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I've had Greg Isles on my list for a long time now. Maybe I will have to move him up.
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Originally Posted by Ketabcha
I always enjoy Greg Iles' books. Since you liked Natchez Burning I'll recommend another author whose books are just as good, IMHO. He has not written a lot of books. Simon Beckett. I can never guess the endings. Here is my personal favorite:
Sounds like another good one. Thank you.
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Originally Posted by CarolinaWoman
Just finished The Hurricane Sisters by Dorothea Benton Frank. Now doing one of my quick reads with a paperback by Michael Connelly while I wait on John Grisham's new book Gray Mountain due out in October.
I like Michael Connelly. Have you read Sycamore Row by John Grisham?
I went to the library and picked up a few that were not ordered. Unfortunately now that I looked them up they don't look like they will be good books. Oh well. I will give them a try. I have 3 books to read first though
Finished the engrossing Dr. Mary's Monkey: How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses Are Linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, ... Assassination and Emerging Global Epidemics by Edward T. Haslam
Now I can't wait to get into~ The Skeleton Takes a Bow (A Family Skeleton Mystery) by Leigh Perry
I have a habit of just reading the first paragraph on the dust jacket telling what the book is about when I'm considering a book. I've found that those summaries sometimes give away too much of the plot and I want to discover the story by myself. Sometimes I regret that habit. For instance I picked up We Are Called to Rise by Laura McBride. The summary said a woman's marriage crumbles with a single confession, across town an immigrant family struggles to make a life in America... so far, so good, right? Domestic fiction.
But if I'd read on I would have seen the sentence that says this book breaks your heart. Oh yeah, ultimately it was about the fate of a child, and it WAS heartbreaking! Not my kind of read but I soldiered on with the help of a few Kleenexes. The ending was a little unbelievable but tied things up nicely.
Speaking of endings, one of the worst I've read I finished last night. It was Life Drawing by Robin Black. An artist and her writer husband lead a bucolic, solitary life in a cottage in the country, marred only by the wife's indiscretion five years earlier. Much soul searching, lots of guilt-ridden angst, and then a neighbor moves in next door and everything changes. And then the most shocking thing, totally out of the blue, happens at the end of the book and then that's it. End of story. I slept fine though.
That's why I don't want to do book groups.
I know, my loss, but I don't want to read what I don't want to read.
I also have never joined a book group/club for that exact reason.Plus my tastes are too eclectic,for instance I've read very few books that were ever on the NYT bestseller list. Most are just not my cuppa,same with Academy Award winning films UGH!
That's why I don't want to do book groups.
I know, my loss, but I don't want to read what I don't want to read.
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Originally Posted by i_love_autumn
I also have never joined a book group/club for that exact reason.Plus my tastes are too eclectic,for instance I've read very few books that were ever on the NYT bestseller list. Most are just not my cuppa,same with Academy Award winning films UGH!
Ditto. Me makes three.
In the beginning, I would refuse to read a book if it had the "O" seal of approval on it, horrified that it would be interpreted that I was so stupid I had to have Oprah approve of a book before I would read it.
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