Books on the night stand

[PennLady]

The following books are sitting on my nightstand at the moment, waiting to be read. Most were picked up free at the library. What's on your nightstand?

I do plan to read these but there's only so much time in a day.

Michael Moorcock -- The Chronicles of Corum
Movie Trivia Quiz book
Bryan Daley -- Han Solo and the Lost Legacy
Walter Mosley -- Fearless Jones
Kathy Love -- Wanting Something More (picked up by PennGirl, who liked the pink cover)
Kristina Douglas -- The Fallen: Raziel, and The Fallen: Demon
Julian May -- The Many-Colored Land
Valentine Davies -- Miracle on 34th Street
Carl Hiaasen -- Lucky You
Donald Mackenzie -- Raven and the Paper Hangers (what a title!)
Ariel Burke -- Playing with Matches
Donald E Westlake -- The Hot Rock
Michael Moorcock -- The Coming of the Terraphiles (A Dr Who novel)
Sunny -- Mona Lisa Awakening
Neil Gaiman -- The Graveyard Book (just finished; excellent)
Elisabeth Mann Borgese, Ed -- Ocean Frontiers: Explorations by Oceanographers on Five Continents
Roger Ebert -- Life Itself (in progress)

 

[trysail]

The following books are sitting on my nightstand at the moment, waiting to be read. Most were picked up free at the library. What's on your nightstand?

I do plan to read these but there's only so much time in a day.

Michael Moorcock -- The Chronicles of Corum
Movie Trivia Quiz book
Bryan Daley -- Han Solo and the Lost Legacy
Walter Mosley -- Fearless Jones
Kathy Love -- Wanting Something More (picked up by PennGirl, who liked the pink cover)
Kristina Douglas -- The Fallen: Raziel, and The Fallen: Demon
Julian May -- The Many-Colored Land
Valentine Davies -- Miracle on 34th Street
Carl Hiaasen -- Lucky You
Donald Mackenzie -- Raven and the Paper Hangers (what a title!)
Ariel Burke -- Playing with Matches
Donald E Westlake -- The Hot Rock
Michael Moorcock -- The Coming of the Terraphiles (A Dr Who novel)
Sunny -- Mona Lisa Awakening
Neil Gaiman -- The Graveyard Book (just finished; excellent)
Elisabeth Mann Borgese, Ed -- Ocean Frontiers: Explorations by Oceanographers on Five Continents
Roger Ebert -- Life Itself (in progress)

Mein Gott !!
Is OSHA aware of this hazard? I hope your nightstand is substantial and that you only approach it whilst wearing a hardhat and overhead protection.


Caroline Alexander— The Bounty: The True Story of The Mutiny On The Bounty

Sir Richard Burton (translator)— The Arabian Night's Entertainment or The Book of A Thousand Nights and A Night

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle— The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Ina Caro— Paris To The Past

Wade Davis— Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest

John Maxtone-Graham— The Only Way To Cross

Lady Antonia Fraser— The Middle Ages

 

[mynameisben]

Let's see here...


- Giddeon's Bible

- Night Life in Des Moines! (a single sheet flyer, headlining Bubba Ray's Cornhuskin' Hoedown)

- A half full bottle of vodka (who says I'm not an optimist?)

- Latest two issues of Skank! Magazine

 

[lovecraft68]

Han Solo and the Lost Legacy? Now I don't feel so bad I thought I was the only one who read that?

have you read Han Solo's Revenge and Han Solo at Stars End? Lost legacy is the best of them.

Right now I have F. Paul Wilson's Harbinger (part of the repairman jack series)

Against all Things Ending (The 3rd book in the 3rd Thomas Covenant series.)

Sadly I have not started either because I feel both series have over stayed their welcome, and only have them because they were x-mas presents. So not sure if they will ever be touched.

 

[TxRad]

Sadly, I don't have a nightstand.

 

[PennLady]

Sadly, I don't have a nightstand.

It can be a metaphorical nightstand. Wherever you keep those books you think you read some day.

 

[PennLady]

Han Solo and the Lost Legacy? Now I don't feel so bad I thought I was the only one who read that?

I haven't read it yet. Actually I picked it up to see if it'd be appropriate for PennBoy. He's been reading the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series (like, devouring it) and he likes Star Wars, so I thought I'd see how HSLL was. I doubt he'll like it, but maybe I will. I don't know what he'll read when the Guardians series is finished.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Sadly, I don't have a nightstand.

