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What are you reading? 2015
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Hmmm... then it might take me all of next year to read them all.
There are eight books right now:
Outlander
Dragonfly in Amber
Voyager
Drums of Autumn
The Fiery Cross
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
An Echo in the Bone
Written in My Own Heart's Blood
Read them in order, so you know what's going on from book to book. I binge-read them, one right after the other and couldn't get enough of them. I think I read Outlander four times and I keep working my way through the series. I will want to re-read Dragonfly in Amber and Voyager again before Season 2 starts in April..
She is working on the ninth book (I didn't know that!!!!
and it's to be a continuation of Jamie's and Claire's lives. There is no title and she has no idea when it will be finished and ready for publication. There are excepts from the ninth book here: http://www.dianagabaldon.com/books/outlander-series/book-nine-outlander-series/
There are also some books about Lord John Grey (who is a big part of Jamie's life, but I won't go into detail about him). I have not read them yet, and I keep thinking I should.
Not bad at all, considering that she started writing Outlander, just to see if she could write a book!
I just love the Outlander series. (Surprisingly, while Dear Richard has not read the books, he did watch Season 1 with me...not as many times as I did, though. He thought it was excellent, too.)
Outlander
Dragonfly in Amber
Voyager
Drums of Autumn
The Fiery Cross
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
An Echo in the Bone
Written in My Own Heart's Blood
Read them in order, so you know what's going on from book to book. I binge-read them, one right after the other and couldn't get enough of them. I think I read Outlander four times and I keep working my way through the series. I will want to re-read Dragonfly in Amber and Voyager again before Season 2 starts in April..
She is working on the ninth book (I didn't know that!!!!
There are also some books about Lord John Grey (who is a big part of Jamie's life, but I won't go into detail about him). I have not read them yet, and I keep thinking I should.
Not bad at all, considering that she started writing Outlander, just to see if she could write a book!
I just love the Outlander series. (Surprisingly, while Dear Richard has not read the books, he did watch Season 1 with me...not as many times as I did, though. He thought it was excellent, too.)
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Thanks Winchester. I just checked and my library has all of them as e-books, so when I finish what I'm reading now (a few sappy Christmas novels) I may have to start reading the series.
Eight books with 700-ish pages each, that's a lot of reading! If I start and get hooked, the other books I have on my "to read list" won't get read for a few months! That said, I do love coming to a series late, as you get to read all the books one after the other instead of having to wait years for the author to write the next book.
I don't have cable, so I've never seen the tv show, but I see my library also has the dvds, so once I finish the books, I'll be able to watch the series.
Eight books with 700-ish pages each, that's a lot of reading! If I start and get hooked, the other books I have on my "to read list" won't get read for a few months! That said, I do love coming to a series late, as you get to read all the books one after the other instead of having to wait years for the author to write the next book.
I don't have cable, so I've never seen the tv show, but I see my library also has the dvds, so once I finish the books, I'll be able to watch the series.
There are eight books right now:
Outlander
Dragonfly in Amber
Voyager
Drums of Autumn
The Fiery Cross
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
An Echo in the Bone
Written in My Own Heart's Blood
She is working on the ninth book (I didn't know that!!!!and it's to be a continuation of Jamie's and Claire's lives. There is no title and she has no idea when it will be finished and ready for publication. There are excepts from the ninth book here: http://www.dianagabaldon.com/books/outlander-series/book-nine-outlander-series/
There are also some books about Lord John Grey (who is a big part of Jamie's life, but I won't go into detail about him). I have not read them yet, and I keep thinking I should.
WHOO HOOOOOOOO!A ninth one! Can't wait. Will just have to read and re-read till then.
I've read the first two Lord John books, and they're interesting and fun, but they aren't Jamie and Claire. I'll buy them all, eventually, but they aren't on the top of the "must have" list.
OH...Don't forget the Outlandish Companion, a real help for those who need a scorecard!
