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Post by The Great Carpezio on Jan 4, 2016 1:41:22 GMT
Hello Readers!
My break is done, and I go back to school/work tomorrow, and I only finished two books. This week I read:
Fig:This is the story of a girl from ages 5 or so until 18. Fig grows up on a farm with her father and her mother, a Schizophrenic. As time goes by, we realize that Fig is also dealing with her own form of mental illness. Told from a naive narrator. I found it a little slow, but interesting and I think I would recommend to some of my students. I believe it is considered YA, but it doesn't really read that way. 3.5/5
I also read...
Blindness: There was a movie made out of this book a few years back. The narration was disorientating (on purpose). Very few paragraph breaks and a somewhat formal third person omniscient narrator. This near future world is quickly thrown into chaos when a condition strikes the world and everyone in thrown into a white blindness. 4/5 Great story and very disturbing, but hard to read emotionally and physically.
So, what did you read this week?
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Post by maryland on Jan 4, 2016 1:46:23 GMT
Read Who Do You Love - Jennifer Weiner last week. It was pretty good. Reading A Necessary End and so far it's good.
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Post by Goldynn on Jan 4, 2016 1:49:40 GMT
I finished Trail of Broken Wings, about the lasting effects of abuse. It left me depressed, so I'm reading Life and Other Near-Death Experiences, which sounds depressing but isn't.  Looking forward to another year in books, and I'm going to try and post to these threads more often and stop being so lazy. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2016 1:56:02 GMT
I re-read Scrappy Cupcake Angels (part 1 of a scrapbooking novel series) because I'm going to review the series on my blog soon, and interview the author. I'm reading The House on Wattle Lane (book 2) now. Sweet stories about scrapbooking and the personal lives of the ladies.
I finished Expats and loved it. Didn't end how I expected.
I'm also reading The Holdout about a 30-something who goes on a Survivor type show and the ramifications to her life when she comes home. It's dragging a little but pretty good. The descriptions and dialogue from the show scenes are SO Survivor-ish! I didn't know you could totally copy something like that. "Worth playing for?" "The rest of you, I got nothing for you. Head back to camp." etc.
I'm skimming through this book because the new eating plan starts tomorrow! Low Carb High Fat No Hunger Diet & Cookbook: Keto Hybrid For Weight Loss (Ketogenic Book 1)
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Post by RobbyKay on Jan 4, 2016 2:58:29 GMT
Happy New Year Reading Peas!
On sound Pea advice, I read Ben H Winters The Last Policeman. It's a pre-apocalyptic murder mystery set in Concord, NH. I enjoyed it, and I'm looking forward to the next title.
I picked up the last title in Jane Smiley's Last Hundred Years Trilogy, Golden Age. It follows the Langdons from 1986 through 2019. In the second book, as the family expanded and the stories became watered down, I wasn't really looking forward to the third title, but I'm keeping track of all of the family members, and the story is really engaging. I have n't quite finished it, but it's a solid conclusion to the series.
I also picked up Illuminae by Kauffman/Kristoff. I've heard great things about it, and I've also seen reviews that were less than impressed. I'm at the very beginning, but so far, so good.
Last week I read Superheroes Anonymous by Lexie Dunne. This week, I picked up the sequel Supervillains Anonymous. It's a cute romantic adventure set in a world with superheroes. Totally fluff reading.
Happy reading!
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Post by pjaye on Jan 4, 2016 3:03:57 GMT
I ended the year with a couple of shorter books:
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondō. I've had this for awhile but I was planning to go through my closet so this was the perfect time to listen to it. Some of what she says makes a lot of sense but I thought other parts were complete nonsense...in japan they seemingly have 'black holes' of closets that can hold mountains of stuff. My closest barely fits my clothes so telling me to put everything else in there was kind of useless advice. Overall interesting and a bit helpful but not earth shattering.
Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin. I got this because she's the same author who wrote 'The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry' which I loved. This was the YA version of "what heaven is like". It's about what happens to 15yo Liz after she dies and moves on to the place called "Elsewhere"...where you age backwards until you are sent back to earth to be reborn. At a deeper level it's about death and grief and moving on. I liked it but didn't love it. 3 stars.
