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Post by Navybelle on Mar 4, 2019 3:23:54 GMT
I'm not sure how this got on my To-read list, but I'm enjoying it: The Last Child by John Hart.
From Publishers Weekly A year after 12-year-old Alyssa Merrimon disappeared on her way home from the library in an unnamed rural North Carolina town, her twin brother, Johnny, continues to search the town, street by street, even visiting the homes of known sex offenders, in this chilling novel from Edgar-winner Hart (Down River). Det. Clyde Hunt, the lead cop on Alyssa's case, keeps a watchful eye on Johnny and his mother, who has deteriorated since Alyssa's abduction and her husband's departure soon afterward. When a second girl is snatched, Johnny is even more determined to find his sister, convinced that the perpetrator is the same person who took Alyssa. But what he unearths is more sinister than anyone imagined, sending shock waves through the community and putting Johnny's own life in danger. Despite a tendency to dip into melodrama, Hart spins an impressively layered tale of broken families and secrets that can kill.
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Post by Kao on Mar 7, 2019 18:37:52 GMT
I'm reading "Notes From a Black Woman's Diary- Selected Works of Kathleen Collins." She was an author, playright, and filmmaker who died of cancer before her work became really known. The book is a collection of short stories, and screen plays. I'm really enjoying how this woman writes, it's like poetry for the soul. I'm glad her work is being discovered now by more people.
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Post by acookertv on Mar 10, 2019 2:51:09 GMT
Today I finished A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne and I loved it! It’s the first of his books I’ve read and I’m looking forward to reading others soon. It was a very well written book where the plot played out at a pace you didn’t realize was happenenig as it was. Also one of those books I desperately want to discuss after reading! The story of a man consumed with ambition for fame as a writer, but lacking the talent to get there. The lengths he goes to get it make for a great book.
Next up for me is Black and Blue bu Anna Quindlen.
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Post by Arielflies on Mar 10, 2019 4:52:55 GMT
Re-reading the first book in the Iron Druid series by Kevin Hearne - Hounded - before I receive the books on tape for the next two. I have joined the Braille Institute as a potentially low/loss of vision student and they offer a FREE cassette player and FREE books on cassette tape. It is all done by mail with the Institute's Los Angeles library that contains over 100,000 titles.
I have been wanting to read the remaining 8 books in the Iron Druid series, but the Kindle cost is $7 and I don't have Unlimited because of the monthly fee; more than I want to spend. As with some series, the first book is free and gets you hooked, then...well. Anyway, I was so excited to be able to get signed up with this program.
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Post by cablejockey on Mar 10, 2019 16:54:12 GMT
I've been on a reading tear so far this year, averaging a book every 5 days. Last night, I sat down to read November Road, and could not stop until I finished it. I really enjoyed it. The story imagines what the scenario would look like if the mafia were behind the assassination of JFK. The protagonist, Frank, realizes he played a hand in it when his mob boss had him drop off a car in Dallas. The story is essentially a slow car chase across the country with Frank believing his life may be in danger for knowing too much. But the characters are written in such a compelling way that I wanted to keep going with them. I really enjoyed it. Next up for me is Maid - a memoir I'm looking forward to as much as I did Educated last year. I really enjoyed reading November Road too. It felt so real--almost as if you were reading a real person's view of what was happening back then!! Now I am re-reading Tana French's first novel--In The Woods www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/300448/in-the-woods-by-tana-french/9780143113492/readers-guide/ It is so good I had to read it again!
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Post by Critical on Mar 12, 2019 8:26:40 GMT
My book clubbers were shocked when I said I was currently reading 5 books. Is that not normal? One of them asked how I keep them straight. They're all different. I mean, I'm reading three memoirs, but I'm not confusing them. One is Michelle Obama's Becoming. Another is Tan France's Naturally Tan and the third of Todd Fisher's memoir of his mom and sister, My Girls. How could you confuse ANY of those people?
I guess I'm down to four, since I finished The Vanishing Velazquez for my book club meeting and am now down to Marlon James' Black Leopard Red Wolf in the fiction category. I've also got a few business and branding books going, but that's for work, so I'm not reading them straight through.
If I was reading five mysteries or five of anything in the same fiction genre, maybe I'd be confused....although I can't imagine why I'd be reading five books in the same genre at the same time.
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Post by photobabe on Mar 12, 2019 19:53:24 GMT
I'm reading The Island of Sea Women, the latest book by Lisa See. Unlike previous books by Lisa See, this book is set in Korea, not China. So far, I am really enjoying it. The sea women were actually divers who gathered sea life to support their families. The men stayed home and cared for the children, did the shopping and much of the housework. It piqued my interest enough that I did some quick online research to verify that such a culture actually existed. If you are a fan of Lisa See you should get this book ASAP. If you are not a fan, I highly recommend you become one!
