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Ruth - thanks for reaching out. I'll give it some thought.
I have learned how to Zoom, however I'm don't know if I'd be interested on BCO. I usually check in at random or odd hours and don't want one more thing I'd have to schedule. I've met a number of members around the country and enjoyed delicious meals & conversation. And I'm looking forward to doing that again - maybe by the end of the year.
Edited to add I agree with what Claire said on the exercise thread. I may be a valuable addition to BCO. Just not for me.
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Ruth, I agree with Minus. Zoom may be great for BCO but it's not for me. I guard my image jealously and am one of those people who have a sticky note obscuring the camera on my PC.
Finished Old Bones by Preston & Child. Realized I'd already read it but kept going to see if I remembered the end correctly. I did, but had forgotten that Special Agent Pendergast makes a guest appearance.
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ruthbru,
Ditto to MinusTwo and badger's comments. Although, I think it could be beneficial for many, it's not for me. I gather so much information from BCO (badger & ruthbru, love your book suggestions), because of the luxury of doing it on my own time. But, I would hate to miss the information shared during a Zoom call, too. I like the idea that BCO is reaching out.....Zoom may make it easier for someone to get information and that's a BIG WIN. Good luck with the information gathering.
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Welcome L8Blmr! Fun screen name. :-)
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I just watched a movie on Amazon Prime that is based on a play, I believe, by the same name. I was hoping it was based on a book so I could read it.
"An Inspector Calls". My DH and I are still talking about this movie. Based on a suicide and investigator showing up to the home where she was employed.
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I just completed Team of Five by Kate Andersen Brower. It's a story of the “Presidents Club in the Age of Trump" and was a very interesting (and easy-to-read) book. It's uplifting to see the respect and affection these former Presidents and First Ladies have for one another. I don't remember whether it was recommended by someone on this thread but, if it was, thank you!
Badger, I love Preston and Child's Pendergast series! (He's such a dark and unusual character.) I don’t know whether I've read any of the authors' other books but I will definitely look for Old Bones. And SandiBeach, I am going to check out An Inspector Calls - I'm always looking for something good to watch while I walk on the treadmill.
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JKL, you may want to start with Thunderhead (goodreads calls it Nora Kelly #0 LOL).
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Oh Badger you are so quick. It actually took me awhile to get L8Blmr and I probably wouldn't have noticed if you hadn't picked up on it.
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I watched Agatha Christie's England last night, a PBS program we had recorded. I found it very interesting. She was amazingly prolific.
I "discovered" Martha Grimes this winter after bypassing her books many times as I downloaded ebooks to my Kindle. Now I am reading another of her books and it isn't as engaging at the beginning as the previous Richard Jury book. I hope it gets better.
When browsing the public library website for Kindle books in the mystery genre, I'm much influenced by the cover of a book. I am not interested in reading a book with a "silly" cover. It was Martha Grimes' covers that put me off but I've read so many books and exhausted the offerings of so many authors that I'm having to gamble on authors I have previously bypassed.
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Thanks for the suggestion, Badger. I’ve added it to my reserve requests at my local library. (I can’t possibly afford to buy all of the books I want to read; thank goodness for libraries!)
And welcome L8Blmr! Love your screen name. - I’m adding it to my list of favorites (along with MinusTwo’s!)
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Carole - I like Martha Grimes but agree - preferred the Jury books. I have a few on my shelves next to Deborah Crombie & Elizabeth George. Interesting to note that while I really like Brit mysteries, I haven't saved as many as American's Sharyn McCrumb, Margret Maron, Stephen White, and maybe my all time favorite, Carolyn Heilbrun. Of course I'm only looking at the bookshelves in the computer room so...
VR - you'll be glad to know I finally got around to ordering "Out of Sheer Rage". Coming along with "Silent Patient" that my niece in law said I MUST read "immediately".
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I am reading Silent Patient right now. It is one of those books you stay up way too late reading because you can't put it down & you are annoyed when 'real life' interfers with your reading time.
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Minus, Elizabeth George is one of my favorite mystery authors but I have read all the titles available for Kindle at my library, which has expanded the number of ebooks one can borrow from 10 to 20. It's interesting that she is American and sets her stories in England with a Scotland Yard main character.
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WONDERFUL Ruth. I'm going to copy and sent to all my nieces & nephews.
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Here is another great meme!
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The Silent Patient was wonderful, with a completely surprising ending. Two thumbs up from me!
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I received Silent Patient, but reading a fun old Lawrence Block book - The Burglar who Traded Ted Williams (1994). Bernie owns & works in a bookstore when he's not "burgling", and a friend of his is wondering if Sue Grafton is gay. And if not Sue, maybe Kinsey Millhone. He's trying to explain that Kinsey is a character in the books. I took this book to my 1st Covid vaccine and the waiting time just melted away.
