sparrow13
Cathlete
I'm trying to learn how to sew! Attempts usually end with me swearing and shrieking at the machine and then collapsing over it in a heap of tears. DH then quietly leads me away while suggesting other hobbies.
Don't you love book threads?
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I'm trying to learn how to sew! Attempts usually end with me swearing and shrieking at the machine and then collapsing over it in a heap of tears. DH then quietly leads me away while suggesting other hobbies.
carres1973
Cathlete
I am reading Payment in Kind by JA Jance. I had started with her Joanna Brady series and switched to JP Beaumont when the books were about to come together. For some reason, I am having a tougher time with JP.
I did try to read A Confederacy of Dunces as was recommended here but I couldn't get through it
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Lainie - I read Health at Every Size. It is very good but made me angry that we have been duped for so long by the media, government, etc.
Carrie
I did try to read A Confederacy of Dunces as was recommended here but I couldn't get through it
.Lainie - I read Health at Every Size. It is very good but made me angry that we have been duped for so long by the media, government, etc.
Carrie
allwildgirl
Cathlete
Janie - to be honest, I didn't love it. I thought it was okay, but didn't live up to the hype. I ended up passing it onto my 12 year old DD. She loves it.
lainiefig
Cathlete
I miss sewing! I was sewing quite a bit right up until my latest baby was born. Then shortly after he was born I could see I wouldn't have time for it for a long time, so I put my machine away and put all my extra fabric in storage.
spyrosmom
Cathlete
I finished "Ectasy Unveiled" The newest Demonica book by Larissa Ione, last night. I liked it, but not my fave so far. Book 2 in the series was the best.
Currently reading "The Satin Sash" by Red Garnier. It's a smut book, and a hot one at that!! I try to read at least one smut book a week. Never know what you might learn "Hey, honey - check out page 157"
And I put the 1st 5 Sookie Stackhouse's on hold at the library the other day, picked up 2, and the other 3 are ready now, so I will be grabbing those tonight and starting on book 1. I've been avoiding them, bc I don't like the cover art, and I'm not a mystery fan. However, I love me a good vampire novel, so I'm going to give them a go. If I don't like them, they were library books, so they're free.
So that's my current list. And anything else that may catch my eye at the library tonight.
Nan
Currently reading "The Satin Sash" by Red Garnier. It's a smut book, and a hot one at that!! I try to read at least one smut book a week. Never know what you might learn
"Hey, honey - check out page 157" And I put the 1st 5 Sookie Stackhouse's on hold at the library the other day, picked up 2, and the other 3 are ready now, so I will be grabbing those tonight and starting on book 1. I've been avoiding them, bc I don't like the cover art, and I'm not a mystery fan. However, I love me a good vampire novel, so I'm going to give them a go. If I don't like them, they were library books, so they're free.
So that's my current list. And anything else that may catch my eye at the library tonight.
Nan
janie1234
Cathlete
I hear ya. I am totally lacking in patience when it comes to sewing. I start but never finish anything which stinks because I have so many ideas in my head.
I've had to learn the hard way of "measure twice cut once." I botched up plenty of hems trying to do things the fast way.
janie1234
Cathlete
Janie - to be honest, I didn't love it. I thought it was okay, but didn't live up to the hype. I ended up passing it onto my 12 year old DD. She loves it.
I know what you mean about hype. I still have not seen Avatar but with all the hype about it I've already told myself that I'm going to hate it.
buffettgirl
Cathlete
Currently reading "The Satin Sash" by Red Garnier. It's a smut book, and a hot one at that!! I try to read at least one smut book a week. Never know what you might learn
Nan
Bwahahahaha! Maybe that's why I'm not so much in the mood lately - not enought smut!
story1267
Cathlete
I am a strong believer in fluff....AND smut. And if you can get fluffy smut or smutty fluff, so much the better!
I think I've read all of Marian Keyes books and my favorite was Angels.
Right now I'm reading Echo in the Bone and listening to Barbara Kingsolver's latest, Lacuna, in the car. The Kingsolver is giving me little giddy fits of happiness...it's that good.
banslug
Cathlete
A book thread? Say it ain't so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Every single time I join in on these threads, my list of books to-read grows by at LEAST 7!
I just finished The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown for my Book Club. If you've read The DaVinci Code, you've read The Lost Symbol.
Page-turner, but not one of my faves.I'm about to pick up another book from my shelf, but can't decide. Oh, the choices!
banslug
Cathlete
Oh, Michele.........again, I'm so happy you enjoyed this book. I could not put it down! I think you'd like Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks also.
Beavs
Cathlete
I think Confederacy of Dunces requires the "right" sense of humor (i.e. slightly bizarre) I nearly gave up on it but then pushed on and it suddenly clicked.
I had Antony Beevor's D-Day on tap but I might have to postpone and reread a Catcher in the Rye. I decided to subscribe to a whole bunch pf magazines and newspapers so I've been reading the Economist, the New Yorker, Bust (thanks TeTe) and such.
