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[LarryPQ]

Because she reads so much, and so quickly, she usually like series...so she'll go through phases. Sometimes literary fiction, sometimes Nora Roberts trilogies, sometimes scifi/fantasy...until she gets bored. That is why I hit up garage sales. People usually sell whole series for $.25 apeice. She'll read them, I'll read them, and then we turn them into Bookman's for store credit.

Once some nerd's mom was selling all his World of Warcraft books. 3 cases of them for $25. I took them to Bookman's and got $358 in store credit.

(I rock)

Right now the MIL is into urban fantasy--like The Iron Hunt, the Dresden Files, Kim Harrison, etc. Easy reads, but good characters and lots of books.

 

[scbatz33]

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Has she read Water for Elephants? Not funny, but an awesome book.

The Thirteenth Tale is also very good.

And The Forgotten Garden is one I read recently and LOVED!!! Kind of a mystery, very well written.

Water for Elephants was BRILLIANT!!!!

Like the Wizard of Oz series by Gregory Maguire.....start with Wicked, Son of a Witch and then A Lion Among Men

His other books are good too, but these are the best!

 

[LarryPQ]

Gregory Maguire

We have all those...

You all like Orson Scott Card? My eldest son is named Ender from Ender's Game.

I really like his Alvin Maker series. He is so funny, and you KNOW every mom in his books is a perfect snapshot of his mother.​

 

[wegotchickens]

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Charles d'Lint: all good & many characters overlap
If she can handle blood and war, Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Chronicles are wonderful books!!


Poor nerb. Bet he coulda killed his mom. A lot of nerds lost baseball cards worth big $ the same way.

 

[wegotchickens]

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Has she read Water for Elephants? Not funny, but an awesome book.

The Thirteenth Tale is also very good.

And The Forgotten Garden is one I read recently and LOVED!!! Kind of a mystery, very well written.

Water for Elephants was BRILLIANT!!!!

Like the Wizard of Oz series by Gregory Maguire.....start with Wicked, Son of a Witch and then A Lion Among Men

His other books are good too, but these are the best!

I just could not get into Wicked at all. Would like to see the Broadway show, though.
I read something by O.S.C. long ago, so long ago I don't remember what it was...

 

[wegotchickens]

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Enjoyed all those, too.

Have recently been reading a spy/mystery series. The Black Orchid, The Pink Carnation.

I love series books, too. I get attached to the characters.

For fantasy, Steven Brust has an awesome series about another world. Start with 'Jhereg'.

 

[wegotchickens]

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Not anymore. 12:01 at my location...

Thinkin about nukin some lunch.

Oh... Well then, good afternoon!

What's up?

We're being good, and discussing books. Can you see our halos?

 

[Reinbeau]

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We have all those...

You all like Orson Scott Card? My eldest son is named Ender from Ender's Game.

Awesome book - and the series afterwards was fantastic.

I really like his Alvin Maker series. He is so funny, and you KNOW every mom in his books is a perfect snapshot of his mother.

I tried to get into the Alvin Maker series but couldn't. I have the first three or four, I'll have to try them again.​

 

[LarryPQ]

I like to go to the Nurse's sale (they raise money via donated books) and buy all the 1960s and 1970s scifi novels. Good, good stuff: horribly awful political ideals and bad characters, nudity, and half-aced feminism. LOVE IT!

The Black Orchid, The Pink Carnation

These sound like smut books, Ms. O'keefe.​

 

[Ec_Prokta]

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Oh... Well then, good afternoon!

What's up?

We're being good, and discussing books. Can you see our halos?

If I squint really hard, then yeah, I can see them.