a waterbug, happily skating across the surface of life (well, books).
Collene wrote: "I'm reading
and getting ready to read
"Christmas at Harrrington's is a wonderful book! I just finished it and now I'm reading The Bronze Horseman and My Life in France.
Carol wrote: "Louise-Lesley wrote: "I honestly never felt stupider reading a book! I just couldn't understand a thing he was saying and every time I came back to it I couldn't remember the names/words so I got c..."HAHA.
Yes. Completely. I love a good mystery now that makes me think but that isn't the deep philosophical kind of thinking or the deep thinking back to my school day English lessons.
Laura wrote: "Collene wrote: "I'm reading
and getting ready to read
"Christmas at Harrrington's is a wonderful book! I just finis..."
I've got Christmas at Harrington's too. Hope I get to it this month. Am reading Maine right now and I suspect I'll be getting notified to pick up In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by next week.
Charlene wrote: "Tina wrote: "Immediately after finishing book two I raced off to Costco and bought book three. Those books are amazing!"Tina, that is a great advantage of having the Kindle. I didn't have to rush..."
That was pre-Kindle for me!
I just bought The Art of Racing in the Rain for 3.99 and devoured that book. I told my kid that I was reading a book from the perspective of a dog and she told me that is the worst book for me as I already have anthropomorphised (sp) my dogs! (Did I write that correctly? Sheesh!)
One day I hope that I'll pop in here and see someone posting my own book. :-)
Just finished My Life in France (which I can not recommend). Now I'm reading Return of the Rose and The Bronze Horseman
I'm reading Stories for Sendai - a charity anthology that will be on sale only until Dec.15th, so if you'd like to support a good cause (Japan relief), get it now! I have read only one of the short stories so far, but hope to read the rest this week.
I just finished reading "Before i Fall By: Lauren Oliver"- (I love the book but i hate half of it, its so upsetting!) i am thinking to read next "13 Reasons Why By: Jay Asher"
I just finished Cutting for Stone, which was a phenomenal read, even though it's not a mystery, but a family saga. The author is a doctor, so there are a lot of medical situations in the book, and the India/Ethiopia/US settings are very interesting. I learned a lot!I've started reading an old favorite, Murder on the Orient Express. Since I'm writing a variant of a locked-room mystery (a group of whitewater rafters stuck in a remote river canyon with a killer, in my case), I thought I'd return to this locked-room mystery written by a master, for inspiration.
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