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[Gavin]

Started A Clockwork Orange today

[Melissa]

Hi! I am new here . currently about half way through reading True Places by Sonja Yoerg . I am really enjoying it and am excited to see how it ends !

[Janice, Moderator]

Hi Melissa! Welcome to our group. :)

[PattyMacDotComma]

Die Trying by Lee Child is the second in the popular Jack Reacher series. Reacher is a larger-than-life, modern-day knight errant, trying to save us all from each other. Lots of action!
Link to my review

[Janice, Moderator]

Two 5 star reads in a couple of days! Woot! I finished The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees and loved it!

I will start Where the Crawdads Sing tomorrow for my monthly challenge read and for my real life book club.

[Kristie, Moderator]

Janice wrote: "Two 5 star reads in a couple of days! Woot! I finished The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees and loved it!"

I just added that one due to your comments in the reporting thread. :) It sounds really good.

[Janice, Moderator]

Not only was the content really good, but the writing was excellent. The author is a journalist and I think she has a flare for prose as well.

[Sandra, Moderator]

I was feeling like reading a ghost story so I started The Winter People

[Peggy]

I started The Summer Before the War for the monthly challenge.

[Dem]

Finished Before the Fall

My review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/2857286182

[Sarah]

Sandra wrote: "I was feeling like reading a ghost story so I started The Winter People"

Oooh. I really liked that book. Be sure to check out the group read thread for it. Perfect book to read when it's really hot. It will make you shiver!

[Sandra, Moderator]

Oh, I had no idea it was a group read! I will check the thread. Thank you, Sarah.

[Sarah]

Sandra wrote: "Oh, I had no idea it was a group read! I will check the thread. Thank you, Sarah."

I think the majority of us really liked it !

[Cherie]

I just finished a book by an author who wrote a Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson story Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson, and one that had references to them in it The Last Kashmiri Rose. The audio book I downloaded last night, to listen to, also has Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in it. I had no idea that they were going to be in The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter. It was supposed to be about Doctor Jekyll's daughter. I know the story from the movies but I have never read The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

I just thought it was a strange coincidence, but I love it!

[Dem]

Finished Thomas Murphy

My Review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/2872585504

[Jayme, Moderator]

Peggy wrote: "I started The Summer Before the War for the monthly challenge."

My face-to face book club is reading it for August. I hope you like it. :)

[Peggy]

I hope you will too Jayme! :)

[Margo]

I finished The Rosie Result while doing alot of driving , on vacation with my hubby. We revisited awesome beauty spots in Kerry and Cork and the company of Professor Don Tilman made out trip great fun! The Rosie Result finished of the trilogy on a high note after a dip in standard with the a cursed second book syndrome ( though Pete loved book 2 as well).

It is such an interesting premise and the intuction of so manny mew characters does seem to leave it open to porential new storylines. I do hope so, it would be very sad to have seen the last if Don and the gang 😉

[Peggy]

Great to hear you enjoyed the final one so much Margo. I really enjoyed the second one too.

[Cherie]

I keep thinking I really need to read the second one, but for some reason, I cannot bring myself to pick it up. I liked the first one though, and glad to hear the third is good. One day...

[Janice, Moderator]

Cherie wrote: "I keep thinking I really need to read the second one, but for some reason, I cannot bring myself to pick it up. I liked the first one though, and glad to hear the third is good. One day..."

That's kind of how I feel. While I enjoyed the first book, I liked the idea of it being a stand alone.

[PattyMacDotComma]

Margo wrote: "I finished The Rosie Result while doing alot of driving , on vacation with my hubby. We revisited awesome beauty spots in Kerry and Cork and the company of Professor Don Tilman made..."

Glad to hear #3 is good, Margo. I enjoyed #2 as well, but I didn't care for a non-Rosie book he wrote in between, The Best of Adam Sharp. I hope we get more visits with the Tilmans, too.

[PattyMacDotComma]

I just read Pieces of Me by Natalie Hart, which was shortlisted for the 2018 Costa First Novel Award. "War-torn" can refer to people as well as countries.
Link to my review

[Gavin]

Currently reading East of Eden

[PattyMacDotComma]

I just enjoyed The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd about stubborn American women fighting slavery and inequality in the 1800s. The battle continues today!
4.5★ Link to my review

[PattyMacDotComma]

While reading The Invention of Wings, I was reminded of a wonderful short story about a family quilt I read last year called Everyday Use, by Alice Walker, who wrote The Color Purple. I included a link to the story (free) online.
5★ Link to my review with picture of an 1898 quilt

[Peggy]

PattyMacDotComma wrote: "Margo wrote: "I finished The Rosie Result while doing alot of driving , on vacation with my hubby. We revisited awesome beauty spots in Kerry and Cork and the company of Professor D..."

I didn't like The Best of Adam Sharp either..

