Originally Posted By Sara Tonin Just finish Amy Tan's Opposite of Fate. And started The King's Speech.
Originally Posted By Labuda in case I haven't mentioned it, I'm now working on the 2nd book in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series: The Girl Who Played with Fire.
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 A Catered Thanksgiving by Iris Crawford. Expecting 25 inches of snow in the next two days. I hope I have enough books on hand
Originally Posted By Labuda So Saturday morning I woke up at 0630 and started reading around 300 or so of The Girl Who Played with Fire... and 5 hours later I had finished that and was about 100 pages into The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. I'm still reading that, but expect I'll finish it by the weekend.
Originally Posted By alexbook An advance copy of Jasper Fforde's "One of Our Thursdays Is Missing." Plenty of typos and the illustrations are big empty white rectangles, but I'm enjoying the story.
Originally Posted By Longhorn12 Finished the Necronomicon and "Stone of Tears". Now moving on to the third book in the Sword of Truth series "Blood of the Fold".
Originally Posted By magic0214 Reading "Cold Sassy Tree" for school, 50 pages in and it isn't very good.
Originally Posted By seafairy1622 The angels of Morgan Hill Donna Van Liere Her books are very heart warming.
Originally Posted By Longhorn12 >Reading "Cold Sassy Tree" for school, 50 pages in and it isn't very good.< The name sounds terrible lol. Hope it isn't that bad.
Originally Posted By Labuda "One of Our Thursdays Is Missing" is a GREAT book title. Can you tell us a bit about what it's about, Alex? And, did you get hold of this through your work, or some other, more mysterious way?
Originally Posted By alexbook Yes, I got it though work. Our buyer gets a steady stream of advance copies from publishers. They're in the nature of free samples. The publisher hopes that she'll like the book enough to order it for the store. She handed this one to me because she knows I like Jasper Fforde. It's book 6 of the Thursday Next series. I loved the first one ("The Eyre Affair"), but the sequels have been uneven. In book 5, we met two "written Thursdays," i.e., fictional characters based on the "real" Thursday. This time around, the real Thursday is missing, and one of the written Thursdays has to find her. So far, the best bits are the written Thursday's first experiences of the Real World.
Originally Posted By JenniBarra >>Our buyer gets a steady stream of advance copies from publishers. They're in the nature of free samples.<< The perks of being in a book-related field. I used to work in the collection development department for a library system, and it was entertaining to watch all of the big readers hover around to see what was in the latest box from the publishers.
Originally Posted By alexbook @Labuda: Yeah, sorry I wasn't clear. It's classed as "Speculative Fiction" (which seems to be the new name for extremely far-fetched science fiction). Thursday Next is an English police detective whose adventures take her into worlds of fiction. There's also time travel, extinct species being revived through cloning, super-human villains, alternate English history (President George Formby?, the Socialist Republic of Wales?), and dangerous cheeses. The series includes "The Eyre Affair," "Lost in a Good Book," "The Well of Lost Plots," "Something Rotten," and "First Among Sequels." @JenniBarra: Being a small store, we actually get more reader copies than we know what to do with. I think one of my co-workers ends up taking them home to use as insulation.
Originally Posted By Labuda Oooo, the alternate history one is the most interesting to me. I read one alternate history novel about 15-20 years ago that I LOVED. Hey, if I tell you I dig the book "The Difference Engine," can you please suggest others in the same vein for me, if you don't mind me asking you to work while you're here on LP?
Originally Posted By alexbook "Difference Engine" pretty much spawned a whole sub-genre called steampunk. I haven't read much of it, so maybe somebody else can recommend some. There's a new anthology out called "Steampunk'd," which I've been eying but haven't gotten around to yet.
Originally Posted By Longhorn12 >spawned a whole sub-genre called steampunk< Debatable. I think it comes out more from the early 60s and Difference Engine is just what made it mainstream. If you're looking for alternative history type books I can try and help though. "The Man in the High Castle" by Philip Dick is still considered THE alternative history book. There is also a great collection of short stories called "The best alternate history stories of the 20th Century" which includes one of my favorite authors Larry Niven. If we're going in a more steampunk direction The Nomad of the Time Streams series by Michael Moorcock is ok.
