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[Canadian Jen]

Just finished In the Unlikely Event...Here is my review of Blume's latest lit. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Amber]

yesterday I read Spook Lights: Southern Gothic Horror which I won in a book contest during the author's book launch party online on facebook and it was a pretty good horror short story collection. Here's my review.

Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Ann]

I just finished Year of Wonders and I liked it but not as much as Geraldine Brooks other books that I've read: March and People of the Book.

[Chinook]

Ann wrote: "I just finished Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk and I thought it was very good. It took me on an emotional roller coaster ride but it might appeal to or make more sense to readers f..."

I loved that book.

[Dale]

Ann wrote: "I just finished Year of Wonders and I liked it but not as much as Geraldine Brooks other books that I've read: March and People of the Book."

I agree, Ann but my absolute favourite is Caleb's Crossing

[Angela M]

Dale , Caleb's Crossing is my favorite too .

[Ann]

Chinook wrote: "Ann wrote: "I just finished Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk and I thought it was very good. It took me on an emotional roller coaster ride but it might appeal to or make more sense ..."

I hope he writes another one soon. Reading that book makes me soooo happy I don't live in Texas anymore.

[Ann]

Angela M wrote: "Dale , Caleb's Crossing is my favorite too ."

Dale wrote: "Ann wrote: "I just finished Year of Wonders and I liked it but not as much as Geraldine Brooks other books that I've read: March and People of the Book."

I have yet to read Caleb's Crossing.

[Angela M]

Ann, hope you love it as Dale and I did if you get to it .

[Dale]

Ann wrote: "Angela M wrote: "Dale , Caleb's Crossing is my favorite too ."

Dale wrote: "Ann wrote: "I just finished Year of Wonders and I liked it but not as much as Geraldine Brooks other books t..."

Snap! I just wrote. I hope you love it as Angela and I did, Ann.Then I looked up and saw Angela's post. Great minds think alike.

[[deleted user]]

I just finished reading Giovanni's Room with some other members of the group. I absolutely loved it, favourite book of the year so far

[Angela M]

Dale - :)

[Diane S ☔]

Finished After We Fall
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Chrissie]

Heather wrote: "I just finished reading Giovanni's Room with some other members of the group. I absolutely loved it, favourite book of the year so far"

Yeah Baldwin's writing is fantastic and the discussion here was too. Look at all the people who discussed it and how high we all rated it. It didn't leave anybody untouched. Has any of us given it less than four stars? Don't think so.

[Pink]

Heather, I agree Giovanni's Room is my favourite book of the year so far as well.

Chrissie, you're right, only Sandy rated it 4 stars, while the rest of us gave it 5, (though I think Mary is yet to finish) There can't be many books that get such a strong reaction from us all.

[LauraT]

Finished Il diavolo by Tolsoj; interesting short story about sex ...

[[deleted user]]

I'm a generous rater but to get 5* from Chrissie and Pink is proof of the books brilliance!

[Chrissie]

I loved An Owl on Every Post. (It even has a pretty cover.)

My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Fantastic writing.

[[deleted user]]

I just finished Language Arts, and I liked it very much. 4.5 stars. My review:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Janice]

Dale wrote: "Ann wrote: "I just finished Year of Wonders and I liked it but not as much as Geraldine Brooks other books that I've read: March and People of the Book."

I ..."I've just started reading People of the Book and really like it so far, am also reading Caleb's Crossing after People...like her writing style, so far.

[Diane S ☔]

Finished Circling the Sun
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Ann]

Janice, glad you are enjoying People of the Book. She's one of my favorite writers.

[Shirley]

I've just finished The Rosie Project, which was for my book club. I liked it, probably 3.5 stars, which I rounded up to 4.

[Chrissie]

Diane, great to hear that Circling the Sun was so good! It is still not availalbe yet, but soon and then I will grab it. I thought in the meantime I would read her other The Paris Wife. and that has pushed me to get A Moveable Feast! So many books to read.

[LauraT]

I've just finished two books yesterday:
Sara Gruen,  Acqua agli elefanti - a recomendation swap I've liked quite a lot and
Edith Warton,  The Custom of the Country, that I liked a lot; a terrible description of a social climber ...

