Anna Begins

I Agree- my last movie too. Saw it the day before it came out in a sneak peak

M.I.A.- Galang

I'm about 12% through on my Kindle for Hild and was just wondering if anyone is reading it and if they'd like to chat. Abridged by me from Amazon In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, frequently and violently. A new religion is coming ashore; the old gods are struggling, their priests worrying. Hild is the king's youngest niece, and she has a glimmering mind and a natural, noble authority. She will become a fascinating woman and one of the pivotal figures of the Middle Ages: Saint Hilda of Whitby. ...Working from what little historical record is extant, Griffith has brought a beautiful, brutal world to vivid, absorbing life.

Have now fully committed to Hild By Nicola Griffith. I don't think it will be an easy read, and I think it's one of those you have to trust in- ya know like you don't fully understand now, but you will later kinda book? From Amazon In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, frequently and violently. A new religion is coming ashore; the old gods are struggling, their priests worrying. Hild is the king's youngest niece, and she has a glimmering mind and a natural, noble authority. She will become a fascinating woman and one of the pivotal figures of the Middle Ages: Saint Hilda of Whitby. ...Working from what little historical record is extant, Griffith has brought a beautiful, brutal world to vivid, absorbing life.

Thanks for the nice welcome!

Kings of Leon- Closer

Unbroken: A World War Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption By Laura Hillenbrand. One of the best books ever read. A track runner almost to make the Berlin Olympics, Louis Zamperini becomes an airman, crashes and then his held by the Japanese. That description is grimm, but the story isn't. Hillderbrand is a great writer and its impossible not to fall in love with Zamperini- especially when seeing him on a skateboard at 81. Supposedly, Angelina Jolie is going to Produce and Direct this into a mmovie. I'm not to keen on movie adaptations.

Nice black tea just before bed, with milk and sugar.

I'd love to meet Joe Hill! You are so lucky! This one is a sample on my Kindle- TBR ASAP. Heart Shaped Box and Horns were my favorite.

The Hunger Games are some of my favorite books- so entertaining. Catching Fire kept pretty close to the book, like the first one. I'm not saying it was 100%, but most than some other movie/ book adaptations.

For me, Id have to say: Gone with the Wind- Margaret Mitchel Catcher in the Rye- JD Saliner Love's Labors Lost- Shakespeare

Your government- can we have one pleeese???

I <3 Netherlands!

I love my kindle! I have one rad Coach purse that holds my tablet and my Kindles (I have two lol)... along with all the stuff my 5yr old requires.... and no, its not as big as my head Day two of Hild By Nicola Griffith. It looks like its either going to be a hard book to read, or a book I'll just have to hold on with, as it reveals itself to me (ya know those kind of books?) The language is super daunting. I'd like to embark next upon And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini and Life After Life By Kate Atkinson.

I liked it... but not. I read it after Hiroshima by John Hershy, so I guess I was a but tainted. Personally, I've always thought Vonnugut falls short. I was shocked by how easy Great Expectations was to read- a reason I'm always daunted by Dickens. Nicholas Nicolby is good too.

I read A Game of Thrones, but I didn't really like it I thought it was written fine, but it just didn't grab me fore #2. Its not really my type of reading anyway. I have a hard time with sci fiction/ fantasy and some Historical Fiction. I've never categorized my yearly reads, ol listening the, Im liking it!

Cool- I LOED Mark Twain, probably one of my happiest reads this yr as its been on my TRL for a long time, as well as Uncle Tom's Cabin. **Downloads Kindle samples for Roughing it and Life on the Mississippi** Thanks for the recommendations!

Looove Max Brooks- you know he's Mel Brook's son? I was when I found that out!

Yup- thanks for noticing!

Grrr... That got two posts... supposed to be Thanks to Charlie and a "Where are you in the US?" for charliepud

Hey! Welcome- although I just got here today too Looking forward to expand my horizons listening to what you are reading!

In in Napa, California. I have a somewhat love/ hate relationship with this city, but I do have to say, it is gorgeous this time of the year. My recommendation would be to start with 11/22/63, The Green Mile or Needful Things. Both 11/22/63 and Needful Things will go fast, The Green Mile is short. Needful Things is a good first time King Book, Id say

Yes! I was surprised how much I've read this year! The Hunger Games Trilology was a big fav. The Stand, Green Mile and Thinner stand out, which reminded me what a tremendous genius he is. Also, Jack Reacher #6, Without Fail, has been my fav of that series. Reacher just rocks the house. Uncle Tom's Cabin and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, long over due, were most enjoyed. Hostage by Elie Wiesel and Atlas Shrugged By Ayn Rand probably be my best of the list.

