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You guys will get a kick out of this. I am soon going on vacation, and wanted to get a paperback to read on the beach. Since I couldn't find it in town, I ordered our next Book Club selection from Amazon. Well, I must have been in an awful hurry, because when I opened the package a few minutes ago; I find that I somehow ordered the book in CHINESE!!! (Yes, I looked back on my order form & that is, indeed, the addition I ordered.) So, if any of you speaks Chinese and would like to read 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry' by Rachel Joyce in that language, just let me know.
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Ruth - what a hoot. Hope you can get something else in time for your trip.
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A friend borrowed me her copy of the same book (in English) and she said she didn't care if it got wet. My sister (whom I will be visiting) has lots of books, but they are more of the romance or detective kind.....which are not my favorite but would do in a pinch. I have a bunch downloaded on my Kindle too for airports and not being by the water times.
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ruth! I am soooo sorry you won't be reading Harold Frye soon! What a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful book! Hope you get it in English
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My friend borrowed me her English edition, and one of my brother's great friends is from China so I'm going to check if he'd like my copy. Win, win!
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Yes a win-win Ruth and I read The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce and enjoyed it immensely. When reading about The Zookeepers Wife, was reminded of The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht, that got mixed reviews yet I truly enjoyed this book set in the Balkins, and had the biggest hankering for goulash whilst read it. Anyone else read of food in a novel and then get stuck into eating it..perhaps for awhile (or am I weird..oup, don't answer that
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Yes! Once my Book Club read a book called 'The Sweet Potato Queen's Book of Love' (which is hysterical). It included a number of recipes, one of which was called 'Chocolate Stuff' (a cross between a pudding & fudge that you just eat right out of the bowl with a spoon) which we were making all the time for awhile. They also had a 'Funeral Casserole' (because it was easy to make when you had to bring a dish for a gathering after a funeral) and involved Ritz crackers and cheddar cheese) that I tried and enjoyed. I maybe should dig that book back out again!
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Happy me reading on the beach!
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Ruth - thanks for posting, but I am sooooooo.. jealous. Have a good time for all of us.
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Ruth - was looking up your 'funeral casserole' and came across this book. The review makes it sound like a hoot.
Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide To Hosting the Perfect Funeral
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Ruthbru - and then you have the sequel to Harold Frye to look forward to - The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
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Ruthbru - and then you have the sequel to Harold Frye to look forward to - The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy also, in looking up Rachel Joyce to find the EXACT title, I found 3 other books by her to read!!
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I just finished Harold. What a delight! I am definitely going to check out Queenie. I HOPE to be reading in airports and airplanes tomorrow (say 'hope' because bad weather cancelled my niece's flight today).
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Hello!
I'm new here. A fellow BC.org user told me about this thread.
I love books...and wish I could read faster than I do because I have a 3 tiered bookshelf that is double and triple "parked" with books. I get most of my books from paperbackswap.com. Or I use Overdrive through my library to borrow books on my Kindle. I just picked out 5 books to take with me to our cottage for 3 weeks. The one I'm most looking forward to reading is "All The Light We Cannot See." I read a little bit of everything, but I especially like authors Jodi Picoult, Kristin Hannah, Lisa Wingate, Lisa Scottoline, Donna Ball, Fannie Flagg.
Looking forward to reading what others are reading!
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welcome Nancy!
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pat01: I loved The Nightingale also. Kristin Hannah is one of my favorite authors. You may also enjoy Winter Garden. My favorite is Firefly Lane.
Voraciousreader: Thank you!
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Welcome nancy. You have a treat ahead with "All the light..."
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Been so busy with a belated Spring Cleaning frenzy, I haven't had much time to read
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Welcome, Nancy! I am home from my vacation but HAVE to get things re-organized before I lose myself in another book. Yikes!
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Thanks for all the welcomes!
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Welcome Nancy from a a fellow Wisconsinite currently on the East Coast
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Thank you M0mmyof2!
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You are very welcome. I was born in Superior and still have family in the area there.
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Hello, Good Women. I am not reading here as frequently as I would like, I am really a few pages back and trying to catch up with all of you, to see what you are reading. Also, I had started from the first page about two weeks ago, so as not to miss any good book suggestions! I have to tell you though, that I had been waiting for an e~copy of a book I was very much looking forward to, and I finally got it just a few minutes ago, and rushed here to tell you, that if the first few pages are any indication of what is to come, then it is my pleasure to tell you quick, please read a small sample on amazon maybe, and you will see, that 'Lincoln in The Bardo', by George Saunders, promises to be a gem of a book! It feels like balm to my soul, and I am so looking forward to getting lost in the world of this book, or maybe found...
Aaaah, books....where I really learned how to live...
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Thanks Tomboy.
I am reading here, but not reading books as frequently as I would want. Somehow got WAY behind when my good friend & neighbor died the end of March. I have 5 boxes of books waiting for me (no joke) and list of books I want to buy that is 4 pages long. I'm still reading magazine subscriptions to try to catch up, but now I am at least taking a book when I go to the doc's office in case I finish the current magazine.
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I just started "One Perfect Lie" by Lisa Scottoline and it's engrossing already.
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Have I read that, Nancy? I'm not sure. Do you find yourself reading a book and halfway through realize you had already read it?
MJ
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Hi, Minus. I almost have to read at night, something besides the news! Which I spend almost too much, well yeah, too much time on. Then I can't sleep, so must read a book, any book! I have got so much to do, I am always torn between reading and doing, but this news thing has got to GO!
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I LOVED Lincoln in the Bardo!! I think it's quirky enough that you will either love it or not like it at all; there's probably no middle ground,
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MJ, I have such a bad memory I joke that I could have 3 books in my library and just keep reading them over and over and never know that I'd read them before. I've kept a log of all the books I've read back to 1994. I can understand not remembering the plots of those old ones, but sometimes I look back at books I've read a month ago and not have the slightest clue what it was about. It scares me sometimes. The book I'm reading is a brand new one from Lisa Scottoline.
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