Book Lovers Club
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hi all and welcome Valstim52. I'm a one book at a time reader. Cover to cover until done.
Been unbelievably nice here this week. Today it was 72! Taking advantage to get outdoors and walk. Plants are confused and think it's Spring. Sleep darling buds! Back to Feb-reality by Sat with freezing cold & snow.
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Valstim, I prefer to read one at a time but have on occasion stop a book that was dragging along to slow. Always go back to finish it though. Let me know what you think about The Whistler. I've read all of Grishom's books and have to say this was my least favorite. He's been busy. Has one coming out in June and another in October.
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I'm a one author at a time reader: currently the author is r delderfiels, on the sixth including two books long sagas. lots of historu. lots of left of certer politics
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I guess I should clarify my 5 books a week statement. I only read one book at a time. I've just been reading a lot since diagnosis & treatment & last year's broken arm. Looks like I won't be keeping up that pace now that I've joined a Silver Sneakers exercise class and am walking more since spring is definitely here. In fact for February I haven't finished one book yet, and uncharacteristically I have 3 going at once - a mystery novel, a history and a philosophical novel.
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Kathindc, I do really like John Grisham, but I feel he is writing too fast. I'll let you know about The Whistler. I really liked Rogue Lawyer. I make myself finish the 3 before starting more.
During chemo I couldn't read at all. Not sure why. I had downloaded all these books on my IPAD, then gotten a lot from the library and others. Nada, not a one. It's like my eyes could not focus.
Thanks for the welcome. Sometimes on other threads (won't say which ones) I participate and no one says a word, but they welcome others. Can't help but feel like what the heck? Did I say the wrong thing? It only takes one person to do a welcome. Ok, off my vent and sensitivity train. (lol) thanks so much you guys.
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I think it more like the brain can not focus during chemo. Mine was zinging around all over the place. I must have read, but I have no idea what!
Saturday I'm off on a Girls Vacation to Florida with 3 old friends. I have downloaded a bunch of books & have one 'real' one to read by the pool. Right now I have every piece of summer clothing I own piled on my bed, so I'm off to whittle it down to what can fit in a suitcase!
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Val - I know what you mean. So glad to have you in the library, in addition to our kitchen table!!! I have to confess since I live alone I usually read while I'm eating meals.
Ruth - That sounds perfect. have a GREAT time.
I'm doing the opposite. We've already had a good number of 80 degree days in Houston so my summer stuff is in use. I'm getting ready for a trip to the Olympic Peninsula in Washington and then on to Oregon so my small store of winter things are my guest bed. At least I have two sets of Cuddle Duds.
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During chemo, I couldn't read anything that required concentration or memory. I'd read a page, turn the page, and forget what just happened on the page before. Very frustrating. Magazines were OK and so was "chick lit" (think Mary Kay Andrews). I spent a lot of time on the BCO games threads, thus my high post count LOL.
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badger - funny I'd forgotten how much 'chick lit' I read during chemo. And magazines, magazines & more magazines. I did cut out lots of things, but I'm not sure how much I would remember of what I read if I didn't have the clips in my files
Finally finished the JA Jance book. I love her but this wasn't one of my favorites. Working on "Silence" again. 10 magazines waiting in my pile. But hey, I'm going to Silver Sneaker's exercise class twice a week so I feel virtuous.
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Badger,
I had the same problem, except I would get distracted and wouldn't make much progress. I finally had to bring my music player with me as well as a book. I found that when I combined the two I wouldn't be distracted so much
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chick lit. I love that phrase. That and magazines are all I could retain during chemo. I've joined a mall walking club. It is fun. There are those of us that have knee issues, yet we are there. Slow as snails, but present.
Will finish my three books t his weekend. Not sure where to start. What is a good JA Jance book to start?
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Hi ladies, I'm another one that is usually a voracious reader, but struggle to read anything more than a magazine when having chemo. Even with a magazine, I seem to just skim the words and pics more than actually take anything in.
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Might get a chance to go to Barnes and Nobles soon. Might see if anything peaks my interest to read then.
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Instead of calling ourselves "Book Lovers"... Perhaps, we should call ourselves "Reading Lovers" 😘
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I love reading but I also love books in and of themselves. I like to touch them, riffle through the pages, look at the pictures.....even if it's a book I'm not going to read.
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I always have to check the last page of a romance book I am interested in reading to see if the story is worth it
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I knew a young chinese man once who became president of the chinese american club though he was a native of china and not the us, he read the first and last page of many many novels in the univercity library
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Yes Ruth, I love just feeling & holding & smelling books!!!
