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Post by Inky on Mar 8, 2021 20:34:56 GMT -5
I'm reading Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow. It's fascinating - about the takedown of Harvey Weinstein.
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Post by maurinsky on Mar 23, 2021 9:44:09 GMT -5
I am still reading Wanderers by Chuck Wendig. Eerily prescient about pandemic, the political aspects of a crisis, etc. The disease in the book is a fungus and has a 3-6 month latent period. I'm in the last 3rd of this almost 800 page book and I am determined to finish it by this weekend.
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Post by nansel on Mar 23, 2021 11:50:10 GMT -5
I am reading Memoirs of a Geisha. It's been sitting on my Kobo for years. I didn't realize it was written by a white British dude. I didn't pay much attention when it first came out, as Japan in general doesn't interest me. The book is readable, but the story is a horrible one.
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Post by Eli on Mar 24, 2021 18:51:36 GMT -5
The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles. I just started it though, but it seems promising.
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Post by emmjay on Mar 25, 2021 6:07:58 GMT -5
Lately I have been reading thrillers/crime novels, which is a fairly unusual genre for me. I started reading every night in bed for a hour and I don’t want to read anything that requires any deep thinking right before going to sleep. I have had some weird dreams though. Last night I read The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides. I knew it was a thriller and is going to be made into a film, so I assumed there would be a big plot twist, but I didn’t figure it out. Very clever.
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Post by junebug on Mar 25, 2021 14:40:05 GMT -5
Lately I have been reading thrillers/crime novels, which is a fairly unusual genre for me. I started reading every night in bed for a hour and I don’t want to read anything that requires any deep thinking right before going to sleep. I have had some weird dreams though. Last night I read The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides. I knew it was a thriller and is going to be made into a film, so I assumed there would be a big plot twist, but I didn’t figure it out. Very clever. That one was creepy! I read it on the plane in almost one sitting!
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Post by Inky on Mar 25, 2021 20:28:59 GMT -5
I've been reading "At the Coal Face" the memoirs of a nurse who worked as a coal mine nurse through the 60, 70's & 80's. It's broken into 3 e-books. Really interesting. I've always had a fascination for the coal miners/families/era, probably due to reading a lot of Catherine Cookson as a younger person.
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Post by Miss Prudey on Mar 29, 2021 22:20:30 GMT -5
FINALLY finished The Hobbit. I listened to Andy Serkis reading it on YouTube while on the treadmill. Excellent narration! Thanks for the tip, lilone! So, now I need to choose my next treadmill book.
This month’s book club books were a re-read of All the Truth That’s in Me, & The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. I’m currently reading Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting by Mary Higgins Clark for a bit of fluff.
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Post by maurinsky on Mar 30, 2021 9:40:45 GMT -5
I am going to start Cannery Row by John Steinbeck this evening.
After that, Apeirogon by Colum McCann, author of one of my all-time favorite books, Let the Great World Spin.
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Post by Miss Prudey on Mar 31, 2021 16:25:51 GMT -5
Venturing into new territory for me by reading my first Dean Koontz, Seize the Night.
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Post by Miss Prudey on Mar 31, 2021 16:29:07 GMT -5
Crap, just discovered it’s a sequel/follow up to another book. Now, I have to find that one before I can read this one...
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Post by maurinsky on Apr 4, 2021 18:07:29 GMT -5
Finished Cannery Roy - excellent.
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Post by Inky on Apr 4, 2021 20:01:09 GMT -5
I'm reading a book of memoirs of war brides who came to Canada from the UK after WW2. I don't think we appreciate how much deprivation they went through during the war, and Canada with it's wide open spaces, huge distances, and ready food sources really made an impression on them.
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Post by maurinsky on Apr 10, 2021 18:00:56 GMT -5
Apeirogon by Colum McCann - I'm only 100 pages in, but he is such a beautiful writer, it's like poetry. This story is non-linear and "about" the Palestinian/Israeli conflict (but also birds and migration and loss and grief and pride and humility and all the emotions).
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Post by marianparoo on Apr 11, 2021 9:40:34 GMT -5
Maybe I'll have a look at that on-line. But 45 years of dealing with Palestine and Israel was enough for me.
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Post by maurinsky on Apr 19, 2021 8:52:34 GMT -5
I finished Apeirogon last night. I didn't realize that the characters in the book are real people, Bassan Aramin and Rami Elhanan, from an organization called Combatants for Peace. There is a section of the book where they tell their stories that are referred to all over the book, and I wept through the whole thing. Colum McCann is such a wonderful writer, although definitely on the literary fiction side (I had to look u definitions of several words!).
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Post by nansel on Apr 19, 2021 10:17:14 GMT -5
I'm almost done "I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir" by Sarah Kurchak
The first couple of chapters were a little too close to my experience as a kid that I haven't totally come to terms with, so they were a bit uncomfortable for that reason. But she's a good writer and now it's just "yeah, that sounds familiar" and I'm quite liking it.
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Post by maurinsky on Apr 22, 2021 13:47:18 GMT -5
I picked up The Woman in the Window from the library at lunchtime.
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Post by stellarfeller on Apr 23, 2021 20:09:00 GMT -5
Just finished “We Are Bellingcat” and about to start “Nomadland”.
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Post by marianparoo on Apr 25, 2021 10:12:16 GMT -5
I'm on an EF Benson kick.
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