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[Mary Beth]

I sure well, Janice! I had rated the first two five stars so I am sure that I will love it too. Cant wait to read it.

[Janice, Moderator]

I finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in a marathon read yesterday. I loved the series, and Jim Dale was perfect as narrator.

Next up on audiobook is my challenge read, The Devil You Know.

[Sarah]

I finished reading End of Watch for the monthly challenge and buddy read. Now reading The Three-Body Problem for the geocache challenge. Really enjoying it so far. I like the writing style.

[Dem]

Finished Playing with Fire My review:

www.goodreads.com/review/show/1708947356

[Peggy]

I finally finished An echo in the bone. I'm now 3 books behind in my GR challenge. This morning I started Just One Day for the monthly read.

[Janice, Moderator]

Dem wrote: "Finished Playing with Fire My review:

www.goodreads.com/review/show/1708947356"

I have it on audiobook. I'm looking forward to reading it. Glad to see you enjoyed it, Dem.

[Cherie]

Janice wrote: "Dem wrote: "Finished Playing with Fire My review:

www.goodreads.com/review/show/1708947356"

I have it on audiobook. I'm looking forward to r..."

I have only just begun reading her stand alone books after reading all of the Rizoli and Isles series. I have this one on my TBR list now though.

[Joan]

Just started "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine. It is a pamphlet that sort of triggered the American Revolution. I'm reading it as part of The Literary Classics on-line book discussion.
It is more sassy than I expected but the sentences can be a bit hard to follow.

[Travis]

I believe we read that in school Joan. Don't ask me which grade though.

[Joan]

Travis of NNY wrote: "I believe we read that in school Joan. Don't ask me which grade though."

I understand why US residents should read it - but I found it dull and repetitive. I cannot imagine the torture of reading it with a group of high school students.

Ah well now I feel virtuous so I can read my challenge book which is totally bizarre with a clear conscience - it's a comedy about a single-mother who pays her bills by providing phone-sex.

[Renee]

I am struggling through Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad. It is the man in my life's all time favorite. It is the story of a man dealing with th consequences of abandoning a ship that was disabled. It covers guilt,peer pressure and not living up to ones expectations of one self.

I am not enjoying it. I want to just tell the main char to put on his big boy panties. I feel I have to read it, Here is a question, If you hate a man's favorite book do you tell him?

[Peggy]

I would tell him. And abandon it too, if I really hated it. People differ in their book-likings and no matter how much you like another person, you can still have very different book preferences (I'm speaking from experience ;-)).

[Renee]

Peggy I think you may be right. I am now making chores for myself to get out of reading. I think I am still trying because he gets such a nice look in his eyes when he sees me with the book.

[Peggy]

Ahw, that's so sweet :) But if you actually prefer doing chores over reading, something's not right. Tell him gently though and blame yourself, not the book ;-)

[Sandra, Moderator]

I think I would tell him I hated it, but probably I would finish it anyways. I would be really intrigued to know what is in his favorite book.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Peggy wrote: "I would tell him. And abandon it too, if I really hated it. People differ in their book-likings and no matter how much you like another person, you can still have very different book preferences (I..."

Completely agree. Don't lie. That will hurt your relationship much more than hating their stupid book will ;)

Lexx's sister and her husband are some of my most favourite people in the world, and you would expect them to have very similar tastes in books. They do, except their favourites. The other hates them. Otherwise a very happy relationship, just never mention favourite books (unless you want a world of laughter for the rest of us).

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Renee wrote: "I think I am still trying because he gets such a nice look in his eyes when he sees me with the book."

Ohhhhh.... yeah... bugger... love that bookworm love look.

[Janice, Moderator]

I finally finished The Forever Queen. I will distrust any book containing the word "forever" in the title from here on. It may be an indicator of how long it will take to read. I did enjoy the story, but it could have used some editing to make it shorter.

Next up is the themed read, Louisiana Longshot.

[Sarah]

I'm with the others - tell him and abandon. My partner doesn't read all that much (well not fiction anyway) but all the fiction books he has read and recommended I have enjoyed although they haven't been favourites. But I don't think they were his favourites either.

[Sandra, Moderator]

I finished Lilac Girls, which was a better read than I was expecting. The story is waved from the point of view of three women, two of them real: a Nazi doctor who practiced surgical experiments in women prisoners in Ravensbruck, and a New York socialite who among many other things help the victims of this experiments come to the US to receive appropriate medical attention. The third one is one of this victims, a woman who is not inspired in a specific prisoner, but in many of them. Very interesting. And sad. I'll post this also in the thread for historical fictions on not so well known real people we have somewhere.

Now I'm reading In the Woods

[Joan]

ANGLOPHONES: have you ever heard of piglets being called Bonhams? I just finished reading a memoir about an isolated Irish fishing village in the early 1900's and that's what they called piglets.

