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Random Book List #341 (ends June 25)
Fran wrote: "There are a few other members that shelved it as lendable if you want to try and borrow it"How does that work? I don't have a kindle, but I have the kindle app on my ipod
You can borrow books with the kindle app. You don't need a kindle. But you do need an Amazon account. I'm assuming you have an Amazon account since you have a kindle app. On Amazon it explains the lending feature better than I could, LOL, but I will try.Certain ebooks on Amazon can be lent out one time. When you purchase an ebook or are just looking at the book's page, if you scroll down to the lower left of the page where it gives book info, it states whether the book is lendable. A Nanny For Nate is lendable.
So now you can pull the book's page up on GR. If you look on the right of the book's page is lists the shelves for the book. Click on more shelves and get the full list of shelves. Several people have shelved it as kindle-lendable. Check all three pages of shelves for the book. You can then send one of those members a PM requesting the book. I belong to a few lending groups here but no one shelved it there. So I asked someone who had it listed and they were kind enough to lend it to me. I have a long kindle lendable shelf here on GR so I offered the member to check out my shelves and borrow anything any time. Most people who shelve a book as lendable are usually happy to lend to anyone who asks.
I hope this helped :) Also, once someone lends it to you, you get it for 2 weeks and then it disappears from your app and goes back to original owner. You need an Amazon account because they send it through a feature on Amazon from their email address to yours. You accept the book from your email address and have it send to your app.
I'm almost positive you can use the lending feature with the kindle app but make sure on Amazon that I'm correct. I would hate to give you wrong info!
Finished Twelve Days last night. I gave it 3.5 stars rounded up to 4 stars. It was great to see where their lives were at - they have continued to grow, but there are still a lot of issues. I'm hoping Jamie's story is next if the author continues the series :)
Finished One Grave at a Time for The Bite Before Christmas. Another good installment in The Nighthuntress series. 4 stars.
I've also just finished A Nanny for Nate - 4 stars. Cute book even though Parker was a doofus toward the end :)******
I agree with Fran that the book wasn't worth $5.99. It was seriously only about 60 pages. (It has about 10 pages of credits, contents, letters from the publishers, etc etc etc...) Rip Off!
I just read A Nanny for Nate and gave it 3 stars. Have to agree about the price, way too high for such a short book. Even if it was a pleasant read, I felt it was rushed and would have profited from a few more pages before the end
Finished The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett yesterday. 4 stars from me.It was fun and entertaining. Loved it.
I just completed
.This was my first by the author - and I think I will definitely look for more. Thanks to Valerie ~Varuca~ for kindle-lending me this!
I give it 3 1/2 stars.
Random Book List #71I finished
on Tuesday and I was pleasantly surprised how good it was! Lots of british humor, it was a short funny read! I would recommend it to people who like Douglas Adam's and Neil Gaiman.
Suzanne wrote: "Random Book List #71I finished
on Tuesday and I was pleasantly surprised how good it was! Lots of british humor, it was a short funny read! I would recomm..."Pratchett is one of my favourite authors - and as you said, I like Gaiman and Douglas Adams too. If you liked this one, you should read more of his books, I can't remember one that I didn't like at all
Random Book List #76Duration: April 10 - May 8, 2012
Based on Lisa Worrall's A Nanny for Nate, here is our new list:
Zero at the Bone by Jane Seville (2)
Yz - 3/27 ****
Valerie ~Varuca~ - 5/8 ****
One Reckless Summer by Toni Blake
Sempre by J.M. Darhower
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume (1)
Nicola - 4/22
Dark Soul Vol. 4 by Aleksandr Voinov
Jane (PS) - Dark Soul Vol. 1 4/22
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Making You Mine by Elizabeth Reyes
The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe (2)
Fran - 4/13
Yvonne - 4/16 *****
Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
Her Two Dads by Ariel Tachna
Good to Know by D.W. Marchwell
Interesting list... will have to ponder what to read
Hmmm - I think I'll read Dark Soul Vol 1, but may change my mind and go with Her Two Dads or Good to Know...(I looked at The Pit and The Pendulum and noticed that it was in the list - "Books most likely to give nightmares" - so I scrubbed that one effortlessly!)
By the way - I really enjoyed Zero At The Bone, to anyone contemplating that book...
I love ZATB too!I might go with Her Two Dads, maybe the Pit and the Pendulum.
I think I might try the Pit and the Pendulum!
This is a hard list for me. At first, I wanted to read Inkheart, having been on my TBR for so list. But I don't feel like reading a long book these days.So, I think, after reading the reviews, I'm going to read Dark Soul Vol. 1.
I listened to the audiobook for The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe on 4/13. I made my hubby and son who were in the car with me on a road trip listen too. My son put on his headphones after 5 minutes and my hubby totally tuned out. I'm not sure if it was the narrator's very dramatic flair or Edgar Allan Poe, but no one was overly impressed. I did like the story, not as scary as I thought it was going to be.
I listened to the librivox audio version of The Pit and the Pendulum and gave it 5 stars. So dark and creepy, I now remember why I liked Poe so much
Fran wrote: " I'm not sure if it was the narrator's very dramatic flair or Edgar Allan Poe, but no one was overly impressed. I did like the story, not as scary as I thought it was going to be. "Was it the librivox version? Because in that the narrator sure is dramatic. And I think Poe is less scary, but dark and creepy in an all too human way. Does that make sense?
Yvonne wrote: "Fran wrote: " I'm not sure if it was the narrator's very dramatic flair or Edgar Allan Poe, but no one was overly impressed. I did like the story, not as scary as I thought it was going to be. "W..."
