Bookworm Buddies discussion

Janie wrote: "Tim wrote: "Well I finally finished The Windup Girl and posted a review. I'm surprised with myself and after thinking about it had to up my rating to 4 stars. Anyway now I'm trying to fit in a coup..."

It's a great review, too, IMO! I hope you enjoy it, Janie.

I did Enjoy it very much Dustin. :)

I am curently going to read Bite. I love most of Laymon's books, but this one got a lot of mixed reviews so I have my reservations about starting it. But since Ihave 4 days before Carrion Comfort. I needed a fast read. So wish me luck.

I am still holding on with and . The is over 1,000 pages. But it so engaging.

I cant wait to start

Veronica I thought the Casual vacancy was a little odd when I read the description in the store. You will have to let us know what it is like.

It seems interesting. I saw her on Nightline last week and she said she used some of her life experience. It's supposed to be about a town of people with real life experiences - depression, poverty, cutting, etc. And I think there is a sad ending. So, I am looking forward to reading it. I have it on my e-reader. I am just trying to finish up one of my books before I start Casual Vacancy

I am about to start Tomato Red by Daniel Woodrell. It is only about two hundred short pages, so I will hopefully have it done by the fifth. :)

Hmmm that explains it a bit better Veronica. I look forward to hearing what you think of it.

Yay Katherine, I am kinda excited about the carrion comfort read, but more excited for you to read IT with us! hehe.

Janie wrote: "Hmmm that explains it a bit better Veronica. I look forward to hearing what you think of it.

Yay Katherine, I am kinda excited about the carrion comfort read, but more excited for you to read IT..."

Me too! :)

I am reading Something Wicked this Way Comes for the SK Fans group read and Infinite Jest for the Books SK Recommends group and I can't stop looking at IT on my shelf. Soon Pennywise,soon.

hehe Tracy I knoooowww. I keep thinking about it myself. Good grief the time is ticking slowly. I am looking forward to Carrion Comfort too. I just got notice from AMazon that it has been shipped. we will be having an interesting October! am gonna read as many scary books as I can this month!

I am reading Something Wicked This Way Comes for the SK Fans group read. I was able to get a copy of it and so far it isn't that bad. The writing style is different than what I am used to reading. Seems more like an epic poem than a novel. It is my first Bradbury book, and I am curious if his other works are like this as well?

Maybe that is more of a discussion for the other group though. LOL

I have not read anything from this Author. I dont have the book either so I decided to skip this one.

Bradbury is IMO a great author, and was an even greater man. Fahrenheit 451 is one of his most famous novels, but he also wrote a lot of awesome short stories. I'd recommend his work to anyone. And yes, I am reading Something wicked this way comes with the SK group. To get a sense of the kind of a man he was, I recommend watching this tribute video: http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=EBtZjb...

Ok thanks Bojana, Iwill check it out. :)

Currently reading The Wolf Gift and dipping into Carrion Comfort; both of which I hope to finish soon.

I will try to stick to the reading schedule for carrion comfort, but if it carries me away, don't say i didn't warn you.

Warning: Reader tends to get carried away by a story.

I'm rereading Twiligt(say whatever you want I don't care. Twilight is good stuff:D) and I'm reading Tommyknockers...still.:( I plan to finsh both this weekend since I have Monday and Tuesday off.

Alondra wrote: "Currently reading The Wolf Gift and dipping into Carrion Comfort; both of which I hope to finish soon.

I will try to stick to the reading schedule for carrion comfort, but if it carries me away, ..."

BAHAHA! :)

Victor wrote: "I'm rereading Twiligt(say whatever you want I don't care. Twilight is good stuff:D)"

Victor, I don't knock you for reading Twilight, I also liked the series. As I have stated in another thread, it is what you make it. I didn't go in expecting much, it was written for young adults and the author tried to do something different.

Hard core vampire fans tend to forget that the Cullens are portrayed as "sparkly" vampires, because that is the connection that the mind of a teenage girl makes. I personally see the Cullens as supernatural creatures, not vampires. The Cullens have one thing in common with vampires, only one. Every other aspect of their existence is totally different.

But I can't say too much more because if you are only on book 1 then I don't want to give anything away. I enjoyed the series, I have even read Breaking Dawn (the last book) three times, it is my favorite. I will probably read it again the beginning of next month since the 2nd part of the movie comes out then. LOL

I'm supposed to be reading Brick Lane, I am reading 1984

Lee wrote: "Victor wrote: "I'm rereading Twiligt(say whatever you want I don't care. Twilight is good stuff:D)"

Victor, I don't knock you for reading Twilight, I also liked the series. As I have stated in ano..."

Thanks:D I actully aready read the first 3 books so no spoilers:D I already know what happens in book 4 so...it doesn't madder:)

I am currently reading Blood Kin This is definitely hard cord Vampire.

I'm still waiting for Something Wicked This Way Comes to show up in the mail :( So I'm reading a little sci fi now, The Ghost Brigades.

Yay! Got SWTWC in the mail ;) Got something to read along with CC / Hell House this weekend.

Tim wrote: "Yay! Got SWTWC in the mail ;) Got something to read along with CC / Hell House this weekend."