This is my year in Books- some I've loved, some I've hated some...well...eh) By Lee Child (in succession) Killing Floor (Jack Reacher #1) Die Trying (#2) Tripwire (#3) Running Blind (#4) Echo Burning (#5) Without Fail (#6) Keeping the Faith with the Party: Communist Believers Return from the Gulag By Nancy Adler The Lady in the Tower- Allison Weir North of the DMZ: Essays on Daily Life in North Korea By Andrei Lankov The Turner Diaries By Dr. William Pierce By William Webb Zombies of All Hallows Evil Valley of Death: Zombie Trailer Park Evita, First Lady: A Biography of Evita Peron By John Barnes Even Silence has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Columbian Jungle By Ingrid Bentacourt Psycho By Robert Bloch Midwives By Chris Bohjalian The Illustrated Man By Ray Bradbury (3rd time) Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Charles Manson Murders By Vincent Bugliosi The Perks of Being a Wallflower By Stephen Chbosky (2nd time) The Passage By Justin Cronin Great Expectations By Charles Dickens Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea By Barbara Demick Cinderella's Sisters: A History of Footbinding By Dorothy Ko Works of Dostoyevsky By Fyodor Dostoyevsky History of the Middle Ages By Victor Duruy Gone Girl By Gillian Flynn By Karen Fossum, the Inspector Sejer series: The Caller The Indian Bride Don't Look Back Slaughter House 5- Kurt Vonnegut Dresden: A survivor's Story By Victor Gregg The Old Man in the Sea By Ernest Hemmingway The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin By Adam Hochschild Hiroshima By John Hersey By Joe Hill: Thumbprint 20th Century Ghosts Throttle (with Stephen King) The Dead Path By Stephen M. Irwin The Lottery (2nd time) and Other Stories By Shirley Jackson Bitter Freedom: Memoirs of a Holocaust Survivor By Jafa Wallach Hunger Games Series By Suzanne Collins (3rd time) Hunger Games Catching Fire Mockingjay By Stephen King (in succession) 11/22/63 The Green Mile Carrie The Stand The Long Walk Needful Things Thinner Different Seasons Into Thin Air By John Krakauer Horror in the East: Japan and the Atrocities of WW2 By Laurence Rees The World Is Bigger Now: An American Journalist's Release from Captivity in North Korea By Euna Lee Five Chimneys: The Story of Auschwitz By Olga Lengyel Survival in Auschwitz By Primo Levi The Magician's Nephew: The Chronicles of Narnia By CS Lewis Somewhere Inside: One sister's Captivity in North Korea By Laura and Lisa Ling A Zombie Apocalypse By Keith Luethke A Game of Thrones: Book One By George R.R. Martin Peter the Great: His Life a and World By Robert K. Massie Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead: as told to Jody M. Roy, Ph.D By Frank Meeink and Jody M. Roy Ph.D Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945 By Catherine Merridale Holy Bible, New Testament to Psalms Survival in the Killing Fields By Haing Ngor Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account By Miklos Nyiszli By Chuck Palahniuk (in succession) Phoenix Damned Survival: A Novel Fight Club Haunted Ivan the Terrible By Robert Payne and Nikita Romanoff Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China By Wang Ping The Bell Jar By Sylvia Plath (2nd time) Atlas Shrugged By Ayn Rand The Last Jew of Triblinka: A Memior By Chil Rajchman Auschwitz: A New History 2 By Laurence Rees All Quiet on the Wesrtern Front By Erich Maria Remarque (2nd time) The Holocaust Scream By Rachel Rosenberg and Robert Urban M.D. The Forgotten Soldier: A Classic WWII Autobiography By Guy Sajer Kolyma Tales By Varlan Shalanov Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin By Timothy Snyder By Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: The Gulag Archipelago Cancer Ward One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: Tortilla Flat Of Mice and Men Cannery Row The Pearl Dracula By Bram Stoker Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe Sliding on the Snow Stone By Andy Szpuk The News from Paraguay By Lilly Tuck (2nd time) By Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Adventures of Tom Sawyer First the Killed my Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers By Loung Ung By Elie Wiesel Hostage Night Dawn Day 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement By Jane Ziegelman Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai undercity By Katherine Boo Currently reading: Hild: A Novel by Nicoloa Griffith Next samples to read: And the Mountains Echoed Khaled Hosseini and Life After Life By Kate Atkinson.