Reading Books For Pleasure

[FurryFury]

LOVE THIS THREAD!!!

my complete favorite is laurel hamilton's anita blake filled with gorgeous and sexy men.

vampire academy are pretty and that demetri another hottie!

dark hunters another hunky bunch from sherrilyn kenyon...Acheron is hot hot hot

just started reading laurel hamilton's meredith gentry series and it okay...just not into the the fearie thing

Glad to hear it!

*hug*

 

[FurryFury]

This just struck my soul and I felt like sharing. From Every Dark Desire by Fiona Zedde, page 18, paragraph, 7.

"I already know what happened. People like you, the ones who seem so good on the outside, are usually the ones with the soul of the devil just waiting to be set free. That is what this disease does. It strips away the masks, lays bare the creature beneath them all. You had been sacrificing yourself too long in your life and now you are without mercy, without a thought for anyone else but yourself and your own appetite."

 

[Soumis]

This just struck my soul and I felt like sharing. From Every Dark Desire by Fiona Zedde, page 18, paragraph, 7.

"I already know what happened. People like you, the ones who seem so good on the outside, are usually the ones with the soul of the devil just waiting to be set free. That is what this disease does. It strips away the masks, lays bare the creature beneath them all. You had been sacrificing yourself too long in your life and now you are without mercy, without a thought for anyone else but yourself and your own appetite."

That sounds awesome! What do you think of the book as a whole? Would you recommend it?

 

[FloggingMolly]

I'm usually 100% mills and boon historical romance (yes, I know, I'll just hide in shame in the corner ), but currently readng Douglas Adam's Long Dark Tea Time Of The Soul.

 

[Bandit58]

I've discovered Australian author Beverley Harper. She's the female answer to Wilbur Smith, she writes historical novels about 20th century South Africa/Zululand.

Her families come through events such as the Boer War, the development of apartheid and the Zulu wars. Exciting and bloodthirsty stuff

 

[FurryFury]

That sounds awesome! What do you think of the book as a whole? Would you recommend it?

I wouldn't really, unless you like non stop lesbian sex scenes. For me, there just wasn't enough story in it.

 

[FurryFury]

I've discovered Australian author Beverley Harper. She's the female answer to Wilbur Smith, she writes historical novels about 20th century South Africa/Zululand.

Her families come through events such as the Boer War, the development of apartheid and the Zulu wars. Exciting and bloodthirsty stuff

Interesting! She might help me with my Travel Around the World in Books reading challenge!

 

[FurryFury]

I'm usually 100% mills and boon historical romance (yes, I know, I'll just hide in shame in the corner ), but currently readng Douglas Adam's Long Dark Tea Time Of The Soul.

And liking it?

 

[seela]

I just finished Lem's Solaris. I can't believe I hadn't read it before! I loved it.

I started The War of the Worlds last night. Yet another SF classic I haven't read.

Has anybody read any good (auto-)biographies lately? I love to read them, but it's been a while since I've come across anything very interesting.

 

[FurryFury]

I just finished Lem's Solaris. I can't believe I hadn't read it before! I loved it.

I started The War of the Worlds last night. Yet another SF classic I haven't read.

Has anybody read any good (auto-)biographies lately? I love to read them, but it's been a while since I've come across anything very interesting.

I've enjoyed the following lately:

Not really autobiographies per se

As Nature Made Him, The Boy Who Was Raised As a Girl by John Colapinto

I Am Najood Age 10 and Divorced by Njjood Ali

The Short Bus A Journey Beyond Normal by Johnathan Mooney

Working In The Shadows. A Year of doing The Jobs [Most] Americans Won't Do by Gabriel Thompson

Ice Bound A Doctor's Incredible Battle For Survival At the South Pole by Dr. Jerri Nielsen.

Dewey: The Small - Town Library Cat Who Touched The World by Vicki Myron with Brett Witter

The Necklace: Thirteen Women and the Experiment That Transformed Their Lives by Cheryl Jarvis

The Freedom Writers Diary by The Freedom Writers and Erin Gruwell

The Film Club by David Gilmour

Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston

How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen

Autobiographies:

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Child No More : A Memoir by Xaviera Hollander

 

[seela]

Thanks FurryFury! How Reading Changed My Life sounds like a book for me!

