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LOL, OTOH.......a kindle won't mildew. Love the Pink Panther.

Yikes and Yays! You are one fast reader! Congratulations.

You should be very proud, Muggle! She has been nothing but an high achiever, all along. Well done! Alaska sounds fun, but also very scary.

Thanks for the confirmation. Yup, been there, done that! Been there, done that too! I've picked up a PKD kindle on sale...The Crack in Space. So far, so good.

I read somewhere that The Dresden Files should be read in order. From the first three, I can believe it.

It should show photo credits on the same page as the ISBN.

Started the second of The Last Policeman trilogy, Countdown City. It is starting to pull me in.

Storm Front (The Dresden Files #1) 3/5 Fool Moon (The Dresden Files #2) 3/5 Grave Peril (The Dresden Files #3) by Jim Butcher 4/5 Since I read the first three of the Harry Dresden books together, I thought I'd simply write one review. Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden is the Wizardly incarnation of Sam Spade, wisecracking his way through murders by Werewolves of all stripe, Vampire Queens, Bad Wizards and Faerie Queens, not to mention your run of the mill ghosts, goblins and various and sundry spooks littering the Chicago landscape. Then there is Harry's "home life", a whole 'nuther ball of wax. He has a side gig with the Chicago P.D.'s Special Investigations Unit that investigates, um, weirdness. But not all of the Department believes in the um, weirdness, so Harry has his hands full on that field of operation as well. Butcher's descriptions, and character sketches are very well done, and the story just pulls the reader along. I had to know what happened. And, how on earth was Harry going to get out of this one. These are the only three I've read so far, and I'll certainly read more. They are different enough to keep my interest.

A Dish Taken Cold A Novella by Anne Perry 4/5 Revenge is a dish best taken cold. Anne Perry has sliced off a bit of the French Revolution and personalized it in the form of Celie, a young woman whose baby has died. Malicious gossip, true or not, bends the young woman to find her revenge in a most cold-blooded manner. The Revolution itself is a wonderfully drawn character. The madness is certainly felt at every turn. Will her revenge succeed? Should it? Take an hour and read it and find out.

Well, thanks to certain posters here.....you know who you are!! I am halfway into the third of the Dresden File books. Will review in bulk later.... LOL. But will say they have a way of dragging the reader along.

Regarding getting the books home. When we buy books out of town we always mail them home. Collect enough for a box and send by postage rate. I am not sure about rates over there, but here it is quite cheap to mail books. Have a lot of fun, and buy many books!

I agree, the previous seasons were only about half of that amount. I am on the iPad, so cannot use the spoiler tags...the formatting bar doesn't show. But I can say I am glad about your spoiler!

Glad to hear you are enjoying Midnight's Children. In the past, I've started it twice with no luck.

Beautiful book! I was almost fooled......no spots........

What a sweetheart! He knows you well.

Me too! Me too! Reading the first one, really liking it a lot.

I've read Pillars of the Earth twice, last time was about 9 years ago though. I loved it too. Still halfway through Angle of Repose. /sigh/ But!! I'm also 61% through the first Dresden File book, Storm Front.. I'm liking it a lot.

Right, we've watched the first two seasons on DVD, but I just priced the third season......the last six episodes you linked. Here they are about 65 USD. Just too high for my taste. They come out earlier here, May 27th I think. I suppose they'll come down later. I hope. I know the first one is based on Mankell's book of the same name, The Troubled Man. We've read it, and it's really good. Natch. I guess this might be a spoiler, so.......

Too bloody true.

You are quite welcome. What a great sale! btw, if you like the Dresden Files books, the first 7 are on sale at Amazon U.S. for 1.99 USD each. http://www.amazon.com/gp/goldbox/ref=pe_837390_118613540_dotd_h_learn

On Amazon U.S. the first seven of the Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files series are on sale for 1.99 USD. http://www.amazon.com/gp/goldbox/ref=pe_837390_118613540_dotd_h_learn

LOL Two sides to that coin, James. Been there, had it happen.

Hah, what horse hockey! Some of the books I see advertised on Amazon as "literary fiction" are (IMHO) pure dreck. Really. I read an article in the NYT yesterday about the author of Zone One, and boy. He sounds pretentious as heck, and like his book sounds, just too smart aleck for my taste. Here is the article if you're interested. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/books/review/colson-whitehead-by-the-book.html?ref=books&_r=0

This just an FYI post. I thought some of the readers of the subject books of this thread might be interested in the following. I've just downloaded, on kindle, from Amazon something quite interesting. A Fable by William Faulkner. I'd forgotten he'd fought in WWI. Here is the bit from Amazon describing it. Haven't read it yet, but with Faulkner's prose, it can't miss, IMO. And, even better, it was on sale for 2.99 USD. Can't beat that with a stick. "This novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955. An allegorical story of World War I, set in the trenches in France and dealing ostensibly with a mutiny in a French regiment, it was originally considered a sharp departure for Faulkner. Recently it has come to be recognized as one of his major works and an essential part of the Faulkner oeuvre. Faulkner himself fought in the war, and his descriptions of it "rise to magnificence," according to The New York Times, and include, in Malcolm Cowley's words, "some of the most powerful scenes he ever conceived." WOW.

It is, I'm shortly going to read the second in that trilogy. The more I think on it, the more I know I've liked it a lot.