What Are You Reading? (April 2016)
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Re: What Are You Reading? (April 2016)
Finished:
While not completely satisfying, definitely an improvement from the dull 2nd book.
So, for those familiar with these books, is there any kind of "canon" explanation for what was going on?
While not completely satisfying, definitely an improvement from the dull 2nd book.
So, for those familiar with these books, is there any kind of "canon" explanation for what was going on?
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Re: What Are You Reading? (April 2016)
Erle Stanley Gardner -- Some Women Won't Wait (Lam and Cool #14)
Back to fun stories. This book has a murder and two blackmailers. It takes place in Hawaiian resorts, and bikini swimsuits have just been invented, so there are lots of barely dressed women. Gardner is still finding ways to break the genre conventions: Lam starts his parlor scene, only to have the police suddenly bang on the hotel room door and take over the explanations.
Back to fun stories. This book has a murder and two blackmailers. It takes place in Hawaiian resorts, and bikini swimsuits have just been invented, so there are lots of barely dressed women. Gardner is still finding ways to break the genre conventions: Lam starts his parlor scene, only to have the police suddenly bang on the hotel room door and take over the explanations.
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Re: What Are You Reading? (April 2016)
Here's part of the publisher's blurb:
"Richard Grant and his girlfriend were living in a shoebox apartment in New York City when they decided on a whim to buy an old plantation house in the Mississippi Delta. Dispatches from Pluto is their journey of discovery into this strange and wonderful American place. Imagine A Year In Provence with alligators and assassins, or Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil with hunting scenes and swamp-to-table dining."
It's one of the most entertaining books that I've read in YEARS. I'm doubly-excited about it because the author is coming to speak at our local public library in two weeks. I should be finished with it by this weekend.
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Re: What Are You Reading? (April 2016)
I put down the last couple books that I started and I started this when my hold for it came in at the library:
My Sunshine Away by M.O. Walsh
I read the first two chapters last night and they were great. It has a To Kill A Mockingbird vibe, but it's in Louisiana in the 1980's.
My Sunshine Away by M.O. Walsh
I read the first two chapters last night and they were great. It has a To Kill A Mockingbird vibe, but it's in Louisiana in the 1980's.
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Re: What Are You Reading? (April 2016)
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk (finishing or a few chapters left)
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Herbert West: Re-Animator and Other Tales by H.P. Lovecraft
Yup.
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk (finishing or a few chapters left)
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Herbert West: Re-Animator and Other Tales by H.P. Lovecraft
Yup.
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Re: What Are You Reading? (April 2016)
Finished:
Really liked this a lot. Though I can't help but imagine the Last Man on Earth gang struggling along while events are happening here
Really liked this a lot. Though I can't help but imagine the Last Man on Earth gang struggling along while events are happening here