Recent reads: August 2013

I promise that I listen to you all.  When you all recommended that I read The Keeper of Lost Causes (review here again, in case you missed it the first time), 11/22/63, A Small Death in Lisbon, I obliged.  When Reading and Chickens awarded me Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, I dutifully read that one too.  And when the comic book store clerk mentioned being really into Revival, I bought it.  Okay so maybe you don't have to twist my arm to read a book.

Reading is my coping mechanism.  It's also my sense of adventure and my favourite companion.  It teaches me things, yes even the books with "lots of pictures and text bubbles."  This past month, I've learned lessons on love, unexpectedly from Mr. Stephen King's 11/22/63, a book about time travel and the JFK assassination.  There is nothing that I don't take away from that man's books.  Anyone read Under the Dome yet?  I've learned that a cup of tea may be more than just that in The Garden of Evening Mists and that a bookstore is not really ever just a bookstore from Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (highly recommend, by the way).  I've learned that there are still good mysteries being written in very cold places by writers who have awesome author's poses (*cough* Jussi Adler-Olsen *cough*).  Most importantly though, I've learned how addicted to learning I am.

So let's continue on, shall we?  Continue to learn through books and to share what we learn.  I can already tell, this fall is going to be a good fall for books.


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  1. oh, book recommendations. just what I needed. thank you xxx

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  2. Oh I really like the covers of these books, but I'm sure that content is just as good! I'm looking for some good reads, so I'll check them out. Hope all is well.

    xx.
    fashion and tea

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  3. I guess a graphic novel is the best format to tell a story about clearing fields and making them ready for spring planting...a spring Revival. Right? :)

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  4. Ruth you need to read the latest Rivers of London book! I need someone to obsess over it with!

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  5. hear, hear! you are now the second person who has recommended that stephen king book. maybe i should just give it a shot. also, at the mention of tea, i will be checking out 'garden of the mists'. woohoo! reading lists make me happy.

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  6. You're preaching to the choir on this one, darlin. I don't need arm-twisting when it comes to buying stacks of books and spending afternoons tearing through them. Books are my absolute favorite. I'm always skeptical of people who don't read. Why would you admit to something like that?? xo

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  7. I have a hard time with Stephen King. Typically I LOVE his stories, but I HATE the amount of description he puts into his novels. I like to be in the meat of the story, I don't need pages upon pages about what a room looks like.

    Haha I guess that means that I have a very short attention span =-p

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  8. I loove your voracious appetite for books!

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  9. I am reading a book called Long gone it is a thriller and very well done.

    Ali of

    Dressing Ken

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  10. Oooh these look really interesting!

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  11. haven't read any of them but I love the book recommendations! thank you.

    oh and another thank you for running jacket advice, appreciate it so much

    The Young Bridget Jones

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  12. Really looking forward to reading that Stephen King one, Rooth:)
    And I agree...reading books is one form of coping for me too.

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  13. I love to drown myself in really
    good books c: Xx

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  14. so far the books that you have recommended that i have read have all been good ones. i have been on a streak of reading really good books lately and at least two were because of you. knock on wood it keeps going for awhile because i love reading in the fall. next on my list is "the professor and the madman" - have you read that one before? it looks like a good one for the autumn season.

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  15. Hey! I'm back! I missed your blog and your wonderful writing. I actually read Mr Penumbra this summer. Awesome book. I used to like the Stephen King fantasy novels, maybe I'll check him out again. I'm slowly coming back to the internet, but my free time is still limited, especially trying to get the art business going. Your blog is one of three that I'll be visiting as much as I can. That's how much I like you. Xoxo.

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  16. Looks like you've read some good ones! I haven't read any of them. Right now I'm on a bit of memoir kick.

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  17. yay! more books to put on my to read list! (although, i am still struggling to finish anna karenina)

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  18. My reading really slowed in August because I had to drive in to work a few days a week. I look forward to reading one of your recommendations now that I'm mostly back on the train!

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