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Post by gardengirl13 on Feb 18, 2015 2:05:58 GMT
I'm reading the Maltese Falcon. I'm friends with a librarian at our public library and got her to start and book and movie club and this is our second selection. The first last month was Silence of the Lambs! We have a month to read the book then we get together at the library for potluck and the movie! My darling husband joked that his suggestion for one month is FSoG.
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Post by AmoebaKat (Katje) on Feb 18, 2015 4:18:44 GMT
I've been stuck at 75% through Guilty Pleasures (the first Anita Blake book) for a while now. I was enjoying it, but then I got pissed off with the character's incessant "Vampires might be trying to kill me, but at least I'm not fat!" monologue. I put it down for a while and then misplaced my Kindle.
I'll finish it eventually.
Other than that I am currently reading a lot of kids' books.
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Post by bella on Feb 18, 2015 5:25:07 GMT
I've been steadily working on reading every Agatha Christie book in order, so I've always got one of those on the go. Otherwise, I'm currently rereading my all-time favourite book: The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.
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Post by bragandbounce on Feb 18, 2015 7:34:16 GMT
I recently started reading The Silence of the Lambs for the first time, and I'm really enjoying it. I'm also just shy of finishing off a reread of 'Salem's Lot, which is great fun for me because my laughter and whooping at certain parts really confuses Mr. Bragandbounce, who's like, " . . . isn't that a horror novel?" Yes, yes it is Ha ha have you rewatched the movie of Salem' s Lot recently too? I did! Don't know how that scared me so much when I was 8. I mean, GREEN vampire. Green.... I've never actually seen the movie! Ought I to? I don't know anything about it, but if you think it'd be good for a laugh... ;P
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Post by annie on Feb 18, 2015 7:53:57 GMT
I've been working my way through the Outlander series since last (northern hemisphere) summer. I'm a slow reader, though I enjoy reading very much. Right now I'm on An Echo in Bone (book 7) so I'm hoping I'll be caught up with the series by this summer, making it a year-ish to read the whole series as it stands now.
I've also been reading an interesting serial-type story on Literotica.com (I do love that site, though there's a lot of wading through dirt and crap to find the gems). It's called The Last Tritan. She's writing and releasing it one chapter at a time and it's up to chapter 23 (I think). It needs some polishing, of course, but what's there now is quite a compelling and just plain good story. I'm eager to see where she goes with it and the waiting for chapters can seem unbearable sometimes. I definitely recommend it (and the site in general really) if you don't mind amateur works-in-progress.
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Post by xebi on Feb 18, 2015 9:14:50 GMT
I've been steadily working on reading every Agatha Christie book in order, so I've always got one of those on the go. I did that once! By a few books in, I got pretty good at guessing by halfway through
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Post by rhiannon on Feb 18, 2015 9:47:48 GMT
Ha ha have you rewatched the movie of Salem' s Lot recently too? I did! Don't know how that scared me so much when I was 8. I mean, GREEN vampire. Green.... I've never actually seen the movie! Ought I to? I don't know anything about it, but if you think it'd be good for a laugh... ;P Oopsie, i just realised that is probably a spoiler! Sorry! The movie is VERY 70s, but yeah, I think it's good for a laugh. It really scared me when I was a child. As for stuff I am reading...anyone else here into crime thrillers? That is one genre where there are a lot of women writers and I actually generally think the ones written by women tend to be better. I do like the great dame Ruth Rendell and right now am reading Camilla Läckberg, I also really like Åsa Larsson and Yrsa Sigurðardóttir out of the Scandinavians.
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Post by tidal on Feb 18, 2015 12:32:49 GMT
I just finished The Magicians by Lev Grossman and am continuing the trilogy with The Magician King next. It took me a bit to get into the first book but the last 100 pages had me hooked and I read the first 50 pages of the book 2 eagerly.
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Post by bella on Feb 18, 2015 18:23:02 GMT
I've been steadily working on reading every Agatha Christie book in order, so I've always got one of those on the go. I did that once! By a few books in, I got pretty good at guessing by halfway through Some of them are easier to guess than others, but I've always adored them even if I can work out the ending. I accidentally started collecting them a few years ago and figured I had better actually read them to justify all the space they're taking up.
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Post by xebi on Feb 18, 2015 19:48:45 GMT
As for stuff I am reading...anyone else here into crime thrillers? That is one genre where there are a lot of women writers and I actually generally think the ones written by women tend to be better. I do like the great dame Ruth Rendell and right now am reading Camilla Läckberg, I also really like Åsa Larsson and Yrsa Sigurðardóttir out of the Scandinavians. *raises hand* Me me me! I like Ruth Rendell too. And Peter Robinson (the Inspector Banks books). I think I like him because his main protagonist really reminds me of my dad. Funnily enough, my dad independently came to the same conclusion
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Post by blowpop on Feb 19, 2015 0:36:54 GMT
I put down the second Highlander book from Karen Marie Moning and am instead reading The Mathematics of Love by Emma Darwin. (I just can't get into the former right now)
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Post by gateau on Feb 20, 2015 16:51:21 GMT
Currently reading The Boss (yay!) and also re-reading The Magicians books to remind me where the story was before reading the third one in the trilogy.
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Post by jennytrout on Feb 21, 2015 3:17:03 GMT
I'm reading Inspire by Cora Carmack. It's paranormal NA, and the paranormal element is actually a part of the story, so it's the perfect antidote to Apolonia. I've also been steadily reading through this epic definitive biography of Billy Joel. I read the Joel bio. Enjoyed it. He has a fascinating family history. Some of it is really tragic, but he's so matter-of-fact about it (I guess you'd have to be, if it's your life), that I just admire him even more. Which shouldn't be possible, but hey. My enlightenment goes deeper and deeper.
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Post by Kat2112 on Feb 21, 2015 19:47:50 GMT
I've finished The Last American Vampire by Seth Grahame-Smith and Farewell, Dorothy Parker by Ellen Meister. First one good, second one okay. Still working on Children of Dune and now about to pick up Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon.
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Post by muskratthemink on Feb 23, 2015 17:02:09 GMT
I've been working my way through The Egyptian the last couple months. I don't have any real criticism, except that it feels excessively wordy. It kind of takes away from the story and makes the book border on boring. I actually put it down for a couple weeks last month because of that.
3/5/15 edit: I recently found out some of the book was actually cut when it was translated, meaning the already 500 page book is even longer if you get it in Finnish. At least, I think that's the language it was originally published in; I'm going solely by the author's name on this one. :/
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