Kevin's Watch

I just bought The Labyrinth by Kate Mosse. It was in the bargain section of Borders, and it looked interesting to me. I hope that I like it more than the average reviewer at Amazon.com.

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Mortice Root wrote:Moby Dick - This is an odd book. I'm about halfway through. It goes between brilliant dialogue passages (some stuff reminiscint of Shakespheare) to mind numbingly boring passages about whale biology and inaccurate representations of whales in literature, to just wierd stuff (chapter's written as stage directions?!). Overall, though the good parts are worth slogging through the rest.

yeah, I recall trying to read Moby Dick when I was in middle school...I think 7th grade....I couldn't get through it. I should try again now that I'm a little more mature...

On the last chapter of Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth.

will be staring the gunslinger series today. (thank you jenn!)

Childhood Stories, a collection of childhood memories from prominent South African social and political figures from all walks of life.

--A

Enjoy Sarge!

If you come into the King forum, beware the Fresh Journey threads, as they're full of spoilers.

Menolly wrote:Enjoy Sarge!

If you come into the King forum, beware the Fresh Journey threads, as they're full of spoilers.

i shall wait until i am finished then. thank you!

Native Son by Richard Wright and The Diary of Anne Frank. The truth hurts. It really, really, really hurts.

Khaliban wrote:Native Son by Richard Wright and The Diary of Anne Frank. The truth hurts. It really, really, really hurts.

...aye...

Yet keep in mind, always...

Anne Frank wrote:I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

I am halfway through The Night Watch by Sarah Waters. She is, imho, a truly excellent author and this is her first novel not set in the Victorian era (the others are--in publication order--Tipping the Velvet then Affinity and then my favorite, Fingersmith). I'm less engaged in this one, partially because I feel less familiar with the era depicted--London in 1944 then 1947--and also because she is focusing on more characters, rather than the one or two she's done previously.

Still, I am interested and find myself caring about what happened. The first third takes place in 1947 while now we're in a flashback--yet I'm genuinely puzzled how these people changed so in just three years.

Just finished an short story collection, Wastelands, Stories of the Apocaypse. Good not great. I just like the atmosphere. Look post-apocalyptic fiction.

Reading Odd Hours by Dean Koontz now.

My kids bought me some books by Naomi Novik for fathers day. Ive never heard of these but since my kids bought them for me what am I to do?

I finished the first one and its not high-brow work by any stretch but thoroughly enjoyable.

His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, Book 1)
Throne of Jade (Temeraire, Book 2)

From Amazon: In this delightful first novel, the opening salvo of a trilogy, Novik seamlessly blends fantasy into the history of the Napoleonic wars. Here be dragons, beasts that can speak and reason, bred for strength and speed and used for aerial support in battle. Each nation has its own breeds, but none are so jealously guarded as the mysterious dragons of China. Veteran Capt. Will Laurence of the British Navy is therefore taken aback after his crew captures an egg from a French ship and it hatches a Chinese dragon, which Laurence names Temeraire. When Temeraire bonds with the captain, the two leave the navy to sign on with His Majesty's sadly understaffed Aerial Corps, which takes on the French in sprawling, detailed battles that Novik renders with admirable attention to 19th-century military tactics. Though the dragons they encounter are often more fully fleshed-out than the stereotypical human characters, the author's palpable love for her subject and a story rich with international, interpersonal and internal struggles more than compensate.

I'm reading "What Happened" by Scott McClellan. I'm up to Hurricane Katrina right now. Interesting stuff.

I'm reading a very interesting book my Dad just sent me called The Right Kind of War by a Marine tommygunner (John McCormick) who fought many frontline campaigns in the Pacific in WWII. Amazing insider perspective. My Dad commanded a Landing Ship Tank in the Navy during the war and told me he'd probably not have come back if we didn't drop the bombs as he was scheduled for the first wave of the invasion of Japan.

SoulBiter wrote:My kids bought me some books by Naomi Novik for fathers day. Ive never heard of these but since my kids bought them for me what am I to do?

I had never heard of them until Peter Jackson announced he's making them into movies.

2nd book in the gunslinger series
20,000 leagues under the sea - jules verne (for our book club)
a whole slew of graphic novels from the lake jackson library.

I'm in full-on, schizophrenic reading mode at the moment. I'm currently partway through the following:

The Twin - Gerbrand Bakker
Deja Dead - Cathy Reichs
Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
The First Gotrek and Felix Omnibus - William King
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Star Fraction - Ken McLeod

I've also recently finished:

A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle
Love and other Near Death Experiences - Mil Millington
Matter - Iain M. Banks
The House of Suns - Alastair Reynolds

All of which I'd thoroughly recommend.

Albert Speer - Inside the Third Reich.

I was browsing in a local bookshop with a limited science fiction books and low and behold there was two books fron SRD one was WGW and the other which I didnt know existed (shame on me) was Daughterof Regals and other tales.I will start digesting it this afternoon .Have many of you read his short stories