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| Re: Nov.-Dec. 2010 What Are You Reading? [message #35963 is a reply to message #35846 ] |
Wed, 03 November 2010 22:59   |
 Kim A
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I know everyone's got their heads in Pegasus, but my copy doesn't come until tomorrow (pout).
But in the meantime I'm finally reading Blackout, by Connie Willis (this one I was disciplined enough to wait for the sequel to be published!). It's classic Willis, and I'm enjoying it, but I wish I'd chosen real book instead of Kindle (ebook was faster): this is a book where you want to keep flipping back to make sure you remember who is doing what, where and when, and it's hard to flip around like that on the e-version.
It was the only lullaby she would ever sing, and it was sung in Hell. --Laini Taylor
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| Re: Nov.-Dec. 2010 What Are You Reading? [message #36148 is a reply to message #35846 ] |
Sun, 07 November 2010 17:27 |
eslocklier
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Just started reading "Forgotten Fire" by Adam Bagdasarian. Not far into the book, but so far it's interesting...
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| Re: Nov.-Dec. 2010 What Are You Reading? [message #36551 is a reply to message #35846 ] |
Mon, 15 November 2010 09:19 |
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anne_d
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I'm rereading Chalice, oddly enough. It's one of my comfort books, and I'm very stressed right now. I'm still saving Pegasus until I know I won't be interrupted.
I'm also rereading some of Jane Haddam's Gregor Demarkian series, having just read the most recent, Wanting Sheila Dead. So it's comfort fantasy and murder mysteries this week. 
By the way (and this is kinda cool), the Younger Daughter has been cleaning outgrown books from her bedroom shelves, and she turned up something interesting - an oversized book called The Flight of Dragons, by one Peter Dickinson. I'd forgotten all about it, but I suspect the Aged Ps presented it to the Elder Daughter when she was in her dragon phase (which evolved out of her dinosaur phase, which followed the rabbits&ducks&trainsohmy phase).
Anyway, it must have been passed from one daughter to the other at some point. I immediately retrieved the volume from the library donations pile (mine! mine!), Brodarted the dust jacket and placed it lovingly in my illustrated books collection. Heh.
"The creative urge can come out in any form: in embroidery, in... cooking, in painting, drawing and sculpture, in composing music, as well as in writing books and stories... the artist's inner satisfaction was probably much the same." ~ Agatha Christie
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| Re: Nov.-Dec. 2010 What Are You Reading? [message #36552 is a reply to message #36551 ] |
Mon, 15 November 2010 09:21 |
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anne_d
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Speaking of recommending, Terry Pratchett's I Shall Wear Midnight is outstanding. It's the latest in his Tiffany Aching Discworld series, and, I think, one of his best.
"The creative urge can come out in any form: in embroidery, in... cooking, in painting, drawing and sculpture, in composing music, as well as in writing books and stories... the artist's inner satisfaction was probably much the same." ~ Agatha Christie
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| Re: Nov.-Dec. 2010 What Are You Reading? [message #36980 is a reply to message #35846 ] |
Mon, 29 November 2010 12:28 |
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Just finished a re-read of Deerskin, and the first since I started reading the blog/fora. It's interesting (and pretty awesome) to see glimpses of Robin-as-person in the story. Not just Ash, but the pink walls and pink showing up as a favorite color, gardening, and roses, etc. Also caught, I think for the first time, that Deerskin happens in the Hero and the Crown universe, though much separated by time/distance. Lissar mentions that Aerin slew a dragon (Maur) and was one of the last girl-heroes.
Also reading, for the first time, His Majesty's Dragon, on the rec of many different people and places. Enjoying it muchly, going to need to pick up the next one soon. Keep having trouble because Temer doesn't read as 'male' to me. I keep having to remind myself that he's a boy dragon.
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| Re: Nov.-Dec. 2010 What Are You Reading? [message #37459 is a reply to message #37418 ] |
Tue, 14 December 2010 05:01 |
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| Robyn Sue wrote on Mon, 13 December 2010 17:08 |
Currently:
The Replacement by...I forget. Will find out later.
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This one by Brenna Yovanoff?
