What book are you reading?

[Firehorse66]

Just finished the new one from Louise Erdrich "The Sentence" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...4-the-sentence

I enjoyed it and gave it 4 stars.

"We've had a small but steady increase in book sales for the past two years. Asema thinks that people's Kindles broke. Louise's daughter Pallas affirms that but mentions also the great de-Kindling, which started when people realized their e-readers were collecting data on their reading habits, like what page they stopped on. Jackie thinks people miss turning real pages. Gruen says it's note taking, marking up the books, that people miss. Penstemon's conviction is that people miss the scent of paper, so clean and dry and pleasant. She even wears a perfume called Paperback. I don't wear perfume. But sometimes I spritz perfume into the air on Sleepy Sunday."

"Alone, I had to get out of my surroundings the way I used to in prison. There, I had learned to read with a force that resembled insanity. Once free, I found that I could not read just any book. It had gotten so I could see through books--the little ruses, the hooks, the setup in the beginning, the looming weight of a tragic ending, the way at the last page the author could whisk out the carpet of sorrow and restore a favorite character. I needed the writing to have a certain mineral density. It had to feel naturally meant, but not cynically contrived."

[PAhippo]

finished Endangered by Box.


just started Call the Nurse-True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle by Mary J MacLeod.




so far it's in the not-put-downable category.

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[William Blakeley]

Currently I'm reading " Wandering Ghosts " by F. Marion Crawford , which is basically a compilation of most of his horror oriented short stories in book form .

I'd say it's fairly decent , though the structure of some of the stories can be a bit tedious .


All in all a solid book for anyone interested in late 19th/early 20th century horror and weird fiction stories .

[PennyLane2]

Unmissing - Minka Kent

Loved this

[pathrunner]

Next on my list is The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes.

[Mayvenne]

I finished The Boy at the Top of the Mountain and really enjoyed it. It was a very good read, really drew me in.
The ending was a bit of a letdown in a way, although still pretty well done. I would have given it 5 out of 5 stars had it continued throughout as great as it "mostly" was. So I guess I give it 4.5 ( still very good).

Next I am going to start So Brave So Young, And Handsome by Leif Enger. (Virgil Wander and Peace like a River).

[tigerlily]

Marra’s new book will be released in June.

Mercury Pictures Presents
by Anthony Marra (Goodreads Author)
4.19 · Rating details · 26 ratings · 8 reviews
The epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini's Italy to 1940s Los Angeles--a timeless story of love, deceit, and sacrifice from the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena.

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