What Are You Reading? The Redux

Finished Retribution and also read The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright. The latter was a pre-read for Clara; I had high hopes until there was a fire in the story near the end. She does NOT like stories with fire, and they result in nightmares and difficulty falling asleep for her. Sigh.

Now reading The Great Good Thing by Roderick Townley, also a pre-read for C1.

ETA: And literally right after I posted that, I got to a fire part in The Great Good Thing. I think I'll just skip the rest of it and choose something else to try.

I have this in my TBR on my Kindle.  Maybe I need to move it up! 

I read Saving Abby by Holmes while I was on vacation, about infertility.  It was sad.  Probably not the best book for a vacation.

My sister recommended the Butterfly Garden by Hutchinson.  It was freaky (like she warned me).  It kept me reading, but it was troubling!

I just started the Marriage Lie by Belle, so we shall see!
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I do that too - keep fluffy around for when I need a mental break .

I've never read any Laurence before and, while it's well written, the narrator is just a miserable human being.  I dislike spending time with her. 

Good luck with Waiting for First Light.  That book broke me - I thought I would be prepared for it after having read Shake Hands with the Devil but I wasn't.    It was like reopening a wound that I thought was closed.  Both of those books literally changed me and how I view the world around me. 
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Waiting for First Light was an experience. Good god.

I’m re-reading Stone Angel, I haven’t read it in 30 years. Yes, Hagar is horrible, isn’t she? Which is entirely the point of course. It is harder to read now than I remember, likely because of more real life experience. [/quote]


I finished Stone Angel - I can't imagine why they think it's relevant for high school kids .  But yeah it was a tough read - especially how she treated her children.  It was so well written though.  At first I didn't think I was going to finish it - but the writing kept me going.

I'm reading The Last Spike by Pierre Berton (about the building of the CPR - aka the creation of all of Canada west of Ontario ).  I'm also reading Minds of Winter which was short listed for the Giller Prize - it's fiction but it involves the Franklin Expedition.  I have a thing for arctic exploration so it's fun for me to visit all of these people from history.  I'm not far enough into it to say whether I like it or not.

Finished The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka - good mystery with an alcoholic protagonist. Exciting, tense denouement.

I read no Canadian authors in high school and that's a major pet peeve of mine. In fact ds is on the way to repeating that.  I have no idea why American "classics" are still being taught instead of Canadian literature in Canadian schools.  What relevance do race relations in the Southern US (I'm looking at you Tom Sawyer and To Kill a Mockingbird) have to Canadian kids?  We have our own racial problems that are represented in Canadian literature - why is no one reading those books?  Why does a kid now (or in the 80's) care about vapid rich people in the 1920's US?  When said child could read about vapid Canadians.  In Grade 13 we had two English - the one you had to take and an elective called English Literature.  In that Literature class at my high school Atwood was on the curriculum.  I believe Handmaid's Tale - but other than that I know of no Canadian authors taught in my high school.  I know of people in other schools who did read Canadian - but not at  mine.

If you liked A Man Called Ove you might like Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine. Different subject matter but the same comforting feeling.

I have just finished Marian Keyes' new book 'The Breakup' I love Marian Keyes.

I just finished A Man Called Ove yesterday. I have been meaning to buy it for months but never got around to it; this week I am chaperoning a school trip in Romania and it happened to be in the tiny book exchange in the hotel. Loved it.

Now I'm starting The Night Trilogy because our hotel/guesthouse is literally next door to Elie Wiesel's childhood home (I can see into the courtyard from my window). I'm going to visit the museum in the house on Friday so I want to be sure I at least read Night before then.

I just finished "Eleanor" and comforting is a great way to describe it!

I really liked it!

I had a similar problem a few months ago, and went through the same process of trying to figure it out. In the end, I deleted and reinstalled everything, and it`s been working fine since (fingers crossed).