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Post by dharma on Feb 26, 2018 12:27:53 GMT -5
My book club just read Hunted by Megan Spooner. It's a Beauty and the Beast with Russian folklore and Beauty is a fierce hunter, herself. It's amazing. I don't typically dig YA lit but this was fantastic and I want to hand it to every teen girl I know. I'm enjoying this book so much. Thank you again for the rec.
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Post by maurinsky on Feb 26, 2018 13:13:13 GMT -5
I finished Louise Erdrich's Future Home of the Living God. So good, but super depressing.
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Post by maurinsky on Mar 1, 2018 7:17:20 GMT -5
I finished The Girl on the Train last night. Page turner, for sure. My friend Tobi said she hated that book because the author revealed the bad guy in the first third of the book, but I must have missed that.
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Post by Mabel on Mar 1, 2018 12:08:55 GMT -5
I finished rereading the Maze Runner series (after reading the last prequel which made me want to reread them) and I’m now onto Alexander Hamilton by Rob Chernow for the second time.
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Mar 1, 2018 19:01:03 GMT -5
I finished The Girl on the Train last night. Page turner, for sure. My friend Tobi said she hated that book because the author revealed the bad guy in the first third of the book, but I must have missed that. I don't remember that either. While the book was a page turner I hated the main character - which always makes it hard for me to like a book
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Post by maurinsky on Mar 1, 2018 22:25:30 GMT -5
I had a discussion with another friend about that, because I also found her infuriating. But I felt that way about everyone in the book!
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Mar 2, 2018 8:20:29 GMT -5
Yes no one in that book was likeable and I didn't really give a shit what happened to anyone - which usually doesn't bode well for my enjoyment of a book
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Post by maurinsky on Mar 2, 2018 9:12:15 GMT -5
I started The Last Kid Left by Rosencranz Baldwin yesterday afternoon. So far, it's pretty interesting.
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Post by marianparoo on Mar 3, 2018 14:43:09 GMT -5
The Lion in the Living Room: How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World
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Post by Inky on Mar 3, 2018 18:50:25 GMT -5
I'm reading Promise Me, Dad by Joe Biden. It's a really good read. I'm also reading The Jew Store by Stella Suberman - really interesting book about those stores in the 1920's and up with Jewish proprietors in towns where there were little to no Jewish people. I'd still be reading it if the library didn't give me 3 holds in the same f**king week! I've got Calibre loaded but haven't loaded the add-ons yet. I must get to that so this doesn't keep happening.
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Post by katy on Mar 4, 2018 4:04:25 GMT -5
I'm reading God Help the Child by Toni Morrison. I don't know what I think. It's no Bluest Eye.
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Post by katy on Mar 4, 2018 16:05:03 GMT -5
I'm reading God Help the Child by Toni Morrison. I don't know what I think. It's no Bluest Eye. I finished it. Not particularly satisfying!
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Post by Eli on Mar 4, 2018 17:04:10 GMT -5
My book club just read Hunted by Megan Spooner. It's a Beauty and the Beast with Russian folklore and Beauty is a fierce hunter, herself. It's amazing. I don't typically dig YA lit but this was fantastic and I want to hand it to every teen girl I know. Thanks, just downloaded this.
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Post by dharma on Mar 4, 2018 18:26:13 GMT -5
Finished Hunted and thought it was great. (Thanks again alicechalmers) Started Daughters of the Night Sky last night and I'm enjoying it so far. Hunted was set in Russia and so is this one, so that's fun.
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Mar 5, 2018 17:39:40 GMT -5
I just finished Forgiveness by Mark Sakamoto and I'm like a wrung out sponge. So many feels. This book is part of Canada Reads this year and I'm going to an event so I decided to read all the books or else I probably wouldn't have even heard of it. It's sort of like a memoir of his family. The subtitle of the book is "a gift from my grandparents". His maternal grandfather grew up on a tiny island in the Gulf of the St Lawrence and when he enlisted at 18 in WWII he was sent to the defense of Hong Kong - and like all Canadians who survived that was sent to a Japanese POW camp where he came close to death on more than one occasion. His paternal grandparents were caught up in the shameful interment of Japanese Canadians in BC - all of their property confiscated. After discussing the horrible experiences they went through the book is like a memoir of his own family. I cried a lot. I started ugly crying on the bus on the way home from work and had to put it away . It's not a very long book - but it was just so amazing - the hope and forgiveness that weave through out some pretty shitty experiences.
