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[Lee, Mod Mama]

I'm reading The Shoemaker's Wife. It's been a while since I've read any of her work but they're usually nice comfort reads.

[Helena]

I'm reading Longships ("Röde orm" in Swedish) by Frans G Bengtsson. I think it qualifies as a Swedish classic. It follows the life of a Viking called Orm who is taken as a slave in his teens but he quickly becomes appreciated for being strong, a good fighter, fearless and a good companion to have on the ship. The group of Vikings are on a journey to find treasures and it will turn out to be an adventure that lasts for many years.

[[deleted user]]

Just started "Plum Lovin"

[Janice]

Just finished . Loved it! Can't wait for the third installment! Just starting .

[Jessika]

Reading This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust. Not much of a "comfort read," if you will, but still very interesting nonetheless!

[Chrissie]

I just finished Sacred Hunger.
My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

I am going to stay in England and listen to St. Peter's Fair. The problem is the recording is very poor. I hope Audible can solve the problem for me. There seem to be two recordings with different release dates. I guess I got the wrong one. You hear voices in the background!

[Lisa]

Chrissie wrote: "You hear voices in the background!"

Oh, that is really bad! I hope you can get a more professionally done edition.

[Manybooks]

Lisa wrote: "Chrissie wrote: "You hear voices in the background!"

Oh, that is really bad! I hope you can get a more professionally done edition."

I hope so too, as this is one of my favourites of the Brother Cadfael series (sad to think that the audio book is so poorly done).

[Chrissie]

Lisa and Gundula, I am waiting for a response from Audible. I am not worried; they always help. But I don't want to stop listening, so I will continue with what I have until they respond. It is so strange; there are two different versions with the same cost, narrator and length, but the covers look different. They also have different release dates.

[Manybooks]

Chrissie wrote: "Lisa and Gundula, I am waiting for a response from Audible. I am not worried; they always help. But I don't want to stop listening, so I will continue with what I have until they respond. It is so ..."

That is strange.

[Chrissie]

Gundula wrote: "Chrissie wrote: "Lisa and Gundula, I am waiting for a response from Audible. I am not worried; they always help. But I don't want to stop listening, so I will continue with what I have until they r..."

Maybe this problem has been noted by others and that is why they redid it! I think I have the older version.

[Manybooks]

Chrissie wrote: "Gundula wrote: "Chrissie wrote: "Lisa and Gundula, I am waiting for a response from Audible. I am not worried; they always help. But I don't want to stop listening, so I will continue with what I h..."

That would make sense, but it should be noted for clients.

[Sarah]

Just about to start the play Other Desert Cities fer my lit class. I'm not sure I will like it,, but I may suprise myself.

[[deleted user]]

Just started "Lean Mean Thirteen" by Janet Evanovich

[Jill]

I just finished reading The White Tiger by Aravinda Adiga which was an excellent book. I have never read Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin. So I an reading that now!

[Kimberly]

I'm Starting and

[Aoibhínn]

I just finished reading by William Peter Blatty. The Exorcist is an engrossing, gripping, disturbing and well-written supernatural tale. I really enjoyed this novel. I thought the author's writing style was excellent. I found it very hard to put this book down for long. I just had to know what happened next even though I've seen the movie half a dozen times! It didn't frighten me to death but it did scare me a good bit! Even though the book is over forty years old, except for a bit of seventies slang here and there, it really isn't dated at all. The Exorcist is one of the best horror novels that I've read in a long time. Even if you've already seen the movie a hundred times I'd recommend reading the novel as it's a lot better than the movie!
My full review is here: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...


Now I'm about to start by William Landay.

[Andrew✌️]

I finished . Great book, with funny ideas and characters. Now I'm reading by Oscar Wilde.

[Diane]

I have just started

[Chrissie]

I finished St. Peter's Fair and I must highly recommend this!
My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Now, finally, I like cozy, historical mysteries. There are so many more in this series left for me to read. I will be reading The Leper of Saint Giles as soon as I have a chance to download some books into my Ipod! I HAVE to read the two I already have there. This isn't terrible. I have started Pure. This is one of those books that the atmosphere of the place draws you in immediately. Paris, back in the end of the 1700s. OK, it is stinky, but it is still Paris, and Paris has a charm of its own, doesn't it?! I really am enjoying this.

I am slowly but surely getting through The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance. I read a chapter a day. It is impossible to read this without feeling you just might be sick! And you wash your hands incessantly. Maker sure you have a good supply of soap at home when you read this book.

