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Charis! I finished The Bell at Sealey Head last night too. And I loved it. It's not my favorite of hers, but it was good solid McKillip.
And today I read Swallowing Darkness, by Laurell K. Hamilton, and it was good.
I read two books in two days! I haven't done that for such a long time. It felt good.
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| Re: What are you reading right now? [message #7299 is a reply to message #7274 ] |
Mon, 08 December 2008 13:16 |
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| ssshunt wrote on Mon, 08 December 2008 00:58 |
And today I read Swallowing Darkness, by Laurell K. Hamilton, and it was good.
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I do tend to read LKH for the character interactions. Not the sex, not -really- the plot, but I enjoy her characters. I'm eagerly waiting on my copy at the library. Only two people ahead of me! (when I started there were like... 17...)
Also on my waiting list there is Diplomatic Immunity by Bujold (then I'll have read all of the Vorkosigan universe.... *sad*), Chalice (finally! 5 people ahead of me), and Ender in Exile (ran across an announcement on Tor's website, and went all sorts of *squee*. Re-reading Ender's Game too, in prep. Basically, Ender in Exile starts up immediately after Ender's Game ends).
I'm being good and waiting to pick stuff up til I'm done with finals (tomorrow!). All I need to do to prep for them is finish a paper...
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| Re: What are you reading right now? [message #7582 is a reply to message #722 ] |
Wed, 10 December 2008 22:56 |
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I'm meant to be reading The Dark is Rising, and I would like to read it--it's a perfect winter book, and it's one of my favorite books, and I need an idea for a knitting project....
But I CAN'T STOP READING PETER WIMSEY SHORT STORIES INSTEAD. They're like candy. They're addictive. And I am so shamelessly attached to Lord Peter that I can't even pretend not to be a ravening fangirl.
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| Re: What are you reading right now? [message #7590 is a reply to message #722 ] |
Wed, 10 December 2008 23:17 |
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See, that's why I like you, Charis. You're a ravening fangirl over so many things--you never run out of room for any fangirling. You have a big heart.
I'm reading Blood Noir, LKH.
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| Re: What are you reading right now? [message #7603 is a reply to message #722 ] |
Thu, 11 December 2008 01:49 |
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Earlier, as I was running water for my lovely bath, I started reading the first of the Lent-To-Me-By-Charis Heyers, Lady of Quality. So far I'm unimpressed, but then, it has to follow False Colours, so it's got a ways to go before it will win my affections... I am still absolutely infatuated with Kit Fancot! *sigh*
"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: What are you reading right now? [message #7667 is a reply to message #7603 ] |
Thu, 11 December 2008 17:08 |
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| Reading Angel wrote on Thu, 11 December 2008 08:49 |
Earlier, as I was running water for my lovely bath, I started reading the first of the Lent-To-Me-By-Charis Heyers, Lady of Quality. So far I'm unimpressed, but then, it has to follow False Colours, so it's got a ways to go before it will win my affections... I am still absolutely infatuated with Kit Fancot! *sigh*
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Lady of Quality has its charms, but is from a different era (of the writer's life) than False Colours. I would recommend one of the other light as froth Heyers: The Grand Sophy, or Arabella, or Frederica can always be read again and again and again.
ArtfulMagpie, book reading cannot be an addiction. I refute any such claim. The fact that I have forbidden myself from starting a new work of fiction before the end of this large translation project has nothing to do with my being addicted. It has nothing to do with the fact that if I like book I will not put it down until it is done, no matter the size of the book or the number of hours that go by, or my lack of sleep. I know no work will be done and there is a deadline to this work. No I will not succumb to the siren call of books. Tie me to the mast and let me sail by. (I will succumb to the forum, because I'm already sat at the computer and need to let my brain un-fry from time to time.
“I have always imagined heaven to be a kind of library.” –Jorge Luis Borges
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| Re: What are you reading right now? [message #7686 is a reply to message #7678 ] |
Thu, 11 December 2008 20:22 |
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| Melissa Mead wrote on Fri, 12 December 2008 12:20 |
I loved "Through Wolf's Eyes" and all the Firekeeper Saga. (I think there are...7?...books altogether._
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I really enjoyed the beginning 4 but after that it got all silly and I never even finished the last one, it was just so out of tone with the style that the first ones were in (for me)
But I really recommend the first couple as a good duology and you can go onwards further than that if you wish.
