I'm reading Swine Not? A Pig's Tale by Jimmy Buffet. I need something lighthearted to read for a change. It provides a stark contrast to my serious school work.
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I'm reading Swine Not? A Pig's Tale by Jimmy Buffet. I need something lighthearted to read for a change. It provides a stark contrast to my serious school work.
I've written this;
https://www.amazon.com/Already-Gone-.../dp/B01G4ILO3I
and starting book 2 of the series. Really interested in The Border members thouights on it.
Thanks,
Jeremy Lawrence
Author - Already Gone: a Novel
https://www.amazon.com/Already-Gone-.../dp/B01G4ILO3I
https://www.facebook.com/alreadygonenovel/
*** Special thanks to The Borders own "Ive always been a dreamer" for being a beta reader and providing great feedback and enthusiasm about the book. ***
Just finished a fantastic novel by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore called "June" and I loved it so much!!! :D It tells the story of a young woman in Ohio Cassie and her getting unexpected news that a classic Hollywood actor Jack Montgomery named her as his granddaughter in his will and left everything to her. It's a huge shock to Cassie as her late grandmother June apparently was involved with Jack and Cassie's father was his son, and June never told anyone including her husband or Cassie's now dead father. That's just the beginning as we start to find out all these twists with the characters as Cassie meets Jack's famous daughters and starts to uncover all the secrets of her true grandparents and all the people in the fictional Ohio town St. Jude. Half the story takes place in June of 2015 with Cassie finding all this out and falling for her new aunt's assistant Nick, while the other half is flashbacks to June of 1955 when Jack and his movie came to film in St. Jude and the whirlwind romance of Jack & June that summer. I loved this novel and I've read another of Miranda's books but this one is my favorite now. I love Classic Hollywood and getting the flashbacks in this and was so awesome to see two chapters actually set in my city Columbus and at places I've actually been to. I've never really read too many books that take place in Ohio so that was fun. Just such a great twist filled book and one of my new favorites this year.
Buffy, that does sound intriguing. I may check that out. The contrast between old Hollywood and present day reminds me a bit of one of my favorite guilty pleasures, a novel from the late '70s by Trevor Meldal Johnsen called "Always". In that book, a screenwriter in Los Angeles starts having flashbacks of a past life in which he was involved with a tragic young actress. The book has kind of a cult following.
I'm wondering if anyone has read the Stephen King book The Stand?...a friend of mine wanted me to read it because she said it's one of her favorite books...so she lent it to me...it's over 1100 pages..and now she tells me it's about 90% of the world's population getting offed by some virus...omg...don't know if I want to do this or not...doesn't sound like something I would like...any opinions of it out there?
I haven't read it but I can tell you that it inspired Glenn's song Brave New World.Quote:
Originally Posted by zeldabjr
I've never read "The Stand" but it's because we watched some of the TV miniseries in my high school science class when we were studying viruses and it scared me so bad. LOL I have really bad OCD and viruses and germs are a part of it so that's one I for sure will stay away from. However, I do like other Stephen King books/movies/shows but more that are in the science fiction genre like "Under the Dome" or "11/22/63" or like "Stand by Me", and not horror. I also want to check out his "Mr. Mercedes" series as it's his first detective/mystery novels.
wow..really? so I guess Glenn must have read it huh?Quote:
Originally Posted by Freypower
Well, yes, I must assume as much.Quote:
Originally Posted by zeldabjr
That's so cool that Glenn was inspired by The Stand, did not know that. The original 1978 edition - it can be hard to find - is a great, powerful book. Terribly exciting and instantly involving. You must read it.
However, for reasons known only to himself, Stephen King re-wrote the book some 10+ years later, "updating" the events and such. It just didn't feel the same to me. You get some glaring anachronisms like a young woman's apartment in the 1990s having a poster of the movie "Love Story" - dumb stuff like that which pulls you out of the dark spell the original book had.
I just got done with a book called Sherlock Holmes Illustrated. It contains several of Holmes short stories, and info about Holmes, Conan Doyle, London at the time, and Scotland Yard.
