Whatcha Readin' Oct 2009

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  • The Bonesetters Daughter by Amy Tan, just started it. but i love her writing and expect this book will be no different!
  • Quote: I've just started Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice.
    hmm i never knew it was based on a book ... i love the movie...
  • Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tough Times, Tough People
  • Quote: hmm i never knew it was based on a book ... i love the movie...
    Then you are in luck, there are multiple books.

    Interview with the Vampire
    The Vampire Lestat
    The Queen of the Damned (also was a movie)
    The Tale of the body Thief
    Memnoch the Devil
    Vampire Armand
    Blood and Gold
    Merrick
    Blackwood Farm
    Blood Canticle

    I am a little surprised that Anne Rice has fallen so under the radar. She was the Dan Brown of her day back in the late 80s. I was a huge fan of The Witching Hour.
  • Oh, and I finished Dark Places last night.

    Wow. Definitely one of the best books I have read this year. It is unrelentingly dark and beautifully written, I found it compulsively readable. But damn, depressing. I would recommend to anyone that likes dark thrillers, but it was pretty disturbing on a lot of levels. The prose and descriptions were amazing though.

    I was going to read Await Your Reply next, but after Dark Places, I'm going with something more cheerful for a follow up:

    The Actor and the Housewife
  • Just read Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder. It was very good. I liked it a lot!
  • Glory- Anne Rice became born again and now - and i quote "writes only for the Lord"

    I never could get into her writing style. Stephen King either - his stories are great his writing is another thing.
  • Plum Spooky! Should finish it tonight
  • Quote: I have Evil Heart on hold at the library. I'll have to add the Genius book!
    Hmmm, finished Evil Heart last night - not sure I like the ending.... I heard the author - Chelsea Cain - speak at a conference last Oct. She is as strange as the books! Have you read the first two Glory? Oh, and the Genius book is a young adult level - just to let you know.

    I just got Necessary as Blood by Deborah Crombie. I love her Inspector Kincaid series. (Brit police procedurals)