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I also read "What Alice Forgot" and really liked it! I also read her book, "The Hypnotist's Love Story" and enjoyed it. Will have to add "The Husband's Secret" to my list. There is another author with the Moriarty last name, Laura. I recently read "The Chaperone" and liked it.
I just finished a book by Anita Diamant (The Red Tent author) called "Day After Night" it follows 4 women after WWII in Atlit, a British internment camp for Jewish refugees near Haifa. It was well written and based on true events.
Not sure what I'll start next...too many good books to choose from! Gina
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For those fans of Cheryl Strayed's "Wild", I just finished reading "Becoming Odyssa" by Jennifer Pharr Davis. She hiked the Appalachian Trail (mostly) alone.
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I think I read a review of a book by a niece of Dorothy West and that is how I discovered and read Dorothy West's 1985 book, The Wedding. It is a multigenerational look at a wealthy African-American family who summers in an African-American enclave on Martha's Vineyard. The story takes place in 1950 and deals with issues of economics, social aspirations, class relations within the African-American community and with the white community. It was beautifully written both in engaging my interest in the characters but also in the physical descriptions of Martha's Vineyard, Harlem at the turn of the century and "The South" . Dorothy West herself is fascinating - a member of the Harlem Rennaissance. The book was written with the encouragement and editorial assistance of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, her MV neighbor and friend. Her earlier book, written in the 1940's is called The Living is Easy - I will have to look for that next.......
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So... When the Emporer was Devine was ok- not over the roof great. Chris Bohjalian's new book The Light in the Ruins....I think may be my least favorite of his. It was good but not great. I am have started Life after Life and so far have not gotten far enough into it to figure it out?
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Check out the website www.yournextread.com You enter the name of a book you liked, and they give suggestions for others. Click on one of those and you get reviews, and more suggestions. It's endless fun!
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Laurie: When I first started Life After Life, I was a little lost too. Stick with it, I think you'll wind up enjoying it. Ursula lives, dies, and is reborn over again and again until she lives the life she was meant to live. She literally lives "life after life" until she gets it right. The book also made me think of the serendipity of life: how one small, seemingly insignificant choice or location or person can change everything that follows. Hope that helps a little.
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Thanks McSuchi- that helps. I can tell thats where it is going, I haven't had much time to read and need to get into it.
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Laurie08- I am also in the middle of Life after Life and an lost also. I find it hard to follow stories that skip around, especially now! LOL
Moni
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A Street Cat Named Bob and How He Saved My Life by James Bowen. Non-fiction for a change. A seriously uplifting and well-told story of a drug addicted street person/busker - who in finding and caring for a stray ginger tom cat, found a reason to get off drugs and get on with his life which has taken a direction he never imagined. I love it that the story starts in 2007 and Bob and James are still doing well and in fact have written another book and perhaps a movie is in the works! there are many videos on youtube - one where Bob and James share the interview sofa with Eddie Izzard - if you check the videos you will notice how many scarves have been knit for Bob! but here is one at a book signing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=for5iIQZqzw Although James is on methadone when th story begins, it isn't part of the story until he kicks the habit. No sex, no infidelity. Just a lovely lovely true story.0 -
I read Life after Life because I saw it here, and it was about different individuals who live in an assisted living facility, no Ursula. I just asked the librarian for it. Boy was I off! lol. But I liked it!
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we need some more info here:
bedo - who was the author of the Life After Life book which you read?
Moni713, MicSushi and Laura08 - who was the author of the Life After Life book (the one with Ursula?) which you all read?
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The Life After Life Laurie and I are referring to is by Kate Atkinson. That should clear things up!
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I did not find life after life a good read, but loved all of kate atkinson's earlier books....great mysteries.
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Hi all, the book I read was by Kate Atkinson. But, while I was looking for it, another book by the same name came up and I had to discern which was which. I did not care for Life after Like, personally. Hmmmm.. ,maybe try another of her books. Currently reading 'The Light Between Oceans' which I am enjoying.
Enjoy the day!
Moni
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Hello Fellow Book Lovers...:)
I have to say, I know Cheryl Strayed can write...discovered her as Dear Sugar/ her column on therumpus.net (that's how she developed such a loyal reader following). I've also read her essays on her website and read her 1st fiction book.
BUT, our book club just read WILD, and I didn't care for it at all. To me, it was very redundant with those damn unrelenting boots & "Monster" (backpack) musings! I found it pretty boring and definitely not her best writing. However, the scene that stuck with me the most was when she and her siblings had to shoot their horse.
Her personal essay on her website about her mother dying of cancer was really good...;)
Just my 2 cents...
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Violet... I read the book Dear Sugar... Excuse me... I read some of the Dear Sugar book. Not my cup of tea. Different strokes for different folks.
