tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post6665833000715011139..comments2023-10-19T03:40:40.815-04:00Comments on Go Knit In Your Hat: Book report: end of May/JuneCarolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07651035210994960810noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-85878782634311532792009-07-19T22:02:39.522-04:002009-07-19T22:02:39.522-04:00Love Ruth Rendell by any name. The Blood Doctor is...Love Ruth Rendell by any name. The Blood Doctor is one of her best, IMO. But you do know that Anne Perry was in fact convicted of murder in New Zealand in the early 1950s? She and her friend murdered the friend's mother with a brick. Peter Jackson made the film 'Heavenly Creatures' about this case, and there have several books as well. More details <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker-Hulme_murder" rel="nofollow">here</a>. I personally find her a stale and uninteresting writer.M-Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18409916623998907121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-13605196196924998902009-07-12T07:31:23.174-04:002009-07-12T07:31:23.174-04:00Glad you liked Mistress of the Art of Death, altho...Glad you liked Mistress of the Art of Death, although I agree it could have been a bit less gory. I had no idea there was a sequel, though. Thanks! I just finished "I Capture the Castle" by Dodie Smith while on vacation. You might like it as a quick, easy holiday read.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04943254051207187857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-84378284373443015762009-07-08T13:39:14.098-04:002009-07-08T13:39:14.098-04:00I enjoyed the Lit. society book and I think you pr...I enjoyed the Lit. society book and I think you probably didn't get far enough into it...thanks for all the other recommendations...I'm always looking for a good read.<br />Try "Oxygen" by Carol Cassella. She answered my fan letter with a lovely hand-written note!<br />Blogless Mary LouAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-85150852338022818922009-07-08T12:21:34.269-04:002009-07-08T12:21:34.269-04:00Try Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon T...Try Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo -- and prepare to be hooked. Then go on to Henning Mankell. Delicious -- and chilly.Suzanne Wilseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14884363671482494983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-43360995050036971662009-07-08T12:19:35.370-04:002009-07-08T12:19:35.370-04:00Do check out Stieg Larsson's Millennium books ...Do check out Stieg Larsson's Millennium books -- Start with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and prepare to be hooked. ANd have you read any Henning Mankell? His books are chilly and excellent.Suzanne Wilseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14884363671482494983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-38494295484363612632009-07-08T10:31:41.379-04:002009-07-08T10:31:41.379-04:00I am so glad you didn't like Guernsey Literary...I am so glad you didn't like Guernsey Literary blah blah blah. I am a librarian and it is a hot title being read by many book groups. I thought the title was annoying and the book was dull. So many folks love it, but I just don't see it.<br /><br />I too love a good mystery. Have you tried the Cara Black books--set in Paris, they are fun and light. <br /><br />To the reader looking for Harry Potter replacement series--I say try 'Graceling' by Kristin Cashore. I thought it was great and 'Fire' it's prequel (due out in Sept.) is also quite good. For a really fun YA read that is fast and furious try 'Hunger Games'--it is like reading a season of Survivor (only you actually care about the characters and they are not in it for the glory or money).Cynthiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12564530076403259504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-29432451960147268362009-07-08T08:57:15.665-04:002009-07-08T08:57:15.665-04:00Interesting comment on Guernsey Lit. and PPP Socie...Interesting comment on Guernsey Lit. and PPP Society. . . because it does start out fluffy and then suddenly deepens and becomes, I thought, fascinating. I listened to it on cd so I was less likely to skim, of course. Everyone I spoke to about it (or lent the cd to) also mentioned how it seemed "lite" at first and then really gained depth and insight. <br /><br />I was thinking of the Maisie Dobbs series for you, and then your last comment covered them; might also try Julia Spencer-Fleming, who has a series that I liked less as time went on but the first four were compelling. <br /><br />Enjoy!Leamonteachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11982570707923337663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-53718412399642122152009-07-07T22:50:51.437-04:002009-07-07T22:50:51.437-04:00Phhht. Besides Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury, whi...Phhht. Besides Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury, which is the first book I've read every summer since I turned 10, most of my reading has also been light. I've ripped through all of the Percy Jackson and the Young Olympians (tween level) series but the last(waiting on the last from the library), they are ok, but not in the HP league. <br />rogue1<br />I've also read the first two King Raven series(retelling of Robin Hood as a Briton, or Welshman, which apparently is a French slur for them), Hood and Scarlet, and am waiting on the third, Tuck.(author Stephen R. Lawhead). Okay, but I prefer Robin McKinley's YA adaptation of the story Thieves of Sherwood. <br />I had sworn to myself to never read another Star Wars novel again, but couldn't pass up on Millenium Falcon by James Luceno. Vaugely amusing backstory of the bucket of bolts, but the end made me want to shove a lightsaber up my nose. So far I've been able to resist picking up the new series Fate of the Jedi. Damn, at this point George Lucas would probably let me write a SW novel (hint: it would have much more sex)<br />Apparently the lightsaber caused brain damage, because I picked up The Sweetgum Knit Lit Soceity, which made me contemplate violence against others. In fairness, it's nothing like my usual reading, and I know people love it, but I had to go read Shatterday by Harlan Ellison just to feel normal again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-15426622000206027892009-07-07T17:08:02.767-04:002009-07-07T17:08:02.767-04:00I read "No Graves As Yet" when it first ...I read "No Graves As Yet" when it first came out and really enjoyed it; the sequels fall off sharply so I wouldn't recommend continuing through the series. Second the recommendation for Mark Helprin - his stuff is brilliant and off-the-wall and the writing