Val - JA Jance has a couple of different series. I think my favorite is the Sheriff Joanna Brady series set in AZ - first book Desert Heat 1993. Here is her comment about the series.
I wasn't allowed in the creative writing classes at the University of Arizona, but I was smart enough to figure out that I needed to write what I know. I know southeastern Arizona. I spent my childhood there, taking Sunday afternoon rides with my family and scrambling barefoot over the mesquite and bear-grass studded hills, making forts in stands of Embry's scrub oak, and tearing down hilly streets in a kid crammed Radio Flyer.
I know the insurance business. My father spent twenty years selling life insurance. Following in his footsteps, I spent ten. I was divorced for a year and a half before my former husband died, so I know what it's like to be left alone with a child to raise. I have half a century's experience at being the daughter of a strong-willed mother and almost thirty years' experience at playing the strong-willed mother with a headstrong daughter. In addition I know how small towns work–the small unasked kindnesses and the entrenched gossiping that result from everyone knowing everybody else's business.
Is Joanna Brady autobiographical? In some ways, yes. To a certain extent, every character is. From selling insurance to being a Girl Scout to liking Malt-o-Meal, Joanna Brady's experience is certainly a reflection of mine. But she is also very much her own woman.
JAJ
There is detective JP Beaumont in Seattle - first book Until Proven Guilty 1985 They've been around awhile so you should be able to find the books in either set. If not, she also has an Ali Reynolds series - first book Edge of Evil 2006. That said, I haven't read any of them in order because I buy them at used book stores & garage sales & Goodwill. Some day I'll go back & start at the beginning.
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Thanks minus. Going to pick this up in the librar
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Just finished reading Punishment, by Linden MacIntyre. It was good, not great. I like reading Canadian authors from time to time. Linden MacIntyre's The Bishop's Man was far better, but even that pales in comparison to Ann-Marie MacDonald (Fall on Your Knees, The Way The Crow Flies). My favorite though is Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace. Alias Grace is not even a genre I read much of, historical fiction, but it left a lasting impression. I usually lean towards legal - financial - political - religious thrillers. There's still 5 people ahead of me on the waiting list for The Gathering. (That one I picked based on a single quote in one of the postings here lol.). So, I'm going to start The Devil's Banker, by Christopher Reich. I was planning to re-read 1984 next, but I think I'll push that back a bit. Surgery is Friday, and hopefully I'll feel like reading to pass some time while I recover.
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Goldie - good luck with your surgery.
I'm still struggling through Silence by Shusaku Endo. Maybe it's me, or maybe it's the book, but I usually can't make more than 5 pages headway. It just 200 pages, so it's not the length. I WILL finish it since the historical concept is of interest - but I will be very glad when it's done.
It's set in seventeenth century Japan. Quote from the back cover "...classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times..."
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Hoping to get to a thrift store or a used book store soon. I always find good bargains there
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hi all and welcome goldie. Good luck with your surgery!
Welcome also Freya and anyone else I missed. Glad you have your voices here.
I had to set aside My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry. Just couldn't get into it.
Mom, who is a VR herself, just lent me The Lake House (2015 paperback) by Kate Morton. Said it's one of the best books she's read in a while. Coming from her, that is an impressive recommendation.
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Thanks for the welcome and the well wishes.
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Welcome Goldie.
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Just finished The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh. Loved it, actually couldn't put it down, and couldn't guess the ending. Now I'm reading When Breath Becomes Air - having a hard time getting into it. My son read it and said it was pretty heavy, but worth it.
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Welcome Pat. Yes, I thought When Breath Becomes Air was worth it. Maybe it will get easier once you get going.
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I read several books at the same time, because I keep them in different places at home, work, car,and also in different languages, sometimes I like to compare translations, I am a fast reader, that helps by chosen profession.
I like to use my Kindles but some authors have to be read in a real book.
I miss the old used bookstores we had around. I found many times some very old books.
Here are some tittles Amy Tan The Opposite of Fate, All the Light we cannot see, Leopard at the door.
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dreaming...I have not read Amy Tan's The Opposite of Fate and the description is autobiographical - a surprise. I'll check out my library for a copy. The description online is ' a refreshing antidote to the world-weariness and uncertainties we all face today' and that was written in 2004. I like that reminder that uncertainties are a fact of life no matter the day, year, decade or eon.
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