ErinE Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 NoseInABook, I will send it to you. I have now started reading Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle. I can already tell I'm going to like this one! ETA: It seems so deliciously polite & yet evil at the same time. I finished it and loved it. Highly recommended as a spooky read, because it's not terrifying, but it is an interesting reflection on humanity. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin M Posted October 15, 2016 Author Share Posted October 15, 2016 DD (12 yo) just started reading the Joan Smith books. She loves them and I love that she loves them. :001_wub: I just purchased It Takes a Lady. Depending on how much laundry I need to do and if my people demand lunch I should report back shortly with my review. Christopher Pike books were so popular around here. I likely have some still in my parents attic. I suspect they wouldn't hold up to the test of time! Based on the books you're reading I think you'd like the Miss Julia series. I can't believe nobody has taken me up on my audible offer. Seriously people! I can give you a book if you have an audible account and I WANT to give books to my friends. :p I don't have any of those books but I will link a few that you might like and you can pick one if you'd like. If I'm being too pushy then just ignore me ... sometimes I don't understand social nuances very well. Any Georgette Heyer book Most of The Cat Who ... books Most of the Brother Cadfael books Most of the Richard Peck books Most of James Herriots books Most of the Three Pines mysteries Very Good Jeeves by PG Wodehouse The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell Middlemarch by George Eliot Doomsday Book by Connie Willis The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman Miss Buncle's Book by DE Stevenson The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (this is excellent!) The Confession (#14 Ian Rutledge) by Charles Todd A Duty to the Dead (Bess Crawford mystery) by Charles Todd The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins Sharing Audible books is in interesting idea. Not sure how we could keep a master list when books are being constantly added. Perhaps just a list of those who have an audible account with their email address. I have a wide variety of audible books including the whole In Death series. Currently listening to Judgement in Death. Moning's Fever series, Brigg's Mercedes Thompsons, as well as a few Nora Roberts trilogies, Devon Monk's Allie Beckstrom. Plus Rick Riordan's Lightning Thief series. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodland Mist Academy Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 Wait--you chose the cover art for the Oxford edition of Turn of the Screw? That's incredibly awesome. Oh dear...poor wording on my part.... Just choosing which edition of the book I wanted to buy based on cover art took me more time and mental anguish than I dare admit. The thought of actually choosing the cover art for the book makes me feel faint... :svengo: 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacia Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 Last year, I think I avoided Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle because it seemed too creepy or scary. I am so glad I decided to give it a try this year; it's quick & I finished it in one day. Deliciously polite & yet evil at the same time with touches of both humor & true humanity. Wow. Just read it. A great book for October. 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 Last year, I think I avoided Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle because it seemed too creepy or scary. I am so glad I decided to give it a try this year; it's quick & I finished it in one day. Deliciously polite & yet evil at the same time with touches of both humor & true humanity. Wow. Just read it. A great book for October. :hurray: So glad you've liked at least two of my favorite October reads! You've turned me onto a lot of things I wouldn't have read otherwise (I'm enjoying Galore very much as we speak). I finished Hammett's 5th and final book, The Thin Man. After abandoning two previous Hammetts (The Glass Key and The Dain Curse) and not enjoying The Red Harvest very much, I was glad to have enjoyed this one. It was much lighter in tone, quicker, snappier, short chapters, lots of witty banter. Very different from other books, in that the main character Nick has, as a foil, his wife Nora, and so while it's in the 3rd person like The Maltese Falcon (and unlike the other 3) you also get a lot of insight via Nick explaining things to or discussing things with Nora. These characters are light and poufy compared to Sam Spade, and the book doesn't have near the moral/ethical dimension, the gravitas, that Falcon has, but it was a witty and entertaining book. Though it made me want to drink Scotch. Lots of Scotch. Kind of like the effect of watching Mad Men. I truly wonder how anybody was able to function, ingesting those phenomenal quantities of hard liquor. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet Crown Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 Oh dear...poor wording on my part.... Just choosing which edition of the book I wanted to buy based on cover art took me more time and mental anguish than I dare admit. The thought of actually choosing the cover art for the book makes me feel faint... :svengo: Too bad! I thought maybe Book a Week had an "in" at Oxford Univ Press. I was going to start angling for a discount. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathleen. Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 I had to read "Frankenstein" again since it's October. My 10yo read lots of Halloween picture books. ☺ 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mumto2 Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 Yeah! Did I forget to mention got it the day it came out. It is an amazing story and quite intriguing!!! :lol: I feel better now for some weird reason. You always read them immediately. I generally manage it within the first month or so. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom-ninja. Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 Last year, I think I avoided Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle because it seemed too creepy or scary. I am so glad I decided to give it a try this year; it's quick & I finished it in one day. Deliciously polite & yet evil at the same time with touches of both humor & true humanity. Wow. Just read it. A great book for October. I'm reading her The Haunting of Hill House at the moment. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodland Mist Academy Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 Too bad! I thought maybe Book a Week had an "in" at Oxford Univ Press. I was going to start angling for a discount. :laugh: Sorry to disappoint! 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodland Mist Academy Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 Last year, I think I avoided Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle because it seemed too creepy or scary. I am so glad I decided to give it a try this year; it's quick & I finished it in one day. Deliciously polite & yet evil at the same time with touches of both humor & true humanity. Wow. Just read it. A great book for October. I was on the fence about reading the book. You've just pushed me off. Thanks! (I think. I'll let you know when I've finished it... ;) ) 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin M Posted October 16, 2016 Author Share Posted October 16, 2016 Link to week 42 - please continue conversation in new thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mumto2 Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 (edited) Sorry, copied to week 42 Edited October 16, 2016 by mumto2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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