Your shopping cart prolly works just as well.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

Barbara Kingsolver-- Poisonwood bible
Stephan King- Nightmares and Dreamscapes
Stephan King-- Firestarter
Stephan King-- Hearts in Atlantis
Stephan King--Eyes of a Dragon
Stephan King-- 'Salem's Lot
Stephan King-- The Bachman Books
Margaret Atwood-- Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood-- The Handmaiden's Tale
Robert T Bakker-- Raptor Red
Ken Follet-- A Place Called Freedom
Ken Follet-- Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follet-- World without End
Robert Cormier-- I am the Cheese
Robert Cormier-- Tenderness

The rest of my books are at home, this was all I had room for at college.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

I haven't read it yet. Actually I picked it up to see if it'd be appropriate for PennBoy. He's been reading the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series (like, devouring it) and he likes Star Wars, so I thought I'd see how HSLL was. I doubt he'll like it, but maybe I will. I don't know what he'll read when the Guardians series is finished.

I freakin loved the 'extended universe' star wars books. I don't remember what they were called, but I read two books about Han Solo before the events that happened in the original trilogy. When he met Chewy and rescued a girl from a planet-wide cult, and when he first met Boba Fett

 

[PennLady]

The rest of my books are at home, this was all I had room for at college.

When I was in college, I remember reading every Kurt Vonnegut book the library had. From home, I had a lot of Robert Ludlum and it was a struggle not to read them, b/c if I did, I knew I'd be suckered in for a couple of days.

 

[lovecraft68]

I haven't read it yet. Actually I picked it up to see if it'd be appropriate for PennBoy. He's been reading the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series (like, devouring it) and he likes Star Wars, so I thought I'd see how HSLL was. I doubt he'll like it, but maybe I will. I don't know what he'll read when the Guardians series is finished.

it's suitable for PennBoy there is no profanity or sex beyond a kiss. Pretty Tame

A good series for him would be Brian Lumley's Dreamlands series. It's based on the dreamlands of HP Lovecraft, but nothing a kid can't handle.

 

[PennLady]

it's suitable for PennBoy there is no profanity or sex beyond a kiss. Pretty Tame

A good series for him would be Brian Lumley's Dreamlands series. It's based on the dreamlands of HP Lovecraft, but nothing a kid can't handle.

He's finished book four of the Guardians, and my parents have five and six for him, which we plan to get this weekend. In the meantime, he said he's going to read Bruce Boudreau's book (former Caps' coach), which I read and is pretty amusing. It's called Gabby: Confessions of a Hockey Lifer. And despite his speeches on HBO's 24/7 a couple of years ago, there's no profanity in the book. I'll keep Dreamlands in mind, though.

For the Daley book, I'm just not sure. PennBoy only knows the movies and The Clone Wars series, so I don't know if he'll be interested in the extended universe for the old movies. If he's not now, though, perhaps when he's older.

 

[sr71plt]

I have 48 books on my nightstand. Too many to list, but on top of the four stacks are Kathy Reichs, Death Du Jour; Peter Corris, The Coast Road; John LeCarre, Our Kind of Traitor; and Andrea Camilleri, The Smell of the Night.

It's certainly not that I read fast. Some of these books have been on my nightstand in Bangkok and Cyprus as well. I'll start the LeCarre book later today. I usually make myself dip down to into the bottom of the pile every other read (I'm also reading just-bought ones or ones by friends) and either read or toss.

 

[Darkniciad]

Polgara the Sorceress - David and Leigh Eddings - for probably the fifth or sixth time. Just finished Belgarath the Sorceror again.

A Crown Imperiled - Raymond E. Feist. Hard to believe after all the years, and all the generations that this is the next to the last book in the Riftwars.

 

[Derroreaper]

A couple from Sidney Sheldon (Already read once)

Master of the game.
Bloodline.

ebooks number in the hundreds, right now I'm looking to start some steam-punk stuff

Arcadia Snips and the Steamwork Consortium - Robert Rodgers
Pax Britannia_ Unnatural History - Jonathan Green
Pax Britannia_ Leviathan Rising - Jonathan Green
Pax Britannia_ Human Nature - Jonathan Green

As for Pennboy, when I was in maybe sixth to eight grades, I read the Flinx series by Alan Dean Foster. Great sci-fi stuff.

