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[Maude]

It is really a romantic historical mystery which I like. If I like the story, the period, the people, whatever, I am not too fussy - and I did! This was escapist fiction for me and I would give it three stars. These are comfort reads for me because I know no one is going to get raped, beaten, mutilated or murdered!

[Maude]

Actually, people do get murdered but it must not bother me too much!

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Maude wrote: "Actually, people do get murdered but it must not bother me too much!"

Someone gets murdered in a rather unpleasant way, (not graphically gory, btw) if I remember correctly, but I am a bit "pickier" about these themes than most people. Several of my GR friends loved it!

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Lee wrote: "I make killer chocolate cupcakes. I'll bring them to the Comfort Reads Cupcake and Book Conference."

Gimmee cupcake!

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Lisa wrote:

I wanna come! I need some of those chocolate cupcakes sent through the computer."

The problem is that the frosting makes the screen all sticky.

[Lisa]

And the frosting is my favorite part.

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Lisa wrote: "And the frosting is my favorite part."

Lick the screen! :)

[Lisa]

Jeannette wrote: "Lick the screen! :)"

You've obviously never been to my apartment. Too dusty. Those books create a lot of dust you know. ;-)

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Okay, we'll dust before we start the cupcake exchange. It's a small price to pay. :)

[Manybooks]

Oooh, I just read the new 1997 reprint of Meet the Austins, which has the missing chapter (The Anti-Muffins) in it. I must say, the chapter really makes the book, it really tightens up the narrative (I always felt that there was something missing between "How Not to Have an Aunt in One hard Lesson" and "The Visit to the Stable" and now I know why). If you have never read the 1997 reprint of Meet the Austins, I can only recommend it, and it is much more satisfying than just reading The Anti-Muffins on its own, removed from the book as a whole. Too bad, that Madeleine L'Engle's publishers refused to publish the book with this chapter intact when it first came out, I don't think there was anything that controversial in it, and much good sense.

[Lisa]

Gundula, I like that chapter too. I'm so used to the original book though I kind of like the separate book with that chapter. But, that's one of my favorite books either way!!

[Manybooks]

Lisa wrote: "Gundula, I like that chapter too. I'm so used to the original book though I kind of like the separate book with that chapter. But, that's one of my favorite books either way!!"

It's one of those books you never get tired of reading. But, would you believe that I only discovered the book about three years ago. I had read the entire Time Quintet in high school, and strangely enough also The Moon by Night and the other Austin Family books, but I somehow never managed to read the first one (and for me, the best one) until recently.

[Lisa]

Meet the Austins is my favorite too although I also really like The Young Unicorns, and don't both the Murray and Austin families meet up in The Arm of the Starfish? I think somebody from the Austins is in that one/maybe not. I loved that book too. But my favorites from both those series are both their first books, which at the time I first read them were standalone books!

[Manybooks]

Lisa wrote: "Meet the Austins is my favorite too although I also really like The Young Unicorns, and don't both the Murray and Austin families meet up in The Arm of the Starfi..."</i>

I would agree with you there, [book:Meet the Austins is my favourite as well. It's funny, I really loved The Moon by Night when I was in high school, but when I reread it recently, it did not leave as much of an impression as Meet the Austins did the first, second, third time etc. that I read it.

[Kathy]

The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell

[Lee, Mod Mama]

Oh Kathy, you have your hands on that one already? I can't wait to hear how it is.

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Finished The Wives of Henry Oades. Interesting, based on a true story. A quick read, well written, but the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, in the sense that: I gave it 3.5 stars, but when I analyse the individual bits, it doesn't always hold together. I wasn't expecting it to be a nice romance, but that it was.

Will now read They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan, about 3 boys who escaped from Sudan during the civil war there. Not comforting at all, but I hope it will be interesting.

[Lisa]

Well, I should be reading some books for groups and books I own that I keep putting aside, but I just borrowed Every Last One from the library and that's the book I'm going to start this evening. I'm thrilled to have another Anna Quindlen book to read. It does look as though it's depressing though and I suspect it won't be a comfort read for me, but I hope I love it.

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Kathy wrote: "The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell"

I got my copy in the mail today!

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I'll be starting Lady Susan tomorrow.

[Laura]

me too!! I love Farrell's books.....

[Kathy]

Christine wrote: "Kathy wrote: "The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell"

I got my copy in the mail today!"

Read it now, Christine, pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaase! I'm going to be reading it on my trip, and we can compare notes when I return.

[Kathy]

Lee wrote: "Oh Kathy, you have your hands on that one already? I can't wait to hear how it is."

Get a copy and read it with me. I'm trying to get Christine to read it now, too.

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Kathy wrote: Read it now, Christine, pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaase! I'm going to be reading it on my trip, and we can compare notes when I return.


I will! I have to finish my current book, but that shouldn't take more than a couple of days. I promise to start it this week. :)

[Lee, Mod Mama]

Kathy wrote: "Lee wrote: "Oh Kathy, you have your hands on that one already? I can't wait to hear how it is."