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Post by denz on Apr 7, 2019 20:12:50 GMT
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Post by almostshamus on Apr 10, 2019 3:34:20 GMT
Reading a book about ten years old titled "Meltdown" by Ben Elton. Basically a fictional story of nouveau riche people in London caught and ruined in the great recession. Someone told me he was a good writer, so I bought like 5 of his books used on Amazon for a couple bucks each.
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Post by Kao on Apr 10, 2019 14:18:44 GMT
Currently reading "The Lost Night." It's about a group of friends who lived in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in this loft building in 2005 that went their own separate ways when Edie (the friend that held the whole group together) committed suicide. 10 years later, a couple of the friends is having a reunion, and one of them thinks it's less likely that Edie killed herself and more than likely one of the "friends" murdered her. It's a great mystery book written about a very fun time in Brooklyn history.
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Post by acookertv on Apr 10, 2019 14:44:07 GMT
I just recently finished The Hearts Invisible Furies by John Boyne and I LOVED it! The characters were the type you just enjoy spending with and are a bit sad when the book is over that you won't be hanging out anymore. It was fantastically written - one of those books where the author tells you what is happening and trusts that you are smart enough to follow along (example, opening a section talking about a character walking through Central Park so you deduct he's in New York now rather than spelling out "then I moved to New York City"). Loved it, loved it, loved it!
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Post by AZChristian on Apr 10, 2019 23:04:24 GMT
I'm not into the educated stuff most of you are reading. Hubby and I read a lot of James Patterson. With all his co-authors, it seems like he has a new book coming out every week or so.
So I just finished "The Chef." In it, a New Orleans cop also owns a food truck ("Killer Chef"). The only word I can think of to describe the whole thing is "dreadful." Really . . . he's on a stakeout (as a private eye, not a cop), and (are you ready for this?) pulls out a skillet which he plugs into his car cigarette lighter and proceeds to cook himself a gourmet meal, right there in the front seat of his car!!!
Yep. I don't think my car gets dirty enough just with daily use. I think I'll fry me up some food and add grease splatters to the mix.
Oh . . . and he runs the food truck with his EX-wife, who becomes close friends with his new girlfriend.
I told you it was dreadful!!!
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Post by AZChristian on Apr 18, 2019 15:08:33 GMT
Just finished another James Patterson - "The First Lady." Much better read than "The Chef." Couple of interesting twists . . . if you want something just for pleasant time-filler, this one is pretty good.
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Post by Kao on Apr 20, 2019 17:10:10 GMT
Currently reading "Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them." It's a very fun nonfiction book about famous plagues through history and how the general public and people in power dealt with them. I definitely recommend it!
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Post by sparklete on May 23, 2019 17:03:17 GMT
Just finished the All Souls trilogy. Starting The Last Kingdom.
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Post by Arielflies on May 24, 2019 1:16:11 GMT
Getting into The Belial Stones series. Very ancient artifacts discovered amid a lot of violence between Fallen Angels and Humans. Interesting, though.
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Post by lonnie on May 26, 2019 6:00:01 GMT
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Post by redsoxgirl on May 28, 2019 3:49:46 GMT
Currently reading "Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them." It's a very fun nonfiction book about famous plagues through history and how the general public and people in power dealt with them. I definitely recommend it! I have the book! I've loads of these types of books. Great read!
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Post by denz on May 28, 2019 5:34:43 GMT
Just started the 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton. Only 3 chapters in (short chapters) and I'm hooked.
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Post by Arielflies on May 28, 2019 5:52:03 GMT
I'm up to book 5 of the Belial Series...fascinating read if you wonder about ancient times. The protagonist, Laney, even mentioned the land of Mu (Atlantis off the west coast of America). In my hometown at the base of Mt. Shasta, we have tales of Lemurians- short bodies with large feet - though they've been thought to be from outer space and live inside the mountain. To see that legend linked with Atlantis makes this What If story all the more intriguing to me. Book 5 gets more into the Giants of North America and how they interacted with the migrating native population.
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Post by MissScarlet on Jun 16, 2019 22:22:37 GMT
Just finished John Grisham's The Broker. It's an older one, but really good. Well worth the read. The characters were interesting, the story fascinating, the descriptions of Bologna Italy even held my interest a lot. So often too much description can be a novel's downfall for me, but this time I enjoyed it.