I started the year listening to The Truth According to Us by Annie Barrows, (she's the co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and she finished the book after the original author passed away). Set in the 1940s a wealthy girl refuses to marry the man her father wants so she given a job and is sent off to a small town to write it's history. She boards with a family who have a complicated life and many secrets. It does flip from the present to the past very quickly and that confused me at first, but once you are aware it's going to happen it's less jarring. I'm about half way through and although it took a bit of time to get into, I'm enjoying this now. |
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Post by maryland on Jan 4, 2016 3:09:15 GMT
I re-read Scrappy Cupcake Angels (part 1 of a scrapbooking novel series) because I'm going to review the series on my blog soon, and interview the author. I'm reading The House on Wattle Lane (book 2) now. Sweet stories about scrapbooking and the personal lives of the ladies. I finished Expats and loved it. Didn't end how I expected. I'm also reading The Holdout about a 30-something who goes on a Survivor type show and the ramifications to her life when she comes home. It's dragging a little but pretty good. The descriptions and dialogue from the show scenes are SO Survivor-ish! I didn't know you could totally copy something like that. "Worth playing for?" "The rest of you, I got nothing for you. Head back to camp." etc. I'm skimming through this book because the new eating plan starts tomorrow! Low Carb High Fat No Hunger Diet & Cookbook: Keto Hybrid For Weight Loss (Ketogenic Book 1)The scrapbooking book looks good! I looked it up on barnes and noble and it says it takes place in a small New Zealand town. Does it mention the town? My husband works for a company based in Christ Church and he will be going to New Zealand next month! |
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Post by Mystie on Jan 4, 2016 3:51:47 GMT
I got a lot of reading done this week. (At the expense of getting other stuff done...  ) I finished The Wright Brothers by David McCullough. It was excellent. Great for a layperson who doesn't really understand the physics of flight. There was more attention devoted to the "human" side of their lives. I really can't recommend it enough. From brothers to sisters, I picked up The Romanov Sisters by Helen Rappaport, about Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia, who were the daughters of Tsar Nicholas and were of course murdered with the rest of their family in the Russian Revolution. I am fascinated by the Romanovs, and have read several books about them. I thought this one was quite good; the author managed to bring out information about the girls that I had never read before. However, it was a tad depressing, so I picked up Beach Town by Mary Kay Andrews at the library as a palate cleanser. It was a romance about a location scout who finds a small Florida beach town as a site for a movie, and how she butts heads with the good-looking mayor. Nice premise, but I really did not enjoy it. I had a hard time making myself plow through it. So since my foray into fiction was unsatisfying, I went back to non-fiction and read Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Lawson. This was about the sister of JFK and Bobby, who was born developmentally delayed after oxygen loss during her birth. She struggled for years trying to keep up with her bright and active brothers and sisters, and had a hard time dealing with her frustration. As she got older, her rages became harder to deal with and her father sent her in for a pre-frontal lobotomy when she was 22. It was disastrous and she ended up basically forgotten and institutionalized for the rest of her life. I knew a little bit about her story, but this book was fascinating. The author seems to have had access to new papers in some of the various Kennedy collections, and that provided a lot of good background. Another sad story, though. Right now I'm reading A Murder At Rosamund's Gate by Susanna Calkins. It takes place in the 1600s in England and the heroine/sleuth is a chambermaid in the home of a magistrate. It's only okay. |
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Post by annabella on Jan 4, 2016 3:56:19 GMT
I just finished The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee which is about the society of British ex-pats living in Hong Kong during WWII and after it. It seems that all the other historical fiction I read tends to be about WWII/Europe/Holocaust so it was interesting to read about a region of the world I knew little about.
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Post by lynnek on Jan 4, 2016 4:10:11 GMT
I finally finished Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff. I gave it 3 out of 5 stars. It was only ok for me but I think maybe it fell victim to the season. I dragged the book out way more than I usually do and I think that hurt my enjoyment. But I also just had a bit of a hard time connecting to the characters. The book is set in the future and one civilization is destroyed by another and the people are saved on spaceships. The story is told through memos and computer transcripts and that sort of thing. I felt like it was a bit hard to connect to the characters. But it has great reviews on Goodreads and I have seen it on several best of 2015 lists, so it may just be me.
I also finished an ARC of a book that comes out Tues called This is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp. It is about a school shooting and follows several different students while it is happening. I liked it, didn't love it.
