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Excited but Haven't Read
Definitely, "The Brave" by Nicholas Evans and any new novel by David Baldacci coming up.
Fiona, go back writing!!!! I need to know what's going to happen with Tibby!!!!!Patricia Cornwell books are (wait, you don't know? :-) sorry I imagine everybody knows because I like them so much)...she is a crime writer. Most famous are her Scarpetta books. Scarpetta is a chief medical examer. It all starts with a dead body and though they find the guilty one most by the forensic investigation, she also goes out to talk with people...I see her as a mix between the medical examiner and the police. and it is full of suspence.
She was one of the first to write stories where the forensic investigation was important, later came Kathy Reich books, CSI...
I would list here "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini.
Well, you can read them in whatever order but as there is actually also a link between them better start with the first Scarpetta which is Postmortem.yes yes yes!!!!!Another one trying the Patricia Cornwell!!! Sometimes I feel like I want to do PR for ehr books! I adore Silent Wtiness. I think she is one of the first of that genre and might come nearest to Scarpetta. I prefer CSI Miami.
Fiona,OMG there are so many.
Emma (guess!) AGATB--it's on this month.
A Dirty Job (Chris Moore)
New Moon
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Interred with their Bones
20th Century Ghosts
The new Stephen King (short stories, out this month)
Flowers for Algernon
Rebecca
I will list authors I'm excited to read but haven't yet, too.
Michael Chabon
Neil Gaiman
Philippa Gregory
H.G. Wells
Charles Dickens
I used to watch it in belgium, here in Italy I haven't seen it yet. But my sister keeps talking about it so I think she still watches it, but probably with a delay in the seasons.
I want to catch up with the Stephanie Plum series (I've only read one so far) and the new Outlander book (whenever that comes out).
Okay Fiona, you can take a break from the writing about gatti and go to a shop and pick up a crime book!!!!!! But hurry and come back soon.
i adored interred with their bones.very interesting, and not at all what i thought it would be like.
i'm also looking forward to scarpetta, but like heather, was very disappointed with book of the dead. i just can't give up on the series though. i really enjoy it.
i'm looking forward to tales of beetle bard, the new j.k. rowling/harry potter book.
also looking forward to reading wicked. it's on hold at the library.
The book I am most excited about is The Shadow in the Wind. I am also excited about Anne of Green Gables, Fallen, and A Wrinkle in Time.
The Na of China: a society without husbands or fathers.Its always out of stock when I order it but I am really excited about reading this. I read Leaving Mother Lake, the author of whom is now a singer in LA and Beijing but who grew up around there in Tibet, which is also a society without husbands or fathers or marriage and women do as they please.
A few...Brisinger by Paolini (my daughter has it in her hands now!) I'll have to do my ritual of reading the first two again first though (Eragon & Eldest).
The Kite Runner- I recently read his second book and loved it.
EL & IC- I'm very excited that the group picked this book. I pick it up at the library today.
I hadn't realized there was a new Nicholas Evans book coming out until some people mentioned it here, and now I'm extremely excited! Everyone raves about the other Nicholas (Sparks) for his romantic stories, but I think Nicholas Evans is a much better writer, with more engrossing characters and story lines. (My book crush it totally Tom Booker from The Horse Whisperer.)
OutlanderThe Book Thief (I plan on getting today at the library)
The Alex Cross books from James Patterson.
Ashley - I hope you like The Book Thief. It is my very favorite book. Let me know what you think when you are done.
Like Ashley, i'm also excited about The Book Thief. I have read the excerpts (found it very interesting)from the author's site and soon i will be visiting the bookstore for a copy. I might also check out Zusak's other book, I am the Messenger. and oh, i'm also excited about finishing the entire Anne of Green Gables series. :)
The Sookie Stackhouse mysteries - I have the first one (had to wait in line @ library) and haven't been able to get to it!Oh and A Tale of Two Cities, which my sister (and lots of people here) insist is an excellent Dickens.
I also picked up a compilation of all the Austen novels, and want to read the ones I haven't read yet there.
This could be a never ending list, like the TBR!
I anxiously await the next Tami Hoag, Janet Evanovich, Victoria Thompson.I want to read the newest by Sarah Addison Allen and the one about coffee by Anthony Capella.
Bird- Welcome to the Nicholas Evans Book Club(titled Horse Whisperers). I agree with you, Evans is more natural writer than Sparks.
I can't wait to read the Gemma Doyle trilogy and the few Jodi Picoult books I haven't read yet.
Ring and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I'm trying to decide which to read first.I'm also excited about Insomnia. I haven't read Stephen King since I was 13 and I'm curious to see if I like his stuff now.
Bird, yes The Brave is coming out next year. I am waiting for it more than a year already!!! For me Nicholas Evans is on a much higher level than Nicholas Sparks, so that they aren't really to compare. Not that I don't like Nicholas Sparks books but they are much more different. I absorb every Nicholas Sparks book and immediately go and buy his book when it is out. He is the only author that gets this from me. His books are in a seperate league for me and real treasures.Bird, did you read his other books too?
haha, you have been here non-stop?I am back for another 30 minutes. Then I am having dinner!!!!
Jeane - I have read all of his books. I would have to say that my favorite is till The Horse Whisperer, which is the first one of his that I read. My least favorite was his most recent one, The Divide. I had hoped for another love story, as I think he writes them so well, but that wasn't what that novel was about. However, it was still a good read! What about you? Have you read through all of his books?
