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Lately I haven't had much time to read! Usually I'm reading 4-5 books a month, & now I'm LUCKY to read one!
I did just re-read The Stolen Child by Keith Donahue because I'm considering recommending it to my book clug.
Also I'm currently reading Sabriel for that same book club...it's YA fantasy & not my "thing". And The Devil's Knot which is a true-crime book, it has been pretty interesting...I used to read a lot of true-crime, but stopped mostly because they were often like a newspapter 're-cap', with little delving into the bigger picture.
This is why the book forum on CD is one of my favorites. I had never even heard of this book, Night, but just looked it up and sounds like something I would like to read so I just ordered it
I get many good book suggestions on here
I second this--I love this forum, too. It's great to "talk" to so many other readers.
Just requested the first word-origin of language by christine keneally thanks to this forum. Also just requested the murder room by capuzzi thanks to this forum.
they do sound very interesting. ( hope so anyway)
My book club will be reading Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett at some point this year so I picked up a copy and started it as it's quite long - about 1,000 pages. Although not the type of book I'd normally choose on my own I am enjoying it.
Meanwhile, I just finished The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova - another book club read. Although I didn't like it very much, I don't necessarily consider it a total waste of time. IMO it needed a good editor - about 300 pages too long so that the story itself dragged. But at the end, things were way too neatly tied up in the last few pages, almost as though the author had a deadline to meet and just wrapped things up in order to get it done.
Wow I just finished the help and it ran chills up my spine and it was so good I finished it in three days !!! Now I am onto this one The suspicions of Mr. Whicher : a shocking murder and the undoing of a great Victorian detective I hope it is good because thsi was a recomendation by a fellow reader and then after that I plan on reading The secret life of cee -cee wilkes , another recomendation from a fellow reader . Oh well enough for now will come back when I finish each one of these and if good will recomend them .
I did not enjoy the Secret Life of Bees. It was just OK. There was something about her writing and descriptions that made the story very very slow and didn't completely bring the events to life. I would not recommend it, JMHO.
Agree. I was tempted not to finish this book. I thought it was very predictable.
I am almost finished with Freedom and half way through Michener's Caribbean. I only read these two a chapter at a time. the book shop by Penelope Fitzgerald was recommended by one of the order guys at Powell's. It's a short book so shouldn't take long.
just finished reading Leon Ledderman's "The God Particle", for those interested in physics, only, but written for the lay person, and, exactly as described on the cover "the funniest book about physics ever written"
In a lighter vein, Jasper Fford's "The Eyre Affair". . ..a must read for the real bibliophyles out there, and very entertaining.
Now started on "Ahab's Wife/ the stargazer" by S. J. Nasland, and loving it!
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