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Post by alias123 on Feb 22, 2017 5:13:26 GMT
I enjoyed and finished two books today.
The Price by Arthur Miller Mad Enchantment by Ross King
Tomorrow I will begin Ragtime: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow
synopsis--
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time
Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War.
The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car into a telephone pole outside their house. And almost magically, the line between fantasy and historical fact, between real and imaginary characters, disappears. Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J. P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata slip in and out of the tale, crossing paths with Doctorow's imagined family and other fictional characters, including an immigrant peddler and a ragtime musician from Harlem whose insistence on a point of justice drives him to revolutionary violence.
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Post by free2bme on Feb 22, 2017 13:52:05 GMT
I'm reading "The Song of Hartgrove Hall" by Natasha Solomons. It's pretty good, I loved her last book "The House at Tyneford"
My book club is reading and I stopped reading as I couldn't get into it: "A Little Life" by Hanya Yamagihara
and for pure fluff I just checked out "Hungry Heart" by Jennifer Weiner
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Post by alias123 on Feb 23, 2017 4:29:34 GMT
Sorry to hear the A Little Life wasn't engaging. I was looking at it at B&N but didn't buy it. I see it almost has 3,000 reviews on Amazon.
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Post by keshet51 on Feb 23, 2017 12:10:08 GMT
I just finished a book called Broken Verses. Found it really interesting. By a Pakistani author and there's a nice twist at the end. My book club is discussing it next week...
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Post by alias123 on Feb 23, 2017 21:16:35 GMT
I just finished a book called Broken Verses. Found it really interesting. By a Pakistani author and there's a nice twist at the end. My book club is discussing it next week... I am always looking for interesting book club reads for my library group. We tend towards non fiction or serious lit. No chick lit !
I'll check out Broken Verses. Thanks!
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