Just about to start "Speaking in Bones" by Kathy Reichs.
I've read quite a few of her books and enjoy them.
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IHI Pam. I've never heard ofrom these outlander books. Can you describe them to me please. I mean, how sci Fi are they?
Well I didn't read the book by the woman who wrote harry potter.
A. Because I've read it and B. It bored me.
I'm coming to the end of a book called More Cats in the Belfry by a woman called Dore en Tovey. She had siamese cats and wrote quite a few amusing books about them. It doesn't tax the brain reading her books.
A. Because I've read it and B. It bored me.
I'm coming to the end of a book called More Cats in the Belfry by a woman called Dore en Tovey. She had siamese cats and wrote quite a few amusing books about them. It doesn't tax the brain reading her books.
Just ordered "Homer: The Ninth Life of a Blind Wonder Cat" so I will be reading that as soon as it arrives - squeeeee!!!
I find that she gets way too technical and wordy; sometimes taking 10 pages to describe a knife blade and what the wound would look like. I tend to skim through most of her books, reading the parts that are relevant to the story and skipping over the stuff that has no impact on the story whatsoever.
I read "Bones on Ice" which is a novella; basically a long short story. She gets to the core of the matter and skips the verbal diarrhea. I found it to be a much more entertaining read than most of her longer books.
"Wool"
sounds good. Let us know how you like it
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Read "Homer: The Ninth Life of a Blind Wonder Cat". Lots of tissues were involved.
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I don't feel like answering this post, but here goes. When this was asked before I wrote I was reading my novel for November. Now it's another contest and I lost half of it Micro...t have a lot to answer for. I believed I saved it and when I went back the next day half of it was gone.. This version of W..d is the worst ever. Picky as Hell and nowhere friendly. I've used this format for twenty years so I'm not really a newbie.
Oh gosh. Outlander is the story of Claire, a British woman from the era of WW II. She and her husband, Frank, go on a bit of a second honeymoon in Scotland. While there, they check out all the sites of the area. While she is at this circle of stones (looking for a certain flower), she walks through two stones and finds herself back in Scotland in the year 1743. She meets Black Jack Randall, a captain in the British army, who essentially is a gay, sadistic pervert (and that's putting it mildly, really) and he is also the great-great-great-great many great (I think six?) grandfather of her husband, Frank. She eventually meets Jamie, a young Scottish clansman and, in order to not have to be turned over to Black Jack, marries Jamie and becomes a Scottish citizen. Outlander and the resulting other books in the series, is the story of Jamie and Claire and their lives, not only in Scotland, but in France, and eventually, in the US.
Because Claire is really from the mid 1900s and she knows her history and she also a very professional nurse, she knows what's going to happen to the Scots. She knows about illnesses and about germs and the need for cleanliness, those things that we all take for granted today. She knows about penicillin and she knew how to make it. But back then? Well, of course, she was tried as a witch. And that's all I will say.
The only true sci-fi that I really saw was the time traveling through the stones. Other than that, it was simply that Clair is such an intelligent woman and that's what got her through. I will say that she did end up traveling through the stones again, back to Frank, right before the Battle of Culloden and this time, she was pregnant with Brianna, Jamie's child. And, of course, eventually, she went back through the stones and back to Jamie. But the time-traveling is really the only sci-fi in the book. She was not the only person who traveled through the stones. Scottish lore is full of stories of people who were able to go through, at certain times of the year. The period seems to be about 200 years, give or take a year or so.
The books are long, many of them at least 1,000 pages. They really should be read in order, starting with Outlander. There is a ton of description in the books and some people find them boring and way too long.
One of my GFs told me a few years before I read Outlander about the book, but I never seemed to find the time to read it. And then one day, I saw it at the library, took it home, sat down and....wow. I was enthralled. Completely. I read the book from front to end, at one sitting. And then turned around and read it again. Excellent. My MIL read the series, too, and she fell in love with it.
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