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Bred Any Good Rooks Lately?

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  • not_nadinenot_nadine
    I am rereading James Clavell Tai-Pan. I haven't read it for years.  Love this book.
    GNTLGNTKurbenHedda GablerFlakeNoir
  • GNTLGNTGNTLGNT
    Grant87 said:
    Big Joe Hill news today! Cover reveal and release date for his gigantic new novel, King Sorrow! Can't wait for this one!
    King Sorrow
    https://www.today.com/popculture/books/joe-hill-king-sorrow-rcna187448
    ...yes sir!!!....mine is pre-ordered......
    Hedda GablerFlakeNoir
  • KurbenKurben
    Read Butcher by Joyce Carol Oates. Takes place in a female insane asylum in the 19,th century where a ruthless doctor performs experiments on the patients. Horrific, almost gothic in character with a good finale but a bit long in the middle. A few too many detailed descriptions for my taste. But Oates is a good storyteller and i never regret reading her books. This is perhaps not among her best, which is very very good, but still good and worth reading.
    GNTLGNTHedda GablerFlakeNoir
  • Grant87Grant87
    GNTLGNT said:
    Grant87 said:
    Big Joe Hill news today! Cover reveal and release date for his gigantic new novel, King Sorrow! Can't wait for this one!
    King Sorrow
    https://www.today.com/popculture/books/joe-hill-king-sorrow-rcna187448
    ...yes sir!!!....mine is pre-ordered......
    Me too! I always ordered signed copies from Water Street Books.
    GNTLGNTKurbenHedda GablerFlakeNoir
  • GNTLGNTGNTLGNT
    Grant87 said:
    GNTLGNT said:
    Grant87 said:
    Big Joe Hill news today! Cover reveal and release date for his gigantic new novel, King Sorrow! Can't wait for this one!
    King Sorrow
    https://www.today.com/popculture/books/joe-hill-king-sorrow-rcna187448
    ...yes sir!!!....mine is pre-ordered......
    Me too! I always ordered signed copies from Water Street Books.
    ...I did the same....usually as you know, I buy from Chiz at CD-but this time I wanted another signature.....gonna miss not getting a doodle though....
    KurbenHedda GablerFlakeNoir
  • Grant87Grant87
    GNTLGNT said:
    Grant87 said:
    GNTLGNT said:
    Grant87 said:
    Big Joe Hill news today! Cover reveal and release date for his gigantic new novel, King Sorrow! Can't wait for this one!
    King Sorrow
    https://www.today.com/popculture/books/joe-hill-king-sorrow-rcna187448
    ...yes sir!!!....mine is pre-ordered......
    Me too! I always ordered signed copies from Water Street Books.
    ...I did the same....usually as you know, I buy from Chiz at CD-but this time I wanted another signature.....gonna miss not getting a doodle though....
    I still asked nicely for a doodle, but probably not going to happen. Still nice to get a signed copy.
    KurbenHedda GablerGNTLGNTFlakeNoir
  • KurbenKurben
    Read Way Station (1963) by Clifford Simak as pqrt of a little book club i got involved in. This months subject was Look To The Heaven and i thought of this. It won the Hugo Award at the time but have stood the test of time beautifully (not the case with all his books). Dont regret the reread at all.
    GNTLGNTFlakeNoirHedda Gabler
  • KurbenKurben
    Read Ararat by Christopher Golden
    Ararat Christopher Golden Pocket Akademibokhandeln
    Two adventurers find an ancient ship on top of Mount Ararat in Turkey. But the scary part begin when they discover whats inside....  Good enough little horror thriller. Enjoyed it. Picked it up on sale a couple of years back but havent read it until now..
    GNTLGNTnot_nadineHedda GablerFlakeNoir
  • not_nadinenot_nadine
    Stephen King Library Ad - 

