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dreaming, I loved all the light we cannot see. Beautiful story.
Finished When Breath Becomes Air - it was a difficult book for me to read, but it was worth it. Now I need some fiction. Going to read The Girl in The Spiders Web, a continuation of the Lisbeth Salander trilogy.
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Hubby surprised me yesterday by pre-ordering the latest book in a series that I read
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Dreaming thanks for reminding me about Amy Tan. Going by the library to see if I can get a copy. I too have books everywhere. Car, purse, bedroom etc. My nook app on my Ipad is great, but sometimes I like to turn pages. I spend hours in old bookstores. We still have a few.
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hi all and welcome dreaming and Pat to this great thread that will soon turn seven!
Thought I was #2 on wait list for Hidden Figures but was actually #12. Dang. Now #4.
Going to start The Lake House today.
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Val, I love going to used bookstores. You never know what your going to come across.
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I read a review of Neil Gaiman's new book Norse Mythology. Supposedly it's a fairly straight re-telling. I thought his comment was interesting: "It's like I'm a musician looking at fantastic old folk songs and doing a covers album, trying to get them to sound contemporary by using electric guitars." Hmmmm. I loved the old norse tales in college. If anyone reads this book, I'd like to hear your thoughts.
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Minus I will definitely look into that book. Will let you know.
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I'm working on planning my trip next week to PNW. Oh my - can I really drive through Portland without going to Powell's books? Anyone been to the main store? I think I saw somewhere that it's 1.6 acres.
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Halfway through The Lake House. Mom was right - good book!
Minus, I will look for the new Neil Gaiman. I liked American Gods.
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I've been to the bookstore (Indigo) here in Canada twice in the last week and here are some of the acquired treasures:
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
The Break by Katherena Vermette
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
The Accusation by Bandi - the first piece of fiction to come out of North Korea
The first three books listed are award winning the last two were picked out for me to read by a 19 year old bookstore employee (male) who loves to read and who watches what "readers" are drawn to - he's helped me pick out some marvelous books in the past year.
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208...A very diverse reading list. I looked up The Madeleine Thein book and found this review by the pianist Steven Osburne that includes parts of Bach Goldberg variations. The author explains her use of music to express where language fails. As I know nothing of classical music, I'm thinking her music references might fall on my deaf ears, however, I found her explanation of her choices compelling additions to the narrative. If the audio version was not 50+$ I would get it.
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RE: MadeleineThien - I was interested in the music references. Here's the blurb saw from the "booker prize' web site.
In Canada in 1991, ten-year-old Marie and her mother invite a guest into their home: a young woman called Ai-Ming, who has fled China in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests.
Ai-Ming tells Marie the story of her family in Revolutionary China - from the crowded teahouses in the first days of Chairman Mao's ascent to the Shanghai Conservatory in the 1960s and the events leading to the Beijing demonstrations of 1989. It is a story of revolutionary idealism, music, and silence, in which three musicians - the shy and brilliant composer Sparrow, the violin prodigy Zhuli, and the enigmatic pianist Kai - struggle during China's relentless Cultural Revolution to remain loyal to one another and to the music they have devoted their lives to. Forced to re-imagine their artistic and private selves, their fates reverberate through the years, with deep and lasting consequences for Ai-Ming – and for Marie.
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208sandy I read A Complicated Kindness some time ago and quite enjoyed it. Hope you enjoy all of the ones you listed!
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2017/03/1...
Robert James Waller, author of The Bridges of Madison County, has passed.
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I loved reading this book - saw movie but disappointed. RIP, Robert Waller0
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ok...so....Last night, after reading several articles about Waller, and looking at some of the reviews that the book received when it was first published AND looking at the number of stars it received on Amazon (3 1/2 stars out of 5), I began to wonder had the book been published nowadays, with the internet so pervasive in our lives, would it have been such a runaway success and stay on The New York Times best sellers list for 3 years....
For any newbies, or for those of you who recall, I found the book disappointing....I also feel a lot better now...knowing that I wasn't alone in my feelings about the book.
That said, RIP Mr. Waller.... for better or worse, your book touched many lives and it was a cultural fascination for one brief moment in time....
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Oh Ruth..LOL. VR, nice to see you posting.
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With Madison County.....that was one of the few instances when I liked the movie better than the book.
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May pull out either my copies of the Twilight series, the Harry Potter series or my Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to read soon
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I liked Madison County, but it was a difficult time in my life just before a divorce and I guess I fancied myself meeting a like minded soul mate instead of what I had that wasn't working. Sort of like believing in Cinderella when we were young girls - the prince will come & make everything right. I never saw the movie. I didn't re-read the book even when I was re-reading everything on the shelves some years ago while purging. But strangely I put it back on the shelf and didn't give it to the library either. Weird behavior for sure.
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lilac...
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I just read The Rainbow Comes and Goes by Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt (Anderson's mother). After Gloria went through a serious (but brief) illness at the age of 91, Anderson and she decided they wanted to become closer and started a year long written conversation in which they reflect on life, their own relationship, and the things that matter to them. I found it a lovely read (and am sniffing a little right now, and not just because I have a cold).
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And I just finished The Lake House by Kate Morton. Good read! Very twisty. Will look for more of her books. Here's from the intro to the reading group guide:
Living on her family's idyllic lakeside estate in Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane is a bright, inquisitive, and precociously talented sixteen-year-old who loves to write stories.
One Midsummer's eve, after a beautiful party drawing hundreds of guests to the estate has ended, the Edevanes discover that their youngest child, eleven-month-old Theo, has vanished without a trace, a tragedy that tears the family apart in ways they never imagined.
Decades later, Alice is living in London, having enjoyed a long successful career as an author. Theo's case has never been solved. Miles away, Sadie Sparrow, a young detective in the London police force, is staying at her grandfather's house in Cornwall. While out walking, she stumbles upon the old Edevane estate—now crumbling and covered with vines, clearly abandoned long ago. Her curiosity is sparked, setting off a series of events that will bring her and Alice together and reveal shocking truths about a past long gone . . . yet more present than ever.
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I'm reading a book from the 1980's --Yellow raft in blue water by Michael Doris in which he tells a story of 3 generations of women. That they are Native American is incidental to the development of their characters for the experiences are universal. If this were not a book I need to read for my book club I would have put it down, but am at least skim reading it quickly before our Thursday meeting. I am curious to hear what the other women think of this book chosen by a woman whose life seems to mirror the life lived by the characters in the novel.
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Thanks Badger, I am reading The Lake House. Very good so far.
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Re-reading "1984" by George Orwell
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Going to do 1984 next M0mmyof2..
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Hi all! I'm new around here, and am glad to have found this thread. I'm always in need of new book suggestions! If anyone has suggestions for titles available on Kindle Unlimited, I'm especially grateful for those.
I just finished Through the Brown Mountain Lights by CC Tillery. Good, quick read. I've actually read all of "her" (the author is really two sisters) books, and loved them all. They are especially interesting if you have any interest in western NC/Appalachia in the 1800s.
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I think you'll like it Val. Read 1984 and Animal Farm by Orwell during my younger days
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