What are you reading in 2017?
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Comments (44)Ah I always check out these postings. I've found some excellent reads thanks to my fellow book lovers on this site. Right now I have a few suggestions that I have just finished or am on the final pages of: The Potato Factory - Bryce Courtenay (been out a few years and just discovered in the library reject pile) House of Spirits and Whispers - Annie Wilder . This is the true story of a haunted house. Is it scary...no, but as I love old houses and things that go bump in the night I liked it for a change of pace. Alone in the classroom - Elizabeth Hay. Half way done and am liking it well enough but wonder about all the hype. Those are my offerings this time around. Budster...See MoreJanuary 2017 - What are you reading?
Comments (81)I've started listening to audiobooks in the past couple of months. While I prefer to read books, I work for a caterer three times a week and spend 5 hours on those days in a kitchen, alone. I used to listen to music, but one day downloaded a book and realized it was a great way to "read" more books. Last week I finished Chris Cleave's latest novel, Everyone Brave is Forgiven. I loved this novel, which I thought was beautifully written, with very clever use of witty humor in the dialogue. The narration was done very well, and perhaps that led to my enjoyment of the story. The downfall of an audiobook is that it doesn't lend itself to "reading in bed" at the end of the day. I found myself not wanting to stop so would listen to it every time I got in my car as well! I'm currently reading Letters to the Lost. I'm not sure where I heard about this one but it's just okay. It also takes place in London during WWII but later in the war, and it isn't really about the war at all. It's just okay - about two people who fall in love during the war but one is newly married to a man who doesn't love her. An average book that I wouldn't go out of my way to recommend. A friend recommended The Hired Girl as one of her favorites from last year but I didn't realize it's a YA novel and clearly reads that way. I'm listening to this one as an audiobook but find the narrator a bit annoying. Another one I wouldn't recommend except perhaps to my teenage daughter. I'm anxiously awaiting A Gentleman in Moscow and Hillbilly Elegy from the library. I've quickly moved up the list for A Gentleman (38 on waiting list) but for Hillbilly Elegy I'm 231 on list for the audiobook and 251 for the actual book!...See MoreAugust 2017 trees, show us what you got!
Comments (126)Kvetch. Jinny, sunshine thanks for the kind words. I foliar feed only the scion 2 times a day and I place it in the light for an extra 5 hours just before sunset. I have left the C35 snapped over to produce a lot of food for the whole plant. the higher level scion is th only part of the tree that sees light. So far no rootstock growth above the graft but I have broken over 5 buds below the graft. I am going to leave the rootstock top intact for another month or 2. The rootstock top will be in the way when I bring the tree in for the winter....See MoreFavorite Reads of 2017
Comments (10)I get most of my books from the Boston Public Library and a large library system in which our town participates. This was in my email today. I read The Girl on The Train, The Goldfinch, Hillbily Elegy, A Man Called Ove and am still on a waiting list for Handmaid's Tale and All the Light We Cannot See. I read e-books on my iPad using Overdrive. Boston Public Library’s Top Borrowed Titles of 2017 It's no secret that Boston loves books, and now you can see which books Bostonians of all ages loved best in 2017 with BPL's top ten most-borrowed books lists. BPL's Top Ten Borrowed Adult Books of 2017 The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty The Girls by Emma Cline Commonwealth by Ann Patchett The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr...See Morecaseynfld
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