Frankie Reads 2010

[Ooshie]

They sound worthy inheritors of the spaces you made in your bookshelves, frankie! (A Jeffrey Deaver novel that's a bit like John Grisham? That might make it onto my shelf, too!)

[frankie]

Maureen, Grishamish Deaver sounds... intriguing?

 

CaliLily, I've already read the Kathy Reichs books but they're awesome and I want to collect them all because I'll be rereading them in the future

 

Ooshie, you like Deaver? Awesome

 

Yay, I just got the latest Dexter novel in the mail, I'm really excited

[Charm]

Yay, I just got the latest Dexter novel in the mail, I'm really excited

 

 

Jealous!! I didn't know it was out yet!

 

Oh I can't wait to hear what you think of it now. Read it next! Read it next!

[frankie]

Jealous!! I didn't know it was out yet!

 

Oh I can't wait to hear what you think of it now. Read it next! Read it next!

 

I didn't know it was out yet either, I thought it wouldn't be released until next month. I'm glad I preordered the thing so it came as a total surprise You know, I haven't read the fourth Dexter novel yet... The third one was such a disappointment that I didn't feel like continuing on to the fourth novel and decided to wait til it was time the fifth one got published. So now I've got to read it asap. And, I'm in the beginning of Karen Harper's Down to the Bown. And, it's Ilosaarirock festival this weekend, I dare say I won't get to the Dexters before next week

 

Are you gonna order the book now straight away? I hope we'll love it

[Charm]

I didn't know it was out yet either, I thought it wouldn't be released until next month. I'm glad I preordered the thing so it came as a total surprise You know, I haven't read the fourth Dexter novel yet... The third one was such a disappointment that I didn't feel like continuing on to the fourth novel and decided to wait til it was time the fifth one got published. So now I've got to read it asap. And, I'm in the beginning of Karen Harper's Down to the Bown. And, it's Ilosaarirock festival this weekend, I dare say I won't get to the Dexters before next week

 

Are you gonna order the book now straight away? I hope we'll love it

 

More partying for you then? Let's not mention the ring of fire eh?

 

Ok, I'll let you off this time .... simply because I've just ordered more books so the delicious one will have to wait until the next order, which will have to wait until next month (2 orders this month already ), it's way too easy to order online!

 

Enjoy the festival!

[frankie]

More partying for you then? Let's not mention the ring of fire eh?

 

What do you mean 'more', I've only just begun... The Ring of Fire will be left alone, I won't be venturing with it in a long while, I can tell you that much.

 

Ok, I'll let you off this time .... simply because I've just ordered more books so the delicious one will have to wait until the next order, which will have to wait until next month (2 orders this month already ), it's way too easy to order online!

 

Oh ****, are you sure you want to wait half a month? Well I think we're both off the hook this time, I think it's better this way. What have you been buying btw, missus? It seems like it's been ages since you and I have been reading the same books, doesn't it :/

[Charm]

It has been ages, I know! I'm slap bang in the middle of the Anita Blake series by Laurell K Hamilton, I'm up to book 9 now, just ordered 2 more and there's around 18/19 books in the whole thing! I've also ordered Dead in the Family - Charlaine Harris and the latest of a series by Larissa Ione, I'm up to my neck in vampires! .... this could take a while

[frankie]

Ach, so you're having a case of the serious series reading bout I thought you'd be finished with those books by now, but now that I know that there are various series you're reading, and some contain 18/19 books, I have a better understanding for your current recreational readings I'd love to have a go with the Laurell K. Hamilton books but they don't have them in the library, I've checked many many times, and I shouldn't buy any more books before I've read some off my mount TBR Happy reading

[frankie]

Okay, I'm visiting BF in Lappeenranta and there's this one really great secondhand bookshop in the town center, there's a whole bookshelf of English titles which I always go through very diligently. The place is like the icing on the cake for me, and whenever I go book shopping here I leave that place to visit the last. We went through one charityshop and two secondhand bookshops where I found nothing, and we also visited the little library in BF's part of town. That was a very good visit, I happened to find 20 euros on the ground and since nobody was there (believe me I looked, in case somebody should've just walked by and lost it) so we kind of claimed it which meant free books for me and energy drinks for me and BF. Also a bus ride home for the both of us, it's like 9 kilometers walk from the center of the town to Skinnarila where BF lives. Anyway I bought Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None at the library sale. 

 

Okay, so we're going to the last place, the best place, and I'm getting really excited and thrilled and all, and I ask BF for the time. He says it's 10 to 5 PM and my heart just sinks, because I know the secondhand bookshop closes at 5 PM  Man that sucked!!! Anyways I sprinted in and browsed through the English titles and I did manage to find two titles to my liking, Mo Hayder's Pig Island and Tom Wolfe's The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. The latter is like one of the most bizarre book titles I've ever come across with   I have no idea what it is about but I had to get it because of the title and because Wolfe has also written The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test which is supposed to be good. 

 

After that we visited the big library in the town center and I got A Red Death and White Butterfly from the library sale. All in all a pretty good tour, the only thing that bothers me is that I only got 10 minutes to look at the titles in the best shop but at least I found something while I was there. 

