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Post by Halethala on Aug 21, 2008 7:10:14 GMT -5
I'm a little embarrassed to admit it to reading (and squirming even more at how terribly much I'm enjoying doing so!) a series that both my daughters highly recommended that is all the rage now . . The Twilght series by Stephanie Meyer. It's not exactly my favorite sort of genre, or writing style, and I don't know just how she manages it, but she keeps up such a beautifully charged atmosphere of creative suspense!!
*laughs* and conversely, quite very conversely, I'm also plowing my way through "A Generous Orthodoxy" by Brian D. McLaren . . with relish.
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Post by Lady Edfeil on Aug 21, 2008 11:58:59 GMT -5
A Generous Orthodoxy? That sounds interesting, can you describe it? I just finished reading "the Last Lecture" in one evening. It was very good.
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Post by taran on Aug 22, 2008 20:25:40 GMT -5
Tami Hoag- Dark Horse
Tami Hoag- Night Sins
Richard Laymon- Night in the Lomesome October
Dean Koontz- The Good Guy
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Post by Lady Edfeil on Aug 23, 2008 9:33:38 GMT -5
Oh, I used to read a lot of Tami Hoag. She writes great suspense!
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Post by Halethala on Nov 22, 2008 16:55:25 GMT -5
Not much free time this week, but squandered some of it on an amazing book, "The Shack" by William P. Young. (Only halfways through thusfar, and realize the controversy surrounding the book, but am delighted beyond what I expected)
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Post by Caera Anne of Caernarfon on Dec 8, 2008 14:47:48 GMT -5
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Post by Dream Loxley on Dec 11, 2008 6:21:09 GMT -5
 Looks interesting........will try and read more, thanks for the links.
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Post by Halethala on Dec 15, 2008 21:52:03 GMT -5
Oh how I can relate to the advice given in the "Craftingfuntimes" blog! I quickly learned what works and does NOT work with a mix of 8 year-olds (second graders) and 80 to 90 year-olds! One simple rule: there is no such thing as a craft that's 'too easy'! lol
Lately I've been reading patterns *smiles*
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Post by bruma on Jan 9, 2009 23:50:36 GMT -5
Well, I just finished reading 'A Dirty Job', and have the sequel to 'Bloodsucking Fiends', both by Christopher Moore, on my bookshelf. While not the heaviest reading, nor the most verbose, I've found him insanely funny and rather nonchalant when tackling the more awkward subjects present in the books (vampirism (sp?) being one).
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Post by Dream Loxley on Jan 11, 2009 3:14:43 GMT -5
Unheard of for me I actually read one book in a day yesterday.....Tess Gerritsen - Never Say Die........a little different from my norm but interesting and made me wonder more of what actually went on in the Vietnam War, probably not a goodly thing to wonder, but a decent read.
I also read one of my favourite Authors over 2 days, Patricia Cornwall - Book of The Dead. Forensics, death, intrigue, has it all. Great read. Looking forward to receiving her latest in the post any day now!
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Post by Brennekah Windstrike on Jan 11, 2009 18:03:17 GMT -5
I just started reading a book you might be interested in Dream. It's a crime/forensics type of book set in the medieval times! www.mistressoftheartofdeath.com/In medieval Cambridge, four children have been murdered. The Catholic townsfolk blame their Jewish neighbors, so to save them from the rioting mob, the Cambridge Jews are placed under the protection of the king. King Henry II is no friend of the Jews—or anyone, really—but he believes in law and order, and he desperately needs the taxes he receives from Jewish merchants. Hoping scientific investigation will catch the true killer, Henry calls on his cousin, the King of Sicily—whose subjects include the best medical experts in Europe—and asks for his finest “master of the art of death,” the earliest form of medical examiner. The Italian doctor chosen for the task is a young prodigy from the University of Salerno, an expert in the science of anatomy and the art of detection. But her name is Adelia; the king has been sent a “mistress of the art of death.”
In a backward and superstitious country like England, Adelia faces danger at every turn. As she examines the victims and retraces their last steps, Adelia must conceal her true identity in order to avoid accusations of witchcraft. Along the way, she’s assisted by one of the king’s tax collectors, Sir Rowley Picot, a man with a personal stake in the investigation. A former Crusader knight, Rowley may be a needed friend…or the fiend for whom they are searching. As Adelia’s investigation takes her along Cambridge’s shadowy river paths, and behind the closed doors of its churches and nunneries, the hunt intensifies and the killer prepares to strike again… |
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Post by Dream Loxley on Jan 14, 2009 5:06:51 GMT -5
Looks interesting....thanks! I am patiently awaiting Scarpetta to arrive through my letterbox! I admit I am hooked on Patricia Cornwall.........gory and gruesome am I *L*
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Post by Halethala on Feb 26, 2009 10:50:35 GMT -5
((Dream, you just do NOT seem the gory and gruesome type, lol *hugs*))
Someone just suggested Mercedes Lackey's books to me, never heard of her before. Our archaic local library only had one out of her nearly 50 books on hand, "Firebird", which wasn't the series suggested to me. She's quite a compelling storyteller . .
But I am still also getting through several other books, "The Story We Find Ourselves In" by Brian McLaren, and "Sex God" by Rob Bell . . (soooooo good!)
And I highly highly highly recommend "The Shack" . . no matter where your beliefs lie.
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Post by Dream Loxley on Feb 27, 2009 6:06:44 GMT -5
;D well.......we are not always what or whom we seem......*Insert evil cackle here* I have always had a facination for forensics, not actual gory things.....more like, how and who and when *L* 'Scarpetta' is not dissapointing me, but I have to make time to actually sit down and read! Enjoy your reading all.  |
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Post by Sir Kyle Draven on Mar 2, 2009 12:36:01 GMT -5
Well I am about to start rading Interview with a Vampire by Ann Rice on the morrow. *S*
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Looks interesting........will try and read more, thanks for the links. 
