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Post by conniej on May 16, 2021 15:59:03 GMT
It was nice to have so many posters , thanks so much. I have a list for the library this week.
In the spring and summer where is your favorite place to read. I love my front porch if I want to see the neighborhood but sometimes I like the back porch/deck so I can concentrate and hide out!! And my very favorite place is at DD’s pool. Even if the water is too cold in early days, I love the deck and the lounge chair. She has a lot of birds that keep me company and her neighborhood is pretty quiet unless it is mowing day.
That Summer
Jennifer Weiner
Parallel Lives
Daisy Shoemaker can’t sleep. With a thriving business and a beautiful home, Dasiy Shoemaker should be content. So why is she up all night?
While Daisy tries to identify the root of her dissatisfaction, she’s also receiving misdirected emails meant for a woman named Diana Starling, whose email address is just one punctuation mark away from her own. While Daisy’s driving carpools, Diana is chairing meetings. Diana’s glamorous, sophisticated, single-lady life is miles away from Daisy’s simpler existence. When an apology leads to an invitation, the two women meet and become friends. But, as they get closer, we learn that their connection was not completely accidental. Who IS this other woman, and what does she want with Daisy?
The Devil May Dance
by Jake Tapper
Historical Fiction, Thrillers & Suspense
The dark side of Hollywood
Charlie and Margaret Marder, political stars in 1960s Washington DC, know all too well how the tangled web of power in the nation's capital can operate. But while they long to settle into the comforts of home, Attorney General Robert Kennedy has other plans.
Charlie and Margaret quickly find themselves on a flight to sunny Los Angeles, where they’ll face off against a dazzling world of stars and studios. At the center of their investigation is Frank Sinatra, a close friend of President John F. Kennedy and a rumored mob crony. But in a town built on illusions, nothing is easy, and drinks by the pool at the Sands and late-night adventures with the Rat Pack soon lead to a body in the trunk of their car.
Review Quote
"Jake Tapper's deep inside knowledge of power, greed and politics fuels this riveting page-turner." ―Harlan Coben
Both of these sounds like a good summer read. Hope they sound good to you. It is supposed to be warmer this week and I sure hope so. If it is need to get my hanging baskets that will be ready for me, and also my Mandevilla for the front porch. Don't have room for them in house so have to be sure it is really warming up. Especially at night.
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Post by conniej on May 16, 2021 16:04:17 GMT
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Post by conniej on May 17, 2021 15:01:04 GMT
I am reading James Patterson A Michael Bennett novel. This is one of my favorite on going characters of Patterson. Sometime Patterson co writers do not know the character well and they come across as a bit strange but this one so far is spot on.
THE RUSSIAN.
Weeks before NYPD Detective Michael Bennett is to marry his longtime love, Mary Catherine, an assassin announces his presence in the city with a string of grisly murders. Each victim is a young woman. And each has been killed in a manner as precise as it was gruesome.
Tasked with working alongside the FBI, Bennett and his gung-ho new partner uncover multiple cold-case homicides across the country that fit the same distinctive pattern -- proving the perpetrator they seek is as experienced at ending lives as he is at evading detection.
Bennett promises Mary Catherine that the case won't affect their upcoming wedding. But as Bennett prepares to make a lifetime commitment, the killer has a lethal vow of his own to fulfill.
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Post by Gail in SC on May 17, 2021 15:11:35 GMT
I am halfway into EXIT WEST by Mohsin Hamid, a novel about two refugees from a country under besiege who escape from country to country through mystical doors. This book was a NYT/PBS book club book and got notable reviews. It is a look at the world-wide crisis of millions seeking refuge from political, economical, and bigotry problems that break your heart while claiming that we must find ways to change our world to accommodate these issues. I like this book a lot. It is well-written. It focuses on one of the world's most important issues, but it is definitely different.
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Post by diane on May 17, 2021 16:22:13 GMT
I finished my latest Carolyn Brown book yesterday and started the Wizard's Art of Defensive Baking this morning. It is very good so far. I think Young adult lit has to be well-written to draw the readers it is intended for. Carolyn Brown's book met all my expectations. She writes romance books usually set in Oklahoma and Texas, and her stories usually have unexpected substance. I alternate between them and mysteries and also sci-fi.
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Post by conniej on May 17, 2021 16:33:02 GMT
I like books that are written in places that I have not been. Especially if the author is from there or living there. Always feel like what they are writing is true.
I am really interested in WIZARD'S GUIDE OF DEFENSIVE BAKING.
Fourteen-year-old Mona isn't like the wizards charged with defending the city. She can't control lightning or speak to water. Her familiar is a sourdough starter and her magic only works on bread. She has a comfortable life in her aunt's bakery making gingerbread men dance.