[Margo]

Peggy wrote: "PattyMacDotComma wrote: "Margo wrote: "I finished The Rosie Result while doing alot of driving , on vacation with my hubby. We revisited awesome beauty spots in Kerry and Cork and t..."

I didn't pick up Adam Sharp after seeing Peggys review.

[Margo]

PattyMacDotComma wrote: "I just enjoyed The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd about stubborn American women fighting slavery and inequality in the 1800s. The battle continues today!
[bookcov..."

I loved [book:The Invention of Wings|18079776] Patty. I had no idea it was based on a true story til I got to the end.

[Sandra, Moderator]

I finished The Winter People and gave it 4 stars.

I will start today Lady of Ashes for the "umbrella in the cover" task in the MM Challenge.

[Lisa]

I have nearly finished my reread of The Eagle of The Ninth which I am enjoying very much.

I am also just about to start The Hoarder. It's a "just because" read.

[Margo]

I am about half way through Transcription. So far I am unimpressed. I usually enjoy "London during WW2" settings but I not gelling with this writer.

[Jake]

About 70% though Mockingjay, can’t wait for the end because after all these years I’ve never been spoiled as to what happens at the end of this series!

[Janice, Moderator]

I finished Where the Crawdads Sing for my monthly challenge read. I will start River of Darkness tomorrow - finally. It's been on my monthly plan list for several months now.

[Dem]

Finished An American Marriage

My Review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/2861985123

[Margo]

Janice wrote: "I finished Where the Crawdads Sing for my monthly challenge read. I will start River of Darkness tomorrow - finally. It's been on my monthly plan list for several mont..."

Janice, are you still joining us for Caraval?

[PattyMacDotComma]

Margo wrote: "PattyMacDotComma wrote: "I just enjoyed The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd about stubborn American women fighting slavery and inequality in the 1800s.

I loved The Invention of Wings Patty. I had no idea it was based on a true story til I got to the end. "

I didn't either, Margo, I hadn't read the blurb first.

[PattyMacDotComma]

I'm really enjoying Aussie author Sulari Gentill's Rowland Sinclair mystery series. Artists, weathy pastoralists, and religious nutters mix it up in A Decline in Prophets in Sydney in the 1930s. Lovely people!
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Janice, Moderator]

Margo wrote: "Janice, are you still joining us for Caraval?"

Yes. That starts today.

I always have an audiobook and a print book on the go. What I reported yesterday were audiobooks. I've got Caraval on eBook and I will start it tonight. The ebook I'm currently reading, Ancillary Justice will get set aside so I can start Caraval. It may even get set aside permanently. I'm really struggling to get into the story and I'm at 30%. You'd think by now it wouldn't be such a grind.

[Peggy]

I started Caraval. I'm also still reading The Summer Before the War

[Margo]

Silly question to ask the calendar keeper is she remembers a planned buddy read! I have started Caraval.

I finished Transcription. The ending surprised me and salvaged the book a bit.

I will try to quickly finish my reread of The Eyre Affair and then start on The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper which arrived from library last night. I am excited about this one as it is an aspect of the ripper killings I've never considered - who were those victims? All I've ever heard was that they were protitutes as if that is all one needs to know!

[Kristie, Moderator]

I’m very curious about The Five, Margo. I look forward to seeing what you think of it.

[Janice, Moderator]

Margo wrote: "Silly question to ask the calendar keeper is she remembers a planned buddy read! I have started Caraval.

I finished Transcription. The ending surprised me and salva..."

I may update the calendar, but that's no guarantee that I'll remember anything. LOL! I imagine you saw I was starting a different book and perhaps thought, "Wait! She's supposed to be starting Caraval!"

I have also ordered The Five and it's been in shipment for 7 days. If you want, we go could straight from buddy reading Caraval to buddy reading The Five?

[Margo]

Janice wrote: "Margo wrote: "Silly question to ask the calendar keeper is she remembers a planned buddy read! I have started Caraval.

I finished Transcription. The ending surprise..."

Sounds good Janice, a buddy read is well worth waiting for. I have one or 2 (!!!) books to be getting on with LOL

[Dem]

Just finished Those Who Are Loved

My review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/2872649976

[Dem]

I have finished Sometimes I Lie

My review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/2864269608

[Lisa]

I finished The Eagle of The Ninth for the Movie Mania challenge. This was also a reread for me as I first read it when I was around 11 years old and had wanted to pick it up again ever since. It's always nice to reread a book of your childhood and even better when you enjoyed it just as much now as you did back then :)

[Tricia]

I'm starting Caraval a couple of days late. I've got some time today though so I think I'll be able to catch up with the discussion.

[Peggy]

Yay tricia! It's a fast read and we're not that far into it yet :)

[PattyMacDotComma]

I've become very fond of Czech detective Josef Slonský in Graham Brack's excellent series. Funny, good plot, good characters and a new part of the world for me.
Field of Death is #4. Good read!
4.5★ Link to my review