What have you been reading?

[Sally PB]

I'm currently reading Intruder by CJ Cherryh. I have loved her books for over forty years.

DH is a big fan of hers. A friend of his knows her. And the friend told us that her last name is pronounced, "Cherry." I can't remember if she said CJ just added the "h"...

 

[aart]

I finally read Devil in the White City, after thinking it sounded interesting 15 years ago. It was ok, but some of the history of the time (1895) was most interesting part.

Horror and History.
I remember liking it a great deal....been years tho.

 

[Sally PB]

Horror and History.
I remember liking it a great deal....been years tho.

I got bogged down in some of the details about building the World's Fair. Some of the details were fascinating -- like how deep they had to put supports down into the ground in that area -- but some of the interpersonal stuff made my eyes glaze over.

That H. H. Holmes got away with so much for so long... SMH.

 

[cherrynberry]

Now I really want to read it. It is indeed a fascinating opening.

I’m almost done with it. I quite like Charles Dickens’s writing style. Might get myself a copy of Great Expectations once I finish the other books I’m reading

 

[cherrynberry]

I recently started reading Macbeth in class. Tbh, not a book I would pick up on my own, but I’m actually enjoying it. It seems to be extremely concrete, like most books written in that time period

 

[fuzzi]

DH is a big fan of hers. A friend of his knows her. And the friend told us that her last name is pronounced, "Cherry." I can't remember if she said CJ just added the "h"...

Ooh. Lucky friend!

She did add the "h", publisher's idea I recall reading. She also used "CJ" because female authors weren't taken seriously.

There are only a couple of her books that I felt were just "okay".

 

[Sally PB]

DH and his dad always pronounced her last name "sher-rye'" so I laughed when I found out it was Cherry. lol.

 

[fuzzi]

DH and his dad always pronounced her last name "sher-rye'" so I laughed when I found out it was Cherry. lol.

Her brother David Cherry has illustrated some of her books. He didn't add the "h"

 

[Sally PB]

I’m almost done with it. I quite like Charles Dickens’s writing style. Might get myself a copy of Great Expectations once I finish the other books I’m reading

I read Great Expectations in a lit class in college. That got me on a Dickens kick, and I read a lot of his books. Plus, they were CHEAP entertainment. For what I got paid for less than an hour's work, I could buy and read a great, well-written book that would take me several hours to read.

 

[Callender Girl]

I usually alternate among "serious" reading, helpful (i.e. how-to stuff) reading and fun reading. I have just started on Sean Flynn's "Why Peacocks? An Unlikely Search for Meaning in the World's Most Magnificent Bird."

So far, It's pretty good, but it prompted my concerned sister to ask if I was planning to add peafowl to my chickens, ducks and geese. No. I have enough avian drama in my life.