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Location: Bandera, TX | I love to read. I'm currently reading "The Worst Hard Times" by Timothy Eagan - it's about the dust bowl. Very interesting book. Next is "Killing Jesus" by Bill O'Reilly.
I recently enjoyed the "Threads West" series and awaiting the next book to come out. |
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Location: Nebraska | GoMistyGo - 2013-11-25 10:36 AM I love to read. I'm currently reading "The Worst Hard Times" by Timothy Eagan - it's about the dust bowl. Very interesting book. Next is "Killing Jesus" by Bill O'Reilly.
I recently enjoyed the "Threads West" series and awaiting the next book to come out.
I heard the Killing Jesus, Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln are really good books. |
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Location: South East Kansas | Silly Filly - 2013-11-24 12:26 PM
Love Stephanie Plum and love to read. Have you read Sue Grafton's books? Starts with A is for Alias and goes through the alphabet. I love her books too.
LOVE the Sue Grafton series.
Patricia Cornwell also.
Like the Jack Reacher series.
Looking for some new mystery series if any body has any ideas.
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Location: Midwest | cjane - 2013-11-25 10:45 AM Silly Filly - 2013-11-24 12:26 PM Love Stephanie Plum and love to read. Have you read Sue Grafton's books? Starts with A is for Alias and goes through the alphabet. I love her books too. LOVE the Sue Grafton series. Patricia Cornwell also. Like the Jack Reacher series. Looking for some new mystery series if any body has any ideas.
I like Agatha Christie. Not a series, but And Then There Were None is a good read |
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| I use to love reading, but after college I'd had enough reading for awhile. I started listening to audiobooks on my commute and while working. A few series I enjoyed were the Divergent series (which has a movie coming out soon) and I read the Fallen series also. I am wanting to read the new Nicolas Sparks book though The Longest Ride. |
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 Hate Windows 8
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Location: Oregon | Herbie - 2013-11-25 7:03 AM Those of you who are listening to books when you ride or clean stalls, where are your purchasing them and are you listening on your phone? I'm somewhat technically challenged but that sounds really enjoyable!
I download mine off our local library. They have a large selection but not everything.
I use a Sansa MP3 player, and have had to call/email the library to get the kinks out to download in the beginning. This new computer I finally figured out to download mp3.
Well worth the effort to be able to listen to something. |
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Location: Arkansas | countrygirl2006 - 2013-11-25 9:04 AM rach.k - 2013-11-25 9:00 AM Has anyone read the Lonesome Dove books? Worth reading or is the movie just as good? (Can't believe I just said that, but c'mon- it's LONESOME DOVE!) I love Wicked & the Hunger Games Trilogy; I really like Twilight when I read those too! I personally really like George MacDonald! He is technically a children's author although not all of his works are children's books, but I love even those supposedly written for kids! My favorite was "At the Back of the North Wind," (Which I believe is free on Kindle). Yes, Lonesome Dove is even better than the movie! Didn't think that was possible, but it is. Lol. It goes into a lot more detail and has some things that weren't in the movie. Well worth the read!
Nothing like the movie. The movie would have been awesome (it was already good but...)if it had followed the book.
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| I like fiction smut (well, not total smut but authors like Nora Roberts, Debbie Macomber, etc.). I would like to read Bill O'Reilly's books. I watched Killing Kennedy and it was a good movie so I'd like to read the books now. Just finished a book called Borrowed Horses. Super good read, even for the non-horse person. |
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Location: South East Kansas | barrelracr131 - 2013-11-25 10:59 AM
cjane - 2013-11-25 10:45 AM Silly Filly - 2013-11-24 12:26 PM Love Stephanie Plum and love to read. Have you read Sue Grafton's books? Starts with A is for Alias and goes through the alphabet. I love her books too. LOVE the Sue Grafton series. Patricia Cornwell also. Like the Jack Reacher series. Looking for some new mystery series if any body has any ideas.
Yes to Agatha Christie and Ellery Queen, not new but good reads.
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Location: TX | I love to read and am addicted to auidobooks. I even listen to them while I am home and cleaning.
Favorite Author-Jennifer Crusie, 2 of my favorite of her's are Agnes and the Hitman and Tell me Lies
, kind of fun romantic comedy type and little mystery.
Favorite book-The $80 Champion-true story, any horse lover should probably love it!
Stephanie Bond's Body Movers series is good, I have not liked her other books. Kind of like the Stephanie Plum series, but I like Bond better.
I have liked Kristin HAnnah's books, but have bawled uncontrolably in all of them, don't read them on a plane. There is one that one of the main characters is a barrel racer, not a big part of the book, but I liked it.
