BOOKS! - what are you reading?

[Cracker]

I have a love of short stories and novellas. Bought this book used on Amazon. Will donate it when I'm finished.

[IMaDick]

Right now I'm reading the first word of every post on page 9 in this thread.

[username]

i almost never read fiction. but after reading some glowing reviews, and because it's a Mass. locale, i bought it. i'm only on chapter 3, but i'm into it. it's a courthouse thing and legal thriller, and having once worked in a Mass. courthouse it intrigued me. i still prefer non-fiction.
for mystery fans, blurb below--->



Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. He is respected in his community, tenacious in the courtroom, and happy at home with his wife, Laurie, and son, Jacob. But when a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: His fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student.

Every parental instinct Andy has rallies to protect his boy. Jacob insists that he is innocent, and Andy believes him. Andy must. He’s his father. But as damning facts and shocking revelations surface, as a marriage threatens to crumble and the trial intensifies, as the crisis reveals how little a father knows about his son, Andy will face a trial of his own—between loyalty and justice, between truth and allegation, between a past he’s tried to bury and a future he cannot conceive.

Award-winning author William Landay has written the consummate novel of an embattled family in crisis—a suspenseful, character-driven mystery that is also a spellbinding tale of guilt, betrayal, and the terrifying speed at which our lives can spin out of control.

Read that! Pretty good! I read a book every 3-4 days. Stupid authors can't publish quick enough for me.

[Lady Cop]

User, what type of books do you like most?

before i got a computer i read a good 5 books a week.

and like Cracker, believe in donating and passing along anything i don't intend to read again, or save for my kids to read. some things you HAVE to keep. (my histories and my Dickens)

[username]

User, what type of books do you like most?

I have a Kindle now because I just couldn't handle the volume of books in the house. I feel bad because I can't donate them now but we don't have a good bookstore nearby so it's so much easier for me to download a book than drive to a not-nearby bookstore.

I read every genre. I like mysteries, spy books, Jodi Picoult, John Grisham (some) and fantasy (The Hunger Games etc.). "Unbroken" was a great book. Vince Flynn and the Mitch Rapp series...awesome. I've read most of the James Patterson books and Harlan Coben is another great writer. Lee Child. The John Locke/Donovan Creed series is great but I think it's only available on Kindle.

Plus I've read every urban fantasy/paranormal book out there (except those that try to insert too much kinky sex in to the books--Laurel Hamilton, for example). Loved the Jim Butcher series.

I love them all!

[Lady Cop]

God i'm a dinosaur! i probably should have gone to kindle long ago.

maybe it's the librarian in me, i like the look, feel, weight of books. and have had a few first editions (I was a court law librarian for a time).

[Lady Cop]

sad.
how many parents, years ago, bought this on the installment plan for their children?




The Encyclopaedia Britannica -- which has been in print continuously since its beginnings in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1768 -- is finally abandoning print and moving exclusively online.

The current print run of the venerable encyclopedia will be the last, the company announced Wed., March 14, as the publisher continues an evolution into digital products begun over 20 years ago -- and ends the print version after 244 years.

"It’s the oldest continuously printed reference work in the English language,” Tom Panelas, a spokesman for Encyclopaedia Britannica, told FoxNews.com. In that time the company has printed a little over seven million copies, he said.

The Encyclopaedia Britannica began exploring digital publishing in the 1970s, and created its first digital version -- likely the first digital encyclopedia ever -- for LexisNexis users in 1981. That lengthy history of online information may come as a surprise to many.

“Many people know us as the publisher of those big multivolume encyclopedias that have been a source of joy and learning since 1768. Today that encyclopedia is chiefly to be found in a multitude of digital forms that are updated daily,” the company’s website says.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/03/1...z1p5Wi9Wro

[ramseycat]

Anyone here read JD Robb? I just finished Celebrity in Death. It was very good.

[Teacher]

J.D. Robb is a pseudonym for Nora Roberts (in case you didn't know). I prefer her J.D. Robb books over those written under her name, Nora Roberts.

[Teacher]

BTW, I am almost through reading the three-book series by Stieg Larsson. (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl who Played with Fire, and The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest) So far I like the second one the best.

[ramseycat]

J.D. Robb is a pseudonym for Nora Roberts (in case you didn't know). I prefer her J.D. Robb books over those written under her name, Nora Roberts.

Yes I did know that.

[ramseycat]

BTW, I am almost through reading the three-book series by Stieg Larsson. (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl who Played with Fire, and The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest) So far I like the second one the best.

I read the first two and really liked them. I started the third but never got into it for some reason. I just lost interest. It's really unusual for me not to finish a book. I still have it so I might give it another try.

I just started Private Games by James Patterson. Pretty good so far.

[Teacher]

I agree that the 3^rd book was slow going at first. (Also I got confused with all the foreign names.) It's moving right along now and getting better.

Love James Patterson.

[username]

i almost never read fiction. but after reading some glowing reviews, and because it's a Mass. locale, i bought it. i'm only on chapter 3, but i'm into it. it's a courthouse thing and legal thriller, and having once worked in a Mass. courthouse it intrigued me. i still prefer non-fiction.
for mystery fans, blurb below--->



Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. He is respected in his community, tenacious in the courtroom, and happy at home with his wife, Laurie, and son, Jacob. But when a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: His fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student.

Every parental instinct Andy has rallies to protect his boy. Jacob insists that he is innocent, and Andy believes him. Andy must. He’s his father. But as damning facts and shocking revelations surface, as a marriage threatens to crumble and the trial intensifies, as the crisis reveals how little a father knows about his son, Andy will face a trial of his own—between loyalty and justice, between truth and allegation, between a past he’s tried to bury and a future he cannot conceive.

Award-winning author William Landay has written the consummate novel of an embattled family in crisis—a suspenseful, character-driven mystery that is also a spellbinding tale of guilt, betrayal, and the terrifying speed at which our lives can spin out of control.

I read that. It was good! I'm reading The Iron Druid Chronicles right now. It's okay. Loved the Hunger Games series. I haven't seen the movie.

[ramseycat]

That does sound good LC. I will look for that at the library.

I am also a big fan of Patricia Cornwell and the Kay Scarpetta series. I have read all of those as well and highly recommend the series.

[Donovan]

I just read a book of collected letters from a civil war soldier wounded at Gettysburg, all three Hunger Games books (which are far and away better than any crap by that Meyer chick who did the Twilight stuff) and I'm reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman which is also very good.

[username]

Everyone must read Unbroken. Great book.

[Lady Cop]

Everyone must read Unbroken. Great book.

could you twits give some idea what the book you are recommending is actually about?? sheesh. thankyou.

[Donovan]

Everyone must read Unbroken. Great book.

could you twits give some idea what the book you are recommending is actually about?? sheesh. thankyou.

Hunger Games = self-explanatory. I think there's a movie or something :rolleyes: Future America, Evil Capitol, kids that kill each other for reality tv. yada yada yada.

American Gods seems to be a sort of fantasy kind of story about all sorts of old gods from various religions, who exists in America on a lesser level because people who believed in them brought them here, then they start some sort of war with the American Gods that represent Credit, Electronics, and Television. You know, the stuff WE worship lol. It's really pretty good so far.

[Lady Cop]

thanks Donovan...i wasn't talking to YOU.