Unsomnambulist
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Snuff, by Terry Pratchett.
What are you reading?
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Nickyboy
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"The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary"- Simon Winchester (1998)
If you are a word and language nut like me, this book is right up your alley. It discusses the development of dictionaries and how they helped shape our language, not the other way around.
If you are a word and language nut like me, this book is right up your alley. It discusses the development of dictionaries and how they helped shape our language, not the other way around.
That's been in my shopping cart for a few months now. I love Macdonald's books.
Zeeba Neighba
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"The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton
Often common reading in high school even in the 1980s, wasn't touched upon in my school, and never picked it up. Came up (in team trivia actually) so I figured I'd check it out.
Often common reading in high school even in the 1980s, wasn't touched upon in my school, and never picked it up. Came up (in team trivia actually) so I figured I'd check it out.
Ojai Sam
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I've been meaning to check Joe Lansdale out. Where best to start, Savage Season?
If you're reading Lansdale to check out the Hap & Leonard series, Savage Season is the first in that series.
On the other hand, Lansdale has written several standalone novels, and those are also very good. Sunset And Sawdust was a very good read, set in 1930s Texas and full of Grapes Of Wrath type hardscrabble characters.
Ojai Sam
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I love series so Savage Season it shall be.
captwhiffle
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Just finished Kim Fu's For Today I Am a Boy (2014)
I thought it was really moving, and yes, the title is taken from the Antony and the Johnsons track of the same name.
I thought it was really moving, and yes, the title is taken from the Antony and the Johnsons track of the same name.
Unsomnambulist
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Unsomnambulist
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Raising Steam, by Terry Pratchett.
Unsomnambulist
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Don't Suck, Don't Die: Giving Up Vic Chestnutt, by Kristin Hersh.
John Steinbeck - Of Mice And Men
JazzySon's next book after he completes his current assignment, Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned. I figured since I never completed this school assignment in high school, I should read it now. Halfway through it now and wishing I had read it 35 years ago, too.
JazzySon's next book after he completes his current assignment, Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned. I figured since I never completed this school assignment in high school, I should read it now. Halfway through it now and wishing I had read it 35 years ago, too.
Unsomnambulist
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The Shepherd's Crown, by Terry Pratchett.
This is the last Discworld novel (#41).
It was published in August, 2015, five months after Pratchett's death from Alzheimer's.
This is the last Discworld novel (#41).
It was published in August, 2015, five months after Pratchett's death from Alzheimer's.
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Re: Of Mice And Men
Verdict: Fan-fucking-tastic! Utterly perfect.
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currently reading,
Michael Connelly - The Brass Verdict
It feels like I've read nearly all of the Harry Bosch novels. In reality, I've read fewer than half. I enjoy them while I'm reading them, and I feel satisfied after finishing one, but soon after, I get a feeling of discontent. Like I've participated in something that's not entirely good for me. Like eating half a dozen doughnuts, or binge-watching ten episodes of a television series. Or staying up extremely late at night eating doughnuts and binge-watching, when I know I have to get up before sunrise. So, I pace myself with Connelly books. But now, the time is right for one, so in I go with both hands at the ready.
Verdict: Fan-fucking-tastic! Utterly perfect.
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currently reading,
Michael Connelly - The Brass Verdict
It feels like I've read nearly all of the Harry Bosch novels. In reality, I've read fewer than half. I enjoy them while I'm reading them, and I feel satisfied after finishing one, but soon after, I get a feeling of discontent. Like I've participated in something that's not entirely good for me. Like eating half a dozen doughnuts, or binge-watching ten episodes of a television series. Or staying up extremely late at night eating doughnuts and binge-watching, when I know I have to get up before sunrise. So, I pace myself with Connelly books. But now, the time is right for one, so in I go with both hands at the ready.
Unsomnambulist
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I have now finished the Discworld series. 
I logged the first book in 2013 at GoodReads, so it's taken me about 4 years to get through the 41 book series (reading a bunch of other books on the way).
I logged the first book in 2013 at GoodReads, so it's taken me about 4 years to get through the 41 book series (reading a bunch of other books on the way).
Unsomnambulist
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Alien Hunters by Daniel Arenson.