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The Woman in Cabin 10This is a great thriller. I listened to the audio. The reader was excellent. Once I started it, there was simply no ..."
Sounds like a great one! I am adding it.
I finished Addlands: A Novel. 3.5 stars . My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show.... I struggled with the first half of this book about a family and their ties to the land but the second half offered much more .
I finished The Memory of Things. 4 stars. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show.... This is a beautiful coming of age story about two teenagers and what happens with them on 9/11 and the days after .
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Jonas Jonasson's The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
When the book started out I thought it was going to be a really sweet, charming and humorous story, but it did not turn out that way at all. It went on too long, got too convoluted and became tedious, however, it was really creative!
Kristie, I think you'd like it . I saw your really cute update on it! Thanks .
I started The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
and I love it. As entertaining as a novel (except it's not!).
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Her Darkest Nightmare - I am only about 14% in so far, but it is good. It's a story about a women that was left for dead by her boyfriend after being tortured and raped for 3 days when she was 16. She now runs a maximum security mental health facility in Alaska to learn more about psychopaths and why they do what they do. 
Crown of Midnight 33% - Interesting story so far, but I can't stand the love triangle relationship parts and there are far too many of those parts. I find that it detracts from the story. Plus, everyone is ridiculously good looking. Not a single average looking person in the book. So frustrating, which is sad because the actually storyline is interesting. 
The Hound of the Baskervilles 49% - Pretty standard Sherlock Holmes about a 'cursed' family. So far the story has been a lot of letters written from Watson to Holmes updating him as to how everything is progressing at the man's home. Interesting so far and I look forward to seeing how it turns out.
Kristie, I found that there were less good looking people in this volume but I tend to agree with you. The love triangle, don't get me started about it! Otherwise I found this second book to be way more interesting and less childish. Number 3 is awesome!!!
About her darkest nightmare, is it a new release? I can't find it on amazon... :(
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Her Darkest Nightmare is a NetGalley. Sorry about that! It is released August 30th. (At least here in the US. I'm not sure about other locations.) There is a prequel to the story, Hanover House, which was also very good. There is a bit of insta-love, but otherwise it was really good.
I finished The Muse. 3 stars . My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show.... Interesting but not a favorite.
B the BookAddict, thanks for sharing your reviews but can you please tell us a bit more about your thoughts and ratings...This thread has some new guidelines, so that we can all see your thoughts in one thread (see first post).
Savanes, okay, did not see the new guidelines, B:)NW by Zadie Smith is a kaleidoscope of city life; stark, beautiful, chaotic, brutal, electric and intense and particularly the lives of four people as they strive to make adult lives for themselves outside the council estate of their childhood. Set in London in a portrait of modern urban life.
My review is at: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Susan Vreeland fairly faithfully recounts the real events in the life of 17th century Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi Lomi. Passionate about her art, Artemisia ought for acceptance in the artistic community and was the first woman to become a member of the Accademia di Arte del Disegno in Florence. Veeland successfully draws for you a physical and emotional portrait of an artist who would be remembered long after her lifetime. 4★Inspired by recent conversations with GR friends about Susan Vreeland's novel, I re-read The Passion of Artemisia.
My revamped review is at: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I just finished The Night Sister
which was excellent. It is listed as horror, but was not scary or gory. It spanned multiple generations and had 3 different time frames. I didn't figure it out til almost the end.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I just finished listening to
and I gave it 2 stars. It's been sitting on my self for a long time but a couple of months ago I started it. It has taken me that long to finally finish. The narrator was the author and in my opinion a more energetic casting choice would have helped move the plot along. I was originally deterred by the sound of the book but I didn't find the plot intriguing either. I wanted to like it, and there were parts that made me interested, but as a whole I wouldn't recommend it, at least not the Audiobook version.I always have to have an Audiobook on hand so I just started listening to
. I've read it in print many times but never listened to it. This version is narrated by Tim Robbins, and although he isn't as animated with some of the characters, his voice fits the lead very very well and I'm so far pleased.In print I'm reading
. It was in a highlighted section at the library and I needed a brown book for my color challenge. So far it's ok, but I'm only 100 pages in and it seems to be going in a good direction.
Rachel wrote: "I just finished listening to . I started it a couple of months ago, and typically I listen to books very quickly but this one was hard to get..."Rachel I read,
not too long ago. I also thought it was just ok. Pretty disappointing since I'd read where so many people really loved it. I loved the cover so much, both the colors and that delicious looking cake. The cover is still 5 stars for me, but the book, not so much. This is one that really works for the quote, "Don't judge a book by its' cover." Ha!
Nanci wrote: "Rachel wrote: "I just finished listening to . I started it a couple of months ago, and typically I listen to books very quickly but this one ..."Nanci I completely agree!! I had such high hopes but none of the ideas really came to fruition for me.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...I thought it had some drawbacks, but it was a tender story. I gave it three stars.
Just finished listening to
Crime and Poetry by Amanda Flower.I don't normally do cozy mysteries on audio, but this narrator was very good. She did the animal "voices" wonderfully.
The cozy had meat on its bones and some wonderful characters.
I just finished
. It was laugh out loud funny! There are some parts that involve animal cruelty, which were hard to read, so if that is something you know you can't handle I wouldn't recommend the book, but to me overall I found it very authentic for the 1960s in small town America.