Yes, i read them all and really liked The Divide too but jsut like I do love his other books too. My favourite is The loop, even if that is difficult and weird to say with his books.
I'm excited about the new SHREVE novel.I'm excited about MIDNIGHT SUN.
Ummmm...........the new John Irving novel?
Practically everything on my TBR list. However, if I have to choose then I would say AGATB & Twilight (only because the movie is coming out).
I know...lol. I moved it up on the list to be read next. I should be done with A Dirty Job in the next couple of days. Now I have to convince my BF to take me to go see the movie. lol...wish me luck!
Oh, so many. Jane Eyre, Marley Me, Little Women (which I read about 2 decades ago), Utopia, In the Time of the Butterflies, Cocaine Nights, Drop City, & A Moveable Feast. Oh so many books so little time................
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I have 4 books by Tom Robbins but havent ever read him before so I am excited to start soon!
I also have 4 more books by Dostoevsky that I am dying to start (i LOVED Bros Karamazov!)
East of Eden is up next... so naturally I want to read it RIGHT NOW!
Those are the few that popped into my head first!
The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly...I have read all of his stuff. This just came out and I'm on the library waiting list.Can't wait!
I'm looking forward to reading my favorite guilty pleasure, a new J.D. Robb book being released tomorrow (11/04).On my TBR shelf, I have The Book Thief, The Thirteenth Tale, Small Island, River of Heaven, Love in the Time of Cholera. Oh, just too many to mention. I'm excited about all of them.
i have a ton of books that i'm excited to read..alot of classics..also.. Eat, Pray, Love..the rest of the Twilight series..and basically the 20 books i just bought this month! :)
I know we've moved on, but I'm going to briefly revisit the Scarpetta books. Fiona, I love them too, although I've been disappointed in the last few. If you read them, you should definitely start with the first one, Postmortem. A lot of Scarpetta's personal life is covered along with the crime and you don't want to stumble onto any spoilers by reading them out of order.
For those who are interested, I just went on Patricia Cornwell's website and it says the next one, titled Scarpetta is being released December 2.
Okay, what am I excited about?
Really, my whole TBR list. I'm sitting here combing through it, going "Ooooo, that looks good. And that one. And that one." But I guess the few I'm the most excited about are
EL&IC (why, oh why, did I start an 800 page epic fantasy book at the end of October?)
The Graveyard Book
AGATB
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
Heather-Yes, I love re-reading series when the new book comes out. The first four were out when I started reading HP- so I re-read when 5, 6 & 7 came out.
I'd like to read the Outlander series too from the beginning. I think I read the first three a several years ago and remember liking them a lot. There are a fe more now.
Bird, I envy you. You've read all of NICHOLAS EVANS novels. I've just read The Horse Whisperer and The Divide. I agree with you, The Divide is a bit cut out from his other novels but I liked it all the same. Of course, my fav is Horse Whisperer too. I wonder what Brave will be like... cant seem to wait.
Atishay, every time I read what the new Nicholas Evans book will be about I feel a bit dissapointed. Just like with The brave. Becasue it sounds so different from the other ones and I am scared I won't like it. But every time I jsut love it. You should really try to read his others too!!!!!here is what The brave will be about:
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The motto of the boarding school to which Tommy Bedford is dispatched is Fortune Favours the Brave. It's 1959 and the school bristles with bullies and sadistic staff. Tommy, a quirky loner, obsessed with cowboys and Indians, needs all the bravery he can summon. Salvation comes when his glamorous actress sister is swept off to Hollywood by one of his heroes, TV cowboy Ray Montane. But with the Cold War looming, the sinister side of Tinseltown seeps through and Tommy and Diane soon find themselves in jeopardy. Forty years on, Tommy has to confront his boyhood ghosts when his own son finds himself charged with murder.
I saw that the new patricia Cornwell, Scarpetta will be available from the 27th of November in the UK.
OMG Jeane ! That sounds so un-NicholasEvans-ish. I'll read his others as soon as I get them. Thanks for sharing the theme of the novel.
I know, but I had the same feeling with The divide and loved it!!!
I am also nervous about his new book. He wrote three great love stories, then he decides to mix it up, first with The Divide and now this one? What's that about?! I don't like change. (Obviously!)
Wow excited but have not read yet! I am excited about Eat, Pray, Love. so many of my friends have said this is a must read, and it has been sitting on my shelf for a year. I am also excited about reading The Book Thief. It's on hold at my library.
Bird, it will be really good again, no mather how he changed it!!!!!
Yeah, that's what I thought but then, he is such a good author, I'll still go,buy and read any novel he writes, blindfolded. And Jeane is absolutely right, The Divide was never a love story but it was still awesome.
At the moment I'm excited about reading "Change of Heart" by Jodi Picoult. I read "Keeping Faith" a few months ago and really want to pick up a few more of her books like Nineteen Minutes, Vanishing Acts, My Sister's Keeper and Perfect Match.
Fiona, did you start Prodigal summer? I loved it and so hope you will at least like it.
Oh prodigal summer is brilliant. I love her voice here. it's such a good mix of quirky and beautiful characters and rich language and I could just see all the places she was describing... you'll love it.
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And the not published Nicholas Evans, The Brave.
But actually all the ones I know exist, want to read and haven't read YET.