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I am about half done with Angel Fire East by Terry Brooks. It is the third book in the Word & Void series.
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03-07-2013, 12:51 PM | #15843 |
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03-07-2013, 01:56 PM | #15844 |
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I am enjoying Live Free Or Die by John Ringo. I have the others in the trilogy as well.
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03-07-2013, 03:09 PM | #15845 | |
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Patricia Briggs & Carolyn Keene (Mildred A Wirt)
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Now on to the 7th Mercy Thompson novel, Frost Burned by Patricia Briggs. I'm also reading the 13th Nancy Drew Mystery, The Mystery of the Ivory Charm. |
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03-07-2013, 05:54 PM | #15846 |
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I'm currently reading Kenneth Grahame's classic The Wind in the Willows. It's a lot of fun.
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03-07-2013, 06:39 PM | #15847 |
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Funny thing about WITW it got written because Mr. Grahame's son couldn't go without his bedtime stories about Mr. Toad and his friends. He went on holiday with his nurse and so Mr. Grahame wrote down the stories in letter form so that the nurse could tell the tales to his son. The nurse kept the stories and later they were published as the book we know now.
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03-07-2013, 10:19 PM | #15849 |
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I'm about 10% into Ready Player One and really enjoying it. It's odd how distant and "historical" the 80's seem nowadays.
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03-08-2013, 08:40 AM | #15850 |
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Just finished "Death of a Gossip" by M.C. Beaton; the first book in the "Hamish Macbeth" series. A quick read, but very enjoyable. An odious woman who seems to know the darkest secrets of everyone else is murdered while attending a fishing course in the Scottish Highlands. Everyone wanted her dead, but who actually killed her?
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03-08-2013, 09:47 AM | #15851 | |
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I agree; they're very different. Equally good - but very different.
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03-08-2013, 02:37 PM | #15853 | |
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I'm back on my plan to read all of the Bible straight through, cover to cover. How to say this tactfully... parts of Leviticus and Numbers make for less than compelling reading. |
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It is definitely a YA book. It feels somewhat Harry Potter-ish in that it basically follows the protagonists through one year of school and stops right at the end of that year while leaving the story line very open and the main plot lines unresolved. I wouldn't call it hard science fiction since it doesn't attempt to describe how the technology works beyond some background information even though the technology is very prominent. It is a fast read (less than 5 hours for me) and the pacing was good. All that said, I did enjoy it and will continue on in the series but it probably won't go into my to-be-reread pile. |
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I've yet to finish this book. I started this one the day after I started The Unlikely Pilgrimage. I usually read two books at once but I couldn't for these. I had to stop and continue after I've finished The Unlikely Pilgrimage because they were so similar and I kept forgetting whether this happened in this book or the other. |
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