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Post by gs11rmb on Jul 27, 2018 9:51:39 GMT -5
I'm starting All the Light We Cannot See.
I really didn't like that book. I thought I would but was really disappointed. Once you've read it, I'll let you know the one thing that I thought was the most utterly ridiculous
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Post by Tennesseer on Jul 27, 2018 10:14:18 GMT -5
A Column of Fire by Ken Follett. A Column of Fire is the last book of the Kingsbridge series (The Pillars of the Earth, World Without End) .
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Post by Artemis Windsong on Jul 27, 2018 11:41:35 GMT -5
I'm starting All the Light We Cannot See.
I'm shocked at the wait list numbers for some of you! I hadn't realized they could be that high. I think my worst one has been in the 40s. My current worst one is The Hypnotist's Love Story Liane Moriarty EBOOK #41 on 4 copies Ridiculous.
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Post by oped on Aug 20, 2018 22:39:23 GMT -5
I actually started a list because I wasn't allowed to come back here till I read at least 20. But I passed that awhile ago, so i'll just do lately...
Calypso by David Sedaris, The Book of Speculation by Erika Syler, The Advocate's Daughter by Anthony Franze, Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase, The Summer Children by Dot Hutchinson, Hellbent by Gregg Hurwitz, Emma in the Night by Wendy Walker, Circling the Sun by Paula McLain, Out of Africa by Isak Dineson, Artemis by Andy Weir, The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden, A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas, Her Every Fear by Peter Swanson, In a dark, dark wood by Ruth Ware... a few books on education tech and education in Finland, I don't have the titles handy but could find them if someone was interested.
Currently reading The Fold by Peter Clines, liked his 14.
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Post by Tennesseer on Aug 20, 2018 22:41:08 GMT -5
I actually started a list because I wasn't allowed to come back here till I read at least 20. But I passed that awhile ago, so i'll just do lately... Calypso by David Sedaris, The Book of Speculation by Erika Syler, The Advocate's Daughter by Anthony Franze, Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase, The Summer Children by Dot Hutchinson, Hellbent by Gregg Hurwitz, Emma in the Night by Wendy Walker, Circling the Sun by Paula McLain, Out of Africa by Isak Dineson, Artemis by Andy Weir, The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden, A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas, Her Every Fear by Peter Swanson, In a dark, dark wood by Ruth Ware... a few books on education tech and education in Finland, I don't have the titles handy but could find them if someone was interested. Currently reading The Fold by Peter Clines, liked his 14. (Welcome back.)
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Post by NastyWoman on Aug 21, 2018 19:12:12 GMT -5
I actually started a list because I wasn't allowed to come back here till I read at least 20. But I passed that awhile ago, so i'll just do lately... Calypso by David Sedaris, The Book of Speculation by Erika Syler, The Advocate's Daughter by Anthony Franze, Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase, The Summer Children by Dot Hutchinson, Hellbent by Gregg Hurwitz, Emma in the Night by Wendy Walker, Circling the Sun by Paula McLain, Out of Africa by Isak Dineson, Artemis by Andy Weir, The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden, A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas, Her Every Fear by Peter Swanson, In a dark, dark wood by Ruth Ware... a few books on education tech and education in Finland, I don't have the titles handy but could find them if someone was interested. Currently reading The Fold by Peter Clines, liked his 14. (Welcome back.)
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Post by steph08 on Aug 22, 2018 10:48:17 GMT -5
Currently reading The Fold by Peter Clines, liked his 14. Ugh. (to liking his 14)
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Post by oped on Aug 23, 2018 17:32:24 GMT -5
It was kind of fun! Fold is ok. I'm hooked enough I kept doing chores today so i could listen to more
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Post by Happy prose on Aug 24, 2018 3:49:14 GMT -5
oped How was the Ruth Ware book? I read the Woman in Cabin 10 and liked it. Just started By Invitation only, by Dorthea Benton Frank.
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Post by oped on Aug 24, 2018 15:02:34 GMT -5
oped How was the Ruth Ware book? I read the Woman in Cabin 10 and liked it. Just started By Invitation only, by Dorthea Benton Frank. I was meh about it, honestly. I had been meaning to read Woman in Cabin 10 and it and i just weren't in the same place at the same time, and i saw that one and read it. It WASN"T awful, lol... but i remember thinking, now i'm not sure i need to read Cabin 10... Honestly, i will read Cabin 10. Because i'm curious. .... When Sue Monk Kidd wrote The Secret Life of Bees it was really well done. Our book club then read The Mermaid Chair... which was published after, but if i had to guess, was written before and then 'edited up' once she was published and a little famous. To me this one read like that, but i can't be sure since i haven't read anything else by her. It was ok, just maybe too convoluted and not polished enough for what i would have expected. lol... and that was a long explanation. edited because i meant it wasn't awful. It wasn't. Just maybe not awesome.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Aug 24, 2018 16:09:47 GMT -5
Reading Percy Jackson for the umpteenth time. Before that I re-read the Sisters Grimm series again. Anymore I prefer YA fiction to adult fiction.
