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mema4: Yes, The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty was a great read. I also really liked her other books too: The Hypnotist's Love Story, What Alice Forgot, The Last Anniversary, and Three Wishes.
I also loved The Book Thief and The Orphan Train. By the way, I was so enthusiastic about The Book Thief, but to my surprise, several people I recommended it to did not care for it.
Another good one: Sarah's Key
For easy, don't-have-to-tax-your-brain-too-much books, I enjoyed the In the Garden Trilogy by Nora Roberts. I also like anything by Fannie Flagg.
Sorry if some of these have already been mentioned.
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So there VR was....sitting on on her lazy-boy outdoor recliner, sitting next to the DH on his lazy-boy outdoor recliner, relaxing. After enjoying a few minutes of relaxation, the phone rang. Well, VR almost fell out of her chair when she heard the voice of the caller. Calling, was a local police officer who VR has worked closely with over the last two decades.What surprised VR was hearing his sweet voice which she hadn't heard for almost two years because he was involved on-duty in a horrific accident. As VR was catching her breath he surprised her even more by telling her he had written a book. No, not about his accident and recovery, but about police ethics. The book was published shortly before the accident. He was autographing the book and wanted to send it to VR. OMG... This was turning into some exciting week and VR hasn't even seen Geoff Dyer yet! Now, is Geoff Dyer going to top what VR's police officer friend told her next? HIS BOOK, SHADES OF BLUE, WAS PICKED UP BY RYAN SEACREST'S PRODUCTION COMPANY AND NBC PICKED UP 13 EPISODES OF A TELEVISION DRAMA BASED ON THE BOOK WITH THE SAME TITLE......STARRING JENNIFER LOPEZ!!!!!
Nuf said!
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are you trying to be mysterious VR? there are about 50 different books with the title Shades of Blue, however I have tracked it down and am ordering it from my local indie bookstore. what a wonderful phone call, to hear from your old friend about whom you have been worried, and to learn he has had some good fortune and has been thinking about you! I hope you were using sun block.
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Outdoor lazy boys? Didn't know there was such a thing. I second the recommendation on the sun block. I'll look forward to hearing your reviews of Shades of Blue. ]
I've spent the day reading the 2012 & 2013 John Lescroart books - Damage & The Hunter. His new book is out but I needed to catch up on the continuing stories before I get that. Impossible to put down! Part of the fun for me is the San Francisco settings & restaurants & streets, etc. since I was raised in the Bay Area.
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Minus.... if you google "outdoor recliner" a number of them come up. I see Walmart and Bed Bath and Beyond are now selling them! I got mine a few years ago at Kmart. I think my friends and I bought out their supply!
No need for sunblock while reclining...although I wear foundation with sunblock and a sun visor! My recliners are on my front porch. Did I tell all of you that on my front porch it is happy hour all day long? VR does her best reading there!
Minus...The DH just finished the latest Lescrout book. He doesn't publish as frequently as Child, Silva and Baldacci..but sooo worth the wait! He is now on to Baldacci's new book...Enjoy!
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VR - I had to miss Lescroart again this year due to BC treatments when he was at our indie book store Murder by the Book. My son sent this link when Lescroart spoke at his local indie store - Book Passages. Really worth watching about how he became a writer (with several stops to say "don't quit your day job"). Fascinating man.
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I'm reading a quirky book that was recommended by our newspaper book editor. It's called Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige. A modern day girl from Kansas is transported via tornado to OZ. It looks nothing like it did when Dorothy was there and Amy soon finds out why. This book is so much fun! Everything is backwards now...good witches are no longer good.
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minus... Great interview with Lescroat! I love hearing the stories about authors' breakout books! I passed along the interview to the DH....Thanx!
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I very rarely sit a book aside from defeat! But, alas, I just couldn't get much reading done with Anna Quindlen's "Still Life With Bread Crumbs" Just couldn't get close to the characters. I don't like when I give one up. Going to try a Colleen Coble book for fun reading!
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mema...I wasn't a fan either of Quindlen's latest book! I thought she sleepwalked through the book. I'm used to more glowing sentences and a story line that tickle the heart and brain. That town didn't have much appeal from the way she wrote about it. There's more happening on my porch in my neck of the woods, so to speak!
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VR- maybe your friend will invite you to the emmy awards!... what a great story!!!!
