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Post by raeoflyte on May 21, 2021 9:15:29 GMT -5
One of my favorite non-white authors is Colson whitehead. He did The Underground Railroad but he’s interesting in that he doesn’t stick to one genre. I would call Underground Railroad fantasy, and another book I love, the zone, is a zombie dystopian novel, plus he wrote a novel about growing up black in Sag Harbor. His writing style is awesome. I'm thinking about zone one as the next book to read with ds. Trying to decide if its too mature for him.
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Post by happyhoix on May 25, 2021 7:30:39 GMT -5
One of my favorite non-white authors is Colson whitehead. He did The Underground Railroad but he’s interesting in that he doesn’t stick to one genre. I would call Underground Railroad fantasy, and another book I love, the zone, is a zombie dystopian novel, plus he wrote a novel about growing up black in Sag Harbor. His writing style is awesome. I'm thinking about zone one as the next book to read with ds. Trying to decide if its too mature for him. How old is DS? I will say the book is bleak and without a happy ending, that might be an issue for kids who expect the hero will always triumph. But very well written.
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Post by Artemis Windsong on May 25, 2021 13:09:11 GMT -5
Audio book. Mr. Flood's Last Resort by Jess Kidd.
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Post by saveinla on May 30, 2021 11:21:09 GMT -5
Finished Britt-Marie was here as I could not sleep last night and started "Things My Son needs to know about the world"
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Post by steph08 on May 30, 2021 19:04:36 GMT -5
Finished Britt-Marie was here as I could not sleep last night and started "Things My Son needs to know about the world" -- Really like Fredrik Backman Love Fredrik Backman!
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Post by gs11rmb on Jun 1, 2021 12:00:14 GMT -5
Just finished the latest Mick Herron spy novel "Slough House". As entertaining as ever!
Now reading Jussi Adler-Olsen's "Victim 2117". I've thoroughly enjoyed the Department Q series but this one seems very far-fetched. Still, it's well written and am enjoying the read.
For my bookclub I listened to the audio version of "The Lost Apothecary". I thought the premise was good but a lot of it was over-the-top and I found myself rolling my eyes at some passages.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jun 1, 2021 12:24:16 GMT -5
Just finished the latest Mick Herron spy novel "Slough House". As entertaining as ever! Now reading Jussi Adler-Olsen's "Victim 2117". I've thoroughly enjoyed the Department Q series but this one seems very far-fetched. Still, it's well written and am enjoying the read. For my bookclub I listened to the audio version of "The Lost Apothecary". I thought the premise was good but a lot of it was over-the-top and I found myself rolling my eyes at some passages. I just started reading that. I figured it would be a good summer read.
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Post by gs11rmb on Jun 1, 2021 12:35:37 GMT -5
Just finished the latest Mick Herron spy novel "Slough House". As entertaining as ever! Now reading Jussi Adler-Olsen's "Victim 2117". I've thoroughly enjoyed the Department Q series but this one seems very far-fetched. Still, it's well written and am enjoying the read. For my bookclub I listened to the audio version of "The Lost Apothecary". I thought the premise was good but a lot of it was over-the-top and I found myself rolling my eyes at some passages. I just started reading that. I figured it would be a good summer read. It's entertaining; I didn't hate the book.
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Post by snapdragon on Jun 2, 2021 11:58:34 GMT -5
I have started on a new mystery author -- Judi Lynn. She has a few series and I have been sucked into them.
Am starting on Sarah Graves Choc donut murder book...(I forgot the title). But there is chocolate and doughnuts!
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jun 2, 2021 12:01:10 GMT -5
Abby was playing school and said punishment if we didn't be quiet was we had to read 100 books. Gwen said that's not a punishment for mommy. DH said I could probably do in a week. I'm half way through The Lost Apothecary. It's all right, I am enjoying it but it isn't rocking my world or anything. It's a good palette cleanser type book.
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Post by happyhoix on Jun 2, 2021 13:02:51 GMT -5
Our book club is reading The. Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate. I wanted to like it, the idea was interesting, (letters from freed slaves to a newspaper asking for help finding family members who got separated) but I don’t like romance, and the author felt compelled to drop a big sappy one that you could spot a mile away right into the middle of the modern day half of the book.
I would have preferred a non fiction book about the letters, and I don’t need a romance dropped into the middle of the book to enjoy it. But a lot of ladies in our club like it, I guess, so I just speed read over those parts.
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Post by gs11rmb on Jun 2, 2021 13:26:37 GMT -5
Abby was playing school and said punishment if we didn't be quiet was we had to read 100 books. Gwen said that's not a punishment for mommy. DH said I could probably do in a week. I'm half way through The Lost Apothecary. It's all right, I am enjoying it but it isn't rocking my world or anything. It's a good palette cleanser type book. Tell me when you're finished. There's one section where I just laughed at how ridiculous/out of touch with reality the author seemed.
