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Ann from S.C.
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Mar 29, 2012 09:50PM
I finished PRIVATE # 1 SUSPECT by James Patterson and liked it. Now am reading GUILTY WIVES by James Patterson and am loving it!
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I just finished The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. It was fascinating, I couldn't put it down. I also read A Woman of No Importance this evening. Not my favorite Oscar Wilde play, but it was okay.
I'm still reading Site Unseen and I've started Inflatable Men. Both mysteries and both so far are good.
I am reading the Millenium trilogy by Larsson. Good read so far about society and greed. Corruption at large. I am on book 3 of the series.
I decided its about time I started reading more classics so yesterday I started reading
by Emily Bronte.
Just finished the monstrous Lolita, am now moving onto Empire Falls by Richard Russo. Nice small-town charm so far!
I'm reading Jefferson's Sons by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley. It's a young adult novel about Thomas Jefferson's slave children.
Another one down (31 to go in this batch!)-- Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal
. I LOVE the cover. I liked the book and imagine it must have been incredibly cathartic to write. The only thing I'm not sold on is the extent to which the author seems intent on hanging on to the things that happened to her, and measuring herself against them. I suspect it's largely due to how recently the events had happened to her when she wrote this but I hope for her sake she grows into the ability to shed some of their influence.
I'm still trying to finish Banned for Life (sorry Lori) - I keep hoping to get the 'gotta' with it. I know now it ain't gonna happen but I'll still finish it. I've almost got Irina and Jason off to Europe - thank god! I enjoyed the music references but cannot care about the characters except for his 'muse,' Cassady. I agree with Cassady about Jason; just leave the dude alone!I am also reading a much more enjoyable yet major piece of mind candy, Celebrity in Death What a relief! About half way through.
Allison wrote: "Yuliya wrote: "It's me, books or my flu???????? I've never had so many books in row then recently which I don't like and rate 1 or 2 stars!!!!!!!!!"Me tooooo. I feel like I haven't read anything..."
If you haven't read
, it is really quite good.
Gary wrote: "I'm reading
by Jeffrey Archer"The end is great! The second book in the series has been published. I need to check to see if the library has it!
I'm reading Fifty Sades of Gray. I saw the author on Good Morning America and everyone was talking about the book and the controversy surrounding it.
I just finished Ready Player One. I'm on a streak of great books. Hope it doesn't end.This morning I started The Bottoms.
Reading Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson. It's a bit dry starting out, but I want to see how it ends, so I'm sticking to it.
Gary wrote: "Gitte wrote: "Gary wrote: "I'm reading
by Jeffrey Archer"I liked that one!"
I'm liking it so far"
At one point I started to think I knew how this was going to end but I was surprised.
Karen M wrote: "Gary wrote: "Gitte wrote: "Gary wrote: "I'm reading
by Jeffrey Archer"I liked that one!"
I'm liking it so far"
At one point I started to think I kn..."
Me too! I didn't really care for the ending, but I'm still curious to read the next one.
Kyle ( Rebel Leader) wrote: "Any naked parts in it?"
Kyle, That is an inappropriate question. Please do not ask questions like that of our members or the books they are reading.
Kyle, That is an inappropriate question. Please do not ask questions like that of our members or the books they are reading.
Having troubles with my electronic version of The Bottoms so I read The Cask of Amontillado and now I'm reading The Rats in the Walls.
Heard there is a bananza for Fifty Shades. It's amazing how it hit the bestseller's list since it started out as fanfiction. This may get other authors who do fanficition a greater possibility of publication with other works.I started reading The Baker's Daughter and am in love. I have had to double-check certain german words since I forgot what a few mean. But I am liking the direction thus far for a WW2 era book.
Usako wrote: " I started reading The Baker's Daughter and am in love. "
Hooray for that! Can't wait until Sarah McCoy joins us to discuss!
