Have You Read?

[Julia]

(The Wendy Kesselman version of the play The Diary of Anne Frank (Kesselman) - Acting Edition has the bits that Otto Frank edited from his daughter's Diary. It's less schmaltzy. I like it.)

I HNR Bronze Gods, but it looks like one I'd like. Thanks!

HYR Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld ?

[Kathleen]

HNR, it is an alternate history novel? And if you like alternate history, have you read anything by Harry Turtledove, the Master of the Alternate History genre?

Such as American Front (The Great War, Book 1) ?

[Julia]

It's not an alternate history, well maybe a little, it's steampunk: a great war like World War One is being fought vaguely by the British and the Germans and each country's allies, but the one power likes science and the other likes magic. I think.

I haven't read any Harry Turtledove.

HYR Connie Willis's Blackout and All Clear and , which are time travel and alternative history, or are they?

[Kathleen]

HNR, but I have read a few alternate history novels. However, the paradoxes in time travel usually give me a headache. Oddly, despite all the hopping around in time, I am enjoying the SyFy channel series "12 Monkeys" that is currently being broadcast on Friday nights.

HYR Vampire Academy* by Richelle Mead ?

*I read the book, but did not have a chance to see the 2014 movie.

[Julia]

HNR or seen the movie.

HYR any of Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's books about a very long- lived and mostly good vampire Saint Germaine? The first book written was Hotel Transylvania , but my favorite is Out of the House of Life . These books do not need to be read in any particular order.

[Kathleen]

HNR, but I may try the first book is see if the series is to my liking.

HYR The Rime of the Ancient Mariner* by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ?

*Oldie, but goodie, and I know you enjoy narrative in a poetic form.

[Julia]

Yes, but not for a long time.

HYR Selected Poems of Amy Lowell by Amy Lowell , particularly the poem "Patterns?"

[Kathleen]

HNR

HYR God Went to Beauty School* by Cynthia Rylant ?

*It is narrative in a poetic form.

[Julia]

HNR, but it looks like a gone one.

I loved this from Karen's review here "When God tries to make fudge, he accidentally makes Neptune."

HYR Witness by Karen Hesse ?

[Kathleen]

HNR, but have added it to my tbr list.

HYR The Mist-Torn Witches* (The Mist-Torn Witches, Book 1) by Barb Hendee

*I just started this book.

[Julia]

Nope. My husband reads a lot by Barb Hendee, I think.

HYR He Drank, and Saw the Spider by Alex Bledsoe ? It's another he likes and wants me to read.

[Kathleen]

HNR, but have again added it to my tbr list. Stop coming up with such great suggestions. My list is getting too long. :)

HYR Clean (Mindspace Investigations, Book 1) by Alex Hughes ?

[Julia]

HNR. Looks like a good one, though, thanks!

Here's one I bet you've read Storm Front/ Fool Moon/ Grave Peril (#1 in Harry Dresden series) by Jim Butcher .

[Kathleen]

Have read a long time ago. Don't know if they are listed on goodreads.

HYR The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi ?

[Julia]

I've owned it for maybe twenty years, and I've meant to read it, but based on people's reviews here, I HNR The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle.

HYR Something Upstairs also by Avi ?

[Kathleen]

HNR

HYR Code Orange by Caroline B. Cooney ?

[Julia]

HNR, but looks like one I might like.

HYR, or heard of, A Death-Struck Year by Makiia Lucier ? It's about a teenage girl on her own, helping out during the Spanish flu epidemic in 1918. I really liked it, and it sounds a little similar to Code Orange.

[Kathleen]

I've seen it on a shelf of the library where I teach, but I HNR.

HYR Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick ?

[Leah]

HNR

HYR Paper Roses by Amanda Cabot

[Kathleen]

HNR

HYR The Trouble With Fate (Mystwalker, Book 1) by Leigh Evans ?

[Julia]

HNR

HYR Tithe by Holly Black ? It's really good!

[Kathleen]

HNR

HYR The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy ?

[Julia]

Nope, I've seen the movie based on it several times from the early 1930's, but HNR.

HYR The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne ?

[Kathleen]

Yes, every year in English 11.

