12-31-2013, 07:44 PM | #18481 |
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Thanks for the link - great article. My daughter is reading the book this Xmas.
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01-01-2014, 01:00 PM | #18482 |
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I'm going to be rotating between The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan/Sandersen, The Travis McGee series by John D MacDonald, and various fiction.
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01-01-2014, 05:11 PM | #18483 |
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Just finished Promised Land and by Robert Parker. Great Parker mystery.
Next up Inferno by Dan Brown |
01-01-2014, 07:20 PM | #18484 |
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I am currently reading Left Behind on my Kindle
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01-01-2014, 07:42 PM | #18485 |
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Half way thru a novelette called Tentacles of the Deep in Astounding Stories, 1931!
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01-01-2014, 09:42 PM | #18486 |
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First Read for 2014...
My first book of the year is The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. It will satisfy all 3 of my challenges (two annual and one for the month of January) plus there is a group of us reading the series, in publication order, as a buddy read over at GoodReads.
I'm actually not sure if I read this book as a child or not. I know I didn't read the entire series, but I do remember watching the animated movie. I was really hoping to read the entire story today, as its relatively short, but, as usual, life got in the way do thats not going to happen. |
01-01-2014, 09:44 PM | #18487 |
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I just started Fatal Destiny by Marie Force. It's book 3.5 in her Fatal series.
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01-02-2014, 03:11 AM | #18488 |
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I've been reading Phil Rickman's The Man in the Moss since Monday. I'm just not able to read any of his books quickly but I love the atmosphere and the settings of them.
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01-02-2014, 10:40 AM | #18489 | |
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Next up was my first purchase of 2014: Grantville Gazette #51 edited by Paula Goodlett. It had, of course, some fun stories, but nothing that raised it above average. I did skim the fact article a bit. And now I'm reading my second purchase of 2014: F&SF, Jan/Feb 2014 edited by Gordon van Gelder |
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01-02-2014, 04:00 PM | #18490 |
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First book of the year is The Secret History by Donna Tartt.
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01-02-2014, 04:09 PM | #18491 |
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I've finished Un Lun Dun. I struggled with it for the first 20-25%, and was nearly considering giving up, but I took a look at some Goodreads reviews and noticed that even some of the one and two star reviews said it picks up after the first third, so I persevered.
I'm glad I did; it's not going to be among my favourite reads ever (or of this year, I dearly hope), but once it got going, past that 30% mark or so, I rather enjoyed it. It didn't really grab me, and after this and The City and the City, I think I'll just have to accept that China Miéville will join Neil Gaiman for me in the category of "authors whose work I really should enjoy, as they tick all the right boxes and do nothing wrong as such, but I just cannot connect with their writing". |
01-03-2014, 04:45 AM | #18492 |
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Just finished "Murder in Mesopotamia", by Agatha Christie. This was her 26th novel, originally published in 1936. This novel is written as a "flashback" to events which took place 4 years previously at an archaeological dig in Iraq. Poirot investigates a mysterious murder that takes place within the excavation team.
The events in this novel form the reason that Poirot was travelling home from Syria by train in "Murder on the Orient Express". Christie married the archaeologist Max Mallowan (later Sir Max Mallowan) in 1930, and it was her experiences accompanying him on archaeaological digs in Iraq (and other places in the Middle East) that gave her the background to write this and other novels set in that part of the world. As such, it has a very authentic atmosphere. Highly recommended. On now to "Kingdom By the Sea" by Paul Theroux, a travelogue describing Theroux's travels around the coast of Britain. Always interesting to read a foreigner's impressions of one's own country, and Theroux is an excellent travel writer. |
01-03-2014, 05:38 AM | #18493 |
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01-03-2014, 08:15 AM | #18494 |
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01-03-2014, 08:18 AM | #18495 |
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1632 is certainly great fun. Most of the sequels are good too. And then there's the 51-volumes-and-counting of approved fan-fic in "The Grantville Gazette". (I have read them all…(!) )
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