Up next is the book that UtW recommended for me.
oh that sounds wonderful AG...I love Sherlock Holmes!! who wrote it?Quote:
Originally Posted by AlreadyGone95
The only author listed is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I found it in a local library besides the canon stories/books under Doyle's name. Here's the amazon page for it. https://www.amazon.com/Sherlock-Holm.../dp/0723565996Quote:
Originally Posted by zeldabjr
Thanks AG...I just ordered a copy of it!!Quote:
Originally Posted by AlreadyGone95
I hope you enjoy reading it.Quote:
Originally Posted by zeldabjr
I just got done reading Betty White's autobiography, If You Ask Me(And of Course You Won't). It's a great insight into her life.
I'mNow reading William Shatner's autobiography, Shatner Rules. So far, I'm :rofl: while reading it.
After this book, I plan on reading two American classics, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and Alice Walker's The Color Purple.
Did she address why she posed nude as a young actress? I don't ask that in a judge-y way; I'm just curious if she needed the dough and/or didn't consider it a big deal.Quote:
Originally Posted by AlreadyGone95
I just finished a fantastic debut novel called "Sweetbitter" by Stephanie Danler!!! :D I can't believe it was her first book and it was so well written and I couldn't put it down. It's about Tess, a young woman who moves to New York from Ohio in 2006 and gets a job at a fancy restaurant making friends with her fellow coworkers, idolizes an older server Simone who takes her under her wing, and falls for the "bad boy" bartender Jake. It seems ideal for a while but then Tess starts to realize the truth and it's heartbreaking. I could relate so much to Tess as I used to think about moving to New York or California as a teen but never did, usually end up falling for the wrong boys, and that I used to work at a restaurant and I hated it. LOL This is one I really hope becomes a movie and made me a fan of Stephanie.
I mostly "do" audiobooks now, as I previously mentioned, because of a long commute. Just started Donald Fagen's Eminent Hipsters, a book of essays which he narrates himself. Mr. Fagen of course is the voice and at least half the brain of Steely Dan.
What a jazz fiend this man is! And he communicates his passion so persuasively that I find myself listening to the Boswell Sisters, a 1920s New Orleans singing trio, because he argues so well that Connie Boswell is a musician's musician with a catalogue as worthy of respect as Duke Ellington.
No, she didn't. This book focuses more on her life in recent years. (It has published in 2011.)Quote:
Originally Posted by NightMistBlue
Just curious, is anyone going to read or is reading the new Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child? I'm debating on whether to see if my library has it or to buy the book.
My daughter is currently read this AG, I can let you know if she approves. My kids are huge Potter fans.Quote:
Originally Posted by AlreadyGone95
I'll be getting it from the library within the next couple days as I had reserved it. I do have some friends who've already read it and most liked it. Some were disappointed it's actually the play's script but most of us knew that months ago. I'm excited to know what happens and see the characters as adults and their kids. Entertainment Weekly gave the script & actual play an A grade and most of the critics seems to be really loving it.
I didn't realize that Irving Azoff is still managing Steely Dan and Donald Fagen when he's solo. The latter part of Fagen's book is a 2012 tour diary, when he was on the road with Michael McDonald and Boz Scaggs. It is laugh-out-loud funny, with Fagen describing the "leprechaun-sized" Azoff as traveling everywhere with imposing bodyguards, and "owning a piece in everything that remains of the music industry" that continuously spits money back at him.
While I've been away on holiday I've been reading a book called Football Against The Enemy. It was written in the mid-1990s, it describes the author's personal journey across the world and talking to footballing (and non-footballing) people, and the role that football has played in each society.
There are many fascinating stories which range from the moving and shocking (such as one East German man's determination to follow the West German side Hertha Berlin from the other side of the wall) to moments of comedy (for instance, the Senegal national team missed out on the 1990 World Cup through sheer incompetence, by failing to submit their entry). The timing makes it especially interesting in the chapters on the former Soviet states, which had only recently gained independence, and immediately post-apartheid South Africa. It is a riveting read and I would recommend it to anyone with so much as a passing interest in association football. Even my mum, whose interest in the game is casual at best, really enjoyed reading the chapter about the rivalry between the Dutch and German national teams.
Reading Cross Creek by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings for the second time. Love this book, the farm it is based on is nearby. A friend and I toured it last week so thats why I am re reading.
