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Which is better? & Do you like to read?
Books  30%  [ 1044 ]
Books - Manga/Comics  25%  [ 881 ]
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 Post subject: Re: What book are you reading at the moment?
Posted: Apr 3rd, '16, 22:59    


appymare

Joined: Jan 10th, '10, 02:12
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I'm just finishing up "The Vampire's Mail Order Bride" its a fluff novel I got for free but its been fun. It was certainly better than I expected it to be.

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 Post subject: Re: What book are you reading at the moment?
Posted: Apr 5th, '16, 09:31    


chasen

Joined: Oct 27th, '11, 23:54
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I just started to read "Glass Sword" , I'm on the 4th Chapter, it's hard to put the book down, each chapter fascinating.

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 Post subject: Re: What book are you reading at the moment?
Posted: Apr 5th, '16, 11:17    


brighnasa

Joined: Jan 22nd, '11, 21:25
Posts: 75
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Today it's Edge of Worlds by Martha Wells.
http://www.amazon.com/Worlds-Books-Raks ... ds=Raksura

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 Post subject: Re: What book are you reading at the moment?
Posted: Apr 6th, '16, 03:15    


PupDragon

Joined: Aug 10th, '09, 15:59
Posts: 1082
Hugs: 29885
Mood: Tired
Location: In my house. On a couch.
Right now I am reading the Johannes Cable series of books by Jonathan L. Howard. I may have developed a little bit of a crush on the title character.

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 Post subject: Re: What book are you reading at the moment?
Posted: Apr 6th, '16, 07:22    


savage_rose

Joined: Feb 4th, '13, 19:59
Posts: 177
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Just finished Bad Beginning (I'm trying to make it through the entire Series of Unfortunate Events series). I'm about to also finish Ellen DeGeneres's Home and about to start the 7th Cirque du Freak book.

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 Post subject: Re: What book are you reading at the moment?
Posted: Apr 6th, '16, 09:43    


Akili Li

Joined: Nov 24th, '15, 22:02
Posts: 21901
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Mood: contemplative
Location: Buried under the To-Do list
Just finished Wen Spencer's "Eight Million Gods" (very funny book!) and am now reading Steven Harper's "The Havoc Machine".

It turns out "The Havoc Machine" is actually the fourth in a series, but I haven't read the first ones, so it's a new world set-up to me. However the setting is very clear, easy to pick up on. I've been entertained by the gentle teasing the book does about genre cliches (at least I certainly hope it's deliberate teasing and not meant to be taken seriously; it FEELS tongue-in-cheek...
lines like this:
" 'But you work for him!'
" 'And yet I somehow still think for myself.' " ). Sadly, however, the hero's Tragic Backstory is so liberally foreshadowed that by the time it's explicated, I've already come up with a far more tragic one based on its clues and so the "heart-rending reveal" falls a flat anticlimax.
Still, that's just in chapter three, and is just one scene. I'm definitely going to keep reading.

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 Post subject: Re: What book are you reading at the moment?
Posted: Apr 7th, '16, 01:32    


VioletSparkle

Joined: May 7th, '10, 10:01
Posts: 558
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finished a manga called Let's Dance a Waltz. by Natsumi Ando.

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 Post subject: Re: What book are you reading at the moment?
Posted: Apr 7th, '16, 18:37    


savage_rose

Joined: Feb 4th, '13, 19:59
Posts: 177
Hugs: 14467
The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket and the 7th Cirque du Freak book by Darren Shan

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 Post subject: Re: What book are you reading at the moment?
Posted: Apr 10th, '16, 06:35    


Akili Li

Joined: Nov 24th, '15, 22:02
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Mood: contemplative
Location: Buried under the To-Do list
So I don't know if you'd count it as reading, but...

Picked up "Half-Off Ragnarok" at a used bookstore. I'd opened it up and read the first page or so and it seemed interesting.
Then I take it home, and find out that first scene is a random prologue, has nothing to do with the story, and is basically a lie.
The first scene is this young boy who is testing out an aquarium with his latest find, a little lizard, and it's hiding, and his mom comes in and asks some questions and he figures out what he needs to do to make it come out, and it's a flying lizard, and they're both happy. Yay, cute set-up to who knows what, and best of all it's in 3rd person.
Then the next chapter starts, and that little boy is an adult, with a different pet altogether, and it's in third person, and that first flying lizard pet NEVER SHOWS UP AGAIN, and his mother doesn't either (and she's not tragically dead or anything, he calls home and gets his dad and his father mentions she's out at a flea market with his little sister; she's just not in the book at all).
And suddenly it's now in FIRST person PoV.

UGGGHHHH!

So I basically threw it across the room, then sulkily picked it up and skimmed through it until the end.


Not really sure if it counts. I haven't really *read* it, just skimmed it, but I'm not planning to, either. It might be stupid but I actually feel a little betrayed. So now I'm changing genres to historical romance for a while, because at least those are rarely in first person.

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I want to buy or trade for these knuffels:
Earth Gen 18, Light Gen 19, Fire Gen 21, Air/Light/Water Gen 22, Light Gen 23, Earth/Light Gen 25, Darkness Gen 26.
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 Post subject: Re: What book are you reading at the moment?
Posted: Apr 10th, '16, 15:13    


Sanssouci

Joined: Jun 29th, '14, 02:58
Posts: 3718
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Location: New York
I just started reading This Book Is Not Good For You.

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