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Post by marianparoo on Mar 6, 2018 3:08:07 GMT -5
Just received a complete Saki on the Kindle. Going back to all my old favs. What are yours?
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Mar 6, 2018 16:32:28 GMT -5
I finished Before She Ignites by Jodi Meadows. I'm going to give it 3 stars but over all I don't recommend it. The main character spends a lot of time telling herself how dumb she is - even though she isn't and how worthless she is. Her mother has been spewing that and she's been buying it but she's also the most famous girl in her country and it just seems a little hollow. I get that she's been emotionally abused but the first person narrative doesn't work with conveying it well.
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Post by Inky on Mar 6, 2018 19:58:31 GMT -5
I just finished Forgiveness by Mark Sakamoto and I'm like a wrung out sponge. So many feels. This book is part of Canada Reads this year and I'm going to an event so I decided to read all the books or else I probably wouldn't have even heard of it. It's sort of like a memoir of his family. The subtitle of the book is "a gift from my grandparents". His maternal grandfather grew up on a tiny island in the Gulf of the St Lawrence and when he enlisted at 18 in WWII he was sent to the defense of Hong Kong - and like all Canadians who survived that was sent to a Japanese POW camp where he came close to death on more than one occasion. His paternal grandparents were caught up in the shameful interment of Japanese Canadians in BC - all of their property confiscated. After discussing the horrible experiences they went through the book is like a memoir of his own family. I cried a lot. I started ugly crying on the bus on the way home from work and had to put it away . It's not a very long book - but it was just so amazing - the hope and forgiveness that weave through out some pretty shitty experiences. I'll have to keep an eye open for this book. My best friend is married to a Cdn-Japanese man whose parents were interred out in BC during the war. What has always amazed me is how open her family was to her marrying a Japanese man, given that her father fought in the war and was a career military man. There was quite a bit of animosity among my parents generation towards the Japanese. But this same family is also staunch Catholic and yet has 3 generations of gay family members, and this is perfectly normal and natural as it should be. They are the most open-minded family I've ever encountered. I know she'd enjoy reading this book. I put myself on the wait list at the library online for it.
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Post by coachgrrl on Mar 7, 2018 11:40:25 GMT -5
Just finished the Identicals by Elin Hildebrand. It really was a beach book...now I want to go back to Nantucket. I also finished Finding Rebecca, which ws fairly well written...but rather preposterous.
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Mar 7, 2018 17:04:11 GMT -5
I just finished Forgiveness by Mark Sakamoto and I'm like a wrung out sponge. So many feels. This book is part of Canada Reads this year and I'm going to an event so I decided to read all the books or else I probably wouldn't have even heard of it. It's sort of like a memoir of his family. The subtitle of the book is "a gift from my grandparents". His maternal grandfather grew up on a tiny island in the Gulf of the St Lawrence and when he enlisted at 18 in WWII he was sent to the defense of Hong Kong - and like all Canadians who survived that was sent to a Japanese POW camp where he came close to death on more than one occasion. His paternal grandparents were caught up in the shameful interment of Japanese Canadians in BC - all of their property confiscated. After discussing the horrible experiences they went through the book is like a memoir of his own family. I cried a lot. I started ugly crying on the bus on the way home from work and had to put it away . It's not a very long book - but it was just so amazing - the hope and forgiveness that weave through out some pretty shitty experiences. I'll have to keep an eye open for this book. My best friend is married to a Cdn-Japanese man whose parents were interred out in BC during the war. What has always amazed me is how open her family was to her marrying a Japanese man, given that her father fought in the war and was a career military man. There was quite a bit of animosity among my parents generation towards the Japanese. But this same family is also staunch Catholic and yet has 3 generations of gay family members, and this is perfectly normal and natural as it should be. They are the most open-minded family I've ever encountered. I know she'd enjoy reading this book. I put myself on the wait list at the library online for it. If you're a crier than keep some kleenex handy. Part of the book is about his own childhood which is the part that made me ugly cry On that positive note I've moved on to two other Canada Reads books - American War by Omar el Akkad which is a fiction that takes place after America has been drastically altered by rising oceans and a 2nd civil war between the north and the south. I've just started so I don't have a real feel for it. And Precious Cargo by Craig Davidson who, as a 32 year old man who was flat broke and desperate took a job driving a school bus - and he drove a bus for special needs kids - so it's his experiences and what the kids taught him - so far I'm really enjoying it. He's funny and self deprecating and it's quite a lovely book so far.
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