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[colleen the convivial curmudgeon]

I just started Snuff this morning. Only 23 pages in, and there're already several quotable lines from Vetinari. Hope the rest of the book stays on form. :>

[Jalilah]

MrsJoseph wrote: "I'm reading a book!!

It's a romance but still! First one of the year!!

Scandal It's so cheesy and happy and I am LOVING IT!"

I still can not believe it!

[carol. , Senor Crabbypants]

MrsJoseph wrote: "I'm reading a book!!

It's a romance but still! First one of the year!!

Scandal It's so cheesy and happy and I am LOVING IT!"

WOO-HOO!

[Nyssa, Don't make me get the ruler!]

MrsJoseph wrote: "I'm reading a book!!

It's a romance but still! First one of the year!!

Scandal It's so cheesy and happy and I am LOVING IT!"

Yay!! Happy you're happy! :)

[Mike (the Paladin)]

I'm reading A Memory of Light...


sigh

[Snarktastic Sonja]

Mike (the Paladin) wrote: "I'm reading A Memory of Light...


sigh"

ROFL, Mike. Laughing so hard. My son is twisting my arm ever so much to read this series. I read through book 8 as they were published. Book 8 lost me. And, then the whole "this series is never going to be finished" frustration set in.

And, now? Well, now I am just stubborn. :D

[Snarktastic Sonja]

I am reading too fast. :( Cannot afford my reading habit. Just finished an entertaining free kindle book: Maggie for Hire. Was one of those very pleasant bargain basement finds!

Now, I don't know what to read.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Okay I plan to review it later but let me say that once you slog (and I do mean slog) through first 4/5 of the book the climax is excellent. I'm near the end now.

[Olga]

MrsJoseph wrote: "I'm reading a book!!

It's a romance but still! First one of the year!!

Scandal It's so cheesy and happy and I am LOVING IT!"

Congrats! Amanda Quick always pulls me out of the blues.

[Olga]

I just finished Glamour in Glass. It's a bit slow but I enjoyed it: something in between a spy story and a love story set in the alternative Regency England.

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon]

Olga wrote: "I just finished Glamour in Glass. It's a bit slow but I enjoyed it: something in between a spy story and a love story set in the alternative Regency England."

I thought "hey, that sounds interesting" and I saw it's book two in a series - and I actually have the first at home waiting to be read. :>

[Olga]

The first one is nice too - not your usual fantasy. I'm not super excited about this author, but I like her stories. Very women's fantasy. No swords, no battles, no vampires but not a standard romance either. Original.

[Cheryl]

I've just started reading Ghost Story, the 13th book in The Dresden Files. Oh, my gosh! This is going to be an interesting one!

[Jenny]

Not fantasy, but I'm reading A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail. It's really entertaining and I find myself whipping through the chapters fairly quickly.

[Nermin]

I just finished the Wise Man's Fear, now i'm back to reading Wolf Hall.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Heavily involved in the Repairman Jack books (almost through #7 Gateways. This series builds slowly (very slowly). I find I'm suddenly going from book to book.

[Amanda]

I'm finishing up Thud! on audiobook. I have several books lined up to read next: Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan, Crown of Vengeance by Mercedes Lackey, and In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust.

[Nyssa, Don't make me get the ruler!]

I've just started The Iron King; I'm two chapters in. Although I understand the "whys", Meghan's constant denial, despite all of the warning bell's constantly going off around her, is already driving me batty!

[Jonathan]

Mike (the Paladin) wrote: "Okay I plan to review it later but let me say that once you slog (and I do mean slog) through first 4/5 of the book the climax is excellent. I'm near the end now."

I think you and I have different reading styles and definitions of slog ;p
Then again the entire set up felt a lot like The Odyssey which I read recently so maybe I set myself up for it nicely. Who knows...

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Well...if the Odyssey had been like 10 times longer maybe. LOL.

[Tony]

I'm currently sticking doggedly to my new years pledge of reading all the terry patchett books (discworld)
I've been reading them for yonks but in a very piecemeal fashion so now im filling in the holes ...its fun , I'm on the wyrd sisters at the minute......think I have about 12 to go

[Jason]

Reading AMOL. Loving it.

[Scott]

I finished The Dragon Factory yesterday. Then I read Thumbprint: A Story.

Now I'm reading The Neighbors.

[Nermin]

i'm reading Wolf Hall and Shadow and Bone

[Snarktastic Sonja]

I am reading Beautiful Creatures for 2 reasons (neither of which is because it grabbed my attention). It is a group read in another group - and my daughter is reading it. I am ready to move on to another book, but interested enough to want to know how this one ends.

[Thaddeus]

I'm on the final volume of Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Been reading it for quite a long time and now I'm concentrating on getting it finished before I buy any new fantasy.