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Post by pjaye on Jan 4, 2016 4:11:38 GMT
So since my foray into fiction was unsatisfying, I went back to non-fiction and read Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Lawson. This was about the sister of JFK and Bobby, who was born developmentally delayed after oxygen loss during her birth. She struggled for years trying to keep up with her bright and active brothers and sisters, and had a hard time dealing with her frustration. As she got older, her rages became harder to deal with and her father sent her in for a pre-frontal lobotomy when she was 22. It was disastrous and she ended up basically forgotten and institutionalized for the rest of her life. I knew a little bit about her story, but this book was fascinating. The author seems to have had access to new papers in some of the various Kennedy collections, and that provided a lot of good background. Another sad story, though. I've got that on my list for this year too. It sounds interesting |
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Post by gina on Jan 4, 2016 4:18:04 GMT
Looking forward to jumping back into these threads again and loading up my Goodreads "To Read" list. I haven't read in MONTHS! I got so busy with work (holiday photoshoots always make me crazy late-Fall into early Winter) and my books take a backseat. I started a new book a few days ago but I am reading it slowly since my free time all weekend has been spent doing puzzles. It's by a Pea too! (I am not sure if she's here but she was definitely on the original board): Anchored: Finding Hope in the Unexpected by Kayla Aimee. I was totally crying at the end of the first chapter. |
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Post by gottapeanow on Jan 4, 2016 4:56:06 GMT
Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter does look very interesting.
I just read one this week. Juror Number 11 by Terry Devane. I just rated it 3/5. The premise was interesting enough: After a criminal trial when the defendant is found not guilty, juror number 11 is murdered. Mairead, the protagonist, wanders around the city talking to herself - no, admonishing herself - and trying to solve the mystery. Is the murder of the juror directly connected with the trial? And how? She interviews as many jurors as possible as the plot thickens.
The execution simply fell flat. Plus I had a couple of books on hold at the library that came in, and I read them in between.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2016 9:01:28 GMT
I re-read Scrappy Cupcake Angels (part 1 of a scrapbooking novel series) because I'm going to review the series on my blog soon, and interview the author. I'm reading The House on Wattle Lane (book 2) now. Sweet stories about scrapbooking and the personal lives of the ladies. I finished Expats and loved it. Didn't end how I expected. I'm also reading The Holdout about a 30-something who goes on a Survivor type show and the ramifications to her life when she comes home. It's dragging a little but pretty good. The descriptions and dialogue from the show scenes are SO Survivor-ish! I didn't know you could totally copy something like that. "Worth playing for?" "The rest of you, I got nothing for you. Head back to camp." etc. I'm skimming through this book because the new eating plan starts tomorrow! Low Carb High Fat No Hunger Diet & Cookbook: Keto Hybrid For Weight Loss (Ketogenic Book 1)The scrapbooking book looks good! I looked it up on barnes and noble and it says it takes place in a small New Zealand town. Does it mention the town? My husband works for a company based in Christ Church and he will be going to New Zealand next month! , the books are set in a small town called Kerrigan |
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Post by tuesdaysgone on Jan 4, 2016 11:25:31 GMT
I was happy to finish out 2015 with two great books:
Kitchens of the Great Midwest This was on my reading list a long time and I finally got my hands on it. It was worth the wait. It will go in my top 5 for 2015. It centers on a young upcoming chef, but her story is often told from the perspectives of others around her. At times in the book, you are not sure how all these different people fit together, but they do. The book also contains many recipes. A very clever book with memorable characters.
The Language of the Dead I just picked this one off the shelf from the library without knowing anything about it and it was a little gem. Set in the English countryside in the early days of WWII, it centers around a county police man trying to solve 3 murders in his little village. It was a light read and I did see the ending coming a long way out, but it was also a very satisfying and pleasant read. A second book in this series is coming out in the spring and I'll be looking for it.
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Post by purplebee on Jan 4, 2016 12:07:33 GMT
Finished my first book of 2016 on Sunday, I'm trying for 52+ again this year. Read "The Summer Cottage" by Susan Kietzman. Typical fluffy story of family gathering at their summer place due to Mom's illness, but had some substance (and lots of family drama!) and I enjoyed it.
Thanks again for this thread, I get sooooo many great suggestions for books, and look forward to reading it each week.
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Post by janeliz on Jan 4, 2016 13:23:06 GMT
I finished off 2015 with my 55th book, Janet Evanovich's Tricky Twenty Two. It was what I hoped it would be---a quick, fun read. I'll keep reading the Stephanie Plum books as long as she churns them out. It's like spending time with old friends for me.
I then read JoJo Moyes' After You. I thought it was wonderful, and I actually enjoyed it more than Me Before You.
I'm now nearing the end of Kate Morton's The Lake House. The first half dragged a bit for me, but I'm now having trouble putting it down. I like it very much.
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Post by leannec on Jan 4, 2016 13:50:03 GMT
I'm reading my fav "vampire porn" this week  Blood Kiss by J.R. Ward ... I freaking looooove the Black Dagger Brotherhood books   |
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Post by pudgygroundhog on Jan 4, 2016 14:35:45 GMT
I ended the year with a couple of shorter books:
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondō. I've had this for awhile but I was planning to go through my closet so this was the perfect time to listen to it. Some of what she says makes a lot of sense but I thought other parts were complete nonsense...in japan they seemingly have 'black holes' of closets that can hold mountains of stuff. My closest barely fits my clothes so telling me to put everything else in there was kind of useless advice. Overall interesting and a bit helpful but not earth shattering.
Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin. I got this because she's the same author who wrote 'The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry' which I loved. This was the YA version of "what heaven is like". It's about what happens to 15yo Liz after she dies and moves on to the place called "Elsewhere"...where you age backwards until you are sent back to earth to be reborn. At a deeper level it's about death and grief and moving on. I liked it but didn't love it. 3 stars.
I started the year listening to The Truth According to Us by Annie Barrows, (she's the co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and she finished the book after the original author passed away). Set in the 1940s a wealthy girl refuses to marry the man her father wants so she given a job and is sent off to a small town to write it's history. She boards with a family who have a complicated life and many secrets. It does flip from the present to the past very quickly and that confused me at first, but once you are aware it's going to happen it's less jarring. I'm about half way through and although it took a bit of time to get into, I'm enjoying this now. I really enjoyed The Truth According to Us. While reading the book I realized she was the author of the children series Ivy and Bean - makes sense since I think she wrote her child characters quite well. |
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Post by pudgygroundhog on Jan 4, 2016 14:37:32 GMT
I got a lot of reading done this week. (At the expense of getting other stuff done... ) I finished The Wright Brothers by David McCullough. It was excellent. Great for a layperson who doesn't really understand the physics of flight. There was more attention devoted to the "human" side of their lives. I really can't recommend it enough. From brothers to sisters, I picked up The Romanov Sisters by Helen Rappaport, about Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia, who were the daughters of Tsar Nicholas and were of course murdered with the rest of their family in the Russian Revolution. I am fascinated by the Romanovs, and have read several books about them. I thought this one was quite good; the author managed to bring out information about the girls that I had never read before. However, it was a tad depressing, so I picked up Beach Town by Mary Kay Andrews at the library as a palate cleanser. It was a romance about a location scout who finds a small Florida beach town as a site for a movie, and how she butts heads with the good-looking mayor. Nice premise, but I really did not enjoy it. I had a hard time making myself plow through it. So since my foray into fiction was unsatisfying, I went back to non-fiction and read Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Lawson. This was about the sister of JFK and Bobby, who was born developmentally delayed after oxygen loss during her birth. She struggled for years trying to keep up with her bright and active brothers and sisters, and had a hard time dealing with her frustration. As she got older, her rages became harder to deal with and her father sent her in for a pre-frontal lobotomy when she was 22. It was disastrous and she ended up basically forgotten and institutionalized for the rest of her life. I knew a little bit about her story, but this book was fascinating. The author seems to have had access to new papers in some of the various Kennedy collections, and that provided a lot of good background. Another sad story, though. Right now I'm reading A Murder At Rosamund's Gate by Susanna Calkins. It takes place in the 1600s in England and the heroine/sleuth is a chambermaid in the home of a magistrate. It's only okay. I just bought The Romanov Sisters for my Kindle - glad you liked it! I also want to read The Wright Brothers. |
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Post by pudgygroundhog on Jan 4, 2016 14:39:10 GMT
I was happy to finish out 2015 with two great books: Kitchens of the Great Midwest This was on my reading list a long time and I finally got my hands on it. It was worth the wait. It will go in my top 5 for 2015. It centers on a young upcoming chef, but her story is often told from the perspectives of others around her. At times in the book, you are not sure how all these different people fit together, but they do. The book also contains many recipes. A very clever book with memorable characters. The Language of the Dead I just picked this one off the shelf from the library without knowing anything about it and it was a little gem. Set in the English countryside in the early days of WWII, it centers around a county police man trying to solve 3 murders in his little village. It was a light read and I did see the ending coming a long way out, but it was also a very satisfying and pleasant read. A second book in this series is coming out in the spring and I'll be looking for it. I really liked Kitchens of the Great Midwest too. |
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Post by pudgygroundhog on Jan 4, 2016 14:44:38 GMT
I was out of town the beginning of the new year, so read some books I had previously purchased as deals on my Kindle. I read:
The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley. 3/5 stars. Her books are very readable and I generally like the characters, but they feel a little too light for me.
The Good Girl by Mary Kubica. 2/5 stars. Meh. The plot and characters were so cliche and the writing wasn't very good.
I've just started Alexander Hamilton by Ron Cherow. Although I enjoy history books, I don't pick them up that often. I'm seeing Hamilton on Broadway this month, so that prompted me to read this. So far I