Cina’s Comments (group member since Feb 07, 2011)

Cina’s comments from the Ecletic Readers group.

HRT wrote: "I've just recently read The Little Book of Bitchy Thoughts and found it to be quite enjoyable. It was good to read when feeling you needed to have your pipes cleared."

Nice...sounds like a book I should recommend to some friends.

Melissa wrote: "Hi Everyone,

I am looking for reviewers for my recently released novel, The Raie'Chaelia (pronounced rye-kale-ya). It's a YA fantasy for young women. It also has elements of sci-fi, romance, a..."


Hi Melissa,

I have moved your posting to the "self published" page. Hopefully a few of the readers in this group take up your offer for reviewers as well as purchase one of your books.

Continued success to you.

Kelli wrote: "Hi everyone!
I’m having a mini-contest and will be giving away a PDF copy of one of my Amber Quill Press romances. It’s easy to enter: all you need to do is sign-up to follow my blog http://kelliw..."

Hi Kelli,

I placed your contest and book in my "self published" section. Hopefully some people from the group will enter your contest as well as purchase your book.

Continued success in getting your words out there.

I believe in giving every up and coming writer a chance. It helps that I know this one personally. If you are looking for an autobiography coupled with an inside look at journalism then this is the book for you.

Veronica wrote: "I just finished The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta. Also reading Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen"

How is Water for Elephants, the movie looked like the book would be great.

Veronica wrote: "Living in the Pink by Sharon Tubbs and Jane Erye by Charlotte Bronte"

Did you finish read them?

laughs...I am a serial reader like that. I hate starting a series of books and then it ends on me. I felt like that with Hunger Games.

I work at a library and every time I pass by Philipa Gregory books I always say I have to read that. I need more eyes.

I'm currently reading way to many things lol...first I have to finish Absalom! Absalom! then I will be reading The Infernals which is part 2 to a truly amazing supernatural young adult novel and then The Corn Maiden. With classes almost finish for the semester it will once again be a reading feast.

Cheri wrote: "My sophomore novel, The Other Sister is now available for $4.99 in e-book. I began as a traditionally published writer (Warner), moved to an indie publisher, got my rights reverted and for now I'm ..."

Hello Ms. Cheri Paris Edwards-

I shall be downloading your book ASAP and gets to reading.

Much success to you!!

Shewanda wrote: "First, I'd like to say that I think this group is an awesome idea--probably because my bookshelf looks like the public library. Right now I'm reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, slow..."

Nice...I've always wanted to start reading the Harry Potter series but never got to it. There are just to many books to read. lol.

Which Phillipa Gregory book you debating?

I'm reading Absolom! Absolom! so far it's eh

Hi Kimberly...thanks for posting on here. I will download your book and read it. Sounds great!

I am currently reading this and so far, so good. The events are starting to unwind really quick which is good. Has any one ever read any books by this author? this is the first time I am reading one of his books, although he has a few I read by description that seem very good.

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I have finished reading Kraken and although it is a good book in the sense that the topic and characters were interesting. It left me wanting more in some areas and less in others. I felt Mieville spent to much time setting up the scene, leaving out crucial information about the characters themselves. I am going to give him another chance though and read another one of his novels at a later date, I hope it is not as wordy as this one.

I just read Book 1 & 3 of the series. Lately I have been in to fantasy/sci-fi stories and this was actually really good. Imagine if the world was infected by an alien virus that turned some of us in to Aces which were non-mutated super humans or Jokers, blessed with a super power but deformed physically. While the Aces live like real life super heroes and get the accolades, the Jokers live in Jokertown and get abused. The virus attacks earth during a climate of change socially and politically. Traced with dark humor, I found this a quick and witty read. I am looking forward to reading the entire series.

Finished this today and I have to say the stories had me very wrapped up in them. I almost missed my train stop twice I was so into the stories that I had gotten to the point of zoning out and zoning in to the words that were before me. Four stories all together and each as interesting as the next.

The first story is 1922, which takes place on a rural farm in the midwest. A husband wants to stay on his farm, while his wife wants to sell out to the pig slaughtering country and move to the "big city" of Omaha. In between the two is their innocent son of 14 who is falling for his neighbors daughter. What takes place is one of those things if it had been you, you would say I wish I didn't do that. A husbands desire to stay on the farm drives him to do the unthinkable taking his son with him, however doing the unthinkable often has it's consequences which he soon finds out.

Big Driver is I think is one of the best, well I liked it the best because each of these stories are pretty good. A female author decides to take a standard gig at a brown bag book event at a library. Something as simple as getting directions for a short cut back home changes her life but in not what I would consider a bad way. I found the many voices used by this character to be a little, I could actually hear the voices changing when I was reading in my head.

There are two more stories...one about getting extensions on whatever it is you needed, life, career, whatever and the consequences that can happen when you trade doing bad to someone in order to get that extensions and positive outcome in your own life. The last is called the Good Marriage, a woman married for several years in a reasonably happy marriage finds out something about her husband that changes her and their marriage.

All in all I would recommend this to King fans. Quick read and pleasant stories and not to droning either.

Haven't started this yet but it is a collection of short stories by Stephen King. I find the short ones way more enjoyable than his longer stories. The last long book I read by him was The Dome and I swore after that, that I would not read anymore of his longer stories. They just get to wordy.

I am reading Sherlock Holmes, REWORK and Full Dark, No Stars. I like King's short stories opposed to his longer novels.

Aside from the Devil and Sherlock Holmes he wrote Lost City of Z

DAVID GRANN is a longtime staff writer at The New Yorker. He has written about everything from New York City's antiquated water tunnels to the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang, from the hunt for the giant squid to the mysterious death of the world's greatest Sherlock Holmes expert. His stories have appeared in several Best American writing anthologies, and he has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Republic. A collection of his stories, The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession, will be published in March 2010.
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I am on page 68 of this book and I have to say is it pretty interesting and turning out to be a quick witty read. This book is for those of us who want to start a business, it goes against everything you have learned in business classes on the proper way to start your own. I am finding everything that they say actually quite practical and useful.