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01-12-2009, 06:59 PM | #1 |
Hero of Hyrule
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Been Reading Angels and Demons, it is wonderful, can't put it down.
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01-29-2009, 06:31 PM | #2 |
Elven Warrior
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I read a Sky and Telescope magazine recently, because I'm into astronomy and have my own telescope my husband got me. However, since last month I haven't really read anything else. I've been staying in during the snow and ice and watching Youtube videos about how the Universe is going to end.
Oh, I just hit 100 posts. Figured I'd mention that. I went from Enting to Elven Warrior just now. That's some switch!!! |
01-29-2009, 06:53 PM | #3 |
Hero of Hyrule
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I had my own party when I reached 500
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01-30-2009, 01:11 AM | #4 |
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Just finished The Sharing Knife - Passage. It's the 3rd in the Sharing Knife series by Lois McMaster Bujold. I think there's a 4th already published. Have to see if the library has it when I take this one back.
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02-04-2009, 12:13 PM | #5 |
Elf Lady
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I am rereading Althalus. I love that book. But it's not really literature.
I did start reading Emma again though, but I dislike that woman >_<
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02-04-2009, 12:49 PM | #6 |
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She IS rather irritating, no?
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02-04-2009, 01:16 PM | #7 |
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Definitely. >_<
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02-05-2009, 11:02 PM | #8 |
Elf Lord
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I am reading Village School by Miss Read again.
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02-06-2009, 03:48 PM | #9 |
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^My future mother-in-law loves that book...
Well, I've read a lot since Christmas... but the standouts were The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, and The House at Riverton by Kate Morton. And now I've just reread an Agatha Christie while I wait for Amazon to deliver 5 books Which should be today!
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02-06-2009, 10:50 PM | #10 |
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How to Be Idle: A Loafer's Manifesto is one of the most delightful books I've read in a long time. Highly recommended.
Have recently started Shusaku Endo's The Sea and the Poison, a novel about guilt, with war crimes as the catalyst. Looks very good so far, but then I'm a fan of the author.
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02-07-2009, 11:29 AM | #11 |
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I'm reading Jasper Fforde's Lost in a Good Book - the 4th book in a series. I haven't read the first three yet, I expect I'll borrow them from the friend who recommended them and gave me this one as a present.
I think it took some time to really take off, but now I'm enjoying it. It's fantasy in the same way as Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is fantasy
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02-08-2009, 05:31 AM | #12 |
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Im reading AA Attanasio's brilliantly poetic rendition of the King Arthur legend.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AA_Attanasio If you get can hold of this quartet,I recommend that you do. I love it for the marvellous English it is written in. |
02-13-2009, 12:16 AM | #13 |
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I've been reading some really good books lately... One that I would recommend to anyone (mostly girls, but I GUESS guys could read it too) is Set Apart Femininity. I've got a Spurgeon book called Grace: God's Unmerited Favor and another one I've borrowed by R. C. Sproul. It's pretty good. Just reread Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis (are we just allowed to call him "Jack"? I feel like I should have some kind of nickname for him because I love him and his books SO very much!)...
Books I have NOT read recently: my textbooks.
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02-13-2009, 12:49 AM | #14 | ||
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"Till We Have Faces" is awesome! I loved that book. Have you read "The Great Divorce"? Quote:
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02-20-2009, 08:32 PM | #15 |
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Yes. I think it's just SO Lewis that MacDonald leads him around.
*Leads Rule around... right off a cliff*
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03-02-2009, 04:33 AM | #16 |
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"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
This book is absolutely horrible, and I mean that as high praise. It is gut-wrenchingly bleak, but incredibly gripping. I read the whole thing in a day, because I couldn't put it down, and had waking dreams about it all night. I see I've fallen into the trap of putting it here instead of in the science fiction thread- "that's not SF, it's good". It's a post-apocalyptic tale, which makes most other devastated futures look like a romp in the park. Halfway through, in fact, the author almost loses it, venturing into "Saw" territory; but it's never horror for the shock value, and he pulls it back in the end. Highly recommended, two thumbs up, five stars- but only if you're ready for an express ticket to the Heart of Darkness.
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03-25-2009, 06:35 PM | #17 |
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I read lots of books, but at the moment I have just started Swallowing Darkness by Laurell K. Hamilton.
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04-02-2009, 07:57 PM | #18 |
Elven Warrior
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I got Moby Dick for my birthday and I'm working on that. I'm also in the middle of Return To Alastair. It's the second in a trilogy of books by L.A. Kelly. It's really intereting and fun to read.
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04-04-2009, 07:52 PM | #19 |
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I quickly got hooked on John Grisham.
I recently read The Broker and The Last Juror and have just gotten started on The Summons. His legal drama is captivating and it's a delight to see how he (being an attorney) really masters the genre.
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04-16-2009, 03:02 AM | #20 |
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I just finished Sharpe's Eagle. Sharpie is awesome. Bernard Cornwell is a great writer, his battle scenes are so realistic and very well-written.
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