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I started that one, but found Cascadia's Fault by Jerry Thompson to be much better written. And I think he has a better grasp of the subject. I'm still reading it because honestly, it's a lot to take in. Living here in northern California as I do....
If you enjoyed that one you should like Me Before You. I read them both and likes MBY better
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YoungLisa, the book club you mention at least has some interesting titles, I've read a couple of them. My neighbor's book club reads a lot of stuff I care nothing about, but that doesn't stop her from recommending them to me every time!
They did seem to have some good ones. I may try to go to the December meeting just to see what the people are like. Like I said it's not a mandatory meeting. If I don't like the book of the month I will just pass on that meeting
You can't blame your neighbor from trying. We all get excited when we read a book "we: like My husband's eyes glaze over when I tell him about some of my books, lol.
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Have heard great things about this book. Several holds @ our library on this one.
Try that one and also Me Before You.
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I recently finished Full Rip 9.0, recommended by i love autumn and she's right, it is very interesting if it's your type of book. Seems like the Pacific Northwest is in even greater danger than CA because the Cascadia subduction zone is immense.
Thank you both. Just one more book in my ever growing To Read pile
Sid-the skeleton is still a hoot,but unlike the first book,the pace of this one is just so slooow,and the story is just not as engaging for me.I have actually been skipping pages and yet still not finished,keep finding distractions!
Sid-the skeleton is still a hoot,but unlike the first book,the pace of this one is just so slooow,and the story is just not as engaging for me.I have actually been skipping pages and yet still not finished,keep finding distractions!
I'm reading The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Yeah I know it's a teen book, but the school district here took it off the supplemental reading list because a bunch of parents complained, and I want to see what's so terribly horrible about it.
Before that, I read the first 3 in the Dexter series.
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So many of you -- okay, a few of you; okay, Ketabcha and someone else -- talked about it so highly, so I got The Good House by Ann Leary. (I love her husband, Denis, by the way. Rescue Me was a fabulous TV series. I digress.) I'm on chapter 5. I have a terrible headache. Those two statements are not related -- it's the rainy weather, I think, that's making my head throb like there's a jackhammer in there. The book is good so far. Not my normal fare, but I'm enjoying the lightness of it.
Ok,I finally gave up on "The Skeleton Takes A Bow" about 1/4 from the end,was just too tired of being bored to sleep!
Then I tried~The Emigrants (The Emigrant Novels / Vilhelm Moberg, Book 1) by Vilhelm Moberg which had too much god-talk and religion ,so then I tried ~Lux: Beginnings (Obsidian & Onyx) (A Lux Novel) by Jennifer L. Armentrout which was just too much 'trash-talking' snarky teens for my taste ,
and now I am reading~ Skinwalkers (Navajo Mysteries Book 7) by Tony Hillerman which is the first of Hillerman's books where Officer Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police and partner Lt. Joe Leaphorn are brought together. Hoping this will be much better.
Had heard some buzz about this in past few months, and it was actually as good as the hype made it sound.
Finished it in two days: "Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism" by Ron Suskind (2014).
It's 350 pages & flew by, really drew me in with both the story itself (of the author's son) and by how well-written it was.
The theme is finding a language/affinity/special interest that makes sense to a person with autism,
which that person then uses to learn all sorts of other (broader, interpersonal, less stereotyped/predictable) things.
In this instance, it was Disney films & their characters, plots, themes, and dialogue.
It was very much a narrow repetitive fixation for the boy in question, but the parents went with it (and engaged with him through it)-
and eventually it did lead to greater development and complexity of thought, feeling, behavior, and expression.
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,so then I tried ~Lux: Beginnings (Obsidian & Onyx) (A Lux Novel) by Jennifer L. Armentrout which was just too much 'trash-talking' snarky teens for my taste 