    Hedda GablerGNTLGNTFlakeNoir
  • GNTLGNTGNTLGNT
    .....laws yes!....he was goofy as hell in that, but ya gotta love him.....
    Hedda GablerFlakeNoirnot_nadine
  • KurbenKurben
    Reading The Drift by C. J. Tudor. It is also good. Feels nice to have discovered a new author to enjoy.
    The Drift A Novel Tudor C J Amazonse Bcker
    not_nadineFlakeNoirHedda GablerGNTLGNT
  • KurbenKurben
    Set in renaissance Italy. Mysteries and murder float to the surface and two riddle solvers unite to solve it. Leonardo da Vinci and Niccola Macchiavelli. Alexander VI is pope (the Borgia pope) and his son Cesare is at the peak of his powers dominating other lords in italy. In real life Leonardo was about 50 when this takes place and Macchiavelli about 30 so its possible they met. But i dont know the history of this time and place well enough to know if they know oneanother. Machiavelli had not yet written The Prince that he would be famous for. Still Malice by Fortune starts well. Lets hope Michael Ennis can keep the pace going. Seem very well researched.
    The Malice of Fortune

    GNTLGNTHedda Gabler
  • Hedda GablerHedda Gabler
    Can someone tell me how Cemetery Book buying works? The package is from Richard Chizmar, not Cemetery Dance. 

    I have bought hundreds of dollars of books from them a long time ago, i can’t remember if they charged me at time of ordering or time of shipping. 

    I got 3 beautiful signed and numbered hardcovered books today and I don’t know why. 

    I haven’t ordered anything from them in at least 6 years. I know it takes them a long time to fill orders sometimes, so this must have been a grab bag I ordered.  But the invoice said it cost me nothing.  Did I pay for them years ago??? Did someone gift these to me???? Did Richard Chizmar realize what a truly amazing person I am? 

    I’m too lazy to chase this too far.  I need naps. 
    GNTLGNTKurbenFlakeNoir
  • GNTLGNTGNTLGNT
    .....of late, the shipping has been under Chiz's name.....they charge at time of order, and it is entirely possible they are finally fulfilling something you ordered millennia ago....I have these rando packages show up and I just smile like a gassy chihuahua and shamble on about my day..... 
    KurbenHedda GablerFlakeNoir
  • not_nadinenot_nadine
     Funny Looking Chihuahua Dog Stock Image - Image of humorous pets 24743089
    KurbenGNTLGNT
  • Hedda GablerHedda Gabler
    GNTLGNT said:
    .....of late, the shipping has been under Chiz's name.....they charge at time of order, and it is entirely possible they are finally fulfilling something you ordered millennia ago....I have these rando packages show up and I just smile like a gassy chihuahua and shamble on about my day..... 
    yep, that’s what it was. 

    All 3 hardcover
    All 3 signed and numbered. 
    Of the 3, I own one in paperback. 

    Of the 3, I’ve read 2. One as a kid and I remember liking it then. Not sure how it holds up today.  The other I read for my Cemetery Dance 2018 read over on the SKMB.  I went and took a look at what I said, apparently I liked it.  
     I don’t remember any details of either book. 

    Of the 3, there is an author I have never heard of or the book I got.  In looking this book over, it has a very creative, interesting layout.  I’m intrigued.   It almost makes me want to do another Cemetery Dance thread on books I own from them but haven’t read. I still have many.  And it would force me to read.  But, I’m tired and I can’t make me. 

    The 3 books?

    Suffer the Children — John Saul (read as a kid)

    Odd Adventures with your Other Father — Norman Prentiss (read for SKMB 2018 thread)

    Tomorrow’s Journal - Dominick Cancilla (don’t think I’ve heard of this guy, know nothing about this book.). Anyone familiar with this author or book?


    GNTLGNTFlakeNoir
  • GNTLGNTGNTLGNT
    Tomorrow’s Journal - Dominick Cancilla (don’t think I’ve heard of this guy, know nothing about this book.). Anyone familiar with this author or book?


    https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3517797.Dominick_Cancilla
    Hedda GablerFlakeNoir
  • Hedda GablerHedda Gabler
    edited February 11
    I’m reading A Pocketful of Happiness by actor Richard E. Grant (he played bad guy Enric Pryde in a Star Wars movie).

