Book Lovers Club
Comments
-
Yup, Harry Potter was good. LORs was enchanting.....really did bring the books to life....
0 -
Ruth is that a new pic? Or am just slow noticing... LOL but I wanted to say I love it!
0 -
Oh Jane Eyre. I agree w/your Mom, Ruth. But I did like Gone w/the Wind in the movie version. I devoured that book under my covers w/a flashlight. My Mother read The Hobbit to us when we were young so lots of good memories. And I've read LORs several times so maybe it's time to see the movies? Of maybe I should read the series again first.
Yes, Ruth - I like the new picture too.
0 -
"The Help" was the only movie that I enjoyed almost as much as the book. I'm usually disappointed if I see a movie after the book.
0 -
Re: Books to movies One book that translated well into a movie was Atonement.
It turns out I will be out of town when my book club discusses The Book Thief so now there's no rush to read it. Instead I will take it on my cruise next week and look forward to a delicious reading experience. Thanks for the reviews.
I read the first couple of pages of The Language of Flowers and now can't put it down!
0 -
I read the LORs in college, and then read it to my 2nd grade son (because I liked to read content-rich things that were above his reading level to him so he would get excited about reading). When the first LORs came out he was in upper elementary, and we re-read the book (separately this time) first, and then saw the movie together......we have done that for each movie, which is pretty cool because he is now 24 years old.
Picture taken at a Christmas party...far away and fuzzy, just like I like them
.0 -
Wally Lamb has a new book!?!!?
0 -
Yes Laurie. "We Are Water".
0 -
Hello All -
Glad to see this thread and I'm not sure how I missed it earlier. I was thinking the other day about how one of the only positives I got from cancer was a chance to take off work and read all day. That part has actually been pretty great. I certainly don't want to do it again though. :P I was able to move my way through a bunch of books but my greatest achievement was getting through 4 books of the Game of Thrones series, which is so, so long. I'm on the 5th book now and still have a good while until I return to work so I'm sure I'll finish that one up as well. I'm also currently reading The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling for my book club and I am loving it. Here are some of the others I read during my "cancercation" so far:
The Outcasts - Kathleen Kent (a great Western I happened to pick up at the library. It was wonderful)
W is for Wasted - Sue Grafton (been reading this series since I was 18 - that's 20 years now!)
The Ghost Bride - Yangsze Choo
Trunk Music - Michael Connolly
The Cuckoo's Calling - J.K. Rowling
The Mermaid Chair - Sue Monk Kidd (for my book club - this book was not my favorite)
Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight - M.E. Thomas (don't do it; total waste of time)
Slammed - Colleen Hoover (YA teen romance novel that was not my thing but a quick read)
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Helen Simonson (LOVED THIS BOOK)
NOS4A2 - Joe Hill (I like a little horror now and then and this one wasn't bad)
Reconstructing Amelia - Kimberly McCreight (interesting read that kept my attention)
Besides the opportunity to read, I did some serious binge watching of Neflix series, which was also fun. Between all the books, movies, video games and t.v. I wanted to watch, I never found myself bored. In fact, weirdly, this time has been one of the best of my life. I had time to sit down and enjoy my life and prioritize how the next half of my life is going to change.
I have a question for the group: Any recommendations for a great mystery? I love Agatha Christie but I wanted to branch out and try some newer authors. I'm going to Hawaii with my husband next month for some relaxation after I complete radiation and I'm looking forward to spending time relaxing by the water with a book in my hand.
0 -
Here are some authors of mysteries to check out. I use the fantastic fiction website to see the author's books categorized by series and publishing date and there are usually brief summaries of each book.
for contemporaries of Christie, Dorothy Sayers and Josephine Tey. More recent, PD James, and Martha Grimes, M. C. Beaton ( I prefer her very funny Agatha Raisin series) relatively new Jacqueline Winspear. Australian - Kerry Greenwood - one series a flapper, another a baker, Alan Bradley's Flavia de Luce series.
0 -
I am a big Kerry Greenwood fan so I second that recommendation! The books are fantastic.
Australian TV just finished airing its second season of the series based on the books. They are quite different, but a lot of fun- I streamed them and enjoyed very much.
If you like noir, try The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammet- mystery with a lot of snark- and if you go down that path you can also try Raymond Chandler.
