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Just was at the ocean for a few days and my beach read was A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams. Takes place in the 1930s, most of the action taking place in a New England beach community where romance, lost love and a family mystery play out before the Great New England Hurricane of 1938. Pretty entertaining
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Ruth, that New England beach community is fictionally in RI, as am I - I had not heard about the book, but now I will have to read it.
Just finished Mockingjay, the third book of the hunger games - always like to read it before the movie comes out. I heard they are breaking this last book into two movies - not sure if there is enough material for that, but they are very entertaining movies.
Just started The Paris Architect which I got for Christmas. So many books, so little time!
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I enjoyed the Hunger Games series also.0 -
Reporting back on how much I enjoyed One Thousand White Women. There was an interesting interview w/the author in the back discussing the nature of morality and how it is determined by culture, religion and even era - each having their own specific set of rules. His quote: "...(humans have) a nearly desperate need ...to impose their own particular version of morality upon others, to the point that we're willing to slaughter each other in the name of our own moral code. At the same time we have a tremendous capacity to rationalize our own behavior as moral, no matter how despicable it might be."
I had been saving Deborah Crombie's latest paperback The Sound of Broken Glass. If you can imagine, Duncan Kincaid - the London DS - is on leave at home caring for the children while Gemma has been promoted. I wish Crombie wrote more than one a year. I read Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. I knew it was a YA book, but that never deters me. Very interesting premise about kids w/special "powers" who don't grow old because of the 'loops' their living in & the problems they face. I enjoyed but probably won't get the sequel. Just finishing Michael Malone's Uncivil Seasons. I discovered & read his 2nd book, Time's Witness, first so I was glad to go back & catch up on Justin & Cuddy. I love books set in the Carolinas - and the hierarchy of families in the old "south"- small town police who have to deal w/all the years of politics & family obligations while solving crimes.
My Mother - bless her reading soul - enrolled us in a children's book club by mail in early grade school. So she first read the Hobit to us when I was only 8 years old. Has anyone else seen Shadowlands about Tolkien and Joy Gresham? It's a marvelous play.
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Shadowlands was a wonderful movie! I loved it.
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Mystery lovers, try any of J.D. Robb's In Death series. I've read them all ... 25+ I believe.
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Sandra so true, I love your pics. And I have to agree - I love JDRobb. I believe her count us up to 34 now though. Another is due in September. I re read favorite ones in the series. She is actually Nora Roberts! That lady writes a lot!
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I just realized that I missed last year's Elizabeth George book! Don't know how that happened. Anyway, it's on reserve at the library now!Does anyone use Goodreads.com ? I keep track of everything I've read over there. It really helps with you read multiple series.
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I recommend A Paris Apartment by Michelle Gable. You might recall within the past year the story about an apartment being discovered in Paris which hadn't been entered since the 1940's. It was filled with fine antique furniture, decorative items and paintings. The original owner had died in the 1930s and the heir had closed it up during the war and had never gone back, It was part of the estate when he/she died. The book is a fictional account of the original owner's life as discovered through objects and journals uncovered by an American Southby's furniture expert who is given the job to sort everything out for auction. It is also about the furniture expert's own background and life decisions. Learn about antiques! life in Paris in the late 19thc, how auction houses work! modern Paris! learn French phrases! thoroughly enjoyable!
re: making lists of books read. in 6th grade we had to keep a list and whoever read the most books won a prize. I came in second but always felt I should have won because I was reading big books like Exodus and By Loved Possessed - books I found around the house instead of Nancy Drew - like the winner, humph! fast forward - a list for a friend which I compiled by roaming through the aisles of a well stocked local library and noting the books I remember having read. and frankly I have been using this thread as a list of sorts.
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Jel...I'm also reading about Paris during the Belle Epoque! Little Demon in the City of Light is a true story of a murder that occurred in Paris during a period where hypnosis was all the rage. Murderer claims to have been hypnotized to do the murder. Interesting players in the book, including the famed neurologist Dr. Charcot. I knew about Dr. Charcot because his name is attributed to a rare genetic neurological disorder that a friend has, Charcot Marie Tooth. He is also center stage in the film Augustine.
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Just read Louise Erdrich's The Round House. She is a Native American writer and originally from North Dakota. It was a Book Club read & I went in fully planning NOT to enjoy it, as her subjects are generally very dark & depressing and I have not liked the several other books of hes that I've read. Although the theme was again depressing, I found to my surprise that I liked it very much. The story takes place on an Indian Reservation where a 13 year old boy takes in upon himself to solve a terrible crime (his mother was raped). Awful subject again, but she really weaves in the culture, the traditions, a coming of age story, friendship, family, religion, love, good vs evil, right vs wrong, and even a little humor. An interesting aside (because it is in no way part of the book) Erdich was undergoing treatments for breast cancer during the time she was writing this manuscript.
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Ruth - thanks for the Erdich review. She's been on my mind lately and I'll get this one next.
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Love it!
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Very funny!!
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Love the pictures!!!
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Just finished Dr. Sleep and thoroughly enjoyed it. Haven't read Stephen King for a long time and forgot how much I enjoy his writing. Has anyone read 11/22/63 ? It's a novel by Stephen King about a time traveler who attempts to prevent the assassination of Pres. Kennedy.
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I read 11/22/63 and then my book club did. We had a good time discussing it and the what if's.
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Thanks Teacher64, I'll put it on my TBR list. However, I think I'll wait to request it after I get One Thousand White Women from inter-library loan. Meanwhile, I have a Faye Kellerman paperback.
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I just spent most of the last two days in a car, going to and coming home from a family wedding. DH was driving & listening to golf or baseball, so I was able to get through two historical novels, both which I enjoyed very much.
Fallen by Lia Mills Takes place in Dublin during World War I. The main character's twin brother is fighting at the Front and the book deals with war, love, families, early feminism, pacifism, and the Easter Rising, a six-day armed insurrection, enacted by members of the Irish Republic.....which I knew very little about....and, as one reviewer wrote, it is about finding your life amid grief, destruction, and death.
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline This book weaves together the story of a 17 year old troubled girl in foster care with that of an elderly lady who befriends her. As a community service sentence, the girl is to help the wealthy older women (Vivian) clean out her attic. As they go through the boxes, Vivian is taken back into her own immigrant past, where after the death of her family, she was sent west as one of the children on the orphan trains (from 1854-1929 many homeless children from the big cities of the east where sent west to be adopted by families in the midwest....some to much better lives, some to be treated as servants or worse). This was particularly interesting to me as several families in my town have ancestors who got here on the orphan trains.0 -
Oh Ruth!!! I do most of the driving... and when I do get to be the passenger..when reading....I GET SO CARSICK!!!! I'm sooooooo jealous of you!!!!
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Love the kitty, Moon.
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Ruthbru like you I love to read in the car. But my DH usually wants me to drive. LOL
Why oh why do 4 months worth of waiting in line at the library come available in 2 days of each other? I had 5 books on hold none put on hold even in the same werk. They ALL became available from Friday to today! Arrgh..... LOL
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Just be a horrible driver & your SO and friends will volunteer to do the driving for their own safety!
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Very good advise! 
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Coincidentally, I am currently reading a book about Paris too. It is called the Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure. It is about an architect living in German occupied Paris who designs hiding places for Jews in homes and apartments. I'm not that far into it yet, they are still developing the characters and plot, but it has been a good read so far.
Thanks for the goodreads website recommendation. I'm going to check that out. I started keeping track of books I've read in a word document, but online might be a better choice for me.
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