Copper Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 I am reading Kitty and the Silver Bullet by Carrie Vaughn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerina Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 Hey! I really like the Kitty Norville series! I just really like Kitty as a MC. She's much different than many paranormal/urban fantasy leading ladies out there right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copper Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 Yeah Kitty is pretty awesome. So is Cormac, too. Have you read the Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs? The first book is called Moon Called and it's really good. Mercy is another fantastic MC in urban fantasy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerina Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 That's kinda on my list to read. I need to see if the library has them for my Nook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copper Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 ALSO: Eileen Wilks. She has a series that stars Lily Yu a Sensitive police detective. It has werewolves and magic and demons and all sorts of interesting stuff. TBH, I may enjoy her series more than both the Kitty and Mercy series'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceheart Posted March 15, 2012 Author Share Posted March 15, 2012 I tried looking for the Wilks series through my library, and they don't have the Yu series... they have all of the others I've been meaning to get to the Vaughn and Briggs series', too... I really need to stop pulling a million books from the new release shelf every time I go to the library. Speaking of, I'm two chapters into Hari Kunzru's Gods Without Men, which is, so far, intriguing, but a bit schizo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copper Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Yeah, the Eileen Wilks series is hard to find. Strangely, I was able to find it at a small local used book store in their paranormal section but was unable to find it at Barnes and Noble! Don't you have a kindle Icy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceheart Posted March 15, 2012 Author Share Posted March 15, 2012 I do have a Kindle... I'm also really cheap and still prefer to borrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copper Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 No, I get it! I'm just bad about returning library books. REALLY REALLY bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceheart Posted March 15, 2012 Author Share Posted March 15, 2012 I'm so cheap, I make sure I do it on time It helps that I work like three blocks from the largest branch in town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copper Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 Just cracked the spine on Ghost of a Chance by Simon R. Green. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pavonis Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 Finished Salt today. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone else. I thought the topic was interesting enough to finish it, but I doubt I'll read it again soon. Too dull and repetitive. Even so, I still found it preferable to Count Zero - I'm still trying to get through that one. Started Coal: A Human History by Barbara Freese today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copper Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 I'm about fifty pages into Someplace To Be Flying by Charles de Lint. loving it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceheart Posted March 27, 2012 Author Share Posted March 27, 2012 Started Coal: A Human History by Barbara Freese today. Does it include District 12? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pavonis Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 No, it was published in 2003, long before The Hunger Games became popular. Perhaps The Hunger Games author read the book before writing the novels, though. Coal mining is dangerous work, and children were often employed in it, to justify smaller, more economical mine shafts, so that part of The Hunger Games is realistic. The book is well-written, and more engaging than Salt was, in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceheart Posted March 29, 2012 Author Share Posted March 29, 2012 What book did I read that started with a 13 year old boy's first day in the mines? I think it was Ken Follett's Fall of Giants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cashmere Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 That sounds about right, Icy. I remember the mining part because the foreman leaves him in the dark all day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pavonis Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 Finished Coal on Saturday, and started The Armchair Economist by Steven Landsburg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishdancer2 Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 I just finished Jenny McCarthy's book about autism. Went into it expecting to hate it. Actually came out somewhat liking it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pavonis Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 Finished The Armchair Economist yesterday. I hope to finish Count Zero this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copper Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 I am reading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes on my Nook! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceheart Posted April 26, 2012 Author Share Posted April 26, 2012 Hey Copper! http://www.gutenberg.org/ I'm sure you've known about it for years, but it takes on a whole new shiny patina when you have an ereader. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copper Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Yeah, I'm totally filling my nook with all those books I've always wanted to read but couldn't bring myself to buy. And we all know that the library and I are only theoretical friends, not actual ones because I am incapable of remembering to return books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceheart Posted April 26, 2012 Author Share Posted April 26, 2012 http://www.overdrive.com/#2 Your library probably supports this. The only issue is that the copy availability for each book is way, way lower than the print copies, and you only have two weeks with each book, no renewals. BUT, the Nook makes you remember to return your books. Making you remember to finish the book in two weeks is a whole other deal... But, yeah. My e-books are all public domain classics I've either never bought, or wore out/lost my copy of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerina Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 I have a looong list of classics that I've always wanted to read, yet can't seem to find the motivation to do so. We should do that thing where we all read the same book and then talk about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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