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That is how I heard about The Age of Miracles. It is one of my online book group's botm. I finished it last night. I really enjoyed this well written easy to read novel. It's a coming of age novel told in the voice of eleven year old Julia. As the earth's days become increasingly longer, what should be the beginning of her life will become the end of her world.
I liked it.
After that I started The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. I am about a third of the way into it and I think it is an excellent book and quite interesting.
Thanks0 The Age of Miracles is now on my list. I think I had The Immortal Life of Henriett Lacks on my list and might have tried it.....somehow I know I meant to read it so will have another look at it.
I just remembered I wanted to also read the Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry .Since we are all updating our lists.
I have read The Immortal Life of Henriett Lacks and recommend it. It's not light reading, but fascinating.
I've just started a book about Laura Ingalls Wilder, not even sure what 's its called. It's kind of a gift book type thing. It's okay so far. Sorry. I'll do better next time. lol
Thanks0 The Age of Miracles is now on my list. I think I had The Immortal Life of Henriett Lacks on my list and might have tried it.....somehow I know I meant to read it so will have another look at it.
I just remembered I wanted to also read the Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry .Since we are all updating our lists.
I read both The Age of Miracles and The Unlikley Pilgrimage some time ago. I remember only that I liked the first and loved the latter.
Thanks0 The Age of Miracles is now on my list. I think I had The Immortal Life of Henriett Lacks on my list and might have tried it.....somehow I know I meant to read it so will have another look at it.
I just remembered I wanted to also read the Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry .Since we are all updating our lists.
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I read both The Age of Miracles and The Unlikley Pilgrimage some time ago. I remember only that I liked the first and loved the latter.
I just placed The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry on my hold list at the library. I needed a book that began with a "U" for my A-Z challenge
Have any of you read books by Sarah Addison Allen? I will be starting First Frost today as that is one of my BOTM books for March. Anyway it seems I have a few of her books on my TBR list.
"New York Times Bestselling novelist Sarah Addison Allen brings the full flavor of her southern upbringing to bear on her fiction -- a captivating blend of magical realism, heartwarming romance, and small-town sensibility.
Her big break occurred in 2007 with the publication of her first mainstream novel, Garden Spells, a modern-day fairy tale about an enchanted apple tree and the family of North Carolina women who tend it. Booklist called Allen's accomplished debut "spellbindingly charming."
I think I will enjoy this author
It seems I will be reading this series out of order but this new one is on hold so I need to get it back to the library
I just placed The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry on my hold list at the library. I needed a book that began with a "U" for my A-Z challenge
Have any of you read books by Sarah Addison Allen?
Her big break occurred in 2007 with the publication of her first mainstream novel, Garden Spells, a modern-day fairy tale about an enchanted apple tree and the family of North Carolina women who tend it. Booklist called Allen's accomplished debut "spellbindingly charming."
I think I will enjoy this author
It seems I will be reading this series out of order but this new one is on hold so I need to get it back to the library
I bought Garden Spellsseveral years ago, but have yet to read. Thanks for the reminder. I'm reading Charles Blow's compelling memoir presently,
I have Snow Flower and the Secret Fan on my TBR list but I have never read and Lisa See book's yet.
I have read this one and absolutely loved it. I hope when you get the time to read it you enjoy it. I found it very informative too about the culture and such. I don't think I've read her other stuff, but had intended to at one time. I had one of her other books but it got totally water damaged and unreadable.
Speaking of The Unlikely Pilgrimage, in one of those peculiar concidences that sometimes happen in life, I was talking to my sister-in-law last night and she had just finished the sequel to it, called The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessey. She thought it was even better than The Unlikely Pilgrimage and said she cried her heart out at the end at the humanity of it all. I told her I would immediately read The Love Song and then call her so that we could cry together.
But actually I was a short ways into Inkheart by Cornelia Funke recommended, very kindly, by someone on this forum so I am not sure whether I will read both at the same time, or maybe finish up Inkheart first, because it does seem very promising at this point.
I now have a bunch of books I want to read, including a book I pulled out of my shelf called The Stones of Summer by Dow Mossman. I've had it for years and it is the kind of book I've been looking for, a coming-of-age story that first came out in 1972 to rave reviews. Has anyone here read it? I read the first couple of pages and am thinking it just might be The One for me, on par with The Goldfinch. It's a big, fat grownup book of a book. The Stones of Summer: Dow Mossman: 9780760748848: Amazon.com: Books
I finished The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout and it was very nice. The writing was lovely and she has a huge gift for creating complex characters that you care about even when you wish they would act differently. I recommend it if you're looking for beautifully written domestic fiction.
I finished The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout and it was very nice. The writing was lovely and she has a huge gift for creating complex characters that you care about even when you wish they would act differently. I recommend it if you're looking for beautifully written domestic fiction.
Agreed! Loved this book.
I don't know if I will actually read this, but I did take home a "blind date" from the library today. Like many libraries, there is a cute thing going on where books are gift wrapped so you can't see what they are. It's to encourage people to go outside their comfort zone and take a chance on a book they might not normally read. Each one has a label with 3 descriptors. Mine was Oregon, food writing, women's friendship. Turns out it is The All You Can Dream Buffet. Chick/hen lit and not the gorgeous writing of something like The Burgess Boys, but glad I took a chance and was open to it. Will attempt to read it.
My husband's was Memory, Psychological Suspense, First Person Narrative. He got Before I Go to Sleep, which I think he will love.
And Dawn, I couldn't finish Not Attending. Loved the first chapter when he was a kid, but the Disney World chapter lost me---too mean spirited and not believable that he would speak to his sister-in-law like that and live to tell the tale/put it in a book that she would read. And since I didn't watch the Saturday Night Live special, I think it's official: I must not have a sense of humor!
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