Author Topic: Book Review Corner Vol. 6 (Read 18722 times)

duh · « **Reply #25 on:** Jul 09, 2012, 07:37:48 AM »

I'm buying hardback books that I want to keep. Hard to beat the 3.79 per book for those.

Jim · « **Reply #26 on:** Jul 09, 2012, 08:38:02 PM »

Does that include shipping? I'm getting new hardback books for .75 on half.com. Of course you have to pay shipping via Media Mail that runs about 3.99 so total cost is 4.74 shipped to the front door.

duh · « **Reply #27 on:** Jul 10, 2012, 07:44:18 AM »

3.79 includes shipping because shipping is all you pay. Either that or you ship one of your books to a member that wants it and get a credit that way.

Jim · « **Reply #28 on:** Jul 10, 2012, 10:22:11 AM »

That's a pretty good deal then.

bayou girl · « **Reply #29 on:** Jul 10, 2012, 02:24:09 PM »

my girls use half dot come to get text books when they can.

duh · « **Reply #30 on:** Jul 11, 2012, 10:13:54 PM »

It sounds like a nice place. The books i can't get a paperbackswap I may look for at half dot. It's always nice to have a backup yes?

bestofour · « **Reply #31 on:** Aug 15, 2012, 06:46:07 PM »

Save yourself the trouble of reading Death Comes to Pemberly by P.D. James. No one at my club liked it. It was a best seller for a long while but even the reviews are bad. Guess people bought it because of the author.

bayou girl · « **Reply #32 on:** Aug 15, 2012, 09:56:19 PM »

pd james is a great author but she is very graphic. i have trouble with very graphic novels. especially her kind of graphic.

bayou girl · « **Reply #33 on:** Aug 15, 2012, 10:26:37 PM »

i forgot. i am going to be reading "heaven is real" as soon as i finish the book i am on. if anyone wants to read it after me, i will be looking for a home for it. just let me know and i'll mail it when i'm done.

duh · « **Reply #34 on:** Aug 16, 2012, 03:05:18 PM »

What is it about. Can you link to a review?

I got a call from Beth the I.L.L. coordination at the head library. I'd confused the author on one of my request. The author is for another book that is on my to be ordered list. We can only have three in the system at one time. Which is always confusing for me. Especially since there is no way to know how many books will come in and when.

Right now I'm trying to get one on the Minoans and one that is supposedly a list of all the best books on every known subject according to the experts. I bet you I never agree with them lol.

I'm currently reading the Sector General Hospital series (Science Fiction) and the Starbridge series (again Science Fiction) They are both rereads.

Currently my book club is reading Sheen on the Silk by Anne Perry. It's much different and I think better than her other works. We'll see what the group thinks on friday.

I have several dozen on my list but they all have to be gotten from different librarys so I'm glad I'm building my personal library so I have stuff to read while I'm waiting.

bayou girl · « **Reply #35 on:** Aug 16, 2012, 10:02:43 PM »

here you go tammy: or not. let me try again.

bayou girl · « **Reply #36 on:** Aug 16, 2012, 10:35:16 PM »

ok tammy, lets try this again.
http://www.amazon.com/Heaven-Real-Little-Astounding-Story/dp/0849946158/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345170855&sr=8-1&keywords=heaven+is+real

bestofour · « **Reply #37 on:** Aug 20, 2012, 08:57:08 PM »

Quote from: bayou girl on Aug 15, 2012, 09:56:19 PM

pd james is a great author but she is very graphic. i have trouble with very graphic novels. especially her kind of graphic.

This one isn't graphic. It's boring.

We're reading Prayers for Owen Meany now and so far it's really good. Wish we all lived close enough to do a book club.

duh · « **Reply #38 on:** Aug 28, 2012, 08:21:25 AM »

Wild Child all we would have to do is agree to meet in the chat room at the same time and we could have a book club.

Thanks for the link Jenn.

The Minoan book and the reader's companion each came in. Every subject is a big exaggeration in my opinion on the reader's companion.

duh · « **Reply #39 on:** Sep 23, 2012, 08:58:26 PM »

Jenn that sounds like a terrific book. Maybe my book club would like to read it.
Finished the Minoan book and skimmed the readerr's companion. It wasn't exactly what I was looking for.

Currently I have two books on the I.L.L. that are both on illuminated script but they are reference works and no one wants to let go of them. Can't say I blame them but the copies on Google Books load so slow and don't seem to have the illustrations with them so that is useless for me. I'd like to buy them but only if I know they are what I want. Does that make sense?