Get a copy and read it with me. I'm trying to get Christine to read it now, too."

Kathy, I just can't afford to buy hardcover fiction. I'll have to wait for a library copy. :-(

[Kimberly]

I'm reading From The Earth To The Moon by Jules Verne

[Ashley]

I finished reading "Hush, Hush" by Becca Fitzpatrick. I am continuing with "Glass" by Ellen Hopkins and starting " On Mystic Lake" by Kristin Hannah.

[Peregrine]

Laura: Journey Into The Crystal by George Sand.

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Started listening to Clouds of Witness, the second Dorothy L. Sayers book. These are my all time favorite comfort reads. I think I have read this one 10 times! It's the first time I have listened to one, however... read by the brilliant Ian Carmichael.

[Peregrine]

Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America by Robert Charles Wilson.

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Barb wrote: "I was able to start on The Help last night, and am really liking it so far."

You'll love it even more as you go, I'm sure of it.

[Lee, Mod Mama]

I've started some non-fiction - Thrive Diet by Brendan Brazier

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Safia,
Let me know what you think about Cracking India. I read this a few months ago. I read almost anything I can get my hands on about India...I won't tell you what I thought until you read it though.

[Lee, Mod Mama]

Hi Safia, welcome to the group! Cracking India: A Novel looks pretty interesting. Did you see the first review on the book page? That made me laugh.

[Lisa]

I'm starting Wake, which is a 5/15 group book then I hope to read a 5/1 group book. Then, I hope to read a couple of non-group books!

[Wendy]

I am about to start reading Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan. I'll be taking it along to the L.A. Times Festival of Books tomorrow and hope to get my copy signed while there.

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Kathy wrote: "Christine wrote: "Kathy wrote: "The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell"
I got my copy in the mail today!"

Read it now, Christine, pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaase!..."

Kathy, I am almost done with it. Since I am laying low this weekend, I may possibly finish tonight. What did you think?

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Literary Feline wrote: "I am about to start reading Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan. I'll be taking it along to the L.A. Times Festival of Books tomorrow and hope to get my copy signed while th..."

Is Harlan going to be there? Ugh, I'm so jealous. Have fun!

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Finished the book about the Lost Boys of Sudan. What a tragedy... I can't believe what they lived through, what they are still living through in that part of the world. The tragedy just doesn't finish.

Will now pick up again Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy, which I started a few months ago and wasn't able to finish (as it was a bookring that I had to send on). I loved it so much I bought a copy of my own. I will try to read this slowly and carefully.

[Mary]

I have just started Promise Not to Tell: A Novel which I don't think is going to be a comfort read.

[Laura]

Hayes wrote: "Finished the book about the Lost Boys of Sudan. What a tragedy... I can't believe what they lived through, what they are still living through in that part of the world. The tragedy just doesn't fin..."

Sophie's world is a GREATTTTTT book Hayes. I must re-read some day.

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Mary wrote: "I have just started Promise Not to Tell: A Novel which I don't think is going to be a comfort read."

Ohhhhh...the Potato Girl!

[Wendy]

Christine wrote: "Literary Feline wrote: "I'll be taking it along to the L.A. Times Festival of Books tomorrow and hope to get..."

I don't think Harlan's going to be there this year. :-( I wasn't able to go today, unfortunately, because we had other plans (our last Broadway show of the season was today), and that's when a good lot of authors I would have liked to meet would have been there. Next year I know to pay better attention to the weekend dates when scheduling things.

[Mary]

Christine wrote: "Mary wrote: "I have just started Promise Not to Tell: A Novel which I don't think is going to be a comfort read."

Ohhhhh...the Potato Girl!"

Oh Christine I love potatoes but I have a feeling I'm not going to love them as much once I finish reading this :(

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Laura wrote: "Hayes wrote: "Finished the book about the Lost Boys of Sudan. What a tragedy... I can't believe what they lived through, what they are still living through in that part of the world. The tragedy ju..."

I'm really looking forward to this!

[Lisa]

I just finished WWW:Wake. I'm picking up a few novels tomorrow at the library so I'm trying to decide whether to wait (I have the Sunday paper & a bunch of children's picture books at home from the library) or to start one of my many owned but not yet read books.

[Wendy]

I never actually did start Will Grayson, Will Grayson. I was more in the mood for a crime fiction novel and so picked up Mortal Pray by John Sanford to read, so that's what I'm reading now. Crime fiction is among my favorite comfort read genres.

[Lisa]

I have 3 major library book at home as of today. I think I'm going to start The Unit. But I also have Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz and Betsy Was a Junior: A Betsy-Tacy High School Story. What a trio! Only the third will probably be considered a comfort read.

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Lisa wrote: "I have 3 major library book at home as of today. I think I'm going to start The Unit. But I also have [book:Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz|6..."

A very interesting mix, Lisa. :)

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I'm reading Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor: Being the First Jane Austen Mystery, a Jane Austen mystery novel.