Books on the night stand

[mynameisben]

By the way, a computer is an e-reader. And Literotica stories are e-works. (duh)

And the teddy bear inhabitants of the planet Endor are Ewoks.

 

[PennLady]

Naked by david sedaris
A Dog in a Hat by Joe Parkin
God's Politics by Jim Wallis
The 2012 Liberty Mountain catalog

To participate in the eReader debate, I use an iPad for my everday computer needs and have been for almost a year. Im a subscriber to several magazines, that come in the mail, and have tried reading the e-version and nothing comes close to the memories that come with reading a magazine/book in your hands. I can also be less cautious when at a cafe reading something physical whereas I dont want to spill anything on my electronic device. There are so many other reasons where the physical copy beats out the electronic copy, but if I was traveling for an extended period of time or where space was limited I could see where the e-reader has an advantage.

Clearly there are advantages to both print books and e-readers, and I'm not saying otherwise. I have several coffee-table type books about sea creatures, and much would be lost on an e-ink Kindle b/c of the lack of color display. However, for other books, b&w pictures come across beautifully, and being able to resize the fonts is helpful. For me personally, one great use for the e-reader is when my kids are outside. I can hold that in one hand and walk around and read; keeps one hand free and it's much easier than carrying around a paper book (which I also do).

 

[_Lynn_]

I don't have any books on the nightstand. In fact, I don't have any books. Once I finish something it's gone because I don't read anything a second time. Plus, I don't like clutter. So why keep them around?

On the other hand, the Kindle is lightweight and easy to take along wherever I go. But I don't have many stories on it either. There might be a dozen.

 

[PennLady]

I don't have any books on the nightstand. In fact, I don't have any books. Once I finish something it's gone because I don't read anything a second time. Plus, I don't like clutter. So why keep them around?

Oh, I re-read books a lot. Good Omens most often, probably, but also the Elric saga, Jane Austen and others. It's like re-watching a movie. Love to visit old friends, as it were.

On the other hand, the Kindle is lightweight and easy to take along wherever I go. But I don't have many stories on it either. There might be a dozen.

LOL I must have put on a dozen freebies the first day I got it. I haven't counted lately but I know I have something like 140 romances, and then a lot of sf, fantasy, nonfiction, mysteries, etc. I get a lot of stuff I might not get otherwise, b/c I don't have to make shelf space for it.

 

[litfan10]

On my night stand as we speak: Joshua Foer's Moonwalking with Einstein, George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones, Jane Roberts' Seth Speaks, the May 2012 issue of Food Network Magazine, the April Comics Preview Catalog (to help me figure what will be on my night stand in a couple of months!) and a cross stitch kit I'm working on at the moment.

 

[_Lynn_]

Oh, I re-read books a lot. Good Omens most often, probably, but also the Elric saga, Jane Austen and others. It's like re-watching a movie. Love to visit old friends, as it were.



LOL I must have put on a dozen freebies the first day I got it. I haven't counted lately but I know I have something like 140 romances, and then a lot of sf, fantasy, nonfiction, mysteries, etc. I get a lot of stuff I might not get otherwise, b/c I don't have to make shelf space for it.

I don't watch movies either.

 

[litfan10]

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.

Kathryn Lasky the author of Ga'Hoole has a new wolf series that is very popular. Often Ga'Hoole readers gravitate towards Erin Hunter's Warrior series. Honestly in my school's library the Warrior series was signed out more often than Ga'Hoole.

 

[PennLady]

I don't watch movies either.

Mom??!! What are you doing here?!

Kathryn Lasky the author of Ga'Hoole has a new wolf series that is very popular. Often Ga'Hoole readers gravitate towards Erin Hunter's Warrior series. Honestly in my school's library the Warrior series was signed out more often than Ga'Hoole.

Is the Warrior series the one with cats? I think I saw that in a book store, but my son decided not to be interested. I think he was just in a snit b/c I was making him spend his bookstore gift card on, egads, a book. But I'll look for that.

I read Game of Thrones and all the following books. Good stuff!

 

[litfan10]

Mom??!! What are you doing here?!



Is the Warrior series the one with cats? I think I saw that in a book store, but my son decided not to be interested. I think he was just in a snit b/c I was making him spend his bookstore gift card on, egads, a book. But I'll look for that.

I read Game of Thrones and all the following books. Good stuff!

Yeah, Warriors is the one with the cats. They (Erin Hunter is three writers working together) have a bear series as well called Seekers. Oddly, Seekers flopped with Warrior readers but non Warrior readers liked it. Warriors are available as kindle books.

Love George R.R. Martin. Rereading GoT before watching the series.

 

[lovecraft68]

Yeah, Warriors is the one with the cats. They (Erin Hunter is three writers working together) have a bear series as well called Seekers. Oddly, Seekers flopped with Warrior readers but non Warrior readers liked it. Warriors are available as kindle books.

Love George R.R. Martin. Rereading GoT before watching the series.

I happen to know what else you have sitting unread on your nightstand.

