Southern Spirit Hunters
Beyond The Spirits => Hobbies => Topic started by: duh on Mar 12, 2012, 12:23:39 PM
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A new volume...woopie!
I can really prove that I'm not the brightest bulb in the box from time to time.
I've been over on ravelry a lot lately. And I just finished one project and wanted to move on to the next one I wanted to do. Well I'm not having any luck reading the patterns that I like. So I keep looking for new patterns on the site that I will have better luck understanding. Well I went backwards. First I couldn't find the pattern anywhere. Then after getting help with that the pattern cost way to much because it is in a book and I don't like any of the other patterns in the book. So here I am whining and a person posts why don't you request it from your library. Great idea right? Now, why didn't I think of that?
So I went to the library site online and ordered it. Easy Piesy.
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the library doesn't have anywhere inside my system or out that book. It is one that they evidently can't buy. Needless to say I didn't understand the explanation I got. No real suprise there. I don't understand much about libraries that isn't me going in getting a book and checking it out and then bringing it back. After that it's all greek.
The last policy they put into place is that I can only have 3 books on order that are ILL's. So today I put 3 orders in. They are the first 3 books in the retrieval artist series. I've got my fingers crossed that I will like them. They are by an author that I have read in another series. This is going to cost me 3 bucks so I hope it is worth it. (just kidding).
With it comming into gardening season I don't expect that anyone else is reading much.
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My library can't get books like they used too and for a lot of the books I want to read they only have 1 copy which always seems to be checked out.
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Yeah this ILL program is going to be better for the libraries not necessarially the patrons.
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Not sure what an ILL program is.
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Not sure what an ILL program is.
inter-library loan. some libraries are part of a bigger system (gallileo is one of them) that makes it where you can order books from other libraries in the district/state/region, or maybe from a school/university system. we have 2 in this areal. gallileo and pines. my library uses gallileo and another library i use once in a while (next county over) uses pines. and most state universities have some kind of policy where you can borrow a book from another state university campus in the same state.
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Ah, thank you. I have lived it but didn't have a name for it.
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Finished Jupiter, saw Harriet so I went to the Book Club. They welcomed me back wasn't that nice? I hadn't read the book but I enjoyed the meeting because it seemed like they enjoyed the book. At the end we talked about other things we had read and I told them about my experience with Jupiter by Ben Bova. I'm hoping someone else reads it and explains it to me.
I've started on the rest of the Honor Harrington series. I'm several books behind (yipee) they are a light fun sci-fi read. About the only "War" sci-fi that I will read willingly. I also have an Anne Perry that I don't think I have read and the final John Dunning "Bookman" Book So I have a lot of reading to do. Which I don't mind at all.
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"The Book Thief" why do i do this to myself? I know why I want to belong to groups and have fun with them. It's just that I don't fit. And this book is a primary example. I'm on page 20 and I feel like I'm being tortured. Of course I read the prolog which didn't help at all.
Why if they wanted to read a book written from Death's point of view didn't the read, "On a Pale Horse" now that was a good book. Part of the immortal series written by Piers Anthony and much superior to this one.
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Maybe next time you'll like the book. Happens to me once in a while with my club too. Plus you may get a totally different perspective when people start discussing it.
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This has been going on for more than a year. They have yet to discuss a book worth the time to read it in my opinion.
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i have discovered a new sub-genre of books that i am really liking. it is mystery books that have either a ghost, spirit, or angel "helping" the main character, or the main character helping them.
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I've read some of those. In both cases the series petered out rather quickly. I hope you have better success.
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there are 2 series we've talked about that lasted a while. aunt dimity and augusta goodnight. but you are right, so far they have been short. i keep hoping though.
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yep those are the two I have read.
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duh, from where do the suggestions for books come? We come up with our own list. We all put in our suggestions so at least I know I'll enjoy one of the books. We have people of all ages and different countries in our group and I like hearing the different perspectives on the same story. My favorite is true stories, biographies, and autobios.
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they are off of a list on goodreads as long as our library system has enough books to go around.
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I'm reading Bossypants by Tina Fey and it is pretty good!
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they are off of a list on goodreads as long as our library system has enough books to go around.
I'm on Goodreads too.
