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01-09-2014, 03:17 PM | #18588 |
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I just finished Grey Peril book #3 of the Harry Dresden Series by Jim Butcher and just started #4 Summer Knight. I started because I tend to go through books quickly (book #1 and 2 in 16 days, #3 in 10), and always hate when it's over. There are so many of these I just jump right into the next one.
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01-09-2014, 03:43 PM | #18589 | |
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01-09-2014, 04:03 PM | #18590 |
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I've started Partials by Dan Wells, post-apocalyptic/dystopia-ish YA. Tentatively rather enjoying it so far - there are some things I find it hard to suspend disbelief over, but the characters feel realistic and the plot, while still slow-going for now, seems solid.
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01-09-2014, 06:53 PM | #18591 |
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Just finished listening to The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer, read by Sarah Woodward. Delightful. Heyer at her very best. I always prefer Heyers with audacious and strong female main characters, and Sophy is certainly that. Highly recommended, either as eBook or audio book.
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01-10-2014, 01:24 AM | #18592 |
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I just finished my 5th "book" of the year with George R. Stewart's Earth Abides. A great post-apocalyptic tale from 1949. It is a much different take than most of the dystopian tales I have read in the last couple years, if you have any interest in the genre, I would recommend it.
Really this was only the second book I have finished this year, the other three average out to 10 pages each. Hugh Howey sent out a short in his latest news letter, A Father's Fist; a classic science fiction short, Microcosmic God by Theodore Sturgeon; and The School by Donald Barthelme from the list of short stories I nominated for December's book club. I recommend Microcosmic God highly too but the other two were just ok. Next will be either Bridge to Terabithia or Fire Watch. My eldest is getting to be almost the age for the first story if I remember it correctly, so I want to re-read it first to check. |
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Just finished Inferno by Dan Brown based on a reco from HarryT and Belle Zora (who never gets it wrong) and it was very good with wholly unpredictable plot changes I never saw coming.
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01-10-2014, 08:39 AM | #18594 | |
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Just finished "Cards on the Table", by Agatha Christie. This was her 27th book, and was originally published in 1936.
Mr. Shaitana holds a dinner party to which he invites four detectives, and four people he suspects of being murderers. After dinner, the four murderers play bridge in a room with Mr. Shaitana watching; after the game is over Mr. Shaitana is dead. One of the four must be the murderer, but who? This is a wonderful book - one of my favourite Christie novels. The four detectives have all appeared in earlier Christie novels: Hercule Poirot, of course, together with Superintendent Battle (who appeared in "The Secrets of Chimneys" and "The Seven Dials Mystery"), Colonel Race (a secret service agent, who appeared in "The Man in the Brown Suit"), and the wonderful bumbling crime writer, Ariadne Oliver, who Christie wrote as a caricature of herself, and who would go on to feature in 5 more of Christie's novels. The book is worth reading just for Ariadne Oliver alone. She is a famed writer of detective stories, and curses the fact that she invented a Finnish detective, "Sven Hjerson", to solve her crimes, because she knows absolutely nothing about Finland and is always getting letters from Finland telling her all the things she got wrong (the parallels with Christie's own Belgian detective, Poirot, are obvious!). Interesting enough, one of the books that Ariadne Oliver is said to have written is "The Body in the Library" - a title that Christie was to use for a Miss Marple novel a few years later! The story is predicted in Christie's book, "The ABC Murders" which she'd published earlier that same year. In that book, Poirot is having a conversation with his friend, Captain Hastings, about what sort of murder he'd most like to solve, and he says the following: Quote:
A wonderful book with a real "twist in the tale" ending. HIGHLY recommended. Note: Poirot gives away the solution to "Murder on the Orient Express" in this book, so be warned! Last edited by HarryT; 01-10-2014 at 09:14 AM. |
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I have a lot of chores on my plate, but I really hope I can find the time to finish this today. Schools are closed due to flooding in some of the surrounding areas (We got drenched last night.) So the kids and I are going to clean out their old playroom. They may have a surprise coming next Monday or Tuesday. Spoiler:
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Which was good. Some excellent stories in this month's issue.
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Next up: The Forever Engine by Frank Chadwick. This is only his second published book but his first, How Dark the World Becomes got a 5/5 from me last January, so I was looking forward to this. To my surprise, it is not a sequel, but an entirely new universe. A professor of ancient history from 2018 is sent by accident to a steam-punk version of 1888. Looking very good so far! |
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