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[Kat]

jaxnsmom wrote: "I just entered to win Fifty Shames of Earl Grey by Andrew Shaffer. Yes, it's a parody of Fifty Shades of Grey. I thought it would be perfect for this group -..."

LOL! Love it!

[Janice, Moderator]

I went to his page and it doesn't show that he's a member of YLTO, but then one doesn't have to be a member to lurk.

[Roz]

Tea wrote: "The hunger games trilogy are such an easy book , it's taken me about a day to read the first two books. Pretty good, I expected better though from all I've heard about the ser..."

I read The Hunger Games in one sittng and enjoyed it. I picked it up because of all the hype about the movie. I'm half way through the second in the series Catching Firenow, and I'm enjoying this one too. I'm sometimes disappointed by series books. The author does well catching my interest with the first installment only to fall flat with subsequent additions. So far I've found only one series that I really enjoyed, the Outlander books by Gabaldan. I hope this series keeps my interest all the way to the end.

[Dwayne]

I am currently reading Year Zero for the second time because I like the message/commentary it makes about the music industry. And next I will be reading (almost done with first book) Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life because a friend just finished and thought I would like it.

[Janice, Moderator]

Judy wrote: "Janice wrote: "I went to his page and it doesn't show that he's a member of YLTO, but then one doesn't have to be a member to lurk."

Oh, I was joking about the author being a lurker...I just said ..."

ROFL! Those funky five minutes are coming fast an furious.

[Ava Catherine]

I am starting The Queen's Vow: A Novel Of Isabella Of Castile by C.W. Gortner and Red Glassby Laura Resau.

[Maria]

I'm reading... nothing. Well, I DO have books going on at the moment THe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and A Pair of Blue Eyes, but I'm not actively trying to finish any of them. Instead, I'm editing my novel, playing Sudoku, and putting together the video for our camp presentation.

It's enjoyable, but I'm waiting for the moment when I get sick of it all.

[Chrissie]

Finished and thoroughly enjoyed Sipping from the Nile. My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

[Dem]

I just finished Perla this is my review www.goodreads.com/review/show/317499934

I am now starting and looking forward to The Light Between Oceans

[Chrissie]

I am currently listening to Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall. It is good. Not dry, the author's personal reflections on what she is told and sees and learns adds to the historical facts. You get involved because the people's experiences are so horrible.

[Maria]

Started Cold Mountain.

Still not done with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, but I've got only 3/8ths to go, thankfully. I just can't care about these characters!

Still not done with A Pair of Blue Eyes, though that's more because of not finishing Huck Finn than anything else.

[Chrissie]

Having finished If This Is a Man / The Truce
(my review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...)
I will now read Regeneration. This is historical fiction about real people.

Thank you Dawn for giving this to me AND thank you Jeanette for bringing it to my door! What great friends!!!! And now Jeanette has met Oscar! He sends a woof.

[Jennifer]

Finished the three I was still reading at last update: The Poet , One Shot and 11/22/63 . AlsoThe Concrete Blonde and Definitely, Maybe .

Re The Poet -- I liked it, but I like Bosch better. Bosch is deeper and richer. Probably a product of this book being relatively early in Connelly's career. Really liked The Concrete Blonde, particularly the interplay between Bosch and Edgar.

Re One Shot -- this one was a nice break from the other string of Lee Childs which were all towns-in-trouble variations. This one is the first Lee Child I ever read but it was so long ago I had no memory of it-- and it had an interesting premise with an interesting tie to Reacher's past.

Definitely, Maybe -- fluff, not up to the quality of the rest of the series. Stick to long form, Heather!

11/22/63 -- Wow. Interesting that throughout the book the assumption is the world is a better place if JFK survives, and that goes virtually unquestioned until it proves not to be the case. Says a lot about the mythos that has grown up around JFK in our society. We lived in Dallas then -- I was born a few months after the assassination -- and I of course heard the "where were you" stories from my family. My dad, a lifelong republican, once said that although he didn't agree with JFK's politics, it was impossible not to like him. I can see that (and I'm a democrat so I don't have the conflict). I lived in Dallas until I was five or six, and even though I left there at such a young age, I remember the place as having a deep pall of nastiness and negativity like King describes in his afterword. I remember nice people, and the feeling they were trapped in a nasty place.

Reading The Fifth Witness and about to start The Eleventh Man and Four of a Kind: A Novel .

[Janice, Moderator]

Your observation about 11/22/63 is interesting. It reminds me of the book Guns of the South which is an alternative history that explores that would the United States might have been like if the Confederates won the civil war.

