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Sigh, I am remembering when each page of this thread had probably 15 or more posts talking about the books people were reading or had finished. Some people wrote quite a bit about the books, and others just mentioned the name and their overall opinion.
Now with all the book covers being shared, it has become a lot less meaningful at least for me.
I really would encourage people to just put the book title, author is readily available and some sort of discussion or a sentence or two about it.
I do not mean to offend anyone but I used to find so many great suggestions here and now it leaves me cold.
That said, I just read East of Eden, which I never read. I heard so many recommendations of it and had been meaning to read it for a few years. I finally decided this was the time. It really was all that. I am taking some time to digest it and keep thinking that i will reread it because there is so much there.
Sigh, I am remembering when each page of this thread had probably 15 or more posts talking about the books people were reading or had finished. Some people wrote quite a bit about the books, and others just mentioned the name and their overall opinion.
Now with all the book covers being shared, it has become a lot less meaningful at least for me.
I really would encourage people to just put the book title, author is readily available and some sort of discussion or a sentence or two about it.
I do not mean to offend anyone but I used to find so many great suggestions here and now it leaves me cold.
That said, I just read East of Eden, which I never read. I heard so many recommendations of it and had been meaning to read it for a few years. I finally decided this was the time. It really was all that. I am taking some time to digest it and keep thinking that i will reread it because there is so much there.
I read East of Eden a few years ago, & it was such a great book, a true classic. The mother was such a monster.
Sigh, I am remembering when each page of this thread had probably 15 or more posts talking about the books people were reading or had finished. Some people wrote quite a bit about the books, and others just mentioned the name and their overall opinion.
Now with all the book covers being shared, it has become a lot less meaningful at least for me.
I really would encourage people to just put the book title, author is readily available and some sort of discussion or a sentence or two about it.
I do not mean to offend anyone but I used to find so many great suggestions here and now it leaves me cold.
That said, I just read East of Eden, which I never read. I heard so many recommendations of it and had been meaning to read it for a few years. I finally decided this was the time. It really was all that. I am taking some time to digest it and keep thinking that i will reread it because there is so much there.
I definitely agree with your comments regarding the desire for more dialogue and less book covers!
Speaking of covers, though, I just read a book that I'm pretty sure I chose because I liked the cover. Turns out the cover was the only part I really liked! Keeper of the Lost Things by Ruth Hogan was definitely not a winner for me. The characters were all just too much of what they were supposed to be - too bitter, too angry, too simple minded, too narrow minded... Oddly, there were two different story lines - one of which started in 1983 and moved along to present day, but the other started and ended in present day meaning the entire book wasn't moving along at the same chronological pace. Maybe I'm not describing that technique well, but I found it super distracting. Oh well, at least the cover was pretty.
"Another Wonderful Thing," by Laurie Colwin. I read this article about her in the Wall Street Journal and decided to risk buying a copy. Glad I did. Wonderful and richly humane.
I finished "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" Very good book. It really opened my eyes to the different tragedies the Native American people experienced. The perspective of several tribes were shared - It's an important book to read and learn how we really acquired our land.
Next is:
"The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bill and the Battle of Little Bighorn"--- by Nathaniel Philbrick
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"Another Wonderful Thing," by Laurie Colwin. I read this article about her in the Wall Street Journal and decided to risk buying a copy. Glad I did. Wonderful and richly humane.
That looks interesting and I don't think I ever heard of it so thanks!
I finished The Weight of a Piano, and while it was a good read, ( after the first 20 pages or so) I was not overwhelmed by it. I would give it 3 or 3.5 stars out of 5. There were a lot of interesting parts to it, and I appreciated much of the history or time period part but the characters I thought were a bit off. I did learn a bit though and it got me looking up and listening to some music so that was a good thing!
Not sure what will be next.
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