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| Re: What are you reading right now? [message #7708 is a reply to message #7590 ] |
Thu, 11 December 2008 22:47 |
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| ssshunt wrote on Wed, 10 December 2008 23:17 |
See, that's why I like you, Charis. You're a ravening fangirl over so many things--you never run out of room for any fangirling. You have a big heart.
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I may just have to quote that on my LJ profile! 
It's true, there is a lot of geeky love to go 'round here!
I ADORED Thud! I'm sort-of reading Small Gods, in between reading The Dark is Rising and the Lord Peter short stories and A Circle of Quiet. And I'm sort of reading Northanger Abbey.
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| Re: What are you reading right now? [message #7726 is a reply to message #722 ] |
Fri, 12 December 2008 09:46 |
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"Small Gods" is my next Terry Pratchett - I hope I will get to it soon.
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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: What are you reading right now? [message #7878 is a reply to message #7667 ] |
Sat, 13 December 2008 19:39 |
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| Susan from Athens wrote on Thu, 11 December 2008 17:08 |
Book reading cannot be an addiction. I refute any such claim. The fact that I have forbidden myself from starting a new work of fiction before the end of this large translation project has nothing to do with my being addicted. It has nothing to do with the fact that if I like book I will not put it down until it is done, no matter the size of the book or the number of hours that go by, or my lack of sleep. I know no work will be done and there is a deadline to this work. No I will not succumb to the siren call of books. Tie me to the mast and let me sail by. (I will succumb to the forum, because I'm already sat at the computer and need to let my brain un-fry from time to time.
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Well, THIS sounds awfully familiar.
Oh well.
Actually- it is kind of funny because in high school when we read The Odyssey, [freshman year? I think?] we had to do a "siren song essay project thing" and I wrote a poem about books. And reading. And the inescapability of it all. And how I don't really want to escape. Just to keep reading. So why do I have to be interrupted by having to write this essay? Oh, just a few more pages. Please?
...type of thing.
Where was I? I'll let my brain un-fry, as you put it, for a while longer. Then I suppose I really must return to that paper. Get at least one done tonight. And then go to pick up my laptop- got an email from the computer people saying that they have finished doing whatever they were doing to it, and I have to go get it or I have to pay them money, or something silly like that. Whatever.
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| Re: What are you reading right now? [message #7905 is a reply to message #7883 ] |
Sun, 14 December 2008 00:30 |
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| Julia wrote on Sat, 13 December 2008 20:11 |
Let me rephrase, then. To be able to read and read without feeling guilty about all the work that isn't getting done and really ought to have been done already.)
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AMEN! That sounds really familiar, Julia. I can't wait for that feeling. Two days for me, and then FREEDOM!
I have a lovely hoard waiting my guiltless enjoyment. A mix of old and new; I'm actually due for an LOTR re-read this break. And I plan on going Christmas shopping for me, at a bookstore. 
Currently reading Unknown Ajax , Soldier King and whatever else comes to hand. Just to get me through finals  I need something to break up history and linguistics.
I will pull out the cookie recipes this week though. I usually feel two urges: books, books, books, and making something tangible, like molasses cookies and fudge, after weeks of tests.
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| Re: What are you reading right now? [message #8099 is a reply to message #7667 ] |
Tue, 16 December 2008 05:27 |
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| Susan from Athens wrote on Thu, 11 December 2008 17:08 |
... book reading cannot be an addiction. I refute any such claim. The fact that I have forbidden myself from starting a new work of fiction before the end of this large translation project has nothing to do with my being addicted. It has nothing to do with the fact that if I like book I will not put it down until it is done, no matter the size of the book or the number of hours that go by, or my lack of sleep. I know no work will be done and there is a deadline to this work. No I will not succumb to the siren call of books. Tie me to the mast and let me sail by. (I will succumb to the forum, because I'm already sat at the computer and need to let my brain un-fry from time to time.)
