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Just finished The English Girl by Daniel Silva. A very intriguing spy novel with lots of twists and turns.
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Speaking of Silva... Lee Child's next book is due out in a few days... and for anyone in the New York area interested in meeting him... he'll be at the Barnes and Noble on the UWS on Sept. 3rd!
Ruth... I barely saw the DH for 3 days while he was reading Silva's latest book! Gave me time enough time to start and finish Lost Girls. True story about the Gilgo Beach, Long Island serial killings...0 -
The Silva had shocking twists right to the end. You hardly dared to put it down!
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Hello everyone! I don't post much, but wanted to say I love this thread and have taken many of your suggestions. If I may, I would like to reccomend "Finding Odyssa" by Jennifer Davis. The book is her tale of her adventure on the Appalachian Trail. Very interesting and reminiscent of 'Wild' by Cheryl Strayed.
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Thank-you moni731, I loved "Wild".
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I just got back from the library....I have my work cut out for me as they had 4 books I have been wanting to read. When The Emperor Was Devine by Julie Otsuka. The Light in the Ruins by Chris Bohjalian. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson. And Z.
Wish me luck ladies! 2 of them are 7 day books!!!! Happy reading and thanks for all the great suggestions I believe everyone of these have been suggested here
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Good luck, Laurie! Can't wait to hear what you think of them!
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Laurie, knowing you there'll be no problem
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I'm so glad I found this thread! I started a book club of retired teachers from my school. We have 16 members and have been meeting for 2 years now...once a month. We just read Where'd You Go, Bernedette? by Maria Semple...funny and she has an interesting style.
I just finished The Moonflower Vine by Jetta Carleton...it's a "rediscovered classic"...4 points of view with an interesting twist.
I started a list from your recommendations. Thanks so much everyone!!!!!
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Fgm.... Welcome! I loved Where'd You go Bernadette so much, I recommended for our library's book discussion! We discussed it two weeks ago! Everyone loved it !
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Read Inferno on vacation last week. If you're a Dan Brown fan, you'll love it. I liked it better than The DaVinci Code.
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Louis Begley's Memories of a Marriage. Unbelievable writing. Terrific story of a marriage...
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Read half of "Packing for Mars" then set it aside for a week and snacked on two delightful books, "The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared" and "The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat". Finished the other half of "Packing for Mars" and now have the next two Vince Flynn novels "Act of Treason" and "Protect and Defend" to read in the next week. I'd better get to reading! Will get another Mary Roach after that, either "Stiff" or "Bonk". VR have you read either of those? p.s. welcome fgm! I loved "Where'd You Go, Bernadette"
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Badger... Read the Roach books. Have to return to her other book, My Planet. Did you not love the 100 Year Old Man and The Supremes??? They were wonderful.
DH reads Flynn books and is going to miss him! Child's latest Reacher novel hits the shelves next week! Can't wait! The DH will be consumed in reading the book and will leave me time to do what I love to do without interruption.... READ!0 -
Just read "The Light Between Oceans". I highly recommend it.
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A fun beach read is Summertime, All The Cats Are Bored by Philippe Georget. Translated from French, it takes place during a long, hot summer on the Mediterranean shore, where a police detective finds himself involved in the twisted game of a serial killer..."from the world of French noir".
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Her, just started The Light BetweenOceans in your recommendation, really enjoying it, thanks!
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Sorry, meant "hrf"
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just finished the second of The Last Policeman trilogy by Ben H. Winter, Countdown City. The books starts at 77 days to go before an unstoppable asteroid hits earth and destroys civilization as we know it. In the first book, Harry Palace, Concord NH patrolman has been promoted to detective ( his life-long dream) but in this book, the local police have been taken over by the feds and there is deemed no longer a need to investigate murders. However, Harry is the type of guy who keeps on wearing a sports coat and tie and carrying a notebook. I was fascinated by the assumptions Winter made about how quickly our infrastructure would fall apart in the face of such an impending disaster, after all, from the individual to the organizational level, what would be the point of carrying on maintaining the roads, the water supply, power? Harry, however, is asked by his former babysitter to find her missing husband - eventhough so many people have simply run off to follow long deferred dreams - gone "bucket"list. Henry confronts questions way beyond "whodunit." What do we as human beings owe to one another? And what does it mean to be civilized when civilization is collapsing all around you? This is the kind of book that grips you while you are reading it - like I had to shake myself and remind myself that the world was not actually ending. The book is not at all doom and gloom because the characters are very vivid and often humorous. I can't wait for the third book to find out what happens.
