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Lori L

Lori L

I love to read!!! I am a mom (taxi driver, chef, laundry mat, fixer of all boo boos, ego booster) and a wife (lover, fighter, friend, partner).

I am hoping through shelfari I will be exposed to new authors and books I would not have known about before... Any suggestions? more »
  • TX, USA
  • member since January 6 2009

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  • Tina

    Tina says

    Hi Lori...thanks for adding me....I noticed you just finsihed Unwind....that was good yet so disturbing...... I thought about it for weeks.

    posted 9 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Anna-Lee

    Anna-Lee says

    Hey Lori - How's the True Blood withdrawal treating you? I noticed that you have a lot of Fern Michaels' you should look up the Texas and Vegas series. I think you might like Mauve Binchy one of my favorites is Evening Class. Hope you are well.

    Cheers,

    Anna-Lee

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • Anna-Lee

    Anna-Lee says

    Hey Lori - How's the True Blood withdrawal treating you? I noticed that you have a lot of Fern Michaels' you should look up the Texas and Vegas series. I think you might like Mauve Binchy one of my favorites is Evening Class. Hope you are well.

    Cheers,

    Anna-Lee

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • anna c

    anna c says

    Thanks for adding me!Your shelf is quite impressing!

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • kat a

    kat a says

    Hi Lori! Thanks for adding me as a friend!!! I love Catching Fire as well. I think I'm obssessed. Someone help me!!! haha

    Do you like Blue Moon? I liked Evermore but really, really disliked Blue Moon. To the point where I don't want to read the third book. I'm interested in your opinion when you're done with it.

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • booklovers

    booklovers says

    Hi, the Servent series by L. L. Foster is really good. C.L. Wilson is one of my favorites and all ways a great read. But any of my favorites on my shelf are great reads. I hope thats helpful and let me know if you like those book and need anything else.

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Debbie P ..aka Yodamom

    Debbie P ..aka Yodamom says

    Hi, Team Eric member ! LOL I just finished what I thought was a great series The Gardella Vampire Chronicles, by Collen Gleason. There is action, smart powerful women, sexy men, mystery, and a historical background. If you are looking for something a bit more " sexy" Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost, the Night Humtress series. I am going to start You Slay Me (Aisling Grey, Guardian Novels)
    by Katie MacAlister. It was recomended to me by the book store owner when she heard of my love of the Sookie Stackhouse series. I wanted something fun and sexy with a bite. I have read another book from her not in this series and it was just ok. I have read on the reviews that this is her "best" set, so we'll see. Good to have you as a friend, happy reading and let me know when you read something interesting.

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Anna-Lee

    Anna-Lee says

    I know it's hard once you've caught up on the sookie series. The withdrawal pains will ease at some point...

    I didn't see this series on your shelf but another one I loved was Fern Michael's Texas and Vegas series (you should read it in that order) Good old fashion family drama/romance. That should keep you busy for a week judging by how quickly you read :)

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Angela H

    Angela H says

    I had never heard of the Southern Vampire series until your recent review of book 8. They look good, I'll check them out! There is a 20% sale at Half Price Books this weekend so I'll pick it up.

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Anna-Lee

    Anna-Lee says

    If you haven't already you should join the Shelfari Sookie Stackhouse group. You can find it on my profile. Just avoid the topics about the latest book. It's a fun group and great discussions.

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Anna-Lee

    Anna-Lee says

    Holy cow!

    I just looked at your shelf and just realized that you area already on Book 7. You go girl!

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Anna-Lee

    Anna-Lee says

    Hi Lori,

    I read your review on Dead as a Doornail. I'm so relieved you liked it :) The series gets better and better.

    Your friend Janeen is spot on about recommending the True Blood tv show. It's fantastic, it's not 100% to the book but they do it in a way that works and they actually flush out the secondary characters which wasn't in the book.

    Cheers,

    Anna-Lee

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Janeen

    Janeen says

    I'm glad you have taken to these Sookie Stackhouse books. Ms. Harris sure knows how to grab the reader with her writing, doesn't she?

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Janeen

    Janeen says

    I would also recommend Charlaine Harris's other books. She has 4 different series going and each of them take place in small Southern towns full of interesting characters.

