Book Lovers Club
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I may be the last person on the planet, but I finally bought The Hunger Games at Costco today. Looking forward to it after I finish the 4 or 5 books left in my library bag.
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MinusTwo You are not the last person on the plant to buy the Hunger Games!! I haven't bought it, and don't plan to.0
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I haven't read the book I assumed it was like the twilight series more for the younger crowd.Am I wrong?
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I read Mudbound and lIked it I still have not read The Hunger Games even though other people I know have enjoyed them. I just finished reading Defending Jacob. It is a courtroom drama with a lot of twists. Basically the story is about a father whose son may have killed another teen. The father defends his son, unable or unwilling to look at the possibility that his son might actually have done it. I found the story engrossing. I'd love to know what others think about the ending
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Hi Elizabeth, Defending Jacob sounds good, I check for it at the library. I thought Hunger Games was bad!
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Defending Jacob is on my wish list. I hope to read it soon.0
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I was curious to see what the fuss was about and I read the Hunger Games series (Book 2 is Cathching Fire and Book 3 is MockingJay).
I think I was expecting a Twilight-ish saga but I have to say I was pleasantly surprised....a very dark and violent story, but I really did enjoy it and found that it wasn't too juvenile. Definitely some political undertones and food for thought....
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I'm thinking of Hunger Games as something akin to Soylent Green for those of you old enough to remember. Or some of Margaret Atwood's books. We'll see, but I still have 5 or 6 library books to finish first.0
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MinusTwo I thought the same thing when I heard what the "The Hunger Games" were all about.Apparently not quite.0
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I may be one of the few on the planet who did not care for Twilight. Borrowed the first book and didn't finish it. Found it way too simplistically written. But I just finished The Host, another book by Stephenie Myer. Enjoyed it, good story and an easy read. Polished it off this past weekend, all 600 pages. 'Course I didn't get much else done LOL.
It's sci-fi. Aliens invade Earth and take up residence in human bodies, extinguishing the host's mind. Except there's this one woman who won't succumb.. The heroine therefore is two female minds who share a body. Very interesting perspective, and lead seamlessly into the multiple-personality narrative of The Weird Sisters. Just started that yesterday.
I liked The Hunger Games for the strong female hero and the social commentary. I have book #2 of the trilogy and am looking forward to it. Holding off a bit though so the friend who has book #3 gets a little closer to done. I hear that #2 ends with a cliffhanger so I'd like the last book on-hand (lesson learned from the time I had to wait a year for the last book in the Harry Potter series).
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Since i lost the Good Earth.. (and it is a library book) I am reading the Weird Sisters.. it's pretty good now that i am into it.
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Laurie and McSushi - I did like The Double Bind. I had to re-read the end and I think I was still confused by the twist. I rememer thinking about for a few days after I finished the book.
I finished The Weird Sisters and I did like it. Mudbound was very good, too.
I just started Life and Death in Shanghai, it's non-fiction about a woman in China during the Cultural Revolution.
Gina
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Just got my hands on the "right" Seamstress--looking forward to reading it!
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soo ... i used to cycle between authors.. reading one then another, then another. One that hasn't been mentioned i think, is Larry McMurtrey
'Lonesome Dove, Last pIcture Show, " and many many many famous others,. One of the best things about having one's own library is stumbling across 30 books one has already read by one author..
his stories are riveting.
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Apple: Here I am - jealous again. I'm down to 8 floor to ceiling book cases and one glass fronted chest high case. But it's hurt me to make every reduction. I'd never read Larry McMurtrey until recently & I enjoyed them.
I'll have to look up Double Bind since so many of you have recommended it.
Now I'm reading Ken Follett's World Without End published in 2007. It's apparently a sequel to Pillars of the Earth which I read in the early 1990s. I'm enjoying the historical fiction story but it is teeny tiny print and the paperback is 1046 pages. Wow. My Mother's original hardback of Gone With the Wind is only 1036 but the print's bigger.
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Fall of the Giants is next and worth the read.
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Love, Fiercely.
http://www.amazon.com/Love-Fiercely-Gilded-Age-Romance/dp/0151014477
I just could not put this book down when I started reading it in the library! If you enjoy reading about The Gilded Age, or John Singer Sargent, or perhaps are interested in women's rights, or even if you have a passing interest in Edie Sedgwick or the The Columbian Exposition (the White City..referred to in Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City)....THIS is the book for YOU! A small gem packed with history!
