08-19-22, 09:52 AM | |
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Northern Calif
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I haven't but try to read one "challenging" book each year so always interested to hear what people think of those.
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08-19-22, 12:41 PM | |
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Connecticut
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I've been reading but haven't had much to report on. Some real downer book club reads, meh Prime books, and an absolutely grim tome - Medicare for Dummies [roll eyes]. DH is turning 65 so we've got to figure it out.
My last book club read was All About Me by Mel Brooks. It was okay, funny in parts. Lots of details I began to skip over. What a life this man has led! All on his terms. But it was L-O-N-G. I did not know that Mel Brooks produced The Elephant Man. The two best ones I've read recently are Kassandra Reinhardt's new release, Year of Yoga: Rituals for Every Day and Every Season. The other is one from the Amazon World Book Day ebook giveaways - The Easy Life in Kamusari by Shion Miura. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it, a coming of age story about a young man's adventures working in Japan's forestry program. A bizarre read was Starvation Heights by Gregg Olson, a true story of two sisters who become imprisoned in a diet clinic run by a psychopathic woman who starves them - one literally to death and the other to within inches of it. I gave it three stars. It occurs in 1911, and was fascinating, but the trial at the end was so bogged down and overly long. Not sure if I mentioned The Lobotomist's Wife by Samantha Greene Woodruff yet. Ack! Another true and bizarre story. I'm hoping to get truly enraptured with something soon! |
08-19-22, 01:12 PM | ||
Join Date: Nov 2001
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08-19-22, 04:25 PM | |
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Western NY
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I loved Joyland; Under the Dome I thought was just okay - I remember finding a lot of errors while reading it and behind disappointed in the ending.
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08-19-22, 05:33 PM | |
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Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Raleigh, NC
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On my Kindle app I'm reading:
A Place Beyond Courage by Elizabeth Chadwick. I read a lot of this book YEARS ago. It got set aside and I didn't finish it for some reason. I loved it back then and I love it now. It's a book about William Marshal, a knight in the 12th century. When I picked it up to re-read it, I found out that it's the first book in a series and I'll probably move beyond this first book. The Emerald Affair by Janet MacLeod Trotter, a Prime Reading book. It's a Prime Reading book and found I am enjoying it. It's another historical novel about two English couples who went to India/Pakistan in the early 1900s.
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