I'm now reading "The Bookwoman's Last Fling" by John Dunning at work. This is my second Dunning novel in the Cliff Janeway series. It is about a guy who is a book collector/seller/appraiser and overall solver of strange book mysteries.

Tammy Hoag's "Lucky's Lady". It is entertaining. I'm reading entertaining in between book club books.

I'm getting ready to read "Revenge of a Middle Aged Woman" by Elizabeth Buchan for my book club. Our book after that is E.M. Forster's "A Passage to India".

Dawn

Dune and the Children of Dune by Frank Herbert.

If you want one of his lesser known novels, I would suggest The White Plague. A Scientist's family is killed by the IRA and the Scientist creates a plague to get even.

It was one of the better novels I read in the last 6 months.

I have never been a reader of romance novels (until you guys got me started on Evanovich ) but I have to admit that I am really enjoying the vampire books by Katie MacAlister which I agreed to read if dd would read Evanovich.

They are just as funny (& sometimes funnier) than Evanovich and also includes some mystery & suspense.

They each stand alone but you really should read them in order because books 2, 3 & 5 refer back to events or people in previous books & you wouldn't know it unless you had read the previous book.

1. A Girl's Guide to Vampires
2. Sex & The Single Vampire
3. Sex, Lies & Vampires
4. Even Vampires Get the Blues
5. "Bring Out Your Dead" (short story in the anthology called "Just One Sip")

and there is a #6 in the works.

I've got three going right now, so I can pick up what I want depending on what mood I'm in:

"Grant & Sherman: The Friendship that Won the Civil War" by Charles Bracelen Flood...tough reading for a girl born & raised in the south. Grant & Sherman have always been evil, one-dimensional demons in my upbringing. It's interesting to learn about their lives and military history, and see what set them on the road to leadership; it's also a HUGE challenge to my brain. My mom sent it to me after we saw Mr Flood on a panel at the UCLA Book Fair earlier this year (my brother goes to grad school there).

"The Hobbit" by JRR Tolkien...because I believe, somewhere back in my family history, there's a direct link to hobbits. And I love to take a good piece of literature through its paces. I've read it several times, first back with my dad when I was 8 or 9, I guess, because I could read it, but he had to explain the big words to me. I'm also curious this time around about what some people have said is his decidedly un-feminist bent. We picked up "The Hobbit" and the Lord of the Rings trilogy this past weekend as a set.

"Black Wind"...one of the Dirk Pitt novels by Clive Cussler, because sometimes, I just need to kill 15 minutes without expending a lot of brain power. It's about...adventure, mystery, scuba diving. Like the other Dirk Pitt novels. I get a new one whenever we travel by plane, but the last flight wasn't long enough to finish this one on.

Bond = Brosnan. I like a lot of Roger Moore's, though. He wasn't nearly as hot in the tux as Brosnan, though. There hasn't been much as hot in a tux as Brosnan, come to think of it.

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Originally posted by BrenauMom:
Who is James Bond to you?

Roger Moore - how sad is that? ; )

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Originally posted by SheriaVa:
[...] just like Johnny Weismuller is the only Tarzan to me. [...]

Me too He is the only one who ever actually vocalized the "tarzan yell" himself. All the others had it dubbed in. I read all of Edgar Rice Burroughs books. Tarzan, the John Carter series about life on Mars, and all the other independant books he wrote. I even have a couple of first editions

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I have never read any of the Bond books but I'm supposing they were written by Ian Fleming, the creator of Bond?

Yep, that's who wrote them. I was reading them before they ever started making movies from them.

Bond to me is Connery and Brosnan. I really like them both. Honestly, as long as it isn't Timothy Dalton (worst Bond EVER)....

I'm not overly excited about the new pick, but I'll see it just to see how he does.

I remember Remington Steele. I loved that show.

Dawn

Sean Connery is definitely Bond to me, just like Johnny Weismuller is the only Tarzan to me. Others are only a pale imitation, though I must say that Pierce Brosnan does a pretty good Bond compared to some of the others. The new Bond, Daniel Craig, even has blondish hair! GASP! A blond Bond?

I have never read any of the Bond books but I'm supposing they were written by Ian Fleming, the creator of Bond?

Dd was talking about the new Bond movie recently & mentioned that there was a "new" Bond. I said I used to read the books back when Sean Connery played Bond in the movies and she said she didn't even know there were books about 007.

Anyone here ever read those books?

Here is an example of the generation gap

When I think of James Bond in the movies I picture Sean Connery. When dd thinks of James Bond she pictures Pierce Brosnan. When I think of Pierce Brosnan I picture "Remmington Steele" from TV (anybody remember that series?).

Who is James Bond to you?

Finished Twelve Sharp (#12 in the Plum series) by Janet Evanovich at lunch today. Y'all were right--a MUCH better book than the last few in the series. Really sweet ending.

Heads up for those who love reading the Stephanie Plum series...New issue being release Jan 9th 2007..Plum Lovin' by Janet Evanovich

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Originally posted by BrenauMom:

If I look at the edge of the book it looks like I am about half way. "Get Me To The Church On Time" is the title of the chapter. In my book it is page 264. It has a total of 536 pages.

I know I started on page 362 last night when I started reading, but I didn't read very long last night. I was tired.

Dawn

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Originally posted by Tayhudson:

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Originally posted by BrenauMom:
Dawn & Jill

How are you doing on the book? How far along are you?

I'm close to being done, I think I'm around page 365 or so.

Dawn

If I look at the edge of the book it looks like I am about half way. "Get Me To The Church On Time" is the title of the chapter. In my book it is page 264. It has a total of 536 pages.

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Originally posted by BrenauMom:
Dawn & Jill

How are you doing on the book? How far along are you?

I'm close to being done, I think I'm around page 365 or so.

Dawn

I just finished "Metro Girl" by Evanovich. It was very good and I really enjoyed it.
A little mystery, a little romance, a little suspense and some humor. I wasn't constantly laughing out loud & causing mother to come check on me like with the Plum books but it had it's funny moments.

The back of the book says "Motor Mouth" is a sequel so I guess I will have to look for that one.

Harvest for Hope.

You must, must, must read this. It is sobering and amazing.

You HAVE to read it.

Our food is being controlled by about 10 corporations in the entire world. It is not too late to reverse the damage, but we have to start NOW.

Apparently water is next. Water is being privatized in many countries, and this is really dangerous. I'm just like "OMG do I even want to have kids with how we are poisoning our planet?"

Dawn & Jill

How are you doing on the book? How far along are you?

I meant to post this over the weekend...I read in the new issue of Entertainment Weekly that they are going to do a movie version of the book "Eat, Pray, Love" and that Julia Roberts will be the star.

Someone...I think it was Lynne (Mountaingirl) recommended this book some months ago when it was new in hardback so I thought there may be some interest in this information.

"The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell.

I'm probably about half way through the book. It's a very good and interesting book.


Serene