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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
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It will be a bit sad to see it go but it is kind of out of date now.
Agreed. I love these kinds of discussions, because I'm always finding new books that I wasn't aware that I can eventually add to my stacks. 
I suggest the year (2011) be removed, and just seal it when it reaches 100, just like any other threads.
Perhaps.
Though I'd rather just start the whole scroll fresh, I think, and prepare the platform for all kinds of new discussions.
And, thus, I give you the 2013 scroll. 
And now the 2014 scroll! 
Wooly edit: Decided to rename this one, since we used it for two years.
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Richard Lee Byers
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
1814 Posts |
Posted - 15 Jan 2014 : 15:39:52
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Learned Scribe
Canada
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zenmichael
Seeker
USA
52 Posts |
Posted - 15 Jan 2014 : 22:11:15
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Farthest Reach by Richard Baker
Peter David's X-Factor run
Just finished Steve Hamilton's A Cold Day in Paradise yesterday; thoroughly enjoyed it
The Rise & Fall of the Cthulhu Mythos is waiting for me at the library
And the two audio books I'm currently working on (Road of Thorns by Michel Lee King & Blessed Fate by H.B. Heinzer)
Listening to the audio book of Towers of Midnight by Jordan/Sanderson in the car |
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Artemas Entreri
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 15 Jan 2014 : 23:29:39
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| Reading David Dalglish's A Dance of Blades. |
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DragonReader
Senior Scribe
USA
371 Posts |
Posted - 16 Jan 2014 : 03:28:09
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 16 Jan 2014 : 03:45:40
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Peter David's X-Factor run
Are you reading his ENTIRE run? And I mean from Issue #71 way back in the early 90's to the end of X-Factor last year? Or just his current run on the relaunched/renumbered book?
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I've been meaning to look into this one myself. Let me know what you thought of it, once you've had a chance to peruse it for yourself. |
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zenmichael
Seeker
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Posted - 16 Jan 2014 : 14:08:54
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Are you reading his ENTIRE run? And I mean from Issue #71 way back in the early 90's to the end of X-Factor last year? Or just his current run on the relaunched/renumbered book?
Yeah, the whole run. Wasn't super fond of the original stuff from way back when (collected in X-Factor: Visionaries: Peter David trades). I liked it WAYYY more when I was younger, but it really felt like he hit his stride about three issues before they fired him. I was reading the "new" series up until Layla disappeared. It just got boring for me after that & I figured it wouldn't last 10 more issues. Now that it's like ... 75 issues later & the series is ending/relaunching, I figured it'd be a good time to dive in, & my library has all of them.
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The Rise & Fall of the Cthulhu Mythos is waiting for me at the library
I've been meaning to look into this one myself. Let me know what you thought of it, once you've had a chance to peruse it for yourself.
I was hoping more for an examination of how others (Derleth, mostly) transformed what Joshi deems the "Lovecraft Mythos" into the Cthulhu Mythos, and instead it's far more kind of ... dividing the two, then assigning each to Lovecraft/contemporaries/those that came after. It's well-researched, and it's amusing reading something that is, in the end, talking about fish monsters but uses words like "sedulous" and "trenchant," and reading Joshi bash on Lumley is always amusing, but overall it's not really what I was hoping for, and it's mostly just making me want to go back & read more Lovecraft. |
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
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Posted - 17 Jan 2014 : 12:55:32
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Artemas Entreri
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 18 Jan 2014 : 05:01:20
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| Finished A Dance of Blades. Great book if you don't mind cartoonish/superheroesque fight scenes where guys are blocking greatswords with daggers and such. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36779 Posts |
Posted - 18 Jan 2014 : 05:09:11
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I just finished Snow White and the Seven Samurai. It was one of the better Tom Holt books I've read, though it didn't quite match up to Faust Among Equals or Flying Dutch. It was enjoyable, though.
I've decided to go way, way beyond my comfort zone for my next read... And I'm not even entirely sure why I decided to read it in the first place, which is how it wound up on my to-read list... I have started reading Pride and Prejudice. |
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scererar
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Posted - 18 Jan 2014 : 16:14:05
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So far I am reading several. Trying to still get through the brimstone angels books so I can read the adversary. Not sure about these yet though. I like some aspects of the books, but dislike the teen girl drama parts.