 

The books cost me 7,5 euros total but having found that 20e note made them free 

 

 

[catwoman]

Haha! Awesome you found that note mate! I bet you were being very sneaky sneaky trying to look around trying to see who found it

 

That Mo Hayder book is the one I don't have. I am sure we had a discussion about Hayder right at the beginning of the year and I kept getting hte titles mixed up. I still have not read any of them, but look forward to your review

 

Yay for second hand book shops!

[Peacefield]

Mmmm Kool-Aid!

 

What excellent trips to the book shops/library you had there, Frankie! Wtg!

[Kylie]

Yay for finding money and putting it to such good use! Shame you only got 10 minutes in the shop though.

 

Does your BF read too, or is he happy to just go around the shops with you?

[frankie]

Haha! Awesome you found that note mate! I bet you were being very sneaky sneaky trying to look around trying to see who found it

 

That Mo Hayder book is the one I don't have. I am sure we had a discussion about Hayder right at the beginning of the year and I kept getting hte titles mixed up. I still have not read any of them, but look forward to your review

 

Yay for second hand book shops!

 

Actually, I wasn't sneaky at all, I was trying to find people who'd just walked by and may have dropped it. I was feeling really guilty taking it... Yeah that Mo Hayder discussion, I remember it, mostly because I've bought (by coincidence!) the ones that are either stand-alone novels or the first novel in a series, so which ever one I start first I can't go wrong

 

 

Mmmm Kool-Aid!

 

What excellent trips to the book shops/library you had there, Frankie! Wtg!

 

I've actually tasted Kool-Aid! I didn't like it at all, it tasted really artificual... :/ BTW, tried the Kraft Mac 'n Cheese but it was no better. I guess I just don't like macaroni and cheese. Reminds me of macaroni soup we used to have in school, I hated it.

 

Yay for finding money and putting it to such good use! Shame you only got 10 minutes in the shop though.

 

Does your BF read too, or is he happy to just go around the shops with you?

 

BF read a tiny little bit before we became an item, after that he's read a lot more, but still not massively. Like... maybe 1-3 books a month. He's okay with coming to the secondhand bookshops with me, but I know he'll get bored eventually and I'll just try and browse through things more quickly But whenever we're going to such places I inform him, everytime, that I might take a while in the shops

 

Like I told you guys in my language/culture thread, I'm going to Kuopio tomorrow to meet my friends from my trip to Denmark back in 2006. I'm taking with me 8 novels which I'm going to give to one of the girls who's an avid reader herself. My bus arrives 2 hours before the other girls' train so I'm going to go and do some secondhand bookshopping during that spare time. I think I deserve it

Edited August 6, 2010 by frankie

[Peacefield]

I've actually tasted Kool-Aid! I didn't like it at all, it tasted really artificual... :/ BTW, tried the Kraft Mac 'n Cheese but it was no better. I guess I just don't like macaroni and cheese. Reminds me of macaroni soup we used to have in school, I hated it.

 

I'm trying not to cry right now, Frankie, but I can't. seem. to. contain. myself.

 

No, I'm okay, I just need a minute.

 

Okay, I'm good.

 

[frankie]

Sorry peace! I guess it's just not in me Maybe if I tried it in a restaurant, or maybe the homemade kind... :/

[frankie]

Last Saturday I went to two secondhand bookshops in Kuopio. I haven't been to them in 2 years and boy have they changed. The other one's mostly sellind DVDs and the other one had also increased their DVD stacks quite a bit I want more books, no DVDs!

Anyway, I only found Lois Lowry's Number the Stars, which is Goodbye Ellen in Finnish, what a stupid name. And I really don't like the book cover either. But I had to get it anyways. I was a bit disappointed not to find anything else, but I was really happy that my friend found a Kathy Reichs novel she didn't have already. And the other friend was looking for great novels to read during her summer vacation and I suggested Markus Zusak's Book Thief and Carlos Ruiz Zafon's Shadow of the Wind, both of which she bought I really hope she likes them.

[Kylie]

Yay you for recommending two awesome books and spreading the book love!

 

I read Number the Stars recently and thought it was pretty good. Lois Lowry's a great author.

[frankie]

Yay you for recommending two awesome books and spreading the book love!

 

I read Number the Stars recently and thought it was pretty good. Lois Lowry's a great author.

 

I was definitely doing a lot of book "preaching" this weekend One of my friends complained how the books in this largest bookstore chain in Finland are so bloody expensive and I told her all about play.com. She didn't even know that Dan Brown wrote a third Langdon novel ages ago, she was mighty pleased to hear about that. And now she can buy it from play.com for a mere 5,49e

 

I accidentally found myself in a charityshop today and came home with

Mary Alice Monroe: The Book Club

Anita Diamant: The Red Tent (Rory Gilmore book)

David Lodge: The Art of Fiction

 

Yep, Lois Lowry is excellent. I thought I'd only enjoy the Anastasia novel but when I read The Giver (mostly because of recommendations on here) I realised Lowry has written another great novels. Now I'll buy anything by her

Edited August 9, 2010 by frankie

[frankie]

Like I already mentioned in the technical issues thread, I thought a couple of my posts from the first page on this thread had gone missing. Panic attack! Kylie suggested I'd go through the whole thread to see if the posts had appeared somewhere else, and to my satisfaction that was the case. Yay!

