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Post by kckckc on Nov 23, 2015 18:00:45 GMT
I finished World of Trouble by Ben Winters, the last in the Last Policeman trilogy. It was good...I think the ending will stick with me for a while. If you like apocalyptic fiction, definitely check out this trilogy. One of the books I finished this week was Countdown City, the second book in the Last Policeman trilogy. I like it a lot. I started World of Trouble yesterday. I also finished Flesh House by Stuart MacBride. It's the fourth book in a mystery/police procedural series set in Scotland.
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Post by mimima on Nov 23, 2015 18:26:09 GMT
I read one of the Mary Russell mysteries, The Language of Bees, by Laurie R. King. I enjoyed the storyline and how the story of Sherlock and Mary is progressing.
I then read a nice entry in the Elm Creek Quilt series, A Quilter's Holiday. It was pleasant.
For Book Club, I read Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow. Excellent historical fiction about the early part of the 20th century.
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Post by annabella on Nov 23, 2015 18:32:31 GMT
I started Orphan Train based on how many times I've seen it on this thread. I was surprised by how small the book was so it should be a quick read.
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Post by compwalla on Nov 23, 2015 20:04:44 GMT
I just turned in The Circle by Dave Eggers. It was okay. A little heavy-handed and unbelievable at times. We can't get people to agree their kids need vaccinations; how the hell would one company every convince people to do what they seem to have no resistance to doing in the book?
I also veered into YA for a bit with Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Loved it! I'm hoping to borrow the next book in the series once I return the ones I've got checked out.
And right now I'm in the middle of The Girl Who Played With Fire. I read the first one long ago but they were so popular the next ones were never available at my library. Now I have a kindle and borrowed kindle versions of the two other books so I'm working my way through those.
Stephen King's latest is on deck after those.
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Post by nicole2112 on Nov 23, 2015 20:39:36 GMT
I finished The Pocket Wife by Susan Crawford for my online bookclub. It was just ok. The story was good but the telling of it was a bit slow and included a lot of information that wasn't necessary at all. We are discussing it now and most people seem to have the same opinion.
I'm currently reading November 9 by Colleen Hoover. She's way way at the top of my list of favorite authors and so far this book is fantastic!
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Post by littlefish on Nov 24, 2015 2:46:30 GMT
I finally finished one I've been working on for a long time, Forever on the Mountain, about a mountaineering disaster on Mt. McKinley/Denali in 1967. It was interesting, just very...wordy.
I just started The Rosie Project.
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Post by honeyb on Nov 28, 2015 6:13:48 GMT
I just finished The Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll. I loved it, then I read the reviews at Amazon. Some people didn't like it (it has 3.5/5 stars), and had some really valid points as to why. Then I started feeling shallow because I never considered those points while reading. At any rate, I guess I've decided to own it. I liked the book, in fact for the last 1/3 of the book, I couldn't put it down. I had to find out what happened. A synopsis:
HER PERFECT LIFE IS A PERFECT LIE.
As a teenager at the prestigious Bradley School, Ani FaNelli endured a shocking, public humiliation that left her desperate to reinvent herself. Now, with a glamorous job, expensive wardrobe, and handsome blue blood fiancé, she’s this close to living the perfect life she’s worked so hard to achieve.
But Ani has a secret.
There’s something else buried in her past that still haunts her, something private and painful that threatens to bubble to the surface and destroy everything.
With a singular voice and twists you won’t see coming, Luckiest Girl Alive explores the unbearable pressure that so many women feel to “have it all” and introduces a heroine whose sharp edges and cutthroat ambition have been protecting a scandalous truth, and a heart that's bigger than it first appears.
The question remains: will breaking her silence destroy all that she has worked for—or, will it at long last, set Ani free?
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