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Post by Deb on Jun 10, 2007 10:18:59 GMT -5
In the todays Joplin Globe book rundown "Water for Elephants" is a Top Ten favorite in paperbacks. I think I'll go buy it. Maybe just maybe I can find someone near me who has some Harry Potter I can borrow.
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Post by ZenRider on Jun 10, 2007 11:17:00 GMT -5
Currently reading the Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy series. ;D Just about finished with The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. I second Ursula K LeGuin's books. Some interesting and unusual ideas in her Sci Fi books. After the way Sci Fi channel butchered her Earthsea book, not likely to see anymore of her books in movie form anytime soon. Of course, Tolkien and like many of the other books already mentioned. Couldn't keep up on the whole series, but Piers Anthony's On a Pale Horse is an interesting concept of Death.  Dean R Koontz. Especially before he dropped the R and regrew hair.  |
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Post by Bara on Jun 10, 2007 11:53:40 GMT -5
Well, Lynne - hope you have a BIG hat! Get picking! |
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Post by brooks on Jun 10, 2007 22:37:53 GMT -5
In the todays Joplin Globe book rundown "Water for Elephants" is a Top Ten favorite in paperbacks. I think I'll go buy it. Maybe just maybe I can find someone near me who has some Harry Potter I can borrow. Harry Potter is a series of books and the last one is coming out in July. You have to read all 6 books before you can read the last one. I may have some you can read but you got to read in order or it won't make any sense :hahahay: |
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Post by Lynne on Jun 11, 2007 6:41:02 GMT -5
I thought Goalie already chose three up there somewhere? Lets do it and then we'll keep adding on.
Deb I picked up the book to send to you because I couldn't get into it and then, wondering why, I started reading it. Yeesh. It should be heading your way very soon and it is Teacher Man by the dude that wrote Angela's Ashes. I think it was you that said you'd like to read it.
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Post by Goalie on Jun 11, 2007 7:26:55 GMT -5
those were just suggestions Lynne, really you can choose whatever you want. ;D Just let us know.
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Post by Deb on Jun 11, 2007 9:24:22 GMT -5
Lynne, you've jogged my memory!! It was "Teacher Man" by the author of "Angela's Ashes" that you have. It was "I" who said I'd like to read it.
Well, guess what??? I went to our closest Super Center yesterday to get "Water the Elephants" and they didn't have it. :bangy: :bangy: The clientele at that Super Center is largely Hispanics who work in the chicken processing industry so they cater mostly to that public.
In this rural area where I live we have a snail mail address of one town that is 12 miles from us. Our landline telephone number/service is out of another town 6 miles from us and we have a prefix number totally different than the town we get our snail mail from. Neither of the two communities even have a Library. The closet Library is 15 miles away and in a different county than one we live in. The next closest is 25 miles away.
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Post by niaru on Jun 11, 2007 10:00:20 GMT -5
Thanks Goalie!
I finished the 10th circle and had started 13 Moons but I think I'll go get Water for Elephants, see if they have it at my local library, otherwise it's off to Barnes and Nobles.
We used to have a great bookstore in town, where employees made recommendations about the books they'd read, and one employee had exactly the same tastes as I did so whatever he recommended I was sure to like.
It was sooo easy to shop for books then! But now they moved to another town 30 mn away.
Deb, my public library is FREE for residents, and offers passes to a lot of cool places such as the Museum of Sciences in Boston, Plymoth Plantation, etc. etc. Next (upscale) town over, it's $25 for a membership.
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Post by Bara on Jun 11, 2007 10:37:52 GMT -5
I'm fine with all of those, Terrie - they arrived from Amazon today. ;D
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Post by brooks on Jun 11, 2007 11:11:17 GMT -5
Goalie I am fine with all those ones too. Deb you sound like me everything is several miles from home AAAAAAHHHH the country live I must get the library this week and Water for Elephants! Not much of this month left. |
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Post by Deb on Jun 11, 2007 11:59:47 GMT -5
Brooks, your right on; AAAAAAHHHHHHHH the country-life, but you know what?? I wouldn't trade it for "luv nor money". Except under circumstances out of my control. ;D
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Post by Bara on Jun 11, 2007 12:04:50 GMT -5
Yep - I'm going for Water for Elephants, too. Got about 'thees much' of the Boleyn Inheritance left - so that will be finished in bed tonight.
Thea - your package went off today .. ;D I wasn't in the office, but a colleague sent it off to you. I added another Tudor one, which I'd forgotten. It's about the York uprisings.
I used to hoard books. But after 2 floods and a fire, where I broke my heart over everything that went, I now trot them over to friends or Oxfam, so that someone else can enjoy them!
So now what, Terrie/Lynne? A thread for each?
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Post by Lynne on Jun 11, 2007 12:12:33 GMT -5
Great! Those three it is! I just tried to order The Tenth Circle but it seems like Amazon has stopped taking paypal. ARG!!! I'll get it tomorrow though  |
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Post by HokieThea on Jun 11, 2007 12:16:26 GMT -5
Wow Bara, I'm so excited!! That's so nice of you!! I'm gonna dig through my books and shoot a few back to you. I've got so many that were enjoyable, but not the type I want to use up valuable bookshelf space for. That's saved for the "special" books.
"The Boleyn Inheritance" really gave me a side of Anne of Cleves I hadn't seen before. Of course, it is sort of fiction, but I have to wonder how much of it really is based in fact. She was made to sound classier than most of the others. I wonder if Henry really liked her (platonically) as much as the author implied. I'd like to read more about her.
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Post by HokieThea on Jun 11, 2007 12:17:54 GMT -5
I've read Water for Elephants, and the Tenth Circle seems awfully dark for me. I'm going to get The 13th Tale tomorrow at the library.
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