I feel your pain though. This month we're reading The Paris Wife. I read maybe 60 pages and returned it to the library today. I could NOT get into it. All the reviews are great. It is after all about Ernest Hemingway but it was so slow and boring to me I couldn't force myself to finish it. I think I'll read Proverbs again for my month.
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I had to look up Bossypants. It sounds like a weekly reader book from a fifth grader. It actually looks pretty good.
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Yeppers that reminds me of my next chore. I wondered if we couldn't choose one book for each gendre. Now I have to come up with the gendres for her. I'm off to do it.
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I love payday. I've swapped 4 books off of the paperbackswap website. Now I have two credits to play with. Now I only have 14 books left of my to be bought list. Of course that doesn't include my wishlist with 36 books on it lol. Alittle bit each month makes it so exciting.
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Is this (http://www.paperbackswap.com/index.php) the site you use, Tammy? Sounds like a win-win situation for the avid reader. I am going to check it out... :grinnnn:
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That's the one Dianna. This month I ordered the last of the Starbridge Series by A. C. Crispin. Loved those when I read them the first time and look forward to reading them again.
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Have you tried half.com (http://www.half.ebay.com/) Tammy? Jim gets a lot of our books from there. :grinnnn: Seems like they are competitive in the prices...
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I'm buying hardback books that I want to keep. Hard to beat the 3.79 per book for those.
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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.
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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.
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That's a pretty good deal then.
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my girls use half dot come to get text books when they can.
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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?
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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.
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pd james is a great author but she is very graphic. i have trouble with very graphic novels. especially her kind of graphic.
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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.
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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.
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here you go tammy: or not. let me try again.
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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 (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)
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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i think i've read that one! if i remember correctly, it was a good book.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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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I got a great cookbook the other day. It's called, "Best Recipes from the backs of Boxes, Bottles, Cans and Jars," by Ceil Dyer. It had the Libby's Pumpkin Pie recipe in it although it doesn't have the Jiffy Marshmellow Creme Fudge recipe. Both of those are big winners in my house. I can't wait to try the others and see how they stack up.
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Sheri, I've joined GoodReads. I don't know how you will find me unless it is by my email account, but find me! I am finding I have read a LOT of books!
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I've added you. I did have to use your email.
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Yeah I have an account there as well. My reference librarian recommended it. It's just not my kind of thing. Who would have thought huh?
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My book club is going to read Slaughterhouse 5 for December. I'm not sure I'm going to like this one. I always enjoy the discussions though.
Jenn, after reading your book choice list on GoodReads I feel like I should warn Scott that he needs to hide the guns, knives, and bob and weave when you're around.
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My book club is going to read Slaughterhouse 5 for December. I'm not sure I'm going to like this one. I always enjoy the discussions though.
Jenn, after reading your book choice list on GoodReads I feel like I should warn Scott that he needs to hide the guns, knives, and bob and weave when you're around.
:giggle: i haven't put all my books in there yet. I do have some that are not quite like that... and, he knows I'm a better shot than he is, I can sharpen a knife better than he can, and I have lots of cast iron around :giggle: I have read a couple lately that I forgot to put on there. I'll get them there in the next few days though. I read a lot. And fast.
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I reread so my list isn't all that long.
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Dianna found an app for the iPhone for Goodreads but I'm not sure she has done anything with it. Looks like it has lots of good info. I carry a list of the books that we don't have that are by my favorite authors so when we go to yard sales or thrift stores we don't buy duplicates.
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That is a very smart idea. I try to do something like that but it never works. I have duplicates everywhere. I put them on my virtual bookshelf at paperbackswap.com
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Jim, I have the phone app too but I've never used it. Let us know what Dianna finds out about it por favor.
My mom keeps a list of everything she's read so she doesn't buy or check out the same book again unless it's planned. I'm not a person who re-reads, even classics, unless it's for my book club so I don't keep a list. I have a friend who keeps a list because it's important for her to remember authors but that's not important to me either.
duh, at one point we had so many books I sold some of them on Amazon. It was a good choice for me since I don't re-read. I know you love your books but if you have two maybe you could sell a few.
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We still have some duplicates as Dianna doesn't carry a list. We need to go through them and get rid of the ones that we have duplicates. She likes to keep the hardback books if we have paperback and hardback. I think we have 4 of the 5-shelf bookcases completely full. Books are doubled up if they are paperbacks too.
