The Historian buddy read

I hardly got anywhere today. I was busy all morning then when I was ready to listen I decided to listen through my computer instead of on my MP3 player. It worked for alittle while but I think the sound card was dying as sounds have a tendency to go in and out on this computer and it stopped working. Then I had to get some stuff done for a site visit Ihave to do in the AM so I just called it quits on the book for the day.

I've had a hard time getting into it. but i think this is one of those books you need to have time to read (or in my case listen) a lot at one time and when you're not doing anything else. So I've been trying in bits and pieces and then keep having to go back a little bit to reread the last part I did last time. I've not even gotten a chance to touch it today though I did have it playing al ittle while yesterday. maybe tonight for a while. or tomorrow while I'm cutting up all the fruit and veggies I'm taking to a SB party.

Debbie - yes I've discovered that about the book. And unfortunately that's all I've had time for is bits and pieces.

Jo - too funny about the diary thing.  Anything in particular standing out for you yet?

I did listen for about an hour and a half this afternoon though while I was cutting up vegetables and fruit for the trays i was taking to a super bowl party (Darn it that the PAts dind't win! I was rooting for them!)

Since you are both farther than I am I'm not going to do spoilers. I'm not sure what chapter I'm on but I'm about 5 1/2 hours in (and each of the four sections is like 7 hours long!) so I have a LONG way to go. I'm up to the part where the historian's father (did they ever say her name or her dad's name? if they did I missed it!) is meeting with Helen for the second time and realized she is Rossi's daughter. They are in teh diner presently and he just let her read the letters. Or I'm at the part where his cat was just killed. I forget if that happened before the meeting in teh diner or after. But I remember reading about the cat.

Kinda interesting how Dracula (I'm assuming it's him who's biting everyone) has minions in each key place Rossi and company are researching him. Not sure why they don't want Bram Stoker's book to be out though. I;m guessing it's because Stoker got too many details correct about Dracula?

I'm a Steelers fan myself. So since they weren't in it, I wasn't emotionally invested in the game. The reason i was rooting for the Pats was becasue I thought it would be cool to see them go undefeated season and post season for the year. But i was really just watching the game for the commercials this year.

And hey my Steelers did make it to the superbowl, sorta. LOL They had a commercial. Or rather Big Ben Roethlisberger had one which was cool.

I finished the whole first section of the book. Part 2 started not too long before I had to stop listening. I stopped shortly after Helen and Paul (thanks Jo for the name) got to Istanbul.

And gee, lemme guess - Helen is the mother of the woman telling the story? Has her name ever been given? I can't remember.

well there was a part early on when her father is first telling her about meeintg helen the first time. And she makes a comment along the lines of she's always liked that name and says why. Then she makes a comment it was also her mother's name.

Yeah I've noticed that too Deb. I've had to backtrack more when listneing to this book than any other audio book I've ever done. And it's totlaly becasue there is so much info and all these little clues I keep missing. I had to rewind at least 5 times to catch the part where that librarian died. Somehow I kept missing exactly HOW he died though I got that he was dead.

Wow Jo! Finished already? It's going to take me all month probably to finish it. feel free to post comments and stuff, just do the spoiler space so I know not to read that part yet. :-)

OK it's getting interesting. Paul and Helen are in Instanbul looking at the archives and find the Order of the Dragon document with Rossi's name on it and the title of an article he's working on.

well I know Jo is finished with it. And I know Debbie was having to check the book out from the library again. And I was SOOO busy this weekend I barely got to listen at all. But I did get a little farther at least. I'm up to the part now where Paul and helen are in Budapest with heraunt, getting ready to go see her mother and Paul is just about to begin his guest lecture.

Some weird stuff happening! Interestng they found anotehr ally there to help in the search for information who just happened to have an old vampire hunting kit in his collection of artifacts. Which paul and helen sure can use.

I like the jumping back and forth between the time of Paul's daughter and her search for information with her friend and Paul's search for Rossi and the grave.

LOL Jo. Well Debbie LOVES spoilers! I usually skip them but she never passes them up.

This makes me think since doing a buddy read is making e read this book when I probably would have kept putting it off. Maybe we should plan to do a buddy read every couple months or so throughout the year. And pick books that we all want to read and haven't yet?

Even if all we're doing is saying "I'm at this part" and having a spoiler here and there like we are on this one so far. (Though I have a feeling we'll get into it more after we all finish it and don't have to worry abut giving stuff away.)

It's making us read some of those ones we've wanted to for a while and never do.

What do yall think?