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[Linda]

The Pearl I love Steinbeck!

[LynnB]

Miriam wrote: "I just started The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson. He is an excellent writer and makes the 50"s come alive."

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid is one of all-time favorite humor reads. I identified with so much of it and laughed all the way through. I hope you enjoy it.

[Betsy]

Linda wrote: "The Pearl I love Steinbeck!"

Me too! I haven't read any Steinbeck in years and have never read The Pearl so maybe I'll pick that one up in 2015.

[Miriam]

LynnB wrote: "Miriam wrote: "I just started The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson. He is an excellent writer and makes the 50"s come alive."

[book:The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid|1..."

I'm loving it. Every time I pick it up I get lost in it.

[Linda]

Betsy wrote: "Linda wrote: "The Pearl I love Steinbeck!"

Me too! I haven't read any Steinbeck in years and have never read The Pearl so maybe I'll pick that one up in 2015."

Betsy, It's only 87 pages and I've never read it before. I'm about 1/2 way through and will finish it shortly.

[Linda]

Billy Joel

[Sera]

I started A Storm of Swords,

War and Peace and

The Novel: A Biography.

I had also started Landslide: LBJ and Ronald Reagan at the Dawn of a New America and On the Origin of Species. I have Cross Country going on audio.

As you can see, I am awash in good reads at the moment.

[Juniper]

wow -- that's a lot of of weighty tomes, sera!! w&p is so, so great, i hope you will love it. i hope you enjoy them all. i haven't begun the martin series yet... i'm not quite convinced he's ever going to finish it. haha. (though i do own the books, so go figure.) and i also own 'the novel' - but i haven't even begun to take it apart to figure out my approach. i have mentally moved it to the back burner until my reading mojo is much stronger. i hope you have fun with that project!! :)

[LynnB]

I'm currently reading an ARC of Vanessa and Her Sister which I am enjoying so far. (sister being Virginia Wolff; historical fiction)

[Cathy]

just getting started on . I read none of the non-fiction selections from the NYT Notable Books of 2014 list, and thought this was a good place to start.

[LynnB]

I'm reading Buffalo Girls (historical fiction) and Blindsighted (mystery) at the moment.

[Miriam]

I just started The Center of Everything by Laura Moriarty.

[Juniper]

yesterday, i began reading Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. i have this great edition which has been translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky - they've done some awesome work on many russian classics, so i have been looking forward to this read for some time. i always like a big russian book during a cold canadian winter. seems to make sense in my mind! :)

[Sera]

I love Doctor Zhivago, even though it falls flat for many readers.

Thanks for the support on all of my Big Books. In looking over my reading interests for the year, I see many more Big Books to come as well.

I worry about George Martin finishing the series, too. He needs to get a move on it, but I can see how long the books take to read because of all of the detail that he includes. It is actually a very well done series. I am trying to catch up with the TV show.

[Sera]

I just started The Housekeeper and the Professor on audio. It's a lovely story so far.

[Juniper]

Sera wrote: "I love Doctor Zhivago, even though it falls flat for many readers...."

so glad to hear this!! :)
re: GRRM -- we haven't watched the series either, though we just recorded a whole whack of episodes, right from the beginning. they rebroadcast from the beginning over christmas, so we set the PVR and hope to catch up... the number of episodes is a bit daunting though. ha. i guess i should just bite the bullet and try the first book. :/

[Sera]

For a super long book, it reads very quickly. I am sure that you would fly through it, Jennifer.

[Betsy]

I started The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates on audio. Interesting premise for a book.

[Juniper]

i just started reading two books: Everything I Never Told You, by Celeste Ng; and The Secret History of Wonder Woman, by Jill Lepore. so far, both are very good!

[Sera]

Betsy, I found the Wes Moore wanting. I am curious to hear what you think.

Jennifer, I loved the Ng book. I thought that it was a great character study of a mixed family in the 1970s. Customarily books on this subject deal with mixed black-white families. To read something about a mixed Asian-white family was very interesting to me. Let us know how the book is.

[Betsy]

Sera wrote: "Betsy, I found the Wes Moore wanting. I am curious to hear what you think.

Jennifer, I loved the Ng book. I thought that it was a great character study of a mixed family in the 1970s. Customari..."

At least it's short, so even if it's it great, I won't feel too put out about it. I didn't love the Ng book like everyone else seems to. I wonder if i would have liked it more had I read it instead of listening.

