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Just finished Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult. I haven't read her in a long time, had forgotten how much I like her style of writing. Interesting book about elephants and loss, with a nice twist. I really enjoyed it. Not sure what is up for me next to read, I'm waiting on several through the library, they will probably all come at once! Isn't that always the way...
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I just finished a book called Widow Spy ,the first female CIA field operative. A true story.Could not put down.
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Had started Tom Clancy’s Red Storm Rising during the summer. Had put it down while busy with various things, so now I am trying to get back into it to finish it
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Reading “A Spark of Light” by Jodi Picoult. I’m finding it a littledifficult to get into this one. But I love her so I just need to hunker down!!!
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Warrior, I just finished A Spark of Light. It was timely, well-researched & thoughtful but made me sad. I'll be interested in your opinion when you finish it. Reading Estrogen Matters now but may abandon it before I'm done.
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I'll be interested to know if you like A Spark of Light. I have read the sample on my Kindle but couldn't decide whether or not to get it.
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Starting Fredrick Backman’s, “Us Against You.” So far I’m liking it. It’s a follow up to “Beartown.” I enjoy his writing very much.
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I finished Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly last night. It started off as a fairly typical defense lawyer story but the plot took some interesting twists that surprised me. I like the protagonist. All in all, the book is a good read for those of us who like mystery fiction.
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Carole - I like all of Connelly's books.
I decided last Friday to re-read the Diary of Anne Frank. I get so much more out of these "old" books now that I'm old. Experience certainly provides a different point of view. And offers a window on the present.
Interesting that the next thing I picked up was the November Smithsonian magazine. Much of the magazine is devoted to "The Unforgotten". There 's an article about rescuing history, an English translation of a long hidden diary of a young Polish woman's last days, an essay discussing what if Anne Frank had lived, some readings from a diary of a by a young Lithuanian Jewish poet, several accounts about young people caught in the crossfire of history & the horrors of war - including an excerpt by a young American Japanese teen locked away in a U.S. Internment camp. More than 65 diaries have surfaced written by young people caught in the Holocaust. Since then there have been diaries written by young people from Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, Darfur, Iraq, Syria and other places. They "affirm their humanity while they protest the injustice all around them."
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I’m reading The Forgetting by Sharon Cameron. I am halfway through it and just had my mind blown! I thought I knew what was happening and Bam! twist of the storyline just got me. I like it! lo
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Where the Crawdads Sings by Delia Owens is a good read. The story is set in the 1950s and revolves around a young woman who lives (primarily) alone in a North Carolina marsh—it's a mystery, a coming of age novel, and there's great nature writing as well.
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I fell in love with this book. One of my all-time favorites.
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Just bought (at the grocery store) Becoming by Michelle Obama.
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I am getting Becoming for Christmas (which I know because DH said, "Now, don't go ordering a book by a recent First Lady."
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I know this thread is mostly fiction but I would like the share an Anne Lamont book, Stitches.
It's a short read. I laughed and cried at the same time. I bought 4 more titles while reading this one.0 -
just read Raymond Briggs' children book The Snowman. Has anyone else come across this gem? They tweeked the book a bit and made it into a British classic film that is enjoyed in England each year as much as Americans enjoy watching Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. You can watch the video on Youtube. But the award winning book? I shared it with my literacy students, daughter and grandson and everyone LOVED it. The book contains no words. Just illustrations.
Furthermore, until now, I hadn't realized what a great fan I was of Briggs. A few months ago, I enjoyed this animated movie, Ethel and Ernest. It was based on another Briggs book....
Speaking of animated films.....anyone see Loving Vincent? I am at a loss as to why it didn't win an Academy Award....and Mary and Max? What a fantastic animated film....
We should have a thread devoted to graphic books and animated films. So clever at telling stories....
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Happy Thanksgiving dear book lovers
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Happy Thanksgiving to All. Hope we can each sneak in a little reading time amongst the turkey and dressing and pumpkin pie eating!!
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VR - so good to see you. I was dismayed at a post earlier this month that we mostly post about fiction. That means we're really missing you!!! I'm going to buy books for my grand niece and nephews this year so I'll look for The Snowman.
Speaking of fiction, a friend lent me a book on Monday afternoon and I decided to read a chapter before bed to see if I was interested. Hoo boy - I was still up at 4am. Only slept long enough to be able to hold the book up in my recliner when I got up Tuesday morning. I can't tell you how many times I thought - I understand now, but of course I didn't. Psychological suspense that really grabs you. Why did her husband leave her? What did she really see in the window? Why won't even her psychiatrist believe her? "It Isn't paranoia if it's really happening." Good reviews from Tess Gerritsen, Joe Hill, Louise Penny, Ruth Ware, Stephen King, etc.
The Woman in the Window by A.J.Finn She's a native New Yorker.
Yes - Happy Thanksgiving to all.
