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Finished Seed and now have moved on to highly anticipated The Girl With All the Gifts by MR Carey.
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I can't wait to see if her writing will be translated, I am eager to read some of it. Saw this and thought of you, emelee
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Seed- Lisa Heathfield (353 pages) Pearl is a 15 year old teenager who lives in a religious cult in a commune; praising nature and their guru Papa S. I liked this book. A lot. I know Noll finished it not too long ago and had somethings to say, but I thought it was pretty intense, grabbed my attention, I didn’t find myself weary of the story or wanting it to be over. In fact, I read it in two days, so it was over quickly for me, too bad because I enjoyed it. But the 353 pages was just enough, so that was great too. I loved the twisted world created by Heathfield, frightening, as I wasn’t sure what was coming next. Each Papa S meeting built up tension within me and also with the cult. I liked all the characters, I thought the philosophy and rituals of the religion were well thought out and I would recommend this book. Thanks to Lisa Heathfield for an enjoyable October read!
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And a problem with *ahem* editing. That book could've been a whole lot shorter and I am sure it was hard for him to even get it down past 400. The ending was ridiculous! I can think of some bad ones, but this one is up there. Parts of it didn't even make sense. Edited: But I did like the part
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I can do maybe 3-4 at a time, but they all have to be different genres. I found lately, just reading one book is a bit boring I MUST get to Station Eleven! Still in October/ Halloween/ creepiness mode, I am now 100 pages into the already disturbing Seed by Lisa Heathfield.
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Revival-Stephen King, 374 pages On his face was a rage so deep and black I involuntarily fell back a step. The breeze had tumbled his thinning hair over his lined brow. He swept it back and then pressed his palms to his temples, like a man suffering a monster headache. If this book had been the last 75 pages or so and written by HG Wells, it would be great. It’s not though- written by or great. It’s an ok book from King that could have been even shorter than 374 pages and dragged on and on. Sort of a pay off at the end. Disappointed. Not recommended.
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There was one year, I never kept track, but I an stunned to think of how much I spent to built my digital library. I have spent so so much. There are books I don't even remember buying, just ones I wanted in my Kindle library. Now I "buy as I go" and don't buy far ahead, just one book at a time- it only helps a little, I read 87 books last year
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I am reading this now.... so far. I really want to read this, but other books keep getting in the way! I've been waiting awhile now. Glad you are enjoying them! You manage so many books at the same time! I can only do a variety of genres.
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Oh I am so glad you liked this, because I am probably the one who recommended it I love this book, but you are right about Breathing Method, I don't even recollect the story! I LOVED Apt Pupil, so evil! I've always wanted to do 100 Years... first, but am put off by the magical realism said to be in the story. Maybe Cholera should be first. In any case, great review of an author I have always wanted to explore more of! Alexi is a very smart lady
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ha ha yes, Manhattan is crazy expensive. We stayed there when I was in NY once (right in Times Square) and it just took your breath away! SF is great, its so open minded and easy going, so is the area, like the better neighborhoods in Oakland or in Berkeley. I'd love to move, but only to a few other states Boston accents crack me up! Now that I've read both Peter the Great and Nicholas and Alexandra, I want to read Russka even more! to the reviewers
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I never do either! Its like, I think people can find a sample on Amazon, an actual bookstore (oh the horror!) or somewhere They shouldn't be included at all.
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What books are you looking forward to in 2015?
Anna Begins replied to chesilbeach's topic in General Book Discussions
I'm looking forward to Margaret Atwood's new book, The Heart Goes Last. It was released on September 29th: (I think this might have started as a series of short stories) Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car, leaving them vulnerable to roving gangs. They desperately need to turn their situation around—and fast. The Positron Project in the town of Consilience seems to be the answer to their prayers. No one is unemployed and everyone gets a comfortable, clean house to live in . . . for six months out of the year. On alternating months, residents of Consilience must leave their homes and function as inmates in the Positron prison system. Once their month of service in the prison is completed, they can return to their "civilian" homes. At first, this doesn't seem like too much of a sacrifice to make in order to have a roof over one's head and food to eat. But when Charmaine becomes romantically involved with the man who lives in their house during the months when she and Stan are in the prison, a series of troubling events unfolds, putting Stan's life in danger. With each passing day, Positron looks less like a prayer answered and more like a chilling prophecy fulfilled. -
I read about 200 pages of Stephen King's Revival yesterday I am liking it, but waiting for something to happen. At 60% now.