As for me, I am reading Two Dollar Radio's upcoming Radio Iris, which is really good so far,
and listening to Jim Greer's The Failure via Iambik Audio. The audio is recorded by a guy with a strong english accent and he speaks incredibly fast... so not sure how I feel about the book yet. It's hard to catch the storyline when my brain is racing to catch up with his words.
Hooray for that! Can't wait until Sarah McCoy joins us to discuss!
As for me, I am reading Two Dollar Radio's upcoming Radio Iris, which is really good so far,
and listening to Jim Greer's The Failure via Iambik Audio. The audio is recorded by a guy with a strong english accent and he speaks incredibly fast... so not sure how I feel about the book yet. It's hard to catch the storyline when my brain is racing to catch up with his words.
Still on my WW2 reading binge, learning and growing through history. This is also related to the realization that race is not the cause of war as everyone wants us to believe, they just profit from it when it's ___vs___. Fill in the blank: white/black, hispanic/white, hispanic/black, sunni/shia, light-skinned/dark-skinned, tutsi/hutu, russian/german, jewish/german, japanese/american, south/north, tupak(west)/biggie(east), etc. Always generalizing about groups to stir the pot. I have the faith most people are too smart to fall for it. Here's my list:A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery
Exodus
American Gods
48 Hours of Kristallnacht: Night of Destruction/Dawn of the Holocaust
just finished Love in a Nutshell, a light read with a happy ending!
Linda wrote: "Allison wrote: "Yuliya wrote: "It's me, books or my flu???????? I've never had so many books in row then recently which I don't like and rate 1 or 2 stars!!!!!!!!!"Me tooooo. I feel like I haven..."
Linda- Thank you so much for the suggestion! I haven't heard of that one, I'll get my hands on a copy. I really appreciate the suggestion, I need something good to read! :)
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold by C.S. Lewis I started this beautiful tail/myth and I like it no less than a Narnia
I have almost finished Site Unseen, am about 1/4 of the way through Shakedown which seems to be a fast read and just about to start Stuff to Die For. Hmmm all start with "S".
Just finished PRIVATE GAMES by James Patterson and loves it. Now am reading THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkenton for face to face book club. Also reading CAIN bu Jose Saramago and am really liking it so far.
Ann from S.C. wrote: "Just finished PRIVATE GAMES by James Patterson and loves it. Now am reading THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkenton for face to face book club. Also reading CAIN bu Jose Saramago and am really..."I like PRIVATE GAMES and all James Patterson books, which I read very often between other reading.
Right now I'm reading one of Scarpetta series - Trace by Patricia Cornwell which I like very much too (like to read about area of forensic )
Just finished Stay Close by Harlan Coben. It's his newest, but not his best. It was slightly more than an okay read. Am currently reading Charles Martin's new one -
. Really good so far. If the man has written a so-so book, I haven't read it. Highly recommend him.
I finished Site Unseen which was a really good mystery. So I go to my "to read" listing and decide I'm going to read Dune again. Can't find the darn book. So then I decide to read Tara Road which I found on the attic steps a couple of months ago. I read 50 pages and finally realized there was a reason why the story seemed very familiar. Guess I put it there a few years ago when I read it the first time. So, undaunted, I am actually reading The Moneychangers which was staring at me from the shelf where it has been waiting it's turn for years.
'Nother one down-- 29 to go in this batch! Finished Jolie Blon's Bounce
last night. James Lee Burke is one of my 4 or 5 favorite mystery authors and he does two things extraordinarily well-- first, he mixes description in with narrative so well that you don't realize a picture is being painted. You wind up with a story set in a place that arose fully formed in your mind as the story unfolded. The second thing is dialogue. His dialogue reveals his characters even as it communicates and pushes the story forward. And I'm sorry, I just love Clete Purcel. I realize he is intensely flawed and there is almost nothing about him that withstands scrutiny-- but, dude.
Just finished Sorrows of an American. Nothing blows up, there are no supernatural creatures or earth shattering mysteries. This is just a solid novel on many levels. I really enjoyed it.
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