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[ SECRET POST #2584 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2584 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Danball Senki Wars]

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[Harry Potter]

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[Burn Notice]

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[The Island of Doctor Moreau]

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[Papers, Please]

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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]

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[Pretty Little Liars]

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[KILL LA KILL]

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[Labyrinth, The Hobbit]

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[The Hobbit]

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[The Hobbit]

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[The Kiss of the Spider Woman]

Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 029 secrets from Secret Submission Post #369.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

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I'm reading 'The Golem and the Jinni' by Helene Wecker. A creepy little man has a golem created to be his wife, then he dies on the journey from Poland to America. A tinsmith accidentally releases a Jinni who has been trapped in an olive oil lamp for over a thousand years. They wind up in 1899 New York.

It's pretty great so far. The characters are pretty varied religiously and ethnically, which is refreshing. They're generally decent people, and I'm enjoying the story a lot.

So what are you reading?

Nothing! I got House of Leaves and Loki for Christmas. Have not touched them. I am shamed.

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I've actually started the Animorphs series. I saw it as a kid, but was never too concerned with actually reading them until now, my friend found me the pdfs.

Someone accidentally told me who dies, but they didn't say when, so!

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sarillia - 2014-01-30 00:28 (UTC) - Expand

Skin and other stories by Roald Dahl.

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Oooooo, that seems good. Now I want to read it.

Hmm, I actually am starting a book today. Don't know how it's going to go yet but it's the 14th in a series so I have a general clue. Bad thing happens, Harry stops it, things still get worse even as they get better. It's Cold Days by Jim Butcher. I haven't gotten around to it until now.

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I've gotten in the habit of reading one novel and one book of short stories at the same time. I'll take a break from the novel occasionally to read a short story. So right now I'm reading The Collector by John Fowles because I have a weakness for terrible but fascinating characters and Daphne du Maurier's collection Don't look now.

I'm on a Star Trek kick, so I'm rereading a lot of tie-in novels. Right now it's 'Infiltrator', which has an interesting society and technology with a good sense of humor about it too (there's an anarchist planet whose leader is a sentient tree...Worf has a field day with a trebuchet...there's a species where it's rude to be polite...great fun all around.

Northanger Abbey (again.) Catherine is adorable and Henry is funny and Isabella is a conniving weasel and I think it might be starting to take over from Sense and Sensibility as my favorite Austen novel.

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The Racketeer by John Grisham. It's a good read, like most of Grisham's books. And as ever, I have no idea what's going to happen next or what the ending is going to be so I'm on tenterhooks!

I just finished Louis Sachar's The Cardturner the other day. I don't know anything about bridge but it was still a thrilling book.

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the lord of opium by nancy farmer (sequel to house of the scorpion). it's good, it's cool to see the world expanded on from the first book

I'm reading A Dance with Dragons so that I can finish the series and read other things. I got two Michael Chabons for the holidays/my birthday that I want to get to. Also another volume of Transmetropolitan. And I want to reread all of the Sandman this year.

I found this amazing book today. It's called NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON by John A Stormer.

On the front it says

"1964 is a year of crisis and decision. Will America continue to aid the communist enemy, to disarm in the face of danger, to bow before communist dictators in every corner of the earth? The decision is yours!"

which makes it sounds like a cold war choose your own adventure book but unfortunately it's not :(

From the back:

While John Stormer is chairman of the Missouri Federation of Young Republicans and a member of the Republican State Committee of Missouri, his book will not be popular with some Republicans for it is not a partisan diatribe.

GASP

NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON is a careful compilation of facts from hundreds of Congressional investigations of communism and dozens of authoritative books on the communist-socialist conspiracy to enslave America.

It dissects the failures of the Eisenhower Administration just as effectively as it details the blunders of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson. It documents the concurrent decay in America's schools, churches, and press which has conditioned the American people to accept 20 years of retreat in the face of the communist enemy. You won't finish None Dare Call It Treason without concluding that America is in serious trouble."

there's also a message on the inside that calls readers to HELP AWAKEN OTHERS! by ordering it for your doctor and Sunday school teacher

can you believe it was only 75 cents?

...yeah I'm probably not gonna read it, but I think you understand why I needed it in my collection.

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Song of the Selkies, which is about these cool storyteller chicks solving the mystery of selkies.

And for educational purposes, Elementary Korean. I am frustrated at myself for not remembering my IPA. I can't do this. I can't even do this beginner level noise :(

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Atlanta Nights. It's making me laugh so hard I have to take a break every few pages to catch my breath.

