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

[DixieGal]

Good Morning, Lilac,

Yesterday, I started reading Asimov's "Complete Short Stories, Vol 1."

It's dated 1971, and was just a txt document. I blew it up to 22 font, arial, and saved it as rtf.

Loaded it up, and it took about 10 mins to finish opening.

I've found this to be normal any time I load an rtf for the first time or change the zoom. After that "initialization," it works just as quickly as any other book.

So don't worry if it just sits and spins for a few mins.

I hope this helps!

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

I'm now going to read an Agatha Christie mystery — Lord Edgware Dies.

Well, that was fun. A splendid mystery in which Poirot is led up the garden path, and Hastings is mystified as usual.

Now onto Bound in Blood, the long-awaited sequel to P.C. Hodgell's God Stalker Chronicles. Having read the first few pages, I can say that it just drops straight into the story, without any recaps. So I wouldn't advise starting here. In fact, perhaps I should have re-read them myself. But it's starting to all come back to me.

[lilac_jive]

Originally Posted by DixieGal

Good Morning, Lilac,

Yesterday, I started reading Asimov's "Complete Short Stories, Vol 1."

It's dated 1971, and was just a txt document. I blew it up to 22 font, arial, and saved it as rtf.

Loaded it up, and it took about 10 mins to finish opening.

I've found this to be normal any time I load an rtf for the first time or change the zoom. After that "initialization," it works just as quickly as any other book.

So don't worry if it just sits and spins for a few mins.

I hope this helps!

Oh I'm not worried. I'm just not sure why it does this now. It never used to. It seems to struggle the most on LRFs. It does it when I go to the book file and when I zoom. If anyone has insight into this, I'd like to know why it's doing it.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by DixieGal

Good Morning, Lilac,

Yesterday, I started reading Asimov's "Complete Short Stories, Vol 1."

It's dated 1971, and was just a txt document. I blew it up to 22 font, arial, and saved it as rtf.

Loaded it up, and it took about 10 mins to finish opening.

I've found this to be normal any time I load an rtf for the first time or change the zoom. After that "initialization," it works just as quickly as any other book.

So don't worry if it just sits and spins for a few mins.

I hope this helps!

YEAH! Great Stuff!

[kainne]

Just finished Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie . Loved this series. Just restarted The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan.

[seagull]

Reading Up in the Air by Walter Kirn. I'm at Chapter 4 and I'm really enjoying it thus far.

[omk3]

Originally Posted by omk3

Now started Six Suspects by Vikas Swarup ...

Many times I've come close to putting it down and moving on. The characters are painfully two-dimensional - one-dimensional even.. I don't know if India is as corrupt as he describes it but given the depth of the characters I cannot really expect much credibility from anything else. And on top of that, bad ebook too: some headers and page numbers from the print version have found their way inside the text, right in the middle of the sentences. Too bad I have a habit of finishing what I start...

[Billjr13]

Just finished MR Author Vicki Tyley's book Thin Blood, what a good book. It reads really well and is a page turner. Well crafted whodoneit!. Check it out over at Smashwords.
I am ready to start Craig Ferguson's biography An American on Purpose

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by Billjr13

Just finished MR Author Vicki Tyley's book Thin Blood, what a good book. It reads really well and is a page turner. Well crafted whodoneit!. Check it out over at Smashwords.
I am ready to start Craig Ferguson's biography An American on Purpose

That's one of the 20+ books I'm currently reading. (I'm trying not to start any more before I whittle that list to under 10.)

[lilac_jive]

I'm currently reading "The Goodbye Body" by Joan Hess in pbook (got it at the library) and I'm reading "Sign of the Four" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in ebook.

[mores]

Started Soul Intent by Dennis Batchelder last night. Soul Identity was free and hooked me, so I just had to buy the sequel.
Arrrgh ... sneaky Dennis

[FlorenceArt]

Re-re-re-reading Pride and Prejudice And wondering, not for the first time, what one is supposed to do in a drawing room (draw, maybe?), and how exactly an estate gets to be "entailed".

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

Re-re-re-reading Pride and Prejudice And wondering, not for the first time, what one is supposed to do in a drawing room (draw, maybe?), and how exactly an estate gets to be "entailed".

A drawing room is the room into which the ladies withdraw after dinner, leaving the men to discuss things at the table over brandy and cigars.

An estate (real property - land) is entailed under feudal laws dating back to the thirteenth century. A person in possession of an entailed estate has only a life interest - he cannot sell, mortgage or give it away. It had to be kept intact to be passed on to the next (usually male) heir.

In 1833 the UK Parliament enabled the person in possession of an entailed estate to convert it to an ordinary estate, and so be able to dispose of it as they wished. So who knows - if Mr Bennet lived long enough, Mr Collins might not have inherited Longbourn after all!

[kennyc]

I've kinda pushed everything aside (somehow I think e-reading makes this "easier") and am now reading "The Trouble with Physics..." by Lee Lee Smolin. Lovin' in!

http://www.amazon.com/Trouble-Physic.../dp/0618551050

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

A drawing room is the room into which the ladies withdraw after dinner, leaving the men to discuss things at the table over brandy and cigars.
...

My Drawing Room is where I do my art.