Book Lovers Club
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VR only 2 left on Amazon (well 1 now!!) but they might not really have any, asked my local independent bookstore to locate a copy and they couldn't. I assume there will be a new edition as part of the promotion for the tv series.......
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Jel...I just saw two of my local police officers...they each own copies of the book! If the series is successful...their copies will be collectable. Meanwhile, neither of them read it yet. They told me they thought it was fiction. Since they are newbies, I told them that for them it was fiction....but not for me! I remember many of the thinly disguised events!
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VR - the book has been shipped!
Sandra4611 - your cartoon is so true!
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Sandra - I really like that snippet. Made my morning. Thanks for posting.
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That is so cute Sandra! Fits perfectly.
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Teka posted this 6/19 on the W&F thread. Love it!
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Badger - great!! Thanks. That's what I've done today all day - except for breaks to eat.
Just finished Jon Sandford's Rough Country. I hadn't read anything except his Prey novels and really enjoyed this. Now reading Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game. I can't believe I've never read this before. What an eye opener to the lonely life of the genius kids who rarely quite fit in. Since this was written in the 70s, it's also interesting to follow the politics of war.
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I know many of you have already read this, and have recommended it, but I just finished The Emperor Of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee. I had put off reading it because I thought it would be too disturbing (It's a biography of cancer), and it was disturbing, but WOW, so interesting and it really made me aware of the many, many advancements which have been made in the very recent past, advancements that have directly benefited me and many other people I know. Very good.
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Ruthbru, I agree completely about The Emperor of All Maladies. I've recommended it to many people but some are hesitant to read it because they think it will be dry medical statistics. Invariably they come back to say how much they liked it.
I decided to read a "pop" book for a change, Cell by Robin Cook. It was predictable and in the end, didn't amount to much. Shouldn't have bothered.
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I read a 'pop' one too, a 'Beach Read' someone from my Book Club picked......Nantucket Nights.....I already can't remember anything about it other than I could poke too many holes in the story for me to enjoy it.
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Just finished reading Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight. It was a good "who dunnit" with many modern twists. My library's book group read it, so I picked it up. The moderator of the group said that they discussed it for over an hour, which is unusual for them.
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I'm trying another "light read" called The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon. Strange disappearances and old legends, a hidden diary, and a few twists should make a fun summer read.
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I will have to look for it! Maybe it was on this board that I saw the recommendation for The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey. Anyway, the title The Winter People reminded me of it. It was a strangely engaging book.
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I'm also doing light reading...but the books are heavy!!!! Architecture coffee table sized books...ugh! My arms are killing me! I just can't see reading architecture books on a tablet......though my arms wished I could....😨
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oh,minustwo! i am so jealous that you are reading O.S.Card's book for the first time. I love all of the ender books, they do give you plenty of things to ponder. i wanted to become a speaker for the dead for a living.
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I bought Ender's Game at the airport in Madison and had it read by the time my plane landed in Florida. Great book, on so many levels. Raved about it to DH and he pulled out a copy from a box of old sci-fi paperbacks. IDK there were more ender books; will have to go see if there are any OS Cards in that box!
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you know, bean from there has his own book,too, of how he ended up training with ender. i like bean so much! so, i was watching the nba draft picks with my manfriend, and was startled to hear charlotte picked some guy named 'Andrew Wiggins'! You KNOW what my nickname for him will be. i like to make up nicknames for them, best one: sacramento had one called 'Bibby'- i called him 'crybibby'! cause he was!
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jel...may I assume that you are now a rabid Dyer fan?!! Welcome to the club!😇
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Jel...if you need a Dyer fix, check out his YouTube video on war books and how they have evolved into becoming anti-war books. Since it is now the 100 year anniversary of The Great War, a lot of attention has been recently paid to it and Dyer has been publicly speaking about it for the last year or two. If you haven't read his reprinted book, The Missing of the Somme, I highly recommend it. A friend recently read it and was so blown away by Dyer's perceptions and writing. He is now part of the Dyer club! 😁
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Just found this chat. Love to read. A recent favorite was Rent Collector by Camron Wright. I will keep checking in because I always want a good read.
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Thanks for the tip Teacher64, I looked up Wright and he seems to have several interesting books, I had never heard of him before.
Just finished The Bird Skinner by Alice Greenway. It is set on the coast of Maine in 1973, an alcoholic ornithologist recovering from a recent leg amputation decides to live out his last years in the summer home of his youth. He is joined by the daughter of a Solomon Islander who he had worked with during his time serving in the Navy in the Pacific during WW2 and with whom he has had no further contact. The girl spends the month before she starts medical studies at Yale with him. He is a grouchy pain in the ass, but the girl's presence revives his memories of the war, his time with her dad, who was just a teenager and whom he taught the art of skinning and preserving birds for study. Lovely observations of nature and of course birds and also great character development.
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gee...Jel... During WW II my dad served in the Navy on the Solomon Islands.... Hmmmmm...
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Just finished The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon - published 2001, translated to English 2004. Really enjoyed it. Starts out with a young boy who helps at his Father's book store in Barcelona. He finds a book in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and quickly gets involved looking for the lost author & a few of his books that might be hidden so not burned. Great quote: "Once in my Father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds it's way into his heart."
Blurb says you'll love this if you liked: "A.S Byatt's Possession, Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, short stories of Borges, Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, Arturo Perez-Reverte's The Club Dumas, Paul Auster's 'New York' trilogy, not to mention Victor Hugo's Hunchback of Notre Dame and William Hjortsberg's Falling Angel." I've only read 4 of the above so there's some more for my list.
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VR - there are many chapters set in the Solomon Islands 1943 - many battles/ships mentioned. The story is loosely based on the author's grandfather's life. You might enjoy it.
JE
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jel...I just finished reading Dyer's book about being on the aircraft carrier. 😇. I'm now reading Gaddafi's Harem based on one woman's truely horrific experience in Libya. It is so horrific, I can barely turn the page. I am also reading a book about the photographer Weegee. Both books remind me of how people become gawkers...You feel embarrassed and horrified, but yet you are fascinated'..
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Minus2, "Shadow of the Wind" is one of my all-time favorites. Read it when first published, at the recommendation of a clerk at local bookstore, long before it became famous. I highly recommend it to all, Glad you reminded me of it,
And for those who have not read "Unbroken," about an Olympic athlete who was a POW in the Pacific in WWII, do so before the movie comes out. The subject just died a few days ago. Amazing story of courage.
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Wave - I just read about the death of the Unbroken subject this morning & remembered I still want to get that book. I make it a habit not to see movies before I read the book. That means I miss some movies - but oh well. And other movies (like Lord of the Rings) I've put off because I already KNOW what all the characters look like in my mind and I'm not sure I want to have another vision to conflict w/my memories.
My next book is OneThousand White Women by Jim Fergus - about women from the "civilized world" who go west in 1875 (for lots of different reasons) to become brides of Cheyenne warriors. It's sitting by my bed waiting for me to get caught up with my magazine subscriptions.
Happy 4th of July everyone.
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minus!!!! I LOVED a Thousand White Women! I know a lot of book clubs were choosing it a while ago. My mom and my beloved aunt all loved it too! I wonder how much of the book could have been based on fact. Let me know your thoughts when you finish!
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