Yay Tim! Yea I am trying to figure out what to couple with CC. I have a lot of great choices. Just have not decided yet! I think it will be between
The 5th Witch by Masterton or Bonemans Daughters by Ted Dekker

I finished Tomato Red last night, and today I'm going to read Coraline by Neil Gaiman. It's a short read. I think only like 160 pages, so I will be good to go tomorrow for Carrion Comfort! :)

I'm reading Coraline by Neil Gaiman. It's only a 160 page book, so it's short, and I should be read for Carrion Comfort, the group read tomorrow. :)

I'm currently reading Every Dead Thing by John Connolly and What the Night Knows by Dean Koontz.

I finished 'The 100 year old man who climbed out the window and disappeared' by Jonas Jonasson today and I loved it,my favourite read of the year :)

Yay Paula, did ya write a review on it? I would love to read it if you did.

Right now I am reading...



Halloween Horrors I am obviously reading for the month of October. It's pretty good so far but I have yet to find a trully scary story in there.

11/22/63...well, I'm not that far into it yet but it's pretty damned good. Stephen King is the master. He just keeps getting better and better.

American Vampire Volume 2 does not disappoint. It's a very awesome series even though Stephen King left it.

Desktop Gargoyle. LOL...it's a little book on Gargoyle lore and it actually comes with a tiny Gargoyle that's eyes light up red! Everyone should have one of these. I keep it on every night while I'm reading. LOL.

Some nice Selections there Dan!

I'm reading Carrion Comfort for the October 5-18 book read!

"DITTO" Kathryn!

I'm doing a re-read of

Currently working on a version of the King Arthur story. So far it's pretty good :)

I'm currently reading 50 Shades Freed, the 3rd book of the series. I love it as I've loved the other 2 books.

Kit★ wrote: "Currently working on a version of the King Arthur story. So far it's pretty good :)"

That is interesting Kit!

Mindy wrote: "I'm currently reading 50 Shades Freed, the 3rd book of the series. I love it as I've loved the other 2 books."

I could not get into them Mindy. I read the first book to see what all the hoopla was and that was enough for me. Glad you are enjoying it.

I'm reading It really is picking up! I can't wait to see what's in the shed!

Victor wrote: "I'm reading It really is picking up! I can't wait to see what's in the shed!"

It's crazy. enjoy

Thanks!

Thinking about throwing in a quick read of Death of a Darklord by Laurell K. Hamilton after I finish Carrion Comfort, because I know I will be finished before end date lol. I have not heard much about this book and I am rather confused. On Good Reads it says Ravenloft #13 so it makes you think there is a whole series, yet there is not. When you look at on Amazon it says The Ravenloft Chronicle. What am I missing? Is it a part of D&D ravenloft? I highly doubt it.

Janie wrote: "Thinking about throwing in a quick read of Death of a Darklord by Laurell K. Hamilton after I finish Carrion Comfort, because I know I will be finished before end date lol. I have not heard much ab..."

really, by Laurell K Hamilton!?? i just thought she had the Anita Blake series and some others, not a whole other series... mmmm

Yea from Hamilton, but not a series from what I can tell. The book does sound interesting though. A girl discovers she has a strange talent of magic. but the world she lives in fears spellcraft. Justwish I could find out more about this. Maybe I will just go ahead and read it and see what happens.

AHA! I discoverd something in the book itself lol. It says Ravenloft the Covenent and below it lists 6 different books with 6 different Authors. Hamiltons is the first on the list.

And also found out that it does have to do with D&D the ravenloft side because one of the books is called "I Strahd, the Memoirs of a Vampire" Interesting. SO it is a series but by different authors. I will have to research this a bit more.Here are the books in the series (if it is a series)
Death of a Darklord
Vampire of the Mists
I, Strahd: The Memoirs of a Vampire
To Sleep with Evil
Tapestry of Dark Souls
Scholar of Decay

Janie wrote: "AHA! I discoverd something in the book itself lol. It says Ravenloft the Covenent and below it lists 6 different books with 6 different Authors. Hamiltons is the first on the list.

And also found..."

sounds promising. i like that idea of different authors, almost like the kid series the The 39 Clues Complete Collection... different authors, so the story doesn't get stale.

thanx Janie.

Well the ones listed are not even all that there is either. But they all deal with the realm called Ravenloft. I am very familiar with this because we used to play a card game called spellfire and Ravenloft was one of the realms in the game.

Janie wrote: "Well the ones listed are not even all that there is either. But they all deal with the realm called Ravenloft. I am very familiar with this because we used to play a card game called spellfire and ..."

wait... you play a card game based off this?? are you an Ubernerd? admit it, Janie!! hehehe...

thats awesome :D

lol of course I am nerd. Doesn't society class people that like books as nerds? LOL The card game I actually learned about years ago. It derived from the old D&D game. You have realms in the game such as ravenloft, forgotten realms, dragonlance, etc. We have not really played it lately. The game has been discontinued and you can only really buy the decks/cards through Ebay now. But we have all of our decks, so if we ever choose to play again we can.

Janie wrote: "lol of course I am nerd. Doesn't society class people that like books as nerds? LOL The card game I actually learned about years ago. It derived from the old D&D game. You have realms in the game ..."

wow; how nerdy am I that I think it's cool? hehehe...