Before that I read the new Timothy Zahn Star Wars novel Alliances. I hope there is a third one I am really enjoying books involving Thrawn's backstory.
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Post by Gardening Grandma on Aug 24, 2018 16:30:01 GMT -5
The Orchardist
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Post by beergut on Aug 24, 2018 18:08:25 GMT -5
Reading Percy Jackson for the umpteenth time. Before that I re-read the Sisters Grimm series again. Anymore I prefer YA fiction to adult fiction.
Before that I read the new Timothy Zahn Star Wars novel Alliances. I hope there is a third one I am really enjoying books involving Thrawn's backstory.
Did you get into the Kane Chronicles or Gods of Asgard series? Kane Chronicles was just okay to me. I never read past book 1 in Gods of Asgard. Both the Percy Jackson and the Heroes of Olympus series were excellent.
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Post by buystoys on Aug 24, 2018 18:41:02 GMT -5
Reading the I am Number Four series and all the follow up books.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Aug 24, 2018 19:08:14 GMT -5
Reading Percy Jackson for the umpteenth time. Before that I re-read the Sisters Grimm series again. Anymore I prefer YA fiction to adult fiction.
Before that I read the new Timothy Zahn Star Wars novel Alliances. I hope there is a third one I am really enjoying books involving Thrawn's backstory.
Did you get into the Kane Chronicles or Gods of Asgard series? Kane Chronicles was just okay to me. I never read past book 1 in Gods of Asgard. Both the Percy Jackson and the Heroes of Olympus series were excellent. I've read all of them. Wasn't a huge fan of the Kane Chronicles. I like the Gods of Asgard. I'm waiting for the next Trials of Apollo book. The last one got dark it actually made me cry.
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Post by happyhoix on Aug 26, 2018 16:52:11 GMT -5
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters.
Such an amazing book.
They turned it into a movie which is opening soon, and seeing the preview for it, I thought it looked good and bought the book for it on Audible. In listening to it, I realized when I was about 1/4 of the way in that I had read it before, back when the book first came out. I remembered the twist ending for it - but really, the book was so much better to read knowing the twist at the end. I don't want to give away what happens, but if you know the ending, you pick up a hundred tiny clues that point to what's really going on all the way through the book.
If you like creepy ghost stories in big ramshackle English manor houses written by an author who has an amazing ability to write well, you should try it. I'm a little afraid to watch the movie, now, because it can't be better than the book, so I'm pretty sure I'll be disappointed. The book is a very subtle psychological thriller, and I'm afraid they'll drop the subtlety to make sure everyone 'gets' the twist ending, which would be a shame.
I borrowed another Sarah Waters book on RB Digital from the local library - The Night Watch.
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Post by countrygirl2 on Aug 26, 2018 23:14:02 GMT -5
Reading The Insider Threat by Brad Taylor.
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Post by tcu2003 on Aug 26, 2018 23:39:37 GMT -5
I’ve read Ready Player One by Ernest Cline and Separation of Power (Mitch Rapp #5) by Vince Flynn in the last couple of weeks. I really enjoyed Ready Player One - it’s not my usual genre, but it was a fun read with some great 80a child memories for me.
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Post by oped on Aug 27, 2018 6:38:30 GMT -5
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters.
Such an amazing book.
They turned it into a movie which is opening soon, and seeing the preview for it, I thought it looked good and bought the book for it on Audible. In listening to it, I realized when I was about 1/4 of the way in that I had read it before, back when the book first came out. I remembered the twist ending for it - but really, the book was so much better to read knowing the twist at the end. I don't want to give away what happens, but if you know the ending, you pick up a hundred tiny clues that point to what's really going on all the way through the book.
If you like creepy ghost stories in big ramshackle English manor houses written by an author who has an amazing ability to write well, you should try it. I'm a little afraid to watch the movie, now, because it can't be better than the book, so I'm pretty sure I'll be disappointed. The book is a very subtle psychological thriller, and I'm afraid they'll drop the subtlety to make sure everyone 'gets' the twist ending, which would be a shame.
