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

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by SHOECHICK

Read 5 books while on vacation for the last 2 weeks:
Nefrettiti - Michelle Moran
The Apostle - Brad Thor
The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
Prince of Fire - Daniel Silva
and damned if I remember what the 5th one was...

Currently about 1/3 of the way through South of Broad by Pat Conroy and enjoying it very much.

Cool, that Conroy is on my short list....maybe I'll even start it today.

[peajayar]

Been reading Kafka. Metamorphosis is very weird and seems very contemporary - identity, being accepted etc etc The Trial also seems scarily contemporary.

On the go at the moment:
The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
Street Without A Name by Kapka Kassabova - set in Bulgaria where she grew up, left, went back on visits. History as memoir.

[lisgielen]

Just read the complete Boudica-quadrilogy by Manda Scott. Love all her books.

[lilac_jive]

I'm reading "Five Little Pigs" by Agatha Christie now.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Cool, that Conroy is on my short list....maybe I'll even start it today.

Started this, but I'm pretty disappointed with it at about page 45. The dialog and situations seem very stilted/fake/unreal....

[kennyc]

Damn, I just purchased a book from Books on Board thinking it was an EPUB and it's really a PDF!

[SHOECHICK]

For anyone remotely interested in purses...I finished "Bringing Home the Birkin" last night, a very funny read.

[DMcCunney]

Recently finished Dorothy L. Sayers _Murder Must Advertise_, a Lord Peter Wimsey mystery, courtesy of a conversion by Patricia in the MR Ebooks section.

“How about truth in advertising?”

“Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There’s yeast in bread, but you can’t make bread with yeast alone. Truth in advertising,” announced Lord Peter sententiously, “is like leaven, which a woman hid in three measures of meal. It provides a suitable quantity of gas, with which to blow out a mass of crude misrepresentation into a form that the public can swallow. Which incidentally brings me to the delicate and important distinction between the words ‘with’ and ‘from.’ Suppose you are advertising lemonade, or, not to be invidious, we will say perry. If you say ‘Our perry is made from fresh-plucked pears only,’ then it’s got to be made from pears only, or the statement is actionable; if you just say it is made ‘from pears,’ without the ‘only,’ the betting is that it is probably made chiefly of pears; but if you say, ‘made with pears,’ you generally mean that you use a peck of pears to a ton of turnips, and the law cannot touch you—such are the niceties of our English tongue.”

Just wonderful.

Sayers _Clouds of Witness_ (also from an MR conversion) currently in process, along with Philip Pullman's _The Golden Compass_, and a re-read of E. E. Smith's _First Lensman_.
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Dennis

[jayne80]

Update on L Ron Hubbard Misson Earth, finally finished them, the second half of book nine picked up, first half book ten good, second half book ten took a complete nose dive, glad I've finished them, now I can get valuable shelf space back when all ten of them go to the charity shop, absolutely no chance of them being read again.

[MelC]

Gack!!!! Forgot my reader by the bed in my place up north...and I'm halfway through Her Fearful Symmetry! I will not get in the car and drive two hours each way to retrieve it, however. I will take a deep breath and either read Julie and Julia or a Chuck Palahniuk that a friend lent to me in paperback. Next Saturday I will go back up and get my reader back - I can handle one week cold turkey right? Or I could always load up my Cybook.

Mel

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by MelC

Gack!!!! Forgot my reader by the bed in my place up north...and I'm halfway through Her Fearful Symmetry! I will not get in the car and drive two hours each way to retrieve it, however. I will take a deep breath and either read Julie and Julia or a Chuck Palahniuk that a friend lent to me in paperback. Next Saturday I will go back up and get my reader back - I can handle one week cold turkey right? Or I could always load up my Cybook.

Mel

Oh Man!

[dreams]

Originally Posted by MelC

Gack!!!! <SNIP> - I can handle one week cold turkey right? <SNIP>
Mel

Ouch!! Well, of course we can g-g-g-g-go a w-w-w-week without our R-R-R-Reader, r-r-r-right?

We aren't th-th-that a-a-attached to our R-R-Readers are w-w-we?

Whoa! I'm having withdrawal symptoms just thinking about it.

Maybe holding the cybook will help.

**here's some hurry up Saturday Karma**

[dreams]

oops wrong thread..

[Wozzzaaa]

Iam Reading "Let The Right One In" by John Ajvide Lindqvist. I like it a lot, anybody else read this?

[Slite]

Originally Posted by Wozzzaaa

Iam Reading "Let The Right One In" by John Ajvide Lindqvist. I like it a lot, anybody else read this?

Yes, and I also read his other books, but I read them in Swedish.

"Let the right one in" is really good, but so are "The Handling of Undead" and his latest book "Människohamn" (Which isn't translated to english yet AFAIK) as well.