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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,831
    Enkidu said:

    Am I the last person in the world to read this book? It's amazing. And I'd never heard of it. (I wrote about it on my blog - if you go to my website you can read the piece.) "THE great time- travel story," says Stephen King.

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    Started this yesterday on your suggestion. I really like it and I just barely got into it. I know I am going to be busy with visitors all weekend, which is great (because I love the people visiting) but bad (because I want to read!) at the same time.
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  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,329
    F Me In The Brain said:

    imalive said:

    ^^^^ never mind.....I see it is the last of a trilogy...I just reserved the first at my library.

    The first 2 I really liked, the third was just OK. First one especially, there is a Babe Ruth tie in and I know you are a ball fan.
    Started on the first one. Lehane is a great fucking author.
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • Malroth
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    Incredible.
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  • SD48277
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    Incredible.


    This is the same guys that created "The Wire," right?
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  • PJSiren
    PJSiren Salem, OR Posts: 5,863
    oftenreading said:

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    F Me In The Brain said:



    I don't like ebooks but I like people reading and don't care how they choose to read.

    this is me too...the reason being that e-books cost maybe $2 less than their physical counterpart...you cannot convince me that the paper, printing, binding and shipping of a physical book from publisher to distribution destination (bookstore or Amazon) costs less than $2.

    I joined a bookclub...mainly to meet more people. Hope I get my book in time to read it before the next meeting.
    I get a lot of my ebooks for free on promotion from the authors through book bub, they're trying to get their name out there...and I also use the amazon library a lot and exchange books with my mom...I've had my kindle since Xmas and have not bought a single book yet...now not all the books I've gotten for free have been winners, but a good deal of them have been excellent books! Especially the Hetta Coffey series by Jinx Schwarz.
    how does the amazon library work?

    i did check out kindle paperwhite (I think that's what its called), looks cool...still cannot feel that I can justify the purchase of a kindle though.
    If you belong to amazon prime, you get one book a month from the library...pretty much any book that's on amazon...there may be some exceptions, and then there is for 10$ a month additional(to the prime membership which is paid yearly), you can get unlimited books from the library...

    Amazon prime is really a good deal if you use amazon a lot, or if you would use the kindle a lot...it's 99$ a year...I think your first year might be 79$....or it used to be...you get free 2 day shipping on any orders that are prime, you get to watch prime TV shows and movies, and you get to listen to prime music for free, and you get to use the amazong library...
    But not in Canada apparently. Here we get to pay $79 and get free 2 day shipping; that is, if you happen to live some place that gets 2 days shipping (like a major city), otherwise you get 3 or 4 day shipping. Plus we also get....nothing else. No kindle library, no streaming content. Zippo. So I'm not buying it.
    That's a total bummer...I can't believe it, what a bogus rip off!
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  • PJSiren
    PJSiren Salem, OR Posts: 5,863
    ldent42 said:

    PJSiren said:

    RKCNDY said:

    PJSiren said:

    RKCNDY said:

    F Me In The Brain said:



    I don't like ebooks but I like people reading and don't care how they choose to read.

    this is me too...the reason being that e-books cost maybe $2 less than their physical counterpart...you cannot convince me that the paper, printing, binding and shipping of a physical book from publisher to distribution destination (bookstore or Amazon) costs less than $2.

    I joined a bookclub...mainly to meet more people. Hope I get my book in time to read it before the next meeting.
    I get a lot of my ebooks for free on promotion from the authors through book bub, they're trying to get their name out there...and I also use the amazon library a lot and exchange books with my mom...I've had my kindle since Xmas and have not bought a single book yet...now not all the books I've gotten for free have been winners, but a good deal of them have been excellent books! Especially the Hetta Coffey series by Jinx Schwarz.
    how does the amazon library work?

    i did check out kindle paperwhite (I think that's what its called), looks cool...still cannot feel that I can justify the purchase of a kindle though.
    If you belong to amazon prime, you get one book a month from the library...pretty much any book that's on amazon...there may be some exceptions, and then there is for 10$ a month additional(to the prime membership which is paid yearly), you can get unlimited books from the library...

    Amazon prime is really a good deal if you use amazon a lot, or if you would use the kindle a lot...it's 99$ a year...I think your first year might be 79$....or it used to be...you get free 2 day shipping on any orders that are prime, you get to watch prime TV shows and movies, and you get to listen to prime music for free, and you get to use the amazong library...
    I made a new Amazon account when I signed up for prime cuz in order to get the student discount you have to use your student email - but I have my kindle still assigned to my old, non-prime account. So stupid.
    I'm reading physical bonds at the moment but I should really sort that out.
    You should, I can't imagine it woul;d be too difficult to switch it over or just add the account, I have two account on my kindle as my husband has our prime under his name, and so I have a Mandy side to my kindle and a Jason side to my kindle whch is prime...
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,831
    imalive said:

    F Me In The Brain said:

    imalive said:

    ^^^^ never mind.....I see it is the last of a trilogy...I just reserved the first at my library.

    The first 2 I really liked, the third was just OK. First one especially, there is a Babe Ruth tie in and I know you are a ball fan.
    Started on the first one. Lehane is a great fucking author.
    I really liked the first one a lot.
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  • Pap
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  • PJSiren
    PJSiren Salem, OR Posts: 5,863
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    So far so good...and remember I'm reading it doesn't matter how!!!
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  • shetellsherself
    shetellsherself New Jersey Posts: 8,835
    Finding Ultra by Rich Roll. Very inspirational biography about beating addiction and finding a way to living true and authentic with purpose and becoming one of the top endurance athletes. He's a very inspirational guy. Love his podcast too. Can hardly put this book down.
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  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    Just finished The Mechanical by Ian Tregillis. An interesting alternate history that assumes the Dutch developed advanced automata that allowed them to dominate the Western world, rather than the British. Some good musings on the nature of sentience and free will.
    my small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf
  • fife
    fife Posts: 3,327
    Currently reading the 3 part bio of Winston Churchill The Last Lion. very cool read about a really fascinating person
  • InHiding80
    InHiding80 Upland,CA Posts: 7,623
    I Must Say: My Life As A Humble Comedy Legend by Martin Short
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,380
    How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes - Mastermind by Maria Konnikova
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  • Pap
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  • cydonia
    cydonia Denbighshire, North Wales , UK Posts: 456
    Too many books! Anyways here's a few from my kindle
    Dracula - Bram Stoker
    H is for hawk - Helen Macdonald
    The youngs:the brothers who built AC/DC - Jesse Fink
  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    cydonia said:

    Too many books! Anyways here's a few from my kindle
    Dracula - Bram Stoker
    H is for hawk - Helen Macdonald
    The youngs:the brothers who built AC/DC - Jesse Fink

    I'm hoping to read H is for Hawk soon. I keep hearing good things about it.
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  • ldent42
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  • RKCNDY
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    I suppose I should start my book since I joined a book club...I have to finish it by next Saturday, and this weekend is jam packed.

    Fuck...it's like 400 pages. Mr. RK never shuts up when I'm trying to do something that takes concentration...cross stitch, crochet, reading...if I'm playing on the internet he doesn't say anything. Grrrrrr.....
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  • Enkidu
    Enkidu So Cal Posts: 2,996
    I just finished this - it's really great. But really really hard to read. I just did a blog post about it too if you'd like more detail. Not a book to read before you go to sleep at night.

    http://mybookclubforone.blogspot.com/2015/04/difficult-books.html

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