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What Are You Reading? - 2019



Now I think I will go with The Ice Cream Girls


I am also just starting The Doll Factory for the monthly theme read. There has been quite a bit of pre-release buzz surrounding this so I'm looking forward to reading it.



But I do not care for the stories she tells in her other books. In particular Fire Fly Lane. Her characters are inconconsitent . She writes women who are supposed to be strong yet they crumple.
Her plats remind me of the soap operas of my childhood. If one of her char goes to college, they sleep with their professor, It happened in two books I read by her. If author repeats them selves why read more of their books>
Sandra wrote: "Peggy wrote: "I started The Great Alone. The author is hit or miss for me, but this book sounded like it could be a hit. I read two chapters and I'm already afraid that it won't be...."

I am in the middle of a reread of The Thirteenth Tale and I started A Local Habitation today while grooming my dog. It seemed to relax him. Mary Robinette Kowal has another fan LOL

I am starting now The Murmur of Bees which happens to be set in Mexico, 1918 and have a very yellow cover, so I can use it for the monthly theme and the monthly challenge. My poor forgotten wall of fame is thirsty for a couple of badges. :)

But..."
Lol, in my review of The Great Alone I wrote that it reminded me of a soap opera. Not because the MC was sleeping with a college professor, but because in soaps the characters often have so many things happening to them that normally don't happen all in one lifetime, and I felt the MC's life in this book was the same.

I am now reading The Book Thief for a RL book club and listening to Wolfhunter River for a review and to kill off the series (again). I am much more comfortable reading 2 books at a time, one for my eyes and one one for my ears.


Fast Forward by Adam Skinner covers major tracks, drivers, cars, and even incidents around the world.




I will start The Girl in the Tower tomorrow. It will count towards my movie mania challenge and leftover stew challenge.



I went to the library today and picked up News of the World. I should be able to start it later today.

I gave it 4 stars. I was so excited about this book, and I felt a little disappointed for the first half. Maybe my experience might have been different if I'd listened to the audiobook. Unfortunately, it's not available in Canada.

I gave it 4 stars. I was so excited about this book, and I felt a little disappointed for the first half. Mayb..."
That is such a shame!

Next up for me is another new release, The Confessions of Frannie Langton. I am reading it for the Movie Mania challenge.

Good to hear, Janice. I am looking forward to getting into it, after my buddy read and group read books are done.

Moving on to Identity Crisis for the monthly challenge and Ghost Wall just because.....

I think the biggest problem, at least for me, with the first half is that it took a little too long for all the threads to come together. I know a good story keeps you guessing at what comes next, but it also has to give you enough information to keep your interest. This one took a bit for that to happen. I gave it 4 stars as well though; so it obviously came around.

A Pest of a Boy and A Boy in Trouble.




Shiny new things ;-)




Working your way through the alphabet? Hehehe!

Earlier this year, I read Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise. At the very end of that book, Ruth Reichl (view spoiler) I liked that one a lot; so I'll be interested to hear what you think of Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir.

Ignorance and silence are still responsible for killing people.


Started The Knife of Never Letting Go.

I'll let you know Tricia. She talks quite a bit about her time before she became the editor of Gourmet, in this one. It is really a lot of names back and forth. I recognize some of them, but others are just "bla, bla, bla". I remember reading some of the issues she talks about. I did not subscribe (too much fru, fru stuff for me), but I loved looking at the covers. I think she tells a great story.



I will start Deerskin tonight. It will be a MM read.

I have started The Red Tent for the MM challenge. I am also reading Fragile: Why we are feeling more stressed, anxious and overwhelmed than ever by Stella O'Malley who is a member of my live book club.
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