Reading any good books? - Page 49

shesabrandybuck · 11-15-2008, 05:04 PM

I've been reading The Glass Castle. It's....so incredibly good.

inked · 12-03-2008, 01:31 PM

Anybody read any of these? Recommendations?

http://www.percyjacksonbooks.com/

**Nurvingiel** · 12-05-2008, 10:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by inked

Anybody read any of these? Recommendations?

http://www.percyjacksonbooks.com/

They are superb. I love them. They're geared toward pre-teens, but that doesn't stop them being enjoyable to adults. I adore these books. I love them as much as Harry Potter. Read them.

I have the third book "Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse" on hold at the library.

inked · 12-05-2008, 11:21 PM

Thanks. That's a great recommendation. I'll ask Santa for 'em!

cee2lee2 · 12-06-2008, 02:53 PM

I love to read to read good children's books; I'll check into these.

**Mari** · 12-20-2008, 11:20 AM

The only good book I've read recently, was The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks.
For the rest I read mostly my schoolbooks

tolkienfan · 01-04-2009, 06:05 PM

Read Atonement by Ian McEwan yesterday. The writing was very good in places. The story started off slow, I prefered the second half of the book. The ending was good. This morning I finished reading the Bible! It took me a little over a year. Unfortunately, I haven't had a whole lot of time for reading since starting college other than schoolbooks. I got a collection of C.S. Lewis books for Christmas that I want to read.

shesabrandybuck · 01-12-2009, 06:59 PM

Been Reading Angels and Demons, it is wonderful, can't put it down.

Amael · 01-29-2009, 06:31 PM

I read a Sky and Telescope magazine recently, because I'm into astronomy and have my own telescope my husband got me. However, since last month I haven't really read anything else. I've been staying in during the snow and ice and watching Youtube videos about how the Universe is going to end.

Oh, I just hit 100 posts. Figured I'd mention that. I went from Enting to Elven Warrior just now. That's some switch!!!

shesabrandybuck · 01-29-2009, 06:53 PM

I had my own party when I reached 500

cee2lee2 · 01-30-2009, 01:11 AM

Just finished The Sharing Knife - Passage. It's the 3rd in the Sharing Knife series by Lois McMaster Bujold. I think there's a 4th already published. Have to see if the library has it when I take this one back.

**Mari** · 02-04-2009, 12:13 PM

I am rereading Althalus. I love that book. But it's not really literature.
I did start reading Emma again though, but I dislike that woman >_<

BeardofPants · 02-04-2009, 12:49 PM

She IS rather irritating, no?

**Mari** · 02-04-2009, 01:16 PM

Definitely. >_<

cee2lee2 · 02-05-2009, 11:02 PM

I am reading Village School by Miss Read again.

Empress_Flynn · 02-06-2009, 03:48 PM

^My future mother-in-law loves that book...

Well, I've read a lot since Christmas... but the standouts were The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, and The House at Riverton by Kate Morton.

And now I've just reread an Agatha Christie while I wait for Amazon to deliver 5 books

Which should be today!

Gwaimir Windgem · 02-06-2009, 10:50 PM

How to Be Idle: A Loafer's Manifesto is one of the most delightful books I've read in a long time. Highly recommended.

Have recently started Shusaku Endo's The Sea and the Poison, a novel about guilt, with war crimes as the catalyst. Looks very good so far, but then I'm a fan of the author.

***Varnafindë*** · 02-07-2009, 11:29 AM

I'm reading Jasper Fforde's Lost in a Good Book - the 4th book in a series. I haven't read the first three yet, I expect I'll borrow them from the friend who recommended them and gave me this one as a present.
I think it took some time to really take off, but now I'm enjoying it. It's fantasy in the same way as Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is fantasy

Grey_Wolf · 02-08-2009, 05:31 AM

Im reading AA Attanasio's brilliantly poetic rendition of the King Arthur legend.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AA_Attanasio

If you get can hold of this quartet,I recommend that you do.

I love it for the marvellous English it is written in.

Midge · 02-13-2009, 12:16 AM

I've been reading some really good books lately... One that I would recommend to anyone (mostly girls, but I GUESS guys could read it too) is Set Apart Femininity. I've got a Spurgeon book called Grace: God's Unmerited Favor and another one I've borrowed by R. C. Sproul. It's pretty good. Just reread Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis (are we just allowed to call him "Jack"? I feel like I should have some kind of nickname for him because I love him and his books SO very much!)...

Books I have NOT read recently:
my textbooks.

11-15-2008, 05:04 PM	#961
shesabrandybuck Hero of Hyrule Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Hyrule Posts: 1,052	I've been reading The Glass Castle. It's....so incredibly good. __________________ Ho! Ho! Ho! to the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe. Rain may fall and wind may blow, And many miles be still to go, But under a tree I will lie, And let the clouds go sailing by. twitter

12-03-2008, 01:31 PM	#962
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	Anybody read any of these? Recommendations? http://www.percyjacksonbooks.com/ __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941

12-05-2008, 11:21 PM	#964
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	Thanks. That's a great recommendation. I'll ask Santa for 'em! __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941

12-20-2008, 11:20 AM	#966
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	The only good book I've read recently, was The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks. For the rest I read mostly my schoolbooks __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

01-04-2009, 06:05 PM	#967
tolkienfan Elf Lord Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: The Internet Posts: 803	Read Atonement by Ian McEwan yesterday. The writing was very good in places. The story started off slow, I prefered the second half of the book. The ending was good. This morning I finished reading the Bible! It took me a little over a year. Unfortunately, I haven't had a whole lot of time for reading since starting college other than schoolbooks. I got a collection of C.S. Lewis books for Christmas that I want to read. __________________ Don't be hasty! Thanks so much to Last Child of Ungoliant, Twista, and BeardofPants for my avatar!

