I know, it's quite a clever story to be told by a five-year-old narrator and then have the plot unfold slowly. I'm curious what you'll think of the 2nd half of the book. I think it lost its way, but still overall it was an engrossing story. Just got the audiobook, SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy Seal Sniper, and then heard today about the downed helicopter carrying a number of Team Six members. What a loss.
A life by Guy de Maupassant. Great book. I also read The Unseen by Katherine Webb last week. She's kind of local-ish to me, and seemed nice when I spoke to her a couple of times. Don't know what to read next... something light-hearted, I think.
I just finished Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. What a powerful book. The Judge definitely has to be one of the most frightening people I've ever read. And that ending...wow. I might have to let this book soak in for a few days before moving on to a new one. Which I think will be Wolves of the Calla the fifth book in the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. I wanna finish up Roland's adventure. Loved Wizard and Glass but got sidetracked by GRRM's new book and deciding to read other ones for I was blazing through the series.
^Ooh, I want to read that book too! I've already requested it at my local library but the waiting period is about four more days or so and then of course they have to transfer it over to my library. Soo...another week of waiting. Unfortunately. Just finished, The Maze Runner and now reading, Running Out of Time.
This book is one of my favorites of all time. Last I heard, there was a film adaptation in the works, but for some reason the project has been stalled. Hopefully they pick it up again.
LOL Your reviews of other recently read books: DAMN good. Brilliant. So good I 'm gonna mention it in the Happy thread and make a blog about it. Pretty good eh? I think we can all read between the lines, baby.
I'm glad I make someone happy then. My next two books to read are The Divine Comedy and Crime and Punishment. Who wants to take bets on my opinion being: Ok, and Not bad?
I'm reading The Picture of Dorian Gray and Me Talk Pretty One Day -- I'm switching off, but both crack me up!
The Declaration by Gemma Malley. Typical YA dystopian story. Which I love, but I'm hoping this one will be a stand alone novel so I don't have to start on any more series.
The Secret World Chronicles by Mercedes Lackey. Not very well written, but the characters are interesting, and the subject matter made me curious. I mean, super heroes, sleeper nazi agents, and death rays - how bad can it get? ;-D
Well I just finished The Help, which was really good. I'd recommend it to any friend of mine. Right now I'm reading Water for Elephants. So far it's a unique story, but I'm not hooked. Supposively its really good though, so I plan to keep reading it.
I just had The Help given to me by a friend. I'll be starting it soon, but so far have heard really great things about it.
Just finished the short story No Woman Born by C.L. Moore. Very good writer. Fascinating story of a famous woman whose brain is encased in a unique type of robot body. Concerns the psychological struggle she and her creator undergo after the operation is a success.
^Haha, too late. It's a trilogy, and it's sounds freaking amazing! Very much along the lines of Margaret Peterson Haddix's Shadow Children series with surplus children being considered illegal... I'm sooo getting them next to read!
Ha, me too. I can't believe I wasn't aware of this book til now. This will seem weird but I started reading a book on speech writing the other night, and I'm really enjoying it. I actually have come to enjoy giving talks/speeches but cannot do them off the cuff, and I'm glad to read that a speech should be written out in its entirety rather than run the risk of your mind going blank or going off on an undesirable tangent. The book is Simply Speaking: How to communicate your ideas with style, substance, and clarity by Peggy Noonan. I love what she lists as the most moving thing in a speech: its logic.
My first thought was "she's a bit behind, isn't she?" But then I remembered that one of the books I've got on the go is Michael Moorcock's Elric of Menliboné, some of which goes back to the 1960s, so I'm in no position to talk!
Just finished The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. I picked it up on a whim but I highly recommend it as it has realistic characters and an interesting writing style.
