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Stitchawl · 08-21-2011, 07:34 PM

In the middle of "The Lock Artist" and loving it!

Stitchawl

xg4bx · 08-21-2011, 08:50 PM

Kings,Queens,Heroes & Fools by M.R. Mathias. so incredibly cool and epic that i'm almost crying tears of nerdly glee. this guy should be where (the rapidly sinking in quality) GRRM is. its everything i ever liked about fantasy,and then some,in one series. those looking for more than sword&sorcery will probably turn their noses up but for anybody who likes epic fantasy this series is a must read.

this is the first time in my life that i've ever been an author fanboy lol.

Thtevie · 08-21-2011, 09:59 PM

Reading a set of Ursula K. LeGuin stories, as well as Robert's Rules of Order (haven't touched it in 3 months), Christianity Through the Centuries (Cairns), and an e-book called "Bright of the Sky: Entire and the Rose". That one is like sci-fi / fantasy, but seems really long.

And, oh, this is my first post. But don't worry, I'm no noob - i've posted on other fora before.

RVS78 · 08-21-2011, 10:28 PM

Just finished the Hunger Games trilogy and started Horns by Joe Hill - enjoying it so far.

melmac · 08-21-2011, 11:04 PM

Just finished A perfect Evil – Alex Kava now debating what to start next probably Mo Hayder - Hanging Hill

ATDrake · 08-21-2011, 11:57 PM

Read two Georgette Heyer novels that were former freebies to see if I wanted to splurge on the 109th anniversary sale re-publisher Sourcebooks was holding on her books for $1.99 or less each.

1) Footsteps in the Dark was one of those retro English countryside manor mysteries. Not bad, but not as good as I'd been hoping, given Heyer's reputation for her historical romances. A bit slow to start and drags out somewhat with a rather rapid wrap-up and obvious character revelations, I felt.

Mind you, clearly my palate has been spoiled by more modern retro English countryside manor mysteries because I kept waiting for the corpses to start piling towards the ceiling with every succeeding chapter like they usually do and the overall low body count kind of defied expectation.

2) Cotillion, a Regency romance, was much better, although I think there was a lot of overlapping plot elements from another of her novels, Friday's Child, I think it was, which I originally heard as a BBC radio play.

The entire initially awkward girl successfully brought into Society and pretending to have a relationship with the person you don't want in order to spite the one you do and the dénouement thereof sort of thing. And they both had feather-brained but good intentioned fashionable titled young men named "Freddy" in them, IIRC.

Lots of pleasantly silly fun, with the superficiality of the upper class lifestyle and conventions spoofed and the people having to rescue other people from their amateur plotting while having to be rescued from their own amateur plots.

Though I liked Cotillion more, I eventually went and bought just Heyer's mysteries and historicals (and the reading companion for the Regencies, which I clearly needed because once the slang got underway, I think I understood maybe 3 words out of 5), because a quick check of the library shelf showed that they had mainly her romances anyway and the mysteries would be a lot harder to track down.

Plus, apparently Heyer's writing occasionally had the sort of unpleasant classism/anti-semitism/xenophobic stereotyping issues that one might expect from someone raised in an insulated "good breeding" environment in the sunset of the snobbishly colonialist devil foreigner-suspecting British Empire.

There's a limit to how much I'm willing to pay out of my own pocket to read that, so best if I try a few more to see how bad it gets before I commit to buying should Sourcebooks do the sale again next year for Heyer's 110th anniversary.

jwhitman75 · 08-22-2011, 07:19 AM

I am currently re-reading my Nicholas Sparks novels in anticipation of his new release, The Best Of Me due out this October.

I'm off from work in the summer (I'm a teacher) so I am reading constantly, and there is nothing more that I love than a good, free ebook for my nook. I recently wrote an article reviewing 5 of my favorite free ebooks, feel free to check it out!
http://jwhitman.hubpages.com/hub/My-...s-For-The-Nook

BigMike51 · 08-22-2011, 11:41 AM

Finished "Clockwork Universe" Edward Dolnick. Billed as a history of the beginnings of the Royal Society, Dolnick follows Isaac Newton's eccentric, secretive genius as he integrated and improved on the works by Kepler and Galileo.
I never appreciated the genius of Galileo or Kepler. I knew Galileo as the "Guy who dropped the rocks off the Tower of Pisa" and Kepler "did something with the planets, right?" Dolnick does a commendable job of illustrating the discoveries of three giants of Science (yeah, I'll defend that term).
For history of science readers.

Badandy · 08-22-2011, 03:53 PM

As I mentioned earlier I finished Hyperion and now moving onto The Fall of Hyperion. Unfortunately, each set me back $8 on the Kindle store. Not a huge sum of money but a little annoying when I could get the paperbacks for the cost of shipping.

