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[Latinandgreek]

I'm reading "The Spellcoats" by Diana Wynne Jones. I kind of want to go back and reread the first two books in the series before moving on the the fourth after I'm done with this book. Quite good.

[orlok]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

I have finally gotten around to starting a Ngaio Marsh novel, "Artists in Crime," and although only a quarter of the way into the book, will begin collecting all of the Inspector Alleyn series. What a wonderfully playful story!


Stitchawl

It's on my reading challenge list, thanks to Harry's recommendation. Just hoping for a promotion or something before I take the plunge and pay my hard earned for it...

[Dr. Drib]

I'm now currently reading a horror novel by D.B. Douglas, entitled "After Death."

This is an excellently written novel, one that was free from Amazon. (It's no longer free, however.)

ADDED: I can't find any information at all about him.




Don

[AlexGrama]

I started "How to kill am mockingbird", halfway through and it's brilliant and A Clockwork orange which is pretty odd but interesting at the same time.

[ElsieC]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

For the first time in a very long time... the first book of a series has inspired me to immediately start the second book. Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair (Book one of his Thursday Next series) dragged in a few spots (mostly because of "setting the stage" for the series), but overall I found it fun, witty and eminently readable. As silly as the premise can seem at first blush, it is still a mystery/adventure at heart and Fforde never lets it cross into the realm of total slapstick. The bad guy is really a bad guy... not just a mustache-twirling caricature of one. And Thursday Next makes a memorable protagonist. I'll let one of the editorial reviews of the book do most of the talking while I dive into Book 2 — Lost in a Good Book.

Spoilered only because of size:

Thank you for this interesting recommendation. I was able to take it out in EPUB format (without a wait) at my library. Although I have 100 other books on my TBR list, this one may be put at the top. I need something fun to read next, I'm 3/4 way through The Game of Thrones. Ugh (actually I like it mostly but sometimes I think it will never end)

ElsieC

[Fbone]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

I'm now currently reading a horror novel by D.B. Douglas, entitled "After Death."

This is an excellently written novel, one that was free from Amazon. (It's no longer free, however.)

ADDED: I can't find any information at all about him.




Don

Smashwords has one very brief blurb.

http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/dbdouglas

[coderserdar]

s.s. van dine - the winter murder case

i met philo vance

[amward]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

I have finally gotten around to starting a Ngaio Marsh novel, "Artists in Crime," and although only a quarter of the way into the book, will begin collecting all of the Inspector Alleyn series. What a wonderfully playful story!


Stitchawl

I read a lot of these years ago and really enjoyed them, maybe it's time for a re read.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Scardown by Elizabeth Bear

Good SF, clearly part two of a trilogy. I liked it enough to go straight onto
Worldwired by Elizabeth Bear

A good conclusion to an interesting trilogy. AI, nanotechnology and aliens. Fun stuff.

Next up: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.

I've just bought this with an 85% off coupon from Kobo books. Let's see what the fuss is about!

[paulsalter]

just started The Cross by Scott G. Mariani, the second book of Vampire Federation

got the first book for only 49p and enjoyed it so I decided to give the second a try, so far so good

[tecweston]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Yesterday I read the Stephen King short story "Mile 81" about a car—evidently an extraterrestrial in disguise—that ate people. As goofy as that premise sounds, I could have bought into the story had it not been for the even more ridiculously absurd ending.

I felt the story was too bloody and violent for children and too childish for adults.

That one was pretty disappointing.

[maianhvk]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Next up: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.

I've just bought this with an 85% off coupon from Kobo books. Let's see what the fuss is about!

The fuss here in Vietnam is, the movie won't be shown. Because it's too violent :|

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by maianhvk

The fuss here in Vietnam is, the movie won't be shown. Because it's too violent :|

That's ironic!

So I just recently finished Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami. I had previously read my first Muakami book, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (a short story collection), last year and was eager to read one of his novels. I really loved this novel, the Kafka linkage was sure appropriate. There was one chapter that was hard to swallow though, or maybe that was my next meal after reading that, but there was so much excellent writing in this and deep ideas:

Miss Saeki looks at me for a while, and the smile fades away. “Picture a bird perched on a thin branch,” she says. “The branch sways in the wind, and each time this happens the bird’s field of vision shifts. You know what I mean?”
I nod.
“When that happens, how do you think the bird adjusts?”
I shake my head. “I don’t know.”
“It bobs its head up and down, making up for the sway of the branch. Take a good look at birds the next time it’s windy. I spend a lot of time looking out that window. Don’t you think that kind of life would be tiring? Always shifting your head every time the branch you’re on sways?”
“I do.”
“Birds are used to it. It comes naturally to them. They don’t have to think about it, they just do it. So it’s not as tiring as we imagine. But I’m a human being, not a bird, so sometimes it does get tiring.”
“You’re on a branch somewhere?”
“In a manner of speaking,” she says. “And sometimes the wind blows pretty hard.” She places the cup back on the saucer and takes the cap off her fountain pen.

So now I am working on Turn, Magic Wheel by Dawn Powell (MR Literary Club March election). I am only about 50 pages into it, but so far I find both of the principal characters so pathetic and annoying it is hard to stay interested in them. I find myself wishing that they would choose to jump off of the Brooklyn Bridge to put themselves and me out of misery.

[HarryT]

I don't read non-fiction books all that often, but I thoroughly recommend this one to anyone interested in space travel. Dan Parry tells the story of the Apollo 11 lunar landing is a way that's as close as you'll get to "being there". The book takes you right through the mission, from takeoff through to splashdown back on Earth, interspersed with the background story of American manned spaceflight. It's very well written, and gives an absolutely enthralling account of the first manned lunar landing.

Very highly recommended.