Deirdre Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 As the year is almost finished I will already start with my TBR list for 2008 and add the list that I have read this year so far. My current read is still Brimstone by Preston & Child, I'm not so fast a reader anymore since my son was born, and I probably will finish this year by reading Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill READ IN 2007: Sarah Waters - Affinity Val mc Dermid - The Torment of Others Jeffrey Deaver - The Bone Collector Peter Straub - Lost Boy, Lost Girl (dissapointing) Tess Gerritsen - The Surgeon Simon Beckett - The Chemistry of Death Cecily von Ziegesar - Gossip Girl Peter James - Dead Simple Richard Montanari - The Rosary Girls Melissa de la Cruz - The Au Pairs Cecelia Ahern - Where Rainbows End Preston & Child - The Relic P.J. Tracy - Monkeewrench Boris Starling - Messiah Diane Setterfield - The Thirteenth Tale Harlan Coben - Tell No One John Connolly - Every Dead Thing (Re-read, still loving it) Preston & Child - Reliquary Sebastian Fitzek - The Therapy Richard Montanari - The Skin Gods Preston & Child - The Cabinet of Curiosities Michael Marshall - The Intruders John Saul - The Blackstone Chronicles Jeff Abbott - Panic Brian Freeman - Immoral Preston & Child - Still Life with Crows Preston & Child - Brimstone Karin Slaughter - Blindsighted Joe Hill - Heart Shaped Box Marion Zimmer Bradley- Ghostlight TO BE READ IN 2008 (so far) Preston & Child - Dance of Death Preston & Child - The Book of the Death Preston & Child - The Wheel of Darkness Kate Mosse - Labyrinth Gordon Dahlquist - The Glass Books of the Dream Eater Markus Zusak - The Book Thief Elizabeth Kostova - The Historian Sheridan Hay - The Secret of Lost Things Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel Marisha Pessl - Special Topics in Calamity Procedures Karin Slaughter - Kisscut James Clemens - Wit'ch Fire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deirdre Posted December 8, 2007 Author Share Posted December 8, 2007 Although I have not yet finished Brimstone by Preston & Child, for some reason I can't really get into it. I loved the beginning, but now after 200 pages I think it is kind of losing its pace. I decided to already start with Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill, as I have been curious about this book for quiet some time now. I had no idea that the writer is Stephen Kings son. I will try not to have to high expectations about that, as it will be difficult to meassure up to him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echo Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 The Book of the Dead remains my favorite of all the Preston and Child books! You can read my review here. I know I'm such a kid about these books! But for anyone who has come to know Pendergast, this book is gaspingly great! I had to make up that word "gaspingly" because I was literally gasping my way through it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deirdre Posted December 17, 2007 Author Share Posted December 17, 2007 I finished Brimstone today. Allthough I found the middle part a bit slow, it proved to be a good read after all. It took me almost four weeks to finish this one . The funny thing is that I experienced the same with their earlier book Still life with Crows. I might be experiencing a little P&C overdose at the moment, but still wish to finish the entire Pendergast series. Dance of Death is pretty high on my TBR pile at the moment. Currently finishing up Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill. I hope to finish this by the end of this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echo Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Brimstone and Still Life With Crows both left me with unanswered questions. Fortunately, the questions at the end of Brimstone are answered in Dance of Death, but I have yet to find out what struck Pendergast so forcibly at the end of Still Life With Crows. I even e-mailed the authors to see if I could get an answer, but they never gave me the info. I'm hoping the issue gets addressed in the future! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deirdre Posted December 22, 2007 Author Share Posted December 22, 2007 I finished Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill yesterday. For those of you who don't know this book, it's the story of a former rockstar who seems to purchase a ghost on the internet. It turns out rather soon that this ghost has some unfinished business with him. Pretty soon the rockstar and his groupie are fighting for their lives and searching for a way to stop this ghost. It was a fast read for me and one I rather enjoyed. However, there were some things I would find irritating in the book, especially in the scenes where the ghost would threaten his victims by using television programs or phone calls. Knowing that the writer is in fact Stephen Kings son, these particular scenes reminded me too much of Stephen Kings novels (like Tommyknockers and It). But when you're in for a good old-fashioned ghost story, this is the one you should read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deirdre Posted December 30, 2007 Author Share Posted