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What else are you reading? (June 2010 - May 2013) *closed*
Katharina wrote: "Always great to know you're not alone ;D"Yup! Always comforting to remember there are 7 billion other people on this spaceship. :P
Christine wrote: "Katharina wrote: "Always great to know you're not alone ;D"Yup! Always comforting to remember there are 7 billion other people on this spaceship. :P"
Well... if you put it like that... maybe being aloner wouldn't be that big of a problem... *g*
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Yeah, Hamlet got that from me. I was just thinking the very thing this morning."
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I loved Merchant, too, and Midsummer etc. My very favorite is Henry V. Has anyone seen the new Coriolanus (sp?). It's so good. With Ralph Fiennes and Gerald Butler. Also, Vanessa Redgrave was wicked good.
Josh, I'm prob the 19th person to ask you this--but I am, as I write, listening to Fatal Shadows, only the second time I "read" it. I went to purchase the rest of the series and--Augh!! When will more Adrien English become available on audible?
Just finished The Faded Sun Trilogy. Can't remember the last time the end of a story brought tears to my eyes.It left me feeling a little wanting, but I guess that's the point: This trilogy was a brief moment in a story that reaches back thousands of years, and will probably continue on for thousands more.
An epic, star-spanning science fiction that basically boils down to this: Two men from different worlds, enemies at first, who become brothers. A love story, in a sense--but not romantic love.
Christine wrote: "Just finished The Faded Sun Trilogy. Can't remember the last time the end of a story brought tears to my eyes.It left me feeling a little wanting, but I guess that's the point: This trilogy was a..."
I just bought Pride of Chanur and Downbelow Station from Audible.com. Both narrators sounded promising. There are 22 Cherry books in Audio format on there.
I finished As Meat loves Salt last night. This morning I still feel as if I'm in recovery .... Johanna you may not want to read the rest of this comment as you're next in line for the book.It's set during the English civil war, a time of great political and social upheaval, which might make it sound worthy but dull although it is the opposite what with the turmoil in the lives of the two main characters. It's been a long time since I've been quite so grabbed by a book, by the hair it felt like. Towards the end last night it seemed like the author had hold of my heart and was trampling all over it but in an almost good way. She doesn't put a foot wrong historically either.
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Chris tells me he thinks he'll have the files to me this weekend, so then it will take me a day or so to sit down and listen to all seven hours of it and make notes and then Chris will do his edits, and then I'll approve them, and then...ACX will hopefully get them into the sales channel before too long.
Short answer...hopefully by this time next month?
In fact, next month should be a pretty good month for audio as Kevin just contacted me for pronuniciation on All She Wrote, which means he's going to have that recorded in a week or so.
And Strange Fortune's files are supposed to be finished by March 1 too. So...yes, lots of audio books in the channel. I hadn't quite planned so many to hit at the exact same time, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing.
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My least favorite play. Is it a great production?
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It left me feeling a little wanting, but I guess that's the point: This trilogy was a..."
This sounds vaguely familiar. Is it an old series? Who wrote it?
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It left me feeling a little wanting, but I guess that's the point: ..."
There's been a huge, huge boom in authors deciding to put their books into audio. ACX had more submissions in 2012 than in all their previous years put together, and December was insane. It took a full month to get my completed files approved (previously it had only taken 2 weeks).
The audio idea has caught fire.
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Caroline, you've been so modest and restrained about this, but won't you share with us a little news about your own release?
Josh wrote: "Candice wrote: "And Strange Fortune's files are supposed to be finished by March 1 too. So...yes, lots of audio books in the channel. I hadn't quite planned so many to hit at the exact same time, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing."Yay!!
Josh wrote: "Christine wrote: "Just finished The Faded Sun Trilogy. Can't remember the last time the end of a story brought tears to my eyes.It left me feeling a little wanting, but I guess that's the point: ..."
Faded Sun was written by CJ Cherryh. Not in ebook form yet or audio that I could find. :(
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haha, yep, that sounds like As Meat Loves Salt at the end. She does totally trample the heart. Sad, but also sadly appropriate ending.
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Aaah... like I could have resisted reading the end of your message. ;) I'm really looking forward reading As Meat Loves Salt! So nice to hear that you liked it, Caroline! Reading it sounds like a penetrating, dramatic experience... ;)
You might not want to post it to me just yet though, because I'm leaving after a few days and I won't be back home until on 15th March. If the parcel doesn't post as a "letter" the post office won't keep it longer than two weeks (and after that they'll send it back to you). Wait a week or so before you'll post it, okay? And thank you in advance, Caroline. :)
So, who is interested in reading it after me? Whereto do I get to post it? (Why in the world is this so exciting?!)