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I don't think we are mostly about fiction! Not me anyway
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hi Minus! I know I can count on you, Ruth and a few other sisters for a good non fiction book recommendation! I can appreciate, though, that there are so many spectacular types of books and spectacular people reading them!
Forgot to mention another SPECTACULAR children’s book....
Snow, by Uri Shulevitz
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374468620
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VR - Happy Thanksgiving to the lions if you get to that neck of the woods this weekend.
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thank you Minus.....my rule of thumb is not to visit the city betweem Thanksgiving and New Years. Too many tourists! Sometimes I do make an exception because it could be magical!
Years ago, my Longhorn son's friends drove up from Houston so they can be in Times Square when the ball dropped. You should have seen these young men. I wish I could have videoed them when they exited this tiny Honda. They reminded me of circus clowns exiting a volkswagen! There had been no room for luggage, so the resourceful young men brought only backpacks and did their laundry each day! Hilarious! Last year, when they all showed up at my son's wedding, each of them congratulated me and then told me how thankful they were to me, way back when. All of them carry the fondest memories of visiting the Big Apple! I do, as well!
Coincidentally, On Wednesday, I finally got a library copy of the children's book, Lost in the Library. It tells the story about how, one evening, one of the NY Public Library's lions got lost in the library. It introduces young readers to what they will find once they climb the library's magestic steps!
Thanks again for thinking of me! Hope you and all our sisters enjoy the holiday season
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Anybody read Will Schwalbe's Books for Living: Some Thoughts on Reading, Reflecting and Embracing Life? I read the intro just now and have definitely put this on my list. He talks about a recurring nightmare in an airport - boarding is called for a long distance flight and he doesn't have a book and no bookstore or news room in sight. I've been there. Even though I have a Kindle, I can't embark on any kind of trip with at least two actual paper books. What if the Kindle died or there was no way to charge it?
Blurb... "From the author of....The End of Your Life Book Club, an inspiring & magical exploration of the power of books to shape our lives in an era of constant connectivity." One review said "...a love letter to reading and readers."
One of his thoughts: " Every book changes your life. How is this book changing mine?" And another: "I believe that there is no book so bad that you can't find anything in it of interest." He mentions how reading the first Reacher thriller (The Killing Floor) brought him the insight of this quote - "Waiting is a skill like anything else." Remembering that would have been a calming thought as we each made our way through cancer treatments.
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I am trying to catch up on my book recommendations - I have tried before but my hand brushes over the keys and everything disappears and it takes a while to regroup and try again - these are cut and pastes from my library's reviews.
Dog dish of doom : an Agent to the paws mystery / E.J. Copperman "Kay Powell wants to find that break-out client who will become a star. And she thinks she's found him: His name is Bruno, and he has to be walked three times a day. Bruno's humans, Trent and Louise, butt in a lot, and Les McMaster, the famous director now mounting a revival of Annie, might not hire Bruno just because he can't stand Trent in particular. That becomes less of an issue when Trent is discovered face down in Bruno's water dish. With a kitchen knife in his back. - you learn about how plucky but nevertheless not very successful entertainers survive.
Mislaid / Nell Zink. about the making and unmaking of the American family that lays bare all of our assumptions about race and racism, sexuality and desire. Stillwater College in Virginia, 1966. Freshman Peggy, an ingénue with literary pretensions, falls under the spell of Lee, a blue-blooded poet and professor, and they begin an ill-advised affair that results in an unplanned pregnancy and marriage. The two are mismatched from the start—she's a lesbian, he's gay—but it takes a decade of emotional erosion before Peggy runs off with their three-year-old daughter, leaving their nine-year-old son behind. This was a seriously odd book!!!!
Must rush off o golf course to write down names and breeds of mutts my husband photographs....
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minus...Lee Child must have come up with that phrase while waiting for an elevator! I used to push the button multiple times! Realizing, patience is a virture that needs to be learned....I now push the button only once and watch for others who jab it multiple times and say to myself....what a waste of time and energy!
And I too, never fly without at least two paper books. I get some of my best reading done at the airport and inflight....
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Ruth - that is GREAT. Thanks for posting.
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I've meant to ask for a long time already - is there a thread with book recommendations regarding BC and dealing with it? I've been looking in book stores for some time but I'm lost and nothing "calls on to me".... I'm searching a book that would show me how to deal with this whole crappy situation, what to do next, how to cope... I'm feeling lost. Is there such a thread? I realize this one is mostly about fiction...
BTW, I'm reading The Martian and enjoying myself. It's surprisingly funny on top of all that great and scientifically correct plot.
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JaBoo - A friend gave me "Living In the Postmastectomy Body" by Becky Zuckweiler, MS, RN. It has really helped me a lot to get through this past 18 months. If you can't find it, let me know and I'll send it to you. I think you can probably find it on Amazon.
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