03-27-2013, 10:25 AM | #16081 |
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I am currently reading The Hunger Games on my Kindle.
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03-27-2013, 12:41 PM | #16082 |
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The Fictionwise mobipocket copy was missing scene breaks between paragraphs. Luckily, the ePub version I have from the transfer to Barnes & Noble did have them, and I was able to convert relatively easily.
A good continuation of the story with lots going on. Occasionally a little bit too much exposition info-dump, but it kept me reading. Next up: Armlet by Ross Richdale I have no memory of this. Apparently I bought it back in May 2005! |
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03-27-2013, 12:56 PM | #16083 |
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I hadn't read any of Dorothy L.Sayers' mystery novels for quite some time--the last being Murder Must Advertise about 20 years or so ago. Hence, I settled into Gaudy Night which is reputed to be one of her best Wimsey stories and one which involves Harriet Vane as well.
Its reputation is deserved. GN is elegantly and intelligently written and the characterization is far better than one gets in most mystery novels. Above all, it is really a Harriet Vane novel--though Lord Peter is there at the beginning and end--for it is through her eyes we see events developing. These events involve a series of highly disruptive events in the normally quiet university atmosphere. At first they seem to be pranks, but soon a sinister element becomes more obtrusive. . . . The setting is Oxford University and though the specific College is fictional, it is probably based on Somerville College which Sayers attended and which for a time was exclusively for women. It certainly comes vividly to life in this novel. |
03-27-2013, 01:39 PM | #16084 |
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I have two books going right now: Soldiers Live, the final (for now) volume in the Black Company series, and There Was A Country by Chinua Achebe (who, sadly, died last week).
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03-27-2013, 03:23 PM | #16085 |
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I just bought Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher. It's the first book in the Codex Alera series. I'm already a huge fan of The Dresden Files and need a Jim Butcher fix before the next Dresden book is released.
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03-27-2013, 03:25 PM | #16086 | |
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I am mostly through David Batterham - Among Booksellers Tales Told in Letters to Howard Hodgkins which is an interesting story told through letters. It is both strange and interesting at the same time and I am unsure why I keep reading it other than I want to find out what develops. I am now reading Bones of Angels by Christopher Forrest. It is keeping my attention so far, although the story jumps between the action happening with the various characters as the story progresses. This was a freebie I picked up from Amazon and although it states: "** Fans of James Rollins and Clive Cussler will love BONES OF ANGELS **" I would say it is a type of thriller along the lines of a Dan Brown book like the The Da Vinci Code. Maybe the addition of the special force teams put it closer to a Rollins/Cussler book? Spoiler:
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03-27-2013, 03:59 PM | #16087 | |
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03-27-2013, 04:05 PM | #16088 | |
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I just finished Judith Rock's "The Rhetoric of Death" the first book in her Charles du Luc series, and am moving on to the next in the series.
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03-27-2013, 05:38 PM | #16089 |
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03-27-2013, 07:50 PM | #16090 | |
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03-28-2013, 01:50 AM | #16091 |
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03-28-2013, 04:54 AM | #16092 |
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Just finished Lola and the Boy next door by Stepanie Perkins. Highly recommended if you're into contemporary romance. Nex up: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern.
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03-28-2013, 12:13 PM | #16093 |
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Bouncing between three books right now: The Science of Yoga by William Broad, To Ride a Silver Broomstick by Silver RavenWolf, and rereading The Fellowship of the Ring by Tolkien.
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03-28-2013, 02:49 PM | #16094 | ||
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Dana Stabenow & Carolyn Keene (Mildred A Wirt)
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The House of Silk A Sherlock Holmes Novel by Anthony Horowitz turned out to really have the feel of a Conan Doyle Holmes tale and I really got the feel of the environment and the characters. The story was very interesting as well and had some real surprising twists. With the exception of the Mary Russell series by Laurie R. King I've stayed away from the Holmes-by-other-authors stories, but I'm sure glad to have read this one! Now on to another Nancy Drew Mystery, The Clue of the Tapping Heels (Nancy Drew #16) and Bad Blood (Kate Shugak #20) the latest by Dana Stabenow! |
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