Toward the end, when the action picked up into nearly a frenzy, I could barely put it down. I was up 'till 2:30AM last night finishing it. I just couldn't stop 'till it was done. The ending was satisfying for both the characters & the issues at hand. I really enjoyed the main character's personal growth & realization of the important things in life. He did quite the turn around from the selfish self serving jerk he had been.
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Post by Kao on Jun 18, 2019 15:36:10 GMT
I finished reading "Queenie" while I was on vacation and loved it. Some people describe Queenie as a Afro-British Bridget Jones Diary, but Bridget was never this messy, lol. Either way, I loved the lead character, her friends, and her family and highly recommend it.
Currently reading the final Trainspotting book "Dead Man's Trousers" and despite some of the characters getting their lives together they are still messy, lol.
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Post by Navybelle on Jun 23, 2019 4:27:23 GMT
I'm reading Katherine Center's "How To Walk Away." It's good so far, very well written.
From the author of Happiness for Beginners comes the instant New York Times bestseller, an unforgettable love story about finding joy even in the darkest of circumstances. Margaret Jacobsen is just about to step into the bright future she's worked for so hard and so long: a new dream job, a fiance she adores, and the promise of a picture-perfect life just around the corner. Then, suddenly, on what should have been one of the happiest days of her life, everything she worked for is taken away in a brief, tumultuous moment.
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Post by FannyMare on Jun 24, 2019 3:38:40 GMT
I'm reading Katherine Center's "How To Walk Away." It's good so far, very well written. From the author of Happiness for Beginners comes the instant New York Times bestseller, an unforgettable love story about finding joy even in the darkest of circumstances. Margaret Jacobsen is just about to step into the bright future she's worked for so hard and so long: a new dream job, a fiance she adores, and the promise of a picture-perfect life just around the corner. Then, suddenly, on what should have been one of the happiest days of her life, everything she worked for is taken away in a brief, tumultuous moment.This is good to hear, I'm number 3 for this book, so not long..
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Post by Navybelle on Jun 24, 2019 4:23:56 GMT
I'm reading Katherine Center's "How To Walk Away." It's good so far, very well written. From the author of Happiness for Beginners comes the instant New York Times bestseller, an unforgettable love story about finding joy even in the darkest of circumstances. Margaret Jacobsen is just about to step into the bright future she's worked for so hard and so long: a new dream job, a fiance she adores, and the promise of a picture-perfect life just around the corner. Then, suddenly, on what should have been one of the happiest days of her life, everything she worked for is taken away in a brief, tumultuous moment.This is good to hear, I'm number 3 for this book, so not long.. I just finished it, and it was good. Well written, though some parts were predictable. I still enjoyed it and teared up a bit in a few spots. Now I'm moving on to "The Summer Before the War" by Helen Simonson, but my loan is about to expire so I'm not sure I'll get it finished! Darn.
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Post by Gutmutter on Jun 25, 2019 20:38:44 GMT
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler Not new, but so, so good! A girl raised from birth until 5 with an older brother and a twin sister, who happens to be a chimpanzee. I cried at the end.
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Post by AZChristian on Jul 8, 2019 18:15:12 GMT
Just finished reading "The Store" by James Patterson and Richard DiLallo. It's my new favorite Patterson book (outside of the Women's Murder Club series).
The best way I can describe it is: Amazon (the internet company) meets The Stepford Wives.
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Post by Arielflies on Jul 8, 2019 19:23:31 GMT
I'm reading another paranormal series - Extreme Medical Services by Jamie Davis. An ajunct paramedic unit has been set up in a medium size city to deal with what are termed Unusuals - anyone not human. I mean, for goodness sake, there is even a heavenly angel in the mix with vampires, werewolves, fairies, djinn and what ever else. It is fast paced though the real controversy is only beginning to bloom in book 2 where humans are forming hate groups to rid the city of the Unusuals.
I'm a third of the way through book 2, but recommend reading the short pre-book (The Vampire and the Paramedic) to understand how this world is set up before jumping into book 1, which I did.
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Post by Kao on Jul 9, 2019 14:02:33 GMT
Just finished reading one of the more recent Patricia Briggs Mercy novels; it's the one where she gets kidnapped by a vampire, escapes, ends up in Prague and The Golem contacts her. I haven't read a Mercy book in a while and this one was particularly good.
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Post by Arielflies on Jul 10, 2019 0:46:45 GMT
The series I posted about above is good, but it is self published and needs a heavy editing hand. As I read along, I edit for him so it is not that successful as a read, but I do like the concept.
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