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Louise Penny's latest - The Nature of the Beast - amazingly enough there are still people left to be murdered in the tiny village of Three Pines! some wacky elements, but a good read. Christopher Moore's The Serpent of Venice - a mashup of Shakespeare's Othello and The Merchant of Venice but set about 2 centuries earlier, staring Pocket the fool, from The Fool. somehow silly but insightful. I will go where ever Christopher Moore leads me!!!
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just finished Casual Vacancy (originally released under a masculine pen name) by J.k Rowling.
It was recommended here, and though no comparison to the Potter series- (no wonder she wanted anonymity) not a heavyweight book, but engaging and most importantly, I finished it. That has been so very hard for me to do since dx, sx, tx, and general life-trashing. So I'm celebrating.🎉🎉🎉🎈🎈
Grateful for you ladies. Keep the suggestions coming! There's a book for every set of hands, I think!
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reading the minaturst. set in ampsterdam in the last century, about a merchant homosexualist when the penalty for discover is drowning, he 's trying to sell some loaves of refined sugar. his new wife is unhappy that she won't have a normal marriage
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I too read Casual Vacancy and did not care for it that much, and was made into a 4 part for tv. Thought it worked better for viewing than reading.
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Got a couple of books at Christmas that my hubby thought that I would like. Started Stacy Schiff's book about the Salem Witch trials of 1692 yesterday. The other one is about four female spies in the American Civil War.
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M0mmyof2, what's the name of the book about the four female spies? I liked The Spymistress by Jennifer Chiaverini, and that sounds similar.
30 p. into new Robin Cook med thriller Host. Too soon to opine but I usually like his books.
Glad I decided to pass on The Casual Vacancy.
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The book on the female spies is "Liar Temptress Soldier Spy" by Karen Abbott.
The book by Stacy Schiff is "The Witches, 1692". I'm up to the 2nd chapter in that one.
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ooh, that sounds good, thanks!
I heard Stacy Schiff on public radio and that's on my TBR list now.
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I read a lot of history books. I love learning about our past.
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I just read The Dust That Falls from Dreams by Louis De Bernieres. Time Magazine had rated it as one of the best fiction books of the year. It starts in Edwardian England and follows a weathy family, their neighbors, and their servants through World War I and beyond. It has a vaguely Downton Abbey feel to it. I liked it, although I didn't find the characters to be particularly deep. It was a quick read.
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The Short Drop by Matthew FitzSimmons. His first novel,, and if you like mystery/thriller types,,, I think you might like this one.
Also just finished Tricky 22,, the latest by Janet Evanovich. This one was pretty good. Some of them are just so-so,, but I think this was one of the better ones.
Now reading the latest Helene Tursten that has been translated into English. Still 2 more to go that haven't been translated yet.
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True!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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just finished Funny Girl by Nick Hornby. I usually enjoy Hornby and this was no exception. The story is about a young woman in 1960's Britain - who wants to be a comedienne like Lucille Ball. She arrives in London and after a bit actually gets on a BBC comedy show. London in the 60's, the class divide, the BBC, how a tv show is produced, the camaraderie of the working environment she experiences - unexpectedly engrossing - and all very funny - like laugh out loud funny. great characters. a very enjoyable read.
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I'm still picking from the bags of books I purchased before my favorite used book store went out of business. Some are older than others, but here are a few I've enjoyed. Jonathan Kellerman - Killer - I still like his wife Faye's books better. John Sandford - Silken Prey - Murder & politics. John Hart - The King of Lies - I'd forgotten I like Hart. Jackson Picken's Southern town law practice is failing & then his father disappears. He's the prime suspect. Alice Blanchard - Darkness Peering - a new author for me. A Police Chief investigating a murder that might involve his son & what happens 18 years later when the daughter/sister is now a detective. Leslie Glass - Judging Time - another in the series about NYPD detective April Woo. Her parents are old school Chinese & don't approve of her Mexican Homicide PD boyfriend - lots of high intrigue with the ME and the DA in the murder of a famous ex-athlete. Linda Fairstein - Final Jeopardy - a great legal whodunit by an author who really spent 20 years with the DA's office in Manhattan running the Sex Crimes Unit. C.J. Box - Three Weeks to Say Goodbye - a heart rending novel about a couple who adopt a baby, then the teen-age father re-appears w/his powerful Denver judge father to take the baby back. Jefferson Bass - The Bone Yard - a novel written by a world-renowned forensic anthropologist who founded the U of Tenn's Anthropology Reseach Facility - the Body Farm - the hero goes to help solve bone mysteries from a long closed reform school in Florida.
