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Jan 06, 2018 01:59PM
I just finished the audiobook of Anne of Green Gables narrated by Rachel McAdams. I smiled, I cried, I sighed and I didn't want it to end. Rachel McAdams did a superb job as the reader. I highly recommend this version of the book.
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Basically Daphne the Little Paris Bookshop is the story of a bookseller from Paris who goes on a "journey" to heal and find himself. It is very beautiful. My niece said it touched her soul. Some people don't seem to get it but others do. Finished Ready Player One last night. Started Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss tonight but I didn't get far. A bit tired after staying up until 1.30am reading last night. Won't get much read tomorrow either. Going to the next big town 80km away to go shopping with my 23 year old daughter. Also getting our nails done. Stereotypical Girl stuff.
Jacqueline wrote: "Basically Daphne the Little Paris Bookshop is the story of a bookseller from Paris who goes on a "journey" to heal and find himself. It is very beautiful. My niece said it touched her soul. Some pe..."Had a hard time choosing between Ready Player One, Name of the Wind and A Game of Thrones just a day or two ago... picked GoT and not loving it past 3rd of the book, meanwhile waiting for 2019 to come sooner ☺
The Pearl by Steinbeck! Really good, tragic story that reminds you to keep your priorities straight. I gave it 4/5 stars. It’s a 5 Star book as far as story telling and writing goes, I only gave it 4 because it was so sad it’s not a theme I would want to read about too often plus there’s the typical Steinbeck style where he goes into a lot of detail about landscape and whatnot.
Thanks Jacqueline! Sounds like a book to add to the list to read! Enjoy girls day!
Lilly and the Octupus. A story about a man dealing with loosing his best friend. His friend is a dog named Lilly
I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong. Wonderful book from one of my favorite science writers. A collection of stories/essays of the microbial organisms that, in many ways, shape us and the world around us. Would highly recommend!
Savannah wrote: "Just finished East of Eden by Steinbeck a few moments ago... I loved it!"Isn't it amazing, I feel like when ever I want to define a book or tell someone its description is amazing. I always say Steinbeck-esque. Its like Kafka-esque, but instead of nightmarish bureaucracy it's the most detail description of a landscape you never knew you wanted.
I just finished De robot van de rommelmarkt & Route Z which are a couple of short stories in one of Tonke Dracht's fantastic story worlds. They really depict the image of the future people in the sixties had.
Oathbringer (Stormlight Archive #3), by Brandon Sanderson
★★★★★
A great third installment in an awesome fantasy series!
Click here for my full review
I recently finished The House at Riverton by Kate Morton. I would highly recommend her books for anyone who loves the historical fiction/mystery genre. Morton has a wonderful way of weaving a mystery in wonderful historical settings and illustrating just how much time can affect the secrets that were supposed to stay in the past.
Just finished Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I've seen both the movie and BBC mini-series and very much enjoyed both, so I figured I should probably read the book(s) too. At some point I may even listen to the original radioplay!
Finished reading To Kill A Mockingbird yesterday and watched the movie. Very impressed with both!!
Being an elementary school teacher, I have a REALLY good excuse for reading books targeted for kids. (Take my word for it, some picture books are way more entertaining than adult themed chapter books!) Anyway, this week I read Love That Dog by Sharon Creech and The Wild Robot by Peter Brown. (Can't wait for the sequel to Brown's book!)
The Wild Robot was good. It’s a great example of a book from a non-human perspective and it appeals to a range of students.
I Am the Messenger by Markus ZusakWOW!
At the beginning I was worried this book would be a bust, it’s a bit random and you’re just supposed to accept how easily the plot begins and it didn’t make sense to me. However, the rest of the book totally made up for it and it was beautiful and amazing and incredible and every great word I can think of! I highly recommend it. Fun, easy, excellent read.
⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I just finished the Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. I hope I am not misspelling it. And I started, The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger. The Perks of Being A wallflower. It is good but only as one time read for me. It has a unique written form it being in the form of letters. Good book for a one time read.
I finished The Alice Network by Kate Quinn and I feel very divided. Its split into two perspectives, one during the first WW, and one just right after the second WW. I loved the first perspective, the intrigue and the characters were fascinating and the true history behind it... I adored it. The second perspective, however, was incredibly bland and annoying. The main character in that perspective was incredibly repetitive and seemed flimsy and weak in comparison.
Karen wrote: "Being an elementary school teacher, I have a REALLY good excuse for reading books targeted for kids. (Take my word for it, some picture books are way more entertaining than adult themed chapter boo..."I'm a retired teacher, Karen, and I still enjoy reading children's books. The only excuse I have is that they're a lot of fun. I also like to revisit books I enjoyed when I was young.
I love young adult books. I enjoy coming of age stories. You find many of those in the young adult collection. I guess it makes sense I would find them there
I'm currently reading If There be Thorns by V. C. Andrews. I loved the first book of the series (yes, I enjoyed the creepyness of it), but Petals on the Wind just made me feel a love/hate relationship with Cathy, everything felt overly dramatic. I hope it gets better with this book, and I'm debating if it's worth it to finish the saga. Or to read Andrews at all. People seem to have a black or white opinion about her books.
i just completed The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue and The Bell Jar. I'm not sure what I'll read next, too many options!
Someone I follow on goodreads wrote a review for a novella called The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrik Backman. I LOVED his bestseller: A Man Called Ove, but the novella didn't do much for me. I actually liked reading the Forward as much as the book.
