02-17-2014, 08:13 AM | #18976 |
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02-17-2014, 09:10 AM | #18977 |
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02-17-2014, 10:31 AM | #18978 |
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I finished The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan the other day. It's such fun re-reading The Wheel of Time.
I'm currently reading one of the Hard Case Crime books I bought on sale many months ago. Getting Off: A Novel of Sex and Violence by Lawrence Block. Well, it's just as the title says, a novel of sex and violence. |
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02-17-2014, 01:02 PM | #18980 |
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02-17-2014, 06:06 PM | #18981 |
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I'm listening to The Light Fantastic, book 2 in the Diskworld series by Terry Pratchett. Pretty funny so far and features the continuing adventures of failed wizard Rincewind and his charge, the tourist Twoflower.
Tomorrow, I take a relative to a long doc appointment and will be reading more of The Day of the Jackal on my kindle. I'm just over halfway through and it is very suspenseful now. Who will live? Who will die? Don't know yet, but there is predator and prey on both sides now. |
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02-17-2014, 07:52 PM | #18983 | |
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02-17-2014, 11:22 PM | #18984 |
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Well I am currently reading Sweetheart, Sweetheart by Bernard Taylor which I borrowed from OpenLibrary.org. I am loving this book and hope to finish it in the same emotions.
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On to something I know I'll enjoy -- Dead Man's Chest, by Kerry Greenwood. This is number 18 of the Phryne Fisher series, and it's already starting out well. What a joy to come back to something really well written. |
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02-18-2014, 12:41 PM | #18986 | |
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02-18-2014, 01:21 PM | #18987 |
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I'm currently reading and almost done with The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. I had tried listening to this as an audio book but couldn't get into it that way for some reason. Well, I picked up a physical copy at the used bookstore and am actually quite enjoying it and am almost done. I would love to see Terry Gilliam make a movie of this...
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02-18-2014, 07:52 PM | #18988 |
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I started reading The Secret Pact by Mildred Wirt. It's book #6 in the Penny Parker Mystery series.
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02-18-2014, 11:10 PM | #18989 |
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Don't Poke The Bear by John Locke.
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02-19-2014, 01:08 AM | #18990 |
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I had a quick read last night - started and already finished Death Cloud by Andrew Lane, first in his "Young Sherlock Holmes" series.
As a historical kids' mystery/adventure, I thought it pretty good. I enjoyed it; I felt it had good pacing and a good amount of educational information sprinkled into the text without it becoming overbearing. A good, rather original plot, too. My only (but not so small) problem was that I felt the likeable, personable, nice, interested-in-pretty-girls lad who went by the name of Sherlock Holmes, brother of Mycroft, and was taught to deduce stuff by his American mentor, was ... well, interpretations of what Sherlock Holmes the detective would have been like as a teen will obviously differ and no one can really claim to be "right" there, but this was an interpretation that didn't quite work for me. I can't claim to be extremely familiar with "canon" Holmes, but without the name, it would never have occurred to me who the character was supposed to be. Other than that, I think it'd be a book that many of its target group (pre-teen and younger teen boys, mostly, but also girls who are into action/adventure mysteries) would enjoy it quite a lot. |
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