Anna Begins

Hey Weave- Glad to see your new blog And stop in more What did you think of Tuck Everlasting? I read it in Jr. High School. I also thought The Heart Goes Last by Atwood was great- did you like it? I know you read a lot of her stuff. Good to see you around! You've read a lot so far!

I have decided not to join. Reading audio Immersion books is easier for me, where the audio reads with the text. Most of my 2016 TBR are Immersion reading and if I buy the book, I get the audio for cheaper. For example, the audio for Alison Weir's Life of Elizabeth I is 36 dollars on audio, but only 19 if you buy the book and the audio. Not only do I get the digital book, but the audio as well.

See why I thought you'd like horror movies? ^^

Thanks! Hopefully in a few days, I will be back to my normal reading self I LOVED The Heart Goes Last! I just added an audiobook to read along with The Stand. I chose another Caroline Knapp book, her memoir Appetites, about her years of struggle with Anorexia. I love Caroline Knapp's writing and was sad today to learn she passed in 2002.

No, I just thought you might be interested

That's too bad about SPQR although I have too admit I don't even know much about it, just that Amazon thought I'd like it I've always wanted to read Marquez, but have been holding off because of your comments lol That's good to know, I am a bit put off by The Bone Clocks, like Kate, I am not really a fan of magical realism. I hope to read it later in the year for a read a thon.

Ooh- I didn't know this, my mom might like it too! Have you heard of The Witch? I saw the trailer and thought of you

I love the covers for The Miniaturist. I'm definitely daunted by The Crimson Petal and the White. Been putting off Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer since 2001.

It was! Looking back, I think they made a huge impression on me, so many books! Thanks for the link! I will (try) to get to them, probably try to read the first 3, just to get to the Old West and read a "true" western. I do think I am going to give Last of the Breed a go this year though. I don't think you will be disappointed! I couldn't put it down! In fact, just talking about Gregory, make me want to pick up another books of hers right now

How is your audiobook going? About how much time a day do you think you dedicate to a longer audiobook? I'm a bit stalled in The Stand, but it's not the book's fault, I am having trouble concentrating the last few weeks. I am enjoying it though, slowly. The Immersion Reading is helping a lot, I just have trouble motivating myself to pick it up, as I don't really feel like doing anything

Good!

Will Peeta Mellark work?

Good news Both The Secret History, The Girl on the Train and The Invention of Wings are all Immersion Reading and that is totally what I am looking for. I already own Girl on the Train, so the audio is cheaper Thanks! I have never gotten into Jane Austen, maybe now is the time

I am always in the minority in this topic, I am a paperless reader. I don't like carting around or holding a book.

It's 1300 pages

This morning I finished the audiobook for Drinking: A Love Story. Very well written, great insight. This afternoon, I plan on beginning the Immersion Reading of The Stand, some 48 hours of audio. My goal is to finish by the March read a thon

This was a long time ago, but how was it? I just randomly got this recommended for me from Amazon yesterday, I'd never heard of it and just made the connection that you had when I saw this post. Isn't that just the worst? Alison Weir has a new 6 book series coming out on the Queens of England and I hope it doesn't take 6 years! In the meantime, she had another release this year, about Lady Margaret Douglas. So ya, Ahhhhh! I hope to get to this, this year. I've never read any David Mitchell before, have you? The mystical realism throws me off.

No, I don't think it would be, but you would probably find it very interesting, the belief systems of the faith. I am always interested in finding out different ways people live, this was... quite the insight. Thanks Kate You will not be disappointed by When Paris Went Dark, it is definitely one of two books this year that have been my favorites (^^ Under the Banner of Heaven would be the other). I was just looking at some Sacketts the other day! They have a large selection of his work on Amazon's audiobooks. I suppose there is a Wiki with the order somewhere? I should start with book 1, ya? I don't know if I would read them all, but I have never read any western before. My grandfather was a great admirer of L'Amour's and had a whole end table filled with them. I wish I had them now!

I just finished the Immersion reading of Jon Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith, easily ties with When Paris Went Dark as my best reads of the year so far. Now starting the audio for Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp.

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer. Narrated by Scott Brick. 432 pages, 12h 37m WOW. What a read. Jon Krakauer is best known best for his wonderful biography of Chris McCandleless called Into the Wild and made into an even better movie directed by Sean Penn. In Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith, Krakauer again sets up a great book with an investigative type piece of journalism about the Fundamentalist Mormon sects that live in North America. Exploring the intricacies of plural marriage and the incest that surround them, the book is filled with true life events of those who have escaped and those of the Fundamentalist leaders themselves. The facts are stunning, 6 wives, 37 children, women married to their step brothers and fathers. I know a lot about the major news events of the religion, but it was fascinating and disturbing to hear the details of the FLDS religion itself, of which I know very little (as is in their nature). The news events of Tom Green, Elizabeth Smart and others were of particular interest. Always a defender of the right to practice one’s own religion and a devout critic of what went down in Texas in 2006, when over 400 children were taken from their mothers, I quickly changed my mind about these views.

My dad recommended the Jack Reacher series to me by Lee Child I've gotten numerous recommendations from Alexi (too many to count) and Brian (Man in the High Castle, and others) Legend by Marie Lu (from Gaia) Philippa Gregory from my dad's wife That's 5 OH! I forgot Weave, for Margaret Atwood.

Right, let me take all the blame

I miss Weave!

Cancer Ward is good, but Ivan made such a lasting impression on me. I love Solzhenitsyn, great writer. Have you read Anne Applebaum? Gulag was great (if you can call a read like that great!).