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These are the books I am currently reading. I don't read these simultaneously but I like to have a new book ready to read after I've finished one. Of course, this can be a strain on the bank account as well (is it a sickness when you can't leave Borders without buying at least three books? I think so...).
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So, here are the books I am reading now. Click on the title link to go to the Amazon page for that book.
last updated: 10.13.08
The City of Dreaming Books
Author:Walter Moers
Pages: 464
Description: "AGerman author and cartoonist Moers returns to the mythical lost continent of Zamonia in his uproarious third fantasy adventure to be translated into English. Optimus Yarnspinner, a young saurian novelist, embarks on a quest to track down the anonymous author of the most magnificent piece of writing in the whole of Zamonian literature. Traveling to Bookholm, the legendary City of Dreaming Books, the naïve Yarnspinner falls victim to Pfistomel Smyke, a maggotlike literary scholar who poisons Yarnspinner and abandons him in the treacherous catacombs miles below the city's surface. Stranded in an underworld steeped in terror-inducing myth and home to more than a few bizarre inhabitants, Yarnspinner undertakes a long and perilous journey back to the world above. Enchanting illustrations by the author compliment a wonderfully whimsical story that will appeal to readers of all ages."
{Source: Amazon.com, Publisher's Weekly}
Forever Odd (Odd Thomas Series)
Author:Dean Koontz
Pages: 352
Description: "Besides having an unusual moniker, 21-year-old Odd Thomas (whom readers first met in Koontz's 2003 novel of the same name) has some very unusual powers, chief among them his ability to see the dead. He can see, feel and talk to them, too (though they don't talk back: "Perhaps they know things about death that the living are not permitted to learn from them"). These days Odd is still hosting the ghost of a morose Elvis Presley, still grieving for his dead girlfriend, Stormy, and still worrying about his very fat friend P. Oswald Boone, whose cat, Terrible Chester, likes to pee on his shoes. Late one night, Odd is summoned by the ghost of Dr. Wilbur Jessup to the Jessup home, the site of a gruesome murder. Dr. Jessup is the father of Odd's best friend, Danny, who is afflicted with osteogenesis imperfecta, also known as brittle bones. Odd finds Dr. Jessup's body, but Danny is missing. Since Odd has what he describes as "psychic magnetism," he can follow an invisible mental trail, which in this case leads him to his endangered friend. After he finds Danny in a spooky, burned-out Indian casino, it is Odd who becomes the quarry. The beautiful and stunningly evil Datura, aided by two frightening minions, wants to use Odd for his supernatural abilities—and then kill him. Odd's strange gifts, coupled with his intelligence and self-effacing humor, make him one of the most quietly authoritative characters in recent popular fiction."
{Source: Amazon.com, Publisher's Weekly}
Three by Vonnegut
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Pages: 588
Description: Three tales in one volume by Kurt Vonnegut. The tales include: Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse Five, and Breakfast for Champions.
The Time Traveler's Wife
Author: Audrey Niffenegger
Pages: 560
Description: "This clever and inventive tale works on three levels: as an intriguing science fiction concept, a realistic character study and a touching love story. Henry De Tamble is a Chicago librarian with "Chrono Displacement" disorder; at random times, he suddenly disappears without warning and finds himself in the past or future, usually at a time or place of importance in his life."
{Source: Amazon.com, Publisher's Weekly}
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