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I saw that today also & was sorry to read of his passing.
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octogirl! Oh no! Horwitz’s new book, Spying on the South is sitting on my night table...waiting to be started!
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Just finished Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight. I'm not sure what I thought about it. Set mostly in a private high school in NYC, the subject matter was rather difficult. Hard to discuss it without spoilers, but overall the subplots got a little too complicated for me.
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I just finished Cemetery Road and loved it. I have enjoyed everything Greg Iles has written (and I love a thick book!). Not sure what I will read next but that’s part of the fun of retirement.
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I finished Gone Girl and feel pretty much the way Pat felt about Reconstructing Amelia. The plot was a bit much and so was the character development. You can suspend your disbelief just so much. It's a horrible thought that those two people would be rearing a child. I guess my recommendation would be, "Don't bother." With all that said, the writing was very good.
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Just finished The Queen by Josh Levin. This is not about a British monarch! It is a non-fiction accounting of a woman in Chicago that defrauded the government through welfare and veterans money. She used numerous names and made many false claims to get the money. Ronald Reagan named her the “Welfare Queen” while running for President. It is an interesting look at the problems of welfare and how one bad individual took advantage of the system. Reading what and when I want to is definitely one of the perks of retirement
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Started Little Women while I was on vacation a few weeks ago. Still reading it at a slow pace.
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Finished a book about the history of immune therapy and how it relates to cancer. End of the Beginning;Cancer, Immunity and the history of a cure by Michael Kinch. The book goes into great detail about how various cancer treatments were discovered, trialed and brought to market. Interesting the part breeding mice plays as well as how many researcher died in the process of discovery.
Will start The Pioneers by David McCullough this weekend. Really looking forward to it. His books are informative and well written. So many books to read!
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I liked The Pioneers a lot!
Mommy, our high school summer theater program is going to do Little Women at the end of the month for this year's presentation.They usually do a musical so I don't know if they are going to do a version set to music or what. Seems rather odd, but time will tell.
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38589793-let-her-fly
Let Her Fly: A Father's Journey
by
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Malala Yousafzai (foreword)
A tiny book with a big and lasting message. This is the story of Malala Yousafzai’s beloved father...
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Just finished Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. Just a wonderful book, set in a North Carolina Marsh town, about poverty, love, and survival. The author is very good about painting pictures with words, I really enjoyed reading this book. This is her first novel, but she has written 3 non-fiction books about the outdoors which I am putting on my list.
Going camping for a week on Monday, so need to load up my kindle!
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been reading but every time I write up something about the book, my hand hits some mystery key and it all disappears before I am done. Will try again - in the moment- with last two books: The 3rd Kate Shackleton mystery by Frances Brody. Murder in the Afternoon. The books are set in the mid 1920's - Kate's husband was MIA in WW1 and she cannot accept that. She lives in the north of England and is an amateur photographer and has set her self up as a private investigator. This book has to do with the mysterious disappearance of a skilled mason, who was a labor organizer. I learned about the attitude of the powers that be, to the young men who returned from the war with hopes of a new England who were feared for their ideas COMMUNISM! and the fact that they had been trained in warfare. Well written and engrossing.
Also Jenny Colgan's The Bookshop on the Corner. First book of hers that I have read and was a bit skeptical because - another bookshop/library book where the owner/librarian solves your problems with the perfect book. But actually it was quite good, the protagonist loses her library job in the cutbacks in Birmingham and buys a used van in Scotland and eventually stays to convert it to mobile bookshop and travel around the countryside selling books - bought cheap as all the libraries offload their books to become "media centers". There is personal growth, a long haul freight train involved, an immigrant, a struggling family and of course love stories, but nothing explicit!! what I especially liked was that the pages were peppered with words that were unfamiliar to me! actual Scottish and English slang which I could guess the meaning of but have googled to be sure. So refreshing after the homogenized Fredrik Backman books - whose language gives no clue as to the country in which the story is set. I am actually surprised in retrospect that the key dispute in A Man Called Ove was not changed from Volvo v Saab to Ford v Chevy
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Murder in the Afternoon sounds like my kind of book. I need to make a note of it.
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Second the recommendation for Where the Crawdads Sing! Beautifully written. And yes, I am putting the author's non-fictions books on my list also!
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third the recommendation for Crawdads!
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I'm about 1/3 through Sand and Ash by Amy Harmon about a Jewish girl and Catholic boy in Italy prior to and during WWII under Mussolini. So far a compelling read that I anticipate will delve more deeply into love and honor in horrific times.
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Here's my Book Club at Barnes and Noble celebrating our 21st year & 247th book!
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Love the photo Ruth. I just joined a book club and loving it.
Halfway through The Wartime Sisters by Lynda Cohen Loigman. It’s a good read. Haven’t looked through all the previous posts yet so not sure if anyone has listed this.
Happy reading all!
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ruth...
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Ruth - that is fantastic. 21 years!!! Way to go.
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For those that like biographies and autobiographies I recommend Amanda Mackenzie Stuart's book Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age and for an autobiography I recommend Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan's The Glitter and the Gold: The American Duchess in Her Own Words. I have both books and read them both. Very fascinating reads!
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mommy...i loved Stuart’s book! What a relationship. And that period of time! After reading the book, I had to go to Newport and see the “cottages” ....
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voracious, I spent a good portion of my life in the Newport area.
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ahhhh.....so you would definitely enjoy reading the books and seeing where they lived. I recall visiting Consuela’s childhood bedroom and wondering what went through her mind as a child.... her bedroom was 5 times the size of the bedroom that my sister and I shared...
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I have been through the Newport mansions..... the opulence made me feel quite socialistic; methinks they had way too much money for their own good!
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Been in the Marble House and Astor’s “Beechwood” as a kid. They were the only two mansions in Newport that I have been in.
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Continuing reading the Charlie Parker series - read Dark Hollow by John Connolly. Good read, love his character, interesting plot lines converge in the end. It's funny to read books written in the early 2000's , technology was so different back then.
Also read Inheritance by Dani Shapiro, a memoir about being a sperm donor baby. It was not what I was expecting, it probably would be a good read for someone with unknown parentage, but I just couldn't relate. Plus it was remarkably easy for her to track relatives - I'm a little bit jealous lol, I've been doing my ancestors for a couple of years and it's not been as easy as it happened for her.
Now reading After You by JoJo Moyes - delightful Louisa back in my life in book 2 of the Me before you trilogy. A great summer read.
Magicread sand and ash sounds like a book I would enjoy, putting it on my list.
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Finished the latest Joyce Carol Oates, My Life as a Rat. Her titles are a bit dark, but very well written. This book takes place in upstate New York. The youngest of a large Catholic family “tells on” her two older brothers implicating them in a murder of a young Black man. The brothers go to prison and the young girl is sent away. It is the definition of a dysfunctional family! Not an easy read by any means. Very engrossing though.
On to the next book
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Just finished The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas. I have not seen the movie - it is a young adult novel, but has plenty of adult topics. Still, it was a good book, even though I am mostly unfamiliar with both of the worlds that Starr lives in. She is a black teenager, going to a mostly white prep school, but living in a black neighborhood beset with drugs and gang violence. But the themes of doing the right thing, and the love and protectiveness of her family are universal concepts and very well presented
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Thanks for re-activating this thread pat01. Where does the time go. I know we're all reading every day.
I just finished re-reading Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale. Since I don't watch TV, I was able to do a reasonable comparison with the first time I read the book when it was published in the 1980s. Still as good as I remembered.
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