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[Sara]

I'm reading a netgalley ARC called , it's not due to be published until August of this year.

[Julie]

I'm currently reading Hardboiled and Hard Luck by Banana Yoshimoto

[Jethro]

I'm currently reading A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway. Afterwards, I'm planning on purchasing Persuasion by Jane Austen to read. I'm determined to read her entire collection of works.

[Julie]

Jethro wrote: "I'm currently reading A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway. Afterwards, I'm planning on purchasing Persuasion by Jane Austen to read. I'm determined to read her entire collection of works."

wow! i wish to finish all austen works someday too!

[Tiphaine]

Shannen wrote: "Tiphaine - You have to read the rest of the My Blood Approves series. It gets better with each one. If you haven't already, you should read her Trylle series too. :)

Just finished still by Amanda Hocking?
It was the first book I read written by her and what made me what to read more, it's really good. And my first zombie book!
You can be sure I will pick up the rest of her books.

[Laraine]

Jethro wrote: "I'm currently reading A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway. Afterwards, I'm planning on purchasing Persuasion by Jane Austen to read. I'm determined to read her entire collection of works."

That's great! I tried reading Pride and Prejudice twice or thrice but I never get to finish it for some reason or other, and it's really frustrating. So now I'm listening to Emma on audio book, hopefuly listening instead of reading these classics will get me through all her works too! :)

[Susan]

I'm now reading Ice by Linda Howard it grabbed me from page one!

[Laraine]

Catie wrote: "I love Jane Austen! You can't go wrong with most of her books, although I know everyone has a different favorite. I think my favorite is Persuasion."

I will look out for that one and let you know what I think Catie. :) I don't like that "Clueless" (the movie) keeps popping up in my mind whenever I'm listening to Emma, I just want to focus on it being a classic haha.. Hopefully I won't have that problem with her other works.

[Cassi aka Snow White]

I'm still reading and I've been going for just over 100 pages and it seems stuff is finally going to start happening!! The beginning moved a little slowly for me.

[Cassi aka Snow White]

You're listening to some Jane Austen works? Is there a particularly good narrator for her stories??

Reading more of Jane Austen's work is one of my "eventually" lists but if there is good audio things move up very quickly.

[Crystal]

I just finished reading ... and all I can say is WOW!!! :-) If it wasn't for some of the ladies in this group I would never have picked up the first book in this series.. so thank you SO much!!!:-) I am now reading .

[Gwennie]

I have Darkfever here with me today at work, my friend brought it back after she read it. I'm so tempted to finish One Foot in the Grave and reread Darkfever, lol.

[Laraine]

Cassi wrote: "You're listening to some Jane Austen works? Is there a particularly good narrator for her stories??

Reading more of Jane Austen's work is one of my "eventually" lists but if there is good audio t..."

I'm very new to audio books as well so I'm not sure if I can recommend you a good narrator for her works. :) The one I'm listening to is narrated by Michael Page, he has a solid and clear voice. But I think for Jane Austen's works, a female narrator would be more appropriate. I heard a sample in audible.com narrated by Juliet Stevenson and found it as suitable as the one I have. It would depend on your own taste I guess. :)

[Laraine]

Wendy F wrote: "I have Darkfever here with me today at work, my friend brought it back after she read it. I'm so tempted to finish One Foot in the Grave and reread Darkfever, lol."

Next thing you know, you'll be rereading up until Shadowfever again haha... :D

[Cassi aka Snow White]

You see I've read Pride & Prejudice like 3 or 4 times (for difference classes/fun & such) so I'm trying to branch out.

I'll see if my library has Emma and then maybe research narrators.

[Gwennie]

Laraine wrote: "Next thing you know, you'll be rereading up until Shadowfever again haha..."

hahaha, I have a feeling that's exactly where I'm headed.

Last night I read the interview with Barrons at the end of Dreamfever and it just made me crave the series again.

[Heidi]

I love Persuasion. It is filled with such longing!

[Cassi aka Snow White]

Hopefully someday I'll check out them all. Audiobooks just seems like a potentially good way (because I drive a decent bit).

[Laraine]

The ones I saw in audible and amazon by Juliet Stevenson for Emma were unabridged, maybe she has both. lol! Nadia May didn't really appeal to me but I 'll try her for one. :)

[Laraine]

Catie wrote: "I know..."You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope."

One of my favorite quotes. I want someone to write me a letter like that!"

Aww such a good line... I'll definitely put Persuasion near the top of my Jane Austen tbr pile haha...

Cassi wrote: "Hopefully someday I'll check out them all. Audiobooks just seems like a potentially good way (because I drive a decent bit)."

Just make sure to check the narrators first because some might make you want to nod off haha...

[Sara]

I got my hands on so I'm going to read that along with the other book I am reading. I had to go back to the Fever series.

[Jenn]

I just started readingDarkfever

[Jaimie]

Starting

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Tiphaine wrote: "Did you read Hollowland still by Amanda Hocking?
It was the first book I read written by her and what made me what to read more, it's really good. And my first zombie book!
You can be sure I will pick up the rest of her books. "

I haven't read Hollowland yet. The whole zombie thing is not very interesting to me but I'm sure I'll read it sooner or later.

[Natasha]

I'm reading Nightshade and not really enjoying it. Did anyone not like this book? All I can find are positive reviews and I really just can't get into the story.

[Gwennie]

Wow, I never thought of them as Audio books. So it's multiple narrators and not just one person?

I'll have to get these!

[Kourtni]

Catie wrote: "Just started on audio this morning. The narrators are great! It's exaclty how I imagined Viola and Todd (still haven't gotten to the elusive third narrator...I..."

