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Currently reading Wuthering Heights because various factors had caused me to be curious about the book and I found a copy of it for $0.27 at a second-hand bookshop. It's quite intriguing and I find the character interactions interesting and I am loving the constant first-person perspective(though different people contribute to the narrative, it's always somehow first-person).
"The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel."
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| Re: February 2009 What are you reading? [message #10891 is a reply to message #10837 ] |
Mon, 02 February 2009 11:30 |
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Was going to report last month that I just read (listened to as an audiobook) Dreams From My Father, read by Obama, abridged, unfortunately.
It took a while for my request for membership to go through, but I still want to report that I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this book. I don't really follow all of his musings about society and himself and fitting in, because my background is so much different from his, but I found most of it extremely clear, intelligent, and fascinating. It's obviously his own work, not ghostwritten (who would bother, back at the time it was written?). My goodness, it's such a relief to have somebody really thoughtful and smart elected! And clearheaded, and not given to glossing over flaws, even in people he obviously loves, or himself.
I also highly recommend Horizon by Lois McMaster Bujold, though if you have not read the first three of The Sharing Knife tetralogy already, you need to get Beguilement, Legacy, and Passage first. Oh, Bujold is so wonderful, and I think I like this set of books even more than Vorkosgan and Chalion, perhaps because I recognize so much of the background society from my own family history. My mother really was pretty much a nineteenth century "farmer girl" like Fawn (until she grew up and moved to the big city and became a twentieth century architect instead).
I also just read Chalice -- guess don't have to recommend it 
Abigail
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| Re: February 2009 What are you reading? [message #11286 is a reply to message #10837 ] |
Tue, 10 February 2009 10:57 |
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 L.R.K.
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"The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents" was wonderful, wasn't it? I absolutely adored it! (Rec!  )
EDIT: My favourite quotation:
"He could still hear the dreadful voice in his head, but it was muffled. It was trying to give him orders. Trying to give a cat orders? It was easier to nail jelly to a wall. What did it think he was, a dog?"
"easier to nail jelly to a wall" - perfect. Anyone who has had anything to do with cats will know! (Although Sassi's habit is to go out on the balcony after she's been to the toilet - not of course, that she's been there - and I can actually make her do that even when she doesn't feel like it. It's hilarious - she'll grumble and look over her shoulder "All right, I'm going, I'm going!" )
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Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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| Re: February 2009 What are you reading? [message #11393 is a reply to message #10837 ] |
Wed, 11 February 2009 21:43 |
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I've been reading The White House Blog. Yes, I know. Boggles, doesn't it?
And I wrote a letter to Obama.
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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| Re: February 2009 What are you reading? [message #11399 is a reply to message #10837 ] |
Wed, 11 February 2009 22:16 |
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go shelley, let us know if he writes back.
Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get
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| Re: February 2009 What are you reading? [message #11488 is a reply to message #10837 ] |
Thu, 12 February 2009 23:11 |
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Wooo this has been a GOOD week for library holds!
My Cast in Fury just came in, and I'm about 25% done now, and I just got a notice that I finally get Chalice! YAYY!!
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Fri, 13 February 2009 13:12 |
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I have recently reread Sabriel(Garth Nix) and Hexwood(Dianna Wynne Jones). Not reading anything at the moment, though.
"The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel."
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| Re: February 2009 What are you reading? [message #11506 is a reply to message #10891 ] |
Fri, 13 February 2009 13:17 |
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CJames
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| abigailmm wrote on Mon, 02 February 2009 11:30 |
Was going to report last month that I just read (listened to as an audiobook) Dreams From My Father, read by Obama, abridged, unfortunately.
It took a while for my request for membership to go through, but I still want to report that I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this book. I don't really follow all of his musings about society and himself and fitting in, because my background is so much different from his, but I found most of it extremely clear, intelligent, and fascinating. It's obviously his own work, not ghostwritten (who would bother, back at the time it was written?). My goodness, it's such a relief to have somebody really thoughtful and smart elected! And clearheaded, and not given to glossing over flaws, even in people he obviously loves, or himself.
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I remember ranting when I heard people explaining their support for Gov. Palin by saying basically, "she's just like me!" as though that was a valuable qualification for office. In my mind, this was an election, not a blind date, and having lots in common was beside the point.
