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« Reply #675 on: October 20, 2011, 05:28:23 PM »
J.A. Jance - Trial By Fire (Ali Reynolds series)

Linda Howard - Burn

Huge fan of Jance.  Have all her books!
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« Reply #676 on: October 21, 2011, 12:33:20 AM »
To ready myself for Nanowrimo, I'm going to start over reading Chris Baty's No Plot? No Problem!  A Low Stress, High Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days.

I started reading it when I got it about a year ago, and.. uh.. misplaced it for a while.  I got about a quarter of the way through it first, though.
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« Reply #677 on: October 21, 2011, 01:28:12 PM »
Go Riki!  We all want to be able to post that we are reading your novel by this time next year!

I'm just starting "Coyote v. Acme" by Ian Frazier.
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« Reply #678 on: October 21, 2011, 04:46:25 PM »
Quote from: jbeany on October 21, 2011, 01:28:12 PM
Go Riki!  We all want to be able to post that we are reading your novel by this time next year!

I don't know about that.  I've been working on one now for about 2 years, and I'm only a 3rd of the way through it
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« Reply #679 on: October 21, 2011, 04:55:34 PM »
Quote from: Riki on October 21, 2011, 12:33:20 AM
To ready myself for Nanowrimo, I'm going to start over reading Chris Baty's No Plot? No Problem!  A Low Stress, High Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days.

I started reading it when I got it about a year ago, and.. uh.. misplaced it for a while.  I got about a quarter of the way through it first, though.
   Oh good, you should be done in time for Christmas. Let me know the title so I can have my local book store order it For me. Happy writing!
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« Reply #680 on: October 23, 2011, 06:25:10 PM »
A Sword for a Dragon by Christopher Rowley
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« Reply #681 on: October 23, 2011, 07:17:45 PM »
Ahhhhhhh ........my favorite subject  ..... Reading !!  I've always loved to read.  I tend to like true crime,  biographies and horror/scary fiction.   The last book I read was Ellen Degeneres' latest "Seriously ....I'm Kidding'.   Of course as a newbie here,  now all of my reading time is this website. HA !!  I find reading to be totally relaxing and enjoyable.

I will post this information on the thread about interesting websites,  but any avid reader (who does not do 100 % e-books on a device) .... there is a website called www.paperbackswap.com that I use.  Cuts down on the cost of book buying.   Check it out.

I *do* also have a Kindle.  I was one of the early buyers and of course it's outdated now .... crazy how you cannot keep up with technology and how everything goes to the wayside.  Of course,  I guess folks older than me rolled their eyes when I was younger and looked at 8-tracks oddly.  They were on their way out when I was a kid.   Now it's me with all my audio cassettes, VHS tapes,  etc.

Here's hoping that technology and advances in treatments regarding kidney disease keep advancing as quickly as the rest of technology does !!!
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« Reply #682 on: October 23, 2011, 07:34:18 PM »
I have a friend who uses paperbackswap.. I thought about it, but I have a hard time giving up my books.. they're kind of like old friends
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« Reply #683 on: October 23, 2011, 09:01:09 PM »
Hey Riki ........ I'm with you ...........but I just had too many 'friends' ...........HA !!   Trust me,  I still keep the books I really love .... but I also swap out the ones that I haven't 'grown attached' to (tee hee).    And it helps to keep down the 'hoarding',  as my place looks like a Barnes & Nobles/Best Buy with all the books, magazines, CDs, DVDs, etc !!!    Check out the site sometime.  It's also a great place to go if you uncover a new author and want to stock up on their back titles (even their out of print ones).  And it is honestly very easy !!  (kind of like Netflix)
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« Reply #684 on: October 24, 2011, 07:34:06 AM »
hehe.. I have no shelves, so my books and movies are stacked up all over the place. My Anne Rice books are in stacks underneath an end table in the living room, so they've kinda taken over the house, and Mom wants me to downsize a bit, so we can move into an apartment.  Will not be easy
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« Reply #685 on: October 24, 2011, 07:42:47 AM »
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

This was original written in 1945 after WWII.