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fgm..
Soooo...tried to purchase ticket for Geoff Dyer discussion at NY Public Library for later this evening....and it's SOLD OUT!
Good for Dyer! I'm not the only New Yorker that enjoys his writing! Oh well! Next time!
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VR, Did you not have the option to purchase a ticket sooner than today?
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yes--wen! I am kicking myself for not purchasing a ticket sooner. As of Sunday...there were tickets available. $25! I was a little surprised at the price... Especially for a PUBLIC library. The last time I saw him was at The Museum of Moving Images. There, I got to enjoy the museum as well as see him for the price of a ticket to the museum. The New York Public Library has 2 free tours of the premises each day.... Anyway... I would have paid the $25 at the door... however, VR has a very difficult time planning ahead, due to the DH's health, so I tried not to think about the discussion being sold out.... John Waters' discussion was SRO... I mean...what the heck...if Barnes and Noble could accommodate all of Waters' groupies... you would think the notable New York Public Library would be able to offer a venue large enough for us Dyer fans! I guess not! It seems since the last time I saw Dyer, his fan base has swelled and that's fine with me. He deserves the attention!
Don't feel bad for VR! Silva and Child are coming out with new books soon and will be at the Barnes and Noble at Union Square next month! I keep promising the DH, if he's up to it, that I will drag him to meet them! Actually, while he's a hardcore fan of them, I just want to meet Lee Child!
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Sandra - that's great. I immediately forwarded to the younger generation in my family. While I do have a Kindle that is good for places like the hospital or cruises, I prefer old fashioned, paper books most of the time.
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That's a good one!
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I'm reading Jonathan Kellerman's Guilt. An easy read for treatment weeks when my brain seems to take a vacation. I always thought his wife Faye's books had more "meat" in them. At least I got more involved in the stories.
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You guys may have seen this before, but I just saw it on Pinterest. It's a book jar! You just write titles of books you want to read on the slips of paper so when you want something to read you can pull out a slip. Great for someone like me with a terrible memory!
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Clever idea!
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elin-hilderbrand/tru...
Elin Hilderbrand, whose books I have not read, but I think will sample now, has announced that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer and speaks about the irony that she had just finished writing The Matchmaker which contains a character who is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Here is her piece from Huffington Post, but I can't find the clip of a really good interview (with those two ladies who laugh a lot in the morning??) which I watched just this morning (duh!) Note, she gives no advice or talk about her choices, no rousing rah rah I am a warrior, early detection saves lives - she communicates what it is like to live the fiction about which she has written and to face surgery and an unknown future. Very moving.
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Jelson! Thanks for sharing...and your sentiment about how she faces her diagnosis is spot on! If only others could describe their journey like she has.....hmmmmmmm
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Yes, thanks for sharing. I'm a big fan of Hildebrand's books and had on my list to order her newest. It's a summer tradition. Her story is so familiar to us -- the ups and downs until a final DX, the fears, and isolation and vulnerability. I wish her well. And I'll order her book today.
On books, just finished a pretty good novel, recently published, called "Bittersweet."
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I'm having readers block. Here I sit, surrounded by 7 library books and 4 DVD's, and I can't decide what to do first.
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Found some neat book pictures to share.
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Has anyone read an older book called Skeleton at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian? I ran across it here at the library today, and it looks good.
Thanks!
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I've read other things by Bohjalian and like him. Someone in my book club read that book and said it was good.
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Just finished reading my police officer friend's book...Shades of Blue...30 Years of (un) Ethical Policing. First off, I now understand why the book is being developed into an NBC television series. Each short chapter can easily be made into an episode. While I can easily see it as a drama, there were some off the wall comical moments that had me howling!
However, on a more serious note, the book sets out in the preface, 5 real life facts that set the tone for most chapters. He also tells us in the preface that he studied philosophy and religion. These themes are found throughout the book. Asking you, the reader, how you would have handled a situation. I can see Jennifer Lopez's character musing through an episode and asking for our appeal on how we would handle what she is going through. Interestingly, many of the thinly veiled situations that he describes, I recalled happening in our community.
Had my friend not sent me his book, it is unlikely that I would have ever found it on my own. I can't say now that my life is richer now having read the book, or richer for knowing him. How about you other lovely book lovers help me decide.....
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