The Book Club is reading Water for Elephants. It's very well written just not the story I am particularly interested in. I have to say that my reading taste is limited. There is so much that I don't care for. Who knew I was so picky?

duh · « **Reply #40 on:** Sep 28, 2012, 08:54:16 AM »

Well I never...and I still haven't. One of the reference books was found but they want between 15 and 30 dollars to loan it out. I can't bring myself to spend that kind of money. I think I can buy it print of demand for that price but I've heard bad things about the print on demand books. So I'm still thinking about it. I have it on my wishlist at paperbackswap.com but it doesn't sound like a book that will get to that website. Ah, well it's not like there are not other books that I want.

In fact I have two being shipped to me now. They are the two books to finish an Elizabeth Lowell Trilogy. Enchanted and Betrayed. I already have the third one so this will complete the set if nothing goes wrong in shipping.

bayou girl · « **Reply #41 on:** Sep 30, 2012, 08:46:26 PM »

so scott decided to read heaven is real before i send it on. but while i was out and about, (in atlanta) a friend gave me a couple of books by mitch albom. he's the guy who wrote "tuesdays with morrie". i finished one already, it is called "the five people you meet in heaven". it is a good story for the most part. bits are a bit melancholy but overall it wraps up and ends satisfactorily. i don't know what the other one is, i have 2 bags of library books i need to read and turn in before i start it.

duh · « **Reply #42 on:** Oct 06, 2012, 03:41:13 PM »

I finished Second Glance by Jodi Picoult. If I ever meet the author I'll have a hard time deciding whether I should just slap them or ask them why they bothered to write it if they were going to end it that way. Talk about the waste of a reading experience.

This is an author who can write a story. But the ending was in my humble opinion a cop-out.

duh · « **Reply #43 on:** Nov 15, 2012, 08:31:34 AM »

Found a good author. He isn't new but I love his sense of humor and writing style and the twists and turns in his mysteries were fun. Thoroughly enjoyable read. Lawrence Block, "The Burglar that traded Tad Williams."

It was so nice to read something enjoyable that was new to me. He writes very much like Janeway in the Bookman series.

bayou girl · « **Reply #44 on:** Nov 15, 2012, 11:53:13 AM »

i think i've read that one! if i remember correctly, it was a good book.

duh · « **Reply #45 on:** Nov 16, 2012, 07:52:07 AM »

Ok, repeat after me, "I don't need to buy anymore cookbooks after the two I have on the request list." If I say this often enough maybe I'll have room in my library for something else lol. The only thing I have more of are arts and crafts books. Are you sensing a theme here?

I just ordered the one that is about all the recipes that are found on jars, cans, boxes, ect. Those recipes have a vested interest in being outstanding since they sell the product. I've always had good results with the ones I've tried. So when there was a thread about the recipes in the book over on paperbackswap I just had too order it. Then there is The New York Times Cookbook. Now who could pass that up? I did check it out at the library first. Great appetizer section so I got it.

I'm halfway through The Burglar in the Closet. And again it's a good read. It looks like there are a bunch of books in this series and then he has other series so I could be following him for awhile.

Jim · « **Reply #46 on:** Nov 16, 2012, 09:46:45 AM »

I normally read crime dramas by John Sanford, James Patterson, Tami Hoag, Karin Slaughter or Patricia Cornwell. Dianna got me to read one by Sandra Brown that is pretty good too. I've read a few by Greg Isles that are pretty good too.

duh · « **Reply #47 on:** Nov 16, 2012, 01:06:22 PM »

The thing about Sandra Brown is that each book seems to be written by an entirely different author. That's just my take on it after reading a few.

bayou girl · « **Reply #48 on:** Nov 16, 2012, 05:13:40 PM »

i haven't read sandra brown. but the others jim mentioned, the reading is too "heavy" and realistic for me. especially patricial cornwell. she writes very well, and these days my imagination is good enough. kind of like dick francis and john macdonald. good writers, but then i don't sleep at night!

Jim · « **Reply #49 on:** Nov 17, 2012, 03:43:23 AM »

The most recent ones that I have read by Patricia Cornwell were so "deep" that it was easy to lose track of what was going on. Scarpetta was not good at all but the one after it called Red Mist was more like some of the first in the Scarpetta series.

The Sandra Brown one I am reading now is Lethal. It's the first that I have read by her.

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