    I saw him do an interview about the book and it sounded like an interesting biography. I didn’t realize the main focus of the book was his wife’s cancer and death. All the stories weave in and out of her illness so this has been a very challenging read. But, I am determined to finish it. 

    I’m getting closer to the end of the book and his wife, Joan’s, life.

    This morning, I had to replace the windshield in my truck. Couple hours. Chose to wait. Force myself to read. Big mistake.  There were 6 of us waiting — it took everything in me not to bust out crying. I had to shut the book and immediately start thinking about stupid, boring things. 

    I know my face got uglier than normal, but my big Ray Charles sunglasses kept the public safe. 
    KurbenGNTLGNTFlakeNoir
  • KurbenKurben
    Read the David Baldacci thriller Total Control. Meh. I mean i read it so it wasn't awful but somehow he has never really done it for me. I know some praise him but this was the third of his i read (with long periods inbetween) and it has never really clicked. I will avoid him from now on.
    GNTLGNTHedda GablerFlakeNoir
  • KurbenKurben
    Starting to read Joan Lindseys Picnic at Hanging Rock. It was a good movie by Peter Weir that i still remember fondly but i never read the book. When i saw it on this years annual booksale in sweden (every bookstore has a sale for three weeks starting february 25,th, its a lomg tradition in sweden) i swooped in and picked it up. Written in the 1960,s and taking place in 1900 it is considered a classic so i have hopes.
    not_nadineGNTLGNTHedda GablerFlakeNoir
  • not_nadinenot_nadine
    I have been listening to audiobook Baal by Robert Mcmmon - narrated by Ray Porter.  I am enjoying it but it is taking forever because I listen at night in bed and keep falling asleep on it.  :/
    GNTLGNTKurbenHedda GablerFlakeNoir
  • not_nadinenot_nadine
    Did I say that already?
    GNTLGNTKurben
  • GNTLGNTGNTLGNT
    Kurben said:
    Starting to read Joan Lindseys Picnic at Hanging Rock. It was a good movie by Peter Weir that i still remember fondly but i never read the book. When i saw it on this years annual booksale in sweden (every bookstore has a sale for three weeks starting february 25,th, its a lomg tradition in sweden) i swooped in and picked it up. Written in the 1960,s and taking place in 1900 it is considered a classic so i have hopes.
    ....I once again lament the lack of local bookstores....yes, we have Bookology here in town but the selection of genres is very sparse, so it might as well be non-existent.....
    KurbenHedda GablerFlakeNoir
  • KurbenKurben
    GNTLGNT said:
    Kurben said:
    Starting to read Joan Lindseys Picnic at Hanging Rock. It was a good movie by Peter Weir that i still remember fondly but i never read the book. When i saw it on this years annual booksale in sweden (every bookstore has a sale for three weeks starting february 25,th, its a lomg tradition in sweden) i swooped in and picked it up. Written in the 1960,s and taking place in 1900 it is considered a classic so i have hopes.
    ....I once again lament the lack of local bookstores....yes, we have Bookology here in town but the selection of genres is very sparse, so it might as well be non-existent.....
    In the suburb outside Stockholm where i live there is no bookstores neither. There is a second hand store that has very cheap books that i check out now and then but for an actual bookstore i have to take the subway into the city.
    Hedda GablerGNTLGNTFlakeNoir
  • KurbenKurben
    Reading Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny. Not bad at all. Canadian crime writer.. This is about a retired police detective that has moved into a little village in canada. Then a likeable but annoying 9 yyear old goes missing and is found dead. He is known for seeing aliens and all kinds of monsters in the woods and when he shows up the day before his disappearance with another tall tale noone believes him. On his own initiative the policeman start searching the woods and find that for once the boy was telling the truth, just a little exaggerated, and was killed for it. Now old secrets start to rise to the surface and the friendly little village starts to wonder if a child murderer is living among them. Well done. Not top class but well worth the read.
    GNTLGNTHedda GablerFlakeNoir
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