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Post by conniej on Mar 20, 2019 1:21:13 GMT
I am ready for a trip to the library. This week just dropped off the only book I had from there but first want to check online to see what the new arrivals are and which ones I need to put my name on the “reserve” list.
I really like Jeffery Deaver and he has a new series with an expert tracker Colter Shaw. It is supposed to be coming out in May. Hooray a book for days at the pool .
In case you are interested this is what I found out.
The Never Game
(Colter Shaw #1)
by
Jeffery Deaver
A young woman has gone missing in Silicon Valley and her father has hired Colter Shaw to find her. The son of a survivalist family, Shaw is an expert tracker. Now he makes a living as a "reward seeker," traveling the country to help police solve crimes and private citizens locate missing persons. But what seems a simple investigation quickly thrusts him into the dark heart of America's tech hub and the cutthroat billion-dollar video-gaming industry.
"Escape if you can."
When another victim is kidnapped, the clues point to one video game with a troubled past--The Whispering Man. In that game, the player has to survive after being abandoned in an inhospitable setting with five random objects. Is a madman bringing the game to life?
Or die with dignity."
Shaw finds himself caught in a cat-and-mouse game, risking his own life to save the victims even as he pursues the kidnapper across both Silicon Valley and the dark 'net. Encountering eccentric game designers, trigger-happy gamers and ruthless tech titans, he soon learns that he isn't the only one on the hunt: someone is on his trail and closing fast.
I am in the middle of THE MOON SISTER and though I like the back story of the sister, it is not as interesting as the other ones have been for me. Do like the premise of back and forth through the generations, so will keep reading, maybe I will get more interested.
If I am not touching on any books you like to read, sorry about that and let me know if I can do a better job of keeping you informed and interested.
WHAT ARE YOU READING?
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Post by conniej on Mar 20, 2019 1:24:50 GMT
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Post by yogamama007 on Mar 20, 2019 4:14:41 GMT
Finally finishing up: Women Rowing North: Navigating Life's Currents and Flourishing As We Age by Mary Pipher "Pipher (The Green Boat), best known for challenging the cultural perspective on teenage girls in 1994’s bestselling Reviving Ophelia, brings her professional skill as a cultural anthropologist and her personal experience as a woman transitioning from middle age to old age to a work chock-full of wisdom and consoling messages. Attentive to varying experiences of class, race, gender, health, and marital status, even as she considers the deep “challenges of aging, including ageism and lookism, caregiving, loss, and loneliness,” Pipher offers practical, specific advice. This includes walking readers through “deep breathing and centering exercises,” grandparenting “intentionally,” and dealing with end-of-life care. She pays particular attention to the importance of finding community, warning against the trap of becoming isolated, and rattling off a multitude of suggestions—readers could join a book group, “learn to kayak” (per the title), or “volunteer to teach English to refugees.” While a must-read for its target audience of women moving into old age, Pipher’s engaging book is an ought-to-read for their daughters and sons as well, as it sets forth the universal message that “happiness is a choice and a set of skills.” Interesting enough book, but I found it a little depressing. (Annsanse, I know you gave me permission not to finish it and I thank you for that, but sometimes I can be stubborn.) Old age comes to us all if we are lucky, but I'm not ready for it and not ready for dear old friends passing. I wish they would stop, they are getting on my last nerve. What a hole they leave in our lives! On to the CRAWDADS to see what they are singing about. Hope to enjoy it. www.cbsnews.com/news/delia-owens-on-where-the-crawdads-sing/
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Post by Gail in SC on Mar 20, 2019 15:23:09 GMT
Printed by accident by Karen8787 on last week's thread. Don't want us to miss it:
Just had to say ....I finished Blue Lightning for book club this afternoon. I don't know when the book was written. Ann Cleeves is a British author. This U.S. edition was printed in 2010 and this is the 4th in the series so the primary character has been developing right along. The book is fine as a standalone. Character info was brought out slowly but this was a group who arrived on the island for birding although they do know a bit about each other. The bird watching world is small. Deaths occur...because it's a mystery, but one death does not serve the story. It seems to be just a random act. I am sure there is a purpose to it in the larger scheme of the series as the series continues for additional books. But there are way too many random acts of death in the real news. I'll be interested in what others think of it. At the moment I don't anticipate reading any more of her books.