December 30, 2007 Today I finished Ghostlight by Marion Zimmer Bradley, probably my last read for 2007. Ghostlight is the first part in aseries about Truth Blackburn. In this part Truth starts to look into the past of her father. In the late Sixties her father was a sort of prophet, who gathered around himself a cult of people (including Truths mother). This cult tried to perform some sort of ritual which was meant to open the gates to the other world (that of the Gods and the Sidhe). Unfortunately things didn''t work out as planned and Truths mother was killed and her father dissapeared. Truth, who has spent her whole life hating her father for the loss of her mother finds herself at the estate of her father, where she meets a whole new group of people, that are preparing the same rituals that killed her mother. The big question is will she join them or stop them. I have mixed feelings about this books. At times I would find it fascinating, while at times I had no clue what the writer wanted with this story. I wanted to explore the Fantasy genre, and having read Marion Zimmer Bradleys Beyond the Mist of Avalon and The Firebrand in the past, I thougt this was a safe choice to begin this new genre. I do intend to read the other parts of this series as well in the near future. But right now I have returned to my favorite genre, the thriller, and started reading The Apprentice by Tess Gerritsen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyB Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 I finished Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill yesterday. For those of you who don't know this book, it's the story of a former rockstar who seems to purchase a ghost on the internet. It turns out rather soon that this ghost has some unfinished business with him. Pretty soon the rockstar and his groupie are fighting for their lives and searching for a way to stop this ghost. It was a fast read for me and one I rather enjoyed. However, there were some things I would find irritating in the book, especially in the scenes where the ghost would threaten his victims by using television programs or phone calls. Knowing that the writer is in fact Stephen Kings son, these particular scenes reminded me too much of Stephen Kings novels (like Tommyknockers and It). But when you're in for a good old-fashioned ghost story, this is the one you should read. It's good to hear you enoyed this - I bought my daughter his short stories for Christmas which I hope she'll enjoy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deirdre Posted January 8, 2008 Author Share Posted January 8, 2008 Today I finished my first book for 2008: The Apprentice by Tess Gerritsen. This book is a sequel to The Surgeon which I have read early last year. It is about a female police officer who has put the serial killer The Surgeon behind bars. Then, one year later, there are some new killings which are similar to the MO of the Surgeon. A new killer is on the loose and to make matters worse, the Surgeon managed to escape from prison and he has some unfinished business. It did take me some time to get into this book, but once I was half way, it finally picked up some speed. And it made me realise that although I only finished her earlier book a year ago, I didn't remember much of it. Right now I'm going to continue reading Out. I have already started this book Januari 1st and I am somewhere round page 200 at this moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deirdre Posted January 19, 2008 Author Share Posted January 19, 2008 I'm not really getting into Out by Natsuo Kirino at the moment. I haven't figured out just yet what the problem is, I think it is just to depressing and there isn't one character that I can relate to. I'm hanging in there, but in the meantime am now reading The Devil's Footsteps by E.E. Richardson. I love this book. It is actually a horror book for teens, but it is very entertaining. Occasionally it reminds me of my all time favorite Stephen King novel It. I hope to finish it tomorrow, and then I probably will continue Out so I can look into the discussion and see if I am the only one who has trouble with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deirdre Posted January 22, 2008 Author Share Posted January 22, 2008 I definitely gave up on Out. It started to feel like a chore and there was nu fun in it anymore. I did love The Devil's Footsteps by E.E. Richardson, which I finished two days ago. It is the story of Bryan, whose brother was taken by the Dark Man after they had discovered a secret pathway in the woods, which is mentioned in some sort of skipping tune. Bryan has spent five years feeling guilty about this until he meets two other boys. They come to realise that there are a lot of children missing in there town and start to investigate what has happened. This book is a horror book meant for teens. I wish there had been books like these when I was young . I maybe would'nt have had the urge at an early age to start reading adult books. I think it is the kind of books that even grown-ups will like. It has been my best read in ages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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