Bookworms Assemble!

deannalfisher

KVaill wrote: »

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood is a great one, very on point for the times! It's being made into a TV series on HBO at the end of the month.

Hulu, not HBO (becaue I'm planning on watching it and I'm too cheap for HBO). Hulu also had a good adaptaion of Stephen King's 11/22/63

km8907

Rereading Harry Potter. Never gets old.

JeepHair77

I read all sorts of things. I just finished The Stand (based on recommendations, here). Loved it.

Probably going to pick up something fluffy, though, after all that intensity. I'm embarrassed to say that I absolutely love the Andy Carpenter series (they're, uh, dog mysteries) by David Rosenfelt.

melaniedscott

JeepHair77 wrote: »

I read all sorts of things. I just finished The Stand (based on recommendations, here). Loved it.

Probably going to pick up something fluffy, though, after all that intensity. I'm embarrassed to say that I absolutely love the Andy Carpenter series (they're, uh, dog mysteries) by David Rosenfelt.

So...they go like this?
Who is it! Who!! It's a friend! Whoohoo! A friend! Oh, friend was bad. Bad friend!...

JeepHair77

melaniedscott wrote: »

JeepHair77 wrote: »

I read all sorts of things. I just finished The Stand (based on recommendations, here). Loved it.

Probably going to pick up something fluffy, though, after all that intensity. I'm embarrassed to say that I absolutely love the Andy Carpenter series (they're, uh, dog mysteries) by David Rosenfelt.

So...they go like this?
Who is it! Who!! It's a friend! Whoohoo! A friend! Oh, friend was bad. Bad friend!...

I LOL'd.

To Mr. Rosenfelt's credit, the dog doesn't actually solve any of the mysteries. The people solve the mysteries. The dog is just a dog.

My mom, however, reads cat mysteries in which the cat(s) are actually indirectly responsible for solving murders. That's where I draw the line.

3rdof7sisters

JeepHair77 wrote: »

melaniedscott wrote: »

JeepHair77 wrote: »

I read all sorts of things. I just finished The Stand (based on recommendations, here). Loved it.

Probably going to pick up something fluffy, though, after all that intensity. I'm embarrassed to say that I absolutely love the Andy Carpenter series (they're, uh, dog mysteries) by David Rosenfelt.

So...they go like this?
Who is it! Who!! It's a friend! Whoohoo! A friend! Oh, friend was bad. Bad friend!...

I LOL'd.

To Mr. Rosenfelt's credit, the dog doesn't actually solve any of the mysteries. The people solve the mysteries. The dog is just a dog.

My mom, however, reads cat mysteries in which the cat(s) are actually indirectly responsible for solving murders. That's where I draw the line.

I LOL'd too. I like them too.

I have been a Stephen King fan from the very beginning. IMHO, "The Stand" is one of his very best, in fact, I think his very best work came out in the 70's & early 80's. Around the same time, McCammon's book, "Swan Song" was out too. Highly recommend this one too.

mom23mangos

Big reader here. Just finished The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks for those that like non-fiction. I've been listening to Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clark when I workout. It's pretty interesting reading Sci-fi that was written back in the 50's.

crazyycatlady1

Unapologetic book nerd here! I read just about every genre and go through phases (right now it's historical romance).

Anyone on Goodreads?

melaniedscott

JeepHair77 wrote: »

My mom, however, reads cat mysteries in which the cat(s) are actually indirectly responsible for solving murders. That's where I draw the line.

So, having shared my rendition of a dog mystery, I'm now honor bound to do cat mystery, too.They are quite different...

I do not care who you are or why you're here. Unless you're here to feed me or worship me. Then I will be as interested as I feel your offerings are worth. Wait...you are interfering with the human who feeds and worships me? That makes you PUBLIC ENEMY #1. Now I will poo and vomit in your shoes and scratch your eyes out. This should warn the rest of the monkeys about the danger inherent in associating with you...

I, too, am far less forgiving about books where animals solve crime. That said, The Secret Life of Pets was rather endearing.

French_Peasant

yellingkimber wrote: »

I majored in English and specialized in Romantic lit. Special place in my heart for William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Percy Shelley.

Don't forget Keats and Byron! Although the older I get, the more I become a Keats girl and the less I become a Byron girl. Coleridge's work still gives me chills, especially Christabel.

He is more a Southern Gothic Romantic, but I once read Faulkner's entire oeuvre and have been contemplating plucking away at it again.

That being said, the light, fluffy and delightful Bill Bryson is currently on my bedside table.

whitney_riffic

I recently started the Harry Dresden books. They are about a wizard detective. These books are the lovechild of Harry Potter and Nancy Drew... but written for adults.

melaniedscott

whitney_riffic wrote: »

I recently started the Harry Dresden books. They are about a wizard detective. These books are the lovechild of Harry Potter and Nancy Drew... but written for adults.

I ❤ Harry Dresden! Jim Butcher wrote the first one on a bet...his friend bet he couldn't combine wizards with detective noir. I found the first three books a little predictable (as he was following the basic detective noir formula...this is the part where the hot, treacherous dame walks in, this is where mafia goons should threaten to break his knees, etc) but after that, they got really amazing. Particularly love Dead Beat, but it is a ways into the series. He has another series (I don't love as much) that combines pokemon and roman gladiators. It is kinda funny. And he's started another series that is steam punk. Has talking cats. Pretty humorous.