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Yeah, @Starr Shine?, they are called The Cuckoo’s Calling (2013), The Silkworm (2014) and this year’s Career of Evil. The interesting one is the first, which had sold 1,500 copies (+7,000 in ebooks, audio and to libraries). The week it was revealed RG was JK, it was 4,709th on Amazon’s list, the next week it was #1.
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17 December 2012
Offline AppleScruffJunior said
I read and enjoyed her first adult-novel The Casual Vacancy and I read her first detective novel and liked it as well but Jo won’t ever escape the ‘Author of Harry Potter’ image and I think she’s fine with that. She never expected HP to blow up the way it did and the fact that she had it planned out since the early ’90’s shows that she wasn’t just in it for ‘take the money and go’.
I believe that for the original series of books, @AppleScruffJunior, however she was adamant when the last book was published, and when the last film was released, that that was it for HP, and we’ve since seen her increasingly back-tracking. I do wonder if it’s not now becoming more about, if not the money (she has lots), the renown, the reputation, the prestige, the ego.
She could have accepted she’d never have the success of HP again, and stuck to her guns, but she seems to want the continued high-level recognition that HP gave her and is increasingly stepping back into that world because she’s surrendered to that the fact that she can’t escape if she wants the level of success HP gave her.
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Getting back on topic…
I’m re-reading The Odyssey because I a) enjoy it, and b) have nothing else to read (heretoday, the library seems so far away). I’ve already read it twice. 
‘Tis (using the word in its correct sense) epic 
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18 February 2013
Offline ewe2 said
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Stick with it, @ewe2. They are worth it. I took some time off between and sometimes during my read of the books, but they are so well written and so full of descriptive detail that they keep drawing you back.And whether his insight into Lincoln is valid or not (has any biography really grasped the man?), I love Lincoln’s jokes and his ability to manage all those maniacs yelling at him to do this or that or the other. I will read a “proper” history later.
Stephen B. Oates’s, With Malice toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln, is a wonderful book which, I think, really captures and puts across the measure of the man, his life, professional disappointments and victories, numerous private tragedies and, most importantly of all, his chronic internal struggles – particularly the sustained, crushing depressions which blighted his adult life, not least during his presidency. Aside from that, it also serves as a terrific primer on the causes and reverberations of the Civil war (useful for a numpty like me from the UK who had been largely ignorant of American history). It’s some years since I read it but it made a great impression on me; If you get the chance to read it down the line some time @ewe2 I heartily recommend it.
More recently, I gather, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin is a terrific read, but I haven’t got to that yet.
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29 August 2013
Offline “She could have accepted she’d never have the success of HP again, and stuck to her guns, but she seems to want the continued high-level recognition that HP gave her and is increasingly stepping back into that world because she’s surrendered to that the fact that she can’t escape if she wants the level of success HP gave her.”
I hope she doesn’t kill off one of the major characters just because they don’t want to appear in any sequels the way Hollywood does all the time 😉
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Offline Father McCartney said
More recently, I gather, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin is a terrific read, but I haven’t got to that yet.
I’ll hunt up the Oates book, thanks, and I have the ebook of the Goodwin so I might give that a read next. I’m also looking for materials dealing with the Southern side of the conflict and aftermath, I’m aware of the Lost Cause ideology, but I’m sure its more complicated than all that.
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Offline trcanberra said
“She could have accepted she’d never have the success of HP again, and stuck to her guns, but she seems to want the continued high-level recognition that HP gave her and is increasingly stepping back into that world because she’s surrendered to that the fact that she can’t escape if she wants the level of success HP gave her.”
I hope she doesn’t kill off one of the major characters just because they don’t want to appear in any sequels the way Hollywood does all the time 😉
Could be worse, look what Doctor Who’s doing lately. I guess I don’t understand successful people, why can’t she kick back, enjoy her billions and explore all the other things she could do/be?
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3 November 2015
Offline A general response from way up:
Major parallel between JK and the Beatles: both stuck in the image of what they accomplished. But unlike the Beatles, JK can’t exactly break up with herself or find a new hobby.
I want to read A Christmas Carol to get in the mood. I haven’t been able to read much lately because I’ve been so busy with life and music, it’s like I feel my brain cells slipping away.
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15 February 2015
Offline KaleidoscopeMusic said
<snip>I want to read A Christmas Carol to get in the mood. <snip>
Hey, me too! I’ll have to get it though… I don’t have it. I’ve seen a musical rendition of it (Scrooge) many times, but never actually read it, so I feel like I should, and ’tis the season and all that.
