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Do you mean Outlander by Diana Gabaldon? It takes about 50-75 pages to get going.
I personally think if you go into any book (or movie for that matter) with expectations really high you won't be able to enjoy it. This was one that I kept putting off because my SIL just raved and raved. I'm glad I went into it feeling like I was going to be bored to pieces and would drop the book before I finished it. I wound up loving it. It certainly isn't going to be for everybody, but it sure has so much to it that I was hooked.
I KNOW that happens to me.
Anytime something is raved about I end up feeling "meh."
Keeping my expectations low is helpful. Also, sometimes it depends on your mood at the time you are reading a book or watching a movie.
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I just finished Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. I really enjoyed this fantasy book and how the story matched the vintage pictures.
"A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs."
I'm about half way through Decoding Your Dog. It's written and edited by DMVs who are members of the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists. Much of it is stuff that I already know but it is still a good resource and will ultimately end up donated to my Humane Society in hopes that they may create a library of good books about dogs. (Someone else will have to provide the cat stuff).
A bit off topic: This thread is 8 years old today and still going strong. I wonder how many different titles have been mentioned here. I don't know whether to thank or curse (JK) the many contributors who have broadened my reading scope and turned me on to new books and authors that I might not have otherwise discovered. I do thank each of you for sharing your best, worst and even the meh books that you've found.
All I can say is that I'm glad I'm retired so that I do have much more time for reading.
A bit off topic: This thread is 8 years old today and still going strong. I wonder how many different titles have been mentioned here. I don't know whether to thank or curse (JK) the many contributors who have broadened my reading scope and turned me on to new books and authors that I might not have otherwise discovered. I do thank each of you for sharing your best, worst and even the meh books that you've found.
I didn't know, but I am glad for the thread, too -- and each and every one of you.
Thanks for putting this out there, Zugor. I have to say you've given every bit of the good you've gotten. You've been a great friend to us.
I started Harry Hole's eight in the series: "The Leopard." Harry (protagonist) is just as repulsive and likeable as ever, but this serial killer is more gruesome than usual and it's a tough story for me to listen to but I am continuing. If the series turns this dark I may not be continuing, but I do love Jo Nesbo's writing.
I passed the half-way point last night on "Call Me Zelda" and didn't want to go to bed. At first I didn't really like it, because it seemed to be more about her nurse than about Zelda, though Zelda was mentioned intermittently. I don't know why Erika Robuck told the story from this perspective, but at this point I don't care because the story itself is interesting. I do keep wondering if the nurse is a fictional part of the story, or just an ignored person in other works. Either way, it interests me in how much Zelda's story is so much a part of women's story in that her creative spirit is subsumed in order that her significant male's is enabled.
This thread is 8 years old today and still going strong. I wonder how many different titles have been mentioned here. I don't know whether to thank or curse (JK) the many contributors who have broadened my reading scope and turned me on to new books and authors that I might not have otherwise discovered. I do thank each of you for sharing your best, worst and even the meh books that you've found.
Happy Anniversary everyone I started posting here on 10/8/2012 but I read back through all of the posts from the beginning. I have definitely broadened my reading horizons because of all of you.
Thank you everyone for giving me more to read than days left in my life
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Happy Anniversary everyone I started posting here on 10/8/2012 but I read back through all of the posts from the beginning. I have definitely broadened my reading horizons because of all of you.
Thank you everyone for giving me more to read than days left in my life
Thank you for starting this wonderful thread. I have picked up so many books I would have otherwise missed. It is a joy to find authors who deserve to be read and shared. Hope this site continues for many more years.
I just started Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler. "Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler is a soaring debut interweaving the story of a heartbreaking, forbidden love in 1930s Kentucky with an unlikely modern-day friendship."
I am reading "House Rules" by Jodi Picoult..it deals with a child with Aspbergers (SP?) Syndrome and ,so far, is good reading and very informative as well. A few years ago I read several of her books but, sort of got "burned out"...I am giving her another look .
As for Nora Roberts..if you've read one you've read them all~
Sorry, I realize she has many fans..it's just my observation.
Wow, couldn't even finish the last 2 books I tried so probably time to give the Romance genre a rest and try something else!
On Her Way Home by Sara Petersen
Just too silly and unbelievable
Sweet likeable characters, with the exception of Mac,but the story was just too silly and unbelievable for me to continue with beyond halfway.Not the kind of hero that I could fall for,so would not recommend for romance lovers.
Seeking Persephone by Sarah M. Eden
No romance in this depressing,totally implausible, book of misery and sadness!
I could only read 1/3 of this until I had to give up! Detested the hero,a Duke who needs an heir to ensure the keeping of the family property and titles out of the hands of his cousin,but he is such a stone-hearted-messed-up mental nut case because of lack of maternal affection and love and physical scarring,that no way would he ever be able to allow himself to get close enough to a woman to even become intimate with one! So that makes the story totally ridiculous and unbelievable,as the more you read,the more you see what a mental case he is!
All the while his wife- poor Persephone, is suffering a broken heart and homesickness on top of family loss and living with a man who is mentally and emotionally too detached to even be aware of her suffering!
With every page I disliked him even more,until there was no way I even wanted to see this book become even more implausible by having this 'toad' turn into a prince,so I stopped reading it!
If you love sweet endearing romances,this depressing book of 'ANGST' is not one of those so I do not recommend this book at all.
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Also, sometimes it depends on your mood at the time you are reading a book or watching a movie.