I finished A Gentleman in Moscow. 5 stars . My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show.... A wonderful story of a count under house arrest after the Bolshevik Revolution which gives a view of Moscow and the world . Wonderful characters . Highly recommended.
I just finished
tonight. It was mostly an impulse grab at the library and I read the first one before the TV show aired. I thought the first one was "ok" and I thought this short story was essentially the same. I wonder what will happen to humanity but I don't know if I will invest any of the time required to read future editions. I gave it 3 stars because parts of it did leave me wondering about the end game.
Listened to Homegoing -excellent 5 stars about African families fractured by slavery and ramifications from what happens throughout multiple generations. I thought a very worthy read.The. I just finished listening to The Girls - I gave it 3 stars. It was okay, well done, but not what I was expecting - more excitement maybe. Didn't really understand it was a fictionalization Manson similar storyline, so although she captured the psyche of her 14-year old character well, it just didn't too much for me.
Reading Lake Wobegon Days and will probably wind up with a 2 star rating. Although somewhat humorous Midwestern style (and I'm a Minnesotan) it just isn't quite what I enjoy. Multiple stories written about this small town I'm guessing is supposed to be somewhat autobiographical, unless it wraps up well I'm going to be overall wholly unimpressed with the point of it.
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I'll look forward to your review Kristie!
Life would be boring if they were all great books, right? :-D
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True, but it stinks when you get a bunch of duds in a row. :)
I am currently reading "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini. It's a story of friendship, love and relations.
I just finished Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty
I like the writing style of this author. She gets inside her character's heads and adds humor so that even the most difficult things to read about are tempered by her touch.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Ammar wrote: "I am currently reading "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini. It's a story of friendship, love and relations."That one made me cry.
Just finished reading Under the Net by Iris Murdoch. Don't know what it is about Murdoch's writing that I like so much, but I do like it.Vicki - I liked Kite Runner, but I think A Thousand Splendid Suns is much better.
Kirsten, I actually have that one, but haven't read it yet. I will have to move it up my list.
I'm reading the book theif finaly , it took me over a yearto get the guts to start reading it ...idk y
Well I just finished Harry Potter and the Cursed Child which I would definitely recommend. Fun to go back to the characters. I'd love it if she'd revisit Rose and Scorpius story. Currently reading The Girl on the Train. Almost halfway through. It's so good I can hardly put down and leaves me breathless. Anxious to see how it ends.
I just finished listening to
and I loved it. It was narrated by Wil Wheaton and I thought he portrayed the main character well. I would have rated it 4.5 stars but I was so entertained by the story that I rounded up. It very much appealed to my geeky side! If you read and enjoyed Ender's Game I would definitely recommend this one.
I am about one third of the way through The Expatriates by Janice Y. K. Lee and find it is a cut above most of the books out today. The author expresses a deep insight into the psyches of the expats, their reasons for leaving their homes and the effects of living in a foreign country on their lives. The subject is heart wrenching as the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of a young child are explored and developed.
I finished
To The Bright Edge of the World. 4 stars . My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show.... This is narrated in a unique way - diary and journal entries , photos, drawings, letters depicting a time in Alaska's history .
I am currently reading Joy: Poet, Seeker, and the Woman Who Captivated C. S. Lewis by Abigail Santamaria - a biography of the wife of C.S. Lewis. I am a third of the way through the book. I am not a non-fiction fan, even less so with biographies. BUT, this one captivated me immediately. If asked right now, I would give this 5 stars. I am still in the part of her life where she is yet to meet C.S. Lewis - during WWII, and her political/writing experiences. She was a tiny, feisty, very intelligent young woman; a feminist, long before there was a word for it. I don't agree with her politics (the Communist side), but for me that doesn't take away from the historical significance of either the book or the subject.I previously read Housebreaking by Dan Pope, a Richard Russo-esque suburban family like drama. I initially gave the book 4 stars (the sex scenes were a bit put-offish for me). I found myself, after finishing the book, going back to a number of scenes (the elderly father taking up with an old acquaintance who would never have been considered compatible for him in his younger days; the younger grieving neighbor who in her handling of the grief almost gave up on her child) that stayed with me for days, even after starting a new book. I changed my rating to a 5. If a book stays with me that long, it definitely is worthy of that rating for me. I would recommend this book to anyone, man or woman, as long as they are not more prudish than I am. :>)
Finished Good Morning, Midnight...Don't be discouraged by the genre as this was a 5* read for me. Here is my review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Hi Gail,I'm constantly amazed by readers that can read two books at once!
But to read three books at a one time, is simply Fantastic!!!!
Bert
P. S. (How in the world do you manage to keep the correct characters aligned with the correct Book?)
Just finished The Pecan Man. Great debut. Here is my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished Behold the Dreamers. 3 stars. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show.... This takes place in 2008, but yet very relevant and timely with the immigration issue in the forefront in the political arena in the US as well as other places in the world .
Really enjoying All the Light We Cannot See
Katie wrote: "Really enjoying All the Light We Cannot See"Another favorite of mine!
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This is a great thriller. I listened to the audio. The reader was excellent. Once I started it, there was simply no stopping until I had finished it! It will not disappoint.
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