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Post by synnamin on Aug 30, 2017 5:25:16 GMT -5
~* I love reading and belong to Good Reads to give myself a yearly reading goal. This year's goal is 55 books and I just finished my 45th book. It was called "The Goodbye Year" about a group of parets and children dealing with the last year of high school in an expensive gated community. It was surprisingly even if the twists were rather predictable. I have now started "Say What You Will" about a girl with CP and one of her peer helpers whom she starts to fall in love with. It's really good so far!
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Post by Jay on Aug 30, 2017 5:53:20 GMT -5
I am currently reading "Gork, the Teenage Dragon" by Gabe Hudson.
From Amazon.ca
"Gork isn’t like the other dragons at WarWings Military Academy. He has a gigantic heart, two-inch horns, and an occasional problem with fainting. His nickname is Weak Sauce and his Will to Power ranking is Snacklicious—the lowest in his class. But he is determined not to let any of this hold him back as he embarks on the most important mission of his life: tonight, on the eve of his high school graduation, he must ask a female dragon to be his queen. If she says yes, they'll go off to conquer a foreign planet together. If she says no, Gork becomes a slave.
Vying with Jocks, Nerds, Mutants, and Multi-Dimensioners to find his mate, Gork encounters an unforgettable cast of friends and foes, including Dr. Terrible, the mad scientist; Fribby, a robot dragon obsessed with death; and Metheldra, a healer specializing in acupuncture with swords. But finally it is Gork's biggest perceived weakness, his huge heart, that will guide him through his epic quest and help him reach his ultimate destination: planet Earth.
A love story, a fantasy, and a coming-of-age story, Gork the Teenage Dragon is a wildly comic, beautifully imagined, and deeply heartfelt debut novel that shows us just how human a dragon can be."
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Post by Catt on Aug 30, 2017 11:49:39 GMT -5
Just finished Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time (a childhood favorite of mine). And started Matthew Reilly's The Great Zoo of China....think Jurassic Park with dragons.
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Post by Maxx Fisher on Aug 30, 2017 15:09:32 GMT -5
Just comics
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Post by synnamin on Aug 31, 2017 0:00:18 GMT -5
~*Jay~ Your book sounds good. I may look it up!
~Catt~ I loved A Wrinkle in Time. A book I read more than a few times as a kid. i think they are turning it into a series or a series of movies.
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Post by Jay on Sept 3, 2017 15:31:12 GMT -5
What is your preferred method of reading? An old fashioned paper book or a tablet or a PC? I have a Kobo e-reader and I love it.
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Post by synnamin on Sept 7, 2017 0:11:05 GMT -5
~*I loved real books but have run out of room so I have been getting a lot of books on my Kindle. Right now I am reading "Close to Home" by Robert Dugoni. It's the latest book in his Tracy Crosswhite series. A really good mystery series. I have never heard Kobo e-reader.
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Post by chmarx on Sept 7, 2017 0:59:40 GMT -5
I mostly read audiobooks for time reasons. Currently, I'm reading The Confusion by Neal Stephenson. He mostly wriites science fiction, but this is historical fiction, mostly set in Englannd and France in the late 17th century. King Louis XIV is a character!
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Post by synnamin on Sept 7, 2017 5:31:18 GMT -5
~*Chmarx*~I have just started getting into audio books. I have one that I am reading right now called "Into the water" by Paula Hawkins. She wrote "The Girl on the Train". I am not thrilled with the narrator though. Do you find that certain narrators make it harder to enjoy audio books? I love when historical fiction weaves real life people into the book!
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Post by Jay on Sept 10, 2017 19:26:27 GMT -5
I finished "Gork, the Teenage Dragon".
My current book ("With Malice" by Eileen Cook), from Amazon.ca:
For fans of We Were Liars and The Girl on the Train comes a chilling, addictive psychological thriller about a teenage girl who cannot remember the last six weeks of her life.
Eighteen-year-old Jill Charron's senior trip to Italy was supposed to be the adventure of a lifetime. And then the accident happened. Waking up in a hospital room, her leg in a cast, stitches in her face, and a big blank canvas where the last 6 weeks should be, Jill comes to discover she was involved in a fatal accident in her travels abroad. She was jetted home by her affluent father in order to receive quality care. Care that includes a lawyer. And a press team. Because maybe the accident...wasn't an accident. Wondering not just what happened but what she did, Jill tries to piece together the events of the past six weeks before she loses her thin hold on her once-perfect life.
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Post by synnamin on Sept 10, 2017 22:33:08 GMT -5
~*Jay~Your book totally sounds like something that would be suggested to me by Book Bub. It's always fun to read lost memory thrillers.
