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I just completed "Delores Claiborne" by Stephen King this afternoon. My schedule's about to pick up again, so I don't know what I'll be able to read for the time being.
I finished "The Wild Zone" by Joy Fielding. I didn't like at all. The characters were twisted, the story wasn't that interesting and I suspected the end, supposedly so unexpected, after reading half the book. (Actually I just finished because the friend that made the recommendation insisted a lot about that).
I've been looking for mysteries, and I've found an increasing "award-winning" female authors using not-so-good stories to put a lot of scenes with violence against women, psychological and physical. Is it that necessary to write several attacks and and describe every single one of them in detail? What a trend...
I just finished "1984." It was such an eye opening book and kinda made me scared at times. It wasn't a normal scary book. It just scares you in a way that it really makes you think.
I agree - it took me a little time to get into "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" but after about the first 100 pages I was totally hooked. Great read.
I think you'll love "A Thousand Splendid Suns". Along with "The Kite Runner" it is one of my favorite books.
I read The Kite Runner a couple of years ago as part of an online bookclub group (now defunct) - I enjoyed it, especially as it wasn't a book I would have picked on my own.
I just finished "Secrets of Eden". It was very readable. A different, to me, style of writing where there is much overlap describing the main incident by six or seven different characters. Author is Chris Bohjalian.
Now reading "Lover of Unreason" which is a bio of Assia Guttman Wevill (apologies for spelling, I am too lazy to get up and get it from my bedroom) who was the lover of Ted Hughes, the husband of Sylvia Plath.
It is straight narrative style and so far puts me to sleep. Did not help that I caught either a typo or editorial overlook on page TWO.
NTBR is "Virgin Suicides", (a re-read) and another Amy Bloom, not her newest, but new to me.
Thank you posters for "Plague of Doves" and "Apathy for the Devil". Don't know anything beyond the titles but will look into each of them.
I wasn't in the mood to go on reading "The Dragon Reborn" by Robert Jordan since it was too hot and I needed a quick and easy read. So I started "The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic" - easy and hilarious!
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