Cover to Cover Challenge discussion
Pat's beginning list
338 pages Book # 58
Well, the precocious Flavia does it again - solves the mystery.
The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl
#59 383 pages
RAINWATER by Sandra Brown
#60 244 pages
A very fast and good read...a touching story
KISSER by Stuart Woods
#61 288 pages
Stone does it again, but he is pretty predictable - a maverick,sex-charged good guy who doesn't always play by the rules.
THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET'S NEST
#62
Well, now that I have read all three, I have to look for some new heroes.
so the next two books good I could hardly get through the first one in fact i didnt finish it
#63 THE PALLBEARERS by Steven J. Cannell
312 pages
#64 THE WEIGHT OF SILENCE
Someone on this list either recommended it or listed it as a book read. I really liked it and this would be an author I would like to read again.
While I am still behind, I feel as if I am starting to close the gap. Can I read 8 more books in the next 8 days? - probably if I quit doing everything else.
Those Who Save Us#65 THOSE WHO SAVE US
This was a very compelling mother/daughter relationship stretching back to Nazi Germany. It is also a glimpse into the war from the German citizen perspective.
This is the first book I have ever read where dialog was not placed in quotation marks. At first I found it disconcerting and then the story was so good I just forgot about it.
The young mother (Anna)is brave, strong, resilent but when we meet her in the present (1996) she is silent and withdrawn and difficult to like. Sometimes it doesn't seem as if she could be the same person.
I highly recommend this book.
WENCH
#66
The story of four female slaves and their masters who take them to a resort in Ohio in the 1850's. It was sometimes hard to read because of the treatment the women endured, but a very compelling story.
That Summer in Sicily
#68
This was a reread and while I remembered parts of it, I had forgotten the ending, so it was like reading a new book. Makes me want to go to Sicily and meet these women - maybe even live in their household and wear braids!
True Blue
#69
Only 3 more to get where I should have been by the end of June. With all the hot weather, it is a good time to just curl up and read (in an air-conditioned space!)
Parting Gifts
#70 A touching story of family, love, fame and heartbreak.
Loving Frank
#71
A novel which is part fact, mostly fiction about renouned architect Frank Lloyd Wright and his affair with Mamah Borthwick Cheney.
At Large and At Small: Familiar EssaysAt Large and At Small
#72
I had the opportunity to hear Anne Fadiman at Chautauqua a few weeks ago, as she was on the platform with Roger Rosenblatt. She was delightful and intelligent. So I got one of her books of essays. Her topics range from mail to ice cream, butterflies to the flag. I had to keep a pencil and paper and dictionary handy as in every essay there were unfamiliar words. The woman is brilliant and her vocabulary is astounding (well to me anyway)!
#73 399 pages
Chili, the California gold rush, poverty and wealth, love and passion - it is all there.
# 76
Another reread of another wonderful classic. It sure is easier being a woman today!
#77
An okay read. It was a book my sister-in-law left here after visiting. Went to the book sale on Saturday and stocked up on a "few" oldies to read.
#79 - Another book of wonderful essays about books, reading, words, bookshelves, used books and joining libraries.
Whispers by Lisa Jackson
#80
Sisters and brothers, randy old men and young men, lies and deception and characters I couldn't get that interested in.
STRANGE FITS OF PASSION by Anita Shreve
#81
A sad tale of domestic violence, ambition and deception.
HEART OF THE MATTER
#82
Well, I have finally caught up to where I should have been two weeks ago!
#84 - A perfect summer read about life at the beach.
THE OTHER FAMILY by JoAnne Trollope#85
For some reason the cover didn't come up. I don't have the book in front of me so may have mispelled the author's name. Anyway, an interesting book about two families and their shared father/husband.
#86
An early book by Canell with Shane and Alexa and Cooch
#87 humor and wit, history (not America at its finest - Japanese internment, the Red Scare) This is a compelling tale of the Mexican American Harrison William Shepherd...plaster mixer, cook, explorer, secretary, novelist. Told through journals and press clippings Harrison is a sad child of divorce who grows to be an introverted and often lonely man, saved to some degree by the devotion of Mrs. Violet Brown, his secretary and staunch defender.
#89
Written by two women I know, this book details life around Chautauqua Lake from the 1880s through the 1920s through post cards of that era.
#91
This was one of those books that I picked up at the library and spent the night reading to completion. I had also picked up a novel by Jim Lehrer about a train but just couldn't get into it so put that in the to be returned pile.
#92 -
A fast read,plenty of bad guys and gals but there was probably more about navigating a yacht than I really wanted to know.
#94 It was good to revisit characters from the original Presumed Innocent
#96 - OK - that's where I should have been two weeks ago.
I enjoyed this fictional account of Pearl Buck - her life in China and her friend Willow.
#97 Audio - Always Time to Die, by Elizabeth LowellExcellent story and reader
#98 Sarah's Key By Tatiana de RosnayI loved this book and highly recommend it! It was my first purchase from the Kindle Store and the first book read on my Kindle 3. I can see where I could be spending a lot of money on downloads. So far I have tried withou too much success to get to the local library site to download books for free. I'm sure I'll get it figured out.
#99 - CAUGHT
suspenseful - plenty of twists and turns
#102 - A fast read with enough Catholic and Irish guilt to make a person feel they need to go to confession!
#103 - An Audio Book. I find that I can add at least one more book a week by listening to an audio in the car while I am running around.
The Burning Man by Phillip Margolin#105 This wasn't one of the books that grips you right from the beginning as the main character is sort of a loser, but I decided to stay with it and it did get better as it went along.
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#57 452 pags
This book was a birthday gift, along with a certificate for a pedicure. How decadent - reading a wicked novel while someone paints your toenails!