What books have you enjoyed reading lately?
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Comments (58)I'm currently reading "Game of Thrones", and really enjoying it. Terriks, I know exactly what you mean about the "porn" in the first episode--we got the 1st season on DVD (no HBO at our house...) and I was sort of appalled. However I liked the overall story so we stuck with it. Interestingly the later episodes did not have nearly as much--perhaps they felt like they needed to reel in a certain kind of viewer at the beginning. Eew! I also enjoy mysteries. Recently I enjoyed the "Lincoln Lawyer" series of books by Michael Connelly. There are five that follow that character. Some of my favorite "special" books I've read from over the past year: "City of Thieves" a great coming of age novel by David Benioff set during the siege of Leningrad. "The Whistling Season" by Ivan Doig. I LOVED this book, but I have to confess some of my book club buds were just okay with it, since it it not super plot-driven. If you like books about interesting people you just want to spend time with, and beautifully crafted language, this is great. Funny and sweet and wistful, narrated by a man looking back at a special year in his childhood in rural Montana. Especially good to read if you are a teacher. "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrandt. Pretty harrowing non-fiction, but really fascinating, too. "Any Bitter Thing" by Monica Wood. Our book club read this and every person loved it. I've also recommend it to several people, and they all loved it as well. It can be a little hard to find unless you order online, and none of us can figure why it didn't become a huge bestseller. It has some mystery elements to it, but it's more than that. Happy reading to you all, and thanks for the suggstions...See MoreHave you read any good books lately????
Comments (21)Loved the animal stories too. When in England, one of my planned stops was Harriot's vet hospital. It was wonderful, fascinating...everything was just as it was when he practiced there and even had the original TV setting where they filmed. The people in the little town loved visiting Americans and would repeat that we were the reason his books become popular. A book I recommend to many is Mrs. Chippy's Last Expedition (tis a "he" though). It is about the cat on Shackleton's Antarctica expedition, brought aboard by the ship's carpenter. Written with the cat's view, has wonderful pics of the expedition, ship, men and history story of this sad event. Although a teen level book, highly read by adults and found in the adult section. Be ready for a very sad ending, but truely a worthwhile read....See MoreWhat have you read (or watched) lately?
Comments (17)I started reading "The Spire," by Richard North Patterson, but gave up on it. It was my first book by him, and I found it boring. Now I'm reading "The Two-Minute Rule," by Robert Crais. I like Crais a lot, and this book has many fans. So I'm persevering, but I must say the book hasn't grabbed me yet. I don't watch many movies, but I was sick this week. In addition to lots of episodes of Gilmore Girls and The Closer on DVD, I watched the movie "Enchanted." I thought it was charming....See MoreJuly reading list........what are you enjoying ?
Comments (67)I'm reading A Belle of the Fifties, the memoir of a Southern woman in the 1850s. It was published in about 1905 and she was still an unreformed pro-slavery ardent Southerner. Her husband had been a senator from Alabama and she has a lot to say about social life and fashion in Washington DC in the years leading up to the Civil War. She seems very shallow. I have just arrived at secession in early 1861--she was all for it--so we'll see what happens next. Her name was Virginia Clay Clopton tho someone else put the book together from her diaries and notes and verbal input....See More
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I came across several books by this author set in the same world as Harry Potter, but focused on Harry's son James, who, in this book, is just starting his first year at Hogwarts. Strictly speaking it is "fan fiction" but so far it is fairly well written, and it captures much of the same feel as the early Harry Potter books.
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