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Janeen

    Janeen says

    You were wondering about the Charlaine Harris vampire series. I have a friend who is all about the Twilight series and has read each one of them 4 times. I lent her these Charlaine Harris books. She said she likes them better than Twilight. The difference is where Twilight is filled with teen angst, these Southern Vampire books have more humor. If you have HBO, they have a series based on her books called "True Blood". It's on Saturday nights and the repeats of the first season are just about over. The new season starts in June. Being HBO, of course there is cursing and naked people, but, surprising, not a lot of violence considering the subject matter. The books have one or 2 R-rated scenes, but, all in all, a very good read. Charlaine Harris is good at keeping you guessing as to what is going to happen next.

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Anna-Lee

    Anna-Lee says

    Hi Lori,

    Thanks for adding me :) The one bad thing about the site is that I can't look up my past recommendations. Which book did I answer for you?

    If you are looking for new authors my favorite writer is Camilla Gibb, she's a Canadian writer and won some of our book awards. The best one to start with is "Mouthing the words", it's difficult subject matter but she does it with a dry humor and imagination.

    Cheers,

    Anna-Lee

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Tracy R

    Tracy R says

    What did you think about The Bonesetter's Daughter". Tan is an author I have thought about reading several times, but have never gotten around to it. Please let me know at your conveinence.

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Tony Carmine

    Tony Carmine says

    Here is a blurb about my new book—ON THE CREST. Comments welcome: Tige Anderson goes through a series of emotional, physical and psychological adventures in this coming-of-age roller coaster, balancing his life among his romantic trysts, his ambitions, his humanity and his gay best friend. The one thread that connects all of the people in his life is the fact that the cycle of life puts everyone through a series of ups (‘on the crest’) and downs. Whether an individual winds up on top of the wave or under it depends on them.

    Prologue:

    [A mind full of shadows which form long, dark points that pierce the heart through and bring to consciousness the fierce pain of reality. Hooded specters that travel through space and time gathering up pieces of memory and bringing them together to form one melted block of pain and pleasure called the past.

    Were it possible to disintegrate as happens to dreams and tender moments. As powerful as these dreams and tender moments seemed at their inception, we come to realize that they are made of invisible particles of nothingness. Were it possible to just vanish like hopes made of tiny particles of nothing so would I be free of reality. And in that vanishing, would I finally be able to find peace.]

    Those thoughts flooded Tige’s mind as he sat and watched the pointed shadows caused by the brand-new-morning sun crawl across the floor in front of him. He had been all alone in the solarium since the middle of the night awaiting the sunrise as he did on many nights since he was put into that place. It was his favorite time of day. Anymore, each minute of the day was filled with painful recollection and doubt except for this brief, fleeting moment. It was a time, it seemed, that the earth, like him, was confused. It brought him solace to think that at this very moment, the entire universe, or so it seemed, was in a state of doubt and he was not alone. It was the time when day was pushing back night, eliminating the last vestiges of darkness to assume domination and live out its brief lifetime before dying and willing its realm to its brother called ‘tomorrow’. It was a time of starting over, of another chance. Days rolled in one after the other like the waves at the beach. It made one think that no matter how tragic the events that occurred in one solar period, there was always another; there was always another wave.

    Tige sat in his robe and pajamas on one of the couches in the solarium watching the morning sun get stronger, watching the streams of light come through the bars on the windows, hoping that the attendant would not yet realize that he was not in his room, which was where he should have been until breakfast which was still two hours away. He had done this so many times in the past but he was never discouraged from continuing to enjoy his moment of peace, but rather would endure the lectures from the staff about how everyone there must obey the rules so that all there could accomplish what they came there for.

    The reward that he got from this solitude was worth any reprimand which may have followed from the staff. He knew that his time remaining there was brief and he could continue this practice somewhere else. This was his time to savor the self-induced, companion-until-death torment brought about by events which had happened before and could not be changed. This was his time to not only enjoy the companionship of hope for tomorrow, but also to flog himself with memories and guilt for things that he had been instrumental in bringing to existence. He had to torture himself for what he had done or for what he had not done. With an almost painful enjoyment, Tige watched the single line of gray smoke from his cigarette and recalled the days past. He watched the ashes fall off like expended days gone by. He watched the orange line of fire racing toward its end.

    Again, comments welcome.
    The book can be purchased at barnesandnoble.com, amazon.com, authorhouse.com and many more sites. Thank you. Tony Carmine.

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Karen L

    Karen L says

    It is a good book, a little slow in the middle. I did enjoy the reading of it. Adult rated in parts.

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Nanw

    Nanw says

    Yes I really enjoyed the book. Lots of good history facts and background.

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )


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