12-18-2014, 10:22 PM | #21301 |
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12-18-2014, 10:35 PM | #21303 |
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I'm currently reading "Bossypants" because a friend quoted something from it that I found really hilarious. It was recommended to me earlier this year but I told my friend back then that I'll put it on hold because I don't usually understand every references to American jokes. So far, this book is really interesting to say the least. lol
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12-19-2014, 08:58 AM | #21304 |
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Okay. I think Wool is taking and breaking my "reader's block." It would be nice if I had a little more peace in which to read it right now (both internally and externally).
I also may have to break down and finally read "American Uprising." Good: your ancestor is featured in a book about a historical incident. Bad: your ancestor is the villain of the piece. Good: it is a good book. Bad: your ancestor is deservedly the villain of the piece. Still no word on the frogurt... |
12-19-2014, 10:36 AM | #21305 | |
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A Rumpole Christmas. I thought I had read every Rumpole book and short story multiple times. So I was delighted to find this lovely hardcover with five previously unread short stories at the Dollar Store.
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12-19-2014, 10:41 AM | #21306 | |
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Ha! How cool about that letter. I shall console myself that a greatx2 grandfather, according to a 1909 newspaper article, wouldn't back down about the bad working conditions for Austrian immigrants at the Tobasco factory (he was the New Orleans consul for Austro-Hungary). |
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Now finally reading The Flying Sorcerers by David Gerrold and Larry Niven, which was recommended a while back by pdurrant, I think, and someone else. Very good (and funny) so far, about an encounter with alien life, as seen from the aliens' perspective. |
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12-19-2014, 06:45 PM | #21310 |
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I like HP. A lot. I finished #3 on the 9th, took most of a week off (nothing sounded good) and then read #4, The Goblet of Fire, in 2 days. Now I am reading John Rain #5, Extremis, by Barry Eisler (originally published as The Last Assassin.) When I finish this I will start Hogfather, Discworld #20, by Terry Pratchett as my Christmas week read.
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12-20-2014, 01:08 AM | #21311 | |
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12-20-2014, 03:29 AM | #21312 |
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Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall
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12-20-2014, 07:34 AM | #21313 | |
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I'm enjoying it very much. Only read like 30 pages, but it is wonderful to be inside the head of Red. Also reading this And I started this one today And some poetry as well Last edited by Lusitanic; 12-20-2014 at 09:41 AM. |
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12-20-2014, 07:49 AM | #21314 |
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Yesterday I finished The Unremembered by Peter Orullian, a fairly uninspiring epic fantasy that didn't do much for me. At 800 pages, I probably should have bailed early, but I felt I was committed to read it for a challenge. It did get better, but not really by enough.
Today I finished Peril at End House, a Poirot novel by Agatha Christie. I think I might have remembered this one a bit too well from the TV adaptation, and I worked out the main part of it early, but it was nice quick refresher after The Unremembered. Next up I'm planning to read Mirror Image by Michael G Coney, a bit of old school SF, and a pseudo-prequel to a BSFA winner I'm working up to. |
12-20-2014, 09:23 AM | #21315 | |
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Really? It's #20 in Discworld? Maybe that's why I simply couldn't get into it. Hogfather was recommended to me as the first of a trilogy and I tried & tried to read it. But, since I've read none of the Discworld series, maybe the fact that it wasn't really a stand-alone contributed to my problem. |
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