12-06-2008, 02:53 PM	#965
cee2lee2 Elf Lord Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: 2nd star to the left..... Posts: 566	I love to read to read good children's books; I'll check into these.

01-12-2009, 06:59 PM	#968
shesabrandybuck Hero of Hyrule Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Hyrule Posts: 1,052	Been Reading Angels and Demons, it is wonderful, can't put it down. __________________ Ho! Ho! Ho! to the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe. Rain may fall and wind may blow, And many miles be still to go, But under a tree I will lie, And let the clouds go sailing by. twitter

01-29-2009, 06:31 PM	#969
Amael Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Somewhere Between Here and There Posts: 237	I read a Sky and Telescope magazine recently, because I'm into astronomy and have my own telescope my husband got me. However, since last month I haven't really read anything else. I've been staying in during the snow and ice and watching Youtube videos about how the Universe is going to end. Oh, I just hit 100 posts. Figured I'd mention that. I went from Enting to Elven Warrior just now. That's some switch!!!

01-29-2009, 06:53 PM	#970
shesabrandybuck Hero of Hyrule Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Hyrule Posts: 1,052	I had my own party when I reached 500 __________________ Ho! Ho! Ho! to the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe. Rain may fall and wind may blow, And many miles be still to go, But under a tree I will lie, And let the clouds go sailing by. twitter

01-30-2009, 01:11 AM	#971
cee2lee2 Elf Lord Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: 2nd star to the left..... Posts: 566	Just finished The Sharing Knife - Passage. It's the 3rd in the Sharing Knife series by Lois McMaster Bujold. I think there's a 4th already published. Have to see if the library has it when I take this one back.

02-04-2009, 12:13 PM	#972
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	I am rereading Althalus. I love that book. But it's not really literature. I did start reading Emma again though, but I dislike that woman >_< __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"... Last edited by Mari : 02-04-2009 at 12:15 PM.

02-04-2009, 12:49 PM	#973
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	She IS rather irritating, no? __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

02-04-2009, 01:16 PM	#974
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	Definitely. >_< __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

02-05-2009, 11:02 PM	#975
cee2lee2 Elf Lord Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: 2nd star to the left..... Posts: 566	I am reading Village School by Miss Read again.

02-06-2009, 03:48 PM	#976
Empress_Flynn Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Everywhere and nowhere Posts: 814	^My future mother-in-law loves that book... Well, I've read a lot since Christmas... but the standouts were The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, and The House at Riverton by Kate Morton. And now I've just reread an Agatha Christie while I wait for Amazon to deliver 5 books Which should be today! __________________ "Even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see." "But remember... clowns make two things around here: balloon animals... and enemies." "If I loved you then I would love you in any way I could, and if we could not touch, then I would draw strength from your beauty... And if I went blind, I would fill my soul with the sound of your voice and the contents of your thoughts until the last spark of my love for you lit the shabby darkness of my dying mind."

02-06-2009, 10:50 PM	#977
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	How to Be Idle: A Loafer's Manifesto is one of the most delightful books I've read in a long time. Highly recommended. Have recently started Shusaku Endo's The Sea and the Poison, a novel about guilt, with war crimes as the catalyst. Looks very good so far, but then I'm a fan of the author. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

02-07-2009, 11:29 AM	#978
*Varnafindë* Princess of the Noldor (and Administrative Empress of the Lone Islands) Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Imladris (and sometimes Norway) Posts: 3,304	I'm reading Jasper Fforde's Lost in a Good Book - the 4th book in a series. I haven't read the first three yet, I expect I'll borrow them from the friend who recommended them and gave me this one as a present. I think it took some time to really take off, but now I'm enjoying it. It's fantasy in the same way as Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is fantasy __________________ Signature picture art - Bard the Bowman - by vigshane Avatar art - Footsteps of Spring (a young Luthien) - by Henning Janssen

02-08-2009, 05:31 AM	#979
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	Im reading AA Attanasio's brilliantly poetic rendition of the King Arthur legend. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AA_Attanasio If you get can hold of this quartet,I recommend that you do. I love it for the marvellous English it is written in.

02-13-2009, 12:16 AM	#980
Midge Faithful Gardener Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: I walk here and there, they say... Posts: 3,603	I've been reading some really good books lately... One that I would recommend to anyone (mostly girls, but I GUESS guys could read it too) is Set Apart Femininity. I've got a Spurgeon book called Grace: God's Unmerited Favor and another one I've borrowed by R. C. Sproul. It's pretty good. Just reread Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis (are we just allowed to call him "Jack"? I feel like I should have some kind of nickname for him because I love him and his books SO very much!)... Books I have NOT read recently: my textbooks. __________________ In God I trust, I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? Psalm 56:11 "Starbuck, what do you hear?" "Nothin' but the rain, sir!" "Then grab your gun and bring in the cat." Make sure to check out the C.S. Lewis forum. Game threads, movie and book discussions and more!

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