Other books I am reading are Paul Kemp's Discourse in Steel, David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell, The Crown Tower by Michael Sullivan, the bible for daily study, and just downloaded and in the pile to read is the Lone Survivor.
Many others in my to-read pile, but above mentioned will keep me busy as 2014 gets under way. |
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 18 Jan 2014 : 17:23:40
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I just finished Snow White and the Seven Samurai. It was one of the better Tom Holt books I've read, though it didn't quite match up to Faust Among Equals or Flying Dutch. It was enjoyable, though.
I've decided to go way, way beyond my comfort zone for my next read... And I'm not even entirely sure why I decided to read it in the first place, which is how it wound up on my to-read list... I have started reading Pride and Prejudice.
Well I found it be be one of the better Jane Austen novels though not as good as Persuasion. Its set during the Napoleonic wars but there is nothing more than a passing reference to that fact, mostly it just focuses on the lives of the Bennett family. Spoiler! their lives are of no consequence. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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Posted - 19 Jan 2014 : 05:16:55
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I just finished Snow White and the Seven Samurai. It was one of the better Tom Holt books I've read, though it didn't quite match up to Faust Among Equals or Flying Dutch. It was enjoyable, though.
I've decided to go way, way beyond my comfort zone for my next read... And I'm not even entirely sure why I decided to read it in the first place, which is how it wound up on my to-read list... I have started reading Pride and Prejudice.
Well I found it be be one of the better Jane Austen novels though not as good as Persuasion. Its set during the Napoleonic wars but there is nothing more than a passing reference to that fact, mostly it just focuses on the lives of the Bennett family. Spoiler! their lives are of no consequence.
As long as they don't drop like flies, as in Westeros, it won't be that bad. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 22 Jan 2014 : 13:22:54
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I'm still working on Pride and Prejudice... But I've started a couple of other books, at the same time: We Will Destroy Your Planet: An Alien's Guide to Conquering the Earth and The Wit & Wisdom of Tyrion Lannister.
The latter is a bunch of short quotes, so I'm only reading it when I've got a just a minute or two to read.
Normally, I have some bit of game material that I read concurrently with whatever novel I've got going on, but I'm taking a brief break from that to read the other book, We Will Destroy Your Planet. That's mostly for when I'm in my reading room.
I've no idea what I'll pick up when I'm done with Pride and Prejudice. |
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Richard Lee Byers
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
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Posted - 22 Jan 2014 : 13:44:03
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
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Posted - 22 Jan 2014 : 14:55:31
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... and The Wit & Wisdom of Tyrion Lannister.
I've still got to pick up my copy of that one.
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As for my current reading... I'm on The Shadow Rising, Book IV of the WHEEL OF TIME series. This is currently a re-read, to prepare myself for the eventual reading of the last few books which I still have to read. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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Posted - 23 Jan 2014 : 07:05:02
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| Just finished Pride and Prejudice... I will next read A Dance With Dragons, due in no small part to my curiosity about what's going on with Tyrion. |
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Madpig
Learned Scribe
Finland
148 Posts |
Posted - 23 Jan 2014 : 07:15:34
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| Just trying to read all FR books that I havent read. (There is huge pile, because before the FR launch on Amazon kindle, there was next to impossible to get anything else than RAS books here in finland. Currently reading Crown of Fire. Shandril book II. Also im ofcourse waiting for the next sundering book! |
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Tyrant
Senior Scribe
USA
586 Posts |
Posted - 23 Jan 2014 : 16:46:03
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I recently finished reading the Avengers vs X-Men crossover. The main issues in the collected hardcover and the companion issues in a different, and nearly twice as long, collected hardcover. Overall nearly 1700 pages of a comic crossover that probably should've been a few pages of Cyclops and Captain America talking it over instead of Captain America acting wildly out of character while most of the writers tried to paint Cyclops as an extremist (even though he was right in the end). Highlights include: Iron Man lecturing Captain America about the two of them seeming to take opposite stances to the ones they took in Civil War, Captain America going to Wolverine's new school (still don't know what to think of that idea) and asking him about the Phoenix (instead of: Beast, an Avenger and scientist who doesn't have an axe to grind with the Phoenix or Cyclops and who is capable of plans beyond "stab everything", or Rachel Summers, a woman who possessed the Phoenix for quite a while and didn't go all crazy from it), and Mr. Fantastic pointing out that the X-Men are only attacking the Avengers and it's pretty universally in self defense all while turning the earth into a paradise (shame on you X-Men for using your powers for good). On the plus side, Cyclops is now leading a team of renegade mutants that includes Magneto and new mutants are emerging, finally.
