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What Are You Reading - Part Deux
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Feb 11, 2017 01:24AM
The Virginian by Own Wister. I'm on a western kick, a genre I definitely never thought I'd be binging :D
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I read History of Wolves. 3.5 stars rounded up to 4 . My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I am starting Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood. I've read The Blind Assassin and The Handmaid's Tale and enjoyed both.
Heather L wrote: "Currently about 3/4 of the way through A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler and enjoying it.
"I just finished this one! I love Anne Tyler.
I highly recommend Our Revolution: A Future to Believe in for people interested in the problems facing modern America. Regardless of your political views, these are dire issues that affect all of us. My review can be found here.
Abraham Lincoln – Ingri & Edgar Parin d’Aulaire – 4****
This Caldecott-winner is a biography for young children. It follows Lincoln from his birth to the end of the Civil War, though it does not mention his assassination. The d’Aulaires were immigrants to America, and when the book was written the world was anxiously watching the events in Germany that would lead to a world war. They may have erred on the side of hero-worship in their portrayal of Lincoln, but I like that they portrayed a man willing to stand up against injustice.
LINK to my review
I finished Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout. 5 stars. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Raquel wrote: "I am currently reading The Black Box by Michael Connelly. Am new to this group."Welcome to the group, Raquel. I hope you are enjoying The Black Box -- I've read it and a number of books by Michael Connelly.
Book Concierge wrote: "
A Man Called Ove
– Fredrik Backman – 5*****
What a joy this book is! Backman peoples the novel with an assortment of quirky characters, who form a communi..."
That does it! I have got to get this book and start reading! Thanks so much, Book Concierge, for the great review. I've heard from several people but because I still have a large stash of books, I've been resistant, but no longer.
I'm currently working through Across the River and into the Trees by Ernest Hemingway and I usually enjoy his books but this one, published in 1950, is incredibly slow and not much seems to be happening. I'm nearly halfway through and someone just asked me this morning why I kept reading if it was so slow and I just have to say because I keep expecting something to happen.
Emily Fridlund's debut novel History of Wolves is an interesting read. Slow to start until we learn a little more.Link to my review
Days Of Awe – Lauren Fox – 4****
This is the kind of character-driven novel I really enjoy. As Isabel reflects on past events and her relationships with best friend, daughter, mother, and ex-husband, the reader comes to know her. I felt her confusion, pain, loss, loneliness, but also her joy and hope for the future.
LINK to my review
I'm reading a western, Seven Days to Hell. I love a good western with lots of shootouts and gunslingers!
Unbelievably inexcusable! Compelling, sad, angry look at a country that still lets kids die from gun violence every day. 5★ for Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives by black British writer Gary Younge, based in Chicago.
My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I started Secrets of Eden by Chris Bohjalian today
Finished Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood. Loved it -5 stars from me!Going to start A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry later today.
Exodus – Leon Uris – 3.5***
This is an epic novel covering the history of the Jewish people’s efforts to return to Palestine and form an independent state. I felt that Uris couldn’t make up his mind whether he was writing an epic romance, a war novel or a history of the formation of Israel. It certainly made me think. And I’m glad I finally read this novel.
LINK to my review
Feb 18 - Currently ReadingTEXT -
Old Dogs / Donna MooreAUDIO in the car -
The Quiet American / Graham GreeneMP3 Player AUDIO -
The Minor Adjustment Beauty SalonAlexander McCall Smith
I'm starting the final book in the Old Filth trilogy by Jane Gardam. I've really enjoyed the previous two and am pretty sure I'll like this one too :)
I am reading Avid Reader: A life by Robert Gottlieb. This is a fascinating memoir of an extraordinary life, and intriguing for this psychiatrist/novelist in its details about the editing profession.
One Plus One – Jojo Moyes – 3***
Four different characters tell the story: Jess, Ed, Tanzie (Jess’s daughter) and Nicky (Marty’s son and Jess’s stepson). This resulted in a slow start, while all the characters were introduced and the central conflict developed. The book jacket promises “an irresistible love story.” I don’t know about “irresistible” but it’s an enjoyable contemporary novel.
LINK to my review
I'm around page 120. So far Pip found her sister Grace unconscious in the rose garden. That isn't a spoiler because that happens in the first few pages. They moved away with their mother and their father is in a hospital. I haven't really figured it all out yet but she is writing to her father as often as she can.