Try Netflix'ing the 1999 BBC version of The Scarlet Pimpernel. I found it excellent.

HYR The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain ?

[Julia]

Thanks for the tip on the more recent "The Scarlet Pimpernel" movie.

Yes, in the last year or two --or three-- and I didn't care for it, and gave up on it, but apparently one is supposed to read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer first. I need to give it another try.

HYR Catch-22 by Joseph Heller ?

[Kathleen]

HNR, but have always intended to read.

HYR Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut ?

[Julia]

Yes and relatively recently; I loved it.

HYR Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut ? It's 'new-- 2008-- and unpublished writings on war and peace;' published after his death.

[Kathleen]

HNR, was not aware of its publication.

HYR On the Road by Jack Kerouac ?

[Julia]

No, I haven't.

HYR Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg ?

[Kathleen]

HNR

HYR Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman ?

[Julia]

I don't remember, but it is possible that I followed directions and owned it at one point.

HYR Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion ?

[Kathleen]

HNR

HYR The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court by Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong ?

[Julia]

HNR.

HYR The 9/11 Report by Sid Jacobson ? It's an amazing document-- it is the 9/11 Report but as a 'graphic novel.'

[Kathleen]

HNR

HYR An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Al Gore ?

[Julia]

HNR, haven't even seen the movie.

I also haven't read this, but maybe you have? Silent Spring by Rachel Carson ?

[Kathleen]

Read a long time ago.

HYR Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappé ?

[Julia]

Yes, approximately a hundred years ago, but not cover to cover.

HYR, do you have/ use Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child ?

[Kathleen]

I own and occasionally use Mastering the Art of French Cooking. I actually prefer The Joy of Cooking as a reference.

HYR The Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer ?

[Julia]

I own and I use The Joy of Cooking often, where I've made one recipe in Mastering the Art of French Cooking and that came from Julie Powell's website. It's for ratatouille, made after the Julia/ Julie movie and the movie about the French chef rat. I think they both came out at about the same time!

HYR/ do you use Recipes for a Small Planet by Ellen Buchman Ewald ?

[Kathleen]

HNR

HYR The Great Tea Rooms Of America* by Bruce Richardson ?

*One of the wishes on my bucket list is to travel to every tea room discussed in this book.

[Julia]

HNR, but I'm a coffee drinker, usually. I might go to some of these, maybe.

HYR The Coffee House: A Cultural History by Markman Ellis ?

[Kathleen]

HNR

Tea: The Drink that Changed the World by Laura C. Martin ?

[Julia]

HNR

HYRCoffee: A Dark History by Antony Wild ?

[Kathleen]

HNR

HYR Dead Heat (Alpha & Omega, Book 4) by Patricia Briggs ?

[Julia]

Yes, I read it in April.

HYR, will you read Charlaine Harris' new series that starts with Day Shift, or rather Midnight Crossroad, which is actually #1 ?

[Kathleen]

HNR I trying reading Stookie Stackhouse and never got into it. I doubt that I will try reading Charlaine Harris's new series.

HYR I Could Pee on This And Other Poems by Cats* by Francesco Marciuliano ?

*My husband and I are reading this together at this time. Delightful poems penned (scratched???) by cats and kittens and recorded by Francesco Marciuliano who writes the Sally Forth comic in the newspapers.

[Julia]

No, I HNR, but that sounds funny!

(And I have read the Sookie Stackhouse books, addictively, and do not recommend them. By the time Harris was finished with the series I was past done with them. But you might see if you like the HBO tv series "True Blood" more. I did, others are not so interested in it. I won't read Harris' new series.)

HYR El Deafo by Cece Bell ?

[Kathleen]

HNR, but it looks good. I have added it to my tbr list.

HYR Cursed (Fallen Siren, Book 1) by S.J. Harper (writing team of Samantha Sommersby and Jeanne C. Stein) ?

[Julia]

Cursed looks like one I might like. HNR, yet.

HYR The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton ? I just finished it. It's worth reading.

[Kathleen]

HNR

Vici* (Temeraire, #0.5) by Naomi Novik

*Link for this story: http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/new/n... It is the story of the Romans were the first to use dragons in the western world. If you read the Temeraire books by Naomi Novik, you'll enjoy this short story.