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Post by LLady on Dec 4, 2005 10:12:00 GMT 10
If you can read 'Neanderthal', it is a bit like 'The Da Vinci Code` in the respect it keeps you guessing, has a great theory on WHY Homosapiens survived where the 'Neathadral` disappeared, sure you would love it. Age old answer, in a novel, but I foiund it quite interesting Sounds really very interesting.
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Post by Elly on Dec 31, 2005 22:17:59 GMT 10
Well I managed to get over and pick up a copy today so will get started it soon hopefully #wave# Y A H O O ! ! ! Finally got around to finishing 'A Breath of snow and Ashes' yes I really did enjoy it, after 'The Fiery Cross' I had misgivings about it but yep it was very interesting, really liked it.
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Post by dreamy on Jan 1, 2006 3:10:43 GMT 10
Glad you liked it, Elly. It's one of the best book of the series, indeed!
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Post by Elly on Jan 1, 2006 14:31:28 GMT 10
Glad you liked it, Elly. It's one of the best book of the series, indeed! I enjoyed it Dreamy, the last page is a bit of a cliffhanger, what did everyone else think of that? I have re-read that page a few times just in case I got it wrong
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Post by desertrose on Jan 2, 2006 9:01:38 GMT 10
I finished Fire Along the Sky by Sara Donati a few weeks ago and absolutely loved the book! Can't wait for "Queen of Swords." Now just finishing up "The Spell of the Highlander" by Karen Marie Moning.......really enjoying that book a lot! I had started "A Breath of Snow and Ashes" by reading the last two chapters first! Yep, the suspense was killing me and I gave in to temptation! And Elly, it is a cliffhanger. I don't know what to think. I did go from there to the first few chapters but stopped it. I am going to start the book proper next week though as soon as I finish "Spell." Gotta find out if Cian MacKeltar lives or not!
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Post by LLady on Jan 2, 2006 9:50:31 GMT 10
My two favorite books of Diana Gabaldon's series are "Outlander" and "A Breath of Snow and Ashes", the first one and the last one.
Rose, I thoroughly enjoyed reading " The Spell of the Highlander" of Karen Marie Moning's Highlander series, that one I think is one of my favorites. Have you read the other books in the series?
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Post by Elly on Jan 2, 2006 9:54:12 GMT 10
I finished Fire Along the Sky by Sara Donati a few weeks ago and absolutely loved the book! Can't wait for "Queen of Swords." Now just finishing up "The Spell of the Highlander" by Karen Marie Moning.......really enjoying that book a lot! I had started "A Breath of Snow and Ashes" by reading the last two chapters first! Yep, the suspense was killing me and I gave in to temptation! And Elly, it is a cliffhanger. I don't know what to think. I did go from there to the first few chapters but stopped it. I am going to start the book proper next week though as soon as I finish "Spell." Gotta find out if Cian MacKeltar lives or not! LOL, was very tempted myself to read the last page or two first
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Post by LLady on Jan 2, 2006 12:11:32 GMT 10
I finished Fire Along the Sky by Sara Donati a few weeks ago and absolutely loved the book! Can't wait for "Queen of Swords." Now just finishing up "The Spell of the Highlander" by Karen Marie Moning.......really enjoying that book a lot! I had started "A Breath of Snow and Ashes" by reading the last two chapters first! Yep, the suspense was killing me and I gave in to temptation! And Elly, it is a cliffhanger. I don't know what to think. I did go from there to the first few chapters but stopped it. I am going to start the book proper next week though as soon as I finish "Spell." Gotta find out if Cian MacKeltar lives or not! LOL, was very tempted myself to read the last page or two first I can't do that, it spoils the fun for me.
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Post by desertrose on Jan 3, 2006 21:05:32 GMT 10
Rose, I thoroughly enjoyed reading " The Spell of the Highlander" of Karen Marie Moning's Highlander series, that one I think is one of my favorites. Have you read the other books in the series? Jacqui, I have read every book of Karen Marie Moning's Highlander series! Such great books and I have loved them all! I still think my favorites are Kiss of the Highlander" and "The Dark Highlander." Although it is hard as I really love "Immortal Highlander" and "The Spell of the Highlander." Sheesh! How so difficult?! I love them all! That is all I can say!
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Post by dreamy on Jan 4, 2006 4:52:24 GMT 10
I started on "The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenberger. It's a wonderful book! Here'a a bit about it, I can highly recommend it!
Put simply this is a beautiful and moving love story. Clare, a young 20 year old artist meets Henry for the first time in the Chicage library where he works. Henry has never laid eyes on Clare before, but Clare knows Henry well. In fact she has been meeting him secretly throughout her whole childhood and has been desperately looking forward to this day. Henry has an undiscovered genetic disorder - chrono-displacement disorder - that causes him to involuntarily disappear from his present and turn up somewhere in his past, and occasionally his future. Hence, an older Henry has been returning to the past and meeting his future wife Clare while she is still a child.
Rather than a super power or gift, his time travelling is more of a curse. Brought on by moments of stress, he is forever leaving and catapulting naked into an unknown moment of his own past. His visits tend to be back to important events or people in his own life - hence his adult visits to the young Clare, occasionally he returns to a younger self and has repeated painful visits to the scene of the tragic car accident when he was six, that killed his beloved mother.
Sounds overly fantastical and like confusing science fiction? Not at all - certainly one has to suspend disbelief in initially understanding the time concept, and the complex chronological structure of the novel takes a little unravelling at the beginning - but essentially this is a novel about a relationship. A love that is intense, inevitable, irritable, passionate, and overwhelmingly real, despite the huge difficulties.
This is a debut novel, but Niffenegger handles the complex narrative structure with ease. Henry leaps around in time and is sometimes 40, or 32, or 38 or 6, but the narrative roughly follows Clare's more linear development from her childhood, waiting for the visits from an adult Henry, through to the teenage girl knowing that soon she will meet the real time Henry. Finally time catches up and Clare and Henry meet in the present, and marry, struggle to conceive a child and go through everyday domestic difficulties made more difficult by Henry's constant departures and arrivals from other times.
The novel is an unashamed sentimental tear jerker.There is a dark inevitability that adds to the tension. Henry is trapped by his 'gift' - he cannot alter the past, present or the future. He longs to be able to live only in the present and he and Clare desperately search for a medical treatment for the disorder as it becomes increasingly apparent that it is killing him. If I was more cynical I could suggest that the book is overly sentimental - ( I do wonder whether a Hollywood film will turn it into a completely trite weepy, think Demi Moore in Ghost!) - but the many strengths of The Time Travelers's Wife save it from being purely another sappy love story. Niffenegger celebrates all that is ordinary and domestic about a relationship that is out of the ordinary. Clare and Henry struggle to survive and maintain their love, while fighting a complex disorder that constantly threatens their existence. They yearn for the domestic drudgery and the homely comforts of marriage without the constant fear of separation and the unknown.
I don't generally go back and reread a novel as there are too many others waiting to be read, but as soon as I finished the last page of The Time Traveler's Wife, I wiped my eyes and turned back to the first page. Henry and Clare's tangled, ill fated relationship lingers on. A lovely, moving read. And so sad.
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Post by desertrose on Jan 7, 2006 22:29:02 GMT 10
Hi Dreamy! I have that book. Sad to say I have not read it yet, but I hear it is excellent and very emotional!
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Post by dreamy on Jan 7, 2006 22:36:29 GMT 10
Rose, you really have to try to get a bit of time to read it. It's such a lovely book. Well, as you already own it you can start on it whenever you get a chance. Happy reading! #wave#
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