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I'm starting to read more on American History and just finished Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann. It is the story of the systematic killing of the Osage Indians and the cover-ups to get their land and mineral rights in the early 1900's and the origins of the FBI to investigate those murders. The writing is compelling with many twists and turns as new evidence keeps emerging.
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Hi Kaption!!!
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hi Kaption, welcome! If you like historical fiction and the Little House books, check out Death on the Prairie by Kathleen Ernst. It's the 6th in the Chloe Ellefson mystery series. I plan to check out the others this winter.
Here's the description from goodreads. The link at the end is an interview with the author on WI Public Radio.
Chloe Ellefson and her sister, Kari, have long dreamed of visiting each historic site dedicated to Laura Ingalls Wilder. When Chloe takes custody of a quilt once owned by the beloved author, the sisters set out on the trip of a lifetime, hoping to prove that Wilder stitched it herself. But death strikes as the journey begins, and trouble stalks their fellow travelers. Among the "Little House" devotees are academic critics, greedy collectors, and obsessive fans. Kari is distracted by family problems, and unexpected news from Chloe's boyfriend jeopardizes her own future. As the sisters travel deeper into Wilder territory, Chloe races to discover the truth about a precious artifact—and her own heart—before a killer can strike again.
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Welcome Karen & Kaption. Suggestions always welcome. Like Badger, I've just been trying to keep up with my magazine subscriptions. Now that water aerobics is over for the season, I'll have more time to sit & read. Yeah, I know, not a healthy trade off but still...
Saw a T-shirt that I'd love to give to my DIL but I think she'd be offended.
"BOOKS - Helping introverts avoid conversation since 1454"
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badger, that sounds very interesting. Thanks.
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Thank you Badger.
Wow RuthBr, that is a beautiful picture. 0 -
just saw this on reddit.com and knew I had to share with you - some great recommendations - I know I am going to read some. http://lithub.com/my-favorite-books-to-sell-over-20-years-of-owning-a-bookstore/
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Just finished re-reading an old Greg Illes - True Evil. He is such a master. I couldn't even put it down for dinner. It's too late for a big feed so I guess I'll just make some popcorn
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Jelson, thanks for the link (nice selection) as I'd not visited Literary Hub http://lithub.com/
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Jelson & Lilac. Thanks for the links to LitHub Great site.
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I'm reading the mystery crime series by Paul Doiron about Maine game warden Mike Bowditch. Very enjoyable - like watching back woods law TV series. I would read in order as he introduces characters and continues with them.
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Thanks for the Greg Iles recommendation, MinusTwo. I hadn't read any of his books. Just started the first Penn Cage one. And this Mike Bowditch series sounds good, cp418 - I'll check those out, too.
MJ
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Tappermom - I got to hear Greg Illes speak earlier this year. He is really interesting & fun to listen to. My only argument is with the length of the last 3 books. Why are book companies pushing these 700/800/900 page books now? You'd think the authors would push back - since they could easily be split into two books. They're certainly to big & heavy to hold in hard back for reading in a recliner or in bed.
Disclaimer - many years ago as a pre-teen I did read my Mother's 1936 copy of Gone with the Wind in hard back - over 1000 pages. On top of that I read much of it under the covers with a flashlight because I was supposed to turn out the lights & go to sleep. I don't remember the penalty for reading instead of sleeping ever being enforced, although surely my Mom must have known.
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Pulled an old sci-fi paperback off the bookshelf at random. Came up with Wyrms (1987) by Orson Scott Card. Good read.
From the back cover: Patience is the only daughter of the rightful king but she, like her father before her, serves the usurper who has destroyed her family. For she has learned the true ruler's honor: that duty to one's race is more important than duty to one's self. But the time for prudence has passed, and that which has slept for ages has awakened. Patience must journey to the heartsoul of the planet to confront her destiny...and the world's.
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Just picked up Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice". Will take with me when I go to treatment later this week.
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I love Orson Scott Card's books, ALL of them!!! Couldn't get my man to watch, so I had to read Game of Thrones! All of them, now I am in the same boat: waiting for the author's next installment.
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Just finished The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See. Happened to find it on the library shelf, and it was a fascinating read. Definitely recommend it.
Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate—the first automobile any of them have seen—and a stranger arrives.
In this remote Yunnan village, the stranger finds the rare tea he has been seeking and a reticent Akha people. In her biggest seller, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, See introduced the Yao people to her readers. Here she shares the customs of another Chinese ethnic minority, the Akha, whose world will soon change. Li-yan, one of the few educated girls on her mountain, translates for the stranger and is among the first to reject the rules that have shaped her existence. When she has a baby outside of wedlock, rather than stand by tradition, she wraps her daughter in a blanket, with a tea cake hidden in her swaddling, and abandons her in the nearest city.