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^^ Interesting to hear your opinions, I hope to see it this week and haven't read the book yet. Today we saw Transylvania Hotel 2, which was too darn cute. We also ate too much theater food
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Just a warning- the page numbers and percentage in the ebook were off because of an Epilogue, Family Tree and excerpt from Catherine the Great
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I saw your comment to me, but now I can't find it I am always doing that. The US would love to have you! If you picked NY, would you want to be in Manhattan? And if it were California, would it be SF?
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Nice books! Yes, The Mall of America, it was fun, first time my daughter ate pinto beans (she was 6 mos old) at the Chipotle Upstate NY in the Fall would be absolutely GORGEOUS! Jealous! We took the trip in the Spring, hoped to see Death Valley in bloom, but it didn't bloom that year. It was funny to be somewhere at 9:00 at night and have the temperature be 90 degrees You should see the rollercoaster in the middle
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It's only 4 characters and a one act- good piece of work, they are all trapped in the afterlife. First, I can't believe you bough 551 books in 2011 But awesome on the 40 for the year- and only 3 more months to go! Shorter books can be some of the best ones. And No Exit is short, but I guess that would count as a "buy"... or does a play count? Sorry I didn't respond sooner... bad time of year and all.
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Big book slump :/
Anna Begins replied to pink_girl's topic in Book Search and Reading Recommendations
Being that it is October...a good way to celebrate! Carrie is pretty short. -
Wow, Noll, that's awesome! Happy October everyone... I am kicking it off with Stephen King's Revival, which is already creepy.
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Nicholas and Alexandra- Robert K Massie (562 pages) Three hundred and four years after a shy sixteen year old boy, the first Romanov, had reluctantly accepted the throne of Imperial Russia, it disintegrated into a Soviet Republic. Robert K Massie’s history of Nicholas and Alexandra Romanov’s reign and execution is amazing. Perhaps more famous for their death than for their life, Massie explores many questions we have about the early 1900’s to around 1920 in Russian history. Explaining how Nicholas could have allowed the takeover of his country and the murder of his family, how Alexandra stocked his cabinet with Rasputin supporters and what role the mystic played in her son’s life, a hemophiliac. Massie also handles the arrest of Nicholas, the Romanov imprisonment, and their startling end at the hands of soviets. Lots of details are given in this book- what they ate, what they did for leisure, what their clothes looked like and were made of, how much the Tsar visited the front and background on the War (I). Maybe two and a half sections of the book is devoted to the role Rasputin had on the family, especially the Empress’s decisions, of which I was surprised of. As a whole, Rasputin was quite the character in history according to Massie, smelling like a goat, hypnotizing with his grey eyes, standing over 6 feet tall. His prediction of his own death turned out to be true- a death that included poisoning, shooting, beating and drowning- and the vision of the Romanov dynasty crumbling after his assassination. More focus could have been shed on the Romanov daughters, but the amount of research into the tsarevich’s hemophilia was extensive. Massie’s selection of letters to and from Nicholas and Alexandra are perfect, and are helped along by a diary Nicholas kept, a few sentences, but enough to show you what he knew and when. The amount of work Massie has put into this book seems so effortless, and he has a great way of telling it. The execution of the Tsar’s family was needed not only in order to frighten, horrify and dishearten the enemy, but also to shake up our own ranks to show there was no turning back, that ahead lay either complete victory or complete ruin…This Lenin sensed very well. Highly recommended.
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We were there only overnight and went to the Mall in Minneapolis, St. Paul, then over to Fargo, Bismarck and into Montana. That was towards the end of our trip, we had lazily gone through the south and the east coast, so by the northern part, we hurried a bit. Shame, it was so pretty I loved New England We only went to Massachusetts and Connecticut before we cut over to New York though. Have a god time tomorrow!
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It plays up the Amish part more: http://www.amazon.com/Plain-Truth-Novel-Jodi-Picoult-ebook/dp/B000FC0STQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1443205670&sr=1-1&keywords=plain+truth
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Movies You're Looking Forward to in 2015
Anna Begins replied to Karsa Orlong's topic in Music / TV / Films
I'll try and read the book first then. Its a little (ok a lot) irritating that I saw the book for $3 and didn't get it, then it went to $4 and now its back up to $9.