Bookworms

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JessicaJS23 wrote: »

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JessicaJS23 wrote: »

Anyone a VC Andrews fan? Those are what got me hooked. I used to read 2 or 3 books a week before I had kids

What's that

Her biggest seller was Flowers in The attic.. Her books were all kind of Dark/Gothic fiction. Someone else writes under the name now and they kinda went down hill but the books written by her were great.

Oh

You're so me, when are we hanging

I've been saying this for like a year now lol!! Just say when!

JessicaJS23 wrote: »

pie_eyes wrote: »

JessicaJS23 wrote: »

pie_eyes wrote: »

JessicaJS23 wrote: »

Anyone a VC Andrews fan? Those are what got me hooked. I used to read 2 or 3 books a week before I had kids

What's that

Her biggest seller was Flowers in The attic.. Her books were all kind of Dark/Gothic fiction. Someone else writes under the name now and they kinda went down hill but the books written by her were great.

Oh

You're so me, when are we hanging

I've been saying this for like a year now lol!! Just say when!

Ha tomorrow

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maryrice702 wrote: »

Who posed for the Richard Bachman pic?

He looks a lot like James Caan in Misery.

SleeplessinBerlin wrote: »

another bookworm here. I started reading when I was 4. We were living above a library at that time. What more can you wish for?
I read pretty much everything - crime, Jane Austen, survival stories, biographies, whatever my mood tells me to read. I currently re-read The Godfather.

Those who like something haunting - try "The Road" (you might know the movie with the same title).

i had to finish the road in one sitting because i was too scared to stop.

Currently reading "Where'd you Go, Bernadette" and I'm waiting for it to pick up. Saw it on a list of books that will hook you in the first sentence.

marleebeale wrote: »

I love reading! I used to work at the public library!

Lucky *_*

I love actual books. But 10 years ago I had to move cross country and I could only bring with me what I could pack in my vehicle. I sat on the floor surrounded by piles of my books crying bc I had to decide what to keep and what to give away.

It was the booknerd version of Sofie's choice.

Never again.

With my ereader I can have as many books as I want and never have to experience that again. It still hurts

Plus some authors put out free ebooks or free excerpts or prequels and such that you can only get online.

But there's still nothing like holding a book and smelling the pages.

Now if I do buy a book I donate it right away. Not going through Sofie's choice again. (I've moved too many times in my life, more inevitably)

jessiferrrb wrote: »

mayoosh_primrose wrote: »

jessiferrrb wrote: »

i know you didn't actually ask me - but i really liked the whole series so far, now if we could only get the next book before hbo blows it all to hell . . .

Thanks! Will give it another shot once I finish the Steinbeck book I'm reading What are you currently reading?

I just finished the goldfinch, which took me a while to get into, but i ended up really loving it. i'm reading an anthology of science fiction stories edited by Harlan Ellison right now, it's from the 60's and it's called "dangerous visions" there are some really good stories and some laughable ones, but overall i'm enjoying it.

I love Harlan Ellison. He's my favorite short story writer! I've read his Gentleman Junkie compilation a thousand times, and I've been meaning to get my hands on more of his stories.

Right now I'm hooked on Gone Girl. Good god that booked is messed up, but the writing style is fantastic and I keep finding myself gripping at the pages to glimpse what perspective/timeline I'll see next and why. Last book I read was *cough* Fault In Our Stars, since I'm a sucker for romantic fiction when I'm not reading suspense.

*pssst* I'm new. Nice to meet you all!

I like my romance with a dash of humor - Eloise James has a very nice, easy style, good, quick characterizations, and she invites her reader into her worlds with graciousness and an edge.

Going way old time, as I tend to do, for romance, you can't do much better than "Jane Eyre" or any one of Mrs. Gaskell's books - though my introduction to her, long ago, wasn't a romance but a sweet and tart, gentle parody of the town and people she knew when growing up: "Cranford":

pagebypagebooks.com/Elizabeth_Gaskell/Cranford/

The first paragraph hooked me:

"IN the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears; he is either fairly frightened to death by being the only man in the Cranford evening parties, or he is accounted for by being with his regiment, his ship, or closely engaged in business all the week in the great neighbouring commercial town of Drumble, distant only twenty miles on a railroad. In short, whatever does become of the gentlemen, they are not at Cranford. What could they do if they were there? The surgeon has his round of thirty miles, and sleeps at Cranford; but every man cannot be a surgeon. For keeping the trim gardens full of choice flowers without a weed to speck them; for frightening away little boys who look wistfully at the said flowers through the railings; for rushing out at the geese that occasionally venture in to the gardens if the gates are left open; for deciding all questions of literature and politics without troubling themselves with unnecessary reasons or arguments; for obtaining clear and correct knowledge of everybody's affairs in the parish; for keeping their neat maid-servants in admirable order; for kindness (somewhat dictatorial) to the poor, and real tender good offices to each other whenever they are in distress, the ladies of Cranford are quite sufficient. "A man," as one of them observed to me once, "is SO in the way in the house!" Although the ladies of Cranford know all each other's proceedings, they are exceedingly indifferent to each other's opinions. Indeed, as each has her own individuality, not to say eccentricity, pretty strongly developed, nothing is so easy as verbal retaliation; but, somehow, good-will reigns among them to a considerable degree."

Also a bookworm...kind of showing up late to the conversation. I love that you guys are discussing Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Bronte! I also love Jane Austen. Those three are my favourite authors!

I didn't discover Elizabeth Gaskell until University, and it was only after watching the BBC adaptation of North and South. After reading that one, I quickly ordered a bunch of her books from the local shop haha.

maryrice702 wrote: »

I am reading Devil in the White City. Very well written--read it before it gets turned into a movie.

i love that book!