I went through at least a dozen books in the 6 1/2 weeks I was in the mountains. I just finished the latest David Baldacchi novel starring Oliver Stone -- Divine Justice. A good read but it sounded like this character is going to be put on the back burner for a bit. I am now in the midst of an older Patricia Cornwell novel featuring Kay Scarpetta -- from 1999, I think. I don't remember the title off hand but it's about some guy who is killed while diving in the Inactive Naval Yard. CiaoMeow >^;;^<
2 books right now - well 1 and 1 I'm not sure I will ever finish! Have now read 350 pages of Moby Dick (only another 200 tp go) and we still haven't spotted the damn whale!!! Don't care if I'm confined to bed for another 6 weeks, this one may have just beat me! The second is Sense & Sensability by Jane Austin, much more enjoyable! Both books are on my bucket list and since I was unable to stitch reading became a life line! Sandy
Okay. It took me more than a week to remember the name of book I checked out the library in July and barely started. I tried to buy it, but the bookstore said it wasn't being published in paperback till August. (Funny that I had been reading the book in paperback, but never mind.)
I woke up this morning with the name - The Lace Reader. I'm off today to locate it. Author Brunonia Barry. I'm willing to highly recommend this one even though I was only 50 pages into it.
Other than that.
I finished the Memory Keeper's Daughter which I enjoyed this week while on vacation in the Outer Banks. There's some abruptness to the shifts in this book, but still a good read.
My other vaca reading - Anne Morrow Lindbergh's The Gift of the Sea. This woman was way ahead of her time. Still pertinent today. Also May Sarton's The House by the Sea, which is essentially the poet's journal of moving to house in York, Maine.
Just before leaving I read the Queen's Devotion - a bio of Queen Mary II written by Jean Plaidy. I'm sure there are better bios out there. But then I realized that this woman, whose real name is Eleanor something or other, wrote tons of books. I'd read a lot of her Victoria Holt books in my much younger days. And the publisher is still publishing new books under her various pen names even though she's been deceased since 1993. Interesting.
That's my throne room reading at work. The writing is so wonderful, the thoughts so perfectly voiced, I like to take just a little bit at a time and really savor it.
I'm re-reading the Mary Balogh "Bedwyn" series AGAIN. :-) I'm also reading some older Marion Chesney series from the library and I'm ready to start Don Quixote on CD. Blackstone Audio had a sale a few weeks ago, with the proceeds going to the library system. Everything was $5.00! They didn't have all of their selection available for sale but enough that everyone seemed happy and it was nice of them to do that for the library system. I bought Don Quixote (29 CDS) and Beatrix Potter (3 CDs). My only problem is that, when you put a cassette tape in and have to remove it if the other driver wants to listen to something else, the tape starts up at the exact spot where it was stopped. With a CD, there is a lot more playing around with knobs or buttons to find the spot where you left off. Listening to it, though, I should finally get through the ENTIRE STORY by the end of my Harry & David season. :-)) I read and studied parts of it while in college but never actually made it through the entire book. LIz from Humbug
Cape Disappointment by Earl Emerson. It features Thomas Black again (which I prefer to his firefighter books). It's been okay - not as good as some of the older ones and there's a bit too much conspiracy theory. But it's nice to see him back!
I have several others on the shelf. I need to be doing more stitching and less reading though.
I'm reading my way through a set of mysteries by the Aussie author Kerry Greenwood. They follow a private detective named Phryne Fisher and occur in the 1920s but use very current themes. Love the details of clothing, etc. that make the books come alive. Moni
I've done this with Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. My first exposure was with the "last" book -- A Breath of Snow and Ashes -- which I bought in the airport in Prague in March or 2008. Finished that and knew I had to read the whole series. Got the other five books on eBay when we returned home and have read the whole series three (maybe four) times since then. VBS -- they are HUGE books and a great read if you like historical novels with a bit of a SF twist. CiaoMeow >^;;^<
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Right now I'd like to find my copies of a sci-fi series I loved by Barbara Hambly, I think it started with The Silicon Mage.... Or wait breathlessly for Robin Hobb's Dragon Keeper.
Finished the Dick Francis - good, not his best or his worst.
I didn't have any trouble with any of the books but do agree that the middle ones weren't quite as engrossing as the first few. I think the difference -- at least for MOI -- is that the middle ones dealt so much with the beginnings of the American Revolution and weren't quite as culturally "wild" as the first ones. The "last" one -- Breath of Snow & Ashes -- deals more with the goings on at Fraser's Ridge and so were interesting for me. I'm glad to hear that the next book is to be released soon. I'll have to wait for it to come out in paperback. I usually only read in bed at night and it's just too difficult to hold a hard back book! CiaoMeow >^;;^<
Last night on our last night traveling home from vacation just finished "Black and White and Dead All Over by John Darnton. A mystery set in a NY newspaper newsroom, wiht thinly veiled characters like Rupert Murdock and the NY Times publishers. It was just the last of 6 I read while away including the latest Dick Francis (more like his earlier books than the most recent, wonder how much writing he's doing and how much his son is doing), Tess Gerritson's The Keepsake, and Linda Barnes' Down with the Devil.
Thought I'd get some needlework done but only about 1/2 an ornament. Weather was too nice although DM would have liked a little more wave action. The waters off Maine were so calm.
Finished Cape Disappointment and started a new one last night: Just Like Family - the inside story of being a nanny. Very interesting, well written and a fast read.
Of course, I never had a nanny, my kids are too old now, etc., etc., but it's a fascinating look inside a different world!
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