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message 1401: by Clay (new)

Clay (cdkorns) Please . . . Keep talking as if I'm not here. I don't mind. :)

As for being a drunkard . . . guilty. But there's nothing wrong with a little marinade among friends!

Signing off for now,
Aloh . . . Oops. I mean Clay.


message 1402: by Aloha (new)

Aloha | 940 comments Or gruel-age. Note how I came right after Clay. Sign on, sign off, sign back on.

MrsJoseph wrote: "hehe "rueage""


 Danielle The Book Huntress  (gatadelafuente) I'm reading Bad-Ass Faeries 3: In All Their Glory. Required reading if you are into faeries. :)


message 1404: by MrsJoseph *grouchy*, *good karma* (new)


 Danielle The Book Huntress  (gatadelafuente) Oh wow. What a great list, MrsJ.


message 1406: by Maggie (new)

Maggie K | 730 comments I just got The Warded Man and All the Windwracked Stars from the library---both have been on my list for a while


message 1407: by Scott (new)

Scott | 165 comments I finished Storm Front this morning. This was any easy, quick read. Very enjoyable.

I'm going to start A Game of Thrones so that I have at least the first one done by the time the series starts.


message 1408: by MrsJoseph *grouchy*, *good karma* (new)

MrsJoseph *grouchy* (mrsjoseph) | 7282 comments Lady Danielle "The Book Huntress" wrote: "Oh wow. What a great list, MrsJ."

Thanks, Lady D! It's hard to know which one to pick up when.


message 1409: by [deleted user] (new)

Okay, let's see here. In the last couple of weeks I've read Daemons Are Forever, From Hell With Love (good and not as good respectively), The Windup Girl (which I enjoyed far more than expected), Mythago Wood, Tigana, Soon I Will Be Invincible(recommended to comic book geeks!), Wit'ch Fire(kinda sucked), Moon Called(short but good) and City of Golden Shadow(excellent). Now to finally start some Mercedes Lackey :)


message 1410: by [deleted user] (last edited Apr 05, 2011 12:51PM) (new)

Oooh I forgot A Shadow in Summer. I really loved this one :)


message 1411: by [deleted user] (last edited Apr 05, 2011 12:51PM) (new)

And If a Pirate I Must Be... and The Steel Remains (which I read on recommendation and really enjoyed despite a bit of graphic content that usually doesn't appeal...every bit of 4 stars. Really 4.5 but ah well...I round down.)

Hmm...I really need to find a better way of keeping up with books on here.


message 1412: by MrsJoseph *grouchy*, *good karma* (new)

MrsJoseph *grouchy* (mrsjoseph) | 7282 comments Damn, Grant. Now you have to prove you don't have a plug in the back of your neck. Prove it!! :)

Why not use the iPhone app and just type it in as you're reading? That's what I do when I start/finish a new book and I'm not playing on GR.

But I'm also doing a book challenge and I need GR to keep count for me otherwise I'd have to type everything up.


message 1413: by [deleted user] (new)

Heh...it would look like far less if I just listed a book every day ;)

I didn't realize there was an iPhone app. I'll see if there's one for the iPad yet :) thanks!


message 1414: by [deleted user] (new)

You might find the scanner function useful for adding in books.


message 1415: by MrsJoseph *grouchy*, *good karma* (new)

MrsJoseph *grouchy* (mrsjoseph) | 7282 comments Oh yeah! That scanner is pretty decent, too.


message 1416: by MrsJoseph *grouchy*, *good karma* (new)

MrsJoseph *grouchy* (mrsjoseph) | 7282 comments Grant wrote: "Heh...it would look like far less if I just listed a book every day ;)

I didn't realize there was an iPhone app. I'll see if there's one for the iPad yet :) thanks!"


It might look like even more...or people would accuse you of not really reading the books. ;)


message 1417: by Jason (new)

Jason (darkfiction) | 3204 comments Scott wrote: "I finished Storm Front this morning. This was any easy, quick read. Very enjoyable.

I'm going to start A Game of Thrones so that I have at least the first one done by..."


You're in for a treat, Scott. I envy you your first ASoIaF reading experience!

