I read that book, it was the first one by Jodi Picoult I had read. I enjoyed it very much.

Kay, That is some book. I have had it for over a year now. I have to get it out and try to work through it. My copy is autographed and I have already adopted some of his methods, esp. re: lead holders/mechanical pencils.

thanks trish..boy you are reading some good stuff.have you tried claudia nice for your watercolor techs? have just purchased two of her books and they are both wonderful

I am interested in your impressions of Edgar Sawtelle. It is on my wishlist on Audible, and I was wondering if I should give it a try, it is a long book.

Yes Kay, the Pen and Ink books I have are both Claudia Nice.

Sandy, I have tried that book 3 different times, I get so far, then loan it to someone, LOL, I find I have to go backward a bit to remember where I left off. Sometimes I feel she is just so self indulgent, and ego centric, do you get that feeling too?

Blimey Trish! Do you have any time for anything else?

rofl Yes Steve, I do manage a few other things, but I am the only caregiver for my husband who is a shut-in, and I can just watch so much TV then I need to read something. Most of my reading is audio books, so a lot of times I can listen while I do chores. I especially like to listen to books while ironing.
Trish

Started "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel last night but I'm not very far with it yet.

I recently read " The Island" and it was just amazing!! The author just wrote the book as if she was her own personal life !!! I suggest reading it !!

I almost downloaded that book from Audible. Are you enjoying it? It seemed like an odd premise for a story?

I've only read very little of it so far but I'll let you know if I enjoyed it when I'm done! Hopefully I will have lots of time to read this weekend

I read it a few years back, and I loved it. It is an odd premise; it's a "high concept" novel, and some people hate it for that reason. But I enjoyed the writing, and I found the book very entertaining.

I am about a third of the way through it right now, at which point it takes rather a surprising turn. It is quite focused for such a long book. Although it's not full of action, still, there is always something happening to advance the story; it moves along at a good pace. I would not be scared off by the size.

Hi Ernest,
Thanks for the recommendation. I bought the book over the weekend.
Trish

I usually don't make a judgement about a book based on the size, but before I "invested" in the book, I wanted to know someone else's opinion aside from the standard industrial review. Thanks for your input.
Trish

I'm reading Chosen by P.C Cast and Kristin Cast. Ive finished the first two Marked and Betrayed. It's about this girl who has been marked and is gone to the house of night to train to become a vampyre. The books makes me think of Twilight a bit.

I mostly read like teen books lol eventually I want to finish the Harry Potter series

Heavy metal mag....lol. I must admit it sparks my imagination as only it can.

Seriously though. Im reading the Dragonlace books for the hundredth time. I dont know I picked them up over the years and the images that the books have inspired me to draw must be in the high double digits.

I just finished reading "The Truth War" by John MacArthur - Christian non-fiction. Now starting another book by the same author - "A Tale of Two Sons".

Yesterday, I began to read "The prosecutor of devil" Eldar Denorov. While parents try to teach me to the classics. Perhaps many will condemn me, but I have not long been kept it in the hands. I generally prefer fantasy. While in the near future going to read "The perfumer". I recently saw the movie and I liked it.

I am reading drawing for dummies by Brenda Hoddinott,also i am reading shadow forest by Matt Haig. shadow forest is a leeds book awards.

I'm currently reading "Drawn to life" by Walter Staunchfield (sp?). He was an animator for 20+ years at Disney and this book is full of drawing lessons he provided to the animators in his free time. This volume 2 and is 447 pages. Volume 1 hasn't shipped to me from Amazon yet. It is full of a lot of info! I'm enjoying it so far.

I also have Stargazer on tap to read next by Claudia Gray. This is the second book of a vampire series. It reminds me of Twilight (but written better.) I also have fifth Vampire Diares book: Nightfall by LJ Smith to read. I read all of her books in junior high and high school. She stopped writing for 10 years and finally picked up a pencil again. I'm a bit scared to read the book. It has been 13 years since she wrote the fourth one!

I have just finished "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway. Loved it. It's perfect.
And now I started "The Ghost" by Robert Harris. The beginning is quite interesting... I hope it will be so till the end.

I am reading this! Barrington Barber. Absolutely wonderfull! I also have this, by the same author. I bought these to improve my drawing techniques. The illustrations (of which there are plenty!) are beautiful! Highly recomended!

George R. R. Martin - "Song of Fire and Ice": read 4 of them, waiting for the 5th. I sure enjoy a nice fantasy. "Eragon" was fun too.

Hello! ^^
Right now I'm reading Mary Higgins Clark's books, they are just AMAZING!
I've finished "Remember me" and the next one is "Where are the children?". Did anybody read them?
If you enjoy mistery stories, I advice you to read!

Well, first off, sorry about the delay in responding here. The book was very good. As I stated, it wasn't really something I thought I'd be interested in, but something in the liner notes caught my curiousity. I enjoyed it even though it was long. The story took quite a while (2/3 of the book!) to turn in the direction of the notes. Very descriptive writing. I've never critiqued anything before so if you need more info let me know, I just don't want to slip and ruin it. Thanks, Kirk.