Yes, Connie, I hope they read fast! Fortunately I'll have lots to fill in between now and whenever it shows up on the list. I picked up The Last Castle at the library yesterday and I have The Rosie Project and There There by Tommy Orange. I've got one due tomorrow, but I won't be reading it since the renewals are over and I don't want another crash reading experience so soon.
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Post by Gail in SC on Mar 20, 2019 22:38:31 GMT
Anne, I saw that interview with Delia Owens plus a couple of others. Fascinating background! The interviews expanded my appreciation of the book. Great that you posted it.
Still listening to THINKING FAST AND SLOW by Daniel Kahneman. Here's another limitation of our brain. It is called anchoring. If we are given a number, we tend to anchor on that number and reach a value that is closer to that number than it would be otherwise. This is not logical. If you are asked what the average of something is and you throw dice, with the dice fixed so they only register 6 or 12, you will anchor on the number shown on the dice. Those who throw a 6 will find an average that is significantly closer to the 6 than to the 12. Of course the number shown on the dice is irrelevant, but our brains work that way.
I also started reading KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI. a non-fiction book by David Grann. It is the disturbing story of murders of the Osage tribe, who had suddenly become very wealthy because oil was discovered on their land. The U.S. government declared that the Osage were not fit to use their own money wisely. In many cases whites were put in charge of the families' money, and they gave their wards allowances (and themselves large fees for their business knowledge). In addition the murders were covered up. Very disturbing but very well done.
Gail
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Post by woolworker on Mar 21, 2019 1:56:45 GMT
I had a tough time with Killers of the Flower Moon.
Annavece: I agree with you about old age. I'm definitely fighting it. Again, I found French Women Don't Get Facelifts refreshing. It is a silly title, but not a silly book. ...and....I AM enjoying revisiting my books. I have one more bookcase to pack up. Today I worked on family pictures and documents. I have piles of things to send off to various relatives.
I went to the Museum of Fine Arts yesterday with an artist friend from Maine. We had such a wonderful time. We saw the Frieda Kahlo exhibit and visited some other old friends in the galleries. I saw two very interesting books, The Last Love Song, the biography of Joan Didion. I had no idea there was a Joan Didion biography. I love Joan Didion's work and saw the documentary her nephew did of her story and enjoyed that. I will have to look for the book elsewhere because the lines in the MFA shop were ridiculous, lots of student groups there yesterday. The other book that caught my eye is Little Dancer Aged Fourteen: The True Story Behind Degas's Masterpiece by Camille Laurens. I really want to read this one, too, and will pass it along to my granddaughters. It is in my Amazon cart, but I haven't ordered it yet.
I am going to head upstairs and read one of Haruki Marukami's short stories. I have a book of them on my bedside table. Short stories and skimming books I've already read are about what I can do for reading actiivities these days.
Ann.
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Post by conniej on Mar 21, 2019 17:25:58 GMT
I am interested in these new books Maybe it will tweak your interest.
Run Away by Harlan Coben
A perfect family is shattered in RUN AWAY, the new thriller from the master of domestic suspense, Harlan Coben. You've lost your daughter. She's addicted to drugs and to an abusive boyfriend. And she's made it clear that she doesn't want to be found. Then, by chance, you see her playing guitar in Central Park. But she's not the girl you remember. This woman is living on the edge, frightened, and clearly in trouble.
You don't stop to think. You approach her, beg her to come home.
She runs. And you do the only thing a parent can do: you follow her into a dark and dangerous world you never knew existed. Before you know it, both your family and your life are on the line. And in order to protect your daughter from the evils of that world, you must face them head on.
Someone Knows by Lisa Scottoline
Twenty years ago, in an upscale suburb of Philadelphia, four teenagers spent a summer as closest friends: drinking, sharing secrets, testing boundaries. When a new boy looked to join them, they decided to pull a prank on him, convincing him to play Russian roulette as an initiation into their group. They secretly planned to leave the gun unloaded—but what happened next would change each of them forever.
