Off-Topic Fall Reading

[toaster]

Originally Posted by Carol K

Beth, after you finish The Handmaid's Tale, read the sequel, Testaments, which was written 15 years later. You won't believe how the story ends!

Ooh, I didn't realize there was a sequel - will do!

[Pat58]

Originally Posted by toaster

I am reading The Handmaid's Tale. I haven't seen any of the Hulu series; the book is definitely chilling enough!

I recommended this for my book club a few years back. It's scary and ominous. We had quite the discussion.

[annette]

Today I finished The German Wife by Kelly Rimmer. Her best so far!

[mimikz]

Originally Posted by annette

Today I finished The German Wife by Kelly Rimmer. Her best so far!

Thanks for the reminder; my sister said the same thing. I just put it on hold at the library site, at least 6 months...

I finished Billy Summers by Stephen King that I could not put down, read his Colorado Kid that I thought was meh, and now I'm really enjoying Joyland. I'm about half way through. It's Fair season where I live so the setting is perfect!

M

[difit]

Here are few new releases for October. Happy reading!!

4th
A Sugarplum Christmas – Viola Shipman (kindle)
Righteous Prey (Prey, book 32) - John Sandford
Home Sweet Christmas (Wishing Tree, book 2) - Susan Mallery
Our Missing Hearts - Celeste Ng
The Crime that Binds (Bookmobile Cat Mystery, book 10) - Laurie Cass
Once Upon a December - Amy E Reichert
The Ghost and the Stolen Tears (Haunted Bookshop, book 8) - Cleo Coyle
All I Want for Christmas – Maggie Knox
Body of Evidence (Triple Threat, book 3) – Irene Hannon
Under the Mistletoe- Sue Moorcroft


11th
Long Shadows (Memory Man / Amos Decker, book 7) - David Baldacci
Dashing Through the Snowbirds (Meg Langslow, book 32) - Donna Andrews
Santa's Little Yelpers (Andy Carpenter, book 26) - David Rosenfelt
Live and Let Grind (Coffee Lover's Mystery, book 3) - Tara Lush
The Plot and the Pendulum (Library Lover's Mystery, book 13) - Jenn McKinlay
Bones of Holly (Sarah Booth Delaney, book 25) – Carolyn Haines
One Last Gift - Emily Stone
Confessions of the Other Sister – Beth Harbison
My Husband's Lover – Jess Ryder

18th
The Boys from Biloxi - John Grisham
The Christmas Spirit - Debbie Macomber
Greywaren (Dreamer Trilogy, book 3) - Maggie Stiefvater (YA Fantasy)
The Favor - Nicci French
It Starts with Us (It Ends With Us, book 2) - Colleen Hoover
On the Way to Christmas – Sheila Roberts
The Girl Who Dared to Dream – Diney Costeloe
When We Had Wings – Susan Meissner

25th
No Plan B (Jack Reacher, book 27) - Andrew Child and Lee Child
Bone Deep (Widow's Island, book 9) – Kendra Elliot (kindle)
The Wrong Bones (Widow's Island, book 10) -Melinda Leigh (kindle)
A Trip with Trouble (Mountain Lodge Mystery, book 2) - Diane Kelly
Love Me or Grieve Me (Madison Night Mystery, book 10) – Diane Vallere (kindle)
A Doomful of Sugar (Maple Syrup Mystery, book 1) - Catherine Bruns
Secrets Between Friends - Tracy Buchanan
Vanishing Hour - Laura Griffin
Sparrows in the Wind - Gail Carson Levine
Death by Spiced Chai (Bookstore Cafe Mystery, book 10) - Alex Erickson
Triple Cross (Alex Cross, book 30) - James Patterson
A White Christmas on Winter Street – Sue Moorcroft ( kindle)

[toaster]

mimikz, I really liked Joyland.

difit, thanks for the new list!

[Laura S.]

We lost our power for almost 24 hours in the aftermath of the remnants of Ian. Fortunately, that's all the problems we had, there wasn't other destruction. Anyway, I got a lot of reading done. I've been reading:

- Where the Sky Begins by Rhys Bowen. I loved this book and pretty much inhaled it.

- War of the Roses: Bloodline by Conn Iggulden. I like this series and this book seems to be the best of it so far.

- The Girl From the Savoy by Hazel Gaynor. I'm not too far into this, but so far it's pretty good. I like the characters.

[SpiritYogi]

Originally Posted by Laura S.

We lost our power for almost 24 hours in the aftermath of the remnants of Ian. Fortunately, that's all the problems we had, there wasn't other destruction.

Glad you're okay, Laura. Power outages are a great time to catch up on reading!

[alisoncooks]

Originally Posted by Laura S.

We lost our power for almost 24 hours in the aftermath of the remnants of Ian. Fortunately, that's all the problems we had, there wasn't other destruction.

We did too, Laura. That’s the longest I’ve had power out in my 16 years in this house. I ended up tossing all my dairy (I had so much yogurt in the fridge, waaaah). Today, we ended up taking a mini trip over to Apex to let the phones charge in the car and to eat something warm.

[toaster]

I finished The Handmaid's Tale; I really liked it, although the ending was a bit ambiguous.