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Post by conniej on Jan 17, 2022 21:45:51 GMT
I have WISH YOU WERE HERE ordered and should be here soon. It looks really good. and a favorite author of mine.
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Post by conniej on Jan 18, 2022 22:10:39 GMT
City of the Dead by Jonathan Kellerman Release Date: February 8, 2022
Back to Delaware Early one morning, a naked young man lies dead in the street, the apparent victim of a collision with a moving van hurtling through suburbia in the darkness. But any thoughts of accidental death vanish when a blood trail leads to a nearby home.
Inside, a young woman lies butchered. The identity of the male victim and his role in the horror remain elusive, but that of the woman creates additional questions. And adding to the shock, Alex Delaware has met her while working a convoluted child custody case. But upon closer examination, Alex and Detective Milo Sturgis discover that her own relationships are troublesome, including a tortured family history and a dubious personal past. Has that come back to haunt her in the worst way?
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Post by lani on Jan 19, 2022 0:24:10 GMT
I've read most everything he's written. I recently grouped my basement library by author and it was alarming how many Kellermans I have. I will read this one as an ebook when it's available from the library. Another message board I'm on asked what books you have re-read. The respondents listed maybe ten tops. Pikers. I've re-read so many author's entire works, sometime three or more times.
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Post by Gail in SC on Jan 19, 2022 2:26:09 GMT
I just ordered WISH YOU WERE HERE from Audible. I like Jodi Picoult a lot.
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Post by woolworker on Jan 20, 2022 15:51:20 GMT
Looking forward to reviews of Wish You Were Here!
Iani: I also love to reread books, sometimes immediately after I've read them the first time. I've read Rules of Civility by Amor Towles twice and listened to it once. I'm on my second reading of Sigrid Nunea's The Friend, less than a month after the first read I think exceptional authors offer many layers that need to be peeled off with each reading.
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Post by geritru on Jan 20, 2022 16:00:09 GMT
Do any of you have more than one book going on at a time. I am so guilty of that. Still not done with WISH YOU WERE HERE. That is my nighttime read. I just started VANDERBILT, THE RISE AND FALL OF AN AMERICAN DYNASTY. It is already grabbing my attention. Thanks for the recommendation, Ann (I believe it was you).
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Post by lani on Jan 20, 2022 17:58:38 GMT
geritru, I call reading multiple books at the same time a Guilt Free Zone! I am rereading ENDER'S GAME right now. DH was watching the film, which I thought did not do justice to the source, so I dug out my copy. This is the third time at least. I do find I have such different experiences with books when there is a span of years between readings. I find a five year minimum is best. I'm also reading THE ARGONAUTIKA, but only right before bed, so I only get a few pages in. I'm reading Edith Hamilton's MYTHOLOGY, but I had to stop because I reached her telling of Jason and I want the experience from the source material first (even though I know what happens.) I have a couple of Donna Leon's that I found downstairs that I haven't read for probably ten years, I started one of those. When I get an ebook from the library, I drop everything and just read that so I can return it as soon as possible, so the next person can read it.
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Post by woolworker on Jan 20, 2022 19:46:24 GMT
That's why I'm a thriftbooks client! I don't like to have a time frame for reading my books!
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Post by conniej on Jan 20, 2022 22:25:37 GMT
I do not reread books ever!! If I start a book and realize I have read it before I stop immediately. Used to happen more often when I was reading paperbacks most of the time, they would change the cover and reissue them.
I did get out today, roads were all pretty good, few side roads were a mess but I stuck to main roads and went to library first. they were holding a book for me AUTOPSY by Patricia Cornwell and I spent some time and got 3 other books as well. New author for me Mandy Robotham THE GIRL BEHIND THE WALL. Yes I do read more than one book at a time. With Stephen King sometimes I need a breather and have a couple going. I will let you know if I like any of the 3 I got today.
I am half way through BILLIE SUMMERS, I might just lend this one to my DGS#3 when I am finished with it. I am trying to decide if he will like this one.
