What books are you reading?

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I'm currently reading a lot of books, including Return of the King, Crocodile Tears, Among the Barons, and The Mysterious Island
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Woody wrote:I'm currently reading a lot of books, including Return of the King, Crocodile Tears, Among the Barons, and The Mysterious Island
How do you have so much time to read a lot of books? Are you a fast reader?
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Knight Fisher wrote:Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones. Brandon Sanderson Is amazingly annoying for a great author.
I completely agree. And the cover art is awful.
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Aftershocker wrote:
Woody wrote:I'm currently reading a lot of books, including Return of the King, Crocodile Tears, Among the Barons, and The Mysterious Island
How do you have so much time to read a lot of books? Are you a fast reader?
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It depends on the book really. If it's an awesome book, like Alex Rider, I finish it in two days. If it's a slow-moving, somewhat boring book(*coughLOTRcough*), it takes me like a month. >_>
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Alex Rider is awesome, I even liked the movie. I have read the series honestly 5 times. Not specifically read any books but this last week at work (@ a library) I found some interesting books that I don't remember the titles of that were pretty good.
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I'm reading a book called The Distant Beacon by Janette Oke.
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I'm reading Terrorist Hunter by Anonymous. She investigated radical Muslims in the US before 9/11. It's really fascinating and scary to read how many signs we missed during the '90s till 2001, partly from complacency and partly from agencies not sharing information with each other.
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Stop Wooton' Around wrote:Alex Rider is awesome, I even liked the movie. I have read the series honestly 5 times.
YES. They have made their way into my top 5 series. I'm currently working on Book 8. OH! Did you hear he's writing another one about Yassen Gregorovich?

My biggest complaint about the movie was:
His name is HEROD Sayle, not Darius Sayle! >_>
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I'm also reading 1984 by Orwell.
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Woody, I know what you mean about LOTR. I love Middle earth history but it was a struggle to get through LOTR. My favorite book from Tolkien is The Children of Hurin. Have you read that yet? It's a faster paced book that doesn't get bogged down with detail.

Oh, right now I'm reading The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien and my Batman comics.
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I just read They Call Me Mother Graham. It's a shorter book, but I loved it!
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WindowWasher wrote:Woody, I know what you mean about LOTR. I love Middle earth history but it was a struggle to get through LOTR.
I read LOTR in 2 weeks. :)
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This week I read:
Sunday-Monday
Between Shades of Gray-Great Soviet Union Historical fiction
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday
The first 39 Clues series(I had to read it so I could explain to kids at the library what it was about when I help them find books..)
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The Fault in Our Stars By John Green, pretty good..
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Mozart's Ghost, Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Book Store, In the Garden of Beasts, and Anna Karenina
All in between snippets of reading On the run with my sister ;)
As you can see I haven't done much in my spare time this week \:D/
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Graces4you wrote: The first 39 Clues series(I had to read it so I could explain to kids at the library what it was about when I help them find books..)
Ooh, that's second on my list of favorite series! ^_^ What did you think?
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Woody wrote:
Graces4you wrote: The first 39 Clues series(I had to read it so I could explain to kids at the library what it was about when I help them find books..)
Ooh, that's second on my list of favorite series! ^_^ What did you think?
It was rather predictable, but not too bad!
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Graces4you wrote:
Woody wrote:
Graces4you wrote: The first 39 Clues series(I had to read it so I could explain to kids at the library what it was about when I help them find books..)
Ooh, that's second on my list of favorite series! ^_^ What did you think?
It was rather predictable, but not too bad!
Predictable!?!!? You call the man in black being
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And how about
Jonah Wizard bweing a Shakespeare fan?
How can you call it predictable!?!?
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I got some new books yesterday. \:D/

First would be all three books in the Mysteries in Middlefield collection. And then I got Taken, by Brock Eastman. \:D/

I'm currently in the middle of book one in the first of the MiM series. :yes:
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I finished On Distant Shores by Sarah Sundin, it was excellent. Up next for me is Love Still Stands by Kelly Irvin. It is the first book in her The New Hope Amish series/trilogy. Ms. Irvin is one of my favorite authors so I'm looking forward to reading this one.
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I'm currently reading "Deadline" by Randy Alcorn. :) He's quite an author.
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