[Andrew✌️]

Chrissie wrote: "I finished St. Peter's Fair and I must highly recommend this!
My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Now, finally, I like cozy, historical mysteries. There are so many more in th..."

I read all the books of Cadfael's cicle and I have appreciate the historical description and characterization that the author put in the narration. I hope you dont' stop with these titles but continue with the others.
Personally I liked also the previously three books, included A Morbid Taste for Bones.

[Chrissie]

Oh Andrew, I liked "A Morbid Taste for Bones" enough to give it three stars! But you have to understand that I don't read series and I don't read mysteries, but I REALLY enjoyed "St. Peter's Fair", so it was like feeling YES, I have to read more soon. There is a difference.

[Andrew✌️]

Chrissie wrote: "Oh Andrew, I liked "A Morbid Taste for Bones" enough to give it three stars! But you have to understand that I don't read series and I don't read mysteries, but I REALLY enjoyed "St. Peter's Fair",..."
Yes there's a difference. Ok, I've understood.
Instead if I find some book of an author that I like, I continue to read the whole serie

[Chrissie]

Well, Andrew, I believe I will now read several of Ellis'. :0)

[[deleted user]]

I will be away for a few days with limited internet, so I am starting:
"Listen The Shadows" by Joan Hall Hovey on Kindle
"Just Breathe" by Susan Wiggs in paperback
"Plum Lucky" by Janet Evanovich in paperback
"Wife for Hire" by Janet Evanovich in paperback

Will try to keep updated while I am gone.

[Chrissie]

I finished a book set in France, Pure, Paris of the 1780s to be exact, and I did enjoy it!

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

Now I am going back again to another of the Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters. I have chosenThe Leper of Saint Giles. I am definitely hooked. I am in fact almost done with it..... I cannot stop listening. This series is addictive.

[Chrissie]

Minutes ago I finished The Leper of Saint Giles. I adored it. It was fabulous. What a story!!!!!!! I will write a review and then past it in here. My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/... The audiobook narration by Johanna Ward was just p-e-r-f-e-c-t!

I am on a roll. I have to read another by Ellis Peters. It will be The Sanctuary Sparrow. So I am definitely staying in Great Britain.

[Aoibhínn]

I've just finished by William Landay. Defending Jacob is a well-written, disturbing and gripping crime thriller with plenty of twists and turns throughout the novel to keep you interested. I really enjoyed this book. I was hooked from the very beginning to the end. The reader is kept guessing as to whether Jacob is innocent or guilty until the very end of the novel. Throughout the trial I kept changing my mind about whether Jacob was guilty or not. I thought this was a excellent read so I’m giving it a well-deserved five stars!
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Now I'm about to start by Jamie Ford.

[Tim]

I'm reading Arthur Conan Doyle's The Stark Munro Letters. They're ostensibly the letters of J.M. Stark to a friend of his and said friend "gave" them to Conan Doyle to edit into a book. In reality, they're Arthur Conan Doyle's way of giving life lessons in the form of the stories relayed in the letters.

I'm only on the second letter, but it's interesting.

[Helena]

I just finished the first part of "Röde Orm", or The Long Ships as the English title is. It's a Swedish classic and it's about Vikings, their war stories, some of their daily life and quite a lot of humor. The characters all have a very pragmatical view om life. Now I've just picked up a book of short stories I was reading before going to USA, called You Must Be This Happy to Enter.

In USA, I met a friend whom I sometimes exchange books with. I picked "Long ships" (which I had just started reading myself in Swedish), and another book by Tom Robbins. Once I met her, she told me about being newly separated from her husband and how she was very much into reading healing & spiritual kind of books. Well, the books I picked are very far from being healing or spiritual. "Long ships" describes how Christianity was spread in Europe during this time, but I suspect this is not what she's after. I'm afraid I may have picked totally the wrong books for her at this time, but she promised to keep me posted. :)

[Chrissie]

I finished another of the Brother Cadfael series: The Sanctuary Sparrow. Still very good!
My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

I have begun Speaks the Nightbird, the first of a promising new series set in the Carolinas, historical fiction about witchcraft and murder. I will be reading this with a friend.

[Aoibhínn]

I've finished reading by Jamie Ford last night. I really loved this book! Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet is a beautiful, fascinating, tender and moving story from beginning to end. Like the title suggests, the story is such a bitter-sweet tale, heartbreaking at times and so warm and sweet in others.All the characters were vivid, well-developed and realistic. I really loved the characters of Henry, Keiko and Sheldon, and really cared about what happened to them. I found it really hard to put this novel down and I look forward to reading more from this author! I gave this novel 5 Stars!