 

[FurryFury]

Thanks FurryFury! How Reading Changed My Life sounds like a book for me!

Kewl! I enjoyed all of those books.

Oh! And another good one was, Journey of a Thousand Miles by Lang Lang. It's amazing to me!

 

[seela]

Just when I was looking for my next book after The War of the Worlds, I was handed Roma Ligocka's The Girl in the Red Coat, which I loved.

Roma Ligocka is the girl in the red coat that we see in Schindler's list and the book is her autobiography and tells her story all the way from her childhood in Krakow ghetto, through communist Poland and emigrant years in Austria and Germany to the moment she saw herself in Schindler's list and decided to start writing the book in 1994. She's Roman Polanski's cousin and the book also tells a lot about other famous Polish artists and writers.

I highly recommend this to anyone who likes (auto)biographies and history. Has any one here read it? Did you like it as much as I did?

 

[ownedsubgal]

Just when I was looking for my next book after The War of the Worlds, I was handed Roma Ligocka's The Girl in the Red Coat, which I loved.

Roma Ligocka is the girl in the red coat that we see in Schindler's list and the book is her autobiography and tells her story all the way from her childhood in Krakow ghetto, through communist Poland and emigrant years in Austria and Germany to the moment she saw herself in Schindler's list and decided to start writing the book in 1994. She's Roman Polanski's cousin and the book also tells a lot about other famous Polish artists and writers.

I highly recommend this to anyone who likes (auto)biographies and history. Has any one here read it? Did you like it as much as I did?

seela, sounds like a fascinating book but i'm confused...in Schindler's List the girl in the red coat is one of the bodies we see being dug up and fed into the incinerators?

 

[seela]

seela, sounds like a fascinating book but i'm confused...in Schindler's List the girl in the red coat is one of the bodies we see being dug up and fed into the incinerators?

I've only seen Schindler's List once and it was over 10 years ago, so I don't remember exactly what happened with the girl in the red coat, I just remember there being a girl in a red coat. In the movie, there are actual documental films being used and in those the girl in the red coat is Roma Ligocka. Maybe Spielberg shot some new material with a girl in a red coat for the film?

Edit: Sorry, my bad. Spielberg didn't eventually use the original material, and didn't intent to base the girl in the red coat on a real life character, but Roma was known for everyone in the ghetto as the girl with the red coat, so she immediately thought it was her. The book left me under the impression that it was intended.

In any case, it was a great book. It was so much more than the typical stories of the holocaust. It actually showed what experiencing all that did to a young child and how it affected her life later on.

 

[ownedsubgal]

yes i will definitely check it out, i am composing my amazon list as i type this...thanks for the recommendation.

i just finished If You Want to Live by Carolyn Orser Key...i got it about a month ago at a library book sale for like nothing, and it's actually autographed by the author!

too bad the book was hugely disappointing...it's basically about a woman battling crippling depression after the loss of her child (stillbirth) and husband (walked out). throughout the early part of book i felt i could relate to the character, in the way her depression made even the simplest tasks (like holding up a hairbrush, walking across a room, etc.) incredibly difficult. the inability to keep track of time or place, to separate "visions" of the past from reality, etc. but just as the story was getting really interesting, it went all Oprah/Dr. Phil. the woman manages to pick herself up by the bootstraps and gets her life back on track, even becomes for the first time in her life, independent. ugh. and i was hoping she would hook up with her psychiatrist, making her more dependent but valued for it. ah well.

 

[seela]

And more on the memoires/biographies vein... I, Maya Plisetskaya by Maya Plisetskaya was really good as well. I don't care for ballet especially, but the book was very interesting.

 

[FurryFury]

The Enchantress by Han Suyin 2/5

I had to "scan" read a lot of this because religious persecution is just not my flavor. The parts where the magical sister narrated kept me going but I'm not sure it was entirely worth it.

It's an epic tale. I usually love those. It went many places around the world, which I usually love. It was in the 18th century which can be very cool but for me it wasn't nearly as good as The Heretic's Daughter which involves some of the same plot points.

