Book Lovers Club
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I’m reading an Anime book loaned to me by one of my students. It is taking some getting used to but I am finding it a fun read. Back to front, right to left. It goes against the brain. The title is Seraph of the End. It’s a vampire story.
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To Amica; I like Edith Wharton, tragic heroines are high on my list of faves, so I love Lily Bart in House of MIrth. Madame Bovary, Anna Karenina too. Age of Innocence very good, and also have read Custom of the Country. David Copperfield was one of the first big books I tackled as a child, then Great Expectations, speaking of Dickens; but I have not yet made it through War and Peace.
When I was going through chemo, i wanted comedy. In my opinion, you can't beat Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, still makes me laugh out loud.
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Lonesome Dove is a great book. But the narrative technique (head swapping from person to person) messed with my English major mind until I relaxed and quit worrying about it. Love the characters.
Sorry I misspelled Eco's last name. Didn't know there was a movie.
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Just finished Sister (recommended by someone on this thread) & enjoyed it a lot. The unexpected twists & turns kept it really interesting!
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I’d appreciate suggestions for some lighter, fun reading. Nothing silly, just something pleasant. Man Called Ove type book
Thanks!
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Kaption, my book club recently read “Dream More” by Dolly Parton. It’s based on a commencement speech she gave at the University of Tennessee- it’s her advice to the graduates, mixed in with stories from her career. It’s a quick, fun read. I also just read “I’ll Be Seeing You” by Suzanne Hayes. Two women during World War 2 become pen pals. Through their letters, you see what the relationship means to each of them
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Kaption - I have read almost all of Alexander McCall Smith's Series - The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency. I think there are about 19 in the series, but they are all easy to read books that aren't too long. There is so much humor in them and I immediately fell in love with Precious, the main character. They all take place in Botswana, with Precious starting the first female detective agency. Good easy reads.
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kap.....read ANYTHING by Carl Hiaasen.
My favorite author, Geoff Dyer’s book, Out of Sheer Rage, is the most humorous book I have ever read. His book of short essays, Otherwise Known as the Human Condition which won a National Book Award, is also way, way, way up there among my favorite books.
Also read A Man Called Ove. I am not a fiction lover, but feel like I sometimes have to read some fiction to stay in the loop. I liked Ove, but by comparison, i think Dyer and Hiassen are better writers. Just sayin.
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Thanks for the suggestions. Good ideas!
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Kaption, not funny but heartwarming and you'll cheer on the heroine: The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio. It's a true story written by the daughter of a woman who entered commercial jingle contests in the 1950's to keep her family afloat during hard times.
Anything by Mary Kay Andrews will be light and fluffy, a bit naughty but not smutty. I've read Savanna Breeze, Savanna Blues, Deep Dish, Hissy Fit, Little Bitty Lies, and The High Tide Club.
Just finished The Atomic City Girls, about the women who worked in Oak Ridge TN unknowingly to help build the atomic bomb. Very interesting and a surprisingly quick read.
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Kaption, have you read Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series? They are light, quick reads & always make me laugh out loud.
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kaption...the Boston girl.
You will love it.nafter I read it, I was looking for something fun and light and I was referred to the one you just read....
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Susan, I loved The Boston Girl.
Thanks for all suggestions. I’ll keep them. I’ve settled, for now, for reading an Elizabeth Berg book I’ve read previously.
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I am just finishing the lilac girls. Great book, but a hard read. Can't help buy cry reading about concentration camps.
I love historical fiction. I am going to read girl in the blue coat next. Read a bit before I bought it, loved it right away
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I’ll start The Clock Maker’s Daughter by Kate Morton. Her new book. I read her book Lake House recently.
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Kaption, I too enjoyed The Boston Girl.
Now Aminder Dhaliwal's Woman world is a post apocalyptic world without men. This book was recommended by a friend and it arrives in the mail tomorrow. It is a comic book style book. Will post more when I've read it.
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I finished Name of the Rose last night. It was tough going this second time around. A Catholic with knowledge of religion history would understand more of the communication among the monks. I did glean that the current pope was much in favor of wealth while the Franciscan order advocated poverty. It was definitely not a good time to be accused of heresy.