I am a also a big fan of the late Elizabeth Peters so I would recommend the Amelia Peabody mysteries (main character is a Victorian age female egyptologist).
0 -
gildedcage, I love louise penny, and many of kate atkinson's books are mysteries-I especially liked Case Studies.
0 -
Guilded....Loved Major Pettigrew too! Another terrific small British novel that I adored is The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.
0 -
tmb173 - I didn't know Elizabeth Peters had died!! but in checking that our I found 3 of her books under that name that I haven't read, one Vicki Bliss, her most recent Amelia Peabody and one that won't be published until 2015?
Gildedcage - though not a series unfortunately and set in Ireland - Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story by Leonie Swann
0 -
Thank you so much for the suggestions! I've got some additions to my to-read list now.
0 -
Jelson,
She passed away a couple of months ago, I believe. She was my all time favorite author. She also wrote under the name Barbara Michaels- check those out- they are a little more like gothic ghost stories but I enjoy them. Plus 2 books under her actual name Barabara Mertz- nonfiction. I know she was working on a manuscript when she died. No one seems to know how far she got or if it will be published so I check her website every now and then for details. It would have been another Amelia.
0 -
Jelson - like your suggestions. Adding to the mystery/murder list - Deborah Crombie, Elizabeth George, Marcia Muller, Lisa Scottoline, Nevada Barr, Laura Lippman, Amanda Cross, Phillip Craig, William Tappley. The last three are deceased but well worth reading. Gee I'd better stop.
0 -
Jelson,
For good escapist mysteries that blend crime solving with clever humor, good character development, have a strong female lead (which I like), have some good twists that keep you guessing and occur 45-50 years in the future so you get some fun glimpses into how it might be in 2058-2062, try J.D. Robb's In Death series. All the books have a title with "in death" in it. You don't have to read them in order (I didn't at first), but it is fun to go back, after reading a few books, to the beginning where Eve hooked up with some of these characters. J.D. Robb has written about 30 books in this series and I've read all but 2.
You can also find them on audio books with the same person reading all of them. She does an excellent job with accents and it's clear who is speaking. I actually listened to one before I read the first one so I had their voices in my head as I turned pages. I listen in the car or take a CD player and earphones to appointments. Then I can close my eyes and escape into Detective Lt. Eve Dallas' world.
Some of the plots are better than others, but I've enjoyed them all, especially the earlier ones. Start with those first. The last few that have come out have been ok, not as much of a thrill as the earlier ones. They are a fast, fun, satisfying read.
0 -
Sanda: When does your ship sail?
0 -
We are leaving for Galveston Saturday morning but the ship doesn't leave until Sunday afternoon, the 19th. We'll be back the next Sunday, the 26th. What will I do without this website for a week?
0 -
Lie in the deck chairs & read & doze. What hard life, but someone has to do it!! And then you can share about all the books when you return.
0 -
Anyone reading "The Goldfinch"?
0 -
I'm #44 out of 117 on the waiting list at the library for The Goldfinch.
0 -
I am on the waiting list at our Library for the Goldfinch also......Think there are over a hundred readers ahead if me.
0 -
Found another mystery author recently - British Elly Griffiths writes the Ruth Galloway forensic archaeologist series.
0 -
Read 'Goldfinch' and liked it immensely.
0 -
Re: "The Goldfinch" I'm enjoying it, but not loving it (yet) like I thought I would. I had someone tell me that they weren't getting anything done because they couldn't stop reading it. I'm not THAT into it
0 -
Goldfinch- The author drones on at times but I enjoyed it. I read it on vacation and once into it you just keep reading.
0 -
I read and saw the Book Thief and I thought they were both excellent. The movie did a great job interpreting the book. Death did a great job. Geoffrey Rush as Hans was just how I pictured him. Emily Watson as Rosa did a great job too. I agree that usually the book is so much better than the movie but The Book Thief movie hit the nail on the head. I wonder what others think.
I use to belong to a book club where we would read the book and then see the movie, usually at someone's house and then compare the two. The book usually received better reviews.
0 -
Here I sit, surrounded by books. I'm juggling The Book Thief, The Language of Flowers, The Emperor of all Maladies (a fascinating book on the history of cancer), Rachel Maddow's Drift, and a Victorian mystery someone recommended called Mrs.Jeffries and the Merry Gentlemen. Also have two Gregg Hurwitz audio books. So many books, so little time.
0