BearMountainBooks · 08-22-2011, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Badandy

As I mentioned earlier I finished Hyperion and now moving onto The Fall of Hyperion. Unfortunately, each set me back $8 on the Kindle store. Not a huge sum of money but a little annoying when I could get the paperbacks for the cost of shipping.

I'm finding this to be the case with most of my favorite "big" or "bigg-ish" authors. Virtually no sales. I've bought a few lately in used paperback because I can get them for 4 dollars instead of 8. I do feel a little guilty, but before Kindle I almost never bought new.

SeaBookGuy · 08-22-2011, 07:49 PM

I'm about halfway through DON'T KILL THE BIRTHDAY GIRL by Sandra Beasley, a truly well done combination memoir and nonfiction book about food allergies (Overdrive library book).

glossywhite · 08-22-2011, 08:35 PM

'The Fry Chronicles' by Stephen Fry, naturally.

JSWolf · 08-22-2011, 09:56 PM

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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks

I only tried one Tess G book. It swapped scenes/POV too much in the initial chapters to grab me. It was one of the medical thrillers and I think started wit the person who died and then flashed to the hospital and then jumped somewhere else...3 was the magic number for me....lost interest!

If it wasn't a Rizzoli & Isles book, give The Surgeon a go. I think you might like it. I was a free eBook at one time to help promote the latest book in the series (at that time).

When I finally read it, I really enjoyed it.

JSWolf · 08-22-2011, 10:06 PM

Today I finished The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis. It's one of the Narnia books. It's book one or not depending on the order you prefer to read the series. As book one, it's not really good enough to continue the series. It's not even close to the quality of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe.

I've started reading Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett. It's #19 in the Discworld series. It features the night watch. I do hope it's better then #18 which was a dud.

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It's murder in Discworld!—which ordinarily is no big deal. But what bothers Watch Commander Sir Sam Vimes is that the unusual deaths of three elderly Ankh-Morporkians do not bear the clean, efficient marks of the Assassins' Guild. An apparent lack of any motive is also quite troubling. All Vimes has are some tracks of white clay and more of those bothersome "clue" things that only serve to muck up an investigation. The anger of a fearful populace is already being dangerously channeled toward the city's small community of golems—the mindless, absurdly industrious creatures of baked clay who can occasionally be found toiling in the city's factories. And certain highly placed personages are using the unrest as an excuse to resurrect a monarchy—which would be bad enough even if the "king" they were grooming wasn't as empty-headed as your typical animated pottery.

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Nyssa · 08-22-2011, 10:30 PM

I'm halfheartedly rereading book 2 of the the Rachel Morgan/Hollows series - The Good The Bad and the Undead. It has nothing to do with the story, I'm just in another reading funk where nothing feels appealing nor
is anything really catching my attention.

I have decided, however, that win or lose (September 2011 Mobile Read Book Club Vote ), I will read Storm Front - book 1 of the Dresden Files.

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08-21-2011, 07:34 PM	#10561
Stitchawl Opsimath Posts: 12,344 Karma: 187123287 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand Device: Sony PRS-650, iPhone 5, Kobo Glo, Sony PRS-350, iPad, Samsung Galaxy	In the middle of "The Lock Artist" and loving it! Stitchawl

08-21-2011, 08:50 PM	#10562
xg4bx Are you gonna eat that? Posts: 1,633 Karma: 23215128 Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Phillipsburg, NJ Device: Kindle 3, Nook STG	Kings,Queens,Heroes & Fools by M.R. Mathias. so incredibly cool and epic that i'm almost crying tears of nerdly glee. this guy should be where (the rapidly sinking in quality) GRRM is. its everything i ever liked about fantasy,and then some,in one series. those looking for more than sword&sorcery will probably turn their noses up but for anybody who likes epic fantasy this series is a must read. this is the first time in my life that i've ever been an author fanboy lol.

08-21-2011, 09:59 PM	#10563
Thtevie Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2011 Device: Nook	Reading a set of Ursula K. LeGuin stories, as well as Robert's Rules of Order (haven't touched it in 3 months), Christianity Through the Centuries (Cairns), and an e-book called "Bright of the Sky: Entire and the Rose". That one is like sci-fi / fantasy, but seems really long. And, oh, this is my first post. But don't worry, I'm no noob - i've posted on other fora before.