Enjoy!


message 1418: by Jason (new)

Jason (darkfiction) | 3204 comments Is there an actual Goodreads scanner app for smart phones? If so, what's it called?


message 1419: by [deleted user] (new)

I know there is for iphone, called simply Goodreads.

It has a barcode scanner under the "My Books" section.


message 1420: by Dawn (last edited Apr 05, 2011 03:22PM) (new)

Dawn (breakofdawn) I'm finally done with Silverthorn, a re-read that I really didn't want to be doing but had to for a group read. Now on to The Ruins of Gorlan and then Graceling, two more group reads. After that I may or may not have time to squeeze in a couple randoms (either some Abercrombie or Dresden or maybe some Paks), and then it's on to the re-read I've been waiting to do forever. That's right, it's GRRM time baby. I can't wait!


message 1421: by Jason (new)

Jason (darkfiction) | 3204 comments Thanks, Ala. I have an Acer. I'll check it out.


message 1422: by Maggie (new)

Maggie K | 730 comments I am immersed in All the Windwracked Stars and so far totally in love with it! beautiful


message 1423: by Robert (new)

Robert (dimndbangr) | 17 comments I am currently getting close to the end of Never Knew Anotherwhich is definitely a different type of fantasy for me. This is more of a dark, literary type of fantasy.


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Jea0126 | 203 comments Grant wrote: "Okay, let's see here. In the last couple of weeks I've read Daemons Are Forever, From Hell With Love (good and not as good respectively), [book:The Windup Girl|659765..."

I think Wit'ch Storm is better than Wit'ch Fire..then I enjoyed the rest of the series after that.


message 1425: by Amanda (new)

Amanda M. Lyons (amandamlyons) Jea0126 wrote: "Grant wrote: "Okay, let's see here. In the last couple of weeks I've read Daemons Are Forever, From Hell With Love (good and not as good respectively), [book:The Wind..."

Loved that series!


message 1426: by MrsJoseph *grouchy*, *good karma* (new)

MrsJoseph *grouchy* (mrsjoseph) | 7282 comments I really need to buy the rest of those books...I try to keep my book buying binges seperated by at least a week or so...


message 1427: by [deleted user] (new)

I was going to give up the series after Wit'ch Storm, Jeao but I may give the sequel a shot if you say it improves drastically.

Amanda were you referring to the same series or to The Secret Histories?


message 1428: by Maggie (new)

Maggie K | 730 comments I ordered some books that have started arriving: Mistborn Trilogy Boxed Set Consider Phlebas, Bitter Gold Hearts ,Dead in the Family, Before They Are Hanged and The Tough Guide to Fantasyland

Unfortunately my brain is already wracked with things I SHOULD have got, so I think I will be making another order


message 1430: by Amanda (new)

Amanda M. Lyons (amandamlyons) Grant wrote: "I was going to give up the series after Wit'ch Storm, Jeao but I may give the sequel a shot if you say it improves drastically.

Amanda were you referring to the same series or to The Secret Hist..."


THe James Clemens Wit'ch Books


message 1431: by Scott (new)

Scott | 165 comments I have to say that the first couple of chapters of A Game of Thrones was agonizing for me because there were so many characters and so many places. I kept having to go back and see "who is this?" or "where was that?".

But I must say that now I am completely entrenched in this story.

*******Possible Spoiler*******






I just finished Bran's chapter (around Chapter 8 or 9 I'm guessing) and I was shocked at how it ended.


message 1432: by Dawn (new)

Dawn (breakofdawn) You know, I never had a problem with there being too many characters in GoT. I never even thought it when I was reading it, which is weird, because usually that's something that really annoys me in other books.


message 1433: by Jason (new)

Jason (darkfiction) | 3204 comments If I remember correctly (it's been something like 15 years since I've read the first) I had trouble remembering everyone at first, too. They should start becoming more familiar soon.


 Danielle The Book Huntress  (gatadelafuente) I'm reading Game of Cages by Harry Connolly


message 1435: by Melissa (new)

Melissa (lostunicorn) Finished WoT #9 Winter's Heart last night. Decided I need a break from WoT, so I'm starting on The Well of Ascension.


message 1436: by Jea0126 (new)

Jea0126 | 203 comments Melissa wrote: "Finished WoT #9 Winter's Heart last night. Decided I need a break from WoT, so I'm starting on The Well of Ascension."