I have bought and sold some books on half.com before.
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I swap rather than sell but it probably comes out the same. I do that two if one is paperback and one is hardback I will swap the paperback.
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i quit buying books except from the library a few years ago. then i banned the family from buying them for me. now i don't even buy them from the library. because... i can read 300-500 pages at a time. for a book to take longer than 2-3 days is rare, and what is more common is for me to read 2-3 books in a day or two. i do keep a list of authors i like, so i can check for new releases or books from their back list that i might have missed. a lot of popular authors go through a couple of publishers, so may have other books that are not as visible. i also usually have 2 or 3 books in progress at the same time. one in paper form, and one or two on my phone which doubles as an e-reader.
i love reading, can you tell? i have bought text books from half.com and amazon, but not novels.
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So your going paperless? I worry about technology changing and ending up loosing everything on electronic do-hickys. That has happened so many times with computers that I have a paper back up of everything. I no longer expect integrity from companies.
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I have a Kindle that I use some times but for some reason I just love having a real book, especially if it's checked out from the library. I'm old fashioned I guess and (getting off topic again) another thing I can't get used to is cyber church. I like actually going to a church rather than streaming it like my nieces do.
I've started Stuart, A Life Backwards. So far so good.
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So your going paperless? I worry about technology changing and ending up loosing everything on electronic do-hickys. That has happened so many times with computers that I have a paper back up of everything. I no longer expect integrity from companies.
I have a Kindle that I use some times but for some reason I just love having a real book, especially if it's checked out from the library. I'm old fashioned I guess and (getting off topic again) another thing I can't get used to is cyber church. I like actually going to a church rather than streaming it like my nieces do.
I've started Stuart, A Life Backwards. So far so good.
no tammy, i am not going paperless. i just check out books from the library or read what i am given. plus what i download from the library on my phone. i don't do a lot of re-reading so that works for me. i am like sheri though, i love the feel of a real book, especially from the library.
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I guess I worry about when the public librarys will be shut down. I have a rather pesimistic view of our world in general.
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I know what you mean about the libraries duh. They've already made a few Super Libraries around here, which everyone hates. My library is barely open anymore. The hours are so weird. It was closed a week for Thanksgiving.
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our libraries have weird hours, till you figure out their system. which is at least one branch in each county in the system being open at least one night until 8 pm each week. most branches are open until 8 pm at least one night a week. the smaller branches are only open 4 days a week, or have shorter hours for more days. only the 3 biggest branches (the main and one at each mall) is open on sundays. i can deal with that. and if they go the way of the model t, then i'll hit yard sales, thrift stores, and beg or borrow. till then, i am going to do my best to keep them in business.
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Our libraries have very condensed hours and days due to budget cuts. It is sad. In a city of over 210,000 people, I am glad it is a county library system. The city is going through bankruptcy.
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Wow, I've heard a lot of citys and even states are going bankrupt. That's a sad commentary isn't it?
Has anyone read any of Lisa Kleypas' books. I jus finished one and got four more of hers at the library. I am hoping they will keep me entertained through christmas.
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I haven't read any of Lisa's books duh. You'll have to let us know..... I've got to start Slaughterhouse-five. I can't seem to make myself do that.
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I haven't read any of Lisa's books duh. You'll have to let us know..... I've got to start Slaughterhouse-five. I can't seem to make myself do that.
that just does not sound like what i want to read.
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I don't remember what Slaughterhouse-five is about. I know I read it in school.
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I started Slaughterhouse and I already don't like it. I'm going to try and muddle through because I know belonging to a club means I can't always get my way. I hate when that happens.
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i just finished "the 13th target" by mark de castrique. i've read most of his other books, on e-books from the library, this is the first hard copy i've read. i sat down with it and ended up reading it cover to cover. very gripping story. i like that it was mostly family friendly too. wouldn't be rated worse than pg 13 if it were a movie. but the plot was interesting and entirely too close to real life. it is a mystery if you want to read it. i've liked all his other work too, if you decide you want to look at them.
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I may look into it. Thanks for the review.