[Betsy]

Well, I was going to start Chris Boujahalian's Night Strangers since I think he does character development and emotional better than 90% of male authors, but I started Jackie Sheehans' Picture This because it was late at night and I was into her characters from a previous novel[book:The Night Strangers

[Ava Catherine]

I just finished The Spy Wore Red by Aline Countess of Romanones for the Rainbow Challenge. I am currently reading The Veiled One by Ruth Rendell for the same challenge. I am almost finished with this one, too.

I am also reading Daniel Deronda George Eliot for another group's challenge.

[Chrissie]

Judy, I thought you would like it. :0) I like that we know which books to suggest to each other.

[Jennifer]

Judy wrote: "Is there any significance with your current three books having numbers in the titles, Jennifer?"


No, but oddly I started thinking about a challenge with numbers in the title and didn't know where that thought came from until I read your question! Talk about being blind to ones own self!

[Betsy]

Reading Divergent, which is a YA book even adults like, for possible inclusion into my middle school classroom.

[Jennifer]

Janice wrote: "Your observation about 11/22/63 is interesting. It reminds me of the book Guns of the South which is an alternative history that explores that would the United States might have been like if the C..."

I looked that up and added it to my TBR-- I've been wanting to read Turtledove anyway! Thanks! I haven't read much alternate history-- the only one that leaps to mind is
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer, which I enjoyed quite a bit-- fast, fascinating read.

[Maria]

Just finished The Power of Less. Fantastic.

Still on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Pair of Blue Eyes, but also reading Through the Language Glass and Cold Mountain

[Chrissie]

I finished Regeneration, the first of a trilogy about WW1. My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

I will now continue to read about WW1 with Three Day Road.

[cazdoll]

I'm reading I'm loving at the moment :)

[Susan]

I just finished reading Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin and loved it. I have just started reading The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty, and am already liking it very much.

[Betsy]

Still reading Divergent. Since my class starts Wednesday and I'm behind and won't get text book till late afternoon Monday, I want to finish this now before I get overwhelmed.

Susan, I felt the same about Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter. I kept talking to the characters in my head trying to advise them on how to run their lives. They were such like-able human characters.

[Janice, Moderator]

Susan wrote: "I just finished reading Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin and loved it. I have just started reading The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty, and am already liking it very much."

The Chaperone is today's Kindle Daily Deal for $2.99. I ordered it and was charged $15.74! So I complained and was told that pricing is affected by the different publishing regulations based on which country you live in. But they gave me a credit anyway.

I also enjoyed Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter.

[Janice, Moderator]

I started The Persimmon Tree today on audiobook. It will work for a couple of challenges - our rainbow challenge and my around the world challenge.

[Kat]

Janice wrote: "I started The Persimmon Tree today on audiobook. It will work for a couple of challenges - our rainbow challenge and my around the world challenge."

What do you think of the narrator Janice? He has narrated almost all of Bryce Courtenay's audiobooks, and I really enjoy the way he narrates.

[Snoozie Suzie]

I have just finished 'Where The Red Fern Grows' by Wilson Rawls for the Rainbow Challenge and enjoyed it so much I don't know what to read next and ruin the memory of a great book - you know what I mean? You read a fantastic book that makes you feel great and reminds you why you love books, then you read something else and it sometimes can be like treading-water and makes you feel flat, a 'do I finish it or not or is it only because the last book I read was so super'?

In other words I don't know what to read next so am going for 'Red Glass' by Laura Resau

[Janice, Moderator]

Kat wrote: "Janice wrote: "I started The Persimmon Tree today on audiobook. It will work for a couple of challenges - our rainbow challenge and my around the world challenge."

What do you think of the narrat..."

I've listened to about 2 hours, and I appreciate Bower's use of accents. It makes me understand each character better.

[Janice, Moderator]

Snoozie Suzie wrote: "I have just finished 'Where The Red Fern Grows' by Wilson Rawls for the Rainbow Challenge and enjoyed it so much I don't know what to read next and ruin the memory of a great book - you know what I..."

I'm on the other side of that spectrum. It seems that I've read a bunch of 3 stars lately, and I'm beginning to wonder when I'll read something that just wows me.

[Susan]

Snoozie Suzie wrote: "I have just finished 'Where The Red Fern Grows' by Wilson Rawls for the Rainbow Challenge and enjoyed it so much I don't know what to read next and ruin the memory of a great book - you know what I..."

Snoozie -- just saw this the other day:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...

