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sunshinemiss -> Sunny's Book Club (5/2/2010 8:07:45 AM)

Hello everyone!

Well the book club idea didn't happen, but we are such avid readers here, I thought we could share our favorites:

I just finished reading The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (mystery)and am picking up Outlander (historical fiction - that is, high falutin' bodice ripper) by Diana Gabaldon (third read through).

What did you recently finish reading and what is next?

best,
sunshine



Level -> RE: Sunny's Book Club (5/2/2010 8:14:25 AM)

I just finished The First Rule, by Robert Crais - it's a thriller, featuring his Joe Pike character.

Just began Sound of the Beast, by Ian Christie, a history of heavy metal, and am going to crack the pages of Distant Replay, by former Green Bay Packer great Jerry Kramer, and The Path Between the Seas, a history of the Panama Canal, by David McCullough.



sunshinemiss -> RE: Sunny's Book Club (5/2/2010 8:18:14 AM)

The history of the Panama Canal sounds interesting... I must go to 43things.com and add "go through the Panama Canal" to my "things to do before I die" list!



GreedyTop -> RE: Sunny's Book Club (5/2/2010 8:24:50 AM)

I recently bought and read through the entire Outlander series.. (god, I love Jamie and Claire!)

Just finished "Home to Holly Springs" which is the first in a series (author Jan Karon) about a priest from a small town (that actually exists!) in MS.  It was a fun read..looking forward to the rest of them...

Currently reading Starburst (author [somebody] Pilcher - not Rosamund).  It takes place at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.  Enjoying it thoroughly!

ALWAYS fun reads:  JD Robb, Sherilyn Kenyon, David Baldacci, Jefferey Archer



Level -> RE: Sunny's Book Club (5/2/2010 8:25:24 AM)

McCullough is a terrific writer, and the book won the National Book Award, so my hopes are high.

A trip through the Canal sounds fascinating, too!



Phoenixpower -> RE: Sunny's Book Club (5/2/2010 8:27:16 AM)

now...I am about to get rid off reading my uni books (at least hopefully...) and just now (2 minutes ago) I got my new delivery

- home cheese making
- the cheese making book
- cheesecraft
- practical cheesemaking
- cheese making self-sufficiency
- cheesemaking and dairying...

the reason it triggered was something I read on my current Dates private homepage yesterday...that triggered that shopping spree [:)]



petmonkey -> RE: Sunny's Book Club (5/2/2010 8:33:09 AM)

Just started And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by Burroughs and Kerouac. Also have been reading Anne Sexton's Love Poems.  For comics, i picked up the Sweet Tooth series.

Last read Jeanette Winterson's Weight.



tigreetsa -> RE: Sunny's Book Club (5/2/2010 8:49:09 AM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Phoenixpower

now...I am about to get rid off reading my uni books (at least hopefully...) and just now (2 minutes ago) I got my new delivery

- home cheese making
- the cheese making book
- cheesecraft
- practical cheesemaking
- cheese making self-sufficiency
- cheesemaking and dairying...

the reason it triggered was something I read on my current Dates private homepage yesterday...that triggered that shopping spree [:)]


I didn't know you gave edam about cheese-making, but I guess it must be a bries or you wouldn't gouda.



GreedyTop -> RE: Sunny's Book Club (5/2/2010 8:52:58 AM)

*GROAN*



Phoenixpower -> RE: Sunny's Book Club (5/2/2010 9:33:10 AM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: tigreetsa

quote:

ORIGINAL: Phoenixpower

now...I am about to get rid off reading my uni books (at least hopefully...) and just now (2 minutes ago) I got my new delivery

- home cheese making
- the cheese making book
- cheesecraft
- practical cheesemaking
- cheese making self-sufficiency
- cheesemaking and dairying...

the reason it triggered was something I read on my current Dates private homepage yesterday...that triggered that shopping spree [:)]


I didn't know you gave edam about cheese-making, but I guess it must be a bries or you wouldn't gouda.



lol...stella [:D]

well, will update you via c'mail one moment [:)] But yes, I like cheese and would love to know how to make it...14 years ago a colleague at work brought her own cheese with her to work sometimes....



subwaythru -> RE: Sunny's Book Club (5/2/2010 9:50:58 AM)

Finished reading Joseph Goldstein's "insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom", and now am in the middle of "The Big Questions" by Lama Surya Das.



lizi -> RE: Sunny's Book Club (5/2/2010 11:00:25 AM)

Just finished "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson....excellent! Just excellent.