Johanna wrote: "Caroline wrote: "I finished As Meat loves Salt last night. This morning I still feel as if I'm in recovery .... Johanna you may not want to read the rest of this comment as you're next in line for ..."Me, maybe. If you don't mind sending it to Canada. I imagine that might be too expensive.
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I'd love to post it to you, Pender! :)
Johanna wrote: "Pender wrote: "Johanna wrote: "Caroline wrote: "I finished As Meat loves Salt last night. This morning I still feel as if I'm in recovery .... Johanna you may not want to read the rest of this comm..."Fantastic. Whenever you're done with it give me a shout. No rush. I have a wip in progress and an extensive TBR list (BRB is at the top of that.) :)
In the meantime if someone a little closer to Johanna would like to read it first. No problem.
Josh wrote: "Candice wrote: "Josh, I'm prob the 19th person to ask you this--but I am, as I write, listening to Fatal Shadows, only the second time I "read" it. I went to purchase the rest of the series and--A..."Great! on all three counts. Thank you for letting me know.
Susinok wrote: "I just bought Pride of Chanur and Downbelow Station from Audible.com. Both narrators sounded promising. There are 22 Cherry books in Audio format on there."Oh, wow!
I don't think I could enjoy audio versions of her books--not the first time I read the book, anyway. I do a lot of flipping to figure out alien terminology and remember who's who. Though, it would be interesting to listen to an audio version of Faded Sun now that I'm done. That would probably take me a year to listen through, though, at the rate I'm going with audiobooks. ;)
"Caroline wrote: "I finished As Meat loves Salt last night. This morning I still feel as if I'm in recovery .... Johanna you may not want to read the rest of this comment as you're next in line...Johanna wrote: Aaah... like I could have resisted reading the end of your message..."
Well I tried. Hopefully I did manage to avoid any plot spoilers. Have a great holiday. I'll hang on to the book 'til you're back. We do have Aleks to thank for starting this off - a chain book instead of chain letter.
Yep Jordan - sad but totally appropriate. There's a fantastic song by Billy Bragg - The World turned upside down - which could provide a soundtrack for parts of the novel. It would make a superb film as well. If you have any other recommendations of similar books I'd be most interested.
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I love that song.
But I digress.
Josh wrote: "Caroline wrote: "There's a fantastic song by Billy Bragg - The World turned upside down..."I love that song. "
Wow, you know Billy Bragg! I don't have a clue how famous is he, I would have thought not very famous...
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Can I use LOL and wow in the same sentence - even though it's not really a sentence at all? ;)
What a title and what a blurb. Couldn't help but to add it into my to-read list. Thanks, Susinok!
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I love that song. "
Wow, you know Billy Bragg! I don't have a clue how famous is he, I wou..."
I was introduced to Billy Bragg by the SO who early in our relationship sent me a copy of the song California Stars. It became "our" song.
Well, one of them. We're both a little musically obsessed.
I just finished "Blood Red Butterfly". I loved it. It is a Book, I will re-read.
I am reading Captive Prince: Volume One. I finished volume 2 last night. I loved these books, and Laurent is one of the most fascinating characters I have encounted. It will be hard waiting for the next volume.
OkayKim wrote: "I'm finally on the last book Special Forces - Veterans. Omg, I started the first book 2/5and I'm now winding down to the final lap here.
I'm so addicted to Dan & Vadim's story, that I'm afraid I'l..."
Amazing isn't it. But I have to admit by the time the end rolled around I was ready. It's wrapped up very well.
Pender wrote: "Johanna wrote: "Pender wrote: "Johanna wrote: "Caroline wrote: "I finished As Meat loves Salt last night. This morning I still feel as if I'm in recovery .... Johanna you may not want to read the r..."You could send it to Norway, perhaps?
What have I been reading lately, let's see. Edward St Aubyn books The Patrick Melrose Cycle and At Last, which blew me away completely, Shooting Star which I liked, Sharp Objects, that was creepy. And of course Too Stupid to Live (Romancelandia, #1) which was cute and fun and Blood Red Butterfly that was a great, but different Josh experience, and the latest Necessity's Child which is almost a litte too childish, but still a nice read. So, variation might be the key word for the last few weeks' reading. :)
OkayKim wrote: "I'm finally on the last book Special Forces - Veterans. Omg, I started the first book 2/5and I'm now winding down to the final lap here.
I'm so addicted to Dan & Vadim's story, that I'm afraid I'l..."
Their story is so addictive.
Josh wrote: "Antonella wrote: "Josh wrote: "Caroline wrote: "There's a fantastic song by Billy Bragg - The World turned upside down..."I love that song. "
Wow, you know Billy Bragg! I don't have a clue how f..."
