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I keep a journal of what I read. I started it on January 1st of this year. I only list the title and author. It's kind of helpful because I read so many books I sometimes get them confused. Also, someone gave me a journal for Christmas and I decided to use it for the book purpose.
You could do that and put a star by the authors you really enjoy. That way you can remember to check out their other books.
I bet you've got a lot of books in that journal. I was going to keep up with mine, and faltered along the way. I'm going to try again next year.
ETA: I'm reading Finding A Girl in America by Andre Dubus. Short stories and a novella.
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I'm reading Blood Soaked and Contagious, which was one of the free Kindle books offered in the daily email I receive. It is getting to be pretty good (for a zombie book) after a questionable start.
Oh, I didn't know they offer modern freebies sometimes in the daily email! I guess I'll sign up for it then. I've been loading it up with classics, am reading The Scarlet Letter now, but I'd like to read something current too.
Maybe I'll actually buy a new book once a month ..... I'm usually too frugal (cheap) to do that, but I would like something from a bestseller list ...... I haven't bought a new book in so long that I don't even know what I'd like. It's hard to go wrong with a murder mystery, but perhaps some historical fiction would be better ..... or pre-historical fiction ..... or maybe I'll go in the opposite direction and get an apocalyptic novel.
I thought I could cheat Amazon/Kindle by only getting freebies, but it looks like they might win in the end.
I'm nearly halfway into this and I keep losing interest. I think the author has set up a good story, but she takes so many side trips that I find myself thinking about other things to do. Still, the read is compelling enough to want to stay with it and see how it ends.
As an aside, I think this must certainly be the basis for most of the creepy house comedy I've seen since the early 70s! As I read I keep thinking of character portrayals from early Saturday Night Live and Monty Python!
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Oh, I didn't know they offer modern freebies sometimes in the daily email! I guess I'll sign up for it then. I've been loading it up with classics, am reading The Scarlet Letter now, but I'd like to read something current too.
Maybe I'll actually buy a new book once a month ..... I'm usually too frugal (cheap) to do that, but I would like something from a bestseller list ...... I haven't bought a new book in so long that I don't even know what I'd like. It's hard to go wrong with a murder mystery, but perhaps some historical fiction would be better ..... or pre-historical fiction ..... or maybe I'll go in the opposite direction and get an apocalyptic novel.
I thought I could cheat Amazon/Kindle by only getting freebies, but it looks like they might win in the end.
You'll find plenty of free murder mysteries in the daily email from Free Books for Your Kindle | eReaderIQ.com . I have found several new mystery series I love by reading the first one for free.
Woof - some of the best historical novels I have ever read were by Eugenia Price. She did a great job of researching the pre-Civil War era and during it and after it. She followed an actual family. Her books so hooked me in that I ended up visiting St. Simon's Island in Georgia where the some of the family she wrote of are burried. She wrote 4 book that were called "The Savannah Quartet".
Right now I am getting back into "Looking for Alaska" by Peter Jenkins after setting it aside for a while to read a couple of light novels I picked up at a local library book sale. I have read his "Walk Across America" and his "Walk West" that were done after he just got out of college. He brings his adventures "to life".
I'm trying to make it through Farenheit 451, and trying to motivate to start The Hangman's Daughter. In the meantime, my mindless read is Dashing Through the Snow (Mary Higgins/Carol Higgins Clark)
Oh, I didn't know they offer modern freebies sometimes in the daily email! I guess I'll sign up for it then. I've been loading it up with classics, am reading The Scarlet Letter now, but I'd like to read something current too.
Maybe I'll actually buy a new book once a month ..... I'm usually too frugal (cheap) to do that, but I would like something from a bestseller list ...... I haven't bought a new book in so long that I don't even know what I'd like. It's hard to go wrong with a murder mystery, but perhaps some historical fiction would be better ..... or pre-historical fiction ..... or maybe I'll go in the opposite direction and get an apocalyptic novel.
I thought I could cheat Amazon/Kindle by only getting freebies, but it looks like they might win in the end.
Woof, I went to Amazon "Daily Deals" and checked out the book of the day. Then I "bookmarked" the page and I just click on the bookmark daily and the new book comes up. (Sometimes I don't get the e-mail, so this assures me I'll have a chance if a book comes up that I like.)
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Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner.
I am absolutely LOVING this book, savoring each word.
I also got Angle of Repose by Mr. Stegner this weekend. I thumbed through it and started salivating. How is it that I'd never heard of this man until I found Crossing to Safety in Goodwill? Seriously.
I've looked through his "catalog" of books and will be ordering three more by him. He was (oh, how I wish he was still alive and writing!) a glorious writer, with an incredible way with words. So many times, even though I'm not even half way through Crossing to Safety, I've stopped to reread a sentence or two. They were just THAT good! Beautiful. And the fact that I'm adoring the story itself of Crossing to Safety just makes it that much better -- a perfect reading experience.
Ketabcha? Are you here? I highly recommend this book to you.
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The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson
