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Tesseracts 10 anthology from Edge Publishing in Calgary for in-between-novels now and The Alien Factor by Stan Lee and Stan Timmons from iBooks (which so far, about a quarter into the story is fairly smooth and enjoyable reading).

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Thanks, but I don't need any help getting into trouble since I seem to manage quite well on my own.

I've not read anything out of T10  yet... good incentive to start! I'll let you know as I finish stories.

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Finished Tim lebbon's Everlasting last night. Good enough, but not one of his stronger works. It tread a course between horror and a contemporary fantasy and wasn't strong enough as either. Tim's writing is always a pleasure to read as his style is clear and uncluttered, but this plot felt a bit stretched, especially as the story was told only from one side of events. ( I can't be more precise without spoilers) Had Tim given us a second viewpoint character, I think the story would have had a much stronger creepy, other worldly feel and been a more memorable tale. As it stands, it was fun read that won't have a long standing impact on me.

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Began the late Richard Laymon's One Rainy Night on Thursday night. I'm on a horror binge at the moment it seems.

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well, i broke down and got a hardcover copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (could not wait until november for the cheaper paperback edition). so now i am reading one chapter a day to stretch it out through to mid-october. tomorrow (sept. 13) is "The Ghoul in Pyjamas" chapter.

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Thanks, but I don't need any help getting into trouble since I seem to manage quite well on my own.

Finished Smoke and Mirrors by Tanya Huff, found it a good read. The 70's movie thread, got me digging out a couple of books. I have started re-reading Big Wednesday by Dennis Aaberg & John Milius. I'm not sure if the novel was written before, same time or after their screenplay by the same name. Three buddies growing up/maturing through the 60's/early 70's, facing the changing times as they grow from their late teens to late 20's/early 30's, their love of surfing being the one thing that bonds them together. They return to prove they are still "Kings of the Waves" on one special day.

"A day will come that is like no other - a day with a wave that is so big - so grand an event of nature that it cleans everything that went before it. And nothing that happens will ever be the same."

"It'll come again - here - and it'll be a day like no other, a day when you can draw the line." - Bear 

 

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"... The night was filled with magic as they bid the sea goodbye. They swam into the heavens-they stayed up in the sky and all the island people when they wish upon a star, see the Dolphin and the Jolly Mon, who tell them where they are..." - Jimmy Buffett

greggC:

well, i broke down and got a hardcover copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (could not wait until november for the cheaper paperback edition). so now i am reading one chapter a day to stretch it out through to mid-october. tomorrow (sept. 13) is "The Ghoul in Pyjamas" chapter.

 

I have a cute story to tell... and a fun way to bring up a bit of trouble in my family right now. My mom's been  'off' all Summer; Al and I went to see her on Monday and planned to take her to the Doctor. We didn't get there... turns out she'd been passing bloody stools and so I just called 911 and got her to emergency--- she has a bleeding peptic ulcer... ANYHOW she spent 2 nights in emerg. before today getting a room . She told me yesterday that she had a 'nickname' for the lady next to her in the Emergency. Seems the woman is a moaner when she is uncomfortable... mom said that after listening to her on and off all morning it had come to her: she dubbed the woman Moaning Myrtle! we both had a good giggle. She's getting good care and will be just fine. But I knew her spirit was healthy when she cam out with that.

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your mother is champion, she is!

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Thanks, but I don't need any help getting into trouble since I seem to manage quite well on my own.

Getting my reading in while I still can...

Recently finished Timothy Zahn's Conqueror trilogy - book 1 was great, then book 2 turns the perspective to the aliens' point of view, and I found it difficult to keep track of who was who as all the alien names are full of apostrophes and such...my eyes just kept glossing over them, until I realised that two characters - their names were almost identical, and then it just got plain confusing.  Book 3 blended a bit of the human and alien side, but still, by that point, I was just trying to finish the series.  I think Harold had built up the series too much that I felt slightly disappointed - I wish I'd come into it clean without knowing that he'd loved it.

Now reading The Last Mortal Man, book 1 of the Deathless, by Syne MItchell, and this one I'm enjoying quite a lot.  Nanotechnology rules the world, until someone sends one something that eats the nanos, and then buildings start tumbling down, and people start dying...only the one person with a deathly allergy to nanos can try to figure out what's going on... Brilliant up to now.

Gregg, how can you stretch Harry Potter 7 so far??? I gobbled thta book up, get with the program!!! ;) 

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Vampire Spot since her accident

spotthecat:

Gregg, how can you stretch Harry Potter 7 so far??? I gobbled thta book up, get with the program!!! ;) 

with an indomitable iron will and superhuman fortitude, spot. it's an almost-impossible task but someone's GOT to attempt it! :). finished the chapter on Dumbledore's will this morning.

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Thanks, but I don't need any help getting into trouble since I seem to manage quite well on my own.

'The Long Walk' - Stephen King

now that would make for a frightening T.V. movie special.

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Thanks, but I don't need any help getting into trouble since I seem to manage quite well on my own.

I gave up on the get-ready-for-baby books (figure it's too late now, gonna wing it!), and have been reading some King Arthur for a complete change of pace.  I used to be sooooo much into King Arthur, and then for some reason just started collecting the books but never quite reading them.  I think the whole Skystone series by White killed it for me - there was just such a long wait between books, and then I lost the story, so had to restart and they're all freakin' bricks so let the Arthur books slide for a while.  Well, now I'm back - have recently rerear The Forever King, and then the sequel, and now I'm onto the second sequel The Broken Sword.  I must say I liked The Forever King better when I read it the first time.  The second and third books, I think, spend too much time in the past instead of focusing on today's Arthur for my liking.  I figure the entire "today" part of the book is only a few chapters, while the rest of the book is padding.  Too bad, as the premise was good.  In the third book, I'm at the point where the "Uncles" are at the motorcycle rally, and it's hohum up to now. If Arthur is going to accomplish something in this book, I wish he'd go ahead and do it sometime soon... Oh, and the books seem to be taking liberties with some established Arthurian lore, which is disturbing, but eh, everyone's gotta have an angle.

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Vampire Spot since her accident

Gregg, how goes the one chapter a day torture??? Have you broken down yet???

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Vampire Spot since her accident

no, for...

I am strong... (yes, he's strong)

I am invincible (so 'vincible)

I am The Maaaaaan! (go, bro!)

with apologies to Helen Reddy.

finished this morning the chapter where they meet Luna's dad at his home.

in the meantime, reading The Sword of Maiden's Tears by Rosemary Edghill from my DAW unread pile, started issue 12 of Neo-Opsis magazine out of B.C., and still picking through my collection of De Maupassant short fiction; at office got two or three chapters left in The Sorcerer's Ship by Hannes Bok. got a few other items on the go (including some downloaded werewolf e-fiction from Kelley Armstrong's website).

so, spot, think you'll try Whyte again during your maternity leave period (assuming the little one leaves you any reading time)?

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Thanks, but I don't need any help getting into trouble since I seem to manage quite well on my own.