I borrowed another Sarah Waters book on RB Digital from the local library - The Night Watch. Some books are like that. I tell people to watch Life of Pi first, because if you read it and get to the end, you'll just have to start back over again. And that one is also better when you know the end and can read the foreshadowing with greater understanding. Little Stranger sounds right up my ally
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Post by happyhoix on Aug 27, 2018 6:53:48 GMT -5
I’ve read Ready Player One by Ernest Cline and Separation of Power (Mitch Rapp #5) by Vince Flynn in the last couple of weeks. I really enjoyed Ready Player One - it’s not my usual genre, but it was a fun read with some great 80a child memories for me. My boss recommended that one to me. Not my usual genre either but he also liked the 80's references. It's on my Audible wish list.
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Post by Opti on Aug 27, 2018 6:55:54 GMT -5
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters.
Such an amazing book.
They turned it into a movie which is opening soon, and seeing the preview for it, I thought it looked good and bought the book for it on Audible. In listening to it, I realized when I was about 1/4 of the way in that I had read it before, back when the book first came out. I remembered the twist ending for it - but really, the book was so much better to read knowing the twist at the end. I don't want to give away what happens, but if you know the ending, you pick up a hundred tiny clues that point to what's really going on all the way through the book.
If you like creepy ghost stories in big ramshackle English manor houses written by an author who has an amazing ability to write well, you should try it. I'm a little afraid to watch the movie, now, because it can't be better than the book, so I'm pretty sure I'll be disappointed. The book is a very subtle psychological thriller, and I'm afraid they'll drop the subtlety to make sure everyone 'gets' the twist ending, which would be a shame.
I borrowed another Sarah Waters book on RB Digital from the local library - The Night Watch. Some books are like that. I tell people to watch Life of Pi first, because if you read it and get to the end, you'll just have to start back over again. And that one is also better when you know the end and can read the foreshadowing with greater understanding. Little Stranger sounds right up my ally I had a hard time both reading and watching Life of Pi. I think I read Life of Pi with a book group and saw the movie at the local library with a couple friends and their spouses.
It was about a real tiger. It did tell you how to survive with a real tiger on a boat.
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Post by Artemis Windsong on Aug 27, 2018 13:23:48 GMT -5
Requested Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. Large print 511 pages. So much for telling myself I would not read anymore long books. Update: This was a fast read. It's sad. Told from the perspective of a murdered girl.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Sept 6, 2018 22:30:19 GMT -5
Just finished Sisterhood by Curtis Sittenfield. I'm pretty mad at the main character.
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Post by saveinla on Sept 6, 2018 22:57:10 GMT -5
The Last Child by John Hart - I liked the style of the author, but it is a sad book.
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Post by gs11rmb on Sept 7, 2018 7:14:39 GMT -5
I'm reading "Hope Never Dies: an Obama Biden Mystery". Definitely not great literature but a fun read. I think it may have started life as fan-fiction but then got 'cleaned up' for publication. Essentially, it's a murder mystery that Obama and Biden are trying to solve with Biden as the narrator in old-school hard-boiled private detective style. There's part of me that actually wishes they do play the game where you name three women and the other has to choose POTUS, SCOTUS or FLOTUS
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Post by Artemis Windsong on Oct 3, 2018 11:28:20 GMT -5
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
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Post by cktc on Oct 12, 2018 11:48:46 GMT -5
I just finished Endurance by astronaut Scott Kelly about his year in space. It was an interesting read but the stuff about his love life and ex-wife was cringy.
Started Woodward's Fear, but had to put it on pause. Someone tell me it's a worthwhile read. I'm only 10% in and it's just leaving me depressed about the current state of politics and the electoral process.
Current read is Chasing Life by Dr. Sanjay Gupta (CNN medical corespondent) I'm seeing him speak next month and I'm not familiar with him at all. So far it's just don't eat too much garbage. Not much of a page turner but nothing objectionable so far. I am awaiting other pearls like exercise and have a strong social network. Hopefully there will be more to it than standard medical advise.
Maybe I should just go back to reading fantasy.
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on Oct 12, 2018 12:13:42 GMT -5
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Oct 12, 2018 16:44:31 GMT -5
I read Catwoman: Soul Stealer. I enjoyed it, it's part of a series by DC involving popular YA authors. I want to get the other three (Wonder woman, Batman and Superman)
Brain Candy: science, paradoxes, puzzles, logic and illogic to nourish your neurons How to Speak Science: Gravity, relativity and other ideas that were crazy until proven brilliant The Subtle Art of not giving a f*ck
Right now I am reading Time's Convert by Deborah Harkness.
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Post by saveinla on Nov 6, 2018 13:41:18 GMT -5
Bluebird, Bluebird - Attica Locke
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley - Hannah Tinti
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