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Post by Gail in SC on Jan 21, 2022 1:19:48 GMT
I think exceptional authors offer many layers that need to be peeled off with each reading. Totally agree, Ann. If I am the facilitator at book club, I always read a book at least twice. Loved GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW and I led a discussion on it. Read it twice and listened to it once. I will read it again. I always see something new when I do that, especially if I do it in another period in my life...I could read RULES OF CIVILITY again too. What a writer Towles is! I am at the beginning of WISH YOU WERE HERE and I am hooked. Woman who works for an art dealer is supposed to go to the Galapagos with her boyfriend, a doctor. COVID hits just before they are supposed to leave and he cannot go and tells her to go alone. Her luggage doesn't get there, transportation out is non existent because of COVID, and the hotel she was supposed to stay at is closed. Plus, there is no connection to the U.S. and not many people speak English. I am getting into the characters and just read Darwins ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES so am enjoying the description of the islands. VANDERBILT, THE RISE AND FALL OF AN AMERICAN DYNASTY sounds good. Ruth, you might also enjoy THE LAST CASTLE, about Biltmore and the branch of the Vanderbilt family that had built it. Another of Ann's recommendations. We had a very good book club meeting today about the novel THE PERSONAL LIBRARIAN. It is about the librarian of J.P. Morgan's collection and obtained many of the fine pieces for it. Ann, I think you said you were looking for a good biography of her. If you find one, please let us know. Fascinating woman, and I would like to know the facts about her life. The authors conjecture for much of the book. I'm excited. We have good books picked out for our next reads. I am often reading more than one book at a time. Right now it is just THE HEART OF DARKNESS (almost done) and WISH YOU WERE HERE.
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Post by woolworker on Jan 22, 2022 13:28:54 GMT
Connie: If I didn't re-read books I'd get a lot more of them read and that is always a frustration I have with myself.
It is brutally cold in Maine. My exercise is way down. I did finish re-reading The Friend by Sigrid Nunez and got a lot more out of it this time. It is a very complex book. I am now breezing through Nunez's short memoir of Susan Sontag. It is a light, interesting read. Nunez was involved with Sontag's son and lived with them for awhile. Sontag mentored Nunez. It is an interesting, intimate view of Sontag. The title of the book is Sempre Susan. I have only a few pages left and already perusing my stacks of books for my next read.
An Illuminated Life by Heidi Arrdizone, Ph.D is the biography of Bella Da Costa Greene. I haven't ordered it yet, am hoping it comes up on Thrift books, but I'm sure it is very popular right now.
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Post by shragae on Jan 22, 2022 13:49:09 GMT
I'm reading an interesting book called You won't believe what Happened to Lacey. It's a book about a black woman who lives in Omaha Nebraska and the day-to-day prejudices that she faces. The book is meant to be somewhat humorous as in you won't believe this one, but it's also very sad that in this day and age such ignorance and outright prejudice still exists...
I'm also still reading that book from Holland about the 86-year-old man living in a Senior citizen center. That book is quite funny and I took it with me to the doctor's office yesterday so it gave me something to chuckle over...
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Post by conniej on Jan 22, 2022 16:21:13 GMT
I am slowly reading CAN'T WE TALK ABOUT SOMETHING MORE PLEASANT a memoir by Roz Chast. I know some found this book funny and really enjoyed it but I have a different take on it. It is a story of parents slide into old age. beginnings of dementia, health issues, and clearing out a family home. I can chuckle at of some of it but honestly know this is an age thing and if I were younger maybe would have thought it really funny like some of the reviews. It has given me a push to weed out a bit more 'Stuff" .
I started that after down sizing to a smaller home when my DH passed away and then again after clearing out my Mom's home. But I didn't think too much about what she had 'collected' over the years cause it was just her. But now I am looking at my stuff differently now that I am reading this book. Seems like every little thing she cleared out of the house was a downer for this woman. I am honestly thinking about not reading any more of it.
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Post by Gail in SC on Jan 22, 2022 18:19:41 GMT
I am slowly reading CAN'T WE TALK ABOUT SOMETHING MORE PLEASANT a memoir by Roz Chast. I know some found this book funny and really enjoyed it but I have a different take on it. Totally get that, Connie. It is a mixed bag. There is serious stuff in there about aging and Chast came from a dysfunctional home with her parents getting less and less functional as time went on. I want my daughter to read it but am hesitant about that. As I read it, I could laugh at some of the things I see in myself and saw in my parents and grandparents that are similar. I just love her sense of humor. I mentioned here that I saw her on a panel of female cartoonists for The New Yorker and when they were each asked to mention something they laughed at recently she said "COVID." And everyone on the panel cracked up, me too. Maybe it's a New York thing.
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Post by woolworker on Jan 23, 2022 20:10:16 GMT
Cpnnie: If you don't like it stop reading it. Our reading lives are too short for books we don't care for.
We've walked the beach bundled up the past two days. It's very cold, but no wind so with layers, it's good to get the fresh air and the sound of the waves.
I've been reading a lot of books that require concentration. Two men visit me regularly on my library days to get book suggestions. Two weeks ago, one of them gave me a book he really wants me to read, The Guest List by Lucy Foley....I think I have the author's name, but maybe not. He said it is a page turner and I won't be able to put it down. I'm ready for something like that so I'm headed in to the living room to my chair next to the fire place to start reading it....I think it's too early for wine, but maybe I'll have some tea as I dive in. I hope it is a page turner! I would love that. Has anyone read it? If he visits me tomorrow on my library day, at least I can say I've started it.
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