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I am currently reading Die Again by Tess Gerritsen and Act Like a Success, Think Like a Success by Steve Harvey. I also put myself on the library hold list for Glitter and Glue. Sounds good.
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I also put myself on the library hold list for Glitter and Glue. Sounds good.
I almost finished Glitter and Glue last night. I was crying like a baby and couldn't see through my tears to read the last 20 or so pages. I'll finish it tonight so that I'm *ready* to start The Girl on the Train.
By the way, read The Middle Place by the same author first. It's not a series or anything, but you'll get a better handle on her parents -- particularly her father -- from The Middle Place and you'll connect (and like) Glitter and Glue all the more for it.
I almost finished Glitter and Glue last night. I was crying like a baby and couldn't see through my tears to read the last 20 or so pages. I'll finish it tonight so that I'm *ready* to start The Girl on the Train.
By the way, read The Middle Place by the same author first. It's not a series or anything, but you'll get a better handle on her parents -- particularly her father -- from The Middle Place and you'll connect (and like) Glitter and Glue all the more for it.
I am excited to read it now and I will now go look for The Middle Place per your orders.
Jazzy, Glitter and Glue -- which is really very good -- is the one that I'm reading while I'm biding my time until the one that I'm really waiting for is finally released on Tuesday. That one I'm pretty sure will have a waiting list at your library -- it's called The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins.
I am giving up on Karl Ove Knausgaard's "A Time for Everything". I got about a quarter of the way through, and quit, and read something else. Then went back to Knausgaard, and skipped around, and still wasn't interested. He tells a great story about the lives of people, vivid and descriptive, but way, way too much philosphizing in between. I liked "My Struggle" a lot, but there, too, I just learned to skp the parts where he rambled through philosophical thoughts. "Everything" is much worse, at least half the text of blocks of many pages of philosophizing. Knausgaard's writing brings Robert Persig to mind, for those of you who read Zen/Motorcycle Maintenance.
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Well, A Time for Everything is billed as a novel of ideas so the philosophizing doesn't surprise me. I thought the sample gave a hint of that. After reading the sample, I went and reread the Amazon description and I kind of figured that it would be that kind of book. But I might give it a whirl anyway.
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I am excited to read it now and I will now go look for The Middle Place per your orders.
Hahahaha! My orders... hahaha!
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I await your review
Kate, I have such high hopes for this one, you just know that it's going to come crashing down on me. I ordered it before there was even a sample to read. Now there's a sample, but I refuse to read it. I don't want to make things worse. I'll let you know once I've started it.
Jazzy, Glitter and Glue -- which is really very good -- is the one that I'm reading while I'm biding my time until the one that I'm really waiting for is finally released on Tuesday. That one I'm pretty sure will have a waiting list at your library -- it's called The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins.
How come you're so excited about a debut novel, or so I think I read? How do you know it's any good? I think you said you were excited about it before reading the sample, so I'm just curious.
I started in The Descent by Tim Johnson. I came across it via your link to Girl On a Train. It's literary writing, very beautiful in places but after my first initial burst of enthusiasm, I have lost interest. It is probably me. I think there is no cure for what ails me but to reread The Secret History.
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