So you can see, I'm NOT doing housework. Great post Ruth. I'm purely escaping.
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Great list Minus, have enjoyed a few of those and a few more will go on TBR list.
Picked up The Forgotten Room by Lincoln Child. (Love his books with Douglas Preston.) An "enigmalogist" (solver of problems) is called in on a secret room case. Also got The Gold Eaters by Ronald Wright. Based closely on real events, it's the story of a young Inca boy kidnapped at sea by conquistadores and caught up in one of history's great clashes of civilizations: the Spanish invasion of the Inca Empire in the 1530s.
On reserve list for Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four women undercover in the Civil War.
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Badger - and i had forgotten Lincoln Child. Thanks for the prompt.
Just finished Line of Vision by David Ellis. This legal drama is a first person narrative totally by the suspect - a really "unique perspective & insight" into his mind. And this suspect deftly tells about the crime, the police investigation, the courtroom antics - except is he lying? Which time? I changed my mind about "who done it" several times, and still didn't guess the final double twist.
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A Window Opens by Elizabeth Egan - a year in the life of Alice Pearse (who loves to read) a mother of 3, living an idyllic life in suburban new jersey - a lawyer husband, 3 adorable children, a part-time job in publishing in NYC - a wonderful baby-sitter, attentive parents, involved in her community, her children's school and then her husband doesn't make partner at the law firm - leaves in a snit to start his own practice, necessitating that she find a full time job. The job she finds is fascinating and consuming - a new company hell bent on "improving" the way we experience shopping - creating malls that mimic the home town community retail stores they bulldoze. The corporate "speak" is insane and the intrusiveness of constant communication via cell phone - horrifying (so glad I retired before I was tethered 24/7 to work). In the midst of her trying to balance her new job, her children and her husband - her dad experiences a relapse of throat cancer. So an alert here. Anyway - I was surprised how engaging this book was - magazines! books! commuting! Cleveland! the PTA!
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I'm brand new to the thread. Certainly would live to join your club! I am a reader of the classics. Any suggestions? Here's a nice little poem, for us book lovers.
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what a perfect poem! Thank you for sharing that and
WELCOME!!!!
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Chelle - LOVE the poem you posted. Welcome.
Reading a C.J. Box book that I can't put down - Nowhere to Run. Interesting since the last one I read I was wondering why I particularly liked this author. VR - I think your DH would like this one if he hasn't already read. The protagonist, Joe Pickett is a game warden in Wyoming.
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MinusTwo, love CJ Box. Have read all of his books to date. He has another one coming out this year. "Three Weeks to Say Goodbye" is very different from all his other books. I love his description of the country, makes me want to go visit that part of our country.
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ChelleG: welcome to the thread. LOVE the poem!!
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chelle....welcome aboard!!! The poem makes a perfect splash! 👍
Minus...will share with DH. Presently he is reading David Benioff's City of Thieves.
I'm reading Terry Alford's book about John Wilkes Booth. It landed on the National Book Critics Circle's list of nominations. Very interesting. I learned a bit about Booth while reading Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln. But Alford's writing is fascinating...wish I had time to read all of the nominated books....
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Thank you all for the warm welcome! I love reading. One of the best anti cancer pass times I have found. I love a great classic, but am up to reading just about anything, besides science fiction. I am currently reading The shell seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher. I love her books. Takes me away to Cornwall or rural Scotland. Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend! Go Broncos! We will hopefully squash the Patriots and move on to a Super Bowl
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hi all and welcome ChelleG. Loved the poem! I'm halfway through Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy and enjoying it. The liar is Belle Boyd, who used her sharp wit and feminine wiles against the Yankees; the temptress is Rose Greenhow, a Washington socialite and the head of the city's Confederate spy ring with a cadre of late-night gentlemen callers who unwittingly supplied her with valuable intel; the soldier is Emma Edmondson, who posed as Private Frank Thompson to fight for the Union; and the spy is Elizabeth Van Lew, a Richmond Virginia socialite with Northern sympathies. She was the subject of The Spymistress I mentioned above.
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Almost done with Spark Joy, Marie Kondo's follow-up book to The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. The 2nd book goes into more detail to help you with the sorting of your things, and has pictures of how to fold clothes her way. Both are recommended if you are into de-cluttering.
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Thanks Badger for the glowing report on that book, haven't even finished with the one I'm reading on the Salem Witch Trials yet.
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she says to ditch a book after hyou've read it. gary null gives his away, his year old clothes too. no wonder he never kept a mate, threw away their scent repeatedly. & he never refered to a book after reading it? I don get it
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Unless I didn't enjoy reading a book, I never get rid of them.
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