I finished It last night and started Cell by Stephen King.
What are you reading?
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Spark Joy, by Marie Kondo.
Through the Glass, by Shannon Moroney. The memoir of a woman whose husband is a sex offender. I don't normally read true-crime stories, but this was excellent -- written from an unusual perspective, and the best thing I've ever seen on PTSD.
All Dressed in White, by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke. Pretty good.
Finished in (way less than) a day: Number the Stars, by Lois Lowery. Excellent juvenile fiction about WWII.
Through the Glass, by Shannon Moroney. The memoir of a woman whose husband is a sex offender. I don't normally read true-crime stories, but this was excellent -- written from an unusual perspective, and the best thing I've ever seen on PTSD.
All Dressed in White, by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke. Pretty good.
A book I'd previously abandoned: Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn. I should've left it in its abandoned state.
Finished in (way less than) a day: Number the Stars, by Lois Lowery. Excellent juvenile fiction about WWII.
I finished Cell and began Dreamcatcher by Stephen King.
Chill of Fear, by Kay Hooper. Fun.
I am listening to and also reading A Universe from Nothing by Lawrence Krauss. I am enjoying it though I am not understanding everything in it. It has been decades since I formally studied any physics.
The Man Who Fell From the Sky, by Margaret Coel. Not quite as enjoyable as her Wind River mysteries usually are, just because I figured out what was going on too quickly.
I just finished this one. I liked it well enough, but there were some parts that made me scratch my head. Like the whole talking to your objects section. I am thankful that my shoes keep my feet safe, but at the same time I have a pair of heels that should be thanking me for wearing them. :c) That aside - I have noticed myself stopping to ask every so often if I really need a certain object in my home and if it "sparks joy".
Maybe that should be a new Kondo rule: if you feel like something should be thanking you, get rid of it.
Joe Haldeman's Planet of Judgment.
Insomnia by Stephen King. 
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King.
Edited to get all the ones I've read so far into one place (current one in bold):
A book you can finish in a day: Number the Stars, by Lois Lowery.
A book recommended by your local librarian: Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel
A book chosen for you by a good friend: The Girl Who Slept with God, by Val Brelinski. Dysfunctional family, religious fundamentalism, mental illness, suicide, all kinds of not fun stuff. Awful.
A book you previously abandoned: Gone Girl, by Gilliam Flynn
A book you've already read at least once: Harry Potter series
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I read Wolf Man vs. Dracula and it was really good. It would have made a good movie-- and maybe someday will. The guy who wrote it did a fabulous job on Larry Talbot-- I could see and hear Lon Chaney Jr. speaking those lines every time. The characterization of Dracula wasn't quite as good, but improved at the end. In particular, his motivation for asking a peasant farmer for his daughter's hand in marriage was not explained. The book itself is very interesting. It is basically scans of the pages of the script, so it is exactly as written-- a first draft that is rife with spelling, punctuation, vocabulary, and formatting errors. It's very charming. 
Now I'm reading a humungous, three-volume, hardcover, slip-cased collection of Gahan Wilson cartoons. It's everything he ever published in Playboy (and has a foreword by Hugh Hefner) from 1957 to 2008. The list price is $125 and Amazon had it for $38.
Now I'm reading a humungous, three-volume, hardcover, slip-cased collection of Gahan Wilson cartoons. It's everything he ever published in Playboy (and has a foreword by Hugh Hefner) from 1957 to 2008. The list price is $125 and Amazon had it for $38.
I have finished reading The Hobbit (the 4th time I have read it) and started to read Lord of the Rings again.
I'm thinking of getting the film version novels (The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings).
I'm thinking of getting the film version novels (The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings).
I'm kind of between books, so reading a bit more of Finnegans Wake. The great thing about about this, ah, "novel" is that since there's no discernible narrative there's no real risk of losing the thread of the plot. Its value is largely in James Joyce showing off what he can do with the form of words and sentences when juxtaposing concepts - I want to finish this before Alan Moore's Jerusalem is out, but that should give me about another six months or more.
Recently finished reading Heart Of Darkness. It's short but took me a while to finish. Some masterful writing, but little "!human interest" given that Joseph Conrad didn't bother to give names to many of the principal characters. Still, definitely worth a look - as was Youth, a short story bundled with it and of a similarly seafaring bent.
Also recently finished A Dance With Dragons part 2 in audiobook form, read by Roy Dotrice. Not bad overall, but hearing Tyrion sounding Welsh and Daenaerys with a distinctly unlovely brogue takes some getting used to. Anyway, if I had to guess I'd say that the next book is 12 months away.
Recently finished reading Heart Of Darkness. It's short but took me a while to finish. Some masterful writing, but little "!human interest" given that Joseph Conrad didn't bother to give names to many of the principal characters. Still, definitely worth a look - as was Youth, a short story bundled with it and of a similarly seafaring bent.
Also recently finished A Dance With Dragons part 2 in audiobook form, read by Roy Dotrice. Not bad overall, but hearing Tyrion sounding Welsh and Daenaerys with a distinctly unlovely brogue takes some getting used to. Anyway, if I had to guess I'd say that the next book is 12 months away.
