April's Astonishing, Astounding (and Sometimes Overpowering) Adventures in Reading

[Hilarious Joke]

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I was wondering about that Teresa!

 

[Talysia]

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Continuing my Jim Butcher reread with Grave Peril.

 

[murphy]

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Now reading Carl Hiaasen's Skin Tight. Very funny in spots, as well as exciting.

 

[ravenus]

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Read Roald Dahl's Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, and I must say I was a lot more impressed with the Gene Wilder film than by its source.

 

[manephelien]

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Reading Robin Hobb's Soldier Son trilogy. Just finished Forest Mage

 

[Nesacat]

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Read a few books over the stormy stay-indoors-with-book-and-cat-and-tea weekend.

Serving Crazy With Curry by Amulya Malladi
... On the morning Devi decides to take her life, fate conspires against her. fate in the form of her mother Saroj, who use her spare key to let herself into her youngest daughter's apartment when she thinks she's at work.

But, having lost yet another job, and knowing she will never live up to the example her elder sister has set as a traditional Indian wife, devi had decided to take the easy way out. But now it seems she can add suicide to her list of failings.

Forced to move back in with her parents until she is strong enough to resume her life, she adopts a vow of silence. Instead, she begins to cook. Wild, crazy concoctions that are so delicious the family is drawn again and again to the table...

After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
...The economy was booming. People had more money that they know what to with. And then the earthquake struck. Satsuki has spent 30 years hating one man. Did her desire for revenge cause the quake? Junpei's estranged parents live in Kobe. Should he contact them? Miyake left his family in Kobe to make midnight bonfires on a beach hundreds of miles away. Four-year old Sala has nightmares that the Earthquake Man is trying to stuff her inside a little box. Katagiri returns home to find a giant frog in his apartment, on a mission to save Tokyo from a massive burrowing worm...

Jennifer Government by Max Barry
...In the future the world will be run by giant American corporations. Everybody will be so happy, tax-free and rich that they will change their name to that of their company. Hack Nike, however, is a lowly Merchandising Officer with negative career equity. In the future, this is not a good thing. So when John Nike and John Nike offer Hack Nike a job marketing a new line of really, really expensive trainers he's understandably thrilled. He's less thrilled when he discovers that his duties include shooting teenagers.

I loved Jennifer Government, which I bought, because it was Rane Longfox's avatar here and when I saw it at a sale I recognised it. Also Marky had been telling me all about Max Barry. It's not the usual sort of book I pick up so it's very much thanks to the people here. The avatar helped ... a lot.

I finished in in one sitting Friday night and then went down to Borders the next morning. They had NOTHING by Max Barry. Sigh. Am going to try and get downtown and hope they have it in Kinokuniya.

Any suggestions as to which to read next and is there any sort of order?

 

[Marky Lazer]

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There's no reading order. All three novels are stand-alones. Though his last novel Company is different. I think the novels become more subtle...

Dogmatika :: Reviews

 

[iansales]

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Finished Hanan al-Shaykh's Women of Sand and Myrrh, and very good it was too. Now I'm reading Phoenix, the second book of WA Harbinson's Projekt Saucer series. I don't expect this one to be good...

 

[Nesacat]

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There's no reading order. All three novels are stand-alones. Though his last novel Company is different. I think the novels become more subtle

Thanks Marky. I'll go downtown to Kinokuniya over the next weekend and have a look. If they have none then I'll try and get them ordered through Silverfish Books.

 

[HoopyFrood]

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Deadhouse Gates has to be set aside (sigh). Today I will mostly be reading a selection of John Donne's poetry.

 

[Thadlerian]

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Finished Hobb's Assassin's Apprentice. It's a truly awesome book, some of the the best characterization I've seen, and with an eye for all the important little details of people's lives, those too small for writers like Martin and Erikson to bother with.

 

[Pyan]

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Deadhouse Gates has to be set aside (sigh). Today I will mostly be reading a selection of John Donne's poetry.

Sigh? Donne is just brilliant.....

 

[HoopyFrood]

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Sigh because I'm just getting into books when I have to leave them for a while. And with a series like Erikson's, concentration is needed!

 

[Pyan]

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Ah...not a reflection on Donne, then...

 

[Taltos]

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Still struggling with the Stroud - it just doesn't hold my attention - so now I have about 800 pages and 4 days - until the books should be returned to library - let the race commence

 

[Talysia]

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Reading Year of the Griffin, by Diana Wynne Jones.

 

[Lady of Winterfell]

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Still working on Legends II, but now also reading The Autobiography of Henry VIII by Margaret George.

 

[Switchback]

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Have recently gotten hooked on the US Civil War, so in addition to Jordan and Martin and Eriksen and Penman I just started last night on Shelby Foote's masterwork, The Civil War, a Narrative: Fort Sumter to Perryville.

 

[Razorback]

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The other day I finished God Emperor of Dune, by Frank Herbert. This is the 4th of the Dune books written by Frank Herbert. I read the first 3 in the 1970s, but I wasn’t reading much Sci-Fi in the early eighties when the next 3 were published. I’m not sure why I took so long to return to this series, since I liked the first 3 and the movies. In any event, this book was right in line with my memories of the earlier works. The ending of this one was predictable and a bit flat, but I thought it was a good read overall. I rate this one an 8 on a 10-scale. I’ll probably read Frank’s remaining 2 before the year is done.

You have square thoughts which resist circles.

 

[Shamu]

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Finished reading:

Blood Engine and Poison Sleep by T. A. Pratt and I have just started to read The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert V S Redick.