 

[PennLady]

As for Pennboy, when I was in maybe sixth to eight grades, I read the Flinx series by Alan Dean Foster. Great sci-fi stuff.

I wasn't counting my e-books on Kindle, which also number in the hundreds. Mr Penn is borrowing it now anyway.

I will have to check the Flinx series. PennBoy just turned eight, but he's a good reader, so perhaps he could read the series now. It'll be interesting to see if he likes sci-fi at some point; he's really only read fantasy, like the Guardians series, and Chris D'Lacey's Last Dragon Chronicles and a couple of others. He also likes nonfiction -- he's brought home school library books on baseball, science, etc. And he has a Nook, but he prefers paper books.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

-- he's brought home school library books on baseball, science, etc. And he has a Nook, but he prefers paper books.

Praise the lord!

I will never get one of those devil-tablets!

 

[Derroreaper]

Praise the lord!

I will never get one of those devil-tablets!

I like the idea I can copy stories from Lit and read them wherever I want. Nothing worse than the nosy people that start tilting their head to read the cover of your book.

You still have to hear a lot of, "Is that one of those ereader things?"

 

[PennLady]

Praise the lord!

I will never get one of those devil-tablets!

No offense, but can we please stop saying things like this? There is nothing wrong with an e-reader, and I'm not just saying that b/c I have e-books available. It is a handy and convenient method of reading that allows me to carry a small library of all kinds of genres to read whenever I want. It also saves my arms and hands since I don't have to hold a heavy hardback, or keep a thick paperback open.

I have classics, and sucky stuff, and all kinds of things in between. My son enjoys his Nook, but -- as I pointed out to a friend who was surprised he didn't favor the Nook -- it's not like his classroom is full of e-readers. There are paper books all over the place, it's still his primary exposure to books, and I'm happy to feed that. I get him books from the library all the time, but I try to encourage the Nook when I can, b/c I think in the future he'll be using a lot more of something like that.

I wish to God I'd had something like this in college or high school and didn't have to lug around a bunch of heavy books.

This is like people who say "I'll never get a cell phone" and whatnot. This is just change, and I'm not saying you need to get one, or get it right away, or anything like that. But it's not a "devil" anything. It's simply a tool, a method of conveying information.

I like the idea I can copy stories from Lit and read them wherever I want. Nothing worse than the nosy people that start tilting their head to read the cover of your book.

You still have to hear a lot of, "Is that one of those ereader things?"

I suppose they could tilt their head and try to read the text on your screen.

 

[sr71plt]

I'll probably never buy an e-reader either--but I'm sure as hell glad that there's a whole new generation that prefers reading that way. I have enough unread print books on my selves to last me a lifetime--and I can (and have) downloaded Kindle books to my computer.

I'm sure some Christmas someone will give me a Kindle or Nook, though. (I'll probably put it in a drawer with my unused Sony Walkman. And although I've been given two cell phones, the one who gave them to me is the one who uses them--although I take one on road trips for emergencies).

 

[lovecraft68]

Praise the lord!

I will never get one of those devil-tablets!

Amen, sister! There is nothing like the sight of a well organized book case and the feel of a book in your hands.

The kindle is more from the instant gratification generation.

Of course, I'm not above taking advantage of them by selling e-books on them, but for me I enjoy regular books to much to bother.

I have a kindle to pc app and own about 8 e-books all from authors here that I bought to try to show some support.

I also only use about sixty minutes a week on my cellphone. I just can't grasp the concept of wanting to constantly be in touch with someone. I like my quiet time.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

I love paper books though!

I love the weight, I love the feel of the pages, I even love the goddamn smell.

Also, you can't read a kindle in the bathtub

 

[Dianthus]

I love paper books though!

I love the weight, I love the feel of the pages, I even love the goddamn smell.

Also, you can't read a kindle in the bathtub

I do. A clear plastic Ziploc bag protects my Kobo and I can still use the buttons.

 

[Derroreaper]

I love paper books though!

I love the weight, I love the feel of the pages, I even love the goddamn smell.

Also, you can't read a kindle in the bathtub

On the contrary, that's why I bought my mom a Kindle. Just drop it in a zip lock bag and no more swollen paperbacks

Doesnt work with a touch screen though