It's a decent follow-up to Mistborn.

Possible *SPOILER*

It's really interesting where the well ends up being.


message 1437: by Jea0126 (new)

Jea0126 | 203 comments Still reading Shadow Dawn. I'd have so much more time for leisure reading if I just didn't have all these books I have to read for my grad classes. lol.


message 1438: by MrsJoseph *grouchy*, *good karma* (new)

MrsJoseph *grouchy* (mrsjoseph) | 7282 comments I needed a bit of a plate cleanser so I startedMarion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress XXII. So far the writing is good and the stories are interesting but it doesn't have the zing of the older books when MZB was editing herself.


message 1439: by Jea0126 (new)

Jea0126 | 203 comments MrsJoseph wrote: "I needed a bit of a plate cleanser so I startedMarion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress XXII. So far the writing is good and the stories are interesting but it doesn't have the z..."

Have you finished all of Paks' books already?


message 1440: by Dawn (new)

Dawn (breakofdawn) Ba da dum, ba da baaa, ba da dum, ba da baaa, ba da dum, ba da baa, da da da daaa, da! (That was supposed to be the Monday night football music, for what it's worth.. I think... LOL)

As of today, I am officially starting my first ever re-read of A Game of Thrones. I am beyond excited.. It's been so long since I originally read it, I've been waiting to re-read forever! And now it's time. Yay!


message 1441: by MrsJoseph *grouchy*, *good karma* (new)

MrsJoseph *grouchy* (mrsjoseph) | 7282 comments Jea0126 wrote: Have you finished all of Paks' books already?"

Not yet. I'm waiting a bit to give Maggie and others a chance to finish up book one - so we can finish the buddy read. I've only finished book 1. I'd started on book 2 but that's when I decided to pause.


message 1442: by Kevin (new)

Kevin Xu (kxu65) I am re-reading both Royal Assassin and Assassin's Quest, then reading Golden Fool.


message 1443: by Amanda (new)

Amanda M. Lyons (amandamlyons) Just got done with the 3rd and fourth volumes of Jack of Fables and I'm reading my six year old Peter Pan, so far so good :D. I've got some Batman graphic novels and the first omnibus volume of House of Mystery waiting for me along with Arthur and the Minimoys by Luc Besson , The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack (Burton & Swinburne #1)  by Mark Hodder , and His Father's Son by Bentley Little left from the library.


message 1444: by Angelmass (new)

Angelmass | 17 comments I just completed C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower novels. I'm now reading Acacia: The War with the Mein.


message 1445: by Kacey (new)

Kacey Fontenot (kaceyfontenog) | 10 comments reading The Fallen Blade Act One of the Assassini (The Vampire Assassin Trilogy, #1) by Jon Courtenay Grimwood Im almost done. & i have to say its fantastic. :3


message 1446: by Dawn (new)

Dawn (breakofdawn) Angelmass wrote: "I just completed C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower novels. I'm now reading Acacia: The War with the Mein."

I love that series! It starts off slow, so don't be put off... Stick through it and you won't regret it :)


message 1447: by Laurel (new)

Laurel I've been on a bit of a Harry Dresden binge. I'm just startingWhite Night and am partway through Side Jobs: Stories From the Dresden Files. I don't usually get so caught up in a series, but I just can't seem to put them down!

I also read Moon Called by Patricia Briggs, based on wonderful recommendations, and am going to try and intersperse Dresden with Mercy Thompson. It's funny, I didn't think I'd enjoy Urban Fantasy, and now I'm completely hooked!


message 1448: by MrsJoseph *grouchy*, *good karma* (new)

MrsJoseph *grouchy* (mrsjoseph) | 7282 comments I know how you feel, Laurel! I've been feeling that same way. Never have I read this much UF before.


message 1449: by Laurel (new)

Laurel If I start LARPing through the sewers, I'm blaming The Fantasy Afficionados...


message 1450: by whimsicalmeerkat (new)

whimsicalmeerkat | 0 comments Laurel wrote: "If I start LARPing through the sewers, I'm blaming The Fantasy Afficionados..."

Oh god, I can't breathe. This is the funniest thing I've heard all day.


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