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Books 7-11
Books
1) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Reread. Audio
2) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Reread.
3) Jubal Sackett by Louis L'amour. Audio. Not bad but getting very farfetched. Starting in Carolina, marrying a Natchez Princess and fighting a mammoth in the foothills of the Sangre de Christo? Uh, I was with him until the Mammoth. Also, not interested in more books where all the malke characters have names but only one female character does. "The Punka Woman" and "Keokata's woman" were fine once, but these women were there ALL the time. They needed names.
4) The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. Stephan King. TSTL. The first thing you do when lost is STAY PUT. Beyond that amazingly good, very creepy. Very much old-style King,
5) The Tao of Willie. Willie Nelson with Turk Pipkin. Entertaining and wise, I found myself taking it in small doses to better digest. If nothing else you'll come away with a few new jokes.
6) Captain Blood. Rafael Sabatinni. Turn of the century swashbuckler. Very fun. The remake MIGHT be good if they stick close to the book.
7) The Rosewood Casket by Sharyn McCrumb. When old Mr. Stargill dies, his four boys have to build him a casket. But when the local wisewoman shows up with a box of bones, and the next farm over's foreclosure turns into an armed standoff, they have to put their differences aside. Amazingly good. (audio)
8) She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb. A journey of three mothers and a grad student in the mountains. Historical mystery combines with elderly runaway convict. Very good, but Norah Bonesteel feels like the plot-device to wrap everything up. (audio)
9) The Gospel According to Judas by Benjamin Iscariot. by Jeffrey Archer. Bible fanfiction, retelling the Gospel accounts of Jesus' life through the eyes of Judas, who in this version is not a betrayer, but simply trusted the wrong man to help protect his beloved teacher. It was interesting. (audio)
10) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling. Less annoying than I remember but badly in need of edits. The book gets rolling about half-way through. The saga of the last battle between Harry Potter and Voldemort. (audio)
11) Lando by Louis L'amour. Orlando Sackett moves west with a tinker, looking for his fortune. Gold hunting, finding his long lost father, spending years in a Mexican prison and other adventures try his mettle.
1) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Reread. Audio
2) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Reread.
3) Jubal Sackett by Louis L'amour. Audio. Not bad but getting very farfetched. Starting in Carolina, marrying a Natchez Princess and fighting a mammoth in the foothills of the Sangre de Christo? Uh, I was with him until the Mammoth. Also, not interested in more books where all the malke characters have names but only one female character does. "The Punka Woman" and "Keokata's woman" were fine once, but these women were there ALL the time. They needed names.
4) The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. Stephan King. TSTL. The first thing you do when lost is STAY PUT. Beyond that amazingly good, very creepy. Very much old-style King,
5) The Tao of Willie. Willie Nelson with Turk Pipkin. Entertaining and wise, I found myself taking it in small doses to better digest. If nothing else you'll come away with a few new jokes.
6) Captain Blood. Rafael Sabatinni. Turn of the century swashbuckler. Very fun. The remake MIGHT be good if they stick close to the book.
7) The Rosewood Casket by Sharyn McCrumb. When old Mr. Stargill dies, his four boys have to build him a casket. But when the local wisewoman shows up with a box of bones, and the next farm over's foreclosure turns into an armed standoff, they have to put their differences aside. Amazingly good. (audio)
8) She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb. A journey of three mothers and a grad student in the mountains. Historical mystery combines with elderly runaway convict. Very good, but Norah Bonesteel feels like the plot-device to wrap everything up. (audio)
9) The Gospel According to Judas by Benjamin Iscariot. by Jeffrey Archer. Bible fanfiction, retelling the Gospel accounts of Jesus' life through the eyes of Judas, who in this version is not a betrayer, but simply trusted the wrong man to help protect his beloved teacher. It was interesting. (audio)
10) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling. Less annoying than I remember but badly in need of edits. The book gets rolling about half-way through. The saga of the last battle between Harry Potter and Voldemort. (audio)
11) Lando by Louis L'amour. Orlando Sackett moves west with a tinker, looking for his fortune. Gold hunting, finding his long lost father, spending years in a Mexican prison and other adventures try his mettle.
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I'll probably listen to a couple more (all the library has) before I'm done.
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Also, new books that I'm crazy about: Naomi Novik's "Temeraire" series. If you don't like O'Brian or Austen, you may not fall for these books, but if you can imagine the Napoleonic war fought not only on land & by sea but in the air--with dragons--that's a good start. The dragons are nothing like Anne McCaffrey's or anyone else's. Dakiwiboid & I decided that Temeraire himself is a kind of 'Candide', seeing our faulty human world/behavior/philosophies through a wholly other perspective...one that makes you think!
How could I forget Ursula K. Leguin? Most anything of hers is thought-compelling and fantastically well written.
Susan Cooper's "Dark Is Rising" trilogy; also her "King of Shadows" written for young adults but readable, with pleasure, by anyone. If you love Shakespeare, 'King' will reward you...
Also: The Snow Queen trilogy by Joan D. Vinge. THere's a 4th novel that ties into those 3: Tangled Up in Blue. Snow Queen, World's End, and Summer Queen--all worth the read.
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No Novik because of fandom politics. She outed herself, accused a person I know of outing her, and then tried to get that person charged on a variety of false crimes from child molestation to tax fraud. So...no.
LeGuin always bored me silly when I was younger, but I might try her again. I never got into Cooper in my teens
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