What are you reading? 2015

sneakymom · Jan 6, 2015

Landline by Rainbow Rowell. It won a 2014 best book from Goodreads awards.

I was interested in it because of the storyline. Woman in troubled marriage finds a way to "talk" to her husband before they were married. (I won't give too much away).

It was ok. I guess I didn't like it that much because I started it, put it down for 2 weeks, realized it was due at the library in a few days and finished it yesterday.

Cheryl

sneakymom · Jan 6, 2015

Winchester said:
Started Gideon's Sword by Preston and Child. I started the Gideon series out of order and should have read this one first.

On my Nook, Delicious and Suspicious by Riley Adams, a bit of murder fluff that I doubt I shall finish. It's kind of stupid.

That kind of happens to me a lot. Most of the books I get on my Kindle are free books. I've gotten a couple of really good ones, but a whole bunch of them have just been kind of dumb.

Cheryl

natalie_ca · Jan 6, 2015

Finished James Rollins "Blood Gospel" today and will be starting the next one in the series called "Innocent Blood".

I can't say I'm enjoying his books. The story itself is intriguing, but I'm finding the pace of the books slow and there is much rambling. I find myself skimming through pages and pages of story that I find totally irrelevant to the story. If I didn't know better, I would think he was being paid by the word

"Innocent Blood" is the second of 3 books. The 3rd one comes out in February. Depending on how this one reads determines if I bother with the 3rd one.

I saw that Mark Zuckerberg (Google founder) just started a Facebook reading club! He plans to read a new book every other week — with an emphasis on learning about different cultures, beliefs, histories and technologies, starting with The End of Power by Moisés Naím.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/davidmack/mark-zuckerberg-would-like-you-to-join-his-new-fac#.reWqG9Apl

I decided to take up his challenge! I'll read The End of Power after I finish this book.

larussa · Jan 7, 2015

I just finished reading Cross My Heart by James Patterson and put a hold at my library for the sequel Hope to Die.

rubysmama · Jan 7, 2015

Before Santa brought my e-reader I was reading "The Casual Vacancy" by J. K. Rowling. It got put aside when I fell in love with my e-reader. So I downloaded it from the library today, to finish it. Did I mention I love my e-reader?

micknsnicks2mom · Jan 7, 2015

Docs Mom said:
MicknSnicks2mom, I love Deric Longden's writing! He can weave a whole little story about the most odd things.
Find his "The Cat Who Came in From the Cold"
That's actually the first of his cat stories about his cats.
Happy reading !
Lisa

that's very true! he can find stories in almost any object or person/creature.

i have the kindle version of the cat that came in from the cold, but haven't read it yet. i'm looking forward to reading it though.

thank you!

stewball · Jan 8, 2015

mickNsnicks2mom said:
i'm just starting the Deric Longden book, Radio Times Take 1. i read Deric Long
TailPieces a while ago, and loved his writing so much that i decided i'd work my way through all of his available writing. great author with a wonderful sense of humor and very witty. lately i don't find the time to get involved in/follow full length novels, so these books of short story length individual story chapters work out perfect for me.

his cat books would have me crying with laughter.

stewball · Jan 8, 2015

I've just started a book called Miss peregrine's home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Rigg.

Docs Mom · Jan 9, 2015

Yep... Deric is a hoot ! He also has written sensitive yet funny accounts of his 1st wife and his mother who both had medical difficulties.

jcat · Jan 9, 2015

Overkill (True Crime Collection) From the Case Files of Notorious USA by Gregg Olsen and Rebecca Morris.

micknsnicks2mom · Jan 9, 2015

Stewball said:
his cat books would have me crying with laughter.

oh, yes! me too. at times i would be laughing so hard while reading his books that tears would be running down my cheeks.

catspaw66 · Jan 9, 2015

rubysmama said:
Before Santa brought my e-reader I was reading "The Casual Vacancy" by J. K. Rowling. It got put aside when I fell in love with my e-reader. So I downloaded it from the library today, to finish it. Did I mention I love my e-reader? :lol3:

Isn't it wonderful to be able to carry a whole library around with you? I still like my dead-tree books, but I really love my Nooks - all three of them.

stewball · Jan 9, 2015

mickNsnicks2mom said:
i'm just starting the Deric Longden book, Radio Times Take 1. i read Deric Longden's TailPieces a while ago, and loved his writing so much that i decided i'd work my way through all of his available writing. great author with a wonderful sense of humor and very witty. lately i don't find the time to get involved in/follow full length novels, so these books of short story length individual story chapters work out perfect for me.

stewball · Jan 9, 2015

Sorry.
Is there a radio times take 2?

micknsnicks2mom · Jan 10, 2015

Stewball said:
Sorry.
Is there a radio times take 2?

there are 4 radio times books, take 1 through take 4. they don't have to be read in order, because they're all the short stories from deric longden's weekly radio slots on bbc radio derby and bbc radio nottingham which spanned 20 or more years.

stewball · Jan 10, 2015

mickNsnicks2mom said:
there are 4 radio times books, take 1 through take 4. they don't have to be read in order, because they're all the short stories from deric longden's weekly radio slots on bbc radio derby and bbc radio nottingham which spanned 20 or more
years.

next time i go to look I'll tell you what books of his i have

micknsnicks2mom · Jan 10, 2015

Stewball said:
next time i go to look I'll tell you what books of his i have

okay!

stewball · Jan 10, 2015

mickNsnicks2mom said:
okay!

The cat who came in from the cold.
I'm a stranger here myself.
Enough to make a cat laugh.
A play on words.
Paws in the proceedings.

That's all I've got.

rubysmama · Jan 10, 2015

catspaw66 said:
Isn't it wonderful to be able to carry a whole library around with you? I still like my dead-tree books, but I really love my Nooks - all three of them.

It is great! I've downloaded several freebies, plus the library one. I'm curious to see what happens when the library one comes due. Apparently it will just disappear from my e-reader. Guess I'll see in a couple weeks. Never thought of paper books as "dead-tree" but it is an accurate description.

Has anyone read "The Casual Vacancy" by J. K. Rowling? If so, what did you think of it?

As mentioned up-thread, I started the "dead-tree" version a few weeks ago. I just finished reading it on my e-reader last night.

I had no idea what the book was about, but I needed something to read and someone lent it to me. I knew J. K. Rowling, of course, from the Harry Potter books, but I also knew this was an adult book and not for kids. Anyway, I found the book extremely hard to get into and considered giving up on it, especially once I got the e-reader and free books. There just seemed to be so many characters and I kept getting confused with who was who and why I should care about them. But I hate not finishing a book I start, so I trudged along and at some point I started to fly through it. And finished it last night. And now that I'm done I see that everyone and everything that happened really was all connected. And I did enjoy it. Just wish it hadn't been so slow going at the beginning.

micknsnicks2mom · Jan 10, 2015

Stewball said:
The cat who came in from the cold.
I'm a stranger here myself.
Enough to make a cat laugh.
A play on words.
Paws in the proceedings.

That's all I've got.

there are two books on your list that i don't have -- a play on words, and paws in the proceedings.

the radio times books came about after deric longden's death in 2013. his daughter was going through things in her father's basement and came across his writings for the bbc radio slots -- he kept everything carefully filed.

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