LinnaeaBorealis -> RE: Sunny's Book Club (5/2/2010 11:05:33 AM)

I rarely read anything of socially redeeming value.  I just finished a whole bunch of mysteries/thrillers whose names & authors I have forgotten.  I am reading an anthology of  mystery short stories by women called Malice Domestic.  When I finish that I will move on to a Loren D. Estleman Western called Black Powder, White Smoke.  I have a bunch of Patricia Cornwells to read & a Stephen King/Peter Straub on my nightstand.  I need more books, dammit!!!

Ooooh, lizi.  I've read the first 2 Stieg Larsson books & can't wait for the next.  Another really good book I read recently is called The Thrall's Tale about a slave who helps to settle Greenland.



DesFIP -> RE: Sunny's Book Club (5/2/2010 12:37:58 PM)

I just finished rereading Three Bags Full, a murder mystery of the death of a shephard which is solved by his sheep.
Oh and picked up the third in Nora Roberts Vows series, about 4 women who run a wedding place, coordinator, baker, photographer, floral designer.



UniqueRaven -> RE: Sunny's Book Club (5/2/2010 2:34:23 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: sunshinemiss
I just finished reading The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (mystery)

We're bookends - i'm currently reading "Drood" by Dan Simmons (story of the macabre end of Dickens' life as told by Wilkie Collins)

i'm also reading "The Annotated Alice" (Alice in Wonderland)

And just finished  the classic "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

[;)]



windchymes -> RE: Sunny's Book Club (5/2/2010 2:40:35 PM)

I was in a slump for awhile, but finally found something that sucked me in:  "Back Bay" by William Martin.  It's one of those multi-generational historical novels set in old-time Boston for the most part.  I also picked up "Cape Cod" by the same author and "Chesapeake" by....Michener, I think (it's upstairs!)  I'm so lucky that there's a HUGE and fabulous used book/dvd/cd store up the road from me, I can find just about anything in there dirt cheap.

Reading those in between study guides for a national certification test I'll be taking soon, and a home study course for CEU's in pharmacology. 

I read book 1 of that Vows series....I need to hunt down the rest! 



sunshinemiss -> RE: Sunny's Book Club (5/2/2010 3:34:14 PM)

<<<<<<<<<<< Jealous!

There are a couple of used book stores around here. Popular novels abound (thus Diana Gabaldon) as do more "educational" books - The Moonstone. I can get anything that is a classic, but I don't want to work that hard if you want to know the truth. I like the read on the beach kind of level. I do way too much difficult reading for work, and brain candy is necessary. [:)]

I love books set in ancient Scotland... I finished a time traveling series by Karen Marie Moning right before I left the States. Big strong, strapping men in kilts who take charge. I mean... well... gosh. *sigh*

Where was I? Oh yes, the book store. It's a fascinating little place. I actually picked up a Biology textbook. I have never really understood science - other than psych, statistics, neurology. All the behavioral stuff I get, but the plants and DNA and bacteria - not a clue. I've been reading that and taking notes just like I'm going to be a student or teach the stuff.

The hard part is starting a series and then not being able to find the next one... That's what Amazon is for!



soul2share -> RE: Sunny's Book Club (5/2/2010 4:02:48 PM)

I just finished reading the newest book in the House of Night series, not exactly adult reading, but I picked one up one day at work and was hooked.  I have my favorite authors, Stephen King, Charlaine Harris, J. D. Robb, Janet Evanovich, Lillian Jackson Braun to name a few.  I read to relax, so brain candy is great....not much for autobiographies or non-fiction, I love horror and mysteries and I love to revisit my books time and time again.  Considering that I can literally finish a book in one sitting, I've learned that I have to pace my reading....only at bedtime.  After the first reading, I'll read a book straight thru.....I read 6 of the Stephanie Plum novels in one day.  I read Duma Key and Lisey's Story in one day.

I have yet to locate a good used book store, but hte local Humane Society has a thrift shop that has tons of used books, so I can always get more there....support a great cause AND get cheap books...can't go wrong with that!



Level -> RE: Sunny's Book Club (5/2/2010 4:20:30 PM)

Soul, was Duma Key good?

Some links for the bookish:

http://www.edwardrhamilton.com/

http://www.ziesings.com/

http://www.abebooks.com/

http://www.powells.com/

http://www.alibris.com/



soul2share -> RE: Sunny's Book Club (5/2/2010 4:27:16 PM)

Well, Level, I thought so....but again, I love Stephen Kings horror fiction.....some more than others.....I've reread Dreamcatcher like 8 times trying to connect the setting of the hospital to the story of what happens, and it hasn't jelled yet for me......if it helps, I've reread Duma Key three times, start to finish.



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