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  • voraciousreader
    voraciousreader Member Posts: 3,696
    edited March 2018

    minus...I read Smithsonian online. LOVE IT. I had once found the magazine in the dermatologist’s office and have been hooked ever since. In fact, I looked forward to visiting the dermatologist’s office so i could read the magazine.....

  • TaRenee
    TaRenee Member Posts: 406
    edited March 2018

    I just started The Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare. I hated to put it down but I am so tired. I have read The Mortal instruments series and The Infernal Devices and really enjoyed them.

  • ksusan
    ksusan Member Posts: 461
    edited March 2018

    I'm steadily working through Lois McMaster Bujold's entire catalog (F&SF, including some good reads and some more literary and sophisticated novels). I have 5 and a half novels and a novella before I run out.

  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 24,938
    edited March 2018

    The Silent Corner was so good I finished already. Like the new "off-the-grid" hero Jane Hawk!

    http://www.deankoontz.com/book-series/jane-hawk

    On the library reserve list for book #2 The Whispering Room and looking forward to a new series.

    Also on the wait list for The Late Show, Michael Connelly's new one. Another female lead, like this trend!

    Next up is Strange Weather, a "collection of four chilling short novels" by Joe Hill (Stephen King's son).

  • tessu
    tessu Member Posts: 1,294
    edited March 2018

    https://www.amazon.com/Creed-Third-Millennium-Colleen-McCullough/dp/0380701340/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1520259170&sr=8-1&keywords=a+creed+for+the+third+millennium

    Just finished A Creed For The Third Millenium by Colleen McCullough, the author of The Thorn Birds. Near-future America is facing a massive environmental crisis, and people have lost faith in the future. Psychologist Joshua Christian has found an effective way to help his personal patients cope. The government gets wind of this and funds him to bring his message to a much wider audience. Then things get out of control.

    Written decades ago, some parts sound dated (most women characters in lesser roles than men). But the story is intriguing and I had a hard time putting the book down to do other things in between.

  • carolehalston
    carolehalston Member Posts: 8,210
    edited March 2018

    We subscribed to Smithsonian for years along with other magazines. I couldn't keep up with reading them and allowing time for reading books so I let all the subscriptions lapse. Have always hated news print paper but am considering subscribing online to either New York Times or Washington Post.

  • minustwo
    minustwo Member Posts: 13,354
    edited March 2018

    Carole: I read the Washington Post on line. I'm going to send you a PM

  • m0mmyof3
    m0mmyof3 Member Posts: 9,753
    edited March 2018

    Reading Alex Haley's "Roots". Also have his book "Queen". Ordered a couple of Tom Clancy books.

  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 24,938
    edited March 2018

    Halfway through Strange Weather (2/4 stories). Really good writing by Joe Hill. In the genes?

  • Tappermom383
    Tappermom383 Member Posts: 401
    edited March 2018

    I read Strange Weather recently, at my daughter’s suggestion. She is a HUGE Stephen King fan! And now she loves his son, too.

    MJ


  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,693
    edited March 2018

    image

  • kathindc
    kathindc Member Posts: 1,667
    edited March 2018

    Yup, that just about sums it up

  • minustwo
    minustwo Member Posts: 13,354
    edited March 2018

    Perfect Ruth. Thanks for posting. I'm doing well getting rid of kitchen things & clothes & shoes - but not the books.

  • carolehalston
    carolehalston Member Posts: 8,210
    edited March 2018

    Except for cookbooks (and I've tapered off buying them), I don't buy books any more. I download what I want to read on my Kindle. Recently I was noticing books that have sat on my shelves for years. Like travel books. What to do with them? Interesting to re-read but I doubt the time for re-reading them will ever come.

    As for the cookbooks, I seldom use them. I google recipes, print out interesting ones and put them in a loose leaf notebook.

  • minustwo
    minustwo Member Posts: 13,354
    edited March 2018

    Carole - GoodWill here does a booming business in books. They re-sell them for something like $0.99. I take my paperbacks to a used bookstore and get credit to buy more. I take the hardbacks to the library. They include them in their bi-yearly sales & it benefits the library system.

    I do have a Kindle that I use on trips, but I still like a book in my hand when I'm home.

  • m0mmyof3
    m0mmyof3 Member Posts: 9,753
    edited March 2018

    Just got "Cardinal of the Kremlin" and "Red Storm Rising" by the late Tom Clancy.

