tinlizzie
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Thanks for the titles and thumbnails. All sound good - they're added to my list.
Just wondering ... what is everyone reading now?
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Thanks for the titles and thumbnails. All sound good - they're added to my list.
Blood Line, by James Rollins...another Sigma story. These books are addicting.
Greg Who Cooks
Executive Chef
TYVM! I've read them all to date and I hadn't realized he had published a new one. I've just reserved a copy at my local public library. From past experience (# copies, my # in the hold queue) I should see it in about a month.
They are addicting!
It just came out last week. Or the week before...my brain is fried...
Greg Who Cooks
Executive Chef
Just checked, June 26. I'm surprised I wasn't #100 in the queue since his books are very popular. My library buys many copies of all the best selling authors and the queues are often 300-400. I periodically research all my favorite authors and note new publications coming out, then check my library on a daily basis until they've added that book pre-publication, and reserve my copy. Best I've done is #2 but I'm often in the top 10 in the queue, assuring me of a copy the first day the book is released. (Actually a few days later because it takes them a few days to get all the right books to the right branches. In the case of the Rollins novel they've got about 40 copies and they're all checked out, but as soon as those 40 people have returned their books I'll get mine.
In fact I just noticed that Line of Fire by Stephen White is being released today. I'm in the top 10 in the queue and they bought about 25 copies, so I'll have my hands on my copy probably by the weekend. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if my local branch has a copy that they're shipping cross town on the bookmobile, and somewhere cross town they're preparing to ship my copy to my local library. They do stuff like that. I reserved one of the Tad Williams Shadowmarch volumes and they sent it from downtown, but 4-5 days later I had finished the previous volume and noted that my second closest branch had a copy not checked out, so I just drove over and got it. Then when the reserved copy reached my local branch I told them to send it back...
I'm waiting for The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling - Sept. 27 publication date. I'm around #80 and I'm pretty sure they'll be buying more than 80 copies. In some cases they buy hundreds of copies. Like they've got almost 200 copies of Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
In fact I just noticed that Line of Fire by Stephen White is being released today. I'm in the top 10 in the queue and they bought about 25 copies, so I'll have my hands on my copy probably by the weekend. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if my local branch has a copy that they're shipping cross town on the bookmobile, and somewhere cross town they're preparing to ship my copy to my local library. They do stuff like that. I reserved one of the Tad Williams Shadowmarch volumes and they sent it from downtown, but 4-5 days later I had finished the previous volume and noted that my second closest branch had a copy not checked out, so I just drove over and got it. Then when the reserved copy reached my local branch I told them to send it back...
I'm waiting for The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling - Sept. 27 publication date. I'm around #80 and I'm pretty sure they'll be buying more than 80 copies. In some cases they buy hundreds of copies. Like they've got almost 200 copies of Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
Told you my brain was fried...I spent all last week doing Data Entry...not something I am comfortable with and it was exhausting. So basically I lost a week, but it was all physician's orders and had to be entered by nurses and I am one of the most comfortable with a computer. We go live with Electronic Medication Administration on Thursday...
Margi Cintrano
Washing Up
Non Fiction: Cracco - Italian Chef & Restaurateur
Whenever, I have the opportunity, I like to practice reading my Italian, and thus, my fave subject, gastronomy ...
Cracco, is on the top 10 List from the World´s Best List from London Restaurant Magazine Awards.
Very fascinating ...
Margaux.
Whenever, I have the opportunity, I like to practice reading my Italian, and thus, my fave subject, gastronomy ...
Cracco, is on the top 10 List from the World´s Best List from London Restaurant Magazine Awards.
Very fascinating ...
Margaux.
SharonT
Sous Chef
tinlizzie - You're welcome!
tinlizzie
Head Chef
Just finished The Penny-Pinchers' Club by Sarah Strohmeyer. I thought it would be full of tips to try, and it was. But mostly it was about d-i-v-o-r-c-e. Pretty good read. I'll try her again. Meanwhile, back to the wars with the White Company.
JoAnn L.
Master Chef
Went to the library today and got Agatha Christies, Miss Marple- The Complete Short Stories. Love her books, movies and all of the TV series.
Claire
Master Chef
Doesn't have much to do with literature, but this reminds me the time I worked for the Entomology Department of the Bishop Museum. For most of my life, up to that point, I'd worked for the military, and people gave me grief about the abbreviations, acronyms, etc. Well, I since learned that just about every place has them. Medical-ese can be like a foreign language. But Entomology was unusual in that I was typing documents in foreign languages that no one in my office knew! Most often it was German, which I know maybe 25 words of (lived there as a child), which had my coworkers beat (I think they knew Danke Schoen but only because of the song!). So it took three of us to proof read the darned things. I almost went blind doing the job (literally).
Claire
Master Chef
Right now I'm most involved in Craig Johnson's As the Crow Flies. I loved Tony Hillerman, so am enjoying this. There are also 2 or three other books lying around that I'm reading in bits and spurts. I recently finished Apron Anxiety by Alyssa Shelasky. I usually like food-and-cooking based memoirs but didn't really like this one.
Greg Who Cooks
Executive Chef
I'm trying to figure this out. I really liked the Tony Hillerman novels, partly because I've camped so much in the area his novels are set in.
I looked up Craig Johnson's As the Crow Flies on Amazon and the review seemingly has no relationship to Hillerman's novels. I presume the two comments quoted above were just separate thoughts?
I'm in between novels but I have a copy of the latest James Rollins Sigma Force novel Bloodline waiting at my local library for pick up (which I'll do tomorrow). Rollins isn't my favorite author but I've found all his Sigma novels enjoyable and well worth reading.
simonbaker
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Fifty shades of grey.
jabbur
Master Chef
I'm reading "Those who Save us" by Jenna Blum. It's about a mother and daughter at the end of the mother's life. The two of them survived in Weimar Germany during the War but it has affected their relationship. It tells the mother's story of living in war-torn Germany (she is not Jewish so you get "the other side of the story") as well as their relationship now from the daughter's viewpoint. Very gripping.
Somebunny
Executive Chef
"50 Shades of Grey", just because......
Dawgluver
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Somebunny said:
All right. All my friends and colleagues have been raving about it, may have to give it a go.
Got a big kick out of the SNL parody....
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"How To Survive The End of The World As We Know It" by James Wesley, Rawles and
"Subterranean" by James Rollins.
"Subterranean" by James Rollins.
Somebunny
Executive Chef
Dawgluver said:
I didn't see the SNL parody. Dang, I bet it was hilarious. Maybe I can find it somewhere on the net. ;-)
