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Post by Miss Prudey on Jan 18, 2018 18:24:39 GMT -5
Tackling the first classic of the year: Frankenstein. Never read it, it’s been on my shelf for a couple of years, & it was published 200 years ago, so I figured it was time.
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Jan 19, 2018 14:24:10 GMT -5
And it's nice and short! Win-win. If you want to go really short do Jekyll and Hyde next
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Post by Miss Prudey on Jan 19, 2018 15:07:41 GMT -5
Oooh, yeah, I have the Richard Armitage narrated audiobook of that one that I haven’t listened to yet.
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Post by marianparoo on Jan 20, 2018 6:10:08 GMT -5
Lovesong: on becoming a Jew by Julius Lester
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Post by maurinsky on Jan 23, 2018 11:40:36 GMT -5
Reading Cory Doctorow's Walkaway. It's hard to get into the lingo and there is a lot of computer/coding based language which I also am confused by, but it's an interesting perspective on the dangers of unfettered capitalism - feels very possible for speculative near-future sci-fi.
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Jan 23, 2018 16:19:12 GMT -5
I find that with all Doctorow that I've read. He speaks to a niche audience. And yet I continue to read him  I finished the Hearts We Sold. Solid 3 stars from me - YA fantasy/romance. I think the main character was very relate-able to which they often aren't in those sorts of books. Moving onto Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant. A ship goes out to film a mocumentary on mermaids and something very real happens to them - this book is the aftermath. I like Mira Grant - her other books that I have read have been sort of medical invention/hubris of man kind of things. This one is apparently going to be a little different but I'm excited. She seems to write a lot more under her real name - Seanan Maguire - but I'm not as interested in those books. Which is weird I know. |
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Post by junebug on Jan 23, 2018 19:23:59 GMT -5
I'm listening to Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow.Ever heard of it? Ha ha. Late to the party, per usual. I'm also 80th in line at the library for Sing Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward.  |
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Post by kimm on Jan 23, 2018 21:43:20 GMT -5
I just finished The Red Badge of Courage. I freaking hated every minute of it.
I also just finished The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I liked it better.
I also just finished Little Face by Sophie Hannah.
I'm currently reading The Call of the Wild, Lilac Girls, and The Last Castle (about the Biltmore).
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Post by marianparoo on Jan 24, 2018 13:58:50 GMT -5
I'll admit it, I couldn't get into Ursula LeGuin When nI first read her books, and want to try again now. Any suggestions where to start?
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Post by maurinsky on Jan 24, 2018 14:45:44 GMT -5
I'm about to add a bunch of Ursula K. LeGuin to my reading list. I've heard The Dispossessed is good, or you could start with the Earthsea series.
I have only read short stories she's written, the most memorable one being The Ones Who Walk From Omelas.
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Post by alicechalmers on Jan 24, 2018 14:58:06 GMT -5
Blackout by Connie Willis. We're having Book Club at my place this weekend. What did you think about it? If I recall, I liked her To Say Nothing of the Dog. None of us could get into it so we gave up. I liked "To Say Nothing of the Dog." I'll probably try again sometime. Perhaps I'll start with the Doomsday book, which was written earlier. |
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Jan 24, 2018 16:51:34 GMT -5
The Doomsday Book is pretty depressing. Good - but pretty depressing.
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Post by maurinsky on Jan 27, 2018 13:41:01 GMT -5
I set aside Walkaway (will come back to it) for the much easier read, The Windfall, about an Indian family that comes into money and starts making all kinds of changes to their lives. So far, I'm enjoying it
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Jan 27, 2018 16:35:52 GMT -5
I'm still reading Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant but I needed something a little lighter/less complicated for when I'm reading late at night so I'm also reading Truth or Beard (because how can you not read a book with a title like that ). It's the first in a series of romances revolving around a large family of brothers. |
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Post by Peachy on Jan 28, 2018 16:39:16 GMT -5
I just finished Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter. A dark thriller; I liked it. I may read one more book (not sure which yet) before I start back on the Sue Grafton series.
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Post by coachgrrl on Jan 28, 2018 17:03:12 GMT -5
Just finished We Were The Lucky Ones and am now reading We Need To Talk About Kevin which is a hard but riveting read.
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Post by Mabel on Jan 29, 2018 0:49:00 GMT -5
I finished the last Maze runner book, and since it was a prequel it led me straight back into the very first book again lol. I’ve already read it, but after reading the prequel, and having all this new info, it now feels like an entirely new reading experience so I’m going to read it all over again!
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Post by maurinsky on Feb 4, 2018 18:06:05 GMT -5
Finished Walkaway, which I ended up loving. I might recommend it for a book club in my political action group. Started Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle, which started off beautifully creepy.
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Post by stellarfeller on Feb 4, 2018 18:44:25 GMT -5
Since I posted last, I’ve read Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “We Were Eight Years in Power”; “Let the Right One In” (about vampires - it was also a movie called Let Me In); the first book in the new Philip Pullman trilogy The Book of Dust, “La Belle Sauvage”; and now I’m rereading His Dark Materials.
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Feb 5, 2018 16:04:02 GMT -5
Since I last posted I've read the first three in the Beard series . I finished the first one and promptly bought the 2nd one because I was really far away in the hold line . I'm still working through Into the Drowning Deep which I like - I just find I can't read creepy books at bedtime anymore so I keep cheating on it . I read an odd little book called The Ghost Orchard which was supposed to be about the history of apples but really wasn't. I liked it - but it was odd. I'm now reading A History of Canada in Ten Maps by Adam Shoalts. |
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