Book Talk - What are you reading?

houdini1

I do think you can access some library books with the nook...if your library has an e-book program. But you also can replace the battery in a kindle, though I haven't had to replace mine for 2 and a half years.

stever

The last ones I used had a AA or AAA battery and an incandescent bulb. I didn't much care for the way they attached to the book, but it's been a few years since I used one.

marsha7

Kindle has been out for 2-1/2 years???...I thought they came out about 6 months ago...maybe I am the one living under a rock...

Mr_Shiftright

Motherless Brooklyn is a very interesting mystery novel about a big lug of a Brooklyn hood, who works for a local mobster. When the mobster is killed, Lionel tries to track down the killers. The interesting part is that he has Tourette's, which makes for some very interesting prose play as well as reactions from everyone he meets. I'm only about 1/3 in, but the book starts with a bang and is a fun read. The author is Jonathan Lethem.

This is the real Brooklyn, not the one in New York Magazine.

marsha7

I have stated that I can't stand to read fiction, I only read nonfiction...biographies, political stuff, spiritual readings, etc...

Just on a lark I picked up a friend's copy of Sue Grafton's "S is for Silence" and I am mesmerized by it...I am amazed that she holds my attention like she does...and I know if I want to read more, she starts at the Letter "A" and is now up to "T", so I may have some interesting reading ahead of me...

And, if I ever decide on an e-reader, maybe I can download her books...:):):)

stever

From Lutz to Twain: A Summer's Reading List (AutoObserver)

I managed to read one on this list - Outliers.

marsha7

my own post of Feb, 2011, I have now been turned onto Sue Grafton, as mentioned, Janet Evanovich and her Stephanie Plum novels, and James Patterson, with his Alex Cross and Womens Murder Club series...I have read all of Grafton's novels from A to U, with V coming out in the fall...

houdini1

In the middle of reading R.R.R. Martin's, "A Game of Thrones". It is a 3 book trilogy and reminds me of "Pillars Of The Earth", but I like it even more. Each book is about 1500 pages.

kyfdx

Is that the same thing as the HBO series?

I'd never heard of it, and don't have HBO at home.. but, saw some of it on vacation..

I never knew that medieval era women walked around half-naked, most of the time, but evidently they did, or they couldn't put it on TV, right?

houdini1

It probably is, but I haven't had HBO for years...and most movies/mini series just massacre the book.

It is certainly not based on historical events. More like imaginary history, or even fantasy, and just a good read.

marsha7

Tom Clancy, and when I look at those 800 page books in fine print, it reminds me of the footnotes in law books...they would take me too long to read...how does anyone WRITE an 800 page book and keep the theme going in their mind???

stever

Don't know about the rest of them, but Clancy has a whole propaganda department at the NSA ghostwriting his books. :P

I read Stephenson's Baroque Cycle last summer - some 2100 pages in the paperback versions (3 books). Takes a while but when you get into a good book, it moves right along.

houdini1

I am getting near the end of this George R.R. Martin trilogy, whew! A wonderful tale which reminds me of Pillars Of The Earth, but with a lot more excitement. Highly recommend.

stever

Went canoe camping last week so no wifi or net access for 3 days.

Tubes filled the void. It was rather like reading a long Wired Magazine article, which themselves are often overly long. But I got my net fix.

marsha7

"V is for Vengeance" the latest Sue Grafton novel (main character, private investigator Kinsey Millhone) and I am waiting for someone to return the latest james Patterson novel in the Womens Murder series, which is Number 11...

Up until a few years ago, I used to want to keep every book I read and have a library on the wall...one day I woke up and realized just how STUPID that was, as I rarely re-read any book, so keeping them (and buying them) was sheer ignorance...now I either borrow the latest book I want to read, or wait until the local library gets it, or, last ditch, buy the paperback for $7 instead of the harback for $25...

One other possibility, but you have to check regularly and it is annoying, but useful...go to the local Goodwill where folks will often donate their books, often mint-condition hardcovers, and you get them for $1 to $3...cheaper than the paperback...I sometimes go there, the books are in no specific order (you might find the Bible next to a Patterson novel, next to a cookbook) but I have found a few books that way (Wayne Dyer books, hardcover) that were really cheap...pay the $3, read the book and donate it back to Goodwill...you just have to be willing to spedn time reading each title on the shelf since there is no rhyme or reason to the shelving, the books are just thrown on the shelf...

robr2

Currently reading The King of Vodka - a biography of Pyotr Smirnov nee Smirnoff, the company he founded and his descendants.

As for buying books, I've always been one to own books and I rarely reread them as well. Good thing is I get my books from a local used book chain in the Boston suburbs. I typically pay about $4 for a book.