My full review is here:
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...


Now I'm a few chapters into by John Steinbeck.

[[deleted user]]

Just started on Kindle "When The Heart Falls" by Kimberly Lewis

[Janet C-B]

I just finished Secret Daughter. I rate it 4 stars. This is a debut novel by the author. The ending was especially well done.

[[deleted user]]

Just starting "The Twelfth Child"

[Diane]

Ellie wrote: "I've just finished by William Landay. Defending Jacob is a well-written, disturbing and gripping crime thriller with plenty of twists and turns throughout the n..."

Ellie, I really should pick up Defending Jacob - nice little write up you gave it here.

[Chrissie]

Others may like Speaks the Nightbird, but not me. My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Then I tried The Bloodletter's Daughter and after a chapter or two I dumped that too. Let's put it this way, the style of writing was not to my taste. I have seen and loved the French film version of A Very Long Engagement. I was just learning French when I saw this. I feel reading the book will clarify what I didn't understand. I have already begun it, and I am satisfied that this will be a keeper.

[Lee, Mod Mama]

I adored that movie, Chrissie. I think it's one of my favourites.

[Chrissie]

Lee, I am having trouble with the book. It has such a different tone than the movie.

[[deleted user]]

Just started "Hearts Blood" by Carolyn McCray

[Chrissie]

I had a hard time understanding the confusing mystery in A Very Long Engagement, even after seeing the movie! I adored the French movie. Perhaps something has gone wrong in the translation and/or the narration of the audiobook. Read it in French if possible. My review explains more: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

I will now start Benjamin Franklin: An American Life.

[Lee, Mod Mama]

Thanks for the feedback about the book, Chrissie. I may not read it, I enjoyed the movie so much.

[Chrissie]

Lee, I adored the movie and it is easier to understand because you see who is talking. Honestly I was confused very often. Now maybe others don't care if they get confused, but I get terribly annoyed. I don't know how many times I would say: "Who the h*ll is THAT?" I did understand the important stuff by the end though, but not all the details.

I do think both the translation and the narration hurt the book.

Don't you think A. Tatou is a great actress? Did you see the film with subtitles or was there English spoken in your movie? I struggled because mine was in French and I was just learning then. The scenery and clothing and all the details of the movie were fantastic. It won tons of prizes.

[Lee, Mod Mama]

I saw the movie with subtitles and yes, I thought she was fantastic. I think it's one of my favourite movies!

[Chrissie]

I very highly recommend Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. There is much more to be known about this man than you think! It is not just for those interested in the founding fathers of America!
My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Thank you, Laura, for telling me I simply had to read this book!

I will take a little detour and read The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy, because I want to read something by Stewart O'Nan! Then I will return to the founding fathers topic and read John Adams by the great author David McCullough. When you read a really good book, your reading lists don't decrease; they grow exponentially.

[Aoibhínn]

I've finished reading by John Steinbeck. The Grapes of Wrath is a beautifully written but extremely moving and heartbreaking novel with interesting, realistic and well-developed characters. I love John Steinbeck's wonderful writing style. I just loved his fantastic vivid descriptions of the landscape and the people. At times the descriptions of the barren landscape and the appalling conditions the family have to put up with is very depressing. I wanted to put the book down sometimes due to this but I'm glad a persevered through and finished the novel.This novel well deserved the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction it won in 1940 and it really is a masterpiece of 20th Century literature. It is definitely a must read! Four stars!
My full review is here: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...


Now I'm about to start on by Nicholas Evans.

[Chrissie]

I just went and bought Night Train to Lisbon.... I absolutely cannot continue with Stewart O'Nan's The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy. I thought I had a strong stomach, but it is just too gruesome. I have been listening to several hours of the description of the people burned in the fire. It goes on and on. No, I cannot take it any more.


Short review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

[Lee, Mod Mama]

That's sounds rather gruesome, Chrissie. I don't blame you for not wanting to listen to that for hours.

[Chrissie]

Lee wrote: "That's sounds rather gruesome, Chrissie. I don't blame you for not wanting to listen to that for hours."

Lee, it was unbelievable and you know I am not one to avoid difficult subject. This was too much! I think it is important people be aware that this goes too far.

[Lee, Mod Mama]

Definitely, thanks for the feedback!