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2myladyblue 05-27-2010 09:43 AM

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Originally Posted by dark_crystal (Post 115329)
it is actually three different trilogies: the Phedre trilogy, which you have read, and then the Imriel trilogy and then the Moirin trilogy, of which only the first one is available. So much more "Terre d'Ange" goodness to come!

Oooohhh....Cool! Yes! Phedre....I :stillheart: Phedre! What does the next trilogy focus on? Is Phedre still a main character? I may have to go back & review the first series, it's been quite some time...

dark_crystal 05-27-2010 02:18 PM

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Originally Posted by 2myladyblue (Post 115336)
Oooohhh....Cool! Yes! Phedre....I :stillheart: Phedre! What does the next trilogy focus on? Is Phedre still a main character? I may have to go back & review the first series, it's been quite some time...

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:

Diva 06-07-2010 11:05 PM

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.


Cyclopea 07-28-2010 09:10 PM

Going on my "must read" list:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/bo....html?_r=1&hpw
:glasses:

Pretty Woman 07-28-2010 09:32 PM

Don't Cry by Mary Gaitskill
Actually, anything by Mary Gaitskill will do.

waxnrope 07-29-2010 05:20 AM

Just finished Anita Diamant's Day After Night.
for a radical change, since I'm recuperating, recycling Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlings novels.

WolfyOne 07-29-2010 07:26 AM

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.

jenny 07-29-2010 07:39 AM

• "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

Nina 07-29-2010 07:42 AM

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...

Emmy 07-29-2010 08:29 AM

I just started reading The Little Stranger, by Sarah Waters. It's getting very, very creepy...

sylvie 07-30-2010 10:41 AM

i am currently reading nikki sixx's 'the heroine diaries'

jenny 07-30-2010 11:04 AM

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.

JinxdGirl 07-30-2010 11:44 AM

*squeee*
 
My current top 5 books are:
  • White is for Witching : Helen Oyeyemi
  • Icarus Girl : Helen Oyeyemi
  • Push : Sapphire (broke my heart)
  • Bad Mother's Handbook : Kate Long
  • Living Dead Girl : Elizabeth Scott (Found in the YA section at the library, had to read it before my 12 y/o kinda-kid could. The book hurt my soul and the 12 y/o that checked it out was told after much thought and discussion that if she still wanted to read it when she was 16 she could. Very heavy subject matter.)

MrSunshine 07-30-2010 12:59 PM

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

JinxdGirl 07-30-2010 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by MrSunshine (Post 163935)
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

I love Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison, if you haven't read it, I would recommend it.

waxnrope 07-30-2010 05:12 PM

Back for more recycle reading of books on my shelves. Reading some D.M. Thomas at the moment.

Emmy 07-30-2010 05:14 PM

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.

nycfem 07-30-2010 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by JinxdGirl (Post 164141)
I love Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison, if you haven't read it, I would recommend it.

I love all of her writing. Bastard Out of Carolina really stuck with me! Wow, what a woman, what a writer!

TenderKnight 07-30-2010 05:58 PM

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..

galadna 07-30-2010 06:08 PM

'Four Souls' by Louise Erdrich

Zimmeh 07-30-2010 07:01 PM

Two of my fave books are Night by Eli Weisel and Things Fall Apart by Achebe...

JinxdGirl 07-30-2010 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by nycfembbw (Post 164182)
I love all of her writing. Bastard Out of Carolina really stuck with me! Wow, what a woman, what a writer!

It struck a very personal chord with me .. I identify deeply with Bone.

Lady_Wu 07-30-2010 08:35 PM

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

dixie 07-30-2010 08:45 PM

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Originally Posted by ZimmygLrL (Post 164280)
Two of my fave books are Night by Eli Weisel and Things Fall Apart by Achebe...

Night is one of my favorite books as well. I was fortunate in that I was able to talk with Mr. Weisel when he gave a lecture for my AP English/Lit class in high school. He was such a very nice man and was very patient with us teenagers asking him so many questions. I learned so much that day. :)

dixie 07-30-2010 08:52 PM

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

nycfem 07-30-2010 09:03 PM

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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Originally Posted by dixielady (Post 164350)
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


CrankyOldGuy 08-01-2010 07:57 AM

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!

BestButchBoy 08-01-2010 08:22 AM

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Originally Posted by CrankyOldGuy (Post 165519)

not to derail but has anybody bought an e-reader? if so, which one? and why?

thanks!


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.

violaine 08-01-2010 02:42 PM

oliver sacks
 
music o p h i l i a

jenny 08-02-2010 08:50 AM

Just started "Whip Smart" by Melissa Febos -- so far, it's really intriguing!! Thanks to nycfembbw for lending it to me!

AtLast 08-02-2010 12:24 PM

Female Masculinity
by Judith Halberstam

betenoire 10-22-2011 08:48 PM

what, nobody has read anything in over a year?
 
Currently reading:

[ame="http://www.amazon.ca/Miss-Peregrines-Home-Peculiar-Children/dp/1594744769"]Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children[/ame]

http://www.filmofilia.com/wp-content...r-Children.jpg

sanee66 10-22-2011 09:45 PM

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.

Julien 11-15-2011 09:12 PM

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.

*Anya* 11-15-2011 09:22 PM

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:)

homoe 09-09-2018 11:21 AM

BUMPING this thread because it's a bit different than the "what are you reading" thread!

homoe 09-09-2018 11:29 AM

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!

homoe 09-09-2018 06:31 PM

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Originally Posted by homoe (Post 1224519)
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!

sorry that SHOULD read.....A Man Called Ove

girl_dee 09-09-2018 06:42 PM

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 man’s world of aviation.

It’s a really good book!

homoe 09-12-2018 03:26 PM

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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