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Finished Forrest Gump couple days ago,went through about 4 books that just didn't capture my attention and am now reading Conspiracy Against Freedom. Its about Liberty Lobby's battle against the ADL obviously its a pretty rare book picked it up for 1$ at a thrift store.
I have just started "Unfinished Desires " By Gail Godwin so far Im liking it ...someone reccomended Gail Godwin to me so I may have found a new author to me that I like ..Then it will be onto Baker Towers by Jennifer Haigh and if that name sounds familiar it is because she wrote MRs. Kimble which I loved of course , but some of you did not . Oh well back to reading . I can read easier now since I broke down and got me some prescription bi focals from the dr ...I know I should have done this long ago but hey I did not like the idea . Getting glasses makes me feel old .
Just finished Dr Sleep by Stephen King and can highly recommend it. I haven't read much King lately as I don't like much of his recent stuff, but I think this book is one of the best of his I have read.
David Guterson's "Snow Falling on Cedars" is a beautifully-written book. It's an extra delight, after seeing a movie, to then redouble the enjoyment by reading such wonderful prose. I don't often read a book after I see the picture -- maybe I should.
David Guterson's "Snow Falling on Cedars" is a beautifully-written book. It's an extra delight, after seeing a movie, to then redouble the enjoyment by reading such wonderful prose. I don't often read a book after I see the picture -- maybe I should.
Read this book some years ago and I liked it a lot!
I'm currently more than halfway through In the Garden of Iden by Kage Baker. It is a time travel book with a well thought out rationale for time travel. It's a Tor book originally but back in print/available as an e-book. I'm not sure how I came across it but I downloaded a sample. It took me about 20% to get into it and I know there are many fans of Diana (??) G-something (?) who writes those time travel in Scotland books that a lot of people like so much. I only ever read her very first one, but it seems to me that whoever likes her books would love the books by Kage Baker. In the Garden of Iden is the first in a series called The Company.
The writer (she? Is 'Kage' a she?) includes a lot of background history that I find appealing.
Before that I read a science fiction book by Allen Steele, Labyrinth of Night. It's an older book that envisions finding ancient ruins on Mars. It isn't half bad. I think maybe a little more hard core science fiction and less focused on character development and I preferred his Coyote books.
Well, back to working outside. One more snowfall and I'm going to scream.
Thank you for sharing this. I will look it up right after replying
I just started rereading the Outlander series for the third or fourth time. Love it! I can't believe that it grips me again even though I've read it so often in the last years and even listened to the audio books once.
I can't wait for the series to be shown on TV. I'm mighty excited about how they put it on screen.
They did a really good job with the adaption of A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin.
The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum. It's based loosely on the 1965 murder of teenager Sylvia Likens in Indianapolis, but it's fiction, about Meg and Susan Loughlin, who've just lost their parents in a car accident in 1958 and are sent to live with their sadistic aunt Ruth. Ruth takes an instant dislike to Meg and verbally and physically abuses her and her sister, before locking her in the basement and starting a teenage torture chamber for herself, her kids and her neighborhood children, not unlike Gertrude Baniszewski did to Sylvia Likens in 1965.
The book is narrated in past-tense by the main character David, who was a neighbor of Ruth at the time and friends with her sons. He has become friends with Meg and though is younger than her, is smitten by her enough to try to help her but it unfortunately doesn't happen fast enough. Unlike Sylvia Likens, who died alone, Meg Loughlin dies with her sister and David nearby.
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