[Joan]

RENEE, can you ask him to tell you what he loves about it? Conrad can be a difficult author to read, English wasn't his first language and his stories can be bleak. I enjoy reading and rereading Heart of Darkness but Pretty much forget Lord Jim.

[Sarah]

@Joan - never heard of piglets being called Bonhams before. Perhaps they're a type of pig?! Or an Irish thing.

[Sarah]

Had a Google and it's Irish, Joan. Comes from banbh which means pig :-)

[Dem]

Finished The Shut Eye

My review: goodreads.com/review/show/1706123592

[Renee]

Just to let you know I did give up on Lord Jim in a way. I just couldn't concentrate on it. Instead my wonderful man is doing a reread. He is reading it aloud to me. I think I have found the perfect narrator. I am not sure if the book got better or if the fact that he really wants to share this with me has changed my feeling on the book.

We have had two very hard years. My illness has changed our lives. I can no longer do many of the things we once enjoyed together. It is so wonderful that he still wants toshare

[Peggy]

Sharing the book in that way sounds wonderful Renee. Enjoy being read to!

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Sounds like a wonderful solution. I hope you continue to enjoy the being read to!

[Janice, Moderator]

Sounds like a perfect solution to me as well. He's a keeper. :)

[Joan]

That is wonderful Renee

Thank you Sarah for finding the etymology of Bonham, I'd thought it might be a slur against a family like old Captain Boycott.

[Lisa]

Renee wrote: "Just to let you know I did give up on Lord Jim in a way. I just couldn't concentrate on it. Instead my wonderful man is doing a reread. He is reading it aloud to me. I think I have found the perfec..."

That's a lovely solution, Renee :)

[Sandra, Moderator]

Sounds great, Renee!

[Cherie]

How wonderful that your man is willing to share the book by reading it to you, Renee!

[Peggy]

I started Half of a Yellow Sun for the geocache challenge. I've been wanting to read it for a long time and I'm glad I finally got to it. Read only the first 30 pages this morning but it's very good so far.

[Lisa]

I started The Garden of Evening Mists for this month's group read a few days ago. I am just under halfway through and it's pretty good so far.

I am also about 40% of the way through And I Darken. I am enjoying it but I haven't picked it up for a few days because I have been focusing on the group read.

[Joan]

Peggy, thank you, I have been trying to identify this book for years. I read an interview with the author years ago but could not remember the title or author's name.

[Dem]

Finished I Let You Go
My review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/1715405363

[Peggy]

Joan wrote: "Peggy, thank you, I have been trying to identify this book for years. I read an interview with the author years ago but could not remember the title or author's name."

Haha, happy to help! :)

[Cherie]

I started listening to Lock In yesterday. I think Wil Wheaton was meant to narrate Scalazi's books. He does such a great job! It is a very interesting story about the scientific and medical advances from a worldwide pandemic. What if you got the flu and the result was that you were locked in your body, because it could not move any longer? What if 5 million people were affected, in just the US?

[Roz]

Finished Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Roz]

I'm listening to The Golden Compass with a full cast narrating and taking parts.

[Joan]

I reading "Are You Lonesome Tonight" a romantic comedy free on Kindle. It fits the Elvis challenge but it's not really holding my attention. The main character is a single-mother who makes a living providing phone sex. So far though it is a conventional fairy tale.

Cherie, have you heard of Guillane-Barre Syndrome? It is real and sounds similar to the disease in "Locked In", without the body borrowing.

[Cherie]

Joan wrote: "Cherie, have you heard of Guillane-Barre Syndrome? It is real and sounds similar to the disease in "Locked In", without the body borrowing..."

Yes, I have heard of it but I do not know anyone who has had it, at least as far as I know.

[Joan]

I know someone that had it after a viral infection, for 3 or 4weeks he was awake but paralyzed, couldn't even blink. I think most people that get it are not as sick or as long as this person was.

[Mariab]

I'm reading The Lost Army for the Geo Ch.
So far it is a little disappointing. Not Manfredi in his best form...

[Janice, Moderator]

Cherie wrote: "I started listening to Lock In yesterday. I think Wil Wheaton was meant to narrate Scalazi's books. He does such a great job! It is a very interesting st..."

I got the one narrated by Amber Benson. It will be a while before I can get to it.

[Travis]

I preferred the Amber Benson. That said. i thought Wil was excellent

[Cherie]

I look through the book list narrated by Amber. I have not listened to any.

[Sarah]

Locked In is a great book and I saw just this last week that Scalzi will be continuing with the story with a follow up book next year. I remember you listened to both versions Travis - female narrator and male narrator. The MC is written as such that nothing is given away at their gender. The audio narrator gives you a different perspective and can change the story somewhat I guess. I read the book so I didn't get to experience that but I found it hard not to assign a gender to the MC.

[Sarah]

In one of the group threads, a couple people were talking about the fact that older people aren't often main characters in books. And while on the subject of Scalzi, it made me think of Old Man's War. I have it on kindle. I really want to start the series off.