What are you reading?

Sky · Number of posts: 4931 Registration date: 2008-08-10

aerwin wrote:

Sky , try Dennis Lehane. Shutter Island is really good.
Also Scott Smith has another book A Simple Plan. it is unputdownable. AND the ending does not want to make you scream like The Ruins.

I am reading The Hemmings oF Monticello. About Thomas Jefferson ans his realtionship with one of his slaves. Very interesting.

I just finished 'A Simple Plan'..............WOW! Thanks so much for suggesting it to me!

I'm now starting on the Sookie Stackhouse series of books. These are the books True Blood has been taken from.

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Firecracker · Subject: Re: What are you reading? Mon Jun 15, 2009 8:11 pm

I'm reading Rolling Stone Magazine (over and over) Very Happy

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Sky · Number of posts: 4931 Registration date: 2008-08-10

Firecracker wrote:

I'm reading Rolling Stone Magazine (over and over) Very Happy

Well, that's a given! Wait, you mean there is more than the pics in there!!!?????

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Firecracker · Subject: Re: What are you reading? Mon Jun 15, 2009 8:44 pm

I KNOW!! It takes awhile to get past the pix - but there actually is some text too!

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aerwin · Subject: Re: What are you reading? Tue Jun 16, 2009 7:40 am

Sky wrote:

aerwin wrote:

Sky , try Dennis Lehane. Shutter Island is really good.
Also Scott Smith has another book A Simple Plan. it is unputdownable. AND the ending does not want to make you scream like The Ruins.

I am reading The Hemmings oF Monticello. About Thomas Jefferson ans his realtionship with one of his slaves. Very interesting.

I just finished 'A Simple Plan'..............WOW! Thanks so much for suggesting it to me!

I'm now starting on the Sookie Stackhouse series of books. These are the books True Blood has been taken from.

OH GOOD Sky I am glad you liked it. You will LOVE the Sookie books. I am waiting on her latest from the library. I think the show is a liitle different , but I enjoy them both.

horselaydee · Subject: Re: What are you reading? Tue Jun 16, 2009 5:56 pm

Aerwin wrote:

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I'm now starting on the Sookie Stackhouse series of books. These are the books True Blood has been taken from.
OH GOOD Sky I am glad you liked it. You will LOVE the Sookie books. I am waiting on her latest from the library. I think the show is a liitle different , but I enjoy them both

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How many books are there in the Sooke stackhouse series? Which one should I start with?

That Hemmings of Monticello sounds good! I would love to hear a little more about that book. Does it talk about the architecture of Monticello? I am really into architecture.

I am going to start Eat, pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert soon. A fellow foodie friend of mine just gave it to me. Has anyone heard of it?

Sky · Number of posts: 4931 Registration date: 2008-08-10

I have seen the book, Eat, Pray, Love but I don't know much about it.

The series is sold as a boxed set, but I went off a list inside the first book. Aerwin might know for sure and there is a new book out.

By Charlaine Harris

Dead Until Dark
Living Dead in Dallas
Club Dead
Dead to the World
Dead as a Doornail
Definitely Dead
All Together Dead
From Dead to Worse

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horselaydee · Subject: Re: What are you reading? Tue Jun 16, 2009 11:44 pm

Sky wrote:

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The series is sold as a boxed set, but I went off a list inside the first book. Aerwin might know for sure and there is a new book out.

By Charlaine Harris

Dead Until Dark
Living Dead in Dallas
Club Dead
Dead to the World
Dead as a Doornail
Definitely Dead
All Together Dead
From Dead to Worse

So all those books are about Sookie? Wow! The titles are really quite tongue in cheek are'nt they? Laughing

Which ones have you read Sky and Aerwin?

Sky · Number of posts: 4931 Registration date: 2008-08-10

I have just started Dead Until Dark, and it has pretty much followed the first season story line of True Blood.

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aerwin · Subject: Re: What are you reading? Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:28 am

The newest one Dead and Gone is number nine. I've read them all. I love them. Season two of True Blood should be partly based on Living Dead in Dallas. The tv show does vary a bit. Because one character dies in the book and not on the show.I hope the show will go into the weres more. I was happy to find this eries after Anne Rice stopped her vampire series. Have y'all read those?

The Hemings Of Monticello is about Thomas Jefferson's realationship with his slave Sally Hemmimgs and their descendants. If you are interested in the reannaissance man Jefferson was there are two great books. American Sphinx by Joesph J Ellis and The Road to Monticello : The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson by Kevin J. Hayes. Thomas Jefferson is one of my heroes. I have been to Monticello three times. I have a beautiful print of Jefferson in my dining room.

Firecracker · Subject: Re: What are you reading? Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:32 am

God - I envy you guys for finding time to read so many books!!

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Sky · Number of posts: 4931 Registration date: 2008-08-10

That's just it FC, I don't have a lot of time. I have to read before bed, but I'm usually too tired to get much reading done so it takes me forever sometimes to get a book read because I'm too tired to read for very long...........

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Firecracker · Subject: Re: What are you reading? Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:39 am

Well, I read the paper every day in the AM before the kids comes and at night I read mags. We get some and my MIL gets some and gives them to me when she is done. So that is the bulk of my reading material Laughing

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aerwin · Subject: Re: What are you reading? Wed Jun 17, 2009 8:24 am

I don't have time during the day to read. I read at night. I watch no reality tv . none. Only scripted shows, so that leaves a lot of time at night.

horselaydee · Subject: Re: What are you reading? Wed Jun 17, 2009 8:59 am

Aerwin and Sky,Thanks for the info on Thomas Jefferson and the Charlaine Harris series. I will get Dead until Dark and start with that one. I have a vacation coming up in a few weeks and I hope to start two books, that one and the Eat, Live, Pray book.

I am bad about starting books, then losing interest. Occasionally one comes along that grabs me so much I have to read it in 2-3 days. I love that when it happens.