On the comic front I am probably going to try to get the issues that take place between Avengers vs X-Men and The Battle of the Atom, maybe Uncanny Avengers, and probably start getting collections of X-Men issues during the Claremont run.
On the non comic front I am waiting for an order that has The Forever War and a book about the current state of China. |
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Teenage Sith zombies, Tulkh thought-how in the moons of Bogden had it all started? Every so often, the universe must just get bored and decide to really cut loose. -Star Wars: Red Harvest |
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DragonReader
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 23 Jan 2014 : 21:48:57
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THE THICKET by Joe Lansdale.
I'd be interested in your thoughts on this one. I read "The Bottoms" a year or so ago and it was fantastic and was thinking I should try some of Lansdale's other books. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 23 Jan 2014 : 23:15:48
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| Discovered something else I have to read... I found an abandoned (or lost and forgotten) copy of The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster at work. I'm not a Pastafarian, but I think I can enjoy this one. When I get to it... |
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Artemas Entreri
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 24 Jan 2014 : 03:44:46
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| Starting The Eye of the World for the first time. It's by some guy named Robert Jordan. Anybody heard of it? |
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DragonReader
Senior Scribe
USA
371 Posts |
Posted - 24 Jan 2014 : 14:01:50
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Entromancer
Senior Scribe
USA
388 Posts |
Posted - 24 Jan 2014 : 23:13:27
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Starting The Eye of the World for the first time. It's by some guy named Robert Jordan. Anybody heard of it?
I gave it a try a while back. Not quite my cup of tea.
A Dance with Dragons by George RR Martin. |
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ElaineCunningham
Forgotten Realms Author
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Posted - 27 Jan 2014 : 13:08:33
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THE PAGAN LORD by Bernard Cornwell.
I'm also reading this. Cornwell is one of my favorite historical fiction authors, and the Saxon Tales is probably my favorite Cornwell series to date.
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Richard Lee Byers
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
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Posted - 27 Jan 2014 : 14:02:29
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DragonReader, I enjoyed THE THICKET very much. I'm a big Lansdale fan in general.
After finishing that one, I read "Salvage and Demolition," a novelette by Tim Powers. I'm a big Powers fan as well, and this story is good, although not as good as his novels. |
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Volathar
Acolyte
Turkey
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Posted - 27 Jan 2014 : 15:57:15
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| Sadly, I could't get to finish Spellfire.. Now started Alabaster Staff |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
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Posted - 27 Jan 2014 : 16:03:05
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Went to Barnes & Noble yesterday; once again, bad experience. How I miss Borders. B&N likes their bookstore to stock the same kinds of things you are forced to read in school, and not much in the way of interesting. Their fiction section is two aisles, one of which is anime and graphic novels, and fantasy/scify have to share space with horror. There is a nice 5 aisle section on psychology though. You know, the kinds of books entitled "its okay if you want to eat human flesh... you're just 'special'. {ugh}
ANYHOW..... 
I've only been going there because I got a $50 giftcard for the Holidays and want to use it. Tried to find any Sundering novels and no deal. I would have used it toward the Lords of Waterdeep game, but they still don't have it (I complained the last time, and they said "we will see what we can do" - which is retail-speak for "I won't even remember this conversation in two minutes"). Seriously considered the Wrath of Ashardalon boardgame, but haven't heard anything about it (anyone here have a review?) Even (briefly) considered a new copy of Axis & Allies (which I lost in the fire).
Anyhow, decided to go through the fiction section one last time - the two endcaps were the predictable Game of Thrones and Hunger Games displays. I really like those two, but enough is enough. They've been up for months. There was also a third series they were pimping, which I also never heard of ('Divergent', or some-such). Tried to find something by author - only Paul Kemp's second Egil & Nix novel caught my eye. Liked the first one, but wasn't in the mood for more of that (That was actually the last book I read). I looked through the THREE 4' Shelves of 'game-related' novels (which they share with PF, Diablo, & Warcraft... Warhammer gets its own shelf!). Held Richard Byers PF novel in my hands for a bit as 'an option', but I seriously went there for FR, and am really trying to avoid 'getting into' PF fiction (because the setting is already doing a damn good job of pulling my interest that way).
