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In addition to Utah, I'm also fluttering between 1930s Washington state and Germany in The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, and I'm in nineteenth century England with No Name.
I am in the middle 1800's New York with A Wave From Mama and in Kentucy with The Angels' Share Enjoying them both very much.
I am in recent Uganda with a teenaged girl survivor of a mass kidnapping and a rootless American woman focusing on the event for a story, Thirty Girls by Susan Minot. I am also with American and Japanese forces in the Pacific Theater of WW2 in The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945, a sequel to his The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour.
Michael wrote: "I am in recent Uganda with a teenaged girl survivor of a mass kidnapping and a rootless American woman focusing on the event for a story, Thirty Girls by Susan Minot. I am also with..."Thirty Girls is on my TBR but haven't really heard much about it. Looking forward to your review.
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It is on mine as well so eagerly await Michael's verdict.
I'm in Lahore with The Reluctant Fundamentalist. I don't believe I've read anything by a Pakastani author before.
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That has been on my radar, so will be looking forward to your assessment.
Booknblues wrote: "Denizen wrote: "I'm in Lahore with The Reluctant Fundamentalist. I don't believe I've read anything by a Pakastani author before."That has been on my radar, so will be looking forwar..."
Strong 4 star ratings from all but one of my GR friends rating it. What's interesting is the cross section of tastes in the group of friends - not people I think of enjoying the same book.
Denizen wrote: "Booknblues wrote: "Denizen wrote: "I'm in Lahore with The Reluctant Fundamentalist. I don't believe I've read anything by a Pakastani author before."That has been on my radar, so wil..."
When that happens to me with readers I know, it often makes me decide to read a book, but not always. It doesn't happen that often.
I have started so many books that I didn't read all the way through, so am loving re-reading Herman Koch Summer House with Swimming Pool.. Currently in France I think.. (could be Italy)
I've left Washington state and Utah. I'm now on the coast of British Columbia where I was born (a memoir of a local MD) and am about to be in North Carolina this evening when I start The Sea Keeper's Daughters, but of course am still flitting to Victorian England with two longer reads.
I absolutely loved Summer House with Swimming Pool . France, to Holland and then Santa Barbara..At long last some of the books I had asked the library to purchase, are comi8ng through. Really enjoying Enchanted Islands. Many American places and shortly off to the Galapagos .. Really enjoying it, even tho its set way back. Great writing, rhythm , pace and an interesting story.
I am in Concord, New Hampshire, with a policeman investigating an apparent suicide, in this case the context is passing strange: the world is dealing with the knowledge that an asteroid is coming that will exterminate humanity -- The Last Policeman. I am also with Sheriff Walt Longmire and tough, sexy Vic in Wyomimg investigatimg a police detective's suicide that may be tied to some missing women--Any Other Name.
I'm in the midwest, I think around current-day Arizona/Nebraska with a young man flopping back and forth between living as a white man or as a Cheyenne. It's 442 pages and a good read but it seems to be taking forever to read. Little Big Man
I am in Brooklyn New York with The Warmest December. An incredibly depressing story of abuse and how alcoholism destroys not only the drinker but the family also. Well done, but so very sad.
Blueberry wrote: "I'm in the midwest, I think around current-day Arizona/Nebraska with a young man flopping back and forth between living as a white man or as a Cheyenne. It's 442 pages and a good read but it seems ..."That was such a great movie with Dustin Hoffman. I recently acquired the sequel, The Return of Little Big Man.
Blueberry wrote: "I'm in the midwest, I think around current-day Arizona/Nebraska with a young man flopping back and forth between living as a white man or as a Cheyenne. It's 442 pages and a good read but it seems ..."I can't remember if I ever saw that movie or not, but I certainly remember the title!
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I saw the movie and read the book , in that order.
I am with a slave in Virginia in 1852 alternating with a contemporary Philadelphia woman lawyer working on a class action reparations suit against companies and U.S. government over benefitting from slavery: Conklin's The House Girl. I also am on the central Pacific island of St. Helena with an English girl of 13, whose father is hosting and provisioning the exile of Napolean: Thomas Keneally's Napoleon's Last Island.
Michael wrote: "I am with a slave in Virginia in 1852 alternating with a contemporary Philadelphia woman lawyer working on a class action reparations suit against companies and U.S. government over benefitting fro..."Hope you get something out of Napoleon's Last Island: A Novel. I liked his ( Thomas Keneally ) Schindler's List, but have never liked any of the others I tried.. Stopped trying years ago.
Ah, I've just left British Columbia in House Calls by Float Plane: Stories of a West Coast Doctor, and am not yet decided where I'll be headed tomorrow when I start something new (still in England with my seasonal read, though). I have several books to read over the next 2 weeks for a reading game.
