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Post by azucena on Nov 30, 2018 13:45:03 GMT -5
Stumbled on a new to me auther Anne Fortier when someone gave me a copy of the lost sisterhood.
Took her book Juliet on the cruise and just finished it a week after we got back. She weaves a compelling story in both that hooked me in.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Nov 30, 2018 21:17:30 GMT -5
I just finished The 7 1/2 Deaths of Emily Hardcastle. I struggled at first but it ended up being really good.
I'm going to have to reread it to find all the clues I missed the first time around.
Also.finished Wonder Woman Warbringer. Also pretty good.
Rereading The Subtle Art of not giving a f*ck.
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Post by tcu2003 on Dec 1, 2018 13:52:08 GMT -5
I just finished Love Works: Seven Timeless Principles for Effective Leaders by Joel Manby.
I’m nearly done with Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah. This one is a really good read so far!
I just finished reading the 9th and final book in the Ricky Ricotta and his Mighty Robot series by Dav Pilkey to DS. DS is 6 (first grade) and really liked the books. He can read them on his own, but like having me read them aloud as well.
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Post by tcu2003 on Dec 1, 2018 13:54:19 GMT -5
We usually have 50 items checked out at any given time. DD10 and DD6 each get 10 as do I. I usually pick up 5 more picture books because I can't stand to read my little pony or other fluff over and over. Then, we get a few movies and usually DD10 needs a book or two for homework. Plus, she uses the app to constantly keep her request queue full so I usually stop by the library and pick up what's ready 1-2/week -> 50 items checked out. Our tax dollars at work! This is us - we had 75 items last weekend. We returned nearly everything and are back in the 40-ish range, but usually have around 50. We went to the library weekly as a kid, and we go nearly weekly now with our kids.
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Post by azucena on Dec 1, 2018 17:47:21 GMT -5
We usually have 50 items checked out at any given time. DD10 and DD6 each get 10 as do I. I usually pick up 5 more picture books because I can't stand to read my little pony or other fluff over and over. Then, we get a few movies and usually DD10 needs a book or two for homework. Plus, she uses the app to constantly keep her request queue full so I usually stop by the library and pick up what's ready 1-2/week -> 50 items checked out. Our tax dollars at work! This is us - we had 75 items last weekend. We returned nearly everything and are back in the 40-ish range, but usually have around 50. We went to the library weekly as a kid, and we go nearly weekly now with our kids. My people...I have yet to find anyone else in real life who has this type of library habit. My friends think I'm crazy. DD10 polled her classmates and half had never been to the public library. She was heartbroken; she's going to be a librarian when she grows up. I had to put a major stop to her loaning out library books to her friends because they don't end up coming back.
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Post by oped on Dec 1, 2018 17:52:41 GMT -5
I am a horrible library patron. I just buy books, tons of them. But I know lots and lots of homeschoolers... so the habits you describe are not new to me One of my fellow homeschool moms tells the story about how the first thing she did when she and her new husband moved was to tell him they needed to get library cards. He didn't understand why and she was dumbfounded... that's just what you do first... that's why.
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Post by cktc on Dec 1, 2018 19:17:03 GMT -5
I just found out our library has a 50 book max. I thought that was insane, but then grabbed 8 books today for DS. DD isn't reading yet and I do all mine through the digital library. I used to do a lot of movies but dont have as much time for those right now. Definitely need to up my library game. I get sick of reading the same stories for bedtime every night. DS was cracking up over A is for Musk Ox. We always find so many books he adores that I've never even heard of and wouldn't think to buy.
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Post by azucena on Dec 1, 2018 20:12:25 GMT -5
I'll have to look for the ox book. We love funny picture books.
Our library limit is 100. I've told the kids it's 60 lol.
Never fails that we have a $1 or 2 fine when I send DH to pick up our holds. Then he proceeds to gripe about how much it's costing. Clearly one new book would cost more but that concept is lost on him. Both of his parents are blind so unfortunately he doesn't have good reading habits. He does support me in getting both kids to read a lot.
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Post by Artemis Windsong on Dec 6, 2018 18:44:36 GMT -5
The Horse Dancer JoJo Moyes
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Post by oped on Dec 6, 2018 19:41:30 GMT -5
Listed to 2/5 of Erotic Stories for Punjab Widows today while i went to pick up son... really liking it.
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Post by cktc on Dec 6, 2018 21:10:44 GMT -5
I've been reading A Higher Loyalty by James Comey. It's a surprisingly interesting read. He's been involved in quite a bit of American history.
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Post by azucena on Dec 17, 2018 14:01:12 GMT -5
Just finished Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah. Great storyline. Unfortunately, I could relate to the cold-hearted mother except it was my father who tended to act like I didn't exist. It's similar to The Nightingale in that it weaves some history into the fiction.
Part of the way through The Library Book. No idea why I picked this one up. It's interesting though. Premise is the great library fire in LA, but then it weaves in the whole history of LA's library system and some library history in general which I'm finding fascinating given I'm such a big library fan.
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Post by azucena on Dec 17, 2018 14:53:44 GMT -5
Just spent my lunch hour putting new books in my library queue for myself, DD10 and DD6. DD6 mentioned last night that she vastly prefers the early chapter books that we've been reading together nightly over the picture books that we have also been reading. She says the stories are much more interesting. That was all I needed to hear...Ivy + Bean, Mercy Watson, Nate the Great, the Littles.
That and I'm trying to stave off the "I'm bored" complaints when they get out of school 12/20-1/2. Plus winter is the best time to read.
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Post by oped on Dec 17, 2018 16:15:51 GMT -5
I really liked Punjabi widows. But the erotic bits are not for little ears...
