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message 2551: by Joanne (new)

Joanne Eaton (andy100) | 44 comments I am about half way through the Selected Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe


message 2552: by Leslie (new)

Leslie | 16369 comments I love some of Poe's poems - I like a strong meter and rhyme which he was good at :)


message 2553: by Leslie (new)

Leslie | 16369 comments I am still working on the short stories in Calvino's Italian Folktales, which I am enjoying a lot, and listening to the audiobook of The Recognitions. Parts of The Recognitions are hilarious and others confusing and/or dull so I am not sure what to think about the book as a whole yet.


message 2554: by Nancy from NJ (new)

Katz Nancy from NJ (nancyk18) Leaving Everything Most Loved


message 2555: by Petra (new)

Petra | 3324 comments I've started reading Motherless Brooklyn. So far, I'm enjoying it very much.


message 2557: by Christine (new)

Christine Hatfield  (christinesbookshelves) | 1615 comments Sandy how are both of your books going?


message 2558: by Tamara (last edited Mar 31, 2020 01:01PM) (new)

Tamara Agha-Jaffar | 1419 comments Petra wrote: "I've started reading Motherless Brooklyn. So far, I'm enjoying it very much."

Petra, I read that several months ago. I really enjoyed it. I hope you do, too.


message 2559: by Petra (new)

Petra | 3324 comments Thank you, Tamara! It is off to a good start. I'm glad you enjoyed it, too.


message 2561: by Nichole (new)

Nichole | 554 comments I have begun The Bend in Redwood Road (Missing Pieces, #1) by Danielle Stewart The Bend in Redwood Road by Danielle Stewart. I loved the prologue. This book seems promising.


message 2563: by Christine (new)

Christine Hatfield  (christinesbookshelves) | 1615 comments Sandy how are both of your books going?


message 2564: by Nancy from NJ (new)

Katz Nancy from NJ (nancyk18) Just finished Leaving Everything Most Loved by Jacqueline Winspear. 5 Stars reading about Maisie Dobbs is like wearing an old bathrobe.


Sandysbookaday (taking a step back for a while) (sandyj21) | 1533 comments About to begin Magpie Lane by Lucy Atkins Magpie Lane by Lucy Atkins after finishing a book with an amazing climax - I had no idea what was happening until it happened! Strangers by C.L. Taylor Strangers by C.L. Taylor. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and my webpage sandysbookaday.wordpress.com


message 2567: by Christine (new)

Christine Hatfield  (christinesbookshelves) | 1615 comments Sandy how are both of your books going?


Sandysbookaday (taking a step back for a while) (sandyj21) | 1533 comments About to start One Of Us Is Lying by Shalini Boland One Of Us Is Lying by Shalini Boland after finishing the 5 star Magpie Lane by Lucy Atkins Magpie Lane by Lucy Atkins. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and my webpage sandysbookaday.wordpress.com


message 2569: by Christine (new)

Christine Hatfield  (christinesbookshelves) | 1615 comments Sandy how are both of your books going?


Sandysbookaday (taking a step back for a while) (sandyj21) | 1533 comments About to begin Buried Deep by Susan Wilkins Buried Deep by Buried Deep after finishing One Of Us Is Lying by Shalini Boland One Of Us Is Lying by Shalini Boland. My review can be found at my webpage sandysbookaday.wordpress.com and https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


message 2571: by Nancy from NJ (new)

Katz Nancy from NJ (nancyk18) I finished The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell early this morning. And next up is Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane. I seem to be on a reading roll but wish I wasn't home because of the Corona Virus. I wonder what I would be doing if it wasn't for my books and computer. So thanks everybody for posting away and discussing books, etc.


message 2572: by Karin (new)

Karin I just reread the first 8 Little House books in the last week or two as well as Treasure Island for classics.


message 2573: by LauraT (last edited Apr 06, 2020 09:52AM) (new)

LauraT (laurata) | 14371 comments Mod
Karin wrote: "I just reread the first 8 Little House books in the last week..."

I read them all last year; delicious, aint they?


message 2574: by Leslie (new)

Leslie | 16369 comments Karin wrote: "I just reread the first 8 Little House books in the last week or two as well as Treasure Island for classics."

My copies of the Little House books got thrown out when my parents sold their house :(

I suppose that I could borrow them from the library to reread them...


message 2575: by Leslie (new)

Leslie | 16369 comments Nancy from NJ wrote: "I finished The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell early this morning. And next up ..."

Every time I see this title, I for some reason think about the children's book All-of-a-Kind Family. I think that it is because the copy I had growing up had a picture of the family on stairs on the cover (connecting in my mind family and stairs)...


message 2576: by Leslie (new)

Leslie | 16369 comments I am currently reading Good Behaviour by Molly Keane, the short stories of Dorothy L. Sayers in Lord Peter Views the Body and listening to the YA book A Study in Charlotte (about the teenage descendants of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson at an American boarding school, involved in a murder of course).


message 2577: by Leslie (new)

Leslie | 16369 comments Oh, and I have started an Agatha Christie Poirot book that I have never read before (imagine my surprise to find one!) - Taken at the Flood written and set just after WW2 (1946 or so).


message 2578: by Karin (new)

Karin Leslie wrote: "Karin wrote: "I just reread the first 8 Little House books in the last week or two as well as Treasure Island for classics."