Gotta get my hands on Robert Caro's newest book on President Johnson. I remember meeting him several years ago at The Museum of the City of New York. He spoke before a standing room only audience. He was invited to discuss how he now feels about Robert Moses. His book about Moses' life, The Power Broker is a masterpiece. In case you're interested, he STILL despises the man!
Saw Robert Caro on Charlie Rose a few weeks ago. He's a national treasure. Visited the Johnson Library in Austin last year. Having read some of Caro's other works on Johnson, I truly enjoyed the library experience even more...thanks to Caro's great work!
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Just finished The Weird Sisters and liked it. Very satisfying. Now I've got the last two books in the Hunger Games trilogy and will read those PDQ as two people are waiting on me to finish and pass them along. Guess what I'll be doing this weekend?
After that I'll spend some time with NJ bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. Saw the new book at the library and my how time flies, I haven't even read the last two yet. So I borrowed Sizzling Sixteen and Smokin' Seventeen but left Explosive Eighteen on the shelf for next time. Anyone else a big fan of Grandma Mazur?
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Just finished The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. Very mysterious and magical, takes place end of 19th century, mostly in London - very atmospheric. I was surprised how much I liked it.
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Badger - I love Stephanie & Grandma. Mumito thanks for the Fall of Giants recommend.
Finished the Hunger Games and liked it - although I will not be going to the movie as I like to keep my own pictures I've formed in my mind. Same reason I didn't go to see Secret Garden or Lord of the Rings. Too bad I didn't hold out and get the Hunger Games trilogy, but I can wait on the next two.
Reading Lee Child's Affair the story of how Reacher started his odessy. A friend just loaned me Steinbeck's A Russian Journal & said it's marvelous. When I was 20, I was in love with Hemmingway. Now I think I like Steinbeck better.
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I think Reacher is pretty sexy. I like to listen to Lee Childs when driving in the car
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Trivia time! Know how and why Lee Child gave his character the Jack Reacher name??? His real life wife told the 6'5" writer if he was unsuccessful as a writer, he could always be a "reacher" in the supermarket. In England, a "reacher" stocks shelves! He could "reach" high up!
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Voracious: Love the trivia. Thanks
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I just finished The Seamstress- the Brazilian one. I liked it, it was an interesting read. I looked on Amazon and they don't have the Holocaust Seamstress available for download so I am going to have to pick something else. Life has been hectic so I have no requests in at the library. There is a book I saw on Goodreads called Rena's Promise and is about the Holocaust and has good reviews. Maybe I will try that one....0
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Laurie, I really liked the Brazillian one--different and interesting. I can send you my copy of the Holocost one when finished if you would like me to.
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I just checked and Erik Larson's books have been recommended since the beginning of this thread, but did I read him? NOOO, not until Friday when I started Isaac's Storm and got hooked. Then this morning I got an email from my college bud who said she was researching Larson for her book group which is reading Garden of the Beasts and did I know he was from Freeport, LI (my home town) so I googled him and found that he graduated FHS 4 years after me. I know this is incredibly stupid and besides the point, but I am totally thrilled and will read The Devil in the White City next.
Julie E
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Erik Larson just spoke last month at the JCC on Long Island. He is very approachable. When I had a question about In The Garden of Beasts, I emailed him and he was kind enough to respond.
Jelson, regarding Isaac's Storm, did you know there is more to the story behind the rabbi??? He was helpful in the Galveston Movement. Soooo fascinating!0 -
Jelson... If you can stomach another hurricane book, Sudden Sea about the 1938 east coast hurricane is also interesting. I followed up Isaac's Storm with Sudden Sea. By the time Katrina was on the horizon, I started trembling before the hurricane hit....
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thanks for the suggestion of Sudden Sea. I do like to read themes.( For a while I seemed to be reading books which involved parrots and at another point, sheep. more recently - I am ashamed to say, zombies). I also have on the bookshelf of unread books - Rising Tide by John M. Barry - about the 'great Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America'
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I saw the PBS American Experience production on the Mississippi floods. Unbelieveable tragedy.
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