Now three of the four reunite for the first time since that horrible summer. The guilt—and the lingering question about who loaded the gun—drove them apart. But after one of the group apparently commits suicide with a gun, their old secrets come roaring back. One of them is going to figure out if the new suicide is what it seems, and if it connects to the events of that long-ago summer. Someone knows exactly what happened—but who? And how far will they go to keep their secrets buried
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Post by bettyj on Mar 21, 2019 23:45:39 GMT
Just picked up The Moon Sister by Lucinda Riley. Forth in the Seven Sisters series.
bettyj
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Post by conniej on Mar 22, 2019 17:53:59 GMT
BettyJ. I will be interested to hear what you think of MOON SISTER. I just finished it last night.
It is snowing and raining and then clearing today, my empty dumpster just blew over for the 2nd time and think I will leave it!! If it starts to slide around will bring it in to the garage. There is room just don't like it in there. but wind whips around corner of the garage. I was going out today but just don't feel like dealing with this weather.
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Post by woolworker on Mar 22, 2019 21:15:18 GMT
The weather is lousy in Massachusetts, too, Connie. I had a gazillion errands to do in New Hampshire and now I want a warm fire in the fireplace. I took out some soup from the freezer for dinner. I was going to read or watch a movie, but I think the news should be pretty interesting tonight.
Our sheep shearer is coming to shear our remaining three sheep tomorrow. I am marinating a big leg of lamb for our dinner with him. He is a dear, old friend so we will continue to see him, I am sure. He is losing customers, but then, at 73, he should slow down! He is learning to tune pianos for his back-up career! I have a stack of books for him on sheep and bread baking....he is an amazing bread baker.
Cozy up with a good book or movie. I don't think spring has sprung yet!
Ann
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Post by woolworker on Mar 22, 2019 21:18:07 GMT
P.S. He is losing customers because we are ALL feeling like we should try something new with our remaining active years. One of the women who taught me a lot about sheep and fiber just had her last shearing....she is 90!...and her husband died years ago, but she has continued on. Old age ain't what it used to be!
Ann
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Post by Gail in SC on Mar 23, 2019 1:52:46 GMT
Yes, Ann, we surely are having lousy weather in MA! Cold and dreary and rainy off and on. I made some of your sausage, lentil, spinach soup, which really hit the spot.
I am going to bed early with one of the two books I am reading: KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and BURY YOUR DEAD (a Louise Penny novel). Life would be a lot harder without books!
Ann, when you said you had a tough time with KILLERS, is that because the material is so disturbing or because you didn't like the way it is written?
Gail
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Post by woolworker on Mar 23, 2019 11:44:50 GMT
The only reason I was able to keep going was because the writing was excellent. The material was very tough for me.
Ann
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Post by Gail in SC on Mar 23, 2019 14:41:53 GMT
Yes! The material is so hard to read. What was done to the Osage (and many others) was dreadful. And we have not ended our awful treatment of "others."
I am loving the new Louise Penny murder mystery. I often stop and reread what she has written. For example, "The very force of his personality both created and crippled. How much more could he have accomplished had he been kinder? But then, dynamism and kindness often didn't go together, though when they did they were unstoppable." She also makes her writing very personal, letting her fans in on her life and what is important to her. She shared the pain of losing her husband on her FB account. Ever since I saw her speak I have been a huge fan.
Gail
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Post by conniej on Mar 23, 2019 18:17:24 GMT
I have started the new John Sanford novel HOLY GHOST.
Virgil Flowers investigates a miracle--and a murder--in the wickedly entertaining new thriller from the master of "pure reading pleasure" (Booklist)
Pinion, Minnesota: a metropolis of all of seven hundred souls, for which the word "moribund" might have been invented. Nothing ever happened there and nothing ever would--until the mayor of sorts (campaign slogan: "I'll Do What I Can") and a buddy come up with a scheme to put Pinion on the map. They'd heard of a place where a floating image of the Virgin Mary had turned the whole town into a shrine, attracting thousands of pilgrims. And all those pilgrims needed food, shelter, all kinds of crazy things, right? They'd all get rich! What could go wrong? When the dead body shows up, they find out, and that's only the beginning of their troubles--and Virgil Flowers'--as they are all about to discover all too soon.
I really like Lincoln Rhymes novels much better but Virgil is a trip usually. So picked this one for fun.
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