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Mar 13, 2013 01:03AM
I just posted this on another thread w/the same question (diff board), so hopefully it isn't too repetitive for you other 'board jumpers'. But I started reading The Afterlife of Billy Fingers, and am loving it so far. Very easy read, well written, moves along quickly. It reminds me of Conversations With God, so if you like that kind of thing it will be for you. It's not a religious book by any means, but spiritual. I highly recommend it!
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I'm reading Mary Coin by Marisa Silver.
Lorraine wrote: "I'm reading A Game of Thrones and listening to Who I Am by Pete Townshend"A Game of Thrones seems to be very popular at the moment. Are you enjoying it Lorraine?
I am reading One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Yuliya wrote: "Guy wrote: "Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk"You like it? I just watched a movie and like it! I read the other book of him
Damned
and it give me a lot of funny moments a..."
Thanks for recommending Damned, I look forward to reading it. I very much enjoyed Fight Club and can't ever remember reading a book that is so similar to the film it inspired.
Guy wrote: "Lorraine wrote: "I'm reading A Game of Thrones and listening to Who I Am by Pete Townshend"A Game of Thrones seems to be very popular at the moment. Are you enjoying it Lorraine?"
Yes, I'm also watching the HBO mini-series and finding the book gives the details left out of the series.
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever a collection of James Tiptree Jr's short fiction. She likes to write a 50-page story. They have the Tiptree Award for sf that explores/expands gender issues, but to me, more widely, she's about biology. How our species can't escape its biology. Or possibly can, but become unrecognizable to us. Hard-hitting as she's famous for. The sf short as tragedy.
I am reading These is my words by Nancy E Turner.
L. wrote: "I love Tiptree!!"Ain't she mind-boggling? I had the sense to be fascinated by her way back when, in 'Dangerous Visions' times. Staggered again by her yesterday.
Melanie wrote: "I am reading These is my words by Nancy E Turner.I really enjoyed this one Melanie.
I'm reading The Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger and am really enjoying it! I'm about 1/3 through and it's a great read. Our next book club read.
Paula wrote: "Claire wrote: "I've just finished Insurgent by Veronica Roth and am thinking I might start Under the Dome by Stephen King - a little bit daunting as it's so big but it's not going to be a difficult..."Oh wow, I had no idea there was going to be a tv series, how exciting - I can totally see it, though. I'm on page 416 so far so about halfway ish on my copy and enjoying it.
EEEEEEE and now I've googled I see it's created by Brian K Vaughan! I'm so very excited! It'd better coem to the uk pretty swiftly. Thanks Paula! :D
I am currently reading The Angel Experiment by James Patterson. I recently finished the The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness.
Melanie wrote: "I am reading These is my words by Nancy E Turner."I really liked this (so did my F2F book club)...
Finished The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker3***
I really wanted to love this book, and feel so disappointed, although I did like it. The central love story is tender, touching and endearing. The story of Tin Win and Mi Mi is just so life-affirming and uplifting. But it is nested within the story of Julia’s search for her father, and I didn’t connect to that part of the book at all. I liked it; I didn’t love it.
Link to my full review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Create Your Writer Platform by Chuck Sambuchino and Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon. Trying to get to 35 books this year, up from 19 last year (actually read 22!).
Finally started The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom. Reminded why I love his work.
Quickly reading After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell because I'd love to have time to read The Round House with all of you.
Reading 'Death Comes to Pemberley' at the moment but being an avid P+P fan (that is not Post and Packaging btw), I am finding it dull and poorly written. What has happened to Lizzie's spirit? That seems to have been sucked out of her when she married D'arcy...
I just finished reading The Afterlife of Billy Fingers: How My Bad-Boy Brother Proved to Me There's Life After Death, and now I'm reading it again. It was a quick read, but a lot of information to take in. It's a very interesting book! :-)
The Island - Elin Hilderbrand
Book on CD read by Denise Hicks
1*
This is just a sappy soap opera set on Tuckernuck Island off Nantucket. Everyone is wealthy. Everyone is unhappy in love, OR, has fallen instantly in love (possibly with the wrong person). Everyone behaves like a 3-year-old or at their best like they’re in junior high.
Here’s a sample:
They had officially been “together” for only nine days, but every day on Tuckernuck was a lifetime, and so it felt like forever. They had made love sixteen times, they had shared eleven meals, they had watched three movies, gone to two restaurants, taken five boat rides, caught two fish.
I don’t know a single high-powered, computer genius professional woman who thinks like this!
The sibling rivalry arguments are even worse. Not only do the two young women carry on like toddlers who can’t share a toy, their 50-something mother and aunt also dig up their own sibling rivalries.
I finished it only because it fulfilled a challenge. It was fast (thank heavens for MP3 players that let you speed up the delivery) and didn’t require much thought. But it was still a waste of time.
Loving Che - Ana Menendez
Audio performed by Adriana Sananes and Eileen Stevens
4****
A young woman, raised in Miami by her maternal grandfather, is determined to find the mother who stayed in Cuba. Her first clue is the scrap of paper her grandfather found pinned to the infant’s sweater, with a quote from a Pablo Neruda poem. She has all but decided the search is hopeless when a package arrives, containing letters, notes, photos and scraps of poetry that reveal a passionate affair between the woman claiming to be her mother, Teresa, and Ernesto “Che” Guevara.