 

While I was going through the thread, I couldn't help but stop to read some posts, I'd totally forgotten about some of the things we've been talking on this thread. I had many giggle attacks I realised how much fun it is to actually update my thread and to review novels and receive comments from you guys. What's reading if you can't share your opinions and experiences with others? I'm going to try and get more active.

 

I've updated my bought books very diligently on this thread but I need to get cracking with my read books reviews.

Since my last update, I've read the following novels:

 

55. How to Be Good by Nick Hornby

56. Miss Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg (1001)

57. About a Boy by Nick Hornby

58. Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby

59. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (RG-B)

60. Candide by Voltaire (1001, RG-B)

61. Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

62. The Dirt by Mötley Crüe (RG-B)

63. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious (RG-B)

64. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

65. The Difficulty of Being a Dog by Roger Grenier

66. Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination by Helen Fielding

67. Sliver by Ira Levin

68. The One hundredth Thing about Caroline by Lois Lowry

69. Sheriffi Mccoy by Andy McCoy

70. Shaker Run by Karen Harper

71. Down to the Bone by Karen Harper

72. Aftermath by Peter Robinson

73. Trial & Retribution II by Lynda la Plante

74. Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism by Georgia Byng

75. Molly Moon Stops the World by Georgia Byng

76. The Book Club by Mary Alice Monroe

77. Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

78. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1001, RG-B)

[Kylie]

Frankie, it's weird, but I can't find that thread either. I searched the 'General book discussions' and 'Looking for a book' back to the beginning of 2010 and couldn't find any sign of it.

[frankie]

Frankie, it's weird, but I can't find that thread either. I searched the 'General book discussions' and 'Looking for a book' back to the beginning of 2010 and couldn't find any sign of it.

 

That is weird. I searched all the 'Looking for a book' threads, too and some of the 'General book discussions' and even tried searching 'queer', 'LGBT' (and various versions of that acronym) and even 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower', of which I'm just absolutely positive it was mentioned in the thread. You don't supposed it's disappeared by accident, or then they've deleted the thread for some reason?

 

Edit: Do you remember who started the thread? That might be helpful.

 

Edit: I checked out "controversial topics in YA literature" or something similar, started by Abby, just in case the threads have been merged, and judging from this post it might be CornflowerBlue who started the thread. Further research continues... ->

 

Edit: I went to CornflowerBlue's prof page, searched for the messages she's written on the forum and there was no thread on that LGBT topic. And yet I'm pretty positive it was her. What in the world?

Edited August 23, 2010 by frankie

[Kylie]

That's very weird. I remembered it was from a newer member, and judging by CB's post, it must have been her. Maybe it got lost in the shuffle over here? I can't imagine that it would have been deleted on purpose because it was a mature discussion and nobody had argued. I even just checked the debating forum in case it was there as a controversial topic, but it's not.

 

Can a mod shed any light on this?

[frankie]

That's very weird. I remembered it was from a newer member, and judging by CB's post, it must have been her. Maybe it got lost in the shuffle over here? I can't imagine that it would have been deleted on purpose because it was a mature discussion and nobody had argued. I even just checked the debating forum in case it was there as a controversial topic, but it's not.

 

Can a mod shed any light on this?

 

I thought about checking the mature discussion also but then forgot about it. I have no idea why anyone would delete it unless by accident, but accidents happen. And like you said, it might have gotten lost during the shift over here.

 

I re-inquired about it in the technical issues thread. Probably not the most suitable place to ask but well

[Maureen]

That's very weird. I remembered it was from a newer member, and judging by CB's post, it must have been her. Maybe it got lost in the shuffle over here? I can't imagine that it would have been deleted on purpose because it was a mature discussion and nobody had argued. I even just checked the debating forum in case it was there as a controversial topic, but it's not.

 

Can a mod shed any light on this?

 

Kylie, threads do not get deleted on purpose just because they contain a mature discussion topic -, threads might get moved to the Mature Discussion Forum, and/or spoilers might be used, but they will not be deleted. When/if threads are deleted (and not for this reason)the parties involved would have been notified.

I am not sure which thread you and Frankie are looking for - I thought it was the Controversial Topics in YA Literature thread, as LGBT, sexuality and similar issues and authors who deal with these issues are mentioned.

[frankie]

I am not sure which thread you and Frankie are looking for - I thought it was the Controversial Topics in YA Literature thread, as LGBT, sexuality and similar issues and authors who deal with these issues are mentioned.

 

It's a thread that was first named "queer literature", which was then changed because some people thought queer was a derogatory term. I remember The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Home at the End of the World were mentioned on the thread but searching for those books in the forum doesn't help. I'm quite positive the thread was started by CornflowerBlue, and Kylie and chesilbeach agree, chesil's just posted about it in the technical issues thread.