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the second trilogy does have a lot of Phedre in it...the main character is Imriel de la Courcel, sone of Melisande Shahrizai, who is fostered by Phedre and Joscelin, so they are very prominent secondary characters....the third trilogy is 200 years after the 2nd one so Phedre and Joscelin are just histoical figures, but still mentioned a lot b/c they are legendary by now...i am so sad b/c i am tolly caught up and there is no more Terre d'Ange for me until book 2 of the third trilogy comes out next month :angry: |
A few months ago, I subscribed to Easton Press's The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written.....today, I received The Analects Of Confucius!!!!!!!!!!!! It's lovely! Most of the books I've received thusfar I had already read and I'm mainly purchasing them to hand down to my daughter one day....and....because I like the look of leather~bound books on my shelves.
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Don't Cry by Mary Gaitskill
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Just finished Anita Diamant's Day After Night.
for a radical change, since I'm recuperating, recycling Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlings novels. |
I veered away from my whodunits for a few days when R handed me The Alchemist and asked me to read it.
It's an older book, but I found myself captivated as the author told a great story. There's truly a lesson to be learned in that book. |
"A Round Heeled Woman - My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance" by Jane Juska
"This is Where I Leave You" by Jonathan Tropper "Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him" by Danielle Ganek "Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert "Hit By a Farm: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barn" by Catherine Friend "The Lobster Chronicles: Life on a Very Small Island" by Linda Greenlaw "Escape" by Carolyn Jessop |
I started the latest in the daniel silva series 'the rembrandt affair'....I love his books...they are about and israeli, art-restorer-spy...start at the beginning of the series as silva is very good at building his characters and plots...it's engaging, and distracting reading...
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I just started reading The Little Stranger, by Sarah Waters. It's getting very, very creepy...
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i am currently reading nikki sixx's 'the heroine diaries'
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Just starting "Fly Away Home" by Jennifer Weiner... I'm usually much more of a non-fiction reader (specifically, autobiographies), but I love Weiner's stuff.
Oh, another goodie: "Schuyler's Monster: A Father's Journey With His Wordless Daughter" by Robert Rummel-Hudson. |
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3 on the lamp table I've been working on or recently finsihed.
Origami Striptease ~ Peggy Munson Two or Three Things I Know for Sure ~ Dorothy Allison Cavedweller ~ Dorothy Allison |
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Back for more recycle reading of books on my shelves. Reading some D.M. Thomas at the moment.
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I'm reading The Little Stranger, by Sarah Waters. It's good so far, pleasantly creepy. It's reminding me a bit of The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson.
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Going through a cycle (5th time?) of the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan.. My reward? Getting the new books that have come out after his death and seeing what the ending is!!! 11 books and then he passed away.. True talent he had.. Same thing happened with the Dune series by Frank Herbert.. I just hope that the new books are true to all the charactors, even if it is by a diffrent auther..
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'Four Souls' by Louise Erdrich
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Two of my fave books are Night by Eli Weisel and Things Fall Apart by Achebe...
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Ah, the sweet smell of bookdust!
Great thread, Diva! I will be a frequent poster, I'm sure. I've managed a bookstore, worked in a a GREAT indie bookstore in G'ville, MS where we stopped for tea at 4PM everyday, and then was a Librarian for years!
Right now I'm in the process of simplifying my life. This includes even-gasp!-getting rid of some of my books! I am not sure what I'll be doing with them. Perhaps I'll put some one here on Queerbay, gratis, of course. I'll never charge family for books! *sniffing bookdust* Lady_Wu |
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Normally my preferred reading genre is true crime. I have a favorite book called Mistresses of Mayhem by Francine Hornberger. It details centuries of women criminals, from Elizabeth Bathory to Lizzie Borden, and many others. The book itself is actually very poorly written and has lots of typos and errors, but I still like it just the same...lol
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I read tons of true crime. I always enjoy Ann Rule, Carlton Smith, Harold Schecter, and Aphrodite Jones, among many others!
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Florida genre fiction
some of my fave authors:
carl hiaasen randy wayne white lawrence shames tim dorsey lawrence sanders not to derail but has anybody bought an e-reader? if so, which one? and why? thanks! |
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Negative. There's something so special about the feel and smell of a book (especially library books!). But then, I am rather tactile and a bit old-fashioned. |
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Just started "Whip Smart" by Melissa Febos -- so far, it's really intriguing!! Thanks to nycfembbw for lending it to me!
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Female Masculinity
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what, nobody has read anything in over a year?
Currently reading:
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I am in a book club and we are reading Bleeding Kansas right now. One thing i haveenjoyed about joining this club, othetr than it is all lesbian women lol, is i haveread books by authors i never would have picked up before. Some of them I consider good and some not so. I am more into sci fi and paranormal. Love Laurell Hamilton, Sherilyn Kenyon, Christine Feehan, lots of sex scenes and strange actions going on lol. I have read all of Anne Rices older stuff and for those of you who are curious about the Beauty series, it is not anything like who vamp novels, but EXTREMELY good lol. I have all of Steven Kings books and just saw on tv that Bag of Bones is coming to tv, and have read the Dark Tower series is going tobe a movie Yeah!!! Anyway that is what i like to read.
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I am about to start Stephen King's 11/22/63. Looking forward to it. The print is small compared to my Kindle:glasses:Yes I bought the actual book, wanted to keep it on my shelf.
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I just got the new book from Amazon today by Jeanne Cordova: "When We Were Outlaws", described as "...a love story set between sixties radicalism and the rocky but energetic blast-off of the lesbian movement...queer history that recaptured that reminds us of our roots.
"...the first lesbian conferences, the first women's music festivals, the first gay centers...lesbians in the SLA and FBI witch hunts". It looks great and I am going to start it now:) |
BUMPING this thread because it's a bit different than the "what are you reading" thread!
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A book that I have truly enjoyed is A Name Called Ove by Fredrik Backman.
I was hesitant at first simple because of the way the friend who recommended it described it! I've given copies of this book to countless friends, family members, and even a relative stranger standing next to me at my favorite used book! |
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Right now I am reading *Fly Girls*
It is about the early days of women in aviation (and aviation in general) and the downright bullying they took to make way in a mans world of aviation. Its a really good book! |
I'm making a list of books I have either missed or overlooked as I watch The Great American Read series on PBS.
Their Eyes Were Watching God a 1937 novel by African-American writer Zora Neale Hurston and Another Country by James Baldwin are first on the list! |
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