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I'm reading Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Agent." The MC in one of my novels reads that when he is twelve and hoping to someday become a spy. I had to choose a spy novel that had been published at that time (1952) and I want to know the work well enough to learn his youthful reading might have influenced his later life. It's an old writing style, but I'm really enjoying it.
 

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I recently finished Lisey's Story by Stephen King. Exhausting!

Am now about done with my first Harlan Coben novel The Woods. I like his writing style.
 

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Finished Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard (It was a short book!)

I just finished that one too. It came highly recommended to me, and I found myself really disappointed. It just felt like all set up then SUDDENLY CLIMAX! I wish it'd been longer. It just didn't feel like I got a chance to get immersed in the world it was over so quick.

I'm out of state, checked a book out on someone local's library card to read while I'm here. So I'm trying to quickly devour The Black Jewels Trilogy by Anne Bishop. All three are in the same book, but I'll probably only have time to finish the first one... if any.

I'd heard a lot about these books but had never been interested enough to pay for a copy. I like them all right. It's a pretty enjoyable but... trashy read so far. If 'trashy' is the right word. Feels like guilty pleasure reading.
 

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"Swallow" by DM Thomas
 

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Red Seas under Red Skies by Scott Lynch.

The first book(Lies of Locke Lamora) was awesome and I'm loving this one just as much. The books are about a group of thieves who con the rich(among other things.) Lynch's characters are great and he knows how to spin a story. He's quickly becoming a favorite author of mine.
 

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Loved those books! Can't wait for the next one. :D
 

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Bleak House by Charles Dickens. It's my first Dickens novel. It's going pretty well. I just wish I was a Victorian lawyer, so I could understand the jokes...
 

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Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone.

My problem is reading it WITHOUT the scenes from the movie in my mind. I'm very impressed with JK's wordsmithing aimed at young adults and can see why it and the others became so popular.

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Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever by Stephen Donaldson....

....bout half way done and it is ok. Ye Olde way of dialogue is beginning to wear thin on me. It is almost like it is a parody of the genre. Granted it was published in 1977 so it is a little understandable. But still.....
 

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I'm about to start The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

Knowing how much I loved the tenth in the series, what would I think of the first? It is most definitely not a disappointment. I might even like it better. So if I see anything of #2 through #9, I'll grab those too.

Someone on another forum asked me who I'd cast in a movie as Mme Ramotswe. I chose Shirley Hemphill, not knowing she's dead. Oh well. I hear a movie (or more) was made and the actress they chose did a great job.
 

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Just finished The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan. Needed some lighter reading. Pretty good series, though now I see why so many people were upset with the movie.

Not sure what to read next.
 

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Pirates of the Caribbean The Price of Freedom by A. C. Crispin
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
On Writing by Stephen King
 
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Just finished My Year With Eleanor by Noelle Hancock. Non-fiction about a journalist\celebrity blogger who loses her job. After realizing how lost she is without her job, and how she had lost herself in her job, she decides to follow in the footsteps of her hero, Eleanor Roosevelt. She faces a fear every day for a year. It was funny, poignant, and very relatable. Love a book that will make me cry...then 5 pages later, literally laugh out loud. Excellent book.

And keeping with my non-fic kick, I started reading Agatha Christie's Secret Notebook by John Curran. Christie is one of my all-time fave authors, so I am finding it fascinating.