My son read this in school a couple few years ago and loved it! I forgot about it until you just mentioned it. Thanks for bringing it up. Another one to put on my list. After finishing Edgar Sawtelle, I have moved on to Stephen King's "Just After Sunset". It is the 2nd book I got for Christmas. I'm not one for some of his shorts, but this one and "Everything's Eventual" are two good ones. Kirk

I'm reading Eragon now the first one.

hello,

I just started reading 'the postman' by David Brin. It's a sort of science-fiction book from 1998 (reading about the far, far away future, being 2013 )
It is one of my fathers favorites and he gave me his book to read. So far it is very nice to read, I like it.
-> They also made a movie with Kevin Costner, maybe some of you know the story? (but don't spoil )

Im sure almost everyone here has heard about Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series. It more aimed to teens I guess, since im 13, I like it A Vampire Romance/Thriller 500-750 pages theme going on here.But they are really good....There are four in the series...Twilight (the movie just came out...of course...nothing like the book...),then theres New Moon,Eclipse and the last one,I also just started,Braking Dawn....
So many teens have read it but I know many many.....adults who like it alot.I guess If you like that kind of thing ,you should try it out!!


*smiles*
Saria

You're right! My wife has read all the books like 4 times over and we've both seen the first movie at least 12 times!!!

I picked up "Always Looking Up," Michael J. Fox's (MJF) latest book/memoir, this week. For those who don't know, MJF is the Canadian-born, American actor from Family Ties, Back to the Future, Spin City... etc. He's been living and dealing with Parkinson's Disease for quite some time now, and this book is amazing. For someone dealing with something so difficult and "paralyzing," he miraculously manages to stay extremely positive and is working incredibly hard to find a cure for PD withing the coming years.

The book is wonderful, and there will be an ABC special on Michael and his fight this Thursday night.

I love MHC! Remember Me is probably one of my favorites. There were a couple in recent years that I was not thirilled with. I did love Pretend you Don't See Her, and Cry of the Night (or something similar?) That was probably my favorite one. All Around the Town was good as was on the street where you live. She has some great books. I also liked the lottery winner books.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher stone lol just re reading them so I can finally read the 6th one and remember what's going on in the series. I want to read the 6th book before the movie comes out

I read the entire series of Harry Potter books in the couple months after my son was born. There's not much else to do while nursing... I love all the movies so far, but they leave out many important elements of the story.

Hi Roxy!

The 6th Harry Potter is absolutely great. I've yet to read the last book (hard to read the last of such an amazing series) but so far I think the 6th is my favorite. Do read it before the movie comes out in July.

I love the way J.K. Rowling pulls you into those books so you feel like you know, and are friends with the characters, haha. Enjoy!

I've just finished reading Jenny Tomlin 'Silent Sisters'. It took a while for me to finish because I only got though a few chapters at a time; I had to have a cry between reading. It's a a very upsetting biography, but I do recommend it. Very powerful overall.

I'm at the 3rd Harry Potter now I'm getting there lol I noticed I'm reading pretty fast since I wrote that I was reading the first one like 10 days ago.

I've finished reading "lifelike Heads" Lance Richlin and just started "Brida" Paulo Coelho.

Right now I'm reading Fortress in the Eye of Time by CJ Cherryh, where the author has ruined a good story with too many unimportant things, and also The Sweetest Dream by Doris Lessing, which is really good.

I'm not in the middle of anything right now. But, one my all time favorites is the first book I bought, "Orchids For Mother". It is a CIA spy story.

And the second is my own - It's called "Re-Course". A science fiction adventure about a guy and a girl born millions of years ago. They were thought to have diseases so they were forced to live isolated from the rest of society. Their home was a science center on an island. The doctor that took care of them had a hobby of digging for fossils and one day found some old documents in a cave that could change the two's lives. At their time in history there was a war waged by an enemy of the Interplanetary Council. This also help change the lives of the two since it put them in a fight for their lives along with their freedom.

The person who edited it for me said I should do a trilogy, not sure...but, the story will continue.

Just finished "Drawing realistic textures in pencil" by J D Hillberry

Hi Neshev,
Welcome to Drawspace. You have come to a great spot to learn, share your artwork and interact with like minded people. I think you will enjoy doing the lessons available here and we also have a weekly drawing challenge, ATC trades, and a new forum for monthly watercolor painting challenge. The people here, from all over the world are very kind, encouraging, multi-talented and always willing to help. I hope you enjoy your time here at Drawspace.
By the way, did you enjoy the book?
Best wishes,
Trish

For indulgence I am reading the "wheel of time " series by Robert Jordan who has sadly died whilst writing the last book in the series (no12), but he has made enough notes for another author to finish it ( he knew he was dying a while back) I will say they make LOTR look like a short easy read
In the biography I have just finished Bethany Hamiltons, She is a one armed competitive surfer.

By all means everyone at any age will enjoy the books. I am a grandmother of 10 and even saw the movie, bought the soundtrack and movie and have Super Massive Black Hole as a ringtone. My granddaughters ring tone is Bella's Lullaby. She is the one that got me interested in reading them, we both have a love for reading and art, it is our quality time together to share. I stood in line at the cinema for an hour and a half with her just to see the movie. But it was worth it.
And "Where are the Children"? Better get a box of kleenex and hang on. Great book. One of her best.
Thanks for letting me put my 2 cents in.
Artsyself.

I just finished reading Boneman's Daughters by Ted Dekker. It was great, but than, all of his books are.

hello
Anybody reading George R.R. Martin? I'm on second book of his A Song of Ice and Fire, series of epic fantasy novels. It's really something!

Well, in the moment I finished reading the Sermon of the Sixtieth, of Priest Antonio Vieira. It is one of the Brazilian classic and I found very good., however the best books that I already read are; The Beggars, of Vitor Hugo and Crime and Punishment of Dostoiévski, those are great.

How old were you when you read Crime and Punishment? I've read it too, but i didn't understand anything. Might have been because I was just 14 when I read it, that's why I wonder.