  • jkl2017
    jkl2017 Member Posts: 279
    edited March 2018

    Hi all, I'm new to this topic but love all these recommendations. I've seen some of my old favorites (Greg Iles, Michael Connelly & Colleen McCullough to name a few) but several new (to me) authors I'm looking forward to reading. I just finished Nora Roberts' Year One & am now reading Robert Wuthnow's The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America. I'm trying to understand the current toxic political climate & this looks like a good follow-up to JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy. The Bane Chronicles is also waiting for me (thanks, TaRenee, for that recommendation. I enjoyed The Mortal Instruments so I'm looking really looking forward to it). I love retirement - so much time to read!

  • kathindc
    kathindc Member Posts: 1,667
    edited March 2018

    Love Fredrick Backman’s books!

    JKL, I share your feelings about being retired. I have several stacks of books and a bunch on my iPad, even downloaded the Kindle app for when they run the bargain book buys Every time I make a dent in what I have, I find more to buy.

  • TaRenee
    TaRenee Member Posts: 406
    edited March 2018

    Robert Beatty’s new book Willa of the Woods is coming out soon. I have his first 3 books and have used them in school and the 4th and 5th grade kids LOVE them. We have them in middle school now and the kids are getting into it there as well. Serafina and the Black Cloak, Serafina and the Twisted Staff and Serafina and the Splintered Heart. Set at Baltimore Estate (yay NC settings!) and its a bit mysterious and magical. I love them myself. Plus I love the imagery he paints of Baltimore Estate.

  • lilacblue
    lilacblue Member Posts: 1,426
    edited March 2018

    imagePHOT

  • tessu
    tessu Member Posts: 1,294
    edited March 2018

    Powerful photo, LilacBlue

    Scored five (!) Terry Pratchett paperbacks in English (!) from the library's book exchange rack today . No, I don't consider myself selfish - I constantly donate books myself, and those will go back as soon as my son and I read through them, probably by the end of next week =D It's hard to find good books in English in this smallish Finnish city, so I feel like I won the lottery =D

  • jkl2017
    jkl2017 Member Posts: 279
    edited March 2018

    Good for you, tessu!

    This topic is officially my favorite on BCO! I'm really enjoying the Rivers of London series (love "magical" books. Have you all read the Enchanted, Inc series by Shanna Swendson?).

    I've also requested the Serafina books from my library since we are meeting friends in Ashville next month & staying on (& of course touring) the Biltmore Estate while we're there. Thanks, TaRenee, for those suggestions!

    I've only looked at the last few pages of this discussion so I apologize if they have already been mentioned but I love anything by Pat Conroy, the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich & all the Maisie Dobbs novels by Jacqueline Winspear. Good reading, fellow bookworms!

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,693
    edited March 2018

    The Biltmore Estate is AWESOME!

  • jkl2017
    jkl2017 Member Posts: 279
    edited March 2018

    Ruthbru, it is awesome. And the gardens are beautiful! I've only been there once and am looking forward to seeing even more things "behind the scenes" on this visit. Can you believe a family of only four lived in that HUGE place?


  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,693
    edited March 2018

    I was there once at Christmas, so it was all decorated for the holidays. Wow! I would like to go back and spend more time poking around.

  • jkl2017
    jkl2017 Member Posts: 279
    edited March 2018

    Christmas must be magical there. How wonderful you were there to see it! Can you imagine arriving in a horse-drawn sleigh on a snowy Christmas Eve? I can just picture cracking fires in all of the fireplaces & a Christmas tree reaching to the ceiling ... obviously my imaginary life is much more picturesque than my real one!

    I remember that there were several additional tours available - is there one you would recommend?

  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 24,938
    edited March 2018

    Welcome JKL2017! This is one of my favorite threads, too. No wonder it's going on eight years/225 pages.

    Finished The Whispering Room (Jane Hawk #2) and now must wait until May for #3, The Crooked Staircase.

    Just started The Late Show and already like the hero Renée Ballard, an LAPD detective who works the night shift in Hollywood.

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,693
    edited March 2018

    JKL, we just went on a standard tour because we had my 88 year old father along, and it was a really long day for him.

  • minustwo
    minustwo Member Posts: 13,354
    edited March 2018

    Badger - read The Late Show last week. It was great. I can hardly wait for another book staring Renee Ballard.

  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 24,938
    edited March 2018

    Minus, I believe it was your rec that lead me to The Late Show - thanks!

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