Book Lovers Club
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Ruth, if you're organizing the trip, I would accompany you anywhere.
Welcome cindyanne! A good vacation series is the Holly Barker books by Stuart Woods. There are five books in the series, starting with Orchid Beach. Forced into early retirement, an ex-military cop takes a job with the police dept in what seems to be a sleepy island town. But then there's a murder...
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ruthbru - some of my women friends and I decided to do that Jolabokaflod this year. One friend organized it, collected addresses then matched us up to send each other books and chocolate. Mine just arrived yesterday, and I feel happy like a little kid, because our kids are grown and our family isn’t doing gifts this Christmas but now I have one anyway
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FUN!!!
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Heck yes, let's go to Iceland (with a stop in Finland on the way to see Tessu...)
I was also going to suggest the various JA Jance series. I like the Ali Reynolds series best, but love them all.
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Michael Connelly
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Thank you all for the great suggestions! I am going shopping today and I am certain I will want to read them all. I guess that means I will have to take more vacations LOL
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David Rosenfelt's Andy Carpenter series is a nice light quick read,,, especially if you are a dog lover!
I love that Icelandic tradition and would love to go there,, and to Finland!
If you are interested in an Icelandic mystery series: Arnaldur Indridason has written a series, that, I believe has been completely translated into English now. Inspector Erlendur. They are not always easy to find, but I did manage to get all of them thru my library, although they borrowed a couple of them from other libraries, via inter-library loan. I love reading about the Icelandic traditions, and the descriptions of the countryside.
Jar City was the first to be translated, I believe, but it is supposed to be the 3rd in the series.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/280366.Jar_Cit...
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OH, and thinking of Finland: Have you read James Thompson's series?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6978614-snow-a...
He is originally from Kentucky and moved to Finland. There are 4 books,, he was in the middle of the 5th, when he dies suddenly,, and under mysterious conditions. I really enjoyed his books.
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Stayed up until 2am to finish Lisa Scottoline's Most Wanted- 2016. I couldn't put it down. It's not part of her series. "...they are desperate for a baby. Unable to conceive...they make a decision to use a donor...But one day, she is shocked to see a young blond man on the TV being arrested for a series of brutal murders - and the blond man bears an uncanny resemblance to her donor." The surprises just keep coming. The discussion questions in the back made me want to start a book club at 2am.
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Carole - welcome if you're thinking of joining us. We'd love to hear what you're reading.
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I have read quite a few of the Rosenfelt books. I liked the Andy Carpenter stories up to the point when he became wealthy. I found I didn't like the rich Andy as much as the poor Andy.
Lee Child was mentioned in a post. I have read most of his books. His audio books are great for road trips when the scenery is the same-old same-old. When dh and I making the long trip up I-55 that we've made countless time to visit his relatives, we rent audio books from our library.
Several years ago my sister gave me a Kindle that she had bought for herself. She found that she liked reading books that she held in her hands. I love the Kindle and use it for all of my book reading. I go to our library's web site and download ten books, mostly mystery fiction. Then I switch off the wifi connection and the books stay on the Kindle until I switch the wifi back on. Meanwhile Amazon returns the books so that they are available for other readers.
Occasionally I buy books from Amazon. It's so convenient. They download immediately after you authorize payment.
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Yay Carole. Welcome. I'm a 'book in the hand' person but i do have an old Kindle for traveling. Like you, I download several and the connection stays off until I need another download.
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Hi everyone, I'd like to recommend a mystery series by Stan Jones set in Alaska. The main character is State Trooper Nathan Active. Although born to an Inupiat mother he was adopted and raised by a white couple in Anchorage. His first assignment brings him back to the small town he was born in. The first book in the series is titled White Sky, Black Ice.
It's a great read for dark winter nights!
Another good book for the winter is set in medieval Russia - The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden. It has elements of fantasy and a folk tale quality!