I seem to have too many on the go at once:
- Once Dead, Twice Shy, by Kim Harrison
- Going Under, by Justina Robson
- For a Few Demons More, by Kim Harrison
- The Knife of Never Letting Go, by Patrick Ness
- Steelflower, by Lilith Saintcrow
- Reserved for the Cat, by Mercedes Lackey
- Talyn , by Holly Lisle
The last three are on the back-burner for when I'm at a loose end but don't have one of the others to hand, since those are mine as opposed to from the library.
Phil
My friends say I have CDO…
which is like OCD but with the initials in proper alphabetical order…
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| Re: Nov.-Dec. 2010 What Are You Reading? [message #37514 is a reply to message #37459 ] |
Wed, 15 December 2010 11:22 |
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Robyn Sue
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| NotACat wrote on Tue, 14 December 2010 04:01 |
| Robyn Sue wrote on Mon, 13 December 2010 17:08 |
Currently:
The Replacement by...I forget. Will find out later.
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This one by Brenna Yovanoff?
I seem to have too many on the go at once:
- Once Dead, Twice Shy, by Kim Harrison
- Going Under, by Justina Robson
- For a Few Demons More, by Kim Harrison
- The Knife of Never Letting Go, by Patrick Ness
- Steelflower, by Lilith Saintcrow
- Reserved for the Cat, by Mercedes Lackey
- Talyn , by Holly Lisle
The last three are on the back-burner for when I'm at a loose end but don't have one of the others to hand, since those are mine as opposed to from the library.
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Yovanoff is correct. I'm also reading Matched by ..... I forget again. Will edit later.
Heading to my Psyc Final. Blah.
Am I crazy if listen to the voices in my little world? :D
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| Re: Nov.-Dec. 2010 What Are You Reading? [message #37537 is a reply to message #37459 ] |
Thu, 16 December 2010 02:41 |
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If you find Talyn hard going, then switch to Hawkspar - I totally bounced of Talyn on first read but loved Hawkspar. And when I found out it was a sortof sequel I went back and forced myself thru the beginning of Talyn til it started to work for me
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| Re: Nov.-Dec. 2010 What Are You Reading? [message #37614 is a reply to message #35846 ] |
Sun, 19 December 2010 02:24 |
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danceswithpahis
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Robyn Sue: I really enjoyed the Firebirds anthology. For that matter I've enjoyed the sequels as well, although I think the first was my favorite (it had some stories by authors I'm fond of who don't often do short stories).
I'm currently finishing up "Seabiscuit" by Laura Hillenbrand. I purchased it at Goodwill a few years ago because hey, 25 cents for a book is worth a risk every now and then. Robin posted an essay (not quite the right word) that Ms Hillenbrand had written a few years ago about her struggles with ME, which has stayed with me ever since I read it. I wasn't in the right mood to read "Seabiscuit" until now, though (and it totally spoils some books to read them at the wrong time). I'm really enjoying it. She does an excellent job of taking a lot of interviews, articles, and random details and weaving them together into an amazing story. I've read biographies before (which is sort of what this one is, the biography of a famous, beloved horse and the humans in his life), but this time I was often on the edge of my seat going through the story and feeling like I was right there. I would definitely recommend it.
"Oh good! My dog found the chainsaw!"
-- Lilo ("Lilo and Stitch")
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| Re: Nov.-Dec. 2010 What Are You Reading? [message #37702 is a reply to message #35846 ] |
Wed, 22 December 2010 22:42 |
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Julia
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Just finished reading Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater. Quite good... was described to me as "Twilight but much better", which is fairly accurate. I liked the story very much, and I put a request in at my library for the sequel, if that is any indication. Werewolves (or similar--technically werewolves in that wolves and humans... but there are some interesting complications and explanations this time).
Also read Paper Towns by John Green, which I loved, and Will Grayson, Will Grayson which was written by John Green and David Levithan (alternating chapters)--another good story. Great writing, brilliant ending, fun characters.
What else... oh yes, I read Space Demons by Gillian Rubenstein. I love this book. I have reread it so many many times, and maybe it isn't the best book of its kind (computer game/reality, characters fall into/become part of the game, game becomes real, adventure/terror/character growth and learning ensues...), though I like it very much. But it must be one of the first. (Okay, maybe that's not quite accurate either.) Anyway, I always think it is worth rereading. And it is interesting, too, because computer/video games have changed so much since it was published in (1985? 1988? something like that).
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Nov.-Dec. 2010 What Are You Reading?
But I hope that Hunger Games will keep me occupied until then. 