But Mona's life is turned upside down when she finds a dead body on the bakery floor. An assassin is stalking the streets of Mona's city, preying on magic folk, and it appears that Mona is his next target. And in an embattled city suddenly bereft of wizards, the assassin may be the least of Mona's worries...
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Post by conniej on May 17, 2021 17:51:40 GMT
I have to give LINDA credit for this one. thanks Linda, yep I was reading your post on Roll Calls.
heads up to all Louise Penny fans.
MADNESS OF CROWDS
LOUISE PENNY
COMING IN AUGUST
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns to Three Pines in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's latest spellbinding novel
You’re a coward.
Time and again, as the New Year approaches, that charge is leveled against Armand Gamache.
It starts innocently enough.
While the residents of the Québec village of Three Pines take advantage of the deep snow to ski and toboggan, to drink hot chocolate in the bistro and share meals together, the Chief Inspector finds his holiday with his family interrupted by a simple request.
He’s asked to provide security for what promises to be a non-event. A visiting Professor of Statistics will be giving a lecture at the nearby university.
While he is perplexed as to why the head of homicide for the Sûreté du Québec would be assigned this task, it sounds easy enough. That is until Gamache starts looking into Professor Abigail Robinson and discovers an agenda so repulsive he begs the university to cancel the lecture.
They refuse, citing academic freedom, and accuse Gamache of censorship and intellectual cowardice. Before long, Professor Robinson’s views start seeping into conversations. Spreading and infecting. So that truth and fact, reality and delusion are so confused it’s near impossible to tell them apart.
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Post by Gail in SC on May 17, 2021 18:38:39 GMT
Oooh, looking forward to another Louise Penny book, Connie. Thanks for the update.
Just heard that the next book in the Julia Spencer-Fleming Clare/Russ mystery series is ready for me at the library. I hope she comes up with a new one in not too long. Really enjoying them. Heard about them on this thread.
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Post by yogamama008 on May 17, 2021 19:11:03 GMT
Just dropping in to say "Hi" to everyone. Connie I admire your perseverance in keeping this thread going. People get a lot of good reading ideas out of it even if they don't post.  I have not been reading or posting for ages. Received 6 new books for Christmas and can't get beyond the first few pages in any of them. Just reading headlines and the NYT. This is NOT me, hope the old me shows' up soon. Miss her. lol Take care everyone, be back again. Big Air Hugs Anne |
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Post by Gail in SC on May 17, 2021 19:42:30 GMT
I miss you, Anne! So good to see your post. None of us are who we were after this crazy year plus. Hoping all is well in your neck of the woods. Bigger air hugs.
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Post by woolworker on May 17, 2021 22:56:44 GMT
Anne avec e! We miss you! Please consider posting once in awhile!
So, today I picked up the Midnight Library from out library. Three people told me they didn't think I'd like it, but I'm going to give it a try and will at least skim through it. SOME people must like it; it's on the bestseller list, not that I have ever used that as a gauge for books I like!
We set up our porch this weekend so I should get some reading done out there. The weather has been asazing and I walked the beach twice today, once with my daughter and once with a friend. Hoping to do some reading tomorrow.
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Post by conniej on May 18, 2021 17:36:20 GMT
I had never heard of the Midnight Library and did check on it. Looks like something I would like,
THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY (2020)
BY Matt Haig.
Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?
In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting blockbuster novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.
This one goes on my list to order, My DGD will love it as well.
Thank you Ann for your input!!
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Post by woolworker on May 19, 2021 14:38:32 GMT
AND, Connie, I just received Half Finished, a book I ordered from Thriftbooks on your recomendation. I can't wait to sit on the porch and read it I have SO MANY partially finished project involving fiber. I'm a knitter, spinner, weaver and have bags of projects, started, waiting to be started, etc. This book sounds like it may be good therapy for me. I have to finish Midnight Library and then read Milltowns (about Milltowns in Maine) for my library reading group. THEN, I can start Half Finished.
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Post by lani on May 19, 2021 16:28:25 GMT
Yay! The final Wolf Hall book, THE MIRROR AND THE LIGHT, which was only available to put on hold when I left on vacation, showed up as "available" when I got back. My only quibble is the family tree charts are too small and faint to make out on the Kindle. I suppose they won't have changed from the first book, which I have a physical copy of, if I really feel the need to check out the relationships again.
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Post by woolworker on May 20, 2021 12:41:34 GMT
I didn't love the beginning of The Midnight Library, but after about page 40, it gets a lot better. I like the concept of the book, going back to "the Library" to see what would have happened if one made a different decision in life. It is a little reminiscent, only A LITTLE, of The Book of Two Ways, a look at choices at the time of death, and the passage of life to death. So far it isn't morbid, rather a curiosity.
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