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One my favourite King books. I've just finished Pet Sematary.

I'd only read one King prior to this and I will definitely be reading more. He is a great story teller; and when his writing gets good, it gets really good. :)

Just cracked the spine of ...

Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
 

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Stephen R. Donaldson's Against All Things Ending. (Book 9 of 10.) 150 pages' worth of plot and action and character development crammed into nearly 700 pages.

It's a lesson in what not to do.
 

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"The Deep Green Sea" by Robert Olen Butler
 

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"The Square" by Marguerite Duras
(from her collection of short novels titled "Four Novels")
 

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SPLIT IMAGE by Robert B. Parker, who died Jan 2010. It's the last book in the Jesse Stone series. I miss R.B.P. and I'll miss Jesse & Molly & Suit...
 

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SPLIT IMAGE by Robert B. Parker, who died Jan 2010. It's the last book in the Jesse Stone series. I miss R.B.P. and I'll miss Jesse & Molly & Suit...
The good news (slightly off topic of reading per se) is that the made-for-TV Jesse Stone movies are still being made, with scripts written by Tom Selleck.

--Ken
 

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The good news (slightly off topic of reading per se) is that the made-for-TV Jesse Stone movies are still being made, with scripts written by Tom Selleck.

--Ken

I've seen all the Jesse Stone movies so far and am now delighted to know there are more in the works. I understand Selleck wrote the 5th movie, Thin Ice, so I'm confident he can carry on. To me, Tom Selleck IS Jesse Stone. Thanks, Ken!
 

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God's War: A New History of the Crusades, by Christopher Tyerman, 2006. Lots and lots of detail, but with pointed observations and insights that liven it up. Heavy hardback, and huge.

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My Soul to Take by Tananarive Due, the latest in her African Immortals series.
 

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I have wanted to read the Jesse Stone books, since I love the movies...and Tom Selleck. Will definitely pick one up at the library.

Right now I am torturing myself with an LKH novel, Bullet. Halfway through and Nothing. Has. Happened. But it is like a bad car wreck. I just can't look away.
 

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I have wanted to read the Jesse Stone books, since I love the movies...and Tom Selleck. Will definitely pick one up at the library.


I hope you do. I think the books are better after seeing Tom Selleck in the role. In the books, Jesse is much younger and, somehow, for me, that doesn't fit as well. But when I saw Selleck, it added a dimension of maturity and all came together better than before. Selleck owns the character and now it is he I see when I read the novels.

I'm envious of the rhythm of Parker's dialog and his ability to reveal multi-level characters and unveil a complex plot using such spareness and simplicity of prose. He makes Hemingway look like a chatterbox. (Somebody wrote that somewhere and I'm stealing it.)

If you can, read them in order so you can enjoy watching the characters develop.
 
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Not sure this counts . . . but I'm reading (and proofing/commenting on draft of) a book manuscript by a local writer (genre is history). Dang is it good. I'm gonna push the author to relentlessly pursue agent/commercial publisher. It's been a while since I have seen that much potential in a manuscript by a local author.

--Ken
 

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Villette by Charlotte Bronte