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So I just started BIG LITTLE LIES yesterday, and thanks to the wonderful weather NOT of the northeast, I have not left the house today. I am almost halfway through and man oh man what a great effortless read. Thoroughly enjoying it. I think if someone is having a hard time getting back to reading, this book would be a good one to lure one back.
So glad you are enjoying "Big Little Lies". It truly is an easy read.
I finished Blanche Among the Talented Tenth yesterday. It was ok.
I started The Remains by Vincent Zandri Yesterday afternoon and I am already more than half way through. Not great but is an easy read and is definitely keeping my interest.
I am going to download A Man Called Ove and start that as soon as I finish "The Remain. Thanks for the recommendation that I saw from Tigerlily and Mayvenne.
just wanted to let everyone here know that I m on my way to south Carolina on sunday and will be totally moved in on Tuesday the 24th and I will be back talking about books maybe a week or two after that take care all and stay safe and I will be back soon .
I first happened upon this book while taking my two high school seniors to the University of Wisconsin in Madison for a campus tour. While they were off doing what prospective students do, I was browsing a bookstore on State Street (one of the country's great urban places, by the way). Rarely have a stumbled across a bookstore with such an exceptionally appealing selection of books. Anyway, I chanced upon a copy of Dark Nature. I did not buy it, but it went onto my 'must read someday' list. And yesterday I found a used copy in a local bookstore.
It's a fascinating read - one I highly recommend for those with a scientific curiosity as to human behavior.
I don't want to give the plot away for anyone who might like to read it, but although I was very taken with the sample, the book ended up not working for me. It jumped around or seemed to move too fast or something, and some of the ideas behind cloning, in this age when some cloning has been done, were dated.
Kate Wilhelm is better known as a mystery writer, from what I see on the website. I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who has read her mystery books. It isn't a genre I usually read but I might be persuaded. She does write well so it might be me, or it might be that particular story that didn't work for me.
So I just started BIG LITTLE LIES yesterday, and thanks to the wonderful weather NOT of the northeast, I have not left the house today. I am almost halfway through and man oh man what a great effortless read. Thoroughly enjoying it. I think if someone is having a hard time getting back to reading, this book would be a good one to lure one back.
I enjoyed that book.
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Mayvenne, thanks for recommending A Man Called Ove. I am devouring this wonderful story.
I really liked that one and then I tried to read Major Pettigrew's Last Stand but he was too much of a fuddy duddy for me to like
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I am going to download A Man Called Ove and start that as soon as I finish "The Remain. Thanks for the recommendation that I saw from Tigerlily and Mayvenne.
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just wanted to let everyone here know that I m on my way to south Carolina on sunday and will be totally moved in on Tuesday the 24th and I will be back talking about books maybe a week or two after that take care all and stay safe and I will be back soon .
Good luck with your move
I finished Glitter and Glue last night and sorry Dawn, I was not wowed by it. Two out of three isn't bad though
Next up The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker.
just wanted to let everyone here know that I m on my way to south Carolina on sunday and will be totally moved in on Tuesday the 24th and I will be back talking about books maybe a week or two after that take care all and stay safe and I will be back soon .
I guess I must have missed all mention of this- best of luck to you!!
And, thanks to all the wonderful suggestions on this forum. I rarely stumble on a book on my own. I know the Man called Ove and big Little Lies and Major Pettigrew etc were all talked about here. I am just not always so good at remembering who recommended what.
I did stumble on 2 good ones from other forums that I don't think people here have mentioned (other than me- like I am selling them but I am not- I just loved them)-- since I have your attention- here goes
The Good Luck of Right Now by Matthew Quick.
Dandelion Hunter by Rebecca Lerner.
They are both quite different but wonderful reads. Got them both at the liberry. Relatively new.
I gave up on the Stanley/Livingstone book--it was good but I was 25% into it and Stanley hadn't taken off to find Livingstone yet and I just felt like it was dragging. It's on the Kindle and I may go back to it someday.
Went to the library and got The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout. I had forgotten that she'd written another book and was delighted to see it. I'm enjoying it so far--not as much as Olive Kitteridge or Amy and Isabel, but as always love the writing and the complex characters.
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I finished Glitter and Glue last night and sorry Dawn, I was not wowed by it. Two out of three isn't bad though
Had you read the others by her already? I had and so I felt such a connection to her and her family by the time I got to Glitter and Glue. Maybe that's the difference?
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Two out of three isn't bad though
