Jennifer’s Comments (group member since Dec 03, 2021)

Jennifer’s comments from the On The Same Page group.

Oh, I just saw an ad for about six of those. Good to know that at least one of them is good!

I'm reading Until We Collide because it's a U title and I need it for a challenge. It's silly but entertaining.

I finished .

Good story, and not one I knew except in the broadest strokes. The only thing that kept jerking me out of the story is the same issue I have with most recent historical novels -- they get the details right but the language wrong. Usually -- as in this book -- it takes the form of characters saying or thinking a phrase that wasn't in use at the time.

Lindsey wrote: "I'll commit to Dear Mrs. Bird . I've needed to read this book for awhile now. Determined to get to it."

I really liked this book. I hope you do as well.

Jackie wrote: "Jennifer, here are your 5 books.

who can resist a Kennedy book?

a good ole book that takes place in Texas

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I've read two so far. [bookcover:The Day John Died|37459980] was good but mistitled, of course -- it's more of a bio than a snapshot of one day. was scary as predicted. I've been to the Murrah museum, which is located in a building next to the site that used to house OKC's daily financial newspaper. At one point in the book he describes the tape recording inadvertently made of the explosion by people attending a recorded court proceeding next door. It's the first thing you hear when you go into the museum, and it's chilling.

The blurb sounds promising, Bill.

Lance, I'm absolutely flabbergasted.

Please nominate a genre for March 2024 in this thread, if you would like to. The only rule for genre nominations is that you cannot nominate a genre that we've already read this calendar year.

Not planning to be a huge stickler on the "genre vs subgenre" thing. If it's a recognized book category (i.e. you can reasonably expect the average Goodreads reader to know what it is), post it.

Nominations open until 2/14, poll to follow.

If you want to see examples of genres and subgenres that Goodreads has some lists for, or figure out where a book/style of book you like happens to fit, try this link:

Goodreads Genres

Genres already chosen this year:
January - Science Fiction
February - Romance

The Spectacular


New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis transports us back to 1950s Manhattan and the glamorous Radio City Music Hall. . . .

New York City, 1956: Nineteen-year-old Marion is over the moon to have been selected to be one of the Rockettes, Radio City Music Hall’s glamorous precision-dancing troupe. It’s an honor to perform in the world’s most spectacular theater, an art deco masterpiece. But with four shows a day as well as grueling rehearsals, not to mention exacting standards of perfection to live up to, Marion quickly realizes that the life of a Rockette has both extraordinary highs and devastating lows.

Then one night a bomb explodes in the theater. It’s only the latest in a string of explosions around the city orchestrated by a person the press has nicknamed the "Big Apple Bomber." They have been terrorizing the citizens of New York for sixteen years by planting bombs in popular, crowded spaces. With the public in an uproar over the lack of any real leads after a yearslong manhunt, the police, at Marion’s urging, turn in desperation to a radical new technique: psychological profiling.

As Marion finds herself pulled deeper into the investigation, she realizes that as much as she’s been training herself to blend in—performing in perfect unison with all the other identical Rockettes—if she hopes to catch the bomber, she’ll need to stand out and take a terrifying risk. But she may be forced to sacrifice everything she’s worked for, as well as the people she loves the most.

I hope your other book is better, Bonnie.

I'll be curious to see what you think.

Thanks, Lance! And I agree re McBain.

Great choices, Jackie!

Joy, it's always fun to go through your shelf. Here are your picks!





I hope you enjoy!

Pairs are up!

I liked that one quite a bit - and I didn’t think I would because the plot premise is so unlikely. I’ll be curious to see what you think.

Before I Go to Sleep
S.J. Watson

"As I sleep, my mind will erase everything I did today. I will wake up tomorrow as I did this morning. Thinking I’m still a child. Thinking I have a whole lifetime of choice ahead of me..."

Memories define us.

So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep?

Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you love—all forgotten overnight.

And the one person you trust may be telling you only half the story.

Welcome to Christine's life.

Ha! I was just going to go PM him. Thanks for running interference, Joy! I'm sure Lance will appreciate that turn of phrase. :-)

To the surprise of no one :-) --ROMANCE is the genre for February. Come on, all you valentines, find a love story!

Feel free to post your intended reads, just as we do with the Color Challenge. Or come by and post what you've already read in February that happens to fit.

I love your challenge title. Very Harry Potter. :-)