I enjoyed it, fairy light reading, about the South pre-confed. days, and the present.

I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it

Anyone else conflicted over electronic vs. REAL paper books?

I am having eyestrain reading a lot of things, so am trying out the electronic version of a few books. i can change the font, it's size, the color of the "paper", and inexpensive to buy versus the hardback. Also, no additions to my bulging bookshelves. So, those are the positives.

But now I have these books, but I cannot give them to anyone, even the library as a donation. They can remain on my electronic bookshelf, or I can, poof, throw them away. Don't seem right, some way! Someone else could read them on my device, but don't have a close person to whom I would loan my I Pad for long enough time to read a book, or who would want to read my choices. So, a conflict in my values!

for mouthwash ...

Did it come out. I'd call the Fleet people and complain if it didn't. They should have said to put in xxxhole. Even if someone had read it, a lot of people don't know what a rectum is and probably thought you should stand up erectly then take by mouth.

Anyway, this probably belongs in nonfiction, but we have a cracker of a hostess and she won't mind.

We can't let things like this stand! That hostess must go!

Actually, everyone needs a good laugh occassionally....and when you find a funny in a place you don't expect it, that makes it all the more a hoot.

I am hoping that it lives up to the reputation of Kingsolver.....and the long waiting list at the library that I endured.

so far so good I think.

and have had other things to do, so I have just read the first chapter. I was having a hard time with the wording or something, and found that I had to re-read a few lines to figure out what it was saying. I expect to get more used to the writing soon as I get into the book. I read books with so many different styles that this often happens to me.

then couldn't finish the first chapter. But that's probably just me.

That first chapter was really difficult to get through. I have to get used to her writing style in this one. But I have gone further and it is not as hard now.

The writing was very evocative of the scenes and the character's mind but it almost reached the point of tedium for me, but then I suddenly found myself hooked. I'm about 3/4th through and very glad I didn't give up.

At the end of the book, I go back and read it and it makes sense. Not this book you're all talking about - any book.

The one of hers I especially liked was The Poisonwood Bible.

followed by The Lacuna. But I have not hated any of her books. Glad to hear you liked it....I am starting to warm up to it.

and Spin by Robert Charles Wilson . I really wanted a Ben Jonson omnibus, but my library didn't have one. Volpone is first up.

THis is the 5th in the Charlie Moon series, and my least favorite. It has to do with archeology and paleontology, and presents a lot of facts, and is short on the kind of homey humor and delightful insights in Doss' other books.

He's very intelligent and usually doesn't let it show, but sometimes he can't hide what he knows about mammoths, fossils and digs, and I miss the earthy language of regular characters who play a small part in this story.

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/D_Authors/Doss_James.html



Book 11 of 2013

9th in the delightful Dr. Siri series that takes place in Laos. Am only on p. 25 and am liking it already.

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/C_Authors/Cotterill_Colin.html

Book 12 of 2013

I'm reading "The Dude and the Zen Master" by Jeff Bridges & Bernie Glassman -- about how 'The Dude' - Lebowski - sort of embodies Zen characteristics and how we can apply them in our everyday lives.

I consider it fiction since Dude is a fictional character & they discuss alot of 'hypothetical' situations.

It's a pretty entertaining book, actually. Quick read.

A young woman in Glasgow, Scotland wakes up after drinking very heavily the night before and finds her married boyfriend dead in her apartment. Did she kill him in an alcoholic haze, or was someone else in her apartment? And why was the boyfriend killed? Plus, what happens to your life when the tabloids get hold of the story and the police find out about your dysfunctional family and that you've spent time in a mental hospital?

Purse book: "Before the Poison" by Peter Robinson

A recently widowed man returns to England after a successful career in America and buys a secluded house in Yorkshire. Somehow, this story is connected with that of a woman who was hanged in the 1950s for poisoning her husband, but I haven't gotten far enough to tell more.

Captain Alatriste returns. Not far enough in yet to see where it's going.

Listening: _A Dying Light in Corduba_ by Lindsey Davis. Falco and Helena Justina, now seven months pregnant, on travelling to Hispania Baetica (modern Andulusia) to investigate murder and underhanded trade. I'm learning a lot about first century Rome from this series.

Supposedly an oldie but goodie I've had on my bookshelf for a while. Opening chapter is not bad, moving along. We'll see.

Jack Reacher in the novels - 6'5" 250
Jack Reacher in the movies - Tom Cruise

by Peter Heller.

A post apocalypse novel. Almost everyone (above 99%) was killed by a flu about a decade before the novel starts, and many of the survivors have some kind of blood disease that will kill them. I'm only 50 pages in, and so far it's mainly about the loneliness of surviving.

George R.R. Martin