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Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade by John O Casler. I am enjoying it tremendously and can't believe I have never read anything before except excerpts (kind of catchy..LOL).
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I downloaded my first library book on the Kindle!!!!! YAY!!! Technology is really sweet. I don't even think that I'll return this Kindle. Well, at least I hope that I won't. I really want to like it this time. It won't replace paper books, but I hope it will be a nice addition (and save me money by downloading library books).
ANYWAY!
As soon as I finish Middlesex (only 70 pages to go -- I'm really loving it), I'll start on:
Please Look After Mom (FREE! FROM THE LIBRARY! ON MY KINDLE! which I already might have mentioned ) by Kyung-Sook Shin.
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I'm going to have to pay close attention to what you read, DandJ---I also loved Middlesex and Please Look After Mom is on my library queue.
I'm reading and loving Emily Alone by Stewart O'Nan. Amazing how a youngish guy (the author) can depict an 80 yo woman's inner and outer life so well.
The pressure! The pressure!
I wish that I kept a list of all of my favorite books...
If you haven't read these, then you should give them a try:
Forever by Pete Hamill Still Alice by Lisa Genova A Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle Loving Frank by Nancy Horan The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle Little Bee and Incendiary, both by Chris Cleave Bel Canto by Ann Patchett My Life in France by Julia Child The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls Interpreter of Maladies and Unaccustomed Earth, both short story collections by Jhumpa Lahiri (I don't even like short stories but these are FANTASTIC)
Thanks, Dawn. I loved Feast of Love. Love Jhumpa Lahiri (and many other Indian writers). I still need to read Bel Canto, but couldn't get through the newest Ann Patchett. Still Alice is on my queue.
Nice to find some literate people who still enjoy reading, be it via book or Kindle.
It's funny, I don't know how many times I bypassed "Middlesex" on my library's website because the description didn't interest me, only to finally check it out and find it to be one of my favorite books.
I finished "The Good Children" by Kate Wilhelm yesterday. I checked it out based on reviews here, and it wasn't until I started listening that I realized I'd already read it!! But I decided to give it another shot, since I didn't remember how it ended. I liked it, not great, not bad, a quick read.
I just downloaded "One Thousand White Women" based on all your reviews here again, hope it's good.
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Thanks, Dawn. I loved Feast of Love. Love Jhumpa Lahiri (and many other Indian writers). I still need to read Bel Canto, but couldn't get through the newest Ann Patchett. Still Alice is on my queue.
Nice to find some literate people who still enjoy reading, be it via book or Kindle.
Funny, the new Ann Patchett -- after reading the synopsis -- is not of interest to me at all. I wasn't even planning on trying it.
We've definitely got VERY similar taste in books!
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It's funny, I don't know how many times I bypassed "Middlesex" on my library's website because the description didn't interest me, only to finally check it out and find it to be one of my favorite books.
I finished "The Good Children" by Kate Wilhelm yesterday. I checked it out based on reviews here, and it wasn't until I started listening that I realized I'd already read it!! But I decided to give it another shot, since I didn't remember how it ended. I liked it, not great, not bad, a quick read.
I just downloaded "One Thousand White Women" based on all your reviews here again, hope it's good.
I tried reading Middlesex when it first came out in 2002. I hated it. Couldn't get past the first couple of dozen pages. Now, a million years later, I decided to try it again... and I'm loving it.
I'm reading the first book in the Hannah Swensen Mysteries, called Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke. It's a cozy mystery, my favorite genre.
Book Synopsis from the back cover:
No one cooks up a delectable, suspense-filled mystery quite like Hannah Swensen, Joanne Fluke’s dessert-baking, red-haired heroine whose gingersnaps are as tart as her comebacks, and whose penchant for solving crimes—one delicious clue at a time—has made her a bestselling favorite. And it all began on these pages, with a bakery, a murder, and some suddenly scandalous chocolate-chip crunchies. Featuring a bonus short story and brand new, mouthwatering recipes, this limited edition of the very first Hannah Swensen mystery is sure to have readers coming back for seconds…
Hannah Swenson already has her hands full trying to dodge her mother’s attempts to marry her off while running The Cookie Jar, Lake Eden, Minnesota’s most popular bakery. But once Ron LaSalle, the beloved delivery man from the Cozy Cow Dairy, is found murdered behind her bakery with Hannah’s famous Chocolate Chip Crunchies scattered around him, her life just can’t get any worse. Determined not to let her cookies get a bad reputation, she sets out to track down a killer.
Who would have the sheer audacity—and the motive—to kill the most punctual delivery man Hannah ever had? Topping the list is the high school football coach. What exactly was his wife doing, making the rounds with the milkman? Could Max Turner, owner of Cozy Cow Dairy, have had a secret he didn’t want to share with his top employee? The more Hannah snoops, the more suspects turn up. Why has Lake Eden’s most prominent prodigal son, Benton Woodley, just resurfaced? And what about the mysterious Mr. Harris who seemed interested in buying the property next to the dairy, but then disappeared? This is one murder that’s starting to leave a very bad taste in Hannah’s mouth. And if she doesn’t watch her back, Hannah’s sweet life may get burned to a crisp.
Filled with a healthy sprinkling of humor and a delightful assortment of nuts, CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE MURDER serves up a great new mystery series and introduces a delicious, down-home sleuth that mystery readers will surely savor for years to come.
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I'm reading Paying the Piper by Simon Wood. It was a $1.99 Kindle book I found on my daily email from eReaderIQ. I recently saw his book Terminated on the same email for $2.99 and enjoyed it so, what the heck?
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-- I'm really loving it), I'll start on:
which I already might have mentioned 
But I decided to give it another shot, since I didn't remember how it ended. I liked it, not great, not bad, a quick read.