Here's an excerpt from it:

"I remember one night, the best night for us. He took me to Rome where we stood in the light of the Eiffel Tower and watched the people go by. There was one couple there who reminded us of us. There was another man Henries age and another woman my age and they were laughing together, just laughing, hard you know the way people laugh when they really feel the joy of life, the two of them, laughing! Laughing! Laughing, til the tears came down the sides of their faces in great cascades, and I was a little worried that they would not be able to breathe but Henry said, look at them, Irene, just look at them, look at her and look at him, look at them, the very themes of them, you know it's not a she and a him but a them, two of them together, in one unit, laughing and laughing here in the city of brotherly love, their laughs echoing and echoing and echoing up and up and up drowning out the traffic and the conversations of other tourists and the singing of the Christmas cajoler and even the motor noises, filling the world, it was a lot of laughing, and me remember Harry squeezing my hand's til the bones hurt and saying, you know, I laughed like that once, many years ago, when I was a boy, and I don't even remember the joke anymore but I always wanted to laugh that way again and sometimes when I take a good look at you I think I have a chance. And I never thought of it again but he also said that night, you know, honey, I'm much older than you and that means I'll be dead before you, and it will be worth dying even in a terrible car wreck if that means that between now and the moment of that car wreck we laugh at least once as hard as that couple walking by just now, though they were long past us by the time he got around to saying that. He said make me laugh like that again Irene. And I said surely, but you know, there was always the older-man, younger-woman thing and as much as I thought of him as some kind of God me never once got around to making him laughs." Twisting her hair into a braid using the same finger she had been using before she said, "And now I will have to live my entire life, however long that turns out to be, knowing that I never gave him what he wanted. I made him come but never made him guffaw."

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Copious amounts of fucking nothing. Although I would really like to start reading Master and Margarita soon. Because DAT BULGAKOV.

I'm reading Le Père Goriot by Balzac about eight pages a night until I start falling asleep. First French book I've read since I graduated a year and a half ago...a little rough.

I've been paused on Masters of Doom since last month. I am so bad with my reading habits these days, omg. ;_;

Alas Babylon by Pat Frank about a nuclear attack that hits in the early 60s and how a small town in Florida survives.

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The Crisis of Reason: European Thought, 1848-1914, by JW Burrow

That sounds really interesting. I'll have to see if I can find a copy.

Right now, I'm making sporadic progress through A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan. The book is framed as the memoirs of Lady Isabella Trent, one of the foremost authorities on dragons in a setting that is based heavily on Victorian Britain. It's really enjoyable, I just haven't been in a very reading place as of late. I also have another book by the same author out from the library, but I probably won't get to it before I ~~give up and stop renewing it~~ have to return it.

The Twelve Kingdoms by Fuyumi Ono. I watched the anime series a long time ago, but by they time I knew that the books were translated in English TokyoPop was gone. Finally bought the four books that were released and am currently reading the first one. I'm enjoying it so far. I'm about halfway through.

I'm reading "The Last Colony" by John Scalzi, which is the third book in his "Old Man's War" series. I'm also reading "The Saddle Club: Lisa's Inside Story" on the side, because I've just really been in the mood for silly, horsey nostalgia lately.

Been on a YA kick, so I'm reading The Scorch Trials by James Dashner. it's the sequel to The Maze Runner, which I enjoyed.

Because I can't read just one book at once:

The Creeps by John Connolly, in which Hell returns to a small British town. It reads a lot like Good Omens, so I'm delighted.

Carnival of Souls by Melissa Marr, which is sort of a Roman Circus, with demons. I think. I've only read a couple of chapters, and am still trying to figure out what's going on.

Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures and Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs by Paul Koudouaris, which documents Rome sending out 'saint bones' and how they got decorated and displayed. The photography is fascinating (and ghoulishly fun, considering they're decorated skeletons).

Prey, by Andrea Speed, which is a M/M book involving two shapechangers in a relationship. One of them is a private detective, the other is gorgeous and his house-husband (more or less).

Kept Tears by Jana Denardo, another M/M book and another urban fantasy, about Aaron, a soldier suffering from PTSD, missing an arm and attending college, and the man he meets, Rhys, who has a lot of secrets.

The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki, Arthur Waley translation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Genji

I recommend it if you like beautiful language, medieval stories, tales of Japanese royalty and lots of sex scenes. Seriously, the sex. It's racy. There's a lot of characters though (that Genji sticks it in everywhere he can find it) so concentration is sometimes required.