is just gorgeous.17th stitchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04512479649245483124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-66763343285293054942009-07-07T17:01:59.302-04:002009-07-07T17:01:59.302-04:00I just finished reading Oblivion by Peter Abrahams...I just finished reading Oblivion by Peter Abrahams. Really interesting and surprising believable premise in the writing of it -- PI has a stroke/brain tumor and can't remember 2 critical days -- and though you eventually figure out the who, you don't the why. Would make a very good movie.Bettynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-36851079293876330812009-07-07T17:01:07.738-04:002009-07-07T17:01:07.738-04:00I was popping my head in to recommend The Cloud At...I was popping my head in to recommend The Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (by all outward appearances, a book I shouldn't have liked and most of my book club shouldn't have liked, yet we all loved it and most of us will read it again in a different pattern [if you read it, you'll know what I mean] because it was that good and that compelling), but I have to jump on the Mark Helprin bandwagon. Winter's Tale is one of my all-time favourite books.Marin (AntiM)https://www.blogger.com/profile/06169366794914669666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-24041004441750457152009-07-07T13:08:13.925-04:002009-07-07T13:08:13.925-04:00I'm with Nestra. Soldier of the Great War is ...I'm with Nestra. Soldier of the Great War is one of my favorite contemporary novels. <br /><br />obscureAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-91162953692809601552009-07-07T12:50:11.344-04:002009-07-07T12:50:11.344-04:00I just read Sapphire's Push on the recommendat...I just read Sapphire's Push on the recommendation of the Well-Read Hostess. Wow.Carolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14821254952159389780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-33139398895661519502009-07-07T12:09:15.381-04:002009-07-07T12:09:15.381-04:00I'm in a couple Yahoo bookgroups that you migh...I'm in a couple Yahoo bookgroups that you might like, if you are interested. Depends on what you're looking for. I can recommend them if you email me.<br /><br />Right now I'm reading The 19th Wife by Ebershoff. Very excellent in my opinion.Sunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-58651132425017867142009-07-07T12:02:22.902-04:002009-07-07T12:02:22.902-04:00I just devoured The Physick Book of Deliverance Da...I just devoured The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane. What if there were witches in Salem in 1692? And what if a grad student found documentary evidence? I loved it!Sonyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03676228724944263850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-83811693699103807492009-07-07T11:37:57.867-04:002009-07-07T11:37:57.867-04:00Have you tried any Mark Helprin? I highly reccome...Have you tried any Mark Helprin? I highly reccomend A Winters Tale, although Soldier of the Great War and Memoirs in an Antproof Case are also really good.nestrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10216557970158797411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-57270044772206620152009-07-07T11:31:15.345-04:002009-07-07T11:31:15.345-04:00Not a mystery (my usual fare), Deborah Weisgall...Not a mystery (my usual fare), Deborah Weisgall's The World Before Her is an excellent story set in Venice about two marriages: George Eliot's in 1880, a modern couple's in 1980. Very well written.Luisenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-36161878466971354612009-07-07T10:41:09.796-04:002009-07-07T10:41:09.796-04:00Anything that makes me laugh is what I reach for. ...Anything that makes me laugh is what I reach for. My favorite summer escape reading is Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum books. She just put out #15. I was disappointed in #14, so we'll see- I think eventually everyone reaches the end of their run.<br /><br />Another fun group- the Serge A. Storm books by Tim Dorsey. Once you've reminded yourself they are fiction a few times, then wrapped your mind around the fact that you are loving a serial killer, they're pretty hilarious.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-31399066385767680972009-07-07T10:31:43.484-04:002009-07-07T10:31:43.484-04:00I read The Lace Reader awhile back. Quite the boo...I read The Lace Reader awhile back. Quite the book.<br /> Hmmmm...what have I read lately... I'm not much for the mysteries myself, but The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher is an entertaining series...especially book 3.<br /> I'm dying to read "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies". I hear its fun.<br /> Historical: I recently read the first two books of the Conqueror series by Conn Iggulden. Book One was best, about Genghis Khan as the child Temujin growing up on the steppes.<br /> Have you read the Josephine trilogy by Sandra Gulland yet? Written as diary entries by Rose/Josephine, Empress of France, the first tells of her girlhood on Martinique. The books explore her marriage and her first husband's infidelity, her single motherhood, the Revolution, her marriage to Napoleon.....all from her own perspective, as it were. Very historical "fiction" and well researched.Ali Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13015782002583625223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-52421267045756930562009-07-07T10:09:57.311-04:002009-07-07T10:09:57.311-04:00I picked up Mistress of the Art of Death a few mon...I picked up Mistress of the Art of Death a few months back at my local used bookstore, and now it will move to the top of the pile. Thanks!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-22177136343274598902009-07-07T09:34:24.683-04:002009-07-07T09:34:24.683-04:00Just finished Bleeding Heart Square by Andrew Tayl...Just finished Bleeding Heart Square by Andrew Taylor, mystery set in down and out London in 1934, features british union of fascists.Mary Louhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05588244535423212079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-54511655990350442782009-07-07T08:53:08.071-04:002009-07-07T08:53:08.071-04:00Now I know how you accomplish so much--just read t...Now I know how you accomplish so much--just read this fresh new post at 7:45 am. Is it because you still have young kids at home or are you an insomniac like me. <br /><br />obscureAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-50592187442054393822009-07-07T08:39:20.665-04:002009-07-07T08:39:20.665-04:00Anything by Cecelia Ahern. Really.Anything by Cecelia Ahern. Really.toni in floridahttp://www.writeknitreadpurr.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com