I ditched my summer reading plans and took several books back to Powell's and traded them in for a different book, which was recommended to me by a staffer at the store. I've only just begun to read it and for some reason, I'm already drawn into the story.



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Here's a brief introduction to the story:

Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy.

Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting, wise beyond her years—promised to protect him, no matter what.

A groundbreaking work from a master, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out. It is a stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark

Im still (yes. STILL) reading memoirs of a geisha. But! Im just 100 pages til the end. :) loving this book

I'm currently reading through a ton of research material for the book I'm writing. I'm also re-reading Kushiel's Dart for fun.

I am currently engrossed in, Abigail and John: Portrait of a Marriage by Edith Belle Gelles

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I bought it over a year ago, but have picked up various other books in the mean time... I just finally picked it up and I have learned so much in the first thirty pages. I have read other things about the Adamses, and I do know that theirs was a true love story.. <3

Honestly? Pretty much all I've read for the last few months is my own work. Over and over.

Joyland by Stephen King

Life of Pi by Yann Martel. Not really sure what I thought it would be about, but am pleasantly surprised.

"Producer"..(lessons shared from 30 years in television)

By Wendy Walker, Senior Executive Producer of Larry King Live

"A Transatlantic Love Affair" is about the strange, long-distance, affair, between macho writer Nelson Algren ("Man With The Golden Arm", "Walk On The Wild Side") and the founding mother of modern feminism Simone de Beauvoir ("The Second Sex"). I live across the road from the dilapidated little cottage Nelson bought, where she lived. No one lives there now, and I spend every spare moment just hanging there. She wrote about it to Sartre:
"Algren has bought a ravishing little house hidden in the trees, with a garden running down to a little lake. You cross the lake by boat, and on the other side is dunes, and the immense Lake Michigan, with a lovely, sandy, beach. I think it shall be really agreeable living here."

Just finished..

My Mothers Secret


Wonderful quick read, especially if you are a
WW2 history buff!

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Ensler
 

"In The Body Of The World A Memoir"
by Eve Ensler

transcendent.

Greco

I am reading The Fall the second book of the vampire series written by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan. Scary....scary....:)

I just started reading 11/22/63 by Stephen King.

I have been so wrapped up with the Anita Blake series by Laura K. Hamilton.
Just finished her second last book in that series. I am waiting on the last one that should be coming to the library soon.....(if you enjoy vampire & wereanimals /erotic I suggest you check this out) My girl (f) got me onto this series when we met over 3 years ago and I am ahead of her :)

Just started....
 

I have just started reading Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Love it already and struggling to put it down. Love the way her writing transcends space, time and sexuality. I love the way she writes, daring and brave of her time. Full of blurred lines and the ever shifting male/female continuum.

Can't stop moving forward but don't want it to end at the same time . . . . argh! Passion . . . breathy breath breathe . . . love it!

Off to read some more, always moving too fast, need to slow down :cowboihorse: xx

I'm currently reading two books as I'm want to do: one for my edification and one for pure pleasure. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, Steven Pinker, and A Dance with Dragons by the great bearded mountain, George R.R. Martin.

Just finished

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Now reading

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How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
It is a fun read, I am Irish so the hyperbole is absolutely correct :wink:
I am enjoying his trashing of bad imperial Roman poetry, as I have had to translate boatloads of it.