08-21-2011, 11:04 PM	#10565
melmac Wizard Posts: 1,399 Karma: 5573651 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Perth AU Device: Sony PRS650, Sony T3	Just finished A perfect Evil – Alex Kava now debating what to start next probably Mo Hayder - Hanging Hill

08-21-2011, 11:57 PM	#10566
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	Read two Georgette Heyer novels that were former freebies to see if I wanted to splurge on the 109th anniversary sale re-publisher Sourcebooks was holding on her books for $1.99 or less each. 1) Footsteps in the Dark was one of those retro English countryside manor mysteries. Not bad, but not as good as I'd been hoping, given Heyer's reputation for her historical romances. A bit slow to start and drags out somewhat with a rather rapid wrap-up and obvious character revelations, I felt. Mind you, clearly my palate has been spoiled by more modern retro English countryside manor mysteries because I kept waiting for the corpses to start piling towards the ceiling with every succeeding chapter like they usually do and the overall low body count kind of defied expectation. 2) Cotillion, a Regency romance, was much better, although I think there was a lot of overlapping plot elements from another of her novels, Friday's Child, I think it was, which I originally heard as a BBC radio play. The entire initially awkward girl successfully brought into Society and pretending to have a relationship with the person you don't want in order to spite the one you do and the dénouement thereof sort of thing. And they both had feather-brained but good intentioned fashionable titled young men named "Freddy" in them, IIRC. Lots of pleasantly silly fun, with the superficiality of the upper class lifestyle and conventions spoofed and the people having to rescue other people from their amateur plotting while having to be rescued from their own amateur plots. Though I liked Cotillion more, I eventually went and bought just Heyer's mysteries and historicals (and the reading companion for the Regencies, which I clearly needed because once the slang got underway, I think I understood maybe 3 words out of 5), because a quick check of the library shelf showed that they had mainly her romances anyway and the mysteries would be a lot harder to track down. Plus, apparently Heyer's writing occasionally had the sort of unpleasant classism/anti-semitism/xenophobic stereotyping issues that one might expect from someone raised in an insulated "good breeding" environment in the sunset of the snobbishly colonialist devil foreigner-suspecting British Empire. There's a limit to how much I'm willing to pay out of my own pocket to read that, so best if I try a few more to see how bad it gets before I commit to buying should Sourcebooks do the sale again next year for Heyer's 110th anniversary.

08-22-2011, 07:19 AM	#10567
jwhitman75 Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2011 Device: nook	I am currently re-reading my Nicholas Sparks novels in anticipation of his new release, The Best Of Me due out this October. I'm off from work in the summer (I'm a teacher) so I am reading constantly, and there is nothing more that I love than a good, free ebook for my nook. I recently wrote an article reviewing 5 of my favorite free ebooks, feel free to check it out! http://jwhitman.hubpages.com/hub/My-...s-For-The-Nook

08-22-2011, 11:41 AM	#10568
BigMike51 Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2011 Device: NOOK 1	Finished "Clockwork Universe" Edward Dolnick. Billed as a history of the beginnings of the Royal Society, Dolnick follows Isaac Newton's eccentric, secretive genius as he integrated and improved on the works by Kepler and Galileo. I never appreciated the genius of Galileo or Kepler. I knew Galileo as the "Guy who dropped the rocks off the Tower of Pisa" and Kepler "did something with the planets, right?" Dolnick does a commendable job of illustrating the discoveries of three giants of Science (yeah, I'll defend that term). For history of science readers.

08-22-2011, 03:53 PM	#10569
Badandy Connoisseur Posts: 71 Karma: 13366 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Terminus Device: Kindle 3, iPhone	As I mentioned earlier I finished Hyperion and now moving onto The Fall of Hyperion. Unfortunately, each set me back $8 on the Kindle store. Not a huge sum of money but a little annoying when I could get the paperbacks for the cost of shipping.

08-22-2011, 07:49 PM	#10571
SeaBookGuy Can one read too much? Posts: 2,029 Karma: 2487799 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Naples, FL Device: Kindle PW 3, Sony 350 and 650	I'm about halfway through DON'T KILL THE BIRTHDAY GIRL by Sandra Beasley, a truly well done combination memoir and nonfiction book about food allergies (Overdrive library book).

08-22-2011, 08:35 PM	#10572
glossywhite Member Posts: 21 Karma: 100000 Join Date: Aug 2011 Device: Kindle	'The Fry Chronicles' by Stephen Fry, naturally.

08-22-2011, 10:30 PM	#10575
Nyssa Series Addict Posts: 6,180 Karma: 167189477 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Florida, USA Device: Kindle Paperwhite (2nd Gen)	I'm halfheartedly rereading book 2 of the the Rachel Morgan/Hollows series - The Good The Bad and the Undead. It has nothing to do with the story, I'm just in another reading funk where nothing feels appealing nor is anything really catching my attention. I have decided, however, that win or lose (September 2011 Mobile Read Book Club Vote ), I will read Storm Front - book 1 of the Dresden Files.