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[Danielle The Book Huntress]

Dawn, I will occasionally read graphic novels. I like the artwork, but strangely, I like more prose with my stories, so I'll always choose a novel over graphic novels as my favorite format.

[Aloha]

Knowing that China is a he is a good start. LOL

I've been around, just too busy to post much here. You fantasy guys aren't weird enough for me. Now, those horror people and the lusty PNR ladies, that's another matter...

Meet went well. My kid had the stomach flu for a week, barely ate and still made it to the meet. Her coach said she should in order to meet some qualifications, since she is a top swimmer. Sometimes when you're down, just showing up is good enough.

Grant wrote: "Look who it is! *grins* Glad to have you around, Thoa! Hope the meet went well today ;) I'm planning on reading some China Mieville next month...lol..i only recently found out that he was..well....."

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, *good karma*]

Ok, I just went crazy buck-wild at Amazon ( bought 4 pb books) and now I come here and realize I still needed Locke Lamora, Monster something or the other, and I wanted to try Discworld...

I bought LoLL and now I feel like I've been bad. :(

I don't know what I'm reading right now, lol.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, *good karma*]

Ok, I haven't even started LoLL yet but I just realized that it is book 1 in an uncompleted series. I hate you guys. Seriously.

[Danielle The Book Huntress]

It's easy to be bad on Amazon, MrsJoseph. :)

Aloha, I hope your child is feeling better soon. Are you on the PNR groups? I love PNR romance. :)

[Chris]

MrsJoseph wrote: "Ok, I haven't even started LoLL yet but I just realized that it is book 1 in an uncompleted series. I hate you guys. Seriously."

LoLL stands alone pretty well.

I'm reading the second one, Red Seas Under Red Skies. I'm hoping it will stand alone too, since there's no telling when or if the series will ever continue.

[Aloha]

I have over 20,000 eBooks. Don't tell me about being misbehaving and out of control when it comes to books.

Thanks, Lady Di. My daughter is better, but still weak. And had to compete today. They definitely teach you about fortitude in sports even as young as 9, her age. No whiners wanted.

I'm the co-moderator for a PNR group that's secret. Shhhhh. It's a hot and steamy PNR group, so the group can get pretty risque, not for everybody. We received too many curiosity seekers who were giving us trouble, so we went secret. Now we're happy as clams without worrying about censorship. I haven't been reading PNR, but I'm there to support the group, such as protecting their freedom of speech and expression. The people there have a great sense of humor. They crack me up.

[Danielle The Book Huntress]

Wow!!! Do you have all your ebooks on your computer hard drive, Aloha? Or in different places?

[Aloha]

On my hard drive for easy access, but I occasionally back it up on another hard drive. I also have a lot of eBooks in Kindle format purchased from Amazon, which they have in their memory bank for me.

Additionally, I have tons of audios purchased from Audible.com which is in their memory bank, and I have tons of audios from audio book clubs and libraries which is on my hard drive, and backed up on DVDs. I've been a member of Audible since they were new. For some reason my rate remained unchanged. They make me offers to change plans, but nothing they offer can beat the rate I have.

Which reminds me, I'm way overdue in backing up all my eBooks and audios. If my main 1TB drive crashes, I will be one very sad book lover.

[Aloha]

I'm afraid to say that 20,000 might even be a conservative estimate for eBooks alone.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, *good karma*]

20,000 books. Wow. I'm in awe. :)

They certainly do teach athletes to be strong! I'm surprised they made your daughter compete. I hope she feels better soon.

[Aloha]

Thank you. She's doing great today. Good lesson for her. She pushed through the meet, even did a best time and won a heat. Good lesson for me, too. When you feel down and out, show up for the life party, anyway, for anything to happen. Said the fortune cookie.

[Aloha]

Why do the narrators have to sound like old time detective movies when they're narrating detective books. The narrator in The City & The City was starting to annoy me. Same with the narration for Something from the Nightside. I had to double check to make sure that it wasn't the same narrator.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, *good karma*]

I finally started The Lies of Locke Lamora last night. I haven't gotten very far but so far so good.

I also plan to start on Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress XXII. I haven't read anything from this anthology series since MZB died.

[Aloha]

Adding for reading in eBook and paper now that I know what I'm focusing in audio. This mystery/thriller is really good so far.

[Laura]

Aloha wrote: "Why do the narrators have to sound like old time detective movies when they're narrating detective books. The narrator in The City & The City was starting to annoy me. Same with th..."

I can never take audio detective books seriously. My English teacher in year 10 decided that, instead of reading the book, we would listen to it. He chose one of the Sherlock Holmes books (I can't remember which one) and I was practically in hysterics the whole way through.

[Aloha]

Am I glad I wasn't introduced to Sherlock Holmes via audio, because I love the series. I can't imagine my reading history without Sherlock Holmes because the audio drove me to hysterics.

[Laura]

Yeah. Once I get over the audio fiasco, I'll get back into them. It was a good book, just the narrator wasn't :)

[Aloha]

I debated whether I should read Green's Nightside series instead of listening to the audio, since the audio didn't inspire me to want to go to the 2nd book. An audio is pretty annoying if I'd rather make my own audio using my Mac's Alex voice.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, *good karma*]

I can't really do audio books. They are too slow for me.

[Jason]

I really like the narrator for the Nightside books. Having both read and listened up to book three, I think that that old detective voice of the narrator's really adds to Green's prose. That's just my two cents, though. :)

[Dawn]

So far this month I have read/finished:
Mistress of Rome by Kate Quinn (5 stars)
Wizard and Glass by Stephen King (4 stars)
Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder (4 stars)
Magic Study by Maria V. Snyder (3 stars)
Rides a Dread Legion by Raymond E. Feist (3 stars)
The Shining by Stephen King (5 stars)
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (4 stars)
Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch (4 stars)

I'm currently reading:
Fire Study by Maria V. Snyder
UR by Stephen King
The Hedge Knight by George R.R. Martin

I'm also hoping to get to Magician: Apprentice (re-read) before the month is out. It's been a productive month!

