Recent content by dragondrool

I also vote Shutter Island.

Thank you!

Perhaps it's one of the Elizabeth Peters mysteries? Many of those are set in Egypt, particularly the Amelia Peabody books.

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Sounds a bit like Stuck in Neutral, by Terry Trueman, from what I can remember of that one.

It's been a long while since I read these short stories, but I liked them quite a bit. I think my favorite Barker story by far is Dread.

I'd go with the Madeleine L'Engle books, too. Either A Wrinkle in Time or The Wind in the Door. I know they talk about mitochondria in one of those.

The Flanders Panel, by Arturo Perez-Reverte? Just a random thought.

Definitely the middle, when I get absorbed and life keeps interrupting the good parts. I sometimes tend to rush the reading of the last three chapters a lot, so the last part is the last section I would choose for the poll.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which I never would've finished if it hadn't been assigned, required reading. Second to that would be Oliver Twist, which was just too slow and plodding. I suppose I could've switched to another book for that assignment, but that was back in the day when...

I've done this maybe a dozen times. Most of the time it's either because they changed the title or the cover of a book, or it's book such and such of a series, where I'm waiting for the whole thing in paperback before I read it.

I've read part of The Hiding Place, some time ago. I just couldn't get into that one, for some reason. After so many holocaust books, you have to set them aside for a good long while. The last one I read was geared toward kids, called Hanna's Suitcase. The author started with a child's...

Riding in the car, in the bathtub, nestled just right against the nine pillows on my bed.

More books than I thought have made me cry, once I sat down and thought about it. I've cried with... Low Red Moon (Kiernan), A Guided Tour of Hell (Hatek), My Sister's Keeper (Picoult), Plain Truth (Picoult), Marley & Me (Grogan) Freak the Mighty (Philbrick), Night (Wiesel), Hiroshima...

I've got it in my to-read-cart-along-bag right now. I've only read a few pages, and it might be a bit before I get back to it, but those pages were a scream! I just want to wait a bit until things calm down so I can read it and enjoy it without a bunch of distractions. I expect I'll love it.