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Post by tcu2003 on Jun 2, 2021 13:41:08 GMT -5
I just finished Ready Player Two - it took me a while to get into that one, but it was okay by the end. To me, not as good as the first book, but that's not a surprise as it seems like most sequels don't hold up as well.
I read We Need to Talk: A Memoir about Wealth by Jennifer Risher earlier in May - I heard her on several podcasts and the premise of the book sounded good (author and her husband got awarded Microsoft stock early in the 90s that made them a ton of money, and then the husband went to Amazon and also made a ton off of more stock options there). It fell flat for me, unfortunately.
Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor was a neat read by a POC and a fairly quick read.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jun 2, 2021 14:07:20 GMT -5
Abby was playing school and said punishment if we didn't be quiet was we had to read 100 books. Gwen said that's not a punishment for mommy. DH said I could probably do in a week. I'm half way through The Lost Apothecary. It's all right, I am enjoying it but it isn't rocking my world or anything. It's a good palette cleanser type book. Tell me when you're finished. There's one section where I just laughed at how ridiculous/out of touch with reality the author seemed. Haven't gotten that far but I have to ask WHY on earth would you write down who bought poison?! I feel like the logic the author gives is totally unrealistic and sappy. I get that this is a women's lib/power of the sisterhood book but come on. Blackmail purposes would have been so much better, IMO.
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Post by gs11rmb on Jun 2, 2021 14:42:52 GMT -5
Tell me when you're finished. There's one section where I just laughed at how ridiculous/out of touch with reality the author seemed. Haven't gotten that far but I have to ask WHY on earth would you write down who bought poison?! I feel like the logic the author gives is totally unrealistic and sappy. I get that this is a women's lib/power of the sisterhood book but come on. Blackmail purposes would have been so much better, IMO.Yeah... nothing says 'sisterhood' like potentially sending abused women to the gallows .
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Post by gs11rmb on Jun 2, 2021 14:45:01 GMT -5
Tell me when you're finished. There's one section where I just laughed at how ridiculous/out of touch with reality the author seemed. Haven't gotten that far but I have to ask WHY on earth would you write down who bought poison?! I feel like the logic the author gives is totally unrealistic and sappy. I get that this is a women's lib/power of the sisterhood book but come on. Blackmail purposes would have been so much better, IMO.This was a huge problem I had with the book "All the Light that Couldn't See" (I think that was the title). What self-respecting Nazi (admittedly an oxymoron) keeps an "I hate Hitler diary"? Ludicrous.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jun 2, 2021 14:58:24 GMT -5
Okay I am done. WHY wouldn't she just tell them she broke into the apothecary?! Geeze woman you are facing potential murder charges and you think trespassing charges are worse? How out of touch with reality are you?
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Post by happyhoix on Jun 5, 2021 20:31:13 GMT -5
Almost finished with Anthony Horowitz book the Moonflower Murders. Very clever idea - a man is killed at a fancy hotel in a gruesome way. Several months later a mystery writer comes to the hotel and uses parts of the murder and the hotel staff in an Agatha Christie type 1950s murder mystery- then years later, one of the members of the family that runs the hotel disappears shortly after reading the book and announcing she knows who the murderer is. So you get a murder mystery within a murder mystery. Very good.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Jun 6, 2021 12:40:27 GMT -5
Are y’all jealous?
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Jun 6, 2021 13:04:01 GMT -5
A book written by Queen Elizabeth’s governess. It is really interesting to read the events leading to the abdication and how it impacted the family. It also talks about when the governess met Wallis Simpson, and personal conversations they had. Puts a whole new spin on the man eater who got her claws into the poor King Edward.
An interesting factoid.....apparently Queen Elizabeth was horribly anxious as a young child and had some obsessive behaviors that she had to overcome.
The Little Princesses, by Marion Crawford.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Jun 6, 2021 13:04:58 GMT -5
Are y’all jealous? I’ve got a stack of similar books downstairs. I don’t think they’ve been opened in 10 years!
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Post by happyhoix on Jun 6, 2021 15:06:16 GMT -5
A book written by Queen Elizabeth’s governess. It is really interesting to read the events leading to the abdication and how it impacted the family. It also talks about when the governess met Wallis Simpson, and personal conversations they had. Puts a whole new spin on the man eater who got her claws into the poor King Edward. An interesting factoid.....apparently Queen Elizabeth was horribly anxious as a young child and had some obsessive behaviors that she had to overcome. The Little Princesses, by Marion Crawford. So did he abdicate the throne so that he could marry Simpson or was he forced to abdicate because he was friendly with the Nazis? Did the writer have an opinion?
