julie Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 (edited) Hi Kell Another good response to Sisters Brothers ! Glad you liked it . I am S T I L L reading If Jack's In Love. Taken me a long time,not because the book is thick,but I guess Life has gotten in the way of reading this week somewhat . I will probably finish it today,since I'm pretty close now . It has been really good. I'm wondering how it will all tie up in the end . Edited January 13, 2012 by julie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weave Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Still 'The Child Thief' by Brom (book) and Cool Hand Luke by Donn Pearce (Kindle) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sofia Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 I started and quickly discarded Mennonite in a Little Black Dress purchased The Woman in Black for my Nook started Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children last night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Finished The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt last night. Very good. Glad to hear it! Hi Kell Another good response to Sisters Brothers ! Glad you liked it . I am S T I L L reading If Jack's In Love. Taken me a long time,not because the book is thick,but I guess Life has gotten in the way of reading this week somewhat . I will probably finish it today,since I'm pretty close now . It has been really good. I'm wondering how it will all tie up in the end . LOL You are not alone in dragging your feet reading. I'm still only about a quarter into Cryptonomicon. Just haven't had the time to read lately. When I do pick it up, it is really interesting, and grabs me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobblybear Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 I'm still reading Genus; my reading too has been dragging as work is busy this week. I'm hoping I'll have some time to read this weekend. Also, I'm just having a nice mug of hot chocolate, and when that's finished I plan on soaking in the bath with my Kindle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted January 13, 2012 Author Share Posted January 13, 2012 Still 'The Child Thief' by Brom (book) and Cool Hand Luke by Donn Pearce (Kindle) Are you enjoying The Child Thief, Paula? I'll freely admit I adored it, but then I love all Brom's work. started Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children last night I really fancy the look of this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 (edited) Working my way through more Holmes in the form of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. I really just love how they're written. Maybe I should start some sort of 'Sherlock Challenge' where we list all the Holmes texts and set about getting them all finished (could be an idea, if it's not already about somewhere). I also went shopping and bought: Dracula. - Bram Stoker The Green Mile. - Stephen King One False Move. - Harlan Coben The Bone Collecter. - Jeffery Deaver A good haul for £10. I've also made a definite promise to read some King this year, I own quite a lot of his books now. Edited January 13, 2012 by Ben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauraloves Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 I've just finished its a Kind of Magic by Carole Matthews and have started Caught in the Act by Gemma Fox. Both in paperback form Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weave Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Still 'The Child Thief' by Brom (book) and Cool Hand Luke by Donn Pearce (Kindle) Still the same Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Working my way through more Holmes in the form of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. I really just love how they're written. Maybe I should start some sort of 'Sherlock Challenge' where we list all the Holmes texts and set about getting them all finished (could be an idea, if it's not already about somewhere). I also went shopping and bought: Dracula. - Bram Stoker The Green Mile. - Stephen King One False Move. - Harlan Coben The Bone Collecter. - Jeffery Deaver A good haul for £10. I've also made a definite promise to read some King this year, I own quite a lot of his books now. I've not read the Coben book, but otherwise an excellent haul! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlette Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 I started The Absolutist by John Boyne - been looking forward to reading it for ages since I read so many good reviews of it. It started out excellently, really had me hooked, then... It turned into an overly sentimental mess - not my thing at all! Think I'll rather read a bit of John Irving, instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catwoman Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 Finished The Girl who Kicked the Hornets' Nest and I loved it. Will do my review some point over the weekend. Started Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix. Much to the joy of my oldest. I stopped reading it after chapter three as I had the hardback edition and I struggled to read at night. after buing it on the kindle I have no problem now I have also come to the conclusion that I am giving up on Next. I just have no interest in it anymore. Like I've said in previous posts I loved the subject matter but there were too many storylines which too many one dimensional characters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
julie Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 (edited) LOL You are not alone in dragging your feet reading. I'm still only about a quarter into Cryptonomicon. Just haven't had the time to read lately. When I do pick it up, it is really interesting, and grabs me. Hi Pontalba Sorry to hear you have been too busy to get much reading time in either . Hopefully we will both have things settle down soon . Have you guys gotten any of the nasty weather down that way this week ? We finally got our first good hard snowfall. We don't have a lot out there,but the way it snowed yesterday, it looked like a blizzard . VERY slippery driving . Also, I'm just having a nice mug of hot chocolate, and when that's finished I plan on soaking in the bath with my Kindle. Bobbly That sure sounds great ! Perfect way to lean back and relax a bit . Working my way through more Holmes in the form of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. I really just love how they're written. Maybe I should start some sort of 'Sherlock Challenge' where we list all the Holmes texts and set about getting them all finished (could be an idea, if it's not already about somewhere). I also went shopping and bought: Ben It sounds like you found some good books there . The Green Mile was really good .At the time I read it ,it was coming out in really small paperbacks, so the book was cut up into small pieces so you only got a bit of the story