 

[PennLady]

Yeah, Warriors is the one with the cats. They (Erin Hunter is three writers working together) have a bear series as well called Seekers. Oddly, Seekers flopped with Warrior readers but non Warrior readers liked it. Warriors are available as kindle books.

Love George R.R. Martin. Rereading GoT before watching the series.

Funny what series work with some fans and not others. I'll be going to the library on Friday, so I'll have to check the J Fic shelves again. Now I have specific targets, though.

Years ago, I loved Martin's Wild Cards series/collaboration/whatever. Still have some of the books, but not the complete series. I think it's being "rebooted" somehow, but I really thought the first few were excellent sf.

 

[_Lynn_]

Mom??!! What are you doing here?!



Is the Warrior series the one with cats? I think I saw that in a book store, but my son decided not to be interested. I think he was just in a snit b/c I was making him spend his bookstore gift card on, egads, a book. But I'll look for that.

I read Game of Thrones and all the following books. Good stuff!

*chuckle*

Movies -- and many books -- are so predictable they bore me.

 

[litfan10]

I happen to know what else you have sitting unread on your nightstand.

Ouch! eerrrrr... in my lousy defense (besides a horrible cat crisis) other than the Food mag and Previews the rest was there before a certain download. Technically, my ipad is on the bed not the nightstand, but I'll grab it and do some reading right now!

 

[lovecraft68]

Ouch! eerrrrr... in my lousy defense (besides a horrible cat crisis) other than the Food mag and Previews the rest was there before a certain download. Technically, my ipad is on the bed not the nightstand, but I'll grab it and do some reading right now!

No worries, I'm just busting your balls. I know that you have quite the beautiful distraction around you as well.

 

[PennLady]

*chuckle*

Movies -- and many books -- are so predictable they bore me.

Oh, well, you're not my mom, then. Mom just doesn't want to take the time to watch a movie. She just can't sit still that long, and the idea of watching one more than once kind of baffles her. I obviously take after Dad in that respect. Although with different movies.

 

[Dual_Triode]

From the dusty pile on my nightstand:

The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
Sweet Land Anthology - Will Weaver
The Code Book - Simon Singh
Most of Kurt Vonnegut's works

From my poetry stack:

The Book of Longing - Leonard Cohen
E.E. Cummings Anthology
T.S. Eliot Anthology
Spiral Bound - Dessa

On my Kindle:

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Hell's Angel: Autobiography of Sonny Barger
The Hunger Games (all three) - Suzanne Collins
A Game of Thrones (4 books) - George R.R. Martin
My own Literotica stories plus many others!

 

[PennLady]

From the dusty pile on my nightstand:

The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
Sweet Land Anthology - Will Weaver
The Code Book - Simon Singh
Most of Kurt Vonnegut's works

From my poetry stack:

The Book of Longing - Leonard Cohen
E.E. Cummings Anthology
T.S. Eliot Anthology
Spiral Bound - Dessa

On my Kindle:

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Hell's Angel: Autobiography of Sonny Barger
The Hunger Games (all three) - Suzanne Collins
A Game of Thrones (4 books) - George R.R. Martin
My own Literotica stories plus many others!

Nice selection. Some day I may be able to like and/or appreciate poetry. Hasn't happened yet.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

Guardian books were great, I read the first six, didn't pick them up for a while (there were no others then)
Then I realized that there were about twenty, but I couldn't find them all. If I could get the entire collection, I would like to plow through them.

 

[ishtat]

Nice selection. Some day I may be able to like and/or appreciate poetry. Hasn't happened yet.

Try writing poetry, the discipline required makes (I think) for a better writer.

 

[PennLady]

Try writing poetry, the discipline required makes (I think) for a better writer.

I can't. I'd end up with iambic pentameter twaddle that rhymes horribly or something. I know there's good poetry out there, but I seem stuck on a few by Poe and Frost. So much of it seems trite. Not saying it is, just seems that way. Poetry is just a type of writing that does little or nothing for me.

 

[Handley_Page]

When I get round to it, I got to read the Gunner Asch book (H H Kirst).
His biting wit floors me every time. If you've not read Kirst, have a look for the 'Munich Trilogy'

 

[Cruel2BKind]

If anyone is interested, JK Rowling is going to come out with her first book since HP this 27th of September. It's called The Casual Vacancy, and it's for adults.

I can't wait

 

[bashfullyshameless]

Tom Hickman, "Churchill's Bodyguard"
Alison Weir, "The Six Wives of Henry VIII"
Edmund Morris, "Theodore Rex"
Matthew Alexander, "How to Break a Terrorist"

...and the only fiction on the reading list is Mary Gentle's "Grunts"

Also, I totally don't know how to underline things on this message board. Sad face.

 

[litfan10]

If anyone is interested, JK Rowling is going to come out with her first book since HP this 27th of September. It's called The Casual Vacancy, and it's for adults.

I can't wait

I agree and very hopeful, but retail of $35.00... crap, that is setting the bar disgustingly high!

 

[litfan10]

I just checked via Amazon and unless I'm missing something the full retail for the e book of the new Rowling is also $35.00!