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JANUARY 23, 2012 @ 05:08 PM


How does six months flicker by without a blog entry? Life, I guess.

Here's a list of what I have read in the last six months... Let me know what has made it into your mind and heart.

Reading: Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama. Great exploration of race & class....

Just finished Death's Heretic by James L. Sutter. Great genre fantasy novel with an atheist hero.

11-22-63 by Stephen King. Excellent read as always, but not Roland.

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. Really fun. Never read Gaiman before. I will be doing so now.

Hunt the Space Witch by Robert Silverberg. Book of short stories from the 1950s. They didn't age well.

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Great first book and the version I listened to was narrated by wilwheaton. Great work by both.

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. Interesting Gaiman knock off. Didn't realize that until I read Gaiman though.

Master of Devils by Dave Gross. Run of the mill fantasy novel with interesting characters.

The Last Colony by John Scalzi. decent sci-fi n the tradition of Heinlein.

A History of China by Hilda Hookham. Survey of Chinese history until the cultural revolution.

The Talisman By Stephen King and Peter Straub. Puts some if the Gunslinger books in perspective. There are narrative elements here he explores in that series.

The Deal From Hell: How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great American Newspapers by James O'Shea

Object of Beauty by Steve Martin

Ultimate Combat by Paizo. RPG Rule book.

Mythical Monsters Revisited by Paizo. Rethinks classic monsters like the Medusa and places them in Paizo's setting.

The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power by Jeff Sharlet. Scary. Really Scary.

The Tempest by William Shakespeare. Read one or two Shakespeare plays a year.

The Stand by Stephen King. Second time I read this. I was 15 the last time. It was much better this go round.

World War Z By Max Brooks Brilliant.

Guess I have been reading!

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Mercie

Mercie

SUICIDEGIRL

Connecticut, USA

JAN 24, 2012 04:59 PM

regarding your comment on my blog : thank you and thank you! And yeah, Anthony makes daily life bearable, because even when things suck as hard as they possibly can, he finds a way to cheer me up. Even if it's just a matter of being himself and I get a kick out of it. Good call.

And Wow, great list.

I stopped reading the dark tower series before the newest books were released and just never got around to reading them... but I love the series. My mom used to pass Stephen King Books on to me after she had read them, so I've read every one of his fictional books since I was about 12 or 13 years old. (Horror books and movies are revered in my family, so me reading Misery at age 12 was really no big deal haha.) I ALSO remember reading the unabridged version of The Stand around that time, and looooooving it. It was one of the first novels she handed off to me by him. I also own the mini-series that was on in 1994! I make everyone watch it with me if they haven't seen it, because it's a lot of fun, and they did pretty god damn good with televising it if you ask me.

I also loved World War Z. I heard they were making a movie of that one, but haven't heard if that's been in production or not since I read it.

Have you read The Unbearable Lightness of Being? ♥ it so much...

Otoki

Otoki

SUICIDEGIRL

Minnesota, USA

JAN 27, 2012 04:51 PM

Thanks.

Selene

Selene

SUICIDEGIRL

Oregon, USA

JAN 29, 2012 11:03 PM

Actually, like I said before, I didn't read the article in question...I did however like your summary smile

Selene

Selene

SUICIDEGIRL

Oregon, USA

JAN 29, 2012 11:05 PM

Shakespeare, King, Gaiman and Brooks= Awesome! smile

Annisa

Annisa

SUICIDEGIRL

Michigan, USA

JAN 30, 2012 08:53 PM

I miss reading...it's next to impossible lately

MissyMalice

MissyMalice

USA
May 2010

MAR 02, 2012 05:49 AM

I've been dying to read that book. I really need to find the time.

knives2meatyou

knives2meatyou

USA
March 2006

MAR 02, 2012 08:56 AM

Thanks for the list. If you get a moment, please feel free to come by my page and check out the books I listed in my profile - all highly recommended.

Right now I'm reading 2 books, "That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion," by Rachel Herz and "Pulphead" by John Jeremiah Sullivan. Both good reads. I also recenty read and really liked "The Art of Fielding" by Chad Harbach and "The Family Fang" by Kevin Wilson.

Thanks again for the suggestions.

Kay

Kay

SUICIDEGIRL

Antarctica

MAR 06, 2012 07:26 PM

Nice. smile Thanks for sharing that.

Primrose

Primrose

Hoschton, GA
September 2006

MAR 07, 2012 05:32 PM

Thank you.

AnnaLee

AnnaLee

SUICIDEGIRL

I'm lost

MAR 31, 2012 07:59 AM

A man after my own heart :-) Wow, love this book filled journal too. I recently fell in love with the writing of Virginia Woolf - The Waves, To the Lighthouse and her Selected Letters.

Dwam

Dwam

SUICIDEGIRL

France

APR 06, 2012 11:57 AM

Thank you so much. It so encouraging to read these kind of comment ! smile

Mercie

Mercie

SUICIDEGIRL

Connecticut, USA

APR 13, 2012 08:39 AM

regarding your comment to me : i would make a kick ass zookeeper.

Oldernow

Oldernow

Ithaca, NY
January 2006

MAY 12, 2012 06:56 PM

thanks for the compliment on my poem. yes, Ithaca is a wonderful town - and living some 20 miles from it is even better! (I like a little space around me). As a counselor I happen to have worked with a number of Ithaca Journal folk (and their higher-ups) in the 80s and 90s... hmmmm... weird bunch - a hard business and getting harder all the time. I love reading the Watkins Glen Review: they print all the news from 100+ years ago. The level of literate writing is SO much better than anything today - to say nothing of the use of sarcasm, irony, and steel-bladed wit.

my current reading list:
Plotinus (for a bunchayears)
Ulysses (by that Irish fellow) for the 5th time
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (for the first time, really)
Origin of the Species - Darwin - also for the first time - which is embarrassing - he really writes like a Zen master.
Modern Ghost Stories of Europe - meh - rehashed Poe and Lovecraft mainly
Game of Thrones (and no, I shan't watch the fillums) - it's better written than I expected
and Remembrance of Things Past - possibly the most amazing style I've ever encountered -- even better as La Recherche de Temps Perdue

I liked the movie of the Stand better than the book, and loved the Talisman; think its tighter than the Gunslinger/Dark Tower series...
and I enjoyed the first half-dozen Laurel K Hamilton books before she dropped into predictable pron...

Wagner_Zero

Wagner_Zero

Brazil
October 2011

MAY 13, 2012 01:31 PM

Hey man, thanks for ryour random "happy birthday" comment for me!
That was nice!

I know this blog of your is kinda old, but you seem to have read a lot of great stuff. I'm over six months withou reading a entire book. I can't wait to have my free time back and read some good stuff...

Wagner_Zero

Wagner_Zero

Brazil
October 2011

MAY 13, 2012 08:14 PM

I'm not good at this "blog upadting" thing too... But I try to keep myself active.
Sometimes I even manage to write something that's worthy reading :p

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