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Post by doccreed on May 25, 2019 16:30:36 GMT
Finished Those Who Wish Me Dead by Michael Koryta. At first I thought it was going to be a little too much outdoors/camping/wilderness type stuff (which isn't really my thing). But about eight chapters in, I started getting attached to the characters and the book turned out to be fantastic. I wasn't expecting to get that emotionally invested, and it was just so good. Thumbs up! 
I'm happy you are on a reading streak, again. Are you going to read Owen Meany next?  |
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Post by morgan on May 25, 2019 19:59:43 GMT
Finished Those Who Wish Me Dead by Michael Koryta. At first I thought it was going to be a little too much outdoors/camping/wilderness type stuff (which isn't really my thing). But about eight chapters in, I started getting attached to the characters and the book turned out to be fantastic. I wasn't expecting to get that emotionally invested, and it was just so good. Thumbs up!
I'm happy you are on a reading streak, again. Are you going to read Owen Meany next? |
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2019 15:43:25 GMT
Re-reading this collection of Ripper related short stories, some great stories in it.  |
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Post by doccreed on Jun 2, 2019 17:53:14 GMT
I'm reading I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb (in between a few books by McMurtry); I realized it was one I'd DNF-ed years ago. I usually DNF a book if it's bad, but that wasn't the case for the Lamb book. I was overloaded with work, life, and other books.
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Post by morgan on Jun 7, 2019 1:24:32 GMT
I'm reading I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb (in between a few books by McMurtry); I realized it was one I'd DNF-ed years ago. I usually DNF a book if it's bad, but that wasn't the case for the Lamb book. I was overloaded with work, life, and other books.
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Post by doccreed on Jun 7, 2019 1:36:30 GMT
I'm reading I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb (in between a few books by McMurtry); I realized it was one I'd DNF-ed years ago. I usually DNF a book if it's bad, but that wasn't the case for the Lamb book. I was overloaded with work, life, and other books.
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Post by morgan on Jun 7, 2019 2:32:41 GMT
What's DNF?   |
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Post by osnafrank on Jun 8, 2019 14:31:17 GMT
Did Not Finish. 
Started "Genome Inc." by Matthew Delaney.
I've read his first Book "Jinn" some years ago.
It was great, pretty brutal, hard and creepy
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Post by hollygolightly on Jun 9, 2019 2:24:41 GMT
I love McMurtry! I also liked She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb, and I read I Know This Much is True - I only remember it was about twins. I can't remember anything else about it. But I think I liked it. I recently bought I'll Take You There by Lamb at the GW. I'm currently reading Tortilla Curtain by TC Boyle - thank you morgan!! I'm totally engaged in it. I love Boyle. He's a nut. The Ogre bought me Elevation by SK today. We've got a trip coming up soon and he thought I might like to read it then. I think I might - if I finish Tortilla Curtain. I've been thinking I'd like to read some Southern Gothic soon. Maybe Michael McDonald (that can't be his name but I'm on my wine - help). The horror genre of Southern Gothic - kingricefan has talked about. Oy. I might need to call it a night.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2019 20:15:08 GMT
Re-reading this collection of shorts from Robert R. McCammon, standout story for me is Night Calls The Green Falcon, the novella Blue World is a great story too.
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Post by morgan on Jun 10, 2019 2:07:49 GMT
Re-reading this collection of shorts from Robert R. McCammon, standout story for me is Night Calls The Green Falcon, the novella Blue World is a great story too. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2019 7:07:46 GMT
My favourites of his would be They Thirst and Swan Song, If you wanted comparisons I guess you couuld say They Thirst is akin to Salem's Lot and Swan Song akin to The Stand.
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Post by morgan on Jun 16, 2019 0:53:21 GMT
My favourites of his would be They Thirst and Swan Song, If you wanted comparisons I guess you couuld say They Thirst is akin to Salem's Lot and Swan Song akin to The Stand. |
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Post by doccreed on Jun 17, 2019 18:37:28 GMT
Second time around and the Lamb book isn't doing it for me. It's a fascinating story but I'm looking for more meaningful, literary novels- something packed with nutrients for the brain. Big ideas and poetic execution. I picked up H is for Hawk once more and it is a beauty; my heart has been pricked several times and if these words were actual thorns my hands would be pomegranate-stained. Lovely book.
I'm also reading The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner. I seem to be fixated on birds, as I am in real life. Mourning doves, owls, hawks, wrens...I can watch them for hours. Was it King who said hope was a "many feathered thing which perches in the soul", or was it Dickinson? (Book quotes to follow.)
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Post by morgan on Jun 18, 2019 2:11:26 GMT
doccreed Mourning doves and robins are my favorite birds.
I just finished Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult yesterday. It was okay - the third book of hers that I've read and my least favorite thus far. But the other two were more recent and she has definitely honed her craft a bit in the past twenty years. I didn't think I would care for her writing because I thought she might be a little too mainstream for my taste, but the other two novels I read pleasantly surprised me.
It was very interesting to read about the Amish culture though. That was the best part of the book.
Can't decide if I want to reread Show World by Wilton Barnhardt (for the third or fourth time) or start The Cypress House by Michael Koryta or The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg. What a wonderful problem to have! 
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Post by morgan on Jun 20, 2019 1:11:32 GMT
Thanks to the recs from cat and spideyman I started The Cypress House by Michael Koryta and am about seven chapters into it. I'm glad I didn't read a plot summary before purchasing it online. I probably would've passed on it and missed a great book!
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Post by spideyman on Jun 20, 2019 1:43:56 GMT
Thanks to the recs from cat and spideyman I started The Cypress House by Michael Koryta and am about seven chapters into it. I'm glad I didn't read a plot summary before purchasing it online. I probably would've passed on it and missed a great book!
Enjoy The Cypress House--- page turner!! |
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Post by morgan on Jun 20, 2019 2:03:13 GMT
Thanks to the recs from cat and spideyman I started The Cypress House by Michael Koryta and am about seven chapters into it. I'm glad I didn't read a plot summary before purchasing it online. I probably would've passed on it and missed a great book!
Enjoy The Cypress House--- page turner!!
In Those Who Wish Me Dead I was really worried about that horse! |
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Post by spideyman on Jun 22, 2019 16:52:34 GMT
To all who are reading Michael Koryta books I have another to add to your list
Envy The Night-- stand alone, not part of a detective series. Not supernatural.
Excellent/ fast read, page turner.
morgan-- the dogs are ok
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Post by annamarie on Jun 25, 2019 0:22:52 GMT
I just started reading Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese. There is also a movie.
It’s about a Canadian First Nations boy surviving in a residential school in the 1970s.
I just started it today, but it kind of grabbed me quickly.
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