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Janine The Barefoot

Janine The Barefoot

Wacky Norwegian Woman
ant-mac said:
Does anyone else on this message board actually read any of the 007 novels?
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I love the Thin Man series so much I bought the set. But I gotta admit that the book just didn't grab me at all. But if good'ole Ian did a good job writing them and they hold up well, I'd give it a shot. Yours is an opinion I'd take very seriously.

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Janine The Barefoot

Janine The Barefoot

Wacky Norwegian Woman
ant-mac said:
I turned to books for entertainment. I quickly fell in love with them and have never looked back since.
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I've started reading huge novels in grade school with a flashlight under the covers and never looked back! The stairwell of our old townhouse saw each and every tread stacked with at least 10 books because the husband and I also like to re-read the really good ones. We'd stack them as high as we could before they started falling over... vacuuming was a serious bitch!

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Janine The Barefoot

Janine The Barefoot

Wacky Norwegian Woman
ant-mac said:
What genre are the books of this series?
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The perfect segue to my current list:

Erik Larson: Historian with an incredible ability to bring it all to life. Of what he has published I've read (well crap! My brain just fell out of the back of my head and the titles of his that I've read went along for the ride... all I've got left are "partials" and/or indicators of what they were about so.... "The... and the White City.".. (about the Chicago World's Fair in 1886-7(?) and a serial killer with his own "murder house")
"Isaac's Storm" (nailed that one whole!... about the rise and fall of a Texas city back when meteorology was in it's infancy)
"In the Garden of Beasts" (looked it up... about the US Ambassador to Germany at the beginning of Hitler's rise and culminating with the night he had all of the "brown shirts" killed because even though they got him the office of "Chancellor" they were getting in the way of his agenda.

And also: Jim Butcher: Harry Dresden series which is considered "urban fantasy" a genre I love and struggle to find good authors in.
Patricia Briggs: Mercy Thompson series. Also UF
CJ Cherrye: Foreigner series. Science Fiction
John Scalzi: He's known for the "Old Man's War" series but I read everything he puts out... also SF and has won Hugo, Nebula and best new novel by a Sci-Fi author. Yes, he's that good.

All of them have new releases coming out this year and I'm rabidly fanatical about each and every one!
 
ant-mac

ant-mac

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I've just finished re-reading GOLDFINGER and now it’s time to re- read FOR YOUR EYES ONLY, a book that is comprised of the five short stories FROM A VIEW TO A KILL, FOR YOUR EYES ONLY, QUANTUM OF SOLACE, RISICO and THE HILDEBRAND RARITY.

Thankfully, the film remained fairly true to the original novel, despite one or two important differences.

“If you touch me there again you’ll have to marry me.”
 
Sunflower007

Sunflower007

Member: Rank 3
:emoji_relaxed:~Now I am currently reading Being Jazz: My Life as a Transgender Teen. Has anyone read it before?





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"Life is never what you planned
Life is moments you can't understand
And that is life

Holding to the ground
As the ground keeps shifting
Trying to keep sane
As the rules keep changing"

By: Falsettos
 
ant-mac

ant-mac

Member: Rank 9
I've finished the James Bond book, FOR YOUR EYES ONLY, which is a collection of short stories about James Bond.

FROM A VIEW TO A KILL

“Well, thanks for picking me up. When this whirl is over, can I pick you up in exchange?”

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY

“So the property is not for sale in your lifetime, Colonel. Is that your last word?”

QUANTUM OF SOLACE

“I’ve thought about this and I’ve invented a rather high-sounding title for this basic factor in Human relations. I have called it the Law of the Quantum of Solace.”

RISICO

“In this pizniss is much risico.”

THE HILDEBRAND RARITY

“My friend, that is one hell of a bloody fine ship and if Mister Krest is a grand slam redoubled in bastards, who the hell cares?”

And now for the first encounter between James Bond and SPECTRE - SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion. I refer, of course, to the novel THUNDERBALL.
 
Sunflower007

Sunflower007

Member: Rank 3
:emoji_blush:~ I already finished reading Being Jazz: My life as a transgender teen by Jazz Jennings. I liked it a lot getting her thoughts & feelings of her early years in her youth of struggling with her identity. Also her accepting family, friends & loved ones. I decided to pick this book up after watching her reality show. Jazz is such a lovely young girl. She is very sweet, beautiful inside & out, wise and understanding.:emoji_cherry_blossom:

My current read is The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes. Has anyone read this novel? This is the second book I am reading from this author. The previous novel of hers that I've read was Me Before You. That one of a really good heartfelt tale.



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"Well you may not see me when you come back
I could be sharing someone else's pillow
And my love for you is better than diamonds
To you everything I bestow"

By: Mundy
 
duzit

duzit

Member: Rank 6
I've pre-order the 4th in the series written by Julie Kagawa. It's coming in April & I can't wait to finish the series.
1 - TALON
2 - ROGUE
3 - SOLDIER
4 - LEGION


THE DRAGONS OF TALON: Once hunted nearly to extinction, they are now poised to take over the world.
THE ORDER OF ST. GEORGE: The legendary dragonslayers will stop at nothing to wipe dragons from the face of the earth. These mortal enemies are locked in secret and deadly combat, with humanity none the wiser.
 
Elessar

Elessar

Member: Rank 2
I'm currently on a Michael Crichton fever. Have read almost all of his works during a short time (except some early books which don't sound interesting to me, and which have also received mostly negative reviews). At the moment I'm on Disclosure. I don't know what to read after that. I have also started on Blindsight of Peter Watts but after quite a few page it still hasn't gripped me yet. Normally, good authors grip it within a dozen of page maxixum, no matter if they talk about science or psychology or hobbits.
 
ant-mac

ant-mac

Member: Rank 9
Elessar said:
I'm currently on a Michael Crichton fever. Have read almost all of his works during a short time (except some early books which don't sound interesting to me, and which have also received mostly negative reviews). At the moment I'm on Disclosure. I don't know what to read after that. I have also started on Blindsight of Peter Watts but after quite a few page it still hasn't gripped me yet. Normally, good authors grip it within a dozen of page maxixum, no matter if they talk about science or psychology or hobbits.
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Have you read FIVE PATIENTS?

It's an early non-fiction work by him, but an absolutely fascinating snapshot from a different era with a difference expectation on various aspects of medical practice. I found it thoroughly absorbing.
 
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