May 2023 -- What are you reading?
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Comments (77)I finished West With Giraffes, and although it took a while to get into it, I ended up liking it a lot, I mean, a LOT! :) I'm sure someone here mentioned it, so whoever it was, thank you! The historical setting is rendered so well - Dustbowl, Jim Crow attitudes, pre-interstate highways, train hobo traffic, and more. Then the intertwining of the 3 primary characters, even through the single POV of the first-person narrator, pulls the story together and drags you along. This one will stay with me a long time. Now I'm on to Death in Brittany, the first of the series mentioned by some of you in the Best of 2022 thread. Although the comments were for the most recent in the series, I like to start with #1 when checking out a new series. If I can finish it when it's due at the library next week, maybe I can start catching up with my borrowed books again. I've already had to renew Holton's Abigail Adams without even opening the cover yet. Tsk!...See MoreApril 2023...What are you reading ?
Comments (68)I finished Homecoming by well-regarded Australian author Kate Morton. I then went to check if I had read any others of hers, and found my assessment of The Forgotten Garden (aka The House at Riverton) which concluded 'I don't think I will bother with any more'!! It was an interesting story about a 40-ish Australian woman living in London who flies home to Sydney after her grandmother, who brought her up, had a fall. She is an investigative journalist who finds out about a tragedy in her family's past, but in doing research on the internet, finds there was a book written at the time about it, and gleans all her information from that. Of the main characters, the grandmother was a bully who considered everything had to be done her way, the mother was a cipher for most of the book, and the journalist character was OK. The mystery was done well. However, the author had done a lot of research, and the reader was made to pay. There was so much extraneous information, long descriptions of the birds, the trees, the weather and so on. But most annoying were the factual mistakes, many of which should have been avoided by the above-mentioned research. Since part of the book was set in the Adelaide Hills near where I live, I picked up on them, but I suppose the out-of-town reader wouldn't have noticed. I also finished listening to the wonderful House of Niccolo books by Dorothy Dunnett....See MoreWhat are you reading? April 2023 Edition
Comments (79)Just finished our latest book club read, The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt. My brain hurts and some of it was uncomfortable to read. It was written before the run-up to the 2016 election and all that has happened since so I wonder if he would hold now to some of the things he wrote. Tonight is our author meeting and he will get asked that for sure. I am no longer a fast reader, but I'm also reading things that require more of my deep attention and going back repeatedly to really understand. I want to read Tim Urban's What's Our Problem but doubt I'll get to it anytime soon. Gosh it's been decades(?) since I read The Shell Seekers and can't remember anything beyond being totally engrossed in the story....See MoreWhat are you reading? - July 2023 Edition
Comments (81)I just finished The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem. The characters were so much richer in the book than in the Netflix series. I do think it might lose something in translation from Hebrew but I learned so much about Palestine, the Turks, the British Occupation and the Israeli fight for freedom. I recommend....See Morekathy_t
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