I am at page 109 it is a good novel and i want to finish it and hope I will enjoy it, it has been fun till now
I'm starting The Shut Eye by Belinda Bauer today. Have read a few of her books before and enjoyed them.
Just read The Brother about - wait for it - suspected SWEDISH JIHADISTS! Good story, but if this is what prompted Donald Trump to "warn" Americans not to follow Sweden into the terrorist abyss, he obviously didn't read the end!My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
PattyMacDotComma wrote: "Just read The Brother about - wait for it - suspected SWEDISH JIHADISTS! ..."LOL ... I guess truth really is stranger than fiction!
The FitzOsbornes in Exile – Michelle Cooper – 3***
This is book two in a series about the royal family of the fictitious island nation of Montmaray. It’s a fast read, an easy young adult novel about the beginning of World War II. The British social class of the late 1930s is described well, including the debutante season. I liked this one better than the first in the series. The characters are better developed, and I enjoy reading about strong, resourceful, intelligent young people.
LINK to my review
Finished Seven Days to Hell and enjoyed every gunslinging moment. Now I'm reading a mystery, Death in the Shadows. 
I am currently listening to Beneath a Marble Sky for the February group read. I am glad I found it on audio because I'm not sure I would have had the patience to read it as there are parts that seem to drag a little. However, as a whole I am really starting to enjoy it (currently on Chapter 11).I am reading Authority by Jeff VanderMeer. It's the second book in the Southern Reach series. I really really loved the first one and couldn't put it down.
I am also reading Uninvited by Lysa TerKeurst for a bible study I've been doing.
Nothing To Do But Stay – Carrie Young – 4****
The subtitle is “My Pioneer Mother,” and much of this memoir features Young’s mother Carrine Gafkjen Berg. But this is really the story of a family’s experiences in the early 20th century in North Dakota. Rather than a strictly chronological order, the book is divided into chapters by subject. All are full of wonderful, loving descriptions of life on a settler’s farm, some funny, some touchingly poignant.
LINK to my review
I continue to read My Father's Paradise which is a non - fiction book about Jews from Kurdistan. I am reading this for my Temple's book group which meets this coming Wednesday. The book is very timely since it talks about a group of people who emigrate to the US with their own culture, history and their own way of doing things. Intermingled with the history of Kurdistan, the author describes his father's family. I am enjoying this book but find it is slow reading.
Feb 25 - Currently ReadingTEXT -
A Fierce Radiance by Lauren BelferAUDIO in the car -
Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy HoranMP3 Player AUDIO -
Deeper Than the Dead by Tami Hoag
I have just started The Lie by Helen Dunmore. It's a bit slow to start & I'm not too sure about it yet.
I'm going to start What She Left by T.R. Richmond today.
Old Dogs – Donna Moore – 3***
A pair of seventy-something-year-old ex-hookers turned con-artists scheme to steal two antique be-jeweled Tibetan dog statuettes. But they are not alone in wanting those dogs. This is a comic crime caper that reminds me of Donald E Westlake or Carl Hiaasen. The characters are outrageous, the plot is ridiculous, but the whole package is great fun to read.
LINK to my review
Boy, Ali Smith knows how to write! Didn't realise a previous book had been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.Loved her new one, Autumn - 4.5★
My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A Gentleman in Moscow is a new favourite. I don't know how Amor Towles manages to create such a full, busy world confined within a Russian hotel after the Russian revolution.My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Quite a long time ago I was lucky enough to win a copy of one of the later books in the Agatha Raisin series. Well I finally decided to start the series from the beginning with The Quiche of Death. She's not very likeable but I'm loving her anyway!
Currently settled into the blockbuster (and heavy to hold) 11/22/63 by Stephen King. I don't like gory thrillers, so I avoid those, but I'm assured that this isn't one.So far, so very good!
I'm currently in the middle of Dan Chaon's latest novel Ill Will. It is pretty dark, but very good so far!
Just finished Black Coffee which didn't impress me and I was disappointed in the adaptation. It still read like a play and not a novel but I still love Dame Agatha's mysteries. Now I'm reading a YA that I've been meaning to read for years, The Outsiders.
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