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Two books to recommend -
the latest Mary Russel and Sherlock Holmes mystery by Laurie R. King. Island of the Mad Mary is asked by a dear friend to help find her aunt who had most recently been living at the mental hospital formerly known as BEDLAM. Most of the action takes place in Venice - 1925 - a playground for the rich and famous, new sexual mores- Elsa Maxwell! Noel Coward! as well as an incubator for FASCISM during a time when it was of great interest in Britain and Mussolini was trying to establish contacts with Brits of like mind. Attitudes towards women, homosexuals, mental illness etc. Didn't expect how it would resonate with our times.
Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart. this book takes place in New Jersey in 1914 - three sisters are harassed by the factory owner and goons who ran their car into the girls' horse and buggy. In seeking damages, the eldest sister, Constance runs into all sorts of trouble but is befriended by the sheriff of Bergen County who helps her seek justice for her family and for a factory worker she met a long the way. This is actually based on a true story and I was quite captivated by the characters. Lots to learn about metropolitan NYC, textile factories, union busting, farming and the time during which horses gave way to cars. Glad that there is another book in the series which I will definitely read - need to find out what happens next! and I am also looking for other books by this author.
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In case anyone is overtired and can't stay awake to actually read I've found that podcasts download it onto my phone work very well to get me to sleep or back to sleep, if I wake up in the middle of the night. I'm sure many can suggest podcasts that will do the trick but I am suggesting BBC's Melvyn Bragg's, "In Our Time". The subjects can range from a discussion of Wuthering Heights to "glass". Subjects from literary, to scientific, to historical... and are about 40 minutes long. If you are sleeping with a partner, earbuds in one ear will assure that you are the only one listening! Melvyn Bragg moderates 2 or 3 experts in their field.
If my mind wanders I focus on each clearly spoken word.
(And if you fall asleep, the one earbud comes out when you turn over... without waking anybody up!)
Cheers, and less stress for us all.
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Jelson - I loved "Girl Waits with Gun". She has more books out & I do intend to buy them.
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badger, the title of the book about the women at Oak Ridge is titled "The Girls of Atomic City." I'm only correcting the title so that others here can find it - I thought it was a great read and gave amazing insight into what it took to win WWII.
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jel! Ditto Girl Waits with Gun. Also saw the Drunk History episode about the Kopp Sisters! Love, Love Love Drunk History....
https://www.sbs.com.au/guide/article/2017/02/03/were-fact-checking-drunk-history-so-you-dont-have
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just finished Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. Absolutely beautiful. I loved it and didn’t want to get to the end.
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A question for those of you reading the Jane Hawk series - are you ready for it to end? I just completed The Forbidden Room & I find myself wanting to see a resolution, rather than additional books. How do the rest of you feel?
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Our school is having our Book Fair this week. I have picked The Forgetting and The Knowing. It sounds interesting. (One of my students suggested it to me) Then I found the section on the Holocost and am getting three of them. I’m going to be broker than I am now! Most of what I’m reading now is young adult or teen reading so I can talk to the kids (girls mostly) about what they are reading. But I am finding that I rather enjoy them. Thank goodness it’s middle school. Elementary school book fair never really appealed to me because it was aimed for such young kids.
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I just read Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig. A sweet coming of age story that takes place in the early 1950s. It involves an orphaned 11 year old boy and his adventures.
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Ruth - I'll put this on my list. I like Doig.
I just finished All Quiet on the Western Front. In two weeks is the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended "the war to end all wars". One hundred years!!! We had to read this 1929 book about WWI in high school, and I surely didn't have a clue what it was all about. The book is the first person account of one soldier - a youth just out of high school - from his patriotic recruiting to "the front" & back for several years through the realization that for those who make it home, "home" will never be the same again. It is a story of duty & friendship & loyalty and finally - how men on both side are just men. It tore my heart when his friends and comrades continued dying at the front in the fall of 1918 when the talk of peace was everywhere. Not an easy read but only 175 pages and something we should all remember.
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minus! Fabulous book! Also great....my favorite author, Geoff Dyer’s, The Missing of the Somme....
I also previously recommended, March 1917
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I loved both All Quiet and March 1917. I am currently reading Doris Kearns Goodwin's fabulous new book Leadership In Turbulent Times.
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Ruth, my hubby just got that book.
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