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Another random grab, and I was really pleased with this one. "What the Dead Know" by Laura Lippman. I'm actually thinking of looking for some of her other books now.
I love Laura Lippman. I started reading her because her books are (for the most part) set in the Baltimore area, and that's where I live. Her Tess Monaghan books are fun - Baltimore Blues, Charm City, Butcher's Hill, etc. (I think there are about 7 of them), but her stand alone books are even better. In my opinion "What the Dead Know" is her best to date.
I'm reading Freedom by Jonathan Franzen. Liking it so far, but finding it hard to find time to read with all of the holiday activites. Things should quiet down after tomorrow, so I'm looking forward to settling in for a good read.
I'm reading, Hungry Woman in Paris, by Josefina Lopez, so far so good, though I didn't care for the opening style, but, I'm glad I got over myself, because reading on, I was in tears due to laughing so hard. It's not a comedic story, just someone dealing with difficulties with some comedic flare thrown in. At least I think it was meant to be laughable antics that took place. If it weren't meant to be humorous, that family is surely going to the hell most of them believe in.
When I finish reading the above mentioned book, I'll start on, The Tattooed Girl, by Joyce Carol Oates.
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. I'm about 80 pages in. The story is well-written, sad, fascinating, humbling, frustrating, and a hundred other adjectives. Terrific book.
. . . finding it hard to find time to read with all of the holiday activites. Things should quiet down after tomorrow, so I'm looking forward to settling in for a good read.
Me too! I'm reading Why We Believe What We Believe. Interesting so far.
I'm reading Freedom by Jonathan Franzen. Liking it so far, but finding it hard to find time to read with all of the holiday activites. Things should quiet down after tomorrow, so I'm looking forward to settling in for a good read.
I enjoyed this book.
Loved some of his descriptive pieces.
From Freedom: "In the earliest years, when you could still drive a Volvo 240 without feeling self-conscious, the collective task in Ramsey Hill was to relearn certain life skills that your own parents had fled to the suburbs specifically to unlearn, like how to interest the local cops in actually doing their job, and how to protect a bike from a highly motivated thief, and when to bother rousting a drunk from your lawn furniture, and how to encourage feral cats to s**t in somebody else’s children’s sandbox, and how to determine whether a public school sucked too much to bother trying to fix it."
Right now I am rereading Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and loving it. Some of the best stuff is the tangents the author indulges in, though this might bother a reader who prefers a more straight-forward narrative.
I asked for and got Life by Keith Richards for Christmas. I am a little more than halfway through. Although I'm a fan of the Rolling Stones, I wasn't particularly interested in his life but am reading it based on comments made here.
My thoughts on the book so far are that those who are reading it waiting for salacious details will be disappointed. There are some, but they are few and far between and usually not given for the sake of shocking or telling, but in the context of some other idea. So points to Keith and his co-writer for that.
He goes into a great deal of detail about individual songs and the circumstances surrounding their creation. From a creative point of view, it's an interesting insight into a song writer's mind. He also goes into a lot of detail about guitar playing, and how he gets the sounds he gets out of a guitar so I think that people who are musicians would be interested in the book and might even pick up some tips to amaze their friends. I play the guitar myself, but not well enough to follow everything he is saying.
I think the book also gives good descriptions of places and mindsets at particular points in time.
However... I still find it a little boring. I will finish it but having read as much of it as I have, it feels like more of the same is coming, leaving me feeling reasonably certain I won't be crazy about this book.
I'm also trying to read Valerie Plame's autobiography but am having a real problem getting interested with so many parts blacked out by CIA censors. She had the book published with the blacked out parts to make a point - as a reader though, after the first 10 pages, it is only distracting and irritating.
And having read Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock, I came across a sequel, Avilion, which I am now reading. So far so good.
Well I finished "Up from Orchard Street " by Elenor Widmer and it was excellent . Too bad she passed before she could write something else . It was an excellent book one of the few excellent books that I have read this year . Really awesome I would equal it with The help and the blackest bird as being one of the best books I have read all year . It was just totally awesome . Cant say enough good things about it . Now I am onto the distant echo and then I think I will read some of the gaslight series by valerie thompson . I will be back to give reviews on those as well . so stay tuned folks LOL !!
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If it weren't meant to be humorous, that family is surely going to the hell most of them believe in.