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Oh phew! Here I was thinking I was the only one (or just plain *odd*) who couldn't put books down .... and had the characters dancing in my head dictating my thought streams.....
I just brought a bunch of books home from the library. Ooops. 2 by Sara Douglass and several by Georgette Heyer (since everyone seems to recommend her). Small books are *good*. 900 page books are .... dangerous.
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: What are you reading right now? [message #8105 is a reply to message #722 ] |
Tue, 16 December 2008 07:23 |
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when i get a new book,i rush home and get any house work or laundry done and then sit down and start reading until my husband gets home. once he sees that i have a new book, he tells the kids that their on their own tonight because mommy is gone until the book is finished.i protest, i will put the book down if asked[not fast or happily but it will go down]but he just likes all the attention.
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| Re: What are you reading right now? [message #8399 is a reply to message #722 ] |
Fri, 19 December 2008 15:38 |
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I recently re-read swiftly through Ender's Game, picked up Ender in Exile, which I've been enjoying a lot. You remember how the end of Ender's Game sort of breezed through all the space travel and time on the colonies? That's what Ender in Exile is about. Though, it got interrupted for a few hours last night to zoom through LKH's latest offering. It has a plot and story progression. And there wasn't any sex until page 153 or so! I enjoyed it.
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| Re: What are you reading right now? [message #8402 is a reply to message #722 ] |
Fri, 19 December 2008 15:41 |
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I know! I read it too! I like character driven, voice driven narratives--Hallelujah.
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| Re: What are you reading right now? [message #8406 is a reply to message #8402 ] |
Fri, 19 December 2008 16:04 |
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I really like a lot of the characters in her Merry Gentry series. I can take or leave the sex, but the politics and inter-character dynamics really draw me in.
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| Re: What are you reading right now? [message #8412 is a reply to message #722 ] |
Fri, 19 December 2008 19:27 |
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Me too. Love Merry--and there wasn't near as much sex this time. Glad she got you know who back. It sort of sounded like it might be the last book, didn't it? But I doubt that.
But Blood Noir, the Anita Blake new one, was better too.
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| Re: What are you reading right now? [message #8430 is a reply to message #722 ] |
Fri, 19 December 2008 22:10 |
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Yay, I picked up a copy of Strong Poison! *ignores the stuff she should be doing in order to over dose on Lord Peter*
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| Re: What are you reading right now? [message #8436 is a reply to message #722 ] |
Fri, 19 December 2008 23:54 |
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Dear Charis,
I thought we had a thing.
With Love,
Faramir
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| Re: What are you reading right now? [message #8518 is a reply to message #722 ] |
Sun, 21 December 2008 01:25 |
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Little bit sorry, B_twin_1. Will have to do. And I'm just getting ready to read this amazing book, but I can't remember the title. Will get back too you on that. Heard about the book first here. Oh my brain.
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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| Re: What are you reading right now? [message #8561 is a reply to message #8518 ] |
Sun, 21 December 2008 16:27 |
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| ssshunt wrote on Sat, 20 December 2008 23:25 |
Little bit sorry, B_twin_1. Will have to do. And I'm just getting ready to read this amazing book, but I can't remember the title. Will get back too you on that. Heard about the book first here. Oh my brain.
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b_twin_1, it occurs to me that this remark is very flippant, and sounds like I was not going to do as you so gently asked--to get back on topic. I'm very sorry about that. I was joking, but I think this one tanked. I then talked about the book I'm reading, so I was trying to get back on track, but I blew it. Very sorry. Sometimes we all go off and before you know it we're so OT that we need someone to remind us--and that's what you did.
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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| Re: What are you reading right now? [message #8562 is a reply to message #722 ] |
Sun, 21 December 2008 16:29 |
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And the book I'm about to dig into is Tales of Moonlight and Rain, by Ueda Akinari.
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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| Re: What are you reading right now? [message #8602 is a reply to message #722 ] |
Sun, 21 December 2008 20:02 |
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Yup. (winky thing)
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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