My fourth novel "Angel Eyes" is finally out!!! :D It's on Amazon here in both paperback & Kindle formats and it's also available in paperback and ePub versions on other sites including where I self-published on Lulu. I'm really excited about this one as it took me over two years to write & finish this and it's my first romantic-thriller novel. I actually got the idea for it two years ago after watching the film version of "Jersey Boys", having read Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing", and hearing Eric Church's song "Springsteen" all around the same time.
Woah! You're lucky to live in such a beautiful place. I read the book years ago and it made me want to be a farmer for awhile :) Finally toured the house a few years ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by LovinGlennGirl
Have you ever seen the movie starring Mary Steenburgen?
Congratulations, Buffy! :cheers:Quote:
Originally Posted by buffyfan145
Good for you, Buffy! I hope it does well!
I'm currently reading the Sheila Weller book, Girls Like Us. I really like Carole King and Carly Simon's music, not too thrilled about Joni Mitchell's. Good stories so far. Some of you have already read it, I think.
Yes, I read it (actually, listened to the audiobook) and found it very interesting.
There's some Eagles content in the Carole King section.
I'm back to reading detective novels. I'm through the first three of the Wallender series (Henning Mankell) and I'm enjoying the style. A hero who seems ordinary and feels out of depth in the way crime is developing in Sweden, lots of human error and yet he somehow makes it through and solves the crime.
I'm now onto the fifth of Harry Bingham's "Fiona Griffiths" series. I started reading these because it's my home territory and I've continued because they're different and intriguing. She's a young - and rather odd - detective in the South Wales police and it's all told in the first person.
UtW, did you watch the Wallender television series starring Kenneth Branagh? I was wondering how faithful the books are. Might be too depressing for me, though I did "enjoy" (if that's the right word!) the tv show.Quote:
Originally Posted by UndertheWire
Thanks NMB and Brooke!!! :D
I remember the "Wallender" show too, especially since Tom Hiddleston was on it before he got famous, but I haven't read them either.
I've only seen one episode which I enjoyed - I do like Kenneth Branagh - and I've just read the book on which it was loosely based. There were very big differences for good reasons. The book was set in 1992, near the end of apartheit and is about an attempted assassination of Nelson Mandela whereas the tv show was set some twenty years later and had a much simpler and less extreme plot.Quote:
Originally Posted by NightMistBlue
I don't find the books depressing. Perhaps I'm hopeful that things will get better for poor Kurt. He seems a nice man. I also think it's funny that Kurt's father spends his life painting the same scene but sometimes with a grouse and sometimes without.
What an intriguing idea. It's kind of appalling that Shaun Cassidy could still be affecting my life though. Geez, don't I have enough to deal with...
I like that idea too. :D Wonder what it says about me that I had multiple and that Glenn, Don, George Harrison, and Paul McCartney were part of it along with my normal pre-teen crushes of Paul Rudd, Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and other actors & musicians from the 90s. LOL :lol:
Yes, I've seen the movie, and loved it, but the book is better. But I always think that. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by NightMistBlue
As I am re-reading it I keep comparing it to what I saw on the tour. It makes me want to go back again, even though I just went. It touches my heart.
I'm reading a science fiction classic, Douglas Adams' A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It's a bit quirky for my tastes but not bad. I have a few more of my usual tastes after this (historical fiction). After those books, I plan to read Margret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind. I've never read the book nor watched the movie.
I would like opinions on the Harry Potter book. All of the copies at the library were checked out, and I didn't want to pay $30 for it yet.
In the autobiography department, I bought Tony Hawk's autobiography on Amazon. I like skateboarding and am a fan of his, so I'm sure I'll like his book.
First celebrity crush? Chipper Jones (baseball player) was probably the first one I had. My first crush on a musician was Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony.
You sound like a cute kid! I remember Shaun's ice blue satin jacket very well, I had a door-sized poster of him wearing it. But he married young and never even gave me a chance...
I'm currently reading "Long Promised Road" a biography of Beach Boy Carl Wilson. It's extremely well researched but focuses almost entirely on the music. If you want to know anything personal about Carl, you're outta luck.
Aside: Shaun Cassidy was/is a serious BB fan and covered an obscure but gorgeous Brian Wilson tune "It's Like Heaven" on his Todd Rundgren-produced LP Under Wraps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqiZ...=RDlqiZQe3ufB0