05-17-2013, 11:28 AM | #16591 | |
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05-17-2013, 11:55 AM | #16592 |
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05-17-2013, 05:40 PM | #16593 | |
It's about the umbrella
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05-17-2013, 06:09 PM | #16594 | |
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Meanwhile, in the middle of Crossing the Line, the 2nd book in the Wess'har Wars series from Karen Traviss. It's going well, and I'm enjoying it. Though it's been hard to focus with lots of external commitments getting in the way of reading. |
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05-17-2013, 06:40 PM | #16595 | |
Bah, humbug!
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05-17-2013, 06:48 PM | #16596 | |
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Well, Deaver redeemed himself in "XO" by throwing in his classic well-developed red herring, and I fell for it hook, line, and sinker. Now I'm back to square one trying to figure out who dunnit! Stitchawl |
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05-17-2013, 08:34 PM | #16597 | |
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05-18-2013, 01:57 AM | #16598 | |
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05-18-2013, 02:46 AM | #16599 | |
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Time for something different though: The Man with Two Left Feet by PG Wodehouse. This contains the first Jeeves story which I was reminded of when I saw these mentioned in another thread. I had been intending on reading these at some point and now is as good a time as any. |
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05-18-2013, 09:23 AM | #16600 |
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Rereading an old favorite.
I am having a grand time re-reading the fantastic Thieves World anthologies edited by Robert Lynn Asprin.
http://www.thievesworld.info/ |
05-18-2013, 10:46 AM | #16601 | |
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If you're a fan of epic fantasy and have enjoyed novels such as The Name of the Wind, you've got to read Anthony Ryan's Blood Song. I'm only 20% in but it's a real page-turner; fast-paced and action-packed, had me hooked from the very first page.
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05-18-2013, 11:45 AM | #16602 |
Can one read too much?
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Making my way through the Nero Wolfe canon, I'm up to And Be a Villain, which introduces a nemesis for him to oppose.
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05-18-2013, 12:11 PM | #16603 |
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I finished reading Laurence Ree's Hitler's Charisma. It was an interesting view on how Hitler was able to attain supreme power in Germany and to maintain it to the bitter end.
I'm reading Martin Limon's Jade Lady Burning - a murder mystery set in 1970's South Korea featuring two US Army CID investigators. I'm enjoying it for the sense of place and time. |
05-18-2013, 01:06 PM | #16604 |
Is that a sandwich?
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I'm giving up on this one at least temporarily. The author's wordy prose doesn't work for me. Every object has a story. Why say it in one sentence when two paragraphs are possible. This book tops out at 477 pages and I am commitment-phobic. The break-up was mutual.
Next is the highly rated Open Season by C.J. Box. |
05-18-2013, 02:39 PM | #16605 |
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I absolutely adored Harkaway's Angelmaker.
Currently "getting my Walt Longmire on." (somewhere in #3, maybe #4 by the time you read this.) |
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