Just finished a Stuart MacBride (Cold Granite). Someone here recommended him (can't remember who), but I liked it. Rate NOT SUITABLE for Mary, but in the
mold of Ian Rankin and Peter Robinson. Give it a try.
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11/03/08 01:11 PM BCC ZEN Bookie MASTER |
Go vote now. It'll make you feel big and strong - Bob Schieffer's mom
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11/03/08 01:17 PM BCC Zen Bookie Master
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I just finished The Woods by Harlan Coben and Exit Music by Ian Rankin. Both very engrossing and both NOT suitable for Mary. Lol. We all know Mary's limits
and mine too which makes this sort of shorthand commentary easy for our purposes here! For newer members, this means if a book is gory=not for Mary and if a
book has too much woo woo=not for Betsy. We could make it NFM or NFB! What do you think?
Betsy
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11/03/08 01:32 PM |
Jodi - I'm glad you liked it andf no it's definitely not for Mary! There's about 4 in the series, I think so far, and they're certainly not for
the fainthearted - there have been the odd page I've skimmed over very quickly but the characters develop and there's some really strong characters -
good stuff if you don't mind blood and gore.
Barb
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11/03/08 03:31 PM BCC ZEN Bookie MASTER |
Good idea! Instead of "not safe for work", we'll have not safe for Mary/Betsy/Jodi (count me in on the woo-woo)
Go vote now. It'll make you feel big and strong - Bob Schieffer's mom
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11/03/08 03:35 PM BCC ZEN BOOKIE COOKIE
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Mary's not in the woo woo category, she's anti-gore (heehee)
Currently reading: the bird watching in Africa thingy, LOL, and The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
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11/03/08 03:55 PM |
What is woo - woo? lol.
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11/03/08 04:25 PM BCC ZEN Bookie MASTER |
woo woo is magical realism (blending magical or dream-like elements with ordinary events). Think Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Oh ok,thanks. I dont mind the woo woo or the gore (to an extent). I like books like Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel where they mix Dickensonian England with
Magicians and the Historian. I dont like books that have more sex than story, so is there a rating for that? lol.
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11/03/08 06:38 PM BCC BookieMonster |
My definition of woo woo is psychic phenomenon, One mystery I read was solved by a message from the past. I like magical realism but the psychic answers turn
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11/03/08 07:06 PM BCC ZEN BOOKIE COOKIE
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GOOD NEWS REGINALD HILL FANS
The new one is OUT and is lots of Andy http://www.amazon.com/Pri...inald-Hill/dp/0061451932/ In Hill's solid 23rd Dalziel and Pascoe procedural set in Yorkshire, Det. Supt. Andy Dalziel doesn't see much of his longtime colleague, DCI Peter Pascoe, because Dalziel is recovering from the serious injuries he suffered in Death Comes for the Fat Man (2007) in the quiet resort of Sandytown. When the charred corpse of wealthy Lady Daphne Denham turns up in a revolving basket that had been used for a pig roast in Sandytown, the two policemen pursue largely independent investigations. Much of the background to Denham's demise comes from e-mails that in spots may puzzle those unfamiliar with e-mail jargon. More deaths follow before Hill offers a final twist that's unlikely to catch experienced genre readers by surprise. The crotchety Dalziel's chafing at the restrictions at the convalescent home where he's staying provides some amusing distraction from the somewhat leisurely crime solving. Newcomers might better start with earlier books in the series.
Currently reading: the bird watching in Africa thingy, LOL, and The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
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Jill, I just put that one on my library request list too. I need to find a board to talk about some of Hill's endings. I just don't get some of them.
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11/04/08 11:15 AM BCC BookieMonster |
For those of you who read Monsters of Templeton, there was an article today in the Miami Herald about the author, Lauren Groff: http://www.miamiherald.co...s/books/story/754508.html Rema |
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11/04/08 01:51 PM |
Jill, I knew I'd read the book but never heard the title before so I went looking in our library catalogue.. It must have been published in the UK some
time ago and I read it with the title - ' A Cure for all Diseases'. It's based on an unfinished novel by Jane Austen although I'm not sure Jane
Austen would recognise what Hill does with her characters LOL.
Andy is definitely at his bolshy best in this! Barb
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11/05/08 04:47 PM BCC BookieMonster |
Hey! I got my first Early Reviewer copy!!!!
