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Yay! Abigail! You found us!!!!!!💞💞💞💞💞
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Jelson...I will read the book! And Ruth....On further thought I had in my hands the crew book! I gave the library copy to my neighbor who is a competitive rower in the senior class. He never got around to reading it...But he's presently polishing off the new Baldacci book. I gave him the library copy that the DH read! Both of them read at breakneck speed! Library never has to worry about Baldacci's books being returned late when it comes to these two men!
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Abigail - welcome. Maybe we'll get a little busier as summer reading season starts.
VR - normally I like Baldacci but recently read Deliver Us From Evil (2010). It had some pretty graphic torture that I found very upsetting. Maybe because I read about that specific torture almost 60 years ago when I was a young girl in relation to WWII camps (probably Reader's Digest) and the image has haunted me ever since.
I missed hearing Greg Illes speak at my indie bookstore last Tuesday but will make it for sure Saturday to hear John LesCroart.
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minus! Do let me know about LesCroart! He is the DH's favorite
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Welcome Abigail, our initiation fee is to recommend a book
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VR, tell your rowing neighbor to read the book. He would love it more than anyone because he would 'get' all the rowing stuff more than any of the rest of us. I think it would be absolutely thrilling to read as a participatant in that sport.
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Minus andVoracious, I thought "The 13th Juror" was one of the best books I have ever read in the crime genre. Unfortunately every other book by Lescroart has been disappointing to me.
I love the John Sandrord "Prey" series. Some are better than others (usually the earlier ones, he must be getting tired!) but on the whole, I find the writing and characterization superior to all the other crime serials.
Oh....has anybody read "Call the Midwife"? I understand there is a TV series, which I've never seen but I loved the book. Fascinating true story of a midwife in 1950's London. All I can say is, thank God I had children after obstetrics became a medical specialty, not to mention the invention of the pill. Spoiler alert, one lady had 20+ children !!!!!!
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Deb - 20? Twenty children? I had ancestors who had 10 & 12 children - but 20? WOW. I did read a midwife book but that wasn't the one. I'll have to remember what I read.
VR - My son went to LesCroart's visit at his indie bookstore - Book Passages. There are a couple of laterclips but this is what he sent me. i think you're husband will enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCqJYk-D9Fw&feature=youtu.be0 -
welcome Abigail,, chime in and tell us what you are reading!How interesting about Mutter. I have heard of the Mutter museum when I visited Philly, but haven't made it there yet.
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Deblc: i love the TV show, but I haven't read the book yet.0 -
I just spoke to my neighbor and reminded him that I had already gotten him the crew book and that I was getting it AGAIN for him. I told him that the book came highly recommended. He said, "Okay!"
Just finished One Of Us about the Norway spree killing. It really speaks to the issue of alienation of our youth. On one hand, globalization has brought us closer together, and on an other level, it is ripping us apart. Looking at the global landscape and seeing all of the violence caused by terrorists and some mentally ill people, the book truly speaks to these issues. I was so taken by this young girl whose family fled Iraq's violence only to lose her life to this madman... She tried so hard to fit into a new culture and died at the hands of a young sick man who wanted to preserve the culture of Norway...
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minus! I'll have the DH take a look! Thanks
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Minus...yes , 20 PLUS children. It is a great story, Idon't want to give any more of it away!
Glennie, I really loved the book. A friend who has seen the series and then read the book afterwards thought the book was a lot better. The series kind of glossed over some stuff, and made up some of the stories for TV.
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I went to my indie bookstore this afternoon to hear John Lescroart. What an interesting man. Definitely someone it would be fun to invite over to dinner. For those of you who have followed the Dismas Hardy series, this new book, The Fall, includes his grown-up daughter who has just passed the bar and is now an attorney. Weird parallels since his own daughter in real life is now an attorney. He said sometimes when his writing gets stuck he does strange exercises, like writing first lines of books for an hour. That's how he started this new book, and after he got the first line he wrote for two weeks straight. The book starts: "The body fell straight out of the sky."
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So glad to hear you met him! Placed a reserve on The Fall. There's a shelf copy at one of the local branches, so the wait may not be long if I just ride over to the next town's library and grab it. Otherwise, the wait might be a few weeks.
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I forgot who recommended What Alice Forgot, but I just finished it and really liked it. Thank you for the recommendation.And for those who liked The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,,,, the series is continuing! Just found out on my Goodreads update.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25074850-the-girl-in-the-spider-s-web?ac=1 It's nerve whacking when you really really liked a series and now someone else is going to be writing it. But the author was hand selected by Stieg Larsson's estate,, so **fingers crossed** it will be good.