at a time . It'll be much better with it all together . You sound like me with the Holmes books. If I find a book I like a lot, then I read a whole bunch more by the same author if I can find them . Edited January 14, 2012 by julie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timmo Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 I would of finished The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe last night, if I hadn't fell asleep with the book on my face, whoops Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 I started The Absolutist by John Boyne - been looking forward to reading it for ages since I read so many good reviews of it. It started out excellently, really had me hooked, then... It turned into an overly sentimental mess - not my thing at all! Think I'll rather read a bit of John Irving, instead. Ah, that's too bad! I didn't think Boyne was capable of that. I need to read the book and see for myself I hope it doesn't spoil your reading mojo for long! I read more of Dead Simple last night in bed, it's going pretty good, I like it so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MysteryRose Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 (edited) Reading now "confessions of a karaoke queen" by Ella Kingsley It's fun, but I'm not entirely convinced yet... Edited January 14, 2012 by MysteryRose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 Hey Julie, We have had two nights of 26F, but tonight it's supposed to be warmer, maybe in the 40's I think. The days have been magnificant, clear blue skies and very chilly. Enough for a sweater and coat, but not necissarily a heavy coat even. We do get snow every decade or so. In fact in December of 2008 I had 2 feet of snow in the yard. That was mind blowing for me, I can tell you! I've never seen that much snow. It fell big and wet for all night, and a goodly part of the day here. The quiet was amazing. I've seen dusting of snow maybe 3 times in my life besides that. I think for the reading, I have to remember to bring the kindle upstairs and read before I go to sleep for awhile. Good way to make time and a better dent. Ben, I read most, if not all of Sherlock Holmes when I was young, and enjoyed them then. I read Hound of the Baskervilles again at the beginning of last year and felt let down somehow. Maybe I watch too many detective shows. I found myself resenting the way Holmes spoke to Watson. Your enthusiasm has made me want to go back though, and reread more to check them out again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 Ok, we kinda went crazy yesterday between the estate sale and B&N.....here's the list. Estate Sale Crusader's Cross by James Lee Burke MoMA Highlights [350 Works from the Museum of Modern Art New York] Grand Central Gateway to a Million Lives by John Belle and Maxinne R. Leighton The Crusades by Joe Oldenbourg Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett we already had the HB, but this is a lighter trade PB Tuxedo Park by Jennet Conant Not Me by Michael Lavigne After All These Years by Susan Isaacs ****************************************************************** B&N Mathematics, The Loss of Certainty by Kline Columbine by Dave Cullen Espionage by David Owen Kate by William J. Mann Elizabeth I by Margaret George A Covert Affair by Jennet Conant Blockade Billy by Stephen King Frozen Assets by Quentin Bates The Other Life by Ellen Meister All except the last two were bargain priced. Happiness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lopeanha Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 I've read the third Spiderwick book today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 Finished the fourth Edwardian Murder Mystery, Our Lady Of Pain, by M. C. Beaton today, and have started Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
julie Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 Pontalba It certanly sounds like your weather down there is pretty doggone good most of the winter.Anoccasional snowfall once in awhile would be much 6easier to deal with,although I can't complain this year so far. It has been unbelieveably nice.Bright blue skies and sunshine almost every day til this latest snow hit us,which didn't amount to a big pile, just a lot of blowing and drifitng yesterday and very cold today . It also sounds like you guys hit some really good book hauls lately,so you will have some great entertainment to last awhile. Do you and your husband both enjoy the same books, or are part yours and part his ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pickle Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 I finished my kindle Freebie The Uprising (The fall of Haven) this evening. I also read a bit more of my tribute to Sherlock Holmes The Mammoth book of New Sherlock Holmes adventures. I also managed to pick up 3 books for £1 from a libraru sale today including Kelly Armstrong's - Industrial Magic, Simon R Green's - Deathstalker Coda and Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony I have read the first two but don't own them, I just wish they were in little better ondition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 Pontalba It certanly sounds like your weather down there is pretty doggone good most of the winter.Anoccasional snowfall once in awhile would be much 6easier to deal with,although I can't complain this year so far. It has been unbelieveably nice.Bright blue skies and sunshine almost every day til this latest snow hit us,which didn't amount to a big pile, just a lot of blowing and drifitng yesterday and very cold today . It also sounds like you guys hit some really good book hauls lately,so you will have some great entertainment to last awhile. Do you and your husband both enjoy the same books, or are part yours and part his ? We pretty much like the same things, and read each others books all the time. Sort of a Yours, Mine, and Ours dipping into all of same. Re the weather, he is from New York, and keeps asking me when the winter will arrive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tina Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 Finished a book about Finnish biker gangs and criminal gangs in general earlier today. Interesting and actual one (it isn't long since two men were brutally murdered by two gang members - not bikers though). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
julie Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 Pontalba That would be handy if you both like the same books. My husband likes war books and all nonfiction ,so we really wouldnt read many of the same ones I don't think. I like reading about the Civil War,but he likes WW 1 and 2 books . And I'd certainly understand your husband liking the weather down there a lot better ! No big thunky coats, no shoveling, no slick roads . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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