Ice Bound A Doctor's Incredible Battle For Survival At the South Pole by Dr. Jerri Nielsen. 3/5

Amazing story but how anyone can feel happy and at home when your floor is literally ice, I do NOT know! LOL.

Devil Bones by Kathy Reichs 4/5

Great points about the religious intolerance of what most don't bother to try to understand were in this novel. I've enjoyed all of Reichs books so far.

Every Dark Desire by Fiona Zedde 2/5

I've never seen such non stop sex in any book before. LOL! It's lesbian sex too. This book wasn't my thing even with vampires in it but it was very in your face, I'll say that.

I'd Kill for That edited by Marcia Tally. many authors including Kathy Reichs. 1/5

In fact, there were too many cooks in the "kitchen" to provide a cohesive POV or story, IMO.

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 3.5/5

An interesting look at what happens when countries try to enslave and own other countries peoples and resources. Despite the guilt, I liked it pretty well.

Changes by Jim Butcher 5/5

Soooo goooood!

 

[JaschaE]

Anyone read Fantasy? Im a huge fan of 'A Song of Ice and Fire; series by George RR Martin. It has everything from incest to dragons! I also love 'The Wheel of Time' series by the late Robert Jordan. The twelfth book was released recently and it was amazing. Ah,Rand al Thor!!

 

[FurryFury]

Anyone read Fantasy? Im a huge fan of 'A Song of Ice and Fire; series by George RR Martin. It has everything from incest to dragons! I also love 'The Wheel of Time' series by the late Robert Jordan. The twelfth book was released recently and it was amazing. Ah,Rand al Thor!!

I do. However your good fantasy my not be mine. Let's see I really enjoyed The Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb. After reading it I read the next 12 or so books I could find of hers.

Of course I adore the Kushiel series with also has some kink. It stars with Kushiel's Dart and is by Jacqueline Carey.

 

[FurryFury]

Hallfway To The Grave by Jeaniene Frost 4/5

Urban Supernatural Fiction. So good. I want more please?!

206 Bones by Kathy Reichs 4/5

Dang I'm sad they are all done until her next book comes out.

Choke by Chuck Palaniuk 2.5/5

I'm not fond of this author like so many are. There were moments of amusing brilliance. At the same time the book was full of gross out material which, for me was BAD. Worse was the constant self degradation of the protagonist. I'm glad I'm done with it.

The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly by Luis Sepulveda 3/5

Cute juvenile novella which is somewhat current in light of the oil spill in the gulf right now.

Dead In The Family by Charlaine Harris 5/5

Loving this storyline better than the show! Found out in this book who Eric's maker really was. Love the fairy and shifter stories too!

 

[Luna_Wolf72]

FF~Have all of Jacqueline Carey's book including Namah's Kiss which is set four or five generations after the first 6. LOVE IT.

For those of you who like Sci-fi/cyber-punk/splatter-punk:

try~

Spider Robinson's Callahan Series (if you can find em...I have them all)
Edward Lee's Infernal series (splatter)

OR

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (cyber)

 

[Vixandra]

FF~Have all of Jacqueline Carey's book including Namah's Kiss which is set four or five generations after the first 6. LOVE IT.

For those of you who like Sci-fi/cyber-punk/splatter-punk:

try~

Spider Robinson's Callahan Series (if you can find em...I have them all)
Edward Lee's Infernal series (splatter)

OR

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (cyber)

*stalking pounce*


Oh, JD Ward's books are really good, if that hasn't been mentioned before.
And I'm quite fond of the Sandman series lately.

 

[Luna_Wolf72]

*stalking pounce*


Oh, JD Ward's books are really good, if that hasn't been mentioned before.
And I'm quite fond of the Sandman series lately.

VIXIE!!!!

*pounces you all over this thread*

I have the first 7 Sandman books including the short story novel written by different authors set in the Sand Man time line. ROCKS!! My favorite is A Game of You

 

[FurryFury]

I love those Carey books too!

*hug*

FF~Have all of Jacqueline Carey's book including Namah's Kiss which is set four or five generations after the first 6. LOVE IT.

For those of you who like Sci-fi/cyber-punk/splatter-punk:

try~

Spider Robinson's Callahan Series (if you can find em...I have them all)
Edward Lee's Infernal series (splatter)

OR

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (cyber)