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Jun 6, 2021 15:35:00 GMT -5
A book written by Queen Elizabeth’s governess. It is really interesting to read the events leading to the abdication and how it impacted the family. It also talks about when the governess met Wallis Simpson, and personal conversations they had. Puts a whole new spin on the man eater who got her claws into the poor King Edward. An interesting factoid.....apparently Queen Elizabeth was horribly anxious as a young child and had some obsessive behaviors that she had to overcome. The Little Princesses, by Marion Crawford. So did he abdicate the throne so that he could marry Simpson or was he forced to abdicate because he was friendly with the Nazis? Did the writer have an opinion? The writer thought that Edward was so stuck on Wallis that when she tried leaving, he followed her. There is a conversation that the governess had with Wallis, suggesting that she walk away for the good of England. Wallis' response was "if I leave, he will follow". She did leave (to Cannes) he followed. It sounded like the king was far more into Wallis than she was into him. So to answer your question, I think it was more he wanted to marry someone he couldn't marry than his friendliness with the Nazis was why he abdicated. From the way the book was written, the absolute last thing that George wanted was to be king. He was utterly horrified his brother abdicated. It didn't sound forced, as Edward didn't want to be king either so it's entirely possible that this was a convenient excuse for Edward. Another part was how the Queen Mother manipulated Kennedy to get his support from the US. If the conversation was anywhere close to being what was written, then she was a really good diplomat - much better than George.
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Post by happyhoix on Jun 6, 2021 19:02:00 GMT -5
So did he abdicate the throne so that he could marry Simpson or was he forced to abdicate because he was friendly with the Nazis? Did the writer have an opinion? The writer thought that Edward was so stuck on Wallis that when she tried leaving, he followed her. There is a conversation that the governess had with Wallis, suggesting that she walk away for the good of England. Wallis' response was "if I leave, he will follow". She did leave (to Cannes) he followed. It sounded like the king was far more into Wallis than she was into him. So to answer your question, I think it was more he wanted to marry someone he couldn't marry than his friendliness with the Nazis was why he abdicated. From the way the book was written, the absolute last thing that George wanted was to be king. He was utterly horrified his brother abdicated. It didn't sound forced, as Edward didn't want to be king either so it's entirely possible that this was a convenient excuse for Edward. Another part was how the Queen Mother manipulated Kennedy to get his support from the US. If the conversation was anywhere close to being what was written, then she was a really good diplomat - much better than George. Interesting. There have been rumors that the British government was worried Edward would try to get England to side with the enemy in WWII. And yes George did not want to be king, watch the Kings Speech. Good movie about George’s nearly debilitating studder.
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Post by gs11rmb on Jun 7, 2021 7:01:11 GMT -5
Okay I am done. WHY wouldn't she just tell them she broke into the apothecary?! Geeze woman you are facing potential murder charges and you think trespassing charges are worse? How out of touch with reality are you? I agree. The part that made me laugh is she meets her friend Gaynor and tells her that the previous night she applied for a graduate degree at Cambridge. Yeah... cause applying to even a 3rd rate grad school takes only a couple of hours on a Tuesday night . I guess I've been on YMAM too long because, apart from the ridiculous application timeline and assumption that she'll be admitted, how on earth was she going to pay the fees? You've just left your husband and are about to quit your job as some sort of administrator but lets go to grad school at one of the most prestigious universities in the world.
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Post by Artemis Windsong on Jun 7, 2021 8:42:20 GMT -5
A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost.
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Post by steph08 on Jun 7, 2021 12:35:11 GMT -5
A Very Punchable Face by Colin Ferth. I really enjoyed this book and laughed a lot while reading it - but it is by Colin Jost - a writer/actor on Saturday Night Live and not the Oscar-winning actor Colin Firth (Pride and Prejudice, Bridget Jones' Diary, The King's Speech, The Kingsmen, etc.)
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jun 10, 2021 9:44:15 GMT -5
Finished reading City of the Plague God. It's another Rick Riordan presents book.
This one is about Mesopotamian mythology.
I liked this one. As I was reading it I could see this one easily being adapted to film.
I'll have to check out the other books by this author and see what he offers in adult content.
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Post by snapdragon on Jun 10, 2021 10:51:58 GMT -5
I am reading "The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn" which is about how colonists were imprisoned by the British during the start of the revolution....is really interesting but heavy reading so I am about a 1/4 through it.
It is amazing to me what people refuse to acknowledge both about the past and the blinders we put on to not have to admit that it happened. I did not know that over 11,500 people were killed due to the prison situation and the sadists that were put in charge.
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