Book Lovers Club
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Well yeah Glennie I agree - there is. I haven't read either in quite some time.
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yes milo's a great invention, I love them both though, love the religious rules kaye tells us, like the more conventional policies of jonafhon, didn't know thwir son wrote, didn't know thwy had ne, will check him o ut
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For those of you doing any soul searching (who of us hasn't), may I recommend, "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle. The truth this man speaks through the pages makes one feel so connected, so at peace with the moment. I found myself nodding and agreeing with nearly every wonderful page.
I'm open minded and don't subscribe to any particular religion, but my husband is a Christian. I joke with him that this book is my Bible. If you're not into the metaphysical genre, you might still enjoy this. Powerful read that's worth re-reading. And if you like to enjoy the occasional audiobook, I quite like that the author reads it in his own voice. I read Power of Now years ago and it changed me.
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Had a book club meeting yesterday on The Boys in the Boat. Only 4 of us actually finished the book. Most did not care for it. I liked it although i had issues with trying to draw contrasts with the german olympians. Picked Dead Wake: the Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Eric Larson. Another non-fiction book which isn't normally what is selected. Anyone know anything about it
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I loved Dead Wake; but I am prejudiced because I am a big Eric Larson fan and like anything he writes!
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i need you in our book club. We've been doing it for a year and a half and there has only been one book that was a hit with most.
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What book did everyone like?
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Oh my - I finished When Breath Becomes Air. I literally couldn't put it down at finished at 3am. What a treat to find yet another physician who believes patients are people. And what a shame to loose this man at such an early age.
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Everyone liked All the Light You Can Not See which was the first book we read. It was a really good read. I'm not sure what the problem is. I guess it is just that most books are just not for everyone.
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Minus...did you cry
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dead wake?.....ruth an I are huge fans of Larson. I would read anything he wrote...even if i was a bubble gum wrapper comic...
That said...my friend read it for her book group and didn't like it because it was too technical...hmmmm...it wasn't rocket science...really!
I judge books two ways...am i enjoying the words and how the sentences flow...do I "see" what is being said? And...the second thing that matters and IMHO is the most important thing...does something that I read stay with me? Does it resonate with me...do I feel it? Dead Wake fills both bills....reading the book, I felt like I was either on the sub or the ship....and the story stays with me ...not just because of the lives lost, but it spoke to me on an philosophical level. Are there ethics to conducting war? Can they co-exist? I wonder...
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VR - Yes it was sad in the end.
Kay - I also like Larson. What are some of the fiction books your group has liked?
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thanks for the info, would love more suggestions or tips if you have any
All the Light You Can Not See: loved by all
Station 11 a scifi novel by Emily St. John Mandel: only really liked by the person who picked it
The Girl on the Train: everyone kind of felt it was a little light weight and not meaty enough
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time: i think loved by everyone but me, and i enjoyed the read
LaRose by Louise Erdich: only 3 if us actually got thru this book, the rest quit. But i think as VR says, this was the most difficult to get thru, but will stay with me the most. And offered the most to really have a good discussion about
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A couple more:
The Dinner by Herman Koch: everyone at least finished this. Maybe it was just too dark, all the characters were awful.
Still Life by Louise Penny: again i think everyone at least read it. Selected by my DH because people wanted a mystery, but i guess it wasn't the typical mystery like a sue grafton or john sanford prey books.
Please look after mom by Shin Kyung-Sook: liked by my DH and me and maybe one or 2 others, not sure what the issues the others had with it were.
They say they want a page turner, but that is not the same for everyone. And everyone has read all the blockbuster books that have been out in the last ten years or more.
Appreviate you even reading these two very long pists. Thanks.
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Here's some of my Book Club's latest that we all liked (to varying degrees, of course):
*The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson-a dry Scandinavian humor that I adore (I read it outloud to a friend on a long drive from Florida to Minnesota, we almost got in several crashes because we were laughing so hard)
* Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline, interesting & several elderly people I actually know got to North Dakota on orphan trains, I also have heard the author speak
* Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger, very good, the style reminded me of To Kill a Mockingbird. The narrator looks back at his boyhood in small town Minnesota and a summer that changed his, and his family's, life
* Brain On Fire by Susannah Cahalan, a true story wherein the author recounts her encounter with a rare and deadly illness
* The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah-occupied France in WWII
* The Girls by Lori Lansens (we just finished this one & meet tonight to discuss). I thought it was an interesting topic and writing style. 29 year old conjoined twins write about their very different views of life (fiction)
Some other good oldies are:
*The Great Gatsby *Rebecca *The Book Thief *Still Alice.......so many books.....
My Book Club has been meeting every month since 1999, so I have 217 books to pick from!