Listening to the Professor and Madman and Mess and Moxie... both are ok. Not spectacular but I’ll finish them.
I’m reading The War That Saved My Life.
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Post by happyhoix on Dec 17, 2018 17:09:58 GMT -5
Philip Kerr's The Pale Criminal. Kerr writes Berlin Noir books (think Maltese Falcon only in Berlin, in the 1930s). His detective is Bernie Gunther, a tough ex-cop who hates Nazis. The Pale Criminal is his second book, and it has a serial murderer of young women.
The thing I like best about Kerr's books is how he throws to many actual people into them. I had no idea Himmler was into the occult, and no idea that some crazy Nazis dug up some pre-Christian, prehistoric religion. Sounds like an Indiana Jones movie, but I looked up the characters, and they're real Germans and SS officers. Crazy.
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Post by gs11rmb on Dec 18, 2018 10:05:32 GMT -5
Philip Kerr's The Pale Criminal. Kerr writes Berlin Noir books (think Maltese Falcon only in Berlin, in the 1930s). His detective is Bernie Gunther, a tough ex-cop who hates Nazis. The Pale Criminal is his second book, and it has a serial murderer of young women.
The thing I like best about Kerr's books is how he throws to many actual people into them. I had no idea Himmler was into the occult, and no idea that some crazy Nazis dug up some pre-Christian, prehistoric religion. Sounds like an Indiana Jones movie, but I looked up the characters, and they're real Germans and SS officers. Crazy. I might try that book. I have read "If the Dead Rise Not" and I was really annoyed because the blurb about the book contained this line "But he discovers that he cannot truly outrun his past when he collides with an old love and a vicious killer from his Berlin days..." I thought it meant that the old love and vicious killer were one and the same person so it completely coloured my view of the female character because I 'knew' she was also a vicious killer. Of course, the old love and vicious killer turned out to be two different characters. That could have been avoided if it had said "collides with BOTH an old love and a vicious killer". Of course, I could also work on my reading comprehension because it's so obvious in hindsight .
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Dec 18, 2018 22:43:35 GMT -5
My library's digital system only allows up to six holds and six check-outs. I have 28 books on my Want to Read list, and they're all waitlisted! Grrr.
However, y'all have saved me, and I've checked out the following:
Sarah Addison Allen's The Peach Keeper James Comey's A Higher Loyalty Anne Fortier's Juliet and The Lost Sisterhood
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Dec 24, 2018 14:03:01 GMT -5
Finished Comey’s book. Even if you’re not interested in the political events of the past few years, he describes his leadership philosophy and has personal and professional memoir chapters describing events of the last 30 years that are interesting.
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Post by oped on Dec 24, 2018 14:24:16 GMT -5
Finished The War that Saved My Life last night. Really good, and hard for a kids book actually. But so well done. Ordered the second. Finishing listening to The Professor and the Madman, really amazing how the writing of a dictionary could be interesting. Going to pick some mindless or mystery popular fiction for later.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2018 19:06:51 GMT -5
I haven't been reading this thread so I may be late to the party, but have you guys discovered The Woman in the Window? It has an obvious similarity to Girl on the Train, but it is actually closer to Rear Window. The protagonist is a Hitchcock fan.
I devoured it, but I love mysteries, thrillers, etc.
Just wanted to throw that out there. They are already planning the movie.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Dec 29, 2018 22:38:23 GMT -5
I don't often stop reading a book or watching a movie. I feel when I a start reading or watching, I make a commitment to reading or watching the whole thing.
I started Juliet by Anne Fortier. I'm 20% in and I can't keep reading it. The writing is sub-par. There aren't typos, but the syntax and verb selection is ridiculous. The character development is non-existence, and there are multiple plot holes.
I'm sad.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Dec 30, 2018 10:04:18 GMT -5
Reading Becoming by Michelle Obama.
I'm enjoying it I like learning more about them as people and not getting only what the media chooses to portray and dissect.
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Post by tcu2003 on Dec 30, 2018 17:01:24 GMT -5
Reading Becoming by Michelle Obama. I'm enjoying it I like learning more about them as people and not getting only what the media chooses to portray and dissect. I’m reading this right now as well - soooo good, so far!
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Post by NoNamePerson on Dec 30, 2018 17:23:01 GMT -5
In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: A Memoir ~ Neil White
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Post by Tennesseer on Dec 30, 2018 18:56:47 GMT -5
Just finished The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane: A Novel by Lisa See.
Next up, history time: Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar.
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Post by saveinla on Dec 30, 2018 21:05:52 GMT -5
Just finished The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane: A Novel by Lisa See. Next up, history time: Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar. I liked the book - Tea Girl of Humming bird Lane. Somehow it was sad and beautiful all at once.
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Post by Tennesseer on Dec 30, 2018 21:21:16 GMT -5
Just finished The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane: A Novel by Lisa See. Next up, history time: Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar. I liked the book - Tea Girl of Humming bird Lane. Somehow it was sad and beautiful all at once. It was interesting moving from 'primitive' tribal beliefs to modern life. The grand finale was pleasantly brief.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Jan 3, 2019 9:06:42 GMT -5
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Jan 27, 2019 19:47:41 GMT -5
Finished A Man Called Ove. I really enjoyed the style of writing and the story itself.
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Post by Happy prose on Jan 27, 2019 20:12:09 GMT -5
I think I'm the only one that never remembers what I'm reading. My Kindle is in the bedroom. Lol. Whatever book I'm reading is good. I'll fill you in tomorrow. My library finally has digital loans. I don't even understand people that don't use the library. I do love not having to make a trip for returns now.
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