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Urban fantasy: Hounded, book 1 of the Iron Druid Chronicles by Kevin Hearne
Listened to it in audio. Great narration, enjoyable book. I've already downloaded the second.
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Well, I bailed on another one: Lillian on Life.
I just started You by Caroline Kepnes. I like it for its current references -- Twitter and stuff like that -- but, wow, i_love_autumn would hate_this_book. I'm definitely no prude but this is definitely heavy-handed.
I just started You by Caroline Kepnes. I like it for its current references -- Twitter and stuff like that -- but, wow, i_love_autumn would hate_this_book. I'm definitely no prude but this is definitely heavy-handed.
LOL, of course I had to see what Lillian on Life was about,and you are soooo right .....if it's the book by Alison Jean Lester, I certainly would hate it,but after reading the 1-star review that describes what a **** she is sleeping with married men,and getting pregnant by a man that had no husband potential[so she aborted the baby],there is no way that I would even consider it in the least bit interesting,lol!
I just started You by Caroline Kepnes. I like it for its current references -- Twitter and stuff like that -- but, wow, i_love_autumn would hate_this_book. I'm definitely no prude but this is definitely heavy-handed.
Ha, ha…someone on GR rated it and called it Psycho porn. It is definitely way overboard with the cursing and it doesn't even fit. Some books like The Martian and The City of Thieves can get away with it because it fits. In You it is just thrown around too much and it doesn't help the book in any way. Then again I hated all the characters in that book
I finished The Nightingale Kristin Hannah in one day. What a great book. I loved this book about two very different sisters during the WWll German Occupation in France. It's is about their strengths and the lengths they will go to protect the ones they love and what they think is right. It shows that when the men leave the home front to fight how strong the women will become when necessary. I believe this is my favorite story set during WWll.(and I have read quite a few)
It also tells of the French Resistance group who helped downed Allied pilots cross the Pyrenees Mountains into Spain for safety. The trail was also used as an escape for many jews. Very cool piece of history and the bravery of people and strangers helping each other….http://www.ariege.com/histoire/chemin.html
Here is a book about that: http://www.amazon.com/The-Freedom-Li.../dp/0060096640
I just started All The Light We Cannot See for a group read. The first 100 pages flew and I really like the kid's stories and I hope it stays on track with them.
I am still 3/4's through A Spool of Blue Thread and I'm not sure if I will get back to it. There are too many other "interesting" books out there to read, lol.
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LOL, of course I had to see what Lillian on Life was about,and you are soooo right .....if it's the book by Alison Jean Lester, I certainly would hate it,but after reading the 1-star review that describes what a **** she is sleeping with married men,and getting pregnant by a man that had no husband potential[so she aborted the baby],there is no way that I would even consider it in the least bit interesting,lol!
Oh, no... it's the OTHER book that you would hate; the one that I just started: You by Caroline Kepnes.
ETA: And on that note, I'm going to bail on You. I was tired this morning so I figured that I'd read a few pages, while in bed, before I started my day. And there's a cage -- a cage -- in the basement of the bookstore. I know what that means and it's ridiculous. And I hate it.
Ha, ha…someone on GR rated it and called it Psycho porn. It is definitely way overboard with the cursing and it doesn't even fit. Some books like The Martian and The City of Thieves can get away with it because it fits. In You it is just thrown around too much and it doesn't help the book in any way. Then again I hated all the characters in that book
I finished The Nightingale Kristin Hannah in one day. What a great book. I loved this book about two very different sisters during the WWll German Occupation in France. It's is about their strengths and the lengths they will go to protect the ones they love and what they think is right. It shows that when the men leave the home front to fight how strong the women will become when necessary. I believe this is my favorite story set during WWll.(and I have read quite a few)
It also tells of the French Resistance group who helped downed Allied pilots cross the Pyrenees Mountains into Spain for safety. The trail was also used as an escape for many jews. Very cool piece of history and the bravery of people and strangers helping each other….WW2 escape routes over the Ariège Pyrenees
Here is a book about that: http://www.amazon.com/The-Freedom-Li.../dp/0060096640
I just started All The Light We Cannot See for a group read. The first 100 pages flew and I really like the kid's stories and I hope it stays on track with them.
I am still 3/4's through A Spool of Blue Thread and I'm not sure if I will get back to it. There are too many other "interesting" books out there to read, lol.
Anthony Doerr just won the Pulitzer Prize for All the Light We Cannot See.
I am also reading "All The Light We Cannot See " and so far it is great. Just finished "The Garlic Ballads." Depressing but beautifully written. Nobel Prize winner.
Also reading, "Swann's Way," which is beautifully written as well.
I have decided that most books that I read from now on, I want to be award winning books. I am tired of books that are just Ok, which is why I didn't get "A Spool of Blue Thread." Time is just too short.
Also reading, "Swann's Way," which is beautifully written as well.
Yes, it is. I never thought I would actually be able to read Proust and stick with it. Every sentence is a world of its own. I read it back in the 80s and it has stayed with me all these years. It truly is an amazing book and Proust was a gifted writer. Oh so beautiful.
Thinking about it just now I realize that Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See reminds me of Swann's Way.
Oh, no... it's the OTHER book that you would hate; the one that I just started: You by Caroline Kepnes.
ETA: And on that note, I'm going to bail on You. I was tired this morning so I figured that I'd read a few pages, while in bed, before I started my day. And there's a cage -- a cage -- in the basement of the bookstore. I know what that means and it's ridiculous. And I hate it.
Oh DUH,my face is soooo red,wrong book,but neither one would be to my liking for sure!
But younglisa7 has once again added to my TBR list with the WWII book Nightingale!
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,my face is soooo red
