Comments on: Tuesday Book Club–Wake

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:19:10 +0000

Thank you Lady-S! The New Policeman looks wonderful! I definitely want to read it. And I hope the Artemis Fowl cd is as good as Skulduggery Pleasant. By the way, there is an extra track at the end of the audiobook. When the story finished this morning I didn’t want it to be over so I didn’t turn off the cd right away, and was Pleasantly surprised to hear a bonus interview with Skulduggery! Very clever.

By: Katie, Kelley's sister

Katie, Kelley's sister — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:09:50 +0000

I’m reading Rebel Angels by Libba Bray. So far it’s very good, just like A Great and Terrible Beauty.

Robin, I’ve read Here There Be Dragons and enjoyed it.

By: Jone

Jone — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:35:56 +0000

Where did Tuesday go? Anyway, I finished Incendiary by Chris Cleve. Story of a woman who loses her husband and son at a soccer match from a suicide bombing by terrorists. Grim stuff but there is dark humor and so much to discuss. I am almost through with Softwire: Virus on Orbus, which a 5th grade, picky reader boy absolutely loved.

By: Lady-S

Lady-S — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:20:03 +0000

Yay and oh dear, Michelle! I’m clueless about audiobooks, which is a shame, as I feel I ought to be able to give some good recs of Irish books. But then I thought of Kate Thompson’s The New Policeman, which I really loved - and found there is an audiobook of that, though no idea how good it is. They *should* have done something with the music, which would be brilliant. I wasn’t crazy about The Fourth Horseman, but she has done some other good books - it’s confusing because there’s another author named Kate Thompson living near Galway too, but she writes adult chick-lit.

And there’s Artemis Fowl, of course. I only read the first but a lot of people love them, and I’d imagine they might work really well as audiobooks.

It’s a pain to have such a pile of mush for a brain! Hope you don’t mind my rambling on about this, Robin.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:27:39 +0000

Yay Lady-S! I am reading Skulduggery Pleasant too! Actually I am listening to it in the car with my sons. We are really enjoying it! We are on the last cd and it is so good… I wanted to keep driving so we could finish it. I like the voices that the actor uses, and LOVE listening to his Irish accent. I’ve decided I must find more audio books by Irish authors. Any suggestions?

I also read another teen book this week, The Other Half of Me by Emily Franklin. About an artistic teenager whose father is donor #142. Before reading this book I had never thought about the possibility of finding half-siblings from the same donor. Interesting.

By: Judy

Judy — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:52:43 +0000

I just finished At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks, and am now reading SPITFIRE, a historical novel for MG by Kate Messner–it just came out. Good book!

By: Dylan

Dylan — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:39:14 +0000

Sounds really good Robin! I don’t think I’ve finished anything new but I started the second Georgia Nicolson book called “On the Bright Side, I’m Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God” Don’t let the title fool you there very good! Oh wait I did finish the 4 or 5th clique series called revenge of the boy snatures which was ok. That’s all!
Ta-Ta!

By: Lady-S

Lady-S — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:32:39 +0000

I finished Girl at Sea, and sadly, I didn’t flat-out love it as much as the other two of hers I read (Devilish and The Bermudez Triangle). Probably RL stuff getting in the way of the book.

Also read Conor Kostick’s The Book of Curses which was a lot of fun. Much younger book than I normally read, but Conor was in the middle of a whole train of downright weird ‘coincidences’ that led to a lot of things, and I’ll buy anything he writes now.

And sticking with writers living in Ireland for the moment, I’m in the middle of Skulduggery Pleasant, which is also a lot of fun. One of the jacket blurbs is by Jonathan Stroud and I saw there was another good review by Rick Riordan, which is funny as I was just thinking Percy Jackson crossed with Amulet of Samarkand, lightened maybe a degree or two. Good stuff anyway.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:35:09 +0000

I’m listening to an old Reginald Hill mystery. Best part? The villain is released from the psych unit of the prison and decides he wants to become an academic. Awesome. I’m loving it.

Molly: I really liked the Perotta too.

Heather: Yay for NaNoWriMo. I can’t wait.

Jules! You are so cute

By: Molly

Molly — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:54:18 +0000

In the middle of like, five books. The only one I’ve actually finished is The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perotta. It was really good - he is a master of characterization.

I hope I’m not the only one falling WAYYY short of 50!