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Finally got the Hiassen book, Squeeze Me. Very entertaining! The ties to the past administration were a large part of the humor. I am now reading The Deepest South of All about Natchez, Mississippi. I have read only the first few chapters, but the writing is good and lots of information.
My library has stopped applying overdue fines to any books. Items out for six weeks are seen as ‘lost’ and the replacement cost of the book is charged. This fee will disappear when the item is returned. This has worked out well for the customers. Our director is determined to remove barriers to library use. Not sure I could have survived this pandemic without the ebooks options
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Minus, I love Bernie Rhodenbarr, the gentleman thief of The Burglar Who ...series! Oldies but goodies.
DH read the Jack Reacher series along with me. We've both finished and are waiting on the newest one The Sentinel. He saw me reading Old Bones by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child and asked if it was a new Reacher. I said no, that's Lee Child, but their books are so good. Got him a few and he's digging in to Thunderhead and will read Old Bones after that. We're both waiting on the new Nora Kelly The Scorpion's Tail.
I also got him The Ice Limit (which I had read years ago but re-read to remember the ending) about a giant red meteorite with strange properties and the wealthy man who goes to the ends of the Earth to possess it, and Beyond the Ice Limit (which I had not read, but introduced me to Gideon Crew, who risks his life to save the world from the big red rock). I now have the other four Gideon Crew books on my library request list. :-)
He asked for Mount Dragon, Riptide, Relic, and Reliquary. The last two will introduce him to Special Agent Pendergast. I wonder how he'll like him.
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Finally got Deadly Cross, the new Alex Cross by James Patterson. It was good but not great. Better than the last few books in the series. Alex investigates a double homicide, a serial rapist / murderer, and a nut shooting rich people in the butt. Short chapters and familiarity with the characters allowed me to zip through it in about six hours.
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I read James Patterson for years, but when he stopped writing them ("written by"), I quit reading.
Stayed up all night a couple of days ago reading Silent Patient. I agree with everyone - a good read.
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Two of my favorite authors are Lee Smith and Silas House so I recommend anything by them.Goodreads is a great app for searching for, reading synopsis and reviews, and organizing books read or to read.
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Joan27, thanks for recommendations. I've just placed a library hold on Silas House's Southernmost book. Having an interest in Berea College and Appalachia, it is great to learn that House is Ass't prof. of Appalachian studies at Berea College -- one of the many hats he wears. BTW, I bought a beautiful decorative broom from the Berea College gift shop... Berea College Visitor Center & Shoppe - Berea College Visitor Center & Shoppe (bcshoppe.com)
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Welcome, Joan, and thanks for the recommendations. I agree about goodreads.
Minus, the Alex Cross series may be the only one Patterson is still writing himself. I don't read much of his stuff anymore, either. He's pretty much phoning it it.
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just enjoyed Manhattan's Hotel des Artistes: America's Paris on West 67 Street. New a bit about the building before reading the book. The descriptions of the building and its artist residents kept me googling for days. What a fascinating book filled with stories and so many beautiful pictures of its inhabitants. I highly recommend.
Also...In Pursuit of Fashion:The Sandy Schreier Collection. What a magnificent book! The Metropolitan Museum of Art is being gifted more than 150 clothes of Ms. Schreier's collection. She was collecting clothes for their beauty, way before museums were collecting fashionable clothes. Reading the book, I became aware of unknown fashion houses. The Met was thrilled to receive the gift because it is now filling in gaps of those lesser know EXTRAORDINARY designers along with popular named houses in the fashion industry. Again, I spent countless nights learning about designers who should be appreciated....
And...Dominic Bradbury's The Iconic American House Architectual Masterworks Since 1900....pretty self explanatory...
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I am an avid reader in several languages, lately I have been reading about the German occupation of France, and the Armenian genocide.
Love Connally, old books, all the Chinese themes like Taipan etc, Robert Elegant.
Good customer of Amazon and Abebooks.
I will look into some of the tittles I read here.
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dreaming...welcome!
Speaking of the German occupation of France....earlier today, book lover Ruth and I attended a zoom. lecture on the women spys of WWII, specifically, the ones trained in England and sent to France. Ruth should be along shortly with a book recommendation of one of those truly heroic women!
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I'm currently reading "A Woman of No Importance" by Sonia Purnell. It's about an American woman trained by the British to spy on Germany in occupied France. A very informative read and very different from all the other books I've read on WWII.
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That is the exact book I was going to mention!
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