The experience of having President Obama in office has taught me to understand a little better. Outside of any relevance to his actual ability to do the job well, it's fun to have a president who I would like to join a book club with. (Honestly, I think being well read is a valid qualification, leading, as it usually does to greater understanding, critical thinking, and articulate communication..and fewer moments when the people who elected you feel the need to hide under a desk when you are going to speak in public.)
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I also highly recommend Horizon by Lois McMaster Bujold, though if you have not read the first three of The Sharing Knife tetralogy already, you need to get Beguilement, Legacy, and Passage first.
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Oh, thank you for the reminder. I need to read that one. I haven't read the Vorkosigan books, basically due to the lack of an obvious place to start. The Sharing Knife books seemed like a friendly, shallow end of the pool, sort of introduction.
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| Re: February 2009 What are you reading? [message #11511 is a reply to message #11506 ] |
Fri, 13 February 2009 17:57 |
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| CJames wrote on Sat, 14 February 2009 07:17 |
Oh, thank you for the reminder. I need to read that one. I haven't read the Vorkosigan books, basically due to the lack of an obvious place to start. The Sharing Knife books seemed like a friendly, shallow end of the pool, sort of introduction.
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The Vorkosigan books start with Shards of Honour and Barrayar (available together as Coredelias Honour) and they are about Aral and Cordelia getting together.
The Miles books start with Warriors Apprentice. You could start with any of them up to about Mirror Game - once you get past that the subsequent stories draw heavily upon the previous books and you might get a little lost.
http://www.dendarii.co.uk/FanFic/timeline.html - will give you a timeline of the story and where the books fit in
An option to start with might be Cetaganda which is a Miles book but its a bit of a standalone.
There are also the 5 Gods series - Curse of Chalion, Paladin of Souls and Hallowed Hunt - the first two are paired and HH is completely separate
All of these are worthy to be put in Pollyannas booklist BTW
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Mon, 16 February 2009 20:16 |
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Am about to start What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn. My book club is reading it.
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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Tue, 17 February 2009 23:51 |
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So, I borrowed Lirael from Charis last night because I want to complete my reread of the trilogy and am curiously missing Lirael. However, before I even got a chance to read it I stopped at a Half Price Books today to kill half an hour and ended up with a novel that looks to be steampunkish and two Dorothy Sayers/Lord Peter books...
Needless to say, the rereading of Lirael has yielded to the reading of Lord Peter. At the moment I'm reading The Five Red Herrings, and next I'll be reading In The Teeth Of The Evidence and Other Mysteries...
"The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel."
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| Re: February 2009 What are you reading? [message #11724 is a reply to message #10837 ] |
Wed, 18 February 2009 16:37 |
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I finally got to read the last of the Louise Penny mysteries - Cruellest Month (I read them in order of 1,2,4,3) and they are just delightful! Thanks for the recommendation
I also discovered the latest Retrieval Artist book is out - Duplicate Effort - but I had to go back and read Paloma and Retrieval Man first because thats where the story arc starts. Im not sure if she will continue writing this series, it finished in a way that left it a bit vague.
And for any of you that read the fantastic The Eight by Katherine Neville, well 20 odd years later there is a sequel The Fire, and I started it while soaking in the bath last night!!
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Wed, 18 February 2009 20:45 |
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| kfoster2047 wrote on Thu, 19 February 2009 14:15 |
And for any of you that read the fantastic The Eight by Katherine Neville, well 20 odd years later there is a sequel The Fire, and I started it while soaking in the bath last night!!
That's amazing - I have slowly been retrieving books from our storage shed and that was one the ones I found this weekend. So how is the sequel?
Retrieval Artist? Who is the author?
I'm really glad you enjoyed Louise Penny. And the good news is that she has another one currently being edited (not sure about the release date) and is working on the 6th.
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Just started The Fire, and its just starting to get going - its based in 2003 and Catherines daughter is the new main character - Catherine has gone missing right from the beginning of the book.....
The Retrieval Artist series are by Kristine Katherine Rusch
http://kriswrites.com/kristine-kathryn-rusch/the-retrieval-a rtist-series/
And YAY for more Louise Penny
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| Re: February 2009 What are you reading? [message #12137 is a reply to message #10837 ] |
Fri, 27 February 2009 09:42 |
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Beauty/Anna
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I'm almost done with A Song for Summer by Eva Ibbotson, and every time I take a brake from reading it(I've only been reading it at night— and sundays— because of school reasons) my fingers start itching for my violin and the feel the vibrating violin strings under my fingers and through my body. Maybe the book effected me that way because of my love for my violin and the beauty of classical music.
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