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, *good karma*]

Wow, Dawn! You've had a good month!

I just picked up a copy of Wizard and Glass yesterday and I really loved Poison Study and Magic Study. I have to admit I felt that Poison study was stronger than Magic Study, which made me pause instead of diving into Fire Study. Please tell me how it goes!

[Dawn]

So far I agree with Nicola. I'm only reading Fire Study to finish out the series, I own it so I might as well. I'm only about 200 pages in.. But I'm not too impressed so far.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, *good karma*]

Good to know. I'll not buy that one. It's always good to keep something off my TBR shelf. :)

[Amanda]

Finished The Book of Lost Things last night and started Rot and Ruin by Jonathan Maberry this morning at the dr.s office.

[Danielle The Book Huntress]

Ooh. I want to read that one too, Amanda.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, *good karma*]

Coupon code for 50% off ebooks at fictionwise.com : probowl2011 It expires 01/31/2011.

[Aloha]

Finished yesterday. A very entertaining book. If you enjoy mystery/thriller, I highly recommend this book. The characters were strongly drawn out, the action fast paced, and the premise intriguing.

Moving on to finish , and continuing with the audio of . Slowly knocking down my pile of Currently Reading.

[Becky]

I'm starting Mistborn today. I'm looking forward to it. :)

[Becky]

Oh, and Fragile Things by Gaiman, the audio version. I'm starting that today too while I knit myself up a hat. :)

[Dawn]

Becky wrote: "I'm starting Mistborn today. I'm looking forward to it. :)"

WOOHOO! :)

[Aloha]

The Shining is great! Red-rum, red-rum! That's how I feel with all this snow. I need to find somebody to kill.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, *good karma*]

Aloha wrote: "The Shining is great! Red-rum, red-rum! That's how I feel with all this snow. I need to find somebody to kill."

God! This snow is horrific. I hate snow.

[Becky]

Aloha wrote: "The Shining is great! Red-rum, red-rum! That's how I feel with all this snow. I need to find somebody to kill."

Me too!! I just shoveled the newest batch of it this morning and it's still coming down.

Where did I put that roque mallet??

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, *good karma*]

It's been snowing here all day, too. Thank God it's light today (we had a thundersnow on Wednesday) but its supposed to get worse next week.

[Becky]

MrsJoseph wrote: "It's been snowing here all day, too. Thank God it's light today (we had a thundersnow on Wednesday) but its supposed to get worse next week."

Yep. It figures that we would get all of this snow when my boyfriend, who loves shoveling snow, is out of town. =\

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, *good karma*]

Becky wrote: "MrsJoseph wrote: "It's been snowing here all day, too. Thank God it's light today (we had a thundersnow on Wednesday) but its supposed to get worse next week."

Yep. It figures that we would get a..."

They make people who like shoveling snow?? Can we borrow a few, pretty please?

[Aloha]

I don't like it, but I'm really good about shoveling snow. Pretty OCD about it, really. It has to be nicely shoveled with lots of room for the car to maneuver, and no messy snow on the ground where we walk on.

[Becky]

MrsJoseph wrote: "They make people who like shoveling snow?? Can we borrow a few, pretty please?"

LOL We could maybe strike a rental agreement. ;)

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, *good karma*]

:)

I'm anal about not shoveling snow. That's what God created men for. :D

[Janny]

Might I suggest (from a sunny day in Florida) that you all dig out of your drift, make some hot chocolate, and pick up a copy of Smilla's Sense of Snow? Great book. Fascinating insight into a cold weather culture....

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Lol...I just finished raking leaves outside in flip flops, shorts and a muscle shirt :) Gotta love the South :) It's a lovely 69 degrees right now and yes I'm so laughing at all you yanks :)

[Dawn]

I don't mind the snow.. But I do live in an apartment, so I don't have to shovel. My opinion might be slightly different if I actually had to shovel it.. :)

[Jason]

I used to love shovelling snow until I got my snow blower. When you get one of those and use it for the first time, it's like you're some character out of a sci-fi novel, a man from the future, commanding some strange, new, and wonderful machine...

[Becky]

Grant wrote: "Lol...I just finished raking leaves outside in flip flops, shorts and a muscle shirt :) Gotta love the South :) It's a lovely 69 degrees right now and yes I'm so laughing at all you yanks :)"

I'm not a "yank". I grew up in the south - that's my home. I'm a Southerner who unfortunately now lives where it snows. :(

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, *good karma*]

Grant wrote: "Lol...I just finished raking leaves outside in flip flops, shorts and a muscle shirt :) Gotta love the South :) It's a lovely 69 degrees right now and yes I'm so laughing at all you yanks :)"

I, too, am a displaced Southerner. And I hate snow. :( It's my goal to save enough money to buy on own private island.

[Aloha]

I feel cold reading the summary! Brrrrrrrr

Janny wrote: "Might I suggest (from a sunny day in Florida) that you all dig out of your drift, make some hot chocolate, and pick up a copy of Smilla's Sense of Snow? Great book. Fascinating insigh..."

[Aloha]

Hate you. And you're a jock, too! Grrrrrr

Grant wrote: "Lol...I just finished raking leaves outside in flip flops, shorts and a muscle shirt :) Gotta love the South :) It's a lovely 69 degrees right now and yes I'm so laughing at all you yanks :)"

[[deleted user]]

Aw dang all my southern folks have been jumping ship. For shame. For shame I say! Lol, love you too, Thoa!