04-23-2013, 12:46 AM | #16351 |
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Just finished Hallowed Ground by Steve Savile and David Niall Wilson, jumping between audiobook and ebook.
I liked it, but it didn't wow me. I'll give either author another go at this point. I'm going to take a mini break from audiobooks for the moment just to take a breath or two. It's great to maximise my reading time by using my ears as well as my eyes and soaking up more available moments in time, but it does start to feel a little like a bombardment after a while. |
04-23-2013, 11:45 AM | #16352 |
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And finally finished The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky. I enjoyed it a great deal, but it was a very slow read. I've got almost a small novel of highlights and notes during my reading. After a break I'll go back to them and relive the highlights.
Now, I'm finally getting to Shift by Hugh Howey. I've been looking forward to devouring this one for a while, but I had to put it on hold for some other reading commitments. Now it's all mine. |
04-23-2013, 03:06 PM | #16353 |
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I have about 150 pages to go before the end of Winter's Heart. I keep saying I'll stop reading the Wheel of Time after the current book and then for some reason I pick up the next one. I think it's the hooks at the endings. After reading books 7-9 back to back I think I definitely need a break now.
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04-23-2013, 03:12 PM | #16354 |
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I've had this started since the 18th and haven't had enough time to read for any length of time. I'm only about page 80 and it is very interesting so far and it does keep me wanting to really get into it. I hope it does turn out to be really good.
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04-23-2013, 09:19 PM | #16356 |
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I just finished Sister Teresa, a historical novel by Bárbara Mujica, inspired by Teresa of Ávila's autobiography and other writings. The novel is written as a personal testimony by one of Teresa's closest friends. As such, it doesn't show Teresa's interior thoughts as well as her actual writings. The novel does a very good job painting the atmosphere of the period, a time of extreme piety and religious tensions, when the Spanish Inquisition was obsessed with rooting out actual and perceived dissent from the Catholic Church. It was in these times when Teresa of Ávila struggled against the established religious, political and social hierarchies to express controversial ideas of inner spirituality. By the end of the book, I wanted to read it again.
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04-24-2013, 03:08 AM | #16357 | |
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Just started The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows.
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I had read Boundary, but somehow missed Threshold, though it was in my Calibre library. So now I've finished a re-read of Boundary (I'd forgotten too much) and am mid-way through Threshold. With Portal to follow. Overall, I've enjoyed this series, though I'm not sure it has any further legs than the third.
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The General's Daughter was a really enjoyable read and I've added Nelson DeMille to my interesting author list. Next, because my Grandson keeps asking how I like this or that about this series he recommended (Kingdom Keepers, I've only read the first one of them so far), I'm going to be reading Disney at Dawn (Kingdom Keepers #2) by Ridley Pearson and also, a freebie from Amazon I've had sitting around a while now, One Deadly Sister (Sandy Reid Mysteries #1) by Rod Hoisington. |
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04-25-2013, 04:28 AM | #16362 | |
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04-25-2013, 08:26 AM | #16363 |
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I finished Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card last night. I was a little bit worried about it, given how my opinion of the author has plummeted in the 20 years since I read Ender's Game but I ended up liking it quite a bit. It's really just the story of a family with problems. The big reveal about the aliens was obvious to me from the start, and Ender's genius often seems to revolve around pointing out things that other people really should have noticed ages ago, but for all that it is a decent story and the characters feel real.
I have no intention of reading the third book, or any of the many follow-ups and spin-offs. That leaves me with just 5 Hugo winners to read, and next up I'm planning to read another one: Double Star by Robert A Heinlein. Good Heinlein rather than Bad Heinlein, I hope. I think I might just get all of them done before the next winner is announced. Unless I decide to vote this year, and suddenly have a lot more reading to do. I've been reading the final 9 Hugo winners in reverse order of how much I expected to enjoy them: Stranger in a Strange Land, Foundation's Edge, Hominids, Speaker for the Dead and now Double Star. I'd probably swap Foundation's Edge and Hominids, and it's possible that Speaker will rise a few places. I don't think anything I ever read will be worse than Stranger. (I didn't like it.) |
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04-25-2013, 12:08 PM | #16365 |
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Orson Scott Card is one of those 'love his work, hate the author' type of relationships. I've enjoyed most of what he's put out and the Formic War series he co-authors with Aaron Johnston is also very good; at least the first one was.
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