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my goodess gracious. just started island of silence by martin booth. war, halocinogen, shell shocked protagonist, it was the only one of his novels that I could read online that I saw. I thought war, don't want to read a war story, but booth, such a wonderful writer no one's ever heard of
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my goodess gracious. just started island of silence by martin booth. war, halocinogen, shell shocked protagonist, it was the only one of his novels that I could read online that I saw. I thought war, don't want to read a war story, but booth, such a wonderful writer no one's ever heard of
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wow! Abigail! I never heard of Booth before as well! Thanks! He will now be on my radar! It seems you aren't the only person who finds his writing so powerful! One of his previous books was a finalist for the Britishdistinguished Booker Prize!
Enjoy
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there's one called panther, not able to read it online though and I don't read books anylonger in hardcopy
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check out testimony robbie robertson's tell most history of the band from the days of hawkins to the last waltz
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Abigail....funny you should mention Robbie Robertson....i recently (a few weeks ago) saw him on PBS....he really has had an interesting life and he, himself, marvels at how wonderful it has been...what a joyful person
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Dylan left, robbie left, they had to. the rest except garth are dead. my friend the painter bill heine told me he nearly had a dealer/gallery on 55th st in nyc, west 55th st, a very big deal. I asked what happened. he said drugs
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Kay - Boys in the Boat! We were discussing this book at work, none of us could get throught it. The story is a great one that I was looking forward to reading.
Ruth - Do you mean by having 217 books to pick from that you kept all of the books from your years in the books club?!
Thanks for all the terrific book suggestions. I just finished Miss Jane by Brad Watson and really enjoyed it.
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The surprising thing about so many of the book in the book club I am in not going over well is that all of the members really enjoy reading and have read a lot of books. The Book Thief and Orphan Train have been suggested, but not picked because most of us have already read them. The Girls were suggested once, but I guess we didn't choose it and forgot about it. I will have to bring that one up again. The others sound good as well. And someone in work suggested Sharp Objects by the author of Gone Girl. I am getting excited about all these choices and picking the next book. Thanks for helping me get back my enthusiasm! I was getting frustrated and ready to let the book club go by the wayside.
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One of our Book Club members acts like a secretary and each month writes down the title/author/person who picked the book. Once a year she prints us each out an updated list. After 217 books, I can't even remember what some of them were about! (To us, the most important thing about the evening is the DESSERT
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Right now, I'm reading The Little Old Lady who Broke all the Rules by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg. It's about a group of senior citizens living in a retirement home who fight back against the cost-cutting measures that the new management impose on the place.
Books I enjoyed in the last year include:
Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip by Matthew Algeo.The Good Girl by Mary Kubica
Coffin Road by Peter May
Underground Airlines by Ben Winters
I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh
The One Man by Andrew Gross
Clint Hill's Books,,, Five Presidents and Mrs Kennedy and Me.
The Dublin Murder Squad series by Tana French (The Trespasser is book #6 of the series.)
Inspector Banks series by Peter Robinson (When the Music's Over, is book 23 of the series)
Almost finished with the Stephen White series with Alan Gregory,, which was suggested here. And also reading my way thru an Icelandic author Arnaldur Indridason and his Inspector Erlendur.
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Oh Glennie, thanks for the list. I received a gift card to Amazon for Christmas and am starting to decide what to purchase. This will be invaluable. Glad you're liking the Stephen White series. I sure wish he were continuing it.
Poppy - 217 books didn't sound like very many to me. At a minimum I usually read 2 books a week. When I was recovering from BC treatments, I often read 5 books a week - that's 260 books a year. Even if you only read one book a week that's 52 books. I do use the library and I read some on my Kindle. I also pass along books to neighbors & friends & to nursing homes. Never the less, EVEN after my strict book culling 3 or 4 years ago, I'm book challenged. I just did a quick count of the bookshelves that are in every room of my house except the kitchen. For better or worse, there are approximately 900 books. Eeek. Like Ruth, I sometimes can't remember what some of them were about, but I usually take any that I'm not REALLY excited about to the used book store to trade for "new" reads. So most of the books I have are "keepers" to read again down the road. I still prefer a paper/cloth book in my hand over electronic readers unless I'm on vacation. Oh what a treat I have in store once I get old & can't drive anymore!!!
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Another favorite of mine is Donald Westlake and his Dortmunder series. It's about a gang of bumbling thieves whose heists never go quite as expected. If you remember the movie The Hot Rock,, that was Dortmunder. I've have started collecting the series when I can find them used (cuz I like the treasure hunt of it) and I plan to read them again in my retirement!
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ahhhh...Harry Truman's Excellent Aventure....I can still see Harry schlepping the luggage up to the attic....what a sweet book....
When the Obamas leave the White House later this week...I wonder who is going to do the luggage schlepping..
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