July's Jubilant Joust At New Books

[Lioness]

Still reading The Stand (unabridged version)...it's taking quite a while.

[Ice fyre]

Indeed I remmber reading the unabridged version and taking a fair while to plod through it. I'm reading The Sea Beggars book 1 the Mark of Ran, so far so good.

[Rosemary]

I have only 50 pages left to read of Fatal Revenant by Stephen Donaldson. As I don't have a new book on my 'to read' list I am trying to slow down when I read but oh, that's difficult to do!

[Talysia]

Still reading Terry Pratchett's Wintersmith, and enjoying it so far.

[Lady of Winterfell]

Finished Magician: Apprentice by Feist. Thought it was a fun read, and I will continue on in the series, once I let myself back into a bookstore. Trying to read through my To Be Read pile without adding to it at the moment. Also finished my reread of A Storm of Swords by GRRM.

Now its onto A Feast for Crows by GRRM.

[j. d. worthington]

Reading She, by H. Rider Haggard. Began the book Sunday and, despite my extremely busy day yesterday I've got to the halfway point now....

[Pyar]

Still reading Doomsday Book by Connie Willis and it is excellent! :P

[Tansy]

Picked up Koontz's Odd Thomas todat at the library we have at work, just read it all in one go. Really liked it and will be looking into the next 3 books

Back to The name of the Wind for now

[Connavar]

Originally Posted by j. d. worthington

Reading She, by H. Rider Haggard. Began the book Sunday and, despite my extremely busy day yesterday I've got to the halfway point now....

Is it like 100 pages ?


I read The Jugger by Stark a 1960's Roman Noir in only a couple of hours.

When i was reading i thought it took me 4-5 hours but in real time it was less than two hours.

[Lenny]

Originally Posted by Lioness

Still reading The Stand (unabridged version)...it's taking quite a while.

You might be there for a looong time - it took me about six weeks, I think. But it was well worth it! How far in are you, by the way?

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I finished Erikson's Toll the Hounds about twenty minutes ago. Fantastic. And there were some amazing, shall we say, events, some of which will be devastating.

I can't wait for the next one to be written and published!

But whilst I wait for that (and, much earlier, Esslemont's Return of the Crimson Guard), its back to Modesitt's Saga of Recluce, with me restarting The Chaos Balance.

[Teresa Edgerton]

I'm currently reading Carnival: Entertainments and Posthumous Tales, by Isak Dinesen. I love the way she tells a story.

[mosaix]

The Time Travelers Wife

[AE35Unit]

Originally Posted by Lioness

Still reading The Stand (unabridged version)...it's taking quite a while.

I don't envy you,i'd get bored after so long. Took me ages to read Needful Things,and i've never managed to get through IT

[Quokka]

Just finished I am Legend by Richard Matheson which was great and Voice of Our Shadow by Jonathan Carroll, which seemed like a bit of a strange inclusion in the Fantasy Masterworks series, it was ok but seemed a bit like a young adult book and it finishes very abrubtly.

Off to the bookstore now to try find something new .

[j. d. worthington]

Originally Posted by Connavar

Is it like 100 pages ?

LOL. No, not quite. The edition I'm reading (I have two, rather different, editions) is 240 pp. in length for She itself (it also includes King Solomon's Mines and Allan Quartermain....). It's just that Haggard tells a very good story very well, and I stayed up a bit later than I should last night to get to that point....