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Recently read a couple of good books. JA Jance - Remains of Innocence. I didn't know she was still writing more of the Sheriff Joanna Brady series. This one's a real page turner. Complications from several generations & across state lines, a medical examiner and a nudist colony. Fun to see her daughter growing up & what's happening with her extended family. I love the Arizona setting. Also read Scott Turow - Identical. It's been a while since I've read one of his books. It started slow, or maybe it was just me with less time available than usual for reading. As with his other books, by the time I got into it I really couldn't figure out who had done the crime, even though one of the twins plead guilty. Or rather, I figured it out several times and was wrong. Family bonds & dirty laundry, & subsequently the question "what is justice" anyway? It will keep you asking not only who, but why.
My brother sent me Isaac's Storm so that's up soon.
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Isaac's Storm is terrific! Obviously, I learned about the weather service and hurricanes. But the book is about so much more. Reading about Rabbi Henry Cohen of Galveston opened up my learning about American Jewish migration. Rabbi Cohen was destined to survive the horrific hurricane and ultimately led the "Galveston Movement" which, generations ago brought Jews to other parts of the United States. Many Midwestern and Western Jews who settled in those parts of the country can trace their arrival back to the shores of Texas!
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Sad to say my favorite used book store (Long Lost Friends - great name) is closing the end of the month. I still have some credit to use up, and all used books are now 50% off so I headed out there today. Oh, and they have rolling shelves outside in the front with duplicates & overstocks. Most of those are $0.25 but some of the larger paperbacks are $0.50. I managed to come home with 58 books for $21.00 - and that's including a couple of new paperbacks. I tried to be organized & to go through the shelves alphabetically. Today I got through science fiction & through "G" in the mystery section. Lots more books to buy before they shut the doors. I mean really, who can resist paperbacks at $0.25? Well, who can resist paperbacks for $2.00 in 2015.
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that is a great name. Sorry that it is closing. You are certainly getting some great deals!!0 -
Just finished Donna Tartt's A Secret History. It's like a combination of A Separate Peace, Lord of the Flies and The Dead Poet's Society - small Eastern college & a group of students deciding life & death issues. I found the book arresting & liked her writing. Several people had said not to read The Goldfinch, but based on reading this earlier book, I'll now put it on my list.
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Liked both books - but why would anyone not want you to read the Goldfinch?
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I loved loved loved The Goldfinch! Although I can easily see why it would not be to everyone's taste. I recommend, but I have been trying to slog through The secret history. I haven't given up on SH yet, but just keep putting it down for other things..
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Just finished Hissing Cousins: The Untold Story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth by Marc Peyser and Timothy Dwyer. I didn't enjoy it; didn't learn anything new and it just reconfirmed my imoression that Alice was a selfish, shallow, and mean woman.
Just started Cokie Roberts' Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington 1848-1868. Very good, informative, and interestingly written.
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Ruth...that's interesting about Alice. The only thing I recall about her was a quote of hers that speaks to what you are saying. She once said, "If you dont have anything nice to say about someone.....come sit next to me.". Based on that quote, I thought she sounded like some character. But now you are shedding light on her actual persona. Hmmmm.
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Ruth - I almost bought the Cokie Roberts book last week. I'll look forward to a review.
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http://www.vulture.com/2015/05/year-of-the-very-lo...
Interesting article about the trend of very, very, very long novels...
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VR - thanks for the article. I was bitching about Illes Natchez Burning at 900 pages, but another reader friend said she really liked VLNs because she didn't have to go back to the library as often. I thought there was some repetition or superfluous wording & I'm an Illes fan.
Historically it's an interesting premise. In the 50's I read Gone with the Wind under my covers at night with a flashlight. My parents believed in reading anytime/all the time, but we also did have set bed times. I have my Mom's hardback at 1037 pages. As a sentimental note, my Mother apparently bought it for her Mother when it came out in 1936 & inscribed it in the front.
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How nice, Minus! Geoff Dyer had once referred to how dear his books were to him. He thought inscriptions and annotations were often as meaningful or perhaps even more meaningful than the words on the pages. I sometimes wonder in this digital age if the art of inscriptions and annotations will one day be lost.....
The longest book I ever read was Robert Caro's The Power Broker. It has 1,336 pages! Met Caro a few years ago. His opinion of Robert Moses has changed since he wrote the book. Dislikes Moses even more today.....
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Bummer, I always thought that quote was attributed to Oscar Wilde. I somehow like it better coming from him. I am geting set to read The Elegance Of the Hedgehog, I was strumming through it last night, it looks really great. Free copy found at TX center.
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