Hey!! Let's get some action going! What are we reading?

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by Fbone

Thank you

Spoiler:

1. Where was Rachel's testimony? Why didn't she take the stand?
2. Two circus performers managed to meet in a settlement in Carolina?
3. What ailment killed the magistrate? It couldn't have been strep throat.
4. A man untrained in combat manages to kill a bear an entire Indian tribe could not?
5. Shawcombe murders all these people and no one notices?
6. How would Rachel survive in the settlement? No food.
7. An Indian in Spanish territory speaks French?

It works!

Glad I could help!

[jgaiser]

Originally Posted by jgaiser

Yesterday's Big Idea was author Wendelin Van Draanen's inspiration for her YA novel "The Running Dream", the story of a young runner who loses her leg in an accident.

I was hooked and purchased the book last night and am nearly 1/3 through it this morning. A first person tale of pain, anger, frustration and hope. Think I'll finish it today.

And I finished the book this afternoon just before heading to work.

A sweet little feel good novel. Is it all right for a 63 year old to tear up reading a YA novel?

[caleb72]

Currently reading The Summoning Fire by David Michael and Usher's Passing by Robert McCammon.

Regards
Caleb

[GraceKrispy]

Originally Posted by caleb72

Currently reading The Summoning Fire by David Michael

I reviewed that book before! I think David Michael has a engaging writing style. I just finished reading another book of his. It's a young adult coming of age type of tale called "The Girl Who Ran With Horses." Good read. I won't lie, I shed a few tears here and there.... and I don't even *like* horses!

[caleb72]

Originally Posted by GraceKrispy

I reviewed that book before! I think David Michael has a engaging writing style. I just finished reading another book of his. It's a young adult coming of age type of tale called "The Girl Who Ran With Horses." Good read. I won't lie, I shed a few tears here and there.... and I don't even *like* horses!

The Summoning Fire really impressed me straight away. I found myself thinking surfy-type thoughts like "Cooool!!!" and "Gnarly!!!".

I'm only a third of the way through and there's a bit of a back and forth going with the timeline and although this is quite an interesting way to fill out the complete story, it does also tend to make things a little disjointed.

Right at the beginning the main character is thinking about a witch she met just beforehand. OK - fine. I'm surprised that mini-back story was worth replaying later from the perspective of the witch as you could probably deduce a great deal of things from the meeting as it was.

I don't hate the mechanism, I just think you have to be particularly selective about what you want to hold up the action for.

Anyway - at only a third through, it might make more sense later and I do really like the idea of the story. It's great and completely entertaining. I already know I'll be hassling Mr Michael for another novel for me to sink my teeth into. I might push The Girl Who Ran with Horses aside for the moment though. Teenage girl coming of age? Well, yeah, sometimes. However, not for the moment.

Regards
Caleb

[Crusader]

Finished reading "I Am Number Four". I got it for about $2 on a fire sale over the Christmas season and it only got delivered yesterday. It was on my reading groups list of books so decided to give it a try.

It might be that this book is just aimed at a much younger audience, but I found it very predictable and filled with cliché after cliché. It doesn't really offer anything new and at times feels like a slightly different rewrite of the "Roswell" TV series.

I find it had to believe that the main character apparently experiences love at first sight and within a couple of days he and the girl of his dreams are an item. A bit difficult to swallow. Not to mention the obligatory geeky outcast friend and the rivalry with the football hero.

Another thing that bugs me is that the book was written/published in 2010 and in it he describes a poster of the solar system as "all nine planets and the Sun". Pluto has been demoted to dwarf planet since 2006. A bit of research goes a long way!

[Latinandgreek]

I'm reading book 4 of "The Riyria Revelations", entitled "The Emerald Storm". Good thing the last book in the series set to be published in April.

[odeazy]

I'm reading Gardens of the Moon from Malazan Book of the Fallen series. I'm about 70 pages in and I still haven't a notion of whats going on! Dunno whether I'm coming or going, BUT apparently it's worth it to persevere, so persevere I shall!

[FlorenceArt]

Started Queen Lucia by E.F. Benson to replace Brothers in Arm as my recreational reading when I need a break from Ulysses. So far it looks like a fun little book

Also still reading What the Buddha Taught, though it's more slow going and less interesting now, as I finished the book proper and am now reading excerpts from Buddha's teachings that the authors attached to the book, and they are a bit repetitive.

[SeaBookGuy]

I'm halfway through Fannie's Last Supper, which is as interesting for the Boston historical research, as for Kimball's foodie endeavor.

[stop__dreaming]

Just finished reading Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth-Grahame Smith. Really, really good.

Going to start; Swiss Watching by Diccon Bewes.

[Care]

Originally Posted by Latinandgreek

I'm reading book 4 of "The Riyria Revelations", entitled "The Emerald Storm". Good thing the last book in the series set to be published in April.

I am reading it too! What did you think of Nyphron Rising?

[phenomshel]

Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer

I finished my fifth book of the year today: The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern, the second in the Cat Who series, by Lilian Jackson Braun. It's a reread, I've read it about 15 years ago I think. Clearly back then I read the series not in the right order because in my recollection Yum Yum is a much later addition.

Now I've started with 1st to Die by James Patterson, the first in the Women's Murder Club series. I liked the short-lived tv-series, not so sure about the first book though. It's a quick read but I am getting irritated with the extremely short chapters and constant shifting of POV.

I read the Cat Who... books in order; thank goodness. I still like the ones she wrote in the sixties (the first three) much better than the later ones. It took me forever to even be able to look at anything made of red pottery after reading "The Cat Who Saw Red" though.

[geekpal]

Right now, I'm reading - Samsung Galaxy Tab - iPad Killer? Full Report Ebook - that I've just downloaded from itrush.

[maianhvk]

and I'm reading Ian Fleming's Casino Royale