The Old Folks Home

[tnspursfan09]

I love Dean Koontz. Totally trippy but shorter than Stephen King's. My fav was soul(sole) survivor cant remember the exact spelling.
Any of the Anne Rice vampire books are awesome too. The Vampire Lestat is my fav of
that series.
Have u read "Girl with the dragon tatoo"?.
I will have to look when I get home at my suggestions.
U cant go wrong with Dean Koontz or Anne Rice. Stephen King is good but he takes 5 pages to describe the color of a jacket.
Just my opinion of course. Not trying to start a riot

Rice's Mayfair Witches series is good too, especially when Lestat shows up.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Right now I'm reading a biography Finding Everett Ruess. Not my usual thing but I love history. Kinda like Into The Wild's Chris McCandless. He was a young man who up and disappeared in 1934 at age 20, he was writer and artist and wilderness explorer. His last known camp was in Davis Gulch in a canyon in Utah's desert. He has become somewhat of a legend.

I like history, too, and I like the southwest. I'm surprised Dsqard hasn't drug me off to Davis Gulch, yet.
I'd totally be game for it, though. I wanna get away.

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote:
Yes it is. It is the only thing that they can eat that won't hurt the turkey that I can think of. lol and it is cheap at the hardware store.

My grandpa Dixon brooded chicks on Blow sand. He built his own brooder out of a sheet of corrugated tin for the bottom four sides for containment and filled it with about three inches of blow sand...

In the desert blow sand like talc and builds up around bushes and rocks.. and goes through the door underneath making sand dunes on your floors. When I was a kid and we were having a sand storm you could hear it falling on everyone's papers in the class room tic tic tic... When it got that bad they sent us home...

But Grandpa was a brilliant farmer and a sharecropper. He would put a kerosine lamp under the brooder and that tin would pass on the heat to the chicks.... Dad said they would sprawl out on the sand to sleep. I know they made kerosine brooders back in those days but Grandpa just made his own...



deb

 

[Puddin Fluff]

I need to start a good book myself but lately BYC has been my reading outlet. Hopefully in about 10 days I will be able to pick up and have time to read a book again.

 

[perchie.girl]

I stopped reading series after I attempted to read the Tarnesman of GOR....

I think he stopped at number 48... Scifi very sexist but I loved it...

Not a romance novel reader but am kind of enjoying the ones by Nora Roberts Grandma reads one per day on Audio. So we ALL get to hear the juicy bits... I am thinking... Wow grandmas pretty forward thinking for a 98 year old. Shes been reading Nora Roberts for a good twenty hears before her eyesight failed her. For what its worth the Braille institute has just about everything in digital format and the use is free because its a library.

Once a month we take her there and she brings a HUGE Bag of the books shes read and then she comes home with a HUGE bag of books to read.

deb

 

[bamadude]

Rice's Mayfair Witches series is good too, especially when Lestat shows up.

I will check that out. Thanks

 

[ozexpat]

mrs oz and I will do audiobooks on road trips with 3+ days of driving. we will do 4 hrs a day.

I commuted 90 mins to 2 hrs on a consultancy gig a few years back. audiobooks kept me sane on the 101 each afternoon

 

[bamadude]

just because you are a rude obnoxious cad, there is no need ti hide.

we still love you

Not sure what a cad is but I'll take it as a 1 thumb up

 

[ozexpat]

Not sure what a cad is but I'll take it as a 1 thumb up

not to be taken out of the context of the humorous statement it originated in:

cad = A man whose behavior is unprincipled or dishonorable

 

[tntchix]

I am reading the Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz.

I love Odd and Dean Koontz. I started reading his stuff years ago.

I can't bring myself to read a book on a screen, I want the real thing.
I always tell people who like Stephen King and Dean Koontz type books they should read one of my all time favorites, Louis L'Amour's The Haunted Mesa. His only science fiction book, and one of the last books he wrote before he died. It's about the Anasazi Indians, third worlds, portals, crazy spooky weird and excellent book. If it didn't have L'Amour's name on the cover you would never guess he wrote it, and I love his westerns, read every single book he wrote, but I think this was his best.

My new favorite author is Luke Romyn. He is a twitter friend and his work is amazing. His own back story is unreal. I am going to read L'Amour's book asap.