[Angela M]

I've read Under a Dark Summer Sky. 4 stars . My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Angela M]

Diane S. wrote: "Finished Circling the Sun
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."

I can't wait and am starting this today !

[Amber]

Skin Game was pretty good and it was my first ever Dresden files book I've read so will def check out the rest of the series at a later time.

Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Chrissie]

Diane and Angela, you guys are so lucky. I saw Circling the Sun a while ago and knew I had to read it. It is not available to me until the end of next month.

[Angela M]

I got an ARC from NetGalley Chrissie . That's why we have it early . It's not published here until next month either. Yes I do feel lucky to have it now . Starting it later after I run some errands.

[Chrissie]

Angela M wrote: "I got an ARC from NetGalley Chrissie . That's why we have it early . It's not published here until next month either. Yes I do feel lucky to have it now . Starting it later after I run some errands."

I think it looks so very good!!!!

[Angela M]

Chrissie, I think so too . You can tell by Diane's review. Also some of my other goodreads friends have given it rave reviews .

[Chrissie]

Angela M wrote: "Chrissie, I think so too . You can tell by Diane's review. Also some of my other goodreads friends have given it rave reviews ."

I know, Diane liked it too. I am not too jealous since I have only a month to wait.

[Angela M]

I'm sure you will find many other good ones in the meantime.

[Chrissie]

I have great ones lined up. I cannot complain. ALWAYS, or at least usually, I think the books I plan to read will be marvelous. Sometimes I am testing new authors/genre and then I am not sure.

[E.A.]

Just Finished I Belong to the Earth by J.A. Ironside . You have to check this book out. I haven't read anything like it before, it's good, I'm talking, top any kind of dessert good.

Check out my rant.. I mean ..review :p https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Lilith]

The Picture of Dorian Gray was one of my last couple that I really enjoyed. More than I had ever expected to.

[Chiara]

I just finished to read again The catcher in the rye..funny and incredibly sad

[Greg]

Chiara wrote: "I just finished to read again The catcher in the rye..funny and incredibly sad"

I liked it too Chiara - touching I thought

[Diane S ☔]

Finished Disclaimer
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[LauraT]

Just finished a nice short stories collection by Luis Sepulveda. All about the '70s in latin America, with all revolutionary hopes. Liked it. A bit "amarcord" - for those who know Fellini

[Greg]

LauraT wrote: "Just finished a nice short stories collection by Luis Sepulveda. All about the '70s in latin America, with all revolutionary hopes. Liked it. A bit "amarcord" - for those who know Fellini"

:)

[Angela M]

Finished Circling the Sun . 5 stars . My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Alice]

Finished To Kill a Mockingbird. 4 stars.

My Review

[Petra]

I just finished reading Palace of Desire, the second book in The Cairo Trilogy. I'm really enjoying these books. The author has a lovely way with words and can really paint a scene.
My review is here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Dhanaraj]

Finished reading a powerful novella Reunion: A Novella. The setting for the novella is 1930s of Germany and the protagonists are two sixteen year old boys (a Jew and a German Protestant Christian). How history plays havoc in destroying their lives and friendship is the main theme. Four stars.

Here is the link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Chrissie]

I have started The Paris Wife by Paula McLain and like it so far. Lines like: "Can you fake happiness?" or
Marriage meant "you could believe int he future and the past." The word past is what is interesting. Keep in mind this follows WW1.

Starting with this until I can get Circling the Sun by the same author.

[LauraT]

I've read in a day, yesterday, The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, a contemporary Indian writer. I've found it incredible: how people in India are still treated, almost like slaves. I couldn't belive it, and yet I think he's right. And, as soomeone pointet out to me, this maked people terribly "un"scrupolous in their moral behaviour. Terrible terrible book

[[deleted user]]

Finished Girl at War last night. 4 stars. My review:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Petra]

LauraT wrote: "I've read in a day, yesterday, The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, a contemporary Indian writer. I've found it incredible: how people in India are still treated, almost..."

Laura, I thought this book portrayed the plight of the poor well, too. I also enjoyed the humor the author put in. I also gave it 4-stars and found it well-written and entertaining while highlighting the situations within the caste system.