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Post by Jay on Sept 17, 2017 19:34:40 GMT -5
My current book is "The President's Book of Secrets: The Untold Story of Intelligence Briefings to America's Presidents" by David Priess.
From Amazon.ca:
"Every president has had a unique and complicated relationship with the intelligence community. While some have been coolly distant, even adversarial, others have found their intelligence agencies to be among the most valuable instruments of policy and power.
Since John F. Kennedy's presidency, this relationship has been distilled into a personalized daily report: a short summary of what the intelligence apparatus considers the most crucial information for the president to know that day about global threats and opportunities. This top–secret document is known as the President's Daily Brief, or, within national security circles, simply “the Book.” Presidents have spent anywhere from a few moments (Richard Nixon) to a healthy part of their day (George W. Bush) consumed by its contents; some (Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush) consider it far and away the most important document they saw on a regular basis while commander in chief.
The details of most PDBs are highly classified, and will remain so for many years. But the process by which the intelligence community develops and presents the Book is a fascinating look into the operation of power at the highest levels. David Priess, a former intelligence officer and daily briefer, has interviewed every living president and vice president as well as more than one hundred others intimately involved with the production and delivery of the president's book of secrets. He offers an unprecedented window into the decision making of every president from Kennedy to Obama, with many character–rich stories revealed here for the first time."
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Post by synnamin on Sept 18, 2017 2:42:32 GMT -5
~*Last year I had bought a boxed set of three books for 99 cents for my Kindle. It's about three sisters that are witches. It's called "A Mystic Murder: A Hemlock Cove mystery". So far it is pretty good.
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Post by Catt on Sept 19, 2017 19:06:29 GMT -5
Starting James Rollins The Extinction (A Sigma Force Novel) tomorrow.
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Post by kfh on Sept 20, 2017 1:13:32 GMT -5
Im reading "The Witches: Salem, 1692" by Stacy Schiff
Its about the Salem witch trials and is a fascinating examination of a society gone completely bonkers, with so many parallels to what is happening today.
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Post by synnamin on Sept 23, 2017 4:08:39 GMT -5
~*KFH*~Yeah, we live in a crazy time right now. I can see where there would be real parallels to today.
I am reading the second book in the Witches of Hemlock Cove series. "A Cryptic Case".
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Post by Jay on Sept 23, 2017 6:33:36 GMT -5
I started reading this 2 days ago, sooo good!
"The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern.
From Amazon.ca:
In this mesmerizing debut, a competition between two magicians becomes a star-crossed love story.
The circus arrives at night, without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within nocturnal black and white striped tents awaits a unique experience, a feast for the senses, where one can get lost in a maze of clouds, meander through a lush garden made of ice, stand awestruck as a tattooed contortionist folds herself into a small glass box, and gaze in wonderment at an illusionist performing impossible feats of magic.
Welcome to Le Cirque des Rêves. Beyond the smoke and mirrors, however, a fierce competition is underway - a contest between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood to compete in "a game," in which each must use their powers of illusion to best the other. Unbeknownst to them, this game is a duel to the death, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will.
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Post by synnamin on Sept 23, 2017 23:13:00 GMT -5
~*I thought I had "The Night Circus" on my Kindle but I don't. I could have sworn I bought it! I think I am getting old!! 
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Post by Jay on Sept 24, 2017 14:12:44 GMT -5
"The Night Circus" should be made into a movie.
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Post by Maxx Fisher on Sept 24, 2017 17:19:15 GMT -5
If you are looking for a good comic, Huck by Mark Millar
It's 6 issues. Really, really great
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Post by Jay on Sept 28, 2017 17:46:34 GMT -5
"The Night Circus" is really, really good.
Dan Brown's Origin will be released Oct 3.
Question: How do you decide what to read next? I often go to Buzzfeed Books for their suggestions. |
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Post by Catt on Sept 28, 2017 18:28:34 GMT -5
Question: How do you decide what to read next? I often go to Buzzfeed Books for their suggestions.  ) for Christmas. So I have always have a choice depending what mood I'm in. And I save books from my favs and occasionally reread a book or two or three.... |
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Post by synnamin on Sept 28, 2017 21:02:31 GMT -5
"The Night Circus" is really, really good.
Dan Brown's Origin will be released Oct 3.
Question: How do you decide what to read next? I often go to Buzzfeed Books for their suggestions. |
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Post by Jay on Oct 4, 2017 18:25:01 GMT -5
I'm reading Dan Brown now before going back to The Night Circus.
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Post by synnamin on Oct 6, 2017 0:42:47 GMT -5
~*My schedule has been busy so I have not had much time to read. I am still reading the same book!
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) for Christmas. So I have always have a choice depending what mood I'm in. And I save books from my favs and occasionally reread a book or two or three....