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    What's Your Book Activity Today? - Take 7

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    Wooo Hoooo! Since I will be working on Christmas, I got my gifts from my folks and my sister early. Two $25 gift cards for Borders and Amazon. :):D

     

    This is what I ordered:

     

    The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

    The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

    Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy

    Beauty by Robin McKinley

    The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison

    The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas

    The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

     

    My family is awesome!

    A new first line of current book

    in General Book Discussions

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    There's a big moon glowing in the sky, a swollen circle of silvery-gold light that looks as though it is sitting right on top of the old Clark Building, balancing there on the northeast corner where the twisted remains of a smokestack rises up from the roof like a long, tottery flagpole, colors lowered for the night, or maybe like a tin giant's arm making some kind of semaphore that only other tin giants can understand.

     

    The Ivory and the Horn by Charles De Lint

    Your surprise book of 2009

    in General Book Discussions

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    It was definitely Jane Eyre for me. It was not a book I would have picked up on my own, and I loved it so much that my ideas for what books I will choose to read have expanded even more. A thank you must be given to the two ladies who suggested I read this book, Bookjumper and Vanwa. :D

    Need new inebriated author

    in Book Search and Reading Recommendations

    Posted · Edited by libri vermis

    Hmmm, if you like Tom Robbins, you might want to try Thomas Pynchon. I haven't read him yet, but I have heard he is wacked in a similar way. Tom Robbins is the more accessible of the two, though.

     

    You may also like Christopher Moore. I don't enjoy him quite as much as Tom Robbins, but he is more prolific. Try either Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal or Island of the Sequined Love Nun. :D

     

    Oh, and another author you might like is Philip K. Dick. His style is definitely a bit "off". Less humor and more science fiction than the previous two mentioned. Try UBIK or Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.

    Libri's Library

    in Past Book Logs

    Posted · Edited by libri vermis

    Last five books I read and my ratings:

     

    False Memory by Dean Koontz 3/5

    Memory and Dream by Charles De Lint 3/5

    Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence 3/5

    VALIS by Philip K. Dick 4/5

    The Stranger by Albert Camus 5/5

     

    The next ten books I am reading:

     

    The Darkest Evening of the Year by Dean Koontz

    The Ivory and the Horn by Charles De Lint

    The Birthday of the World and Other Stories by Ursula Le Guin

    Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

    Darkfall by Dean Koontz

    Jack of Kinrowan by Charles De Lint

    Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

    Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land by John Crowley

    Demon Seed by Dean Koontz

    Trader by Charles De Lint

     

    There is a lot of De Lint and Koontz on my list because over the past year I collected all the books I could find by them, and now want to get through them, as they both have a large catalog. :D

    Libri's Library

    in Past Book Logs

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    I read this a few years ago. Putting aside the coarseness of some of the language it is a rather romantic yet tragic tale. Personally I enjoyed it. (note to BookJumper, if you haven't already then don't read it, I know how you feel about some of the types of scenes it contains).

    There were some scenes in the book that I found breathtaking. My biggest issue was the ending. It seemed rather abrupt. It is worth a re-read. My rule is if I rate a book 3 stars or above, I will hold on to it and perhaps read it again years from now. 5 stars books will definitely get a second visit, and possibly more. :lol:

    Libri's Library

    in Past Book Logs

    Posted · Edited by libri vermis

    Since I am now working full time, I don't have the time to give full reviews of books.

     

    I finished False Memory by Dean Koontz, and it was merely okay for me. Much of it was predictable and written for shock value. 3/5 stars

     

    After that I read Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence. Again, merely okay. Some of it was beautiful, some of it I found to be ridiculous and monotonous. 3/5 stars

     

    I finished The Stranger yesterday by Albert Camus. While I find the philosophy behind the book disturbing, that doesn't mean the book was not a thought-provoking read. 5/5 stars

     

    Oh, I also read Memory and Dream by Charles De Lint. Not one of the better ones I have read by him. 3/5 stars

     

    I really should stick to the order I say I am going to read my books in. :lol:

    Most memorable first lines

    in General Book Discussions

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    Here are quite a few that stick with me:

     

    The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. - The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle.

     

    O Palicrovol, with death and vengeance in your eyes, I write to you because over the centuries there are tales you have forgotten, and tales you never knew. - Hart's Hope by Orson Scott Card

     

    On a certain day in June, 19--, a young man was making his way on foot northward from the great City to a town or place called Edgewood, that he had been told of but never visited. His name was Smoky Barnable, and he was going to Edgewood to get married; the fact that he walked and didn't ride was one of the conditions placed on his coming there at all. - Little, Big by John Crowley

     

    The story of Terisa and Geraden began very much like a fable. - The Mirror of Her Dreams by Stephen R. Donaldson

     

    A great city is nothing more than a portrait of itself, and yet when all is said and done, its arsenals of scenes and images are part of a deeply moving plan. - Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin

     

    Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. - Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov

     

    It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. - 1984 by George Orwell

     

    The magician's underwear had just been found in a cardboard suitcase floating in a stagnant pond on the outskirts of Miami. - Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins

     

    Dante stared and stared at the corpse, but a blindness waited behind his eyes. It was as if he couldn't see the body; couldn't grasp it, or what it meant. - Resurrection Man by Sean Stewart

    Favourite Signatures

    in General Chat

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    I love Bookjumper's signature. The sentence is powerful and evokes emotion gorgeously.

     

    Bookjumper, am I being too forward in asking if I may read more of what you have written? Are you published? If so, where may I purchase one your books?

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