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Just finished Life after Life. Thanks to who(m)? ever recommended it. Really good book. There was only one part I didn't like, but I won't mention it because I still would recommend it and I don't want to spoil it!
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I am about to start Life After Life. I did not succeed with my 2- 7 day books
Too much going on with the start of school.So I will return them both including the one I did not finish and hope I can get it again in a week or two to finish it.
I added Memories of a Marriage to my to read list.
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Laurie...warning you about the ending of Memories of a Marriage.... You are going to have to have someone else read the book and then both of you must decide how the story REALLY ends... That Begley guy will really tickle your brain... All I will say is that reading fiction is much like life... Do any of us really know how things will end?
Furthermore...I heard something on the radio today about Hitchcock... Spent a whole year with a friend watching many of his films and reading books about him. The person on the radio said something like this with reference to Hitchcock... It's best to out live anyone who might one day wish to write about you. Made me wonder...How can anyone ever think about writing about another person when the other person barely knows themselves... and to dissect a marriage...impossible....Hitchcock and Begley... Both devils....0 -
VR, I did indeed love both The 100 Year-Old Man and The Supremes, thanks for the recs.
Picked up the next two Vince Flynns "Extreme Measures" and "Pursuit of Honor" which means only three more to go after I finish these two. sad!
Jelson, I'm intrigued by "The Last Policeman" (what's the point of solving murders when an asteroid is going to hit Earth in six months and kill us all?). Putting it on my TBR list - thanks.
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Am reading the newest Lee Childs' Jack Reacher novel, had read all the Vince Flynns (yes, died too young), have read all Mary Roach (liked Stiffs best), and did enjoy Light between Oceans. Husband's Secret was pretty good...will look for some others recommended here...
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just finished Spencer Quinn's second book in the Chet and Bernie private investigators series. The books are narrated by Chet, a large dog of undetermined heritage who is a partner with Bernie ( former Marine, former cop) in the Little Detective Agency. Although they are faced with serious crimes to solve, Chet is simply adorable - and actually provides a good model for living in the moment, the value of napping and a good stretch.
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This book/author may have already been mentioned, but I'm new to the forums and I haven't had a chance to read through all the previous recommendations yet. However I recently read 'What Alice Forgot" by Liane Moriarty and I really enjoyed it. It's about a woman who falls off her spin cycle, bumps her head, and 'forgets' the last ten years of her life. It's witty, yet poignant as she pieces the missing years together and tries to make sense of what became of her life, the divergence between her younger self's hopes and dreams and her current reality.
I liked it so much, I bought all her other books and am currently reading 'The Last Anniversary.' So far, I am really enjoying it.0 -
Dancermom, Sorry, I'm late to this site. I, too, read Brown's Inferno. Loved it! My only question is, who is really the bad guy?
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JLD03 thanks for the tip about Liane Moriarty, I checked her out on fantastic fiction and her books do sound varied and good. I notice she is Australian. I like reading books with foreign settings - fun to learn new words for familiar things - just even subtle ways things are different, different places.
Badger, I would love to learn what you think about The Last Policeman - I don't know anyone else who has read it!!
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I lurk here a lot but this is my first post. Growing up library 's slogan was "books are your friends" and took it to heart. Unfortunately after diagnosis I simply couldn't concentrate to read a book. Finally I am reading again and just finished a fabulous book...The Husbands Secret by Liane Moriarty. Will look for her other books based on previous posts.
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'The Husband's Secret' was the second book I read by this author, and I loved it, though not quite as much as 'What Alice Forgot'. Just finished The Last Anniversary last night. It was great. There's just something about her style, her wit, and the shadows lurking beneath what otherwise might seem light and frothy. She makes me really care about her main characters. I'm so happy I found her. Now I'm looking forward to many more happy hours reading as I scroll through the recommendations made throughout this thread.
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