[Chrissie]

I think I will start The Flowers of War, having just finished Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

[Betsy]

Reading,not my textbook,but Night Strangers by Boujahalian. He's excellent. This novel concerns mental illness/spirits I'm liking it a lot

[Susan]

Betsy wrote: "Reading,not my textbook,but Night Strangers by Boujahalian. He's excellent. This novel concerns mental illness/spirits I'm liking it a lot"

The Night Strangers was my first Bohjalian book, and I was thoroughly amazed by his description of the accident.

[Betsy]

Hi Susan,
Water Witches,then MidWives were my first two Bohjalian books. I love how he can take characters that are left of the mainstream and make them complex and human instead of cartoon stereotypes.

[Janice, Moderator]

I started The House of the Spirits for another group read and Frankenstein for our SF pick. I've set A Canticle for Leibowitz aside for the time being. It's a bit confusing and I'm struggling with it. I decided to set it aside to read these other books and then I'll decide whether or not I continue with it.

[Chrissie]

Janice, that is Allende's best book!!!! when I think of GOOD magical realism it is always The House of Spirits that first come to my mind. Enjoy.

[Chrissie]

Judy, of course you can jump in!!! Everyone is welcome.

I very much prefer Allende's earlier books. Paula and Portrait in Sepiaare also very good, but then she started writing books for children and my interests wanned.

I am wondering which you will prefer - Island Beneath the Sea or House of Spirits? I honestly am very skeptical of trying her newer books. So how many stars did you give IBTS?

[Janice, Moderator]

Judy, I started listening to Island Beneath the Sea and was so confused, I gave up on it!

I'm halfway through IBtS as well, and enjoying it a lot.

I read Daughter of Fortune many years ago and enjoyed it as well. That was why I was so willing to give IBtS a chance.

[Chrissie]

Judy and Janice, "Daughter of Fortune" and then "Portrait in Sepia" follow House of Spirits. All are definitely worth reading, but my favorite is clearly House of Spirits. With Eva Luna her writing starts getting worse. Paula, about her daughter, is very good. I gave that one four stars. Maybe The Sum of Our Days is worth a try because that is biography, and Paula was so good. I think her writing is best when she speaks of her own life experiences. I WISH her newer books were as good as her old ones.

I KNOW others will NOT agree with me, but I think her earlier books are so much superior. I do not want to wreck my opinion of her with just OK stuff.

Zorro was just terrible.
That is when I made up my mind to forget her new books.

[Chrissie]

I finished The Flowers of War. My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Good writing is important to me. Don't look for that in this book, but as a quick historical fiction read about the Nanjing Massacre maybe..... All depends upon your own interests. I feel that since you listen to every word in an audiobook presentation, the author's writing skills must be good. I did want to know what would happen in the end, so it was worth two stars for me.

[Mrs C]

I am reading "City of Women" the character is smart and the setting is interesting - WWII-era Berlin.

[Chrissie]

Judy, that is interesting that Allende gets less enjoyment from her writing nowadays. This could be what I see reflected in her more recent writing.

[Tea]

I accidently stumbled upon Trudi Canavan and am on the 3rd black magican book

[Janice, Moderator]

Andrienne wrote: "I am reading "City of Women" the character is smart and the setting is interesting - WWII-era Berlin."

City of Womenlooks very interesting! I'm going to have to add it to my wishlist.

[Janice, Moderator]

Tea wrote: "I accidently stumbled upon Trudi Canavan and am on the 3rd black magican book "

I see that there is a book numbered 0.5 in the series, The Magician's Apprentice. Have you read it and would you recommend reading it first?

[Chrissie]

I finished Three Day Road
My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
This was a difficult read for me. I have mixed feelings about it. It is historical fiction based loosely on the Native Canadian Frances Pegahmagabow's WW1 experiences. I am reading books about WW1. I have read Regeneration and am now listening to A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway. I like the simplicity of Hemingways's prose. Next will be Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War and A Long Long Way, unless I need a break.

[Janice, Moderator]

Chrissie wrote: "I finished Three Day Road
My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
This was a difficult read for me. I have mixed feelings about it. It is historical fiction based loosely on the Na..."

I gave Three Day Road 4 stars. Because my grandfather fought at Vimy Ridge, and because I'm Canadian, this book touched me on many levels.

[Chrissie]

Janice, did you read my review? I like the book. I think people should read it. I have put spoiler warnings in the review. The two spoilers explain the two problems I had with the book. I still think it is worth reading. It is a very emotional read, and I mean that in a good way.