Thanks for the responses! I guess I need to move it up the queue a bit. Unfortunately, this year has been terrible for reading so far. I think I've only read two books over the last six months. Work has had me running for the last year due to a promotion and I've found it more and more difficult to get time to read. I'm hoping to turn that around in a couple weeks as things should settle down a little bit.
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Thirty-seven days to read Jerusalem! (At over 600,000 words, it's longer than any English translation of War & Peace or Les Miserables.) But I loved every frustrating, challenging, beautiful word of it. Followed that up with The Black Elfstone by Terry Brooks.
Currently reading a book I should have read in college and didn't (at least I don't think I did, I don't remember reading it--but from the copious notes I took in the margin of the book I found on my paperback shelves, I attended all the lectures on it): The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy."I'm a vegan. "
---Kirby Bliss Blanton , The Green Inferno (2013)
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Mystic River was great, not at all like how it seemed in the beginning. The plot itself is not so convoluted or unpredictable, but the characters are complex and believable and it's one hell of an emotional rollercoaster.
I followed it up with The Englishman's Boy by Guy Vanderhaeghe. This is a great story of historical fiction. There is two separate stories that tie together, 1920's Hollywood screen writer trying to track down an old Western star who really lived the life, and that old Western star's experiences 40+ years before. Very insightful and enjoyable read. I can't recommend it more.
Currently following up on one of my reading goals this year, exploring history. I've always been a fan of mythology, folk tales and legends, as well as studying anthropology, but have never really explored history much. I'm starting with the history of Rome with Anthony Everitt's The Rise of Rome. Not sure where I will go from there.
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Nothing to see here!Ok, I really can't come up with anymore of these stupid things...
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Originally posted by mphprez View PostReading King's Different Seasons. Finished "Shawshank," "Apt Pupil," and "The Body." So far, "Pupil," is my favorite. I didn't like "The Body" as much as I hoped. It felt a little drawn out... On to "The Breathing Method." I believe this is the only "horror" story in the collection.
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Originally posted by Martin View PostJoe Hill's Strange Weather. For some reason I decided to start with the last story "Strange Weather", so far it is a fantastic read!
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Originally posted by jeffingoff View PostI was lukewarm on it. I thought it was solid but could have been better.
Before I started this book I read I'm Thinking of Ending Things. That was an unexpected journey that I'm still thinking about.
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Nothing to see here!Ok, I really can't come up with anymore of these stupid things...
- May 2011
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Originally posted by bookworm 1 View PostReally liked come to Dust. Now I am reading The Grip of It by Jac Jemc. This is really creepy. One of the better haunted house reads. Just started it yesterday and am already almost halfway through.
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