I enjoyed Denise Swanson's series Murder of ...
Catherine Anderson-Cheyenne Amber was good
Where'd you go Bernadette was good
Nora Roberts-Angel fist or falls? and Montana Skies and Northern Lights are really good. I don't like her super natural books, a little too dark for me.
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Location: Out West | I have read all of the Stephanie Plum books - they crack my up. There is a movie based on the first "One for the Money" |
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Sideways Riding Expert
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Location: ND--it snows, it floods, it snows, it floods | I downloaded "Skidboot, The Smartest Dog in the World" for free the other day and I see it's back to having to pay for the book. |
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Location: Central Montana | I forgot to add Tess Gerritson to my list, I really like her stuff, Linda Fairstein's Alex Cooper series too. |
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Location: Gainesville, TX |
Somebody mentioned Anne McCaffrey and Mercedes Lackey, love them. Also a huge fan of Robin McKinley and Katie Macalister's romance spoofs. Gotta love a heroine who throws up on the male hero when they first meet. I love good humor. |
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Location: North MS | I read most anything fiction. I LOVE horses of course, but I can't finish Secretariat. Last night I read Lynsay Sands- The lady is a vamp. I love the series she has written about the Argeneau Vampire family and relating them to the lost city of Atlantis where nanos originally created to heal, continued to heal forever and never quit.
I love Stephanie Plum books and picked up two on Saturday as well. I haunt the local goodwill store and will soon have the entire series.
Another funny book I recently read was "The Housewife Assasin's Handbook". It was a free kindle download on amazon. I am finding a lot of new books on there to use on my Samsung Tab 2. I bought the sequel- The Housewife Assasin's guide to gracious killing. Basically a housewife is an undercover assasin while juggling 3 kids. More funny than gruesome.
Eyes of Ember and Kiss of Fire by Rebecca Ethington. Still somewhat a paranormal book, but more about elves and fairies. Of course a bad guy is trying to take over the world too.
I picked up a lot of Linda Lael Miller Saturday too because I wanted a few more western or at least horse related stories.
For book swapping I use-paperbackbookswap.com I list my books and mail at my cost. Pick books I want and get them for free as long as I have given someone else a book.
I used to read a lot of Christine Feehan but got tired of the re-occuring themes. Love the Charlaine Harris Sookie Series. Maryjanice Davidson has some funny vampire stories. Imagine a shopaholic vampire with style. She gets her characters into a lot of funny messes. One of the books is named "Unwed and Undead". Kim Harrison writes a little harder/edgier paranomal stuff. I've read a lot of JR Ward's stuff too. Jeaniene Frost is a little harder edged too. Laurel K. Hamilton is the same, but a lot of books in her series.
A funny book based on Mississippi that I found in Barnes and Noble lately is "Greedy Bones". It talks a lot about towns I drive through so I found it interesting.
Can't ready crime novels though- they give me nightmares. I guess because the chance of that happening is greater than any vampire or zombie attack. |
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Night Watchman
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Location: Central Montana | Anyone else?
I'm looking for Takedown Twenty when I shop this weekend. |
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Location: SC/Ga line | The best book is A More Excellent Way by Henry Wright their website is www.iamchanged.com I love this place. Changed my life wayyyy for the better :) |
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  Ms. Potato Head
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Location: BFE, Idaho | I love a little smut, or romance whatever you want to call it throw in some suspense and wa la.
These are two great sites that have tons of free: I only read free I can finish a up to three or four of these books a night I read really fast so buying them would kill me.
http://www.allromanceebooks.com/
http://www.omnilit.com/
http://www.publicbookshelf.com/index.html I love Lizzie Ford books. |
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 The Brave One
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Location: snowbelt, WA | phillyincal - 2013-11-24 10:00 AM Outwest - 2013-11-24 6:50 PM I agree about being Stephanie when I grow up too!!
You should listen to the audio book of the series sometime!! I've missed a few of the older ones, might have to break down and read a book; usually listen when I'm out riding!
I liked the Kate Buckholder Series by Linda Castillo, Amish murder mysteries.
Another Linda Castillo fan! Sixpatches and I are always chatting about the Kate Burkholder books. Have you read any of her back list? They are more romance and are a little cheesy, but Overkill is good. I think it was her last romance before she started the Kate series. It has a short barrel racing scene that is kind of fun. Linda has run barrels before so she wrote it well!
Can't believe we have to wait until July for the next one too! |
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The Brave One
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Location: snowbelt, WA | Some of the older Alex Kava books, Karin Slaughter and I really like the Linda Castillo books.
Currently reading the new Takedown Twenty. |
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