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i thought about it after i wrote the review (much later) and it does have a "conspiracy" type theme to it, but it is set in the here and now and i did enjoy it very much.
i started water for elephants because it has gotten such good reviews and i turned it back in. i just couldn't get past the second chapter. i don't do slow starts well.
right now i am working on patricia sprinkle's "thoroughly southern" series. mysteries, but fun and funny. i read 4 of them as e books and got the rest from the library as real books.
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Water for Elephants gets really good Jennifer. I listened to it on tape going to Ginger's so maybe that made a difference but everyone in my book club liked it.
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i might try it again later. it is available all the time on e-books from my library, so it is just a matter of being between "good" reading. or in a different frame of mind.
one author of mysteries that i really enjoyed reading was c.j.box. but my frame of mind shifted and i've decided that i am not going finish his series. i will at a later date, just not right now. right now, i want light, airy, and fun.
has anyone read any of mitch albom's books?
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The names not familar, what does he write?
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I've read Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch and liked it. My club read Five People You Meet in Heaven but I can't remember it so it must not have made an impression.
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Five people was not as good as Tuesdays. I think the other one is "One More Day" but I am not sure. I will look. I think I liked it better than Five People.
CJ Box writes mysteries, about a forest ranger in I think Wyoming.
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I will not recommend Slaughterhouse-five and it's nothing I will ever read again. It's supposed to be a great anti-war book but I'm telling you if I hadn't known that going in I would have thought it was ramblings from the mind of a schizophrenic. It was difficult for me to tell what time warp I was in.
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i'm sorry you didn't like it. that is why i don't join a book club. i've decided life is too short to read things i don't enjoy. (except the news, and i do as little of that as i can.)
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I'm with you Jenn absolutely. If I were Methusela life would still be to short.
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I'm the opposite. I don't enjoy reading stuff I don't like but I like hearing what others think about it. Sometimes it makes me think I've read the wrong book. Oral History is one. We read it for our book club and a friend and I just hated it, could barely get through it. During the discussion at the club we looked at each other in amazement because a few of the others had gotten things from that book that neither of us had seen. Made us both want to read it again.
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Yes I've had that feeling at the book club I attended but when I went back to the book it was still the lousy book that I read the first time. So that doesn't work for me.
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hahahaha
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A few of the people said that while they didn't enjoy reading Slaughterhouse Five it made them think. After hearing their thoughts I wish I had thought about it a little more.
Our next book is Too Far From the Falls; a Memoir. So far so good.
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I "I.L.L.'ed" a book about kimonos down through the years. Taking this one back to the library is going to be hard. I want to keep it the photography is gorgeous and so are most of the kimonos.
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At least you can check it out again sometime duh.
I finished Too Far From the Falls and it was great. Can't wait to discuss it.
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That's great. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
As far as checking out the kimono book again probably not. ILL's cost money because they come from libraries not in our local area. But I did put it on my wishlist at paperbackswap.com. I doubt it will every come up for swap but if I have a windfall maybe I can get a used copy at amazon.
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I checked out, "The Knitter's Book of Yarn," by Clara Parkes. Great reference book. I plan to put it on my wish list too.
I'm reading "The Surgeon," by Tess Gerritsen. It's her first in the Rizzoli Ingles series and I'm hating it. I can't wait to get farther along in the series because I know that "Last To Die," the last book in the series was very good.
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tammy, i didn't like the surgeon either. the books in that series are either very good or very bad. i haven't found much in between. and i've read nearly all of them now.
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I just finished a book written by an NC author using Asheville and Sylva for the location. My sister lives in both places. It was pretty good. A Land More Kind than Home by Wiley Cash.
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Jenn you'll have to tell me which ones were good and which ones weren't so I don't get way into one and have to finish even if it is deadly.
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sheri, speaking of books set in north carolina, have you read the series that are set there, the main character is judge deborah knott? mostly it is in the middle of the state, in the hill country, but she travels all over as she is a circuit court judge that fills in where she is needed. it is a very good series, easy to read, and thought provoking. i'm drawing a blank on the name of the author right now, but the first book in the series is "bootlegger's daughter".
tammy, i've read them out of sequence, but i'll go back and look when i'm at work on monday and see what i can figure out for you.
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The author's name is Margaret Maron for "The Bootlegger's Daughter". Just a googling here... :wink5:
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I haven't Jenn but I'll look into those. Thanks.