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Post by woolworker on May 12, 2021 14:44:11 GMT
Welcome, Diane! We are so glad to have you join us. We love all readers!
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Post by conniej on May 12, 2021 16:09:29 GMT
I am looking for these 2 books at my Library when I take my books back. they are completely different but that is what I like.
Serpentine
by Jonathan Kellerman
LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis has a near-perfect solve rate. Some of those successes have involved his best friend, the brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware. But Milo doesn’t call Alex in unless cases are “different.”
This murder warrants an immediate call. Milo’s independence has been compromised as never before, as the department pressures him to cater to the demands of a mogul: a hard-to-fathom, megarich young woman who is obsessed with reopening the coldest of cases--the decades-old death of the mother she never knew.
As Delaware and Sturgis begin digging, the mist begins to lift. Too many coincidences. Facts turn out to be anything but. And as they soon discover, very real threats lurking in the present.
The Woman with the Blue Star
by
Pam Jenoff
1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents in the KrakĂłw Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous tunnels beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers.
Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of relative ease with her stepmother, who has developed close alliances with the occupying Germans. While on an errand in the market, she catches a glimpse of something moving beneath a grate in the street. Upon closer inspection, she realizes it’s a girl hiding.
Ella begins to aid Sadie and the two become close, but as the dangers of the war worsen, their lives are set on a collision course that will test them in the face of overwhelming odds. Inspired by incredible true stories.
Diane, thanks for checking us out. welcome. Joan, I like the young adult fantasy so will be looking for that book also. Linda, I like Jennifer Weiner also, hadn't seen that book yet.
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Post by woolworker on May 13, 2021 15:03:29 GMT
I have two books waiting for me at the library. One is The Midnight Library by Matt Haig and the other one is Growing Up Bank Street, a Greenwhich Village Memoir by Donna Florio. I will read whichever one comes in first as my next book. In the mean time, I am reading a memoir about Greece and Greek food, just night table reading before I go to sleep.
We have started going out with friends again so I barely have time to read the papers. Plus, work continues on our house wo there is banging all day long. I'm deep cleaning to distract myself from the noise....and getting out for hikes and walks.
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Post by diane on May 13, 2021 15:14:25 GMT
Hi!
I got the Wizard's Guide... book on my kindle yesterday, and should start it this weekend. I'm looking forward to it. Nice tha t it was on Kindle!
Diane
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Post by Gail in SC on May 13, 2021 16:49:22 GMT
Yesterday in my poetry class we discussed Carl Sandburg (particular attention to the poem CHICAGO) and Robert Lowell, concentrating on FOR THE UNION DEAD. The latter is heartbreaking. It was written while the city of Boston was building a garage under the Boston Common and the civil rights movement was heating up. It cites the some of the negatives of industrialization. Lowell bemoans the loss of the idealism in our history and some of his haunts in the Boston area. He talks about the beautiful relief of Colonel Shaw and his black regiment which was portrayed in the film GLORY. I was living in Boston at the time and remember it all.
Loving that class! We are a mixed group in terms of our backgrounds and familiarity with poetry and are learning a lot from each other. Next week is “The Dry Salvages” by T.S. Eliot and “The Idea of Order at Key West” by Wallace Stevens.
Thanks for all the recommendations. Good to have some new faces here!
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Post by conniej on May 13, 2021 16:49:34 GMT
My reading friend reads about 3/4 of her books on Kindle. and then just needs a book in hand and that is where I come in handy!! I have a hard time watching a movie on my computer and also reading on my Ipad. But will do both now and then. My DGD#2 loves a book in hand so lot of mine go to her. She loves weird and books with a twist so those I always save for her. When she comes home for the Baby shower in June, I have a couple for her. Even with an almost 2 year old , working at home, and a big house, she still is like me. Has to be reading a book!! I was same way when I was a young MOM. My saving grace!!!
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Post by conniej on May 13, 2021 16:52:58 GMT
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Post by lani on May 15, 2021 16:36:51 GMT
conniej , I read every Kellerman when they come out. He cranks one out every year and they are all to the same standard. How does he do it? retiredinaz, I agree about Donna Leon. I have only read a few of her books. I need to remember to look for more. I love Deborah Crombie as well. I have read most of her books twice. And I have re-read all of PD James more than twice. I was impressed that her writing quality maintained up until the end. I finished BRING UP THE BODIES, the second in the Wolf Hall trilogy. I was jazzed and went to purchase the last one, but I was in Hawaii and had no access on my Kindle to order anything new! Had to switch over a different author. I had also borrowed SCORPION'S TAIL by Preston and Child. Bit of a drop off in writing quality. But they always have some interesting scientific information. I also re-read RAVEN BLACK, the first Shetland book by Ann Cleeves. I had forgotten the plot and was surprised once again by whodunit. I was glad I had the physical book in hand and could go back and see all the hints about the murderer that I missed (again!) That is my main complaint about the Kindle. I so often want to go back and check a plot point. It is too hard with the ereader. I am also re-reading the next Shetland (I have the books), WHITE NIGHTS. I am an incorrigible re-reader.
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