Finally discovered Elminster Enraged behind another book, which I snapped-up (read the first two already, so that was something I wanted for awhile). Then I went to look through some of my long-time 'stand-by' series (there are several I read slowly over time, including GoT). Almost bought the final book of Wheel of Time, but the many plots of that had become so convoluted, and the enormous number of characters so confusing that I would have to re-read the rest of the series to even begin to understand the final installment... and that won't happen because I lost all the other books in the fire (I know, its getting old... sorry).
So I wound-up grabbing book 6 of the Safehold series by David Weber - I so love ship combat. That and the Elminster book and I was done; I figure I'll wait until I find a boardgame I want to spend the rest. I started that book rather then the FR one last night, which may be a subconscious indication of my waning interest in the Realms... or not. Perhaps I am just waiting to savor it. Who knows.
Anyway, for anyone interested in that series, here is a review by none other then RAS from the front pages of the novel -
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"Fantastic in every sense of the word - the kind of book that makes you sit back and think about this reality that we call life. Who can ask for more then that?" --- R.A. Salvatore on Off Armageddon Reef.
I suppose his like of the series was inevitable - Weber writes large battle scenes the way RAS writes small-scale tactical combat - par excellence bar none. I can actually smell the sulfur of the canon blasts as I read his prose. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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Posted - 27 Jan 2014 : 17:13:03
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Went to Barnes & Noble yesterday; once again, bad experience. How I miss Borders. B&N likes their bookstore to stock the same kinds of things you are forced to read in school, and not much in the way of interesting. Their fiction section is two aisles, one of which is anime and graphic novels, and fantasy/scify have to share space with horror. There is a nice 5 aisle section on psychology though. You know, the kinds of books entitled "its okay if you want to eat human flesh... you're just 'special'. {ugh}
That is nothing at all like my local Barnes & Noble... Mine has several aisles of fantasy and sci/fi, and another of just anime. The fiction section is also quite large... My only issue with the place is that they are slow to get in the latest fantasy/sci-fi stuff; it's usually a week or two behind anyone else.
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So I wound-up grabbing book 6 of the Safehold series by David Weber - I so love ship combat. That and the Elminster book and I was done; I figure I'll wait until I find a boardgame I want to spend the rest. I started that book rather then the FR one last night, which may be a subconscious indication of my waning interest in the Realms... or not. Perhaps I am just waiting to savor it. Who knows.
Anyway, for anyone interested in that series, here is a review by none other then RAS from the front pages of the novel -
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"Fantastic in every sense of the word - the kind of book that makes you sit back and think about this reality that we call life. Who can ask for more then that?" --- R.A. Salvatore on Off Armageddon Reef.
I suppose his like of the series was inevitable - Weber writes large battle scenes the way RAS writes small-scale tactical combat - par excellence bar none. I can actually smell the sulfur of the canon blasts as I read his prose.
I actually discovered Off Armageddon Reef at my local B&N, when it was the only book in the series. I've quite eagerly devoured the new ones as they come out. |
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zenmichael
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Posted - 27 Jan 2014 : 17:32:56
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My local B&Ns are much more like Woolly described, as well.
I tried Off Armageddon Reef b/c I loved the concept. I absolutely adored the first 1/3 or so of the book, then it started getting SO bogged down in the minutiae of the different gadgets, and I got frustrated how the main character was essentially able to do ANYTHING without breaking a sweat. Somewhere around 2/3 of the way through the book I realized, 'Hey! This is just a sneaky way of writing UNGODLY OVEREXPOSITIONED alternate history!' Then I slammed my head into a table for an hour or two & quickly skimmed the rest of it.
Markustay, I might not agree with all your choices, but I found a play-by-play of your visit to B&N fascinating. Can the gift card be used for the website? I think with what you've got remaining you'd qualify for free shipping, and there obviously their choices are much broader.
Also, for myself, now on to "The Brave" by Gregory McDonald (amazing book) & "Deep Storm" by Lincoln Child. |
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