Originally Posted By Autopia Deb The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. I just finished her book Prodigal Summer, which I loved.
Originally Posted By Longhorn12 The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian it's a collection of the first Conan stories from Robert E. Howard. Oh I do love my some pulp actiony goodness especially when the writer is amazing and from Texas.
Originally Posted By Labuda ^^^ Speaking of which, you DO know that Kinky is a published author, right? He's on my "to read" list. Anyhow, as for me - I'm reading The Golden Compass since I finally located my His Dark materials book a couple weeks back. I'll finish the trilogy sometime in August, I expect, even though usually I only read a chapter a night - I am SOOOOO digging this that I'm reading instead of spending time on the computer at times! hehe
Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795 Auschwitz: True Tales From A Grotesque Land by Sara Nomberg-Przytyk It is very good but parts of it are very hard to read.
Originally Posted By WDWdreamin I am trying to read the bible. I started in Genesis. Very slow going...
Originally Posted By Oldschool Disney I'm going to read the Walt Disney biography that was released a few years ago when I go on vacation this week.
Originally Posted By Longhorn12 >His Dark material< I never saw the movie as I didn't want to be disappointed. Somehow when I first read it I read the 2nd book then the 1st then the 3rd... Kinky's book is good from what I've heard Working on Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere" I recommend all of his books/comics.
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x I am also doing a cell-phone app reading of the Bible. It gives me the chapters to read each day, and it has them on their for me. I'm also reading Secrets by Robin Jones Gunn. I picked up the first 3 books in the series (don' tknow if there's more), from the library book sale.
Originally Posted By Labuda "Kinky's book is good from what I've heard " Which one are you referring to?
Originally Posted By alexbook >>I'm also reading Secrets by Robin Jones Gunn. I picked up the first 3 books in the series (don' tknow if there's more), from the library book sale. << Hooray for library book sales. I always volunteer at the one in Fullerton. ----- Just started re-reading Dorothy L. Sayers's "Whose Body?" I've read all of her mysteries, and they're all great. I go back to them sometimes when I need some cheering up.
Originally Posted By Longhorn12 >Which one are you referring to?< I think it's his newest one "What Would Kinky Do?" It got passed around the family along with "You Can Lead a Politician to Water, but You Can't Make Him Think"
Originally Posted By Labuda Ah, ok. I was thinking you were talking about one of the novels he wrote back int he 70s or 80s.
Originally Posted By Labuda Oooo, how are the True Blood books? And how close to the series are they?
Originally Posted By Tandelothien They are very, very good. They are not very close to the TV series, they've mostly taken the main characters and certain things that happen in the books and made up the rest. I find the TV show sometimes takes it a bit ridiculous and put in shocking things just to get ratings where the books just tell a much better story (plus Eric is even better in the books). Tara is very different in the books and not a main character and Lafayette is a very minor character in the first book only but I like their characters better in the show.
Originally Posted By Labuda Thanks for the info! Those books are on my list of things I'd like to read once I finish the book I'm on now!