I was also surprised that you know Billy Bragg - he seems so quintessentially English. I went to listen to California Stars and I'm impressed that you made the leap to his more usual stuff - I'd never have recognised him in California Stars.
Do you know his song "New England" sung by Kirsty MacColl? - the lyrics are good! (And that led me on to her "There's a Guy Works Down the Chipshop Swears He's Elvis" - more fun lyrics.)
Anne wrote: "Pender wrote: "Johanna wrote: "Pender wrote: "Johanna wrote: "Caroline wrote: "I finished As Meat loves Salt last night. This morning I still feel as if I'm in recovery .... Johanna you may not wan..."Do you want to read it before me? I don't mind.
Josh wrote: Caroline, you've been so modest and restrained about this, but won't you share with us a little news about your own release?..."
That’s so kind of you, Mr Lanyon, thank you. So bragging rights eh.
Well I’m currently doing the last checks to the print copy. I’ve also been rounding up the various poets who offered to say nice things about the book
With a deep regard for precision of language and lucidity of voice, these powerful poems honour the memory of the Malta Convoys in WWII - the ships and the men who served in them. Davies writes with great compassion and empathy, but not an ounce of sentimentality. Carefully researched, beautifully written, she has crafted a compelling and moving collection. ...
This is a fantastically ambitious (I mean this word in the best sense!) book, and a great concept for a poetry collection. I like the semi-experimental feel of it, … You get a great sense of the people....
It’s the people, the men that the poems are about who are the important ones especially as what the merchant seamen went through is a largely forgotten aspect of WW2. Now I just have to trust that I’ve done justice to them. The book will be published in May by Cinnamon Press although anyone who wants to can already pre-order it. It’s even on Good Reads
Pender wrote: "Anne wrote: "Pender wrote: "Johanna wrote: "Pender wrote: "Johanna wrote: "Caroline wrote: "I finished As Meat loves Salt last night. This morning I still feel as if I'm in recovery .... Johanna yo..."I don't mind who reads it first either, but perhaps it should be sent to the one nearest first, so it doesn't have to cross the ocean many times?
Caroline wrote: "Josh wrote: Caroline, you've been so modest and restrained about this, but won't you share with us a little news about your own release?..."
That’s so kind of you, Mr Lanyon, thank you. So braggi..."
What great reviews Caroline, congratulations!
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That’s so kind of you, Mr Lanyon, thank you. So braggi..."
Convoy sounds lovely, Caroline! Congratulations in advance!
(You should be bragging more often... *grin*)
Caroline wrote: "It’s the people, the men that the poems are about who are the important ones especially as what the merchant seamen went through is a largely forgotten aspect of WW2. Now I just have to trust that I’ve done justice to them...."Congrats Caroline! Wow, what a touching family legacy. Well done. (hugs)
Just finished-
by Rhys Ford. Really enjoyed it. It was just an all around good story. Solid characters, solid supporting cast and the guilty party isn't figured out ahead of time. It's supposed to be in San Fran, but a "ranch style" house or a ground level apartment is pretty foreign to SF. {shrugs} I had a good time reading it,fell for the preview of book 2 ,and now I'm suffering for more. ;)
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That’s so kind of you, Mr Lanyon, thank you. So braggi..."
Very much looking forward to reading your work, Caroline.
Reggie wrote: "Just finished- by Rhys Ford. Really enjoyed it. It was just an all around good story. Solid characters, solid supporting cast and the guilty party isn't figured ou..."I really enjoyed that book. I didn't notice the ranch style. I thought they were in converted warehouse spaces. Gin was. Don't remember Kane's house. There are some ranch-ish houses in South San Francisco and south of there. Not in SF itself that I remember.
I finally started reading the first pages of War and Peace! So far pretty easy to read actually. I'm starting to think that the tough part about this book is not the language but rather its length of 2000 pages (in my edition at least) :D ... I'll definitely need some stamina with this one ;)
I loved Sinner's Gin - Miki and Kane, the scene setting and the writing. The Vega house was described as a ranch-style adobe. When I was a kid, I visited friends of my parents who owned a ranch in Fairfax, which is near San Francisco, so I know there were ranch houses. I assumed the adobe referred to the Mediterranean style so prevalent in California.
Reggie wrote: "Just finished- by Rhys Ford. Really enjoyed it. It was just an all around good story. Solid characters, solid supporting cast and the guilty party isn't figured ou..."I liked this one a lot too :)
And I'm missing reading: I had laser surgery for my eyes, and I still need to read very little and then let the eyes rest.
Thank god for the audio files! :)
Darkm - Oh wow, you did it? Congrats! How are you feeling?
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Yeah... :D Thanks! Always great to know you're not alone ;D