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The Golden Key, by Melanie Rawn, Kate Elliot and Jennifer Roberson

Very cool concept about combining Art and Magic, written by three extremely talented authors...
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By the river Piedra I sat down and wept, by Paulo Coelho. All about surrendering to the risk of love. *sighs*

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I'm reading tons of research journals.
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Leafing through a chick lit romance called SHARING SUNRISE again, trying to capture the flavor. "Sparkle" doesn't do it justice.
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Baseball Prospectus 2004.
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Brinn wrote:Baseball Prospectus 2004.
Which brings me to ask, do you play it, Brinn? I have always enjoyed a game of BB.
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Lord Mhoram wrote:Ive heard of Pillars of the Earth. Its about churches or something right?
It's historical fiction that centers around the building of a cathedral in medieval England. I read it several years back and thought it was rather good at the time.
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I'm finally gettting 'round to giving James Clavell a gander......I'm a few chapters into King Rat. :D
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Far and away the best Clavell, I think, is SHOGUN. Don't think of the miniseries when you read the book; they are quite different animals in some ways.

I'm reading a new ebook, BOUDICCA by Joann Smith. Good first person narration, emotionally very tightly wound. I keep expecting to find I have bleeding chest wounds from the character's agony.
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Not any more Ur-vile. I'll play the ocassional pick -up game with friends but my days of organized sports have unfortunately passed at least until my son is ready to play!
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well, i just finished the 10th book in the wheel of time series...ill be reading the rest of the Harry Potter books again, and im currently reading the latest issue of wizard, and a book on Visual Storytelling...ill rotate that with a book on Norse Mythology and The Rites of Odin, and a Handbook on Japanese swords
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Alright, I'm officially hooked on Palahniuk's writing. I read Fight Club in a matter of Hours. What book of his should I read next?
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Is he the guy that wrote Lullaby?
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All of them, though I wouldn't read Lullaby and Diary back to back. Choke, Survivor, and Invisible Monsters are all superb.
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I am reading the second book by Adam Roberts 'On', it is superb. Having said that I haven't finished it yet. His first 'Salt' is also great. I highly recommend them.
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I am reading (and mostly looking at the illustrations) of a book called Santa Fe Art. Shows some of the best fine art which has come out of New Mexico in the last hundred years or so. :)
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I am reading Jeff VanderMeers City of Saints and Madmen. Has anyone else read it? It is superb, an unsettling Gormenghast on a bigger scale. The writing is intelligent, witty and quite beautiful in parts. I recommend it heartily to everyone (perhaps not so much the younger watchers or the more sensitive of heart). This writer is one to follow, wish I had discovered him sooner.
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Byrn wrote:Alright, I'm officially hooked on Palahniuk's writing. I read Fight Club in a matter of Hours. What book of his should I read next?
I thought I was officially hooked when I read FIGHT CLUB, but the next thing of his that I read was a short story, and it was absolutely ghastly. Made my stomach cringe.
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