02-25-2013, 10:51 AM | #15766 |
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02-25-2013, 11:31 AM | #15767 |
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02-25-2013, 11:50 AM | #15768 | ||
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The Star Svensdotter Trilogy
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The Star Svensdotter Trilogy [Kindle Edition] Also you can get the first book in the trilogy, Second Star from Dana for FREE then get the other two (or the trilogy volume) later! |
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02-25-2013, 12:16 PM | #15769 | |
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I did end up reading a disappointing book telling some short (thankfully) true stories of a highway patrol officer in the middle here, so this is an attempt to get something entertaining with a law enforcement theme to it. I started the other since it was short and hoped it would be a funny diversion, but it seems to have derailed my SF reading for a little while. |
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02-25-2013, 02:44 PM | #15770 |
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Currently reading The Reality Dysfunction .....
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02-25-2013, 03:49 PM | #15771 | ||
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I'm almost finished Lolita (I'll save my comments for the appropriate review thread), and then have a choice of what's next: Third Shift by Hugh Howey The Third Bullet by Stephen Hunter The Filter Bubble - What the Internet Is Hiding From You by Eli Pariser Guilt by Jonathan Kellerman Can't decide... |
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02-25-2013, 07:58 PM | #15772 | |
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That sounds pretty interesting, I may have to check it out myself. |
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02-26-2013, 01:22 AM | #15773 | |
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Tony Hillerman & Carolyn Keene (Mildred A Wirt)
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Now it's on to the 11th Nancy Drew Mystery Story, The Clue of the Broken Locket by Carolyn Keene (Mildred A Wirt) and The 18th (this is really the last one) of Tony Hillerman's Navajo Mysterys, The Shape Shifter. |
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02-26-2013, 03:46 AM | #15774 |
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I finished John Flanagan's first book in the Ranger's Apprentice series, The Ruins of Gorlan, yesterday. I've seen this series advertised several times over the years in the window of the local bookshop. At the moment John Flanagan's new series, Brotherband Chronicles, are displayed with a stack of the Ranger's Apprentice books next to it and it got me curious enough to get the first book in the series.
In this first book the main characters are introduced and it is explained what a Ranger does. Will is an orphan and has grown up in the castle of the local lord. When an orphan is fifteen he/she has to choose, and be accepted into, an apprenticeship. Will really wants to become a warrior but he is deemed to small. However, Ranger Halt offers him the opportunity to become a Ranger. What a Ranger exactly does is a mystery, many believe they can do magic because you don't see a Ranger until he wants to be seen. Will accepts the apprenticeship and discovers not only what a Ranger does but he also makes friends, becomes a hero and discovers more about his parents. A great introduction to the series and I can't wait to get the next in the series! |
02-26-2013, 09:57 AM | #15775 | |
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02-26-2013, 10:22 AM | #15776 |
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I Just finished "The Mote in God's Eye" by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
Really liked it and you couldn't tell it was a scifi book from the 70s (except for the part in the introductory timeline that said by 2008 the first interstellar drives were being tested ) I don't plan on reading the sequel as it got terrible reviews. Now on to "Shadow of Freedom" by David Weber. |
02-26-2013, 03:47 PM | #15777 |
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02-26-2013, 05:09 PM | #15778 | |
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02-26-2013, 05:45 PM | #15779 |
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Thanks, maybe I will give The Gripping Hand a shot.
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02-26-2013, 07:07 PM | #15780 |
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Nancy Drew
I decided to check Netflix for Nancy Drew movies, found one from 1939 that was titled Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase starring Bonita Granville as Nancy. It bore little resemblance to the book it was titled after and Nancy was not at all like the....oh I'll just say that the story and the characters were not anything at all like the Nancy Drew Mysteries. The only thing I enjoyed (nostalgically) was seeing Frankie Thomas as Ted (not Ned) Nickerson as he was the actor who played the title role in my very first favorite TV show, Tom Corbet Space Cadet (1950-1955) which was based on Heinlein's YA novel, Space Cadet and was just as far off base concerning the book it was based on as was this so-called Nancy Drew movie. But I watched it faithfully anyway. By the way Heinlein disliked it so much that he had his name removed from the credits.
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