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I'm thinking of trying The Burgess Boys (by Elizabeth Strout) next but I have a cold and a lot going on, and I don't want to ruin a Strout book with my lousy mood. We'll see. Has anyone read The Burgess Boys yet? I always like Strout, but the blurb on this book didn't grab me.
I haven't read it yet, but I'm sure I will, eventually. She's one of my favorite authors.
I started Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury, which was recommended by a friend. I was sleepy last night and didn't get very far in it, so don't have a good feel for it yet.
Reviewers keep saying that The Burgess Boys is a depressing book (I'm fine with that) and that it's predictable (I'm not fine with that at all).
I think -- because of my distaste for predictable -- I'm going to read Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn next.
That said, I know that I'll read the Strout book eventually too because, like you, I enjoy her style.
I have The Burgess Boys on the kindle. I plan to read it after I finish a really good book that was a kindle special. Jan Strnad's The Summer We Lost Alice. I'm having a hard time putting this book down. It's exceptional. Gotta' flash to one of the many things I like about Stephen King's books. He is one year younger than I am and he always mentions songs from our early years in his books. He really connects with me that way. Well, Strnad does the same thing for me except it is not songs. It's sayings that were popular when I was a kid and similar life experiences of the characters that are often a lot like mine. I highly recommend this book. The writing is great.
Sharp Objects is very depressing but it really is a good read.
well i will tell you the book "Mrs Lincolns dressmaker " was dull at best could not get through it at all . Hope I find something better to read soon .
I am reading the Clockwork Series. I have just finished reading Clockwork Angel and now I am onto Clockwork Prince. and to finish the trilogy is the Clockwork Princess
I love things set a few hundred years in the past and this one is also set in Victorian London. So it caught my attention.
I finished Paradise by Toni Morrison last week. Has anyone read it? I really need to know what you got out of it. The ending totally threw me for a loop. Somebody pls say you read this book....
Okay, SS, I made it through 44%, and the last 20% was in loyalty to you because I told you I would read it, but I just cannot keep trying to make sense of this mess. Morrison is a much better author than this book and I can only imagine that is some experiment she's tried and failed. Or maybe it's a market test to see if she can sell anything with her name on it.
Bottom line: too many unexplained events, too many characters coming into the story for no apparent reason. Too much vague innuendo with no purpose. And what the heck was that whole charade about THE OVEN?
No, sorry -- it's not worth the time. I am glad it was a library download.
I now have two hard books in queue: the 2nd in the Cornish trilogy by Robertson Davies: "What's Bred in the Bone," and "Beckett Remembering Remembering Beckett," edited by James and Elizabeth Knowlson. I am listening to Beckett's "Molloy," on my Zune and he fascinates me. I think you have to really like well selected phrases that make you think to like his work. It is the literary analogy of the acid music that we used to hear in the 70s -- long rambling rifts that take your mind in a number of directions until you don't know where you are going but you are enjoying the ride.
That said, a little Beckett goes a long way, so I will probably bounce back and forth between the two.
I am reading Last To Die by Tess Gerritsen. I love her Rizzoli and Isles series and recommend it. I wasn't so sure I was in the mood for this genre, but when I picked up The Silent Girl, the book before this one, I was hooked and couldn't wait to get the latest when I finished it. I also will be starting Miss Peregrine's School for Peculiar Children. I've decided I'm really liking the library, which hubby finds strange since I have probably 400-500 books, most of which I have not read, on my shelves and on my Kindle already. Oh well. I have been thinning though, which feels good.
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