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18 March 2013
Offline Ron Nasty said
AppleScruffJunior said
I read and enjoyed her first adult-novel The Casual Vacancy and I read her first detective novel and liked it as well but Jo won’t ever escape the ‘Author of Harry Potter’ image and I think she’s fine with that. She never expected HP to blow up the way it did and the fact that she had it planned out since the early ’90’s shows that she wasn’t just in it for ‘take the money and go’.I believe that for the original series of books, @AppleScruffJunior, however she was adamant when the last book was published, and when the last film was released, that that was it for HP, and we’ve since seen her increasingly back-tracking. I do wonder if it’s not now becoming more about, if not the money (she has lots), the renown, the reputation, the prestige, the ego.
She could have accepted she’d never have the success of HP again, and stuck to her guns, but she seems to want the continued high-level recognition that HP gave her and is increasingly stepping back into that world because she’s surrendered to that the fact that she can’t escape if she wants the level of success HP gave her.
She was the first female author to ever become a billionaire but she lost her billionaire-status recently as she’s given away so much to charity.
Harry is like her baby I imagine, it’s very difficult to just get rid of something that you’ve had in your mind and have been writing about for 17+ years. Her detective novels don’t earn as much credit and acclaim because they are just ordinary detective novels- nothing whimsical or set in a unique, original world like the HP series. She probably misses writing about and in the Potter universe, especially as she had everything planned out from the beginning- the significance of the diary in book two, the characters’ future children, their names, their Hogwarts’ houses, what they achieve e.g. Teddy Lupin becomes Head Boy. She has so much material left that You Won’t See Me complaining about any future books/movies set in the Potter universe so long as they don’t go down the awful Star Wars’ Prequels route.
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29 August 2013
Offline Silly Girl said
KaleidoscopeMusic said
I want to read A Christmas Carol to get in the mood.
Hey, me too! I’ll have to get it though… I don’t have it. I’ve seen a musical rendition of it (Scrooge) many times, but never actually read it, so I feel like I should, and ’tis the season and all that.
I have everything Dickens wrote and am about 2/3 of the way through reading them all – wonderful novels, stories and non-fiction musings.
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18 March 2013
Offline I enjoy Dickens as well but I’ve only read his short stories so far. I’ve got Oliver Twist on the shelf, which I’ll definitely read in the New Year though.
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1 November 2013
Offline KaleidoscopeMusic said
I want to read A Christmas Carol to get in the mood.
I never read the book in full, I’ve worked on a A Christmas Carol play and video. Fun fact, the real title of the book is A Christmas Carol in prose, being a ghost story of Christmas.
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29 August 2013
Offline Annadog40 said
KaleidoscopeMusic said
I want to read A Christmas Carol to get in the mood.
I never read the book in full, I’ve worked on a A Christmas Carol play and video. Fun fact, the real title of the book is A Christmas Carol in prose, being a ghost story of Christmas.
It’s only around 90 pages and one of a number of Christmas novellas and short stories Dickens wrote. One of my other favourite titles is:
The Chimes: A Goblin Story Of Some Bells That Rang An Old Year Out And A New Year In 🙂
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29 August 2013
Offline AppleScruffJunior said
I enjoy Dickens as well but I’ve only read his short stories so far. I’ve got Oliver Twist on the shelf, which I’ll definitely read in the New Year though.
He has a wonderfully dry sense of humour when critiquing Victorian social mores and the poverty of the times. One of my favourite moments is a judge threatening to charge a starving waif with contempt of court for having the temerity to faint with hunger during proceedings.
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Got this book for Christmas:
Ooh, I also got a “Signing for Dummies” book. Now I can sign random things at people while they scream “WHAT THE BLOODY HELL ARE YOU SAYING??”. Ahh, good times….
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Offline I’m 23 pages from finishing book two of ‘Tune In’. Might get it finished by the time 2016 is here.
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18 April 2013
Offline I’m reading the Ringo biography by Starr.
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18 March 2013
Offline I read exactly 80 books this year- not bad at all considering I couldn’t read much in May due to my damn exams (I’m still so happy that I never have to look at a geography book ever again 
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Anyhoo, currently reading:
My friend got it for me for Christmas, I’m enjoying it so far, though I’m only 50 pages in- have had a good few laughs already.
(I swear I’m reading Clapton’s bio next for @mrkite …a year after I originally planned to read it).
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15 February 2015
Offline You mean @Mr. Kite. Yes, there is a difference.
I’m currently reading my March required book, The Plot Against America by Phillip Roth, because I got confused and thought it was for the coming month and now I can’t put it down– ’tis fascinating! I keep picturing one of the characters as looking like an older version of Brian Epstein. 
Don’t worry, I’ve already finished My Antonia, which is the January required book 
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