I had Antony Beevor's D-Day on tap but I might have to postpone and reread a Catcher in the Rye. I decided to subscribe to a whole bunch pf magazines and newspapers so I've been reading the Economist, the New Yorker, Bust (thanks TeTe) and such.
buffettgirl
Cathlete
Judi,I just finished Dragon Tattoo and cyber-reserved Played with Fire at my library. Sigh, there are just too many books and not enough hours....
Now I'm off to research Sarah's Key and Kingsolver's new book. The Bean Trees is one of my all time favorites.
Now I'm off to research Sarah's Key and Kingsolver's new book. The Bean Trees is one of my all time favorites.
maddiesmum
Cathlete
Interesting. The book threads are by far the most interesting EVER on these forums!
Several of you mentioned Kingsolver and I have just ready my first by her: A Plague of Doves. I loved her way of introducing a ton of first person micro-narratives, so you are gradually introduced to an entire community in North Dakota, native American and white co-existing, sort of, over a span of some 3 or 4 decades. The tales spun by Native American voices were more interesting, as they sometimes revealed a non-linear, culturally-specific way of viewing reality and history and the connections between generations. However, my beef with the book is that the dramatic event sitting at the beginning of history in this book, and the event we as readers are charged with solving, understanding and viewing as key to understanding the play between generations and races, is something of a let down once the solution is clear and no real explanation seems to be forthcoming. I love ambiguity in literature and subtle fictions, but this one just seemed to have too banal a conclusion.
However, I am about to start Kingsolver's Lacuna book, so I will not give up on the author just yet.
I also just finished another Robert B/Parker novel about P.I. Spenser: "The Professional". THis book was something of a Parkeresque re-writing of Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men," just re-set in Boston and with an odd psycho-sexual angle added in for good measure. Laconic, dry humour, mystery, psychological explorations of human character. Love Spenser, always makes me laugh. A thug with brains and a heart!
I am also reading "The Wrong Mother" at the same time: British mystery/thriller, excellent so far. A woman sees a feature on the news, a woman and child have been killed or did she kill them both, and when the family name is announced, the protagonist is chilled to the bone because she had an affair last year, unbeknownst to her husband, with a man with the same name as that of the murdered woman's husband, but the pictures showing on the news look nothing like the man by that same name she had her affair with.....what's the deal here and what is at stake?
Next up will be "A reliable Wife" a novel which seems to be having something of a second wave of popularity now it is out in paperback, and then I will finish off Wilkie Collins' "Woman in White" which I started last week and put aside since my reading mood changed and you have to be in exactly the right frame of mind for each different book that you read. Right? Wilkie Collins' "Moonstone," credited as being the first detective fiction ever written, is one of my favourite classic novels.
Yes: the Stieg Larsson trilogy is to die for. I picked up the third volume when in London over Xmas, but I am loathe to rush into it because then the trilogy will be done and what the heck will I do then for bloody excellent fiction?!@?!?!?!?!?!
Keep reading everybody and keep those recommendations coming!
Clare
Several of you mentioned Kingsolver and I have just ready my first by her: A Plague of Doves. I loved her way of introducing a ton of first person micro-narratives, so you are gradually introduced to an entire community in North Dakota, native American and white co-existing, sort of, over a span of some 3 or 4 decades. The tales spun by Native American voices were more interesting, as they sometimes revealed a non-linear, culturally-specific way of viewing reality and history and the connections between generations. However, my beef with the book is that the dramatic event sitting at the beginning of history in this book, and the event we as readers are charged with solving, understanding and viewing as key to understanding the play between generations and races, is something of a let down once the solution is clear and no real explanation seems to be forthcoming. I love ambiguity in literature and subtle fictions, but this one just seemed to have too banal a conclusion.
However, I am about to start Kingsolver's Lacuna book, so I will not give up on the author just yet.
I also just finished another Robert B/Parker novel about P.I. Spenser: "The Professional". THis book was something of a Parkeresque re-writing of Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men," just re-set in Boston and with an odd psycho-sexual angle added in for good measure. Laconic, dry humour, mystery, psychological explorations of human character. Love Spenser, always makes me laugh. A thug with brains and a heart!
I am also reading "The Wrong Mother" at the same time: British mystery/thriller, excellent so far. A woman sees a feature on the news, a woman and child have been killed or did she kill them both, and when the family name is announced, the protagonist is chilled to the bone because she had an affair last year, unbeknownst to her husband, with a man with the same name as that of the murdered woman's husband, but the pictures showing on the news look nothing like the man by that same name she had her affair with.....what's the deal here and what is at stake?
Next up will be "A reliable Wife" a novel which seems to be having something of a second wave of popularity now it is out in paperback, and then I will finish off Wilkie Collins' "Woman in White" which I started last week and put aside since my reading mood changed and you have to be in exactly the right frame of mind for each different book that you read. Right? Wilkie Collins' "Moonstone," credited as being the first detective fiction ever written, is one of my favourite classic novels.
Yes: the Stieg Larsson trilogy is to die for. I picked up the third volume when in London over Xmas, but I am loathe to rush into it because then the trilogy will be done and what the heck will I do then for bloody excellent fiction?!@?!?!?!?!?!
Keep reading everybody and keep those recommendations coming!
Clare