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I am re-reading The Pilot by James Fenimore Cooper. I was in the mood for something classic. His sentences go on and on and on.... and the commas keep coming and coming and coming...!

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Aha! I've wanted to post in these threads before, but the last one was soooooo long to pick through what others were reading, and I'd feel guilty posting mine without looking at what was already posted... So I've been waiting for this, a new edition. :)

 

Right now I'm Mainly reading The Dresden Files Series by Jim Butcher, at wikip for those that don't know them just finished the second to most recent one, Small Favor, am trying to find a copy of the newest one locally, Turn Coat, and waiting for the next one, Changes that comes out this April.... in the mean time, I'm going back and reading a couple earlier ones I missed, between reading the first three, and these latest ones. Right now my Mom has the one previous to Small Favor, Proven Guilty, I'm waiting to do it next..

 

While waiting, I grabbed something different by an author i don't know, Nancy Holzner, its called Deadtown, and in much the same genre as Dresden. (witches wizards, vampires undead etc in the modern world) only with a heroine instead of hero. Not sure yet what I think of this one, only a few pages into it.

 

Before this, I was re-reading The Garret PI books by Glen Cook(I have all of them, re- read them a lot, never gets old) at wikip

 

Yeah, thats three so far in the same basic genre, I REALY Like this modern fantasy/urban fantaxy mystery/P.I. genre.. :)

 

Before that, i was on westerns(close second favorite genre) Louis L'amour... can't remember the titles, I did several back to back in a week..

 

I read a LOT, like now with Dresden, that aren't short books, I do one in 2 days, shorter ones in a afternoon reading(like the L'amour westerns) so I can get 4 or 5 books read in a week easily, average about 2.5 though.

 

I'll try to pop back in and update with what I'm reading! :)

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Andre Agassi "Open." I read it on my iPhone using the Kindle app. It's the first book that I bought for my iPhone. I love both the book (I play tennis and Agassi is my favorite tennis player ever) and the Kindle.

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Currently Reading Katharine of Aragon by Jean Plaidy. I like Plaidy's portrayal of Katharine much more than Philippa Gregory's in The Constant Princess.

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Hi folks. Currently reading the following:

 

The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories - E.H.

 

The Travels of Marco Polo The Venetian

 

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Anne of Green Gables. I intend to plough through the series during the course of the next few weeks. I recommend Before Green Gables by Budge Wilson to anyone who's had the pleasure of reading the classic novel.

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I am re-reading The Pilot by James Fenimore Cooper. I was in the mood for something classic. His sentences go on and on and on.... and the commas keep coming and coming and coming...!

 

Last night I tossed aside The Last of the Mohicans in disgust. I just couldn't finish it. I hear you about those commas. So now I've started on Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist by Adrian Desmond & James Moore. My next novel will be Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs. I made a resolution to read more American writers this year.

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I started 'Reading the OED' by Ammon Shea yesterday.

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Finished book 1 of Farseer by Hobbs. Not the greatest fantasy book I have ever read, but it was available on the nook, so I bought it and will be starting book 2 tonight.

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I am re-reading The Pilot by James Fenimore Cooper. I was in the mood for something classic. His sentences go on and on and on.... and the commas keep coming and coming and coming...!

 

Last night I tossed aside The Last of the Mohicans in disgust. I just couldn't finish it. I hear you about those commas. So now I've started on Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist by Adrian Desmond & James Moore. My next novel will be Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs. I made a resolution to read more American writers this year.

 

Hee. I read Intruder in the Dust a couple months ago. Faulkner's sentences just keep on going and going and going and going, sometimes up to half a page!

Soli Deo Gloria!

 

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Just finished The Memory Keeper's Daughter, and am now on Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Books.

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Just finished James Rollins' "Doomsday Key". Now reading Rick Warren's "The Purpose Driven Life", not as the 40-day study it was intended to be but through the entire book.

 

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“If you believe yourself unfortunate because you have loved and lost, perish the thought. One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely.” ~Napoleon Hill

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Just finished James Rollins' "Doomsday Key". Now reading Rick Warren's "The Purpose Driven Life", not as the 40-day study it was intended to be but through the entire book.

 

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John, I have read The Purpose Driven Life 3 times and once as a 40 day study with our church. My wife and I read the book together twice. That is we literally took turns reading pages aloud to each other. I believe you will be blessed as we were and are. /Craig

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Reading Democracy Inc. by Sheldon Wolin for the second time.

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Just finished Requiem in Vienna, by J. Sydney Jones, his second book in this mystery series set in late 1800s Vienna. I must admit that I like this series mostly for the appearance of the real-life personages who lived during this extraordinarily fertile convergence of time and place, and for the fact that the city itself is a leading character (although his first book, The Empty Mirror, led me for a minute to wonder what really happened at Mayerling). The author lived in Vienna for several years and wrote a couple guidebooks -- he gets the city right.

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