Last book(s) you read?

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Re: Last book(s) you read?

Post by EEA » Mon Jun 12, 2017 11:15 pm

The House of Ulloa by Emilia Pardo Bazan.
Started reading The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald. It's pretty funny. :lol: :mrgreen:

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Post by gkmoberg1 » Wed Jun 14, 2017 2:34 am

Nothing But the Truth by Avi. This is a quick read, easy for kids, and gives anyone a lot to think about.

My daughter and I loved Avi's book The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. We read it to each other Saturday mornings in the parking lot outside the local gym, waiting for my son / her brother to be done with his hour.

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Post by EEA » Wed Jun 14, 2017 4:39 am

About to begin The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley.

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Post by Bloody Mary » Fri Jun 30, 2017 12:17 am

dongregg wrote:Fifty pages into one of the most delightful novels I've ever encountered -- Nobody's Fool, by Richard Russo, 1993. :D
Aren't we going to hear what's delightful about it?

My last book was Neverwhere, a Neil Gaiman fantasy about a bored office worker who helps an injured girl and ends up dragged into an underworld beneath London.
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Post by gkmoberg1 » Fri Jun 30, 2017 1:43 am

Bloody Mary wrote:
dongregg wrote:Fifty pages into one of the most delightful novels I've ever encountered -- Nobody's Fool, by Richard Russo, 1993. :D
Aren't we going to hear what's delightful about it?

My last book was Neverwhere, a Neil Gaiman fantasy about a bored office worker who helps an injured girl and ends up dragged into an underworld beneath London.
... and was it engaging? fun? horrible? do tell!! the premise sounds good.

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Post by gkmoberg1 » Fri Jun 30, 2017 1:47 am

Brittas nya häst . It is very hard to find anything Swedish where I am. This is a start. (Anyone got a box of unused books in Swedish?)

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Post by dongregg » Fri Jun 30, 2017 2:14 am

Bloody Mary wrote:
dongregg wrote:Fifty pages into one of the most delightful novels I've ever encountered -- Nobody's Fool, by Richard Russo, 1993. :D
Aren't we going to hear what's delightful about it?

My last book was Neverwhere, a Neil Gaiman fantasy about a bored office worker who helps an injured girl and ends up dragged into an underworld beneath London.
You would ask! Russo has been called a novelist of the working class. Just stand at the book rack and read the first few pages. If you can put it down and walk away, then 80-year-old Miss Beryl and Sully, her 60-year-old renter, will have to continue on without you!
“For drama to deepen, we must see the loneliness of the monster and the cunning of the innocent.”

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Post by Jameron » Fri Jun 30, 2017 8:08 pm

Well, I haven't been updating my progress through The Dresden Files. So here it is...

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And that's it, there is no more :x :cry:

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Currently listening to the audiobook "The Boy on the Bridge", which is a prequel (I believe) to "The Girl With All the Gifts". So far it has a similar feel to the previous book, which is good if you liked the first book (which I did).

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Post by PeteMork » Sat Jul 01, 2017 4:23 am

Jameron wrote:...Currently listening to the audiobook "The Boy on the Bridge", which is a prequel (I believe) to "The Girl With All the Gifts". So far it has a similar feel to the previous book, which is good if you liked the first book (which I did).
Sounds interesting. Must look into it...
We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain. (Roberto Bolaño)

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Post by dongregg » Sat Jul 01, 2017 5:03 am

dongregg wrote:
Bloody Mary wrote:
dongregg wrote:Fifty pages into one of the most delightful novels I've ever encountered -- Nobody's Fool, by Richard Russo, 1993. :D
Aren't we going to hear what's delightful about it?

My last book was Neverwhere, a Neil Gaiman fantasy about a bored office worker who helps an injured girl and ends up dragged into an underworld beneath London.
You would ask! Russo has been called a novelist of the working class. Just stand at the book rack and read the first few pages. If you can put it down and walk away, then 80-year-old Miss Beryl and Sully, her 60-year-old renter, will have to continue on without you!
And now, Bloody Mary, I have a signed first edition of Trajectory, which contains four not-so-short short stories.

Richard Russo was in Atlanta this week to address a literary group, followed by a book signing. :D
“For drama to deepen, we must see the loneliness of the monster and the cunning of the innocent.”

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