It is a One Voice Recordings edition downloaded from my library. I agree, more creepy than scary. If I read any Poe in school I don't remember it, and this story was on a 'most scary' list somewhere so I thought it would be more scary than creepy. I also think the narrator's spin on it was a little distracting.
Fran wrote: "If I read any Poe in school I don't remember it" As a teenager I read my way through our admittedly tiny library... everything from YA, over mystery, sci-fi, fantasy, romance, on to horror. I think I read IT at age 14 - though not from the library, but secretly from parents book shelf. I can't remember a time when I haven't been reading. So yes, I stumbled across Poe early and they only had it in English at the library, so I read in English. But as a student with all of 2 or 3 years of English, I couldn't fully appreciate him. And we read 'Telltale Heart' at school, I'm sure about that, just can't remember if we read the German translation or if we read it in English class
Read Tales of a fourth Grade Nothing with my son. Judy Blume is a great author for children - I think I may have him hooked on the Fudge series!
I read Dark Soul Vol. 1 yesterday. I can't say I liked it because it was too short to really get involved in the characters, but I was definitely intrigued. I'll probably read the next book if it turns up for some reason.
I finished reading Zero at the Bone. I enjoyed the premise, and for the first half of the book, I had fun. However, I think the book was overly long, and that affected my overall enjoyment of it. 4 stars.
Random Book List #81Duration: May 15 - June 12, 2012
Based on Jane Seville's Zero at the Bone and Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum, here is our new list:
Blind Space by Marie Sexton (1)Jane(PS) - 5/25
Lover Awakened by J.R. Ward (1)Suzanne - 6/12
Catch Me by Lisa Gardner
Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor by Lisa Kleypas (1)Yz - 5/20 ****
Cut & Run by Abigail RouxValerie ~Varuca~ - Divide & Conquer 5/19 ****
Valerie ~Varuca~ - Armed & Dangerous 5/25 *****
A Matter of Time by Mary Calmes (2)Jane(PS) - Bulletproof 5/17 *****
Fran - 5/19 ***
Valerie ~Varuca~ - 5/30 ***
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror by H.P. Lovecraft
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce
The Turn of the Screw/Daisy Miller by Henry James
Marius the Epicurean by Walter Pater
Oooh - I'm in :) Just have to decide which one to read ('cos I might do a reread)!
Blind Space really seems to be available for free this time, to read in Goodreads... Or am I in the mood for some Lovecraft?
I think I'm going to read either Kleypas' Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor or Calmes' A Matter of Time.
Yvonne wrote: "Blind Space really seems to be available for free this time, to read in Goodreads... Or am I in the mood for some Lovecraft?"Only the first four chàpters are available.
Yz the Whyz wrote: "I think I'm going to read either Kleypas' Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor or Calmes' A Matter of Time."I loved A Matter of Time - Mary Calmes writes great M/M :)
Just finished Bulletproof - 5 stars :)I love Jory and his ridiculously improbably character! I read about his adventures and live vicariously through him - what a trip!
Nicola wrote: Only the first four chàpters are available."Darn it... and I clicked through a few and thought all of it was there... Well, plans will have to change then
I think I will try A Matter of Time- you got me intrigued Jane!
I finished A Matter of Time yesterday 5/19. This was a very strange book. I gave it 3* and I think I was being generous. I liked Jory, but not Sam. There were too many extra characters constantly popping up, too many different story lines, and every single person that meets Jory thinks he is stunning and falls madly in love with him. The dialogue was weird, the situations were weird, and Sam is portrayed as 'Dominant' but in fact is a bully and is constantly manhandling Jory. There were some entertaining bits in the beginning but it just went south for me as the story went on.
Fran wrote: "I finished A Matter of Time yesterday 5/19. This was a very strange book. I gave it 3* and I think I was being generous. I liked Jory, but not Sam. There were too many extra characters constantly p..."Jory just really entertained me - I think I found his insta-attractiveness very amusing :) Oh well, each to their own... Sorry you didn't enjoy it Fran.
There were parts of it I did like, mostly towards the beginning. I did like Jory, but the author's writing style and addition of so many characters kind of got in my way of enjoying Jory.
I read somewhere that Mary Calmes actually put the first 4 'stories' to her publisher as one book. THEY broke it down into 4 volumes, saying the book was too long... When I read this book, I actually read all 4 stories in one hit, so Sam redeems himself by the end... In all fairness to the author, it clearly wasn't Mary's intention for Sam to appear as he did at the end of this book. ...In her mind, this was only a quarter of the way through her story.
Maybe reading them all at once would have been better. That's odd that the publisher would do that. If she wrote it as one book then breaking it up like that would completely mess up the pacing of the story. That would explain why so many people and plot points were thrown in and nothing seemed resolved and it all seemed so rushed. I would be unhappy if I were Calmes- do you know if she is?
Fran wrote: "I would be unhappy if I were Calmes- do you know if she is?..."I think she is unhappy about it. That was the impression I received from the posting by the GR member...
I still haven't read Armed & Dangerous. I'm being cheap and waiting for it to turn up at FW ;) Plus I'm pretty occupied this month trying to finish a few challenges...
Random Book List #81I read Lover Awakened and it was ok. Not sure I'm into the format of this series but it's still enjoyable, so I'll probably read the next one.
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Yvonne,
I ended up borrowing A Nanny For Nate for kindle. I really liked it but it was pretty short and I personally don't think it was worth 5.99 if you are thinking of buying it. There are a few other members that shelved it as lendable if you want to try and borrow it. Just wanted to let you know what I thought in case you were thinking of buying it :)