Speaking of which... Begley's Memories of a Marriage is driving me and my reader friends crazy. He ends the book keeping the reader in suspense. None of us agree how the story should end! One of my friends said we should write him and ask! I told her if he wanted us to know....he would have written another chapter! I keep looking for clues in the book to figure out how the story SHOULD end, but after I have it all figured out, another friend comes along and is equally sure of another ending. I'm dizzy from the book.
So I'm now enjoying The Civil War in 50 Objects. The book is based on an exhibit that I hope to visit soon at The New York Historical Society. The book is fascinating.0 -
Vor,
LOL! The actual columns were enhanced also by the reader's comments after each column on the Rumpus website. I haven't read the compilation from it in Tiny Beautiful Things book. But yes, ain't we all different in our likes...;) Her best motto for writers:
" Write like a MF! " I have the coffee mug--LOL!
I'll post more later on some of my fav books...I'm mostly s NONFICTION reader though...;)0 -
I did not love Wild either. I must not be author material, because there are just some things from my misspent youth that I would not want my DH/children/employer/friends and acquaintances to know the specific details of!!!!!!!
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Just finished 'The Wicked Girls' by Alex Marwood. It was a quick read. I didn't find myself skipping or skimming overmuch, so I would rate it a good suspense/psychological thriller type story and recommend it for anyone who likes that kind of tale.
A how to question: how do you make the book titles bold?0 -
I don't know if every device is different; but on my computer, right above where I am typing there is a bar running across the page. It has a B for bold. I for italics, smiley icon for emotions, spell check etc.
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I happened to love "Wild", but as you stated ruthbru, I have often wondered how it is that an author doesn't seem to have difficutly writing about things from their lives that (seemingly) one would think they wouldn't want to broadcast to their significant other, parents, or children. Perhaps the appeal of being published outweighs the former.
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Jld03, unfortunately some phones and tablets aren't compatible with the post editing options on these boards, so you may not have the choice of using Bold if you're connecting that way. The tech team hope for a fix, but we don't know when.
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I read Life after Life by Jill McCorkle! Not the correct Life after Life that you all read, but it was pretty good anyway!
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JLD03 - figured I'd start with Liane Moriarty's first book, Three Wishes and I REALLY liked it - will check out more of her stuff. Thanks again for the recommendation
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I, too, just finished 'Three Wishes' by Liane Moriarty and I LOVED it. Having read several of her books fairly close together now, I'm starting to see some recurrent themes, but every time she explores them from different angles with different outcomes and the characters are each so different that they have yet to feel repetitive, at least to me. I really like her stories.
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Started the last Vince Flynn, The Last Man, last week but it's been too nice out to stay inside and read much so only 70 pages in so far.
Next up is The Last Policeman by Ben Winters. Jelson, my local library has it in the stacks!
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The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century by Scott Miller
If you like learning about a historical period from multiple angles, you will enjoy this book. The main 'event' is the assassination of William McKinley in 1901, at the beginning of 'the American Century'. It is the story of the years leading up to that event, and of the very different paths that brought together President William McKinley and Leon Czolgosz, the anarchist who murdered him. You also get a good look at the other big players of the time, and of the issues which drove and which divided Americans. Imperialism, Industrialism, Immigration, Unionism, Anarchism as a world movement, the desperate plight of factory workers in a time when government seemed focused solely on making the rich richer. Very fasinating. It somewhat reminded me of Erik Larsen's style.
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Ok- I finally finished Life After Life. I am very torn on how I feel about this book. It felt very fragmented. McSushi- I think this may be a first where we both did not "love" a book? It was good- but I was able to put it down and walk away. I was dissappointed int he ending to boot.
I started Z today. Hoping this is a quick read!
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Sisters.... Please help me and my friends out. So far, 5 of us have read Begley's Memories of a Marriage. It's a quick read...180 pages. Two friends believe the story "ends" one way, while two believe it "ends" another way. One friend is on the fence. One of my local librarians is presently reading it. Another friend promises me she will read it. Could any of you please read it and chime in or PM me on how you think the story ends? Thanks!
I'm reading Hitler 's Philosophers. The book concentrates on academia during Hitler 's rise to power. Mentions a lot about that pivotal year that Larson discusses in his best seller, In the Garden of Beasts. Quite fascinating how Hitler had no appreciation or understanding of what great thinking was truly about. Likewise, the portrayal of thinkers who thought they understood the great thinkers is frightening!!!
Ruth, I had the Mckinley book on my list...will get to it shortly!0 -
Vor,
I'll have to pick up Hitler's Philosopher's, sounds like a great read & my kind of book...;)Thanks!
Violet0