Lesley wrote: "I hope you get something out of Napolean's Last Island...Stopped trying years ago."Over 80 and beyond 30 books so far. I appreciate the moral dimensions he explores, which compensates for often awkward prose and issues of pacing and excess characters ( in two I read). How to find the best among that 30 when my GR friends are all over the map. One, an Australian, shared my liking of the one frm last year about the Japanese prisoner escape, Shame and the Captives, for which I wrote a long review if you are curious.
Michael wrote: "Lesley wrote: "I hope you get something out of Napolean's Last Island...Stopped trying years ago."Over 80 and beyond 30 books so far. I appreciate the moral dimensions he explores, which compensa..."
He is an interesting man. Often seen on our TV.. Like him, don't like his style of 'stories'..
Karin wrote: "Blueberry wrote: "I'm in the midwest, I think around current-day Arizona/Nebraska with a young man flopping back and forth between living as a white man or as a Cheyenne. It's 442 pages and a good ..."It's sort of like Forrest Gump of thd wild West.
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Great description.
After finishing the incredibly depressing novel The Warmest December, I needed something light and fluffy to read. I'm now reading The Gentleman which is lifting my spirits rather nicely.
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I always like to read something light and easy after a difficult book.
Dosha (Bluestocking7) wrote: "After finishing the incredibly depressing novel The Warmest December, I needed something light and fluffy to read. I'm now reading The Gentleman which is lifting my sp..."Good idea to read that next!
I'm hoping to get to The Muse soon. I'm interested in your thoughts on it Story.
Dosha (Bluestocking7) wrote: "I'm hoping to get to The Muse soon. I'm interested in your thoughts on it Story."So far, so good but I'm only on page 80. How's it going with The Gentleman? I was interested in it but it gets very mixed reviews.
Much the same as you: so far so good. I am on page 70. It is very silly and I'm smiling a lot.
I've talked a lot about my holds coming in but have never posted here on the current books. The eyes are in late 60's California with Emma Cline's The Girls. She writes beautifully. I'm at the half way point and hoping it holds for me.The ears are in England hopping from decade to decade (40's to current time) with Atkinson's A God in Ruins.
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This is such a good book."
I've been wondering about that book.
Jgrace wrote: "I'm with A Gentleman in Moscow. I think I love him. This is such a good book."
I'm looking forward to your review and, hopefully, reading the book.
Are you reading or listening?
Denizen wrote: "Jgrace wrote: "I'm with A Gentleman in Moscow. I think I love him. This is such a good book."
I'm looking forward to your review and, hopefully, reading the book.
Are you readin..."
Both - it can be very philosophical - there are a lot of things I want to reread to appreciate the language and the insights. I've got a library book, but I may need to own this one. I want to highlight.
Jgrace wrote: "Denizen wrote: "Jgrace wrote: "I'm with A Gentleman in Moscow. I think I love him. I've got a library book, but I may need to own this one. I want to highlight...."
Having to buy after reading it from the library is high praise indeed.
I just finished The Girls - a 5 star book for me.I've moved on to Underground Airlines the other alternate history book on slavery. I put it on hold just before Oprah made Underground Railroad her latest selection and the rest of the world started reading and talking about it.
Karin wrote: "When I'm not in England with that seasonal Dickens' read, I'm all over the galaxy in Omega."I appreciate McDevitt's space opera works from my B list of sci fi writers (Benford, Brin, Bear). Look forward to your thoughts. Your interest in historical fiction isn't a bad match with future history. :-)
I am with a small community in Missouri still dealing with the mystery of an explosion that killed 42 at a dance hall years ago, Daniel Woodrell's The Maid's Version . Denizen is in the minority of GR friends to give it a B grade of 3 stars, so I wouldn't mind hearing her views. Woodrell describes his track with this, based on a real event in his area of Missouri, as reflecting a change of direction after a struggle with colon cancer.
Michael wrote: "Karin wrote: "When I'm not in England with that seasonal Dickens' read, I'm all over the galaxy in Omega."I appreciate McDevitt's space opera works from my B list of sci fi writers ..."
I like it so far, and suspect it will get a solid 3 stars. I'm thinking of reading the next one, but won't go back and read the books in this series prior to this book.
Dosha (Bluestocking7) wrote: "I'm hoping to get to The Muse soon. I'm interested in your thoughts on it Story."It was okay, Dosha, but I didn't love it. I liked the sections that were set in 1967 but the sections in the 1930s kind of dragged for me, which is weird because I usually love reading about painters. I ended up skimming the last 40 pages from the 1930s part.
Thanks Story, I think I may move it little further to the back of my list.
It might work better on audio, with a good narrator. You're an audiobook person too, aren't you?
Yes I am but I have this book already, it came with some tea from my muse monthly subscription.
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Yay! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.