After mother and daughter have gone their separate ways, Li-yan slowly emerges from the security and insularity of her village to encounter modern life while Haley grows up a privileged and well-loved California girl. Despite Haley's happy home life, she wonders about her origins; and Li-yan longs for her lost daughter. They both search for and find answers in the tea that has shaped their family's destiny for generations.0 -
My neighbor's # finally came up at the library & she's sharing - so I'm reading Louise Penny's new book, Glass Houses today.She is such an intelligent & thoughtful author, always referencing details for things her characters are thinking about - like Lord of the Flies, and A.A. Milne's When We Were Very Young and Leonard Cohen songs and the Spanish Inquisition. Her characters are fully rounded people and joy to follow. Their thoughts & discussions about what is really "moral" are riveting in this book. Someone said her novels keep getting better. I'll have to go back to #1, but I've thought they were all great.
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Yippee - another new author for me to explore. I’m currently reading a lot of Greg Iles (also recommended here) and have put myself on the list for Louise Penny’s first book (I love to read authors in order when possible). I’m lucky in that I have access to e-books from libraries in two counties (San Bernardino and Riverside) so I do just about all my reading on my Kindle.
MJ
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Tappermom - I really like Greg Illes, and I enjoyed hearing him speak earlier this year. I think you'll like Louise Penny. She was amazing when she spoke here this year.
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Picked up another Jane Austen story today. Got "Sense and Sensibility" today. Took the first Jane Austen book to treatment yesterday.
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Tomboy, I picked up Game of Thrones on the read & return (half-price) shelf in an airport to read on the plane. Hated it! Violent and misogynistic, it's one of the few books I couldn't finish. Gave it a go but after maybe 30 pages I thought I don't like these people and don't want to spend time with them; I'd rather read the in-flight magazine LOL.
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huh. I've never seen game of thrones though have thought I might now that tobias mendes is in it. what part does he play?
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Reading Bill Bryson’s Down Under, about Australia, and it is hysterical =D
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Just finished Steinbeck's East of Eden. It's one I'd missed all those years ago. I wonder just how much is really autobiographical, as this Centennial edition suggests? (Steinbeck was born in 1902 & this edition was published in 2002.) It's truly a saga of the land and the families, with nods to the Cain & Abel and how much of human nature is inherited with the blood. His words are electric & descriptions of people & the Salinas valley really moving.
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Badger, it is violent, I admit, but it is heavily ran on strong women characters, and almost children , too. I can see how the first 30 or so pages would seem the way you said though. It's sort of something I didn't really think was my style either, and keep being surprised how much I did enjoy them.
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Tomboy, thanks, maybe I will give it another try.
Read five paperbacks on last week's vacation:
one from a fellow traveler: the new Alex Cross thriller Cross the Line (2016) by James Patterson
one from the airport bookstore: The Snowman (2010) by Jo Nesbø, a twisty murder mystery recently made into a movie
three from the library: The Princess Bride (1973) by William Goldman, a 'hot fairy tale' LOL; Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs (2009) by Molly Harper, a fantasy-romance about an out-of-work librarian who is turned into a vampire; and Private (2010) by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro, the first in the series about an elite PI firm. Did not get to The Menace From Earth (1959) by Robert A. Heinlein, but have it until the 25th.
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That’s my kind of vacation, badger - reading five books in a week! When I was a girl, my idea of the perfect day was curled up on my bed in my room (away from everyone else) with a book and an apple.
MJ
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I'm with you MJ - I read one on the plane ride down, one on the plane ride home, and three through the week. None were challenging books, although the unfamiliar Norwegian names and places in The Snowman slowed me down a bit at first. As you can see, I have a diverse literary taste.
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I have been reading my usual history books, but two 'not history' books I recently completed were a book called Whispering Pines (Celia's Gifts Book 1) by Kimberly Diede. The reason I read this book is that the author was one of my Pom Pon Girls back in the early 1980s (or maybe even late '70s). The story is about a young widow who loses her job and needs to reinvent her life. It's the first in a series. It's okay, but not really my 'thing'. The other book is The Alice Network by Kate Quinn. During World War, I there was a group of women spies by that name. This book weaves together fact & fiction as a young woman joins forces with one of these former spies when she tries to find out the fate of her cousin, who is missing in France at the end of World War II. A very good read.
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