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Gave two interesting books my husband desired for Christmas. Honey from a Weed: Fasting and Feasting in Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cyclades and Apulia by Patience Gray and The Quantum Astrologer's Handbook: a history of the Renaissance mathematics that birthed imaginary numbers, probability, and the new physics of the universe by Michael Brooks. Hope to read both.
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Reading Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited for Christmas Day. Fond memories of long philosophical discussions & companion books and studies when I first read it in college. Of course the intervening 50 years make it an entirely new book.
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Lilac - the Brooks book sounds like something my son would enjoy. Let us know what you think.
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Just read Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy. An interesting look at the time and the women behind the scenes that helped win WWII. They were really a secret group (instructed to say that they were secretaries etc.) and many never talked about their jobs, reluctant to do so even now.
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I'm sad to report that Sue Grafton has passed away. Seems she had cancer of the appendix. I loved her books. It was always great to get a new letter of the alphabet, and go back in time to the 80's, pre-computer and pre-cell phones,,,,
"She had been fine up until just a few days ago, and then things moved quickly. Sue always said that she would continue writing as long as she had the juice. Many of you also know that she was adamant that her books would never be turned into movies or TV shows, and in that same vein, she would never allow a ghost writer to write in her name.
"Because of all of those things, and out of the deep abiding love and respect for our dear sweet Sue, as far as we in the family are concerned, the alphabet now ends at Y."
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I was sad to hear this today. I've enjoyed her books so much.
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Ruthbru - see what you started?? I love the idea!! But can we move somewhere a bit warmer than Iceland?
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Glennie - thanks for passing along the notice about Sue Grafton. I am so sorry to hear this.
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RIP Sue Grafton.
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Over C-mas break, DH and I both read Children of the Fleet (2017) by Orson Scott Card. It was just OK.
Much better was Hillbilly Elegy (2016) by J.D. Vance. From a former Marine and Yale Law School graduate, a probing look at the struggles of America's white working class through the author's own story of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town.
Next up is The Power (2016) by Naomi Alderman. Women develop the ability to release electrical jolts from their fingers, thus leading them to become the dominant gender.
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I enjoyed the Sue Grafton alphabet series. I think I have read all of them.
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I love the idea of doing the Icelandic chocolate/book exchange among friends. I’m going to try and remember to do it next year.
If any of you like sci fi, two of my favorite series are the Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold and the Expanse series by James SA Corey.
I’ve been on a kick of reading Christmas/Winter books. A few of my recent reads were Christmas at a Tiffany’s by Karen Swan and Simply Unforgettable by Mary Balogh. Both were pleasant reads, though with some faults.
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Hey Henrietta, I like Bujold too! I'll check out the other series you recommend.
I'm just finishing up book 2 in Tanya Huff's Confederation series (The Better Part of Valor) atm.0 -
Blasting through and thoroughly enjoying the space saga Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson. Multigenerational starship sent to colonize Tau Ceti runs into some problems...
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I only made it up to C in the Sue Grafton books. Funny reading the older ones, how much technology has changed since she first started the series.
FINALLY finished "Dead Wake". I found this book to be very tedious to read - yes, the author has done a lot of research, but not every detail needed to be included in his book. I quite enjoy non-fiction, but this one just dragged on and on for me.
My holidays were busy, so the only reading I have been doing is a couple of books on genealogy. Trying to trace my fathers roots in wales, slow going (surname of Jones!), but fun and addicting at the same time. One of the books is about organizing what you find which I am finding very helpful.
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I've been reading about the upcoming new movie based on A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. Seems the discussion is everywhere, from Time Magazine to The Smithsonian. I have the book on my shelf but haven't read it over 30 years since my son was young, so I pulled it out last night. "They" are right - this is one spunky heroine. I enjoyed the journey & the memories.
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Minus, now there's a blast from the past! I remember A Wrinkle in Time and how I loved it. Wonder what took them so long to make it into a movie.
Fifth on the wait list for Code Girls and fifty pages into The Power. Interesting study on what might happen if the tables were turned and women no longer had to fear men because bigger & stronger no longer ruled.
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