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Just finished books 1 & 2 by Lars Keppler. I feel Sandman is better written; however, 1 & 2 would have encouraged me to continue to read him Dark books, not for everyone, but a good read.
 
Currently reading "where Angels Tread" by EM Forresterr. Haven't read it before . Enjoying it.

Son is a literature buff so I often check out his book shelves for books I haven't read.

I sort of divide my time between books that are "airport trash " and better ones. But lately it feels like I have been spending more time on line and less time reading. This is a reminder to switch those percentages around

I love books. I love to hold them. I love to imagine them. I wish I could write
 
I loved "Where Angels Tread". I still remember how it touched me when I read it 50 years ago. I liked it better than "Passage to India" that was resurrected in a blockbuster movie.
 
(Why is it that whenever I start reading I become sleepy very quickly? This is a major problem for me right now, because I'm in seminary, and have tons of reading to do)
 
University textbooks will do that to you. Why do you think coffee and cola are the non-alcoholic beverages of choice on campuses? :D
 
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University textbooks will do that to you. Why do you think coffee and cola are the non-alcoholic beverages of choice on campuses? :D
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You have something there Mendalla. One of the first lessons our Spiritual Formation professor (also our Program Head) gave us was, "Remember, ministry runs on caffeine!"
 
Matcha tea, my drug of choice :3 a nice, clean high, with none of the caffeine & sugar coming down effects
 
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For religious reasons or health ones? (or some combination thereof?)
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Not religious reasons, and I don't feel it can be for health reasons since the school says cookies, chocolate bars, chips, soda, pastries, and desserts. So...?
 
More stories along the lines of 'First Contact', but where the humans really don't succeed because, well, they're ALIEN

Lovecraft mythos . The aliens are so alien, it drives humanity insane. And learning more aboot them is just as bad as remaining innocent...a cool thing aboot the mythos for me is that it is an anti-mythos, an anti-system. It is thanks to Derleth that we both know aboot Lovecraft and that he was the guy who tried to 'Christianize' the mythos, make it into a fight between good (nodens) and evil (the old ones etc).

Roadside Picnic by Boris & Arkady Strugatsky. Story of humans trying to grok and deal with the aftermath of an alien 'invasion' that they really don't understand

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem...

Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock -- sold as fantasy in bookstores, it is the generational tale of a family who lives by a very strange & alien wood and the effects of living there and their explorations...

Where Time Winds Blow by Robert Holdstock -- the main characters aren archeologists of a sort who live a precarious existence on an earth colony world where they do their field work always under pressure because of these chaotic winds which leave strange things behind & take them & change them...
 
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I've been re-visiting Farley Mowat's books, and deriving a great deal of enjoyment from them. What a nice, natural, humorous, compassionate writer he was.
 
congratulations @Seeler , on the birth of your novel -- you're even holier than i imagined :love: that takes quite a lot of discipline and b s & t

(authors & librarians are two of the professions i consider sacred)
 
and patrick rothfuss -- wow, what a SWEETIE! i've been checking him out...

i like his sense of humour, his fairness & his rationality

and he's a GAMER! oh oh
 
I keep thinking of giving Mieville a go. The books look interesting. I wish Rothfuss would hurry it the heck up with book 3.

I'm currently re-reading things from my 'old favs' shelf - I've worked through the first couple of Laurie R King's Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes novels for about the 10th time ( I love Bee Keeper's Apprentice, Monstrous Regiment of Women, O Jerusalem and Justice Hall; I'm in the middle of Terry Pratchett's Small Gods; and I may haul out Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel series again too.
 
I am just into a book called, 'The Book Thief'. It is about a young girl who is in Germany in the 2nd WW and picks up a book and falls in love with learning and reading. She steals books to read and even dares grab them from Nazi book burnings. I am looking forward to just how she deals with this voracious hunger. I will let you know how it goes.

We have a study group at our church and we've read & discussed many books. Phyllis Tickle's book, 'The Age of the Spirit', is a good one for right now. Some of it made us ask whether we still wanted to be Christian. Finding out how some of our main beliefs have been forced by horrid means makes one wonder about having it at all. But we made it through and she is a good writer.

Books will last a long time I hope... reading off the internet is not my thing. Keeping hard copies is just smart and easier on the eyes.
 
Rowan, many of the books that you have read or are-reading are my favourites as well. I have smiled as I read your post. Laurie R King is a wonderful writer. I also loved her other novels / series. Ps. Rothfuss has a small novel coming out (or out), it has been printed.


I am in the midst of another mystery novel by Jo Nesbo for the character Harry Hole. Interesting read, dark mysteries.

I watched the movie The Book Thief. It was relatively well done.
 
The new Patrick Rothfuss book is due out Oct 28, 2014. It's titled The Slow Regard of Silent Things and according to Rothfuss' site it's about Auri. Sadly it's not Book Three, but I expect it'll be a good read. He's also got a short story about the character Bast in the Rogues Anthology (edited by George R R Martin and Gardner Dozois) that came out this past June.
 
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