The reader feels the tropical heat, smells and tastes the salty sea air, relishes in a faint breeze, and sees the soft pastels of a decaying city. The beginning and ending sections are narrated by the nameless young woman. The middle section is devoted to Teresa’s story, and told in snippets of memories – poetic, erotic, sensual, passionate, and heartbreaking.
Along the way we get a lesson on the Cuban revolution, told in a very intimate and personal way. There are layers of deception here – Teresa works hard to keep her identity a secret, even from the child she loved enough to let go. The looming question is whether Teresa’s account can be trusted. Is it fact, or fantasy?
Having the audio performed by two talented artists makes this all the more memorable. The performance by Adriana Sananes, in particular, was excellent; she really made me lose myself in Teresa’s story.
I just finished
, which turned out to be a most excellent read. I am now reading
.
I'm reading the next to the last short story in Thirteen Stories and am well into Clouds of Witness but I just downloaded Notorious Nineteen which may take me away from Eudora for a while.
Nicholas wrote: "Finally started The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom. Reminded why I love his work."I have to say, "I enjoyed this book also!"
Book Concierge wrote: "The Island
- Elin Hilderbrand
Book on CD read by Denise Hicks
1*
This is just a sappy soap opera set on Tuckernuck Island off Nantucket. Everyone is wealthy. Ev..."
Not a waste of time...just brain candy...it cleaned out your brain so you can enjoy some DEEP writing! :)
I just finished
and started
. I enjoyed Wool Omnibus but was a little different than I expected.
I just finished reading Trapped by Kevin Hearne. I absolutely love this series and damn... the way this book ended I'm practically tapping my foot and staring at June and thinking "You can get here, now!"I just started The Dresden Files, and I'm about halfway through book 2 Fool Moon. It's good so far, and I'm enjoying the series overall, but I think Iron Druid Chronicles (mentioned above) has my obsession for Urban Fantasy right now.
I'm also reading (I usually do 2 at a time, one on the commute in audio and one on the nightstand) Pawn of Prophecy... I don't know what's taken me so long to read this series! What a treat! Try as I might I can never get past book 2 in the Wheel of Time series (I find his writing so dry, but everyone recommends these two series to me.) But yes, loving The Belgariad so far.
Any other fantasy fans here?
Polished off Clastres Archeology of Violence at last -- political anthropology from the 70s. It sent me next to Nomadology: The War Machine which comes after Clastres. And that talks about Kleist, Penthesilea: A Tragic Drama, which I thought fairly obscure: I have that, read it once, took it up again since they talked it up. And so one book leads to two others. None of which I meant to read yesterday.
What am I NOT reading? Right now I'm reading The Friend Who Got Away: Twenty Women's True Life Tales of Friendships that Blew Up, Burned Out or Faded Away, In the Woods for my book club, and Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking because the library finally had it!
Finished listening to the audio of The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (narrated by Richard Morant)4****
A middle-aged man faces the past he thought was behind him. The novel focuses on one man’s decisions and moral compass. Our hero is likeable but really doesn’t get it; until, suddenly he does. I do not want to give anything away, but I was completely caught off guard when Tony realized the significance of certain events.
Link to my full review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Finished
by Eva Rice - 4****I really enjoyed this novel. I connected to the characters. They felt real to me, and while I have no desire at all to relive my teens, I was happy to go along with them on their journey towards adulthood.
Link to my full review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
I have been w/out Internet for so long! It is great to be back even if just for a few minutes a night. I work 3rd shift and get wifi but can't be on all the time :( Anyway I just started reading the first book in The Wolf Chronicles- Promise of the Wolf by Dorothy Hearst. I'm loving this book and wish I had more time to read it, and I love wolves which makes this book even more awesome! The main characters are wolves!
I have all the Maximum Ride books! They are awesome!
On my parents' recommendation, I'm a good chunk of the way through Dominion. I've read so many alternate histories based around the Second World War, but this is right up there with The Man in the High Castle so far!
So I can discuss it with my son...I am reading The Dragonet Prophecy. I am enjoying this easy read. I also am enjoying the connection it is bringing about with my son :)
Just finished reading the new book by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Kenneth Cukier called Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think. The book traces the history, present and future of big data, and argues that the phenomenon will transform our world. It's a good overview of an interesting and important topic. I've written a full executive summary available here: http://newbooksinbrief.com/2013/03/21...Cheers,
Aaron
I know it was a month reading for TNBBC for a while ago, but I put it on my to read list and now start reading Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides. I like it very much, especially in audio version with a perfect narrator. I didn't know it the same author who wrote Virgin Suicides
, which was recommended to me by one of the TNBBC member and also on my list to read. Now I will make sure I will read the other book too!
but who can tell me what is the picture on the cover of Middlesex? it is the picture of what?????
I'm reading
that I won on Goodreads. It's been a good book so far. I'm also listening to
Enemies of Civilization: Attitudes Toward Foreigners in Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and China No reviews to go on but fascinating topic.
The Men Who Stare At Goats by Jon Ronson. 
I'm quite enjoying it!
Mrs. Peregrine's Peculiar Children - ew-ahh -spooky but goood...
The Trial in Swedish for class. I'm a bit lost sometimes because I know next to nothing about law, but I actually like it even though I'm not really into absurdist kinds of books.
After that I've ordered Assassin's Apprentice, but I want to read Fight Club first.
After that I've ordered Assassin's Apprentice, but I want to read Fight Club first.
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