I will definitely have to listen to the audio as this is one of my favorite series!! Thanks for sharing. I'm super excited!!

[Brandie]

TO JULIE AND JETHRO:

If you can find, and want to buy, Jane Austen's complete works go to a local Barnes and Noble or order online at bandn.com because their complete works of hers is in a great binding of a book and it looks really cool too! I haven't purchased it though but my best friend has and it has proven sturdy over the last year since she bought it.

And Jane Austen is on my list too with Emma especially and Pride & Prejudice. I have never been a big fan of Austen because I do not like her look at women, but she is speaking the truth with how British women, from moms to daughters, were acting at her time in life. I even enjoyed the film Emma with Gwen Paltrow as Emma and the film on Austen's life with Anne Hathaway as the author.

Anyway why I want to read them both is because I can relate to Emma in her independentness and her love in meddling in other people's lives because I do that quite alot and I'm very independent like her except that I don't matchmake at all. My reason for P&P is partly my mom ane because there is a fab series that goes beyond Liz and Mr. Darcy's relationship and writes and looks into the lives of their kids and I have wanted to read those books but I thought to start out with P&P then read on with those books.

The reason to read P&P because of my mom is simple: she has acted like Liz's mom in trying to get me to settle down with a guy and have kids since I was 19 because she wants Grandbabies! I am now 26 and have no kids yet which frustrates her even more and a recent birth in the family of her great neice has brought her more frustrastion rather then joy. But that is her deal not mine!

[Lady]

Hello all: I'm new here..just found this group. Wow, what a lot of great info.

I've just started The Chrestomanci Series and am loving it. So well written. And yes, I really enjoy reading young adult fantasy. I guess it's why I chose to write in that genre.

Looking forward to discussions here..

Cheers,
Lady Ellen
www.lady-ellen.com

[Cassi aka Snow White]

I really enjoy Chrestomanci! (Dang that is hard to type).

Welcome!

[Lady]

Hahaha..yes, it is! Thank you, Cassi.

[Cheryl]

The Chrestomanci Series sounds like a great read. I'm definitely not a young adult anymore, but still young enough at heart to enjoy reading this highly entertaining genre!

[Lady]

Chrestomanci is so delightfully written. Just makes me break out loud laughing. I'm so glad there are 7 books to read..

[Brittany (finally graduated and can once again read for fun)]

Persuasion is my Fav by JA too. I've only read 3 of her books. Emma, P&P, and Persuasion. For anyone interested the BBC version of all those movies is great. (Although I haven't seen Emma) but the other two are fab! Colin Firth in the wet shirt. Sigh... he made me love Darcy more than Jane Austen did.

[Heidi]

Brittany I am telling you that you need to watch that new Emma BBC series! You will love it.

[Brittany (finally graduated and can once again read for fun)]

It's on my netflix cue... and very near the top. I believe you. We both have a love of British television and you never give me bad advice when it comes to books/movies.

BTW, the Georgia movie was AMAZING!

[Heidi]

Catie wrote: "Just started on audio this morning. The narrators are great! It's exaclty how I imagined Viola and Todd (still haven't gotten to the elusive third narrator...I..."

Good to know! I was wondering how the person who is "The Sky" was going to read that part. My library's Overdrive has all the books on audio now, so I will check it out.

[Heidi]

Brandie - I am 39 and have no kids and my life hasn't ended yet, so you can tell your mother I think you will be ok! p.s. that complete works of J. Austen reminds me of the Jane Austen Book Club movie and cute little Hugh Dancy holding that huge book.

[Betti]

Xerxes Break(Vivian Ephona) wrote: "I'm reading the Uglies Series and am currently on Specials. Also, I'm going to be having a summer reading fest so any books you want to recommend would be great! Just in a different topic!"

I absolutely loved Uglies ! :)

I'm currently reading Leviathan, by the same author, Scott Westerfeld but don't seem to get into the story..

[Heidi]

I started Daughter of the Forest last night.

[Stormi (StormReads)]

Jethro wrote: "I'm currently reading A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway. Afterwards, I'm planning on purchasing Persuasion by Jane Austen to read. I'm determined to read her entire collection of works."

I love Persuasion it is my favorite Jane Austen book. :)

[Sara]

I have a new addiction, it's called " requesting a ton of books from Netgalley".....I can't seem to help myself on doing this!!!!

[Cassi aka Snow White]

I think I'll do more netgalley when they fix the kindle option. Its kinda been a bummer for me.

[Stormi (StormReads)]

Sara,

I know what you mean..I am horrible addicted to Netgalley.

[Cassi aka Snow White]

has REALLY picked up. The first 100 pages were slow (and I believe could have been cut down somewhat) but right now I'm enjoying it.

I know some people are so/so on the Incarceron series so I just thought I'd chime in with my opinion. (Honestly I could almost pick and choose what you needed to read of the first 100 pages. Chapters in Incarceron yes, rest of it not really...)

[Cassi aka Snow White]

I'm curious about the audio. My library had that too but I was in the middle of an audiobook so I didn't grab it. I'm curious as to what accent they use considering "protocol" and "era"

[Bethany]

Just got a few books from the library today!

I cant wait to start reading!!

[Heidi]

Catie wrote: "If I remember, from the audiobook of Incarceron, I think that they use mainly an English accent. I could be wrong though - it's been a while."

Yes they were English accents :)

[Heidi]

Bethany Two-Way Street looks cute.

[Heidi]

Brittany wrote: "It's on my netflix cue... and very near the top. I believe you. We both have a love of British television and you never give me bad advice when it comes to books/movies.

BTW, the Georgia movi..."

Yay! I hope you like it. I am super glad I bought that Georgia movie - I have watched it multiple times!