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My Faith Is Not For Sale
It is a book my sister loaned me. She and her husband know the author. Was a little slow getting started but is getting interesting after the first couple chapters.
Before that, "The Destiny of the Republic" which was really good. Historical fiction about President James Garfield.
And before that, "The Last Lie I Told." It was a book club pick as was The Destiny of the Republic. It was okay. It was worth a read, but not something that will stay with me.
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I just started "If the Ice Had Held" by Wendy Fox.
My husband had checked it out of the library and chose not to read it, but the title grabbed me.
It opens with a teenage boy who falls through the ice and dies, and leaves behind a pregnant girl friend.
So far, it's good. The chapters all start with a name and date, i.e., Kathleen, Winter 1974. Goes back and forth in time and character but you can follow it.
I just started "If the Ice Had Held" by Wendy Fox.
My husband had checked it out of the library and chose not to read it, but the title grabbed me.
It opens with a teenage boy who falls through the ice and dies, and leaves behind a pregnant girl friend.
So far, it's good. The chapters all start with a name and date, i.e., Kathleen, Winter 1974. Goes back and forth in time and character but you can follow it.
That does sound good. Your husband is a reader also?
Mine is not, sadly. I would like to be able to share books with him, but he's such a good husband in many other ways, that I can't complain.
My book club just finished "My Antonia" and we all loved it. Willa Cather was a marvelous writer and her descriptions of the hardships experienced by our forebears living in harsh conditions are both interesting and wondrous. Without giving a lot of background, her characters are well drawn and interesting. This is not a book I would have chosen to read by myself, but I'm so glad that one of my fellow book clubbers (we're called the Page Turners) chose it. 256 pages.
When I get a bit more caught up on my reading list, I would like to read this and other Willa Cather works since she is well known and also from Nebraska.
Nice to hear you liked it. Thanks for posting. Cute book club name.
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YaYa6119, since you're new here, I'd like to tell you about my favorite book ever: Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner.
In recent years, I've veered to mostly memoir (not autobiography and not celebrities; I'm talking about a slice of life of "normal" people), but Crossing to Safety, although a novel, stays dear in my heart. It centers around two couples and, of the four characters, everyone who reads it seems to see themselves in one of the characters. (I saw myself in Charity Lang.)
I think that you'd enjoy it. Many people on this forum have.
My Faith Is Not For Sale
It is a book my sister loaned me. She and her husband know the author. Was a little slow getting started but is getting interesting after the first couple chapters.
Before that, "The Destiny of the Republic" which was really good. Historical fiction about President James Garfield.
And before that, "The Last Lie I Told." It was a book club pick as was The Destiny of the Republic. It was okay. It was worth a read, but not something that will stay with me.
YaYa6119, since you're new here, I'd like to tell you about my favorite book ever: Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner.
In recent years, I've veered to mostly memoir (not autobiography and not celebrities; I'm talking about a slice of life of "normal" people), but Crossing to Safety, although a novel, stays dear in my heart. It centers around two couples and, of the four characters, everyone who reads it seems to see themselves in one of the characters. (I saw myself in Charity Lang.)
I think that you'd enjoy it. Many people on this forum have.
Thanks Dawn, that means a lot to me. I will put it on my list. Which is a lot better than Santa's list. ha ha
Catch and Kill (Ronan Farrow) - shows you the resources a wealthy man has and the power to evade punishment but also how the truth comes out and has a power of its own. I do want some lighter reading material after finishing this one. This is not an easy read.
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