I also really enjoyed The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. Apparently, there is a book by the same author written from the point of view of Queenie, Harold's friend, that's supposed to be very good.

Right now I'm reading The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up : the Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing. Hopefully the advice will "stick" in my own tidying efforts! To get away from tidying, I'm reading a Calvin and Hobbes collection. Always something to love there!

I'm about 3/4 though Dragonfly in Amber, the second book in Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. Although I usually prefer books over e-books, I'm grateful to have this 976-page tome on my Kindle.

I'm a latecomer to the series, and I adored Outlander, the first volume. I'm enjoying this one, too, although the sections on European politics and English/Scottish war strategies have had me glazing over at times. That said, I do admire the author's firm grasp of it all.

I have 3 books sitting here:

Skin Game, by Jim Butcher

Gone Girl, by Lillian Flynn

The Rule OF Four, by Ian Caldwell

I can't get in the mood to read much...got Spring Fever! :0)

Big Little Lies and The Husband's Secret (both awesome). Just also finished Stephen King's Joyland -- it was published a few years ago; I don't know how I missed it back then. Oh, and I greatly enjoyed recently reading Slaughterhouse 5 by Vonnegut. Dark humor, very good.

I just finished this one, very good. I also read life without limits

DH and I both love Atkinson! We both read "Pilgrimage" -- requires charitable thinking about some initially unsympathetic characters.

I struggled with "Gone Girl". It's asking a lot for a reader to care about a whole cast of *seriously* unsympathetic major characters.

We're both reading Joseph Kanon's latest novel, "Leaving Berlin". What a polished author!

I like to hear what everyone is reading. Yes, Alisande, it's good to read those whopper books on the Kindle.

I just finished In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick. It won the National Book Award in 2000. It's the true story of the whaleship Essex and the whaling industry out of Nantucket. Excellent book for those interested. I just got it from the library to look at the pix and maybe read a page or two and ended up reading the whole thing.

I read A Man Called Ove and hubby just finished reading it as well, before it had to go back to the library. I received a number of like-new paperbacks from Freecycle. Numerous ones by one or two authors. I couldn't get into the series by Jo Nesbo so he's reading one to see whether he'll like it.

Anyone here read both Ove and Harold Fry? If so, which did you like better?

I have Ove here now, it kinda starts slow for me. I hope I can get into it.I think I am a picky reader

"Ove" is a slow starter. Keep reading. You'll like it.

Socks -- "Ove" is easier. "Fry" is longer and more complex, IMO.

I'm reading It's What I Do by Lynsey Addario. She's an award winning photographer and chronicler of our struggles in the Middle East and Africa. Not always the best prose, but riveting and very sad. On another note, thanks to Stacey mb, I found and read A Man Called Ove. One of my favorites so far this year!

I didn't like Ove (the man) at the beginning; he was too grouchy. But I'm glad I stuck with it. I liked it better than Fry, but you are right, it is a simpler story.

Also, I just finished Sandcastle Girls which is a novel set in 1915 and the present, dealing with the Armenian genocide, which, sadly for me, I'd never heard of. Very, very well written, but graphic and very sad. I saw a good show on PBS tonight about this topic. There are many references to it in the news as this is the 100th anniversar. I saw both the Pope sand the President have spoken about it. The Turks still deny it.

Thanks for pushing me to read more of Ove. I've started it and everytime I go to pick it back up, I think - "not now" Will make the effort on your recommendations.

I'm old enough to have been told (as a child): "Finish your dinner. Think of the starving Armenians." Not that I had a clue about the situation -- and it was long past by the time I was a child. The Turks say it wasn't genocide, but there were two million Armenians living in Turkey prior, and only 400K afterwards. Whether you killed them or they survived because they fled...same reasoning.

Like chisue, I also love Atkinson. The best book I've read recently is All The Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr; probably the best book I've read in several years. I didn't care much for Ove, but I like "Unlikely" and I agree with the post about A Spool of Blue Thread, not her best effort. I'm currently reading (on my Kindle, because I have poor vision) Some Luck by Jane Smiley, which is good, so far (long).

Our book group has "This Beautiful Life" this month. I think I am going to hate it. Seems inappropriate for a group of senior citizens. I would prefer just a good story, not so much psychological angst.

I wish I had time to read!! Maybe in about, oh, 5 or 6 months from now. :-)

I am reading "Miss Julia's Marvelous Makeover" by Ann B. Ross. It is #15 in a series of Miss Julia books (I've read all the previous ones). They are delightful--funny and easy-reading. I highly recommend this series!

Finished Big Little Lies and reading The Husband's Secret. Just finished The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry....loved it and my favorite in the last month is All the Light We Cannot See.

I just finished "Unbroken." It was an amazing story. I couldn't put it down. Now I'm looking for my next book that I "can't put down."

I recently read and loved "Isaac's Storm", true story about the deadly hurricane in Galveston in 1900 - amazing how technology has improved but politics and human nature have remained the same. Also read A Place At The Table (Rebecca White) - was okay, didn't blow me away as I first thought it would in the beginning. Then I read my dear, old fav - James Patterson. There's nothing like a good murder or two to make a girl smile. I read Cross My Heart - and now will happily read the next in the series Hope To Die to find out what the heck happened in the first one!

I also wanted to mention how I just loved the Miss Julia stories that I have read! OMG - so different from my usual style of reading, but originally passed on to me by a friend. Wow, Miss Julia really rocks - and I just love her.

The Barkeep by William Lashner

I am about to start the third book in the Anna Pigeon novels by Nevada Barr. This should keep me busy for a few months.

Those Who Wish Me Dead by Michael Koryta. I read one of his books and the n more. Also reading Walking Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton, one of my book club books.

"The Fast Diet"

I've gone back to read the entire book by Khalil Gibran, cover to cover, The Prophet. I know so many quotes from it, but it's too piecemeal in my mind and I want the quilt to be complete.

Nicely said Rob.