The Fiddle Case by Christine Palamidessi Moore (IAP) The Fiddle Case: a buddy-road novel about nineteen year old girls who carry a stolen fiddle from Kentucky to California. An obsessive folk music cult, that wants the fiddle, pursues the girls. Anna Dorrall and Cindy DeSenza are hitching cross-country in 1972 when President Nixon is contemplating going nuclear on Vietnam, Watergate happens, and the press finds out McGovern's vice-presidential candidate took anti-depressants. They become caught in a duplicitous scheme to push a charismatic cult leader to the top of the folk music scene. Disagreements about boyfriends, sex, freedom, and guns test the girls' friendship. To survive the summer, Anna and Cindy have to stick together. ... The Fiddle Case plops readers right down in the folk music scene and gives them a taste of what it was like for a couple of college kids to cut loose with a mere $100 in their pocket, no credit cards and no cell phones. At the same time, the book takes a penetrating look at a time in America when the folk music scene and peace and love culture collide with the dark underbelly of the self-actualization movement. YAY!! I'm excited.
Meg
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11/06/08 10:29 AM BCC ZEN BOOKIE COOKIE
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That is so COOL Meg. I hadn't snagged on in a while but just got notification that I did get one this time; it wasn't my first choice but hey, I'm
happy:
Echoes from the Dead by Johan Theorin On a gray September day, on an island off the coast of Sweden, six -year -old Jens Davidsson ventured out of his backyard, walked out into a fog, and vanished….Now twenty years have passed, and in this magnificent debut novel of suspense-a runaway bestseller in Sweden-the boy's mother returns to the place where her son disappeared, drawn by a chilling package sent in the mail… In it, lovingly wrapped, is one of Jens' sandals-sandals Julia Davidsson put on her son's feet that very last morning. ... (show rest) Now, with only a handful of clues, Julia and her father are questioning islanders who were present the day Jens vanished-and making a shocking connection to Öland's most notorious murder case: the killing spree of a wealthy young man who fled the island and died years before Jens was even born. Suddenly the island that once seemed so achingly familiar turns strange and dangerous… Until Julia finds herself facing truths she never imagined-about what really happened on that September day twenty years ago, about who may have crossed paths with little Jens in the fog, and how a child could truly vanish without a trace…until now. NOTE: Abby mentioned in her Library Thing note that it doesn't matter WHAT is in your review, the idea is to write a review to improve your chances of getting more ER books.
Currently reading: the bird watching in Africa thingy, LOL, and The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
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11/06/08 01:12 PM BCC ZEN Bookie MASTER |
Well, I'm embarrassingly far behind in writing reviews for LTER books, but they're sending me the only one I requested this month anyway. The
Jewell of Medina
A'isha bint Abi Bakr is the daughter of a rich merchant from Mecca in the harsh, exotic world of seventh-century Arabia at the time of the foundation of Islam. When she is married to the Prophet Muhammad at the age of nine, she must rely on her wits, her courage, and even her sword in a struggle to control her own destiny and carve out a place for herself in the community, fighting religious persecution, jealous sister-wives, political rivals, and her own temptations. As she grows to love her kind, generous husband, her ingenuity and devotion make her an indispensable adviser to Muhammad. Ultimately, she becomes one of the most important women in Islam, and a fierce protector of her husband's words and legacy. And now I'm trying to remember why on earth I requested that one?
Karen
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. - Anna Quindlen |
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11/06/08 04:19 PM |
megzer wrote:How do you get to become an "Early Reviewer"? Sounds like something I might want to get in on! 
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11/08/08 04:48 PM |
Wow. Did something today that never happened before. I went to two libraries and one bookstore and came home with NO books! How did that happen???
kathy
Reading Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo, Dream When You're Feeling Blue by Elizabeth Berg and listening to Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow "It is a strange desire to seek power and lose liberty." -- Sir Francis Bacon |
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11/08/08 05:03 PM BCC ZEN Bookie MASTER |
Are you feeling OK Kathy? Are you sick? Maybe you need vitamins.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up... live out the true meaning of its creed. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are
created equal. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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11/08/08 07:02 PM BCC ZEN Bookie MASTER |
Jackie, most of us are members of a website called LibraryThing.com. You can create catalogs there of the books you own or have read, etc, and they have *tons*
of groups similar to this one (although none as enjoyable). They have a program called Early Reviewers which provides books straight from the publishers that
you can request and, if you receive a book, you are then expected to review it at LT and anywhere else you've a mind to. Most of the books are new releases
but every once in a while they throw in something that's just being released in paperback or something -- for example, one of the books on offer this last
time was An Uncommon Reader which I checked out from the library in Denver months ago. Anyway, go check it out -- as a book lover, you'll probably
like that site, too.
Karen
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. - Anna Quindlen |
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