[Juniper]

Sera wrote: "Jennifer, I loved the Ng book. I thought that it was a great character study of a mixed family in the 1970s...."

i liked it, sera. i am still processing my thoughts on it all. i feel like ng did a wonderful job giving us this flawed and broken family - but something feels off for me and i can't quite put my finger on it. the mess and the chaos was too tidy, if that makes sense? the book is part of the 'tournament of books', so i am quite keen to read the debate for this one. it touches on some important subjects that are definitely worth public discussion and attention.

[Sera]

The Ng has been named one of the best audio books of the year by Salon.com.

Jennifer, is there a link that you could share for the tournament of books? I don't think that most of our members are familiar with it.

[Victoria]

Here is a link to the article, which contains a link to the books as well.
http://www.themorningnews.org/article...

[Juniper]

thanks, victoria.

[Sera]

Thanks!

[Betsy]

Jennifer wrote: "Sera wrote: "Jennifer, I loved the Ng book. I thought that it was a great character study of a mixed family in the 1970s...."

i liked it, sera. i am still processing my thoughts on it all. i feel..."

I'm with you, Jennifer. I liked it but fail to see what all the raving is about. And I listened to it on audio. Not sure I would put it on the top of my audio list either. I have to admit, the more people give it praise, the more my ornery and contrary self digs in my heels about it.

[Betsy]

Victoria wrote: "Here is a link to the article, which contains a link to the books as well.
http://www.themorningnews.org/article..."

I'm disappointed that The Book of Unknown Americans didn't make it onto their list. It was one of my favorites of the year.

[Betsy]

Started An Untamed State tonight. Gave up on The Good Soldier which was for my book group (and skipped group too). It just wasn't grabbing me and I've got too many books to read to spend time on something I'm not really enjoying.

[Cathy]

Starting . I read about a year ago by the same author for my bookclub and enjoyed it. I hope this one is just as good.

[Betsy]

Started Florence Gordon on audio.

[LynnB]

I'm reading some books I've had on my TBR list for a while. Started The Storyteller today.

[Betsy]

Today I started The House Girl on audio. I was surprised to find, when reading the author's profile, she grew up in my neck of he woods, Western Massachusetts.

[LynnB]

I've started The Paris Architect. So far it's been an interesting read. It comes from a different POV than most WWII novels.

[Juniper]

i have two books on the go right now:
* The Bone Clocks - which i am not sold on at the ⅓ mark. it seems... affected.
* The Story of a New Name - which i am loving. i read the first book in the series a few days ago (My Brilliant Friend), then jumped right into the 2nd book.

[Linda]

I started re-listening to The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap. I had started it once before but it had to be returned to the library. I know to listen to it with earbuds this time to help keep my mind on the book.

[Betsy]

Just started working on Othello for my book group.

[Betsy]

I started The Stockholm Octavo on audio, but I'm not sure it's what I'm in the mood for. I think I'll switch to Five Days Left.

[Becky]

reading , not sure about it yet & also started

[Pasquale]

"One Summer" by Bill Bryson. The most intriguing history I've ever read!

[Juniper]

i am a little late to this book party, but i finally began reading Half-Blood Blues, by Esi Edugyan! i say 'finally' because it's been out for a few years now and won, and been nominated for, so many awards. i kept waiting for the brouhaha to die down so that i wasn't being influenced by all the goings on. so far, i am really liking it a lot.

[Juniper]

LynnB wrote: "And I just got from the library this afternoon, and am starting, The Secret History of Wonder Woman which is more like a biogr..."

i read this earlier this month too. i enjoyed it. it wasn't quite what i was expecting, but lepore did a very good job.

[Betsy]

I started Love Anthony for my March book group. I loved Still Alice and enjoyed Left Neglected so I'm excited to be getting to this one.

[Linda]

Started listening to Benediction and reading How to be both

[LynnB]

I've started The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World by Desmond Tutu and am working my way through the classic The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy.

[Juniper]

i just started reading Every Day Is for the Thief. i really love Teju Cole so i am hoping for a great read! :)

[Miriam]

I just started eat, pray, love by Elizabeth Gilbert. It is wonderful. I feel like the author is sitting across from me having a conversation.

[LynnB]

Starting a mystery, Unwanted by Kristina Ohlsson.

[Kathy]

I just started reading Stillwell: A Haunting on Long Island. I have read several other books by Cash and find them an easy and entertaining read!

[Juniper]

i have two books on the go: Land of Love and Drowning, by Tiphanie Yanique, and The Known World, by Edward P. Jones.

i noticed that the cover image on the edition of jones' book is © Eudora Welty, so i fell down a bit of a google hole last night learning about her photography. :)