[Snarktastic Sonja]

Thaddeus wrote: "I'm on the final volume of Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Been reading it for quite a long time and now I'm concentrating on getting it finished before I buy any new fant..."

Ummmmm . . . . why? Oh WHY would you do this to yourself? >:D

OMG - I am starting to think I am in the wrong group . . . ;)

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, *good karma*]

Sonja wrote: "Ummmmm . . . . why? Oh WHY would you do this to yourself? >:D"

What's it about to make you feel like that?

[Snarktastic Sonja]

MrsJoseph wrote: "Sonja wrote: "Ummmmm . . . . why? Oh WHY would you do this to yourself? >:D"

What's it about to make you feel like that?"

Because . . . well because I am an idiot. :D I combined what he was reading with something else going on in my head and came up with . . . a whole bunch of great literature.

One step at a time . . . one step at a time. :D

[Patrick]

I'm reading Memory and Dream right now. It's been a while since I read some Charles de Lint. There are some writers that go perfectly with a pot of tea, a constant rain outside, and maybe some cookies, somewhere, baking. Charles de Lint is definitely one of them, in my book. When I was a teen-ager I always wanted to be a part of that Newford world.

[Jalilah]

Patrick wrote: "I'm reading Memory and Dream right now. It's been a while since I read some Charles de Lint. There are some writers that go perfectly with a pot of tea, a constant rain outside, and maybe some cook..."

I agree about De Lint!
Memory and Dream is an example of how a talented author can successfully switch seamlessly from POVs and time periods. It is not working so well for the book I am currently reading, The Rook. For this reason I am both liking it and disliking it!

[Patrick]

I saw the description of The Rook, it does look pretty interesting I have to say.

I think with Memory and Dream the time period switches work so well because we're not really concerned with a "hero/heroine" in peril story. Since it's more a novel about self-revelation and self-struggle, the risk of losing momentum because of the old adage "we know the heroine lived to remember the flashback" isn't part of the equation. We need to know the damage of "then" in order to see the healing of "now".
I'll have to put "Rook" on my ever growing To-Read page. DON'T tell me how it turns out!

[Snarktastic Sonja]

Patrick wrote: "DON'T tell me how it turns out! "

O, Patrick, the temptation . . . if only I could come up with some snarky conclusion that looked viable . . .

>:D

[Patrick]

Sonja wrote: "Patrick wrote: "DON'T tell me how it turns out! "

O, Patrick, the temptation . . . if only I could come up with some snarky conclusion that looked viable . . .

>:D"
Uh-huh, uh-huh. That's enough out of you. :P Though, to be fair, if someone did ruin the ending, it would only be karma, I suppose. I have ruined at least 3 books for people so far, generally when a character dies. Can I be blamed for my enthusiasm about the book? Yes. Yes I suppose I could.

[carol. , Senor Crabbypants]

Well, as I wrote in my review for The Rook, it's not like you don't know what happens from the start... you just don't know how or why.

[Snarktastic Sonja]

Carol wrote: "Well, as I wrote in my review for The Rook, it's not like you don't know what happens from the start... you just don't know how or why."

Nice job. I find myself totally unable to write a review. I really don't know why, I just can't.

[carol. , Senor Crabbypants]

Thanks, Sonja. They are usually fun, but do take some work.

[Carrie]

I'm reading . I remember Narnia from my childhood, but I can't for the life of me remember if I read them myself or had them read too me.

[Pauline]

I don't normally post in this thread, but I just had to mention this (and regulars will know exactly why :-)

My next read is The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon.

[tannoy] Paging Mike! Paging Mike! Paks reference in the currently reading thread! This is not a drill! [/tannoy]

[Mike (the Paladin)]

I would like to congratulate you on you're deep literary understanding and taste.

:)

[Brenda ╰☆╮]

Heh heh.

[carol. , Senor Crabbypants]

*eyeroll*

[Mike (the Paladin)]

...* lifts left eyebrow *...I fail to see anything humorous. Wisdom should always be recognized and saluted.

:)

[carol. , Senor Crabbypants]

*snorts*

i think i just snorted my after-dinner tea. ;)

[Mike (the Paladin)]

The things those of us with taste must endure....

[Snarktastic Sonja]

I totally agree with Mike. ;)

[carol. , Senor Crabbypants]

Hey, I liked the middle Paks book, and the trilogy as a whole is a good one.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

;)

I'm not sure I've told you but I really like the trilogy.....

[Snarktastic Sonja]

Mike - Have you read the 2nd set in that Paks world? it is on my list . . . just not sure I want to revisit without Paks. :)

[Brenda ╰☆╮]

No time like the present to add this to my to read list.

*Groan*
I've got books....too many....books!