My copies of the Little House books got thrown out when my parents sold..."


Yes, the library will probably have them.


message 2579: by Nancy from NJ (new)

Katz Nancy from NJ (nancyk18) Leslie - how did you know That All-of-A-Kind-Family continues for me to be a favorite book. It more or less was the story of my mother growing upon the Lower East Side of Manhattan. I can’t wait to read this book with our granddaughter and tell her about her great grandmother and how she grew up.


message 2580: by Christine (new)

Christine Hatfield  (christinesbookshelves) | 1615 comments Sandy how are both of your books going?


message 2581: by Karin (new)

Karin Nancy from NJ wrote: "Leslie - how did you know That All-of-A-Kind-Family continues for me to be a favorite book. It more or less was the story of my mother growing upon the Lower East Side of Manhattan. I can’t wait to..."

Wow, that's interesting. To me it is very different than my parents or grandparents stories since none of them grew up in a large city.


message 2582: by Leslie (new)

Leslie | 16369 comments Nancy from NJ wrote: "Leslie - how did you know That All-of-A-Kind-Family continues for me to be a favorite book. It more or less was the story of my mother growing upon the Lower East Side of Manhattan. I can’t wait to..."

I loved that series! In fact, during a discussion about the current epidemic with a friend, I mentioned that book & the seasonal epidemics of scarlet fever it portrayed. That was my first lesson about what a quarantine was.


Sandysbookaday (taking a step back for a while) (sandyj21) | 1533 comments About to begin My Husband's Lie by Emma Davies My Husband's Lie by Emma Davies after finishing the astounding After She Wrote Him After She Wrote Him by Sulari Gentill by Sulari Gentill. This was a 5 star read for me. My spoiler free review can be found at https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/... and https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


message 2585: by Tamara (new)

Tamara Agha-Jaffar | 1419 comments I finished The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch, a compelling chunkster (500 pages) about a first-person narrator's obsession with resurrecting a lost love. It won the 1978 Booker Prize. Interesting characters and wonderful writing.

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


message 2586: by Christine (new)

Christine Hatfield  (christinesbookshelves) | 1615 comments Sandy how are both of your books going?


Sandysbookaday (taking a step back for a while) (sandyj21) | 1533 comments Christine wrote: "Sandy how are both of your books going?"

After She Wrote Him was a brilliant 5 star read, Christine. And My Husband's Lie was okay. How are your books going? 😷❤😍📚


message 2589: by LauraT (last edited Apr 11, 2020 11:56AM) (new)

LauraT (laurata) | 14371 comments Mod
An Italian classic: Il bell'Antonio or Beautiful Antonio by Vitaliano Brancati.
Liking it even if the writing suffers from age ...


message 2590: by Nichole (new)

Nichole | 554 comments I will read East Lynne by Mrs. Henry Wood East Lynne by Mrs. Henry Wood. It is described as a "classic Victorian romance."


message 2591: by Christine (new)

Christine Hatfield  (christinesbookshelves) | 1615 comments Sandy how are both of your books going?


message 2592: by Nancy from NJ (new)

Katz Nancy from NJ (nancyk18) Began Guests of August by Gloria Goldreich


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message 2594: by Leslie (new)

Leslie | 16369 comments I am reading the short stories in Lord Peter Views the Body in between reading Melmoth the Wanderer, Brat Farrar (a reread) and my audiobook Snow Crash.


message 2595: by Leslie (new)

Leslie | 16369 comments Almost done with Lord Peter Views the Body - only one story left! I am still slogging my way through Melmoth the Wanderer which I am not really enjoying very much. I have started a new audiobook - Swing; very much a boy's YA book but it is early days... And for light relief I am just starting Without Lawful Authority, an English WW2 spy thriller.


Sandysbookaday (taking a step back for a while) (sandyj21) | 1533 comments Starting Find Her Alive (Detective Josie Quinn, #8) by Lisa Regan Find Her Alive by Lisa Regan after finishing the wonderful and atmospheric The Caretakers by Eliza Maxwell The Caretakers by Eliza Maxwell. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and on my webpage my webpage https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
The Caretakers is available on NetGalley until 28 April. 😷❤😍📚


message 2597: by _jolb.85_ (last edited Aug 03, 2020 12:12PM) (new)

_jolb.85_ (_jo85_) | 76 comments I started reading the Strike series by Robert Galbraith during lockdown - I’m just about to start Career of Evil


message 2598: by Christine (new)

Christine Hatfield  (christinesbookshelves) | 1615 comments I finished my 32nd book and I finished my 33rd book and I finished my 34th book and I finished my 35th book and I finished my 36th book and I finished my 37th book and I finished my 38th book


message 2599: by Christine (new)

Christine Hatfield  (christinesbookshelves) | 1615 comments Sandy how are both of your books going?


message 2600: by Stephen (last edited Apr 15, 2020 02:31PM) (new)

Stephen (gattman) | 12 comments Finished Triptych by Karin Slaughter. Loved it!!


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