Karen, I read Fredrik Blackman's "My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You" after "A man Called Ove" and was terribly disappointed as well. Such a shame.
I just finished 16th Seduction, a Women's Murder Club book by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. I've read all the books in that series, and I think the earlier ones were much better than the more recent ones.
Rebecca, by Daphne Du Maurier
★★★ and 1/2
A book that I didn't like at first, but found that it grew on me as I went along.
Click here for my full review
I finished Lilac Girls and thought it was terrific. I've read quite a few historical fiction novels set during WWII but felt this was among the best. It seemed pretty accurate overall and offered an interesting perspective by including a Nazi doctor that worked at Ravensbruck concentration camp. Every time I think I've heard all of the atrocities committed by the Nazis, I hear of a new one which is probably why I will continue to read these heartbreaking stories.
Last book i read was
and bloody hell it was FANTASTIC!!
Cyn wrote: "i just completed The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue and The Bell Jar. I'm not sure what I'll read next, too many options!"i really want to read
but im not sure if it's good, is it worth it?
Read Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer and Artemis Fowl 2 over the last couple of days and then yesterday arv I picked up The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur and read it last night. So this is what passes as poetry nowadays? A book of one liners and observations. I won't be reading anymore of this "poetry" thank you very much. I'm a little more into the old fashioned stuff. I like my poetry to rhyme. Banjo Patterson, Henry Lawson, Dorothea Mackellar, TS Elliot, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Dr Seuss. Now this stirs the soul...
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!
Excerpt from My Country by Dorothea Mackellar.
Oh what the heck....here's the whole thing.
The love of field and coppice,
Of green and shaded lanes.
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins,
Strong love of grey-blue distance
Brown streams and soft dim skies
I know but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!
A stark white ring-barked forest
All tragic to the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon.
Green tangle of the brushes,
Where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops
And ferns the warm dark soil.
Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When sick at heart, around us,
We see the cattle die -
But then the grey clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady, soaking rain.
Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the Rainbow Gold,
For flood and fire and famine,
She pays us back threefold -
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze.
An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land -
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand -
Though earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly.
Elantris, by Brandon Sanderson
★★★★
A great debut fantasy novel by one of my new favorite authors.
Click here for my full review
Now working on these reads!
The Emperor's Soul, by Brandon Sanderson (Elantris #1.3)
★★★★★ and a possible ♥
A novella that had the pace of a short story, but the depth of a full-length novel. Wonderful story!
Click here for my full review
In the meantime, I'm still working on this one (it's going slower than I wanted because I didn't like the audiobook):
And I'm about to start this one:
I just finished reading The Hate U Give, a very timely, well written YA.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray that I really enjoyed!
Jacqueline wrote: "Read Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer and Artemis Fowl 2 over the last couple of days and then yesterday arv I picked up The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur and read it last night. So this is what pass..."I'm curious to hear what you thought of Artemis Fowl - those books are some nostalgic favorites of mine.
I personally just finished Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard. Loved this book - the black/dark humor was right up my alley and thus it had me cackling in a way that not even The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy could match (which I read with the group). And I thought that Hitchhiker's was hilarious so you can guess how funny I thought Johannes Cabal was.
I loved Artemis Fowl Abigail. And they were perfect for bringing me out of my mini slump. I'd been driving a lot and was tired and an adult novel was just too much for me. All of my kids books are at my late Mothers house (now my house but I only go there once a month or so because I live 5 hours away at the moment) and that's where I was at the time. I really need to sort them out. There's also every Tamora Pierce book in those boxes and a heap of Redwall books among other treasures. Anyway I'd originally bought the Artemis Fowl books as they came out for my now 26 year old son and he loved them growing up. He was still reading Artemis even though he'd graduated to Matthew Reilly lol
Hmmm what have I been reading this week? Finished Murder on the Orient Express last night. Started reading it a couple of weeks ago and then went into my slump and drove about 1500km. I read a lot of Agatha Christie and I read it ages ago and I still loved it. Also read The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. Excellent read.
Tossing up between The Fifth Season and going back to The Name of the Wind now. Or maybe something completely different.
A Murder In Time (Kendra Donovan #1)
by Julie McElwain
★★★★
A fun debut historical mystery novel with a time-traveling twist!
Click here for my full review
Now working on these two:
Finished this one!
The Final Empire (Mistborn #1), by Brandon Sanderson
★★★★★
An excellent start to what promised to be an excellent trilogy!
Click here for my full review
Sanderson is amazing. I now include him on my must read authors listLisa wrote: "Finished this one!
The Final Empire (Mistborn #1), by Brandon Sanderson
★★★★★
An excellent start to what promised to be an excellent trilogy!
Click here for my ..."
Just finished Don't Let Go by Michel Bussi
Just finished the audio version of The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah, and I feel exhausted! I'm almost done with a YA book called The Graceling. Interesting plot and just love the full cast narration.
Oh my goodness I'm reading that right now!!!
I just finished A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon. It was the best in the series for me. It was set just before the American Revolution (1771-1776) in North Carolina, and it was fascinating to me. The books included great character development, epic action, mystery, politics, native american tribes, medical treatments, relationships, and a huge slice of life. I love her writing style, and the odd and fascinating things that her research allows her to include.
Finally finished another book! (This is what I get for trying to read 4 books at once)
Heat And Light, by Jennifer Haigh
★★★★★
Beautifully written literature with a lot of depth.
Click here for my full review
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