What book are you reading?

[netwit]

Originally Posted by Ketabcha

Hey Netwit, long time no see.

Yes, I think you will love Cronin's The Passage. I got a little confused a couple of times in the book. If you do, hang in there. As they say "All things will be explained in time." He has a sequel coming out at some point this year.

The Stephen King book of short stories is not bad at all. I was not expecting much from it but a couple of those stories have really stayed with me. The last King book I really enjoyed was Cell which scared the daylights out of me.

We had a late spring (snow, if you can believe it, on May 1) and usually we get 30C temps at least once or twice in April. I've been running myself silly trying to get things done. I'm not finished seeding, and neither is anyone else here that I know of due to all the rain. So no time for computers or reading until now - due to rain of course.

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by Mayvenne

Well now I think I will be adding this to my TBR list.Will place it on reserve today online from my library. OPEN by Agassi
I did finish Let the Great World Spin and thought it was very worthwhile and certainly well written.
Presently reading ZOO STORY which is pretty good as well (and pretty realistic in speaking about the relationship between wildlife dwindling and zoos)..
I actually got INCREDIBLE JOURNEY (didnt realize it was in the juvenile fiction part of the li=berry from someone mentioning it on here.. so when I finish Zoo Story this will be next.

Sidebar: Incredible Journey was twice made into a movie--one of the same name that I saw when I saw a kid in the Sixties, and then again as Homeward Bound in the 1990's. In the latter, the animals were given voices, played by Don Ameche, Michael J. Fox, and Sally Field. My daughter and I must have watched that 20 times when she was a kid. I always cry at the end.

[jtur88]

"The Madonnas of Leningrad", a first novel (and apparent last) by Debra Dean, who has no Wikipedia page. She knows how to tell a story, and write articulately and entertainingly. I expect to find it at least passable, and learn a lot about the Russian revolution and the siege of Leningrad.

[midge1021]

I finished Just Kids by Patti Smith. What a magnificent book. She writes in such a way that you can really understand her life back in the 60s and 70s. You can truly feel her love and respect for the late Robert Mapplethorpe. I highly recommend it if you love art, Smith, Mapplethorpe, the late 60s/70s and the creative culture of that time, New York City or just a great memoir. This book moved me so much I think it's actually now one of my most favorite books. Brilliant. I also would recommend reading this in a physical book form. The combination of the typeset and the pictures in the book help add to the experience.

I'm now reading A Dangerous Place: California's Unsettling Fate by the late Marc Resiner. The book is about San Francisco and Los Angeles and the fact they have been built on fault lines. Resiner believes that it's only a matter of time before one of those cities will experience a massive earthquake that could lead to the physical and economic destruction of much of California and effect the entire country. He also wrote Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water.

[nomoresnow]

I just finished Lisa Gardners' Say Goodbye. I usually like her work, but I can't decide on this one; it was a bit creepy IMO - all about a serial pedophile who has a connection with spiders. He even acts like one.

[zugor]

Originally Posted by Ketabcha

Does is have a sad ending? I can't handle books about animals who die.

No, she and Puzzle were still happily working when she wrote the book in July 2009. Some of the original foundation dogs from the team that she belongs to in Texas have passed and she mentions them briefly at the end of the book.

[Dallas Kitty]

I've been buying piles of books on sale or from consignment and that's an opportunity to find more good authors. The last 2 weeks I've read: A Version of the Truth by Kaufman & Mack; In The Woods by Tana French (very ejoyable to read a detective drama with a setting in Ireland - will look for more of these); The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen; The Man in the Window by K.O. Dahl. I'm also catching up on J.D Robb's In Death series (I like the kick-butt detective Eve Dallas); Stephanie Plum series by Evanovich (these are just funny); Jane Whitefield series by Thomas Perry (another a$$-kicking female protagonist).

[lolagranola]

Originally Posted by jtur88

"The Madonnas of Leningrad", a first novel (and apparent last) by Debra Dean, who has no Wikipedia page. She knows how to tell a story, and write articulately and entertainingly. I expect to find it at least passable, and learn a lot about the Russian revolution and the siege of Leningrad.

Thanks for sharing this, I will have to check it out, I love Russian history.

I'm reading The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly. It is beautifully written & engrossing. It was just a little difficult to get into, because the setting & names were so unfamiliar I had to keep figuring out who was who. It is about a young man sentenced to 20 yr solitary for political crimes in Burma. How he manages day to day, keeping his spirit alive.

[AZDesertBrat]

Originally Posted by adventuregurl

Just read 'The Help' and loved it. It's being made into a motion picture filem and it was the authors first book!

I just read that book a couple of weeks ago and I loved it too. Can't wait for the movie. Those women were "something else"!

[Ketabcha]

Originally Posted by DandJ

I just finished Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri. Such a great group of short stories, especially the last three that all featured the same two characters. I literally gasped at the last line.

I got Unaccustomed Earth yesterday and I'm half way through it.

I do not usually care for books comprised of short stories. This book, however, is fascinating and hard to put down. It always amazes me when an author is able to so finely depict characters in so few pages. Lahiri is able to do it and do it well. I feel like I know all these characters and I like so many of them. She has such a talent for drawing the reader into the characters and the story.

I'm so pleased with this book. It's a gem.