It is good so far.... page 20
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« Reply #686 on: October 24, 2011, 12:20:07 PM »
I also have tons of books. I remember when we were getting ready to move across country & I had to get rid of a bunch. I had a friend who had just opened a second hand store; I brought in a bunch of boxes. I told her not to open them until I left. I'm sure I would have found a reason to keep most of them!
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« Reply #687 on: November 07, 2011, 08:30:28 PM »
I'm at present enjoying "Black Water" by Jefferson Parker. He is one top writer.
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« Reply #688 on: November 07, 2011, 08:34:28 PM »
I'm not deeply into anything right now.  Sometimes if I start a book and set it down,  that is IT !!  I'm done.  I've just swapped a copy of 'We Need To Talk About Kevin' that I'm about to dig into.  It's going to be released soon as a Tilda Swenton movie and seems to be getting a lot of buzz.
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« Reply #689 on: November 20, 2011, 05:46:51 PM »
Yaaaah  .... Ann Rule has a new book out (the 15th in her true crime files) .... I'm on chapter 4 of the first 'file'.  Very exciting because Amazon had said the book was not being released until 11/29.  And I found it at Barnes and Nobles yesterday.  WHOO HOO.
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« Reply #690 on: November 20, 2011, 07:55:01 PM »
Being so busy with moving, I decided not to start a novel right now. In keeping with the season, I have started, "Christmas in my Heart" by Joe L. Wheeler. It p a collection of short stories about... You guessed it, Christmas!
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« Reply #691 on: November 20, 2011, 08:05:14 PM »
Last night I finished "V Is For Vengence", the newest Kinsey Millhone book (they were my parents' favorites), and then I was up until 4AM because I had just started Nathan Wolfe's "The Viral Storm:  The Dawn of a Pandemic Age".  Yes, it is about pandemics and how they develop and spread.  Nathan Wolfe is the head of a group that is trying to predict from where the next pandemic will come.  It's fascinating and is very scary.
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« Reply #692 on: November 20, 2011, 09:37:07 PM »
Just finished OLD ENEMIESby Michael Dobbs, the author of the House of Cardsseries. 10 out of 10.
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« Reply #693 on: November 22, 2011, 06:30:06 AM »
I Hate People!: Kick Loose from the Overbearing and Underhanded Jerks at Work and Get What You Want Out of Your Job
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« Reply #694 on: November 22, 2011, 07:40:18 AM »
Black Ops by Vince Flynn. Good shoot em up novel
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« Reply #695 on: November 23, 2011, 12:49:09 AM »
I just finished 'The Watcher' by Brian Freeman - thriller/mystery. I was really enjoying it and started to notice a bad smell. At first I thought it was me, and then the house I was staying at, and then the car on the way home - hubby was driving - I eventually realised it was THE BOOK! There is a yellow stain at the bottom of the pages in the last half of the book that was most likely left by a cat. I had to finish the book and sprayed it with deodoriser but it didn't help much. Am returning it to the library in a sealed plastic bag with a note. Hope they don't think I'm responsible! And to think I didn't notice it for the first half of the book.
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« Reply #696 on: November 23, 2011, 10:20:32 AM »
Just finished ROOM while in the hospital! I don't want to give it away but you MUST READ IT!!!  Shows how a mother's determnation can conquer anything...in the most hopeless of situations! If you read it please PM me and tell me what you think!!!

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« Reply #697 on: November 23, 2011, 01:10:01 PM »
I'm reading the new Steve Jobs book...... he was a dick.
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« Reply #698 on: November 23, 2011, 07:47:01 PM »
Rerun, I'm reading this too and I agree (as I write this on my iPad :2thumbsup;)
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« Reply #699 on: November 24, 2011, 12:02:14 AM »
Quote from: Rerun on November 23, 2011, 01:10:01 PM
I'm reading the new Steve Jobs book...... he was a dick.



Einstein was better with science than people, too.

Currently reading - if you can call it reading when it's a graphic novel - "Castle Waiting. Vol. II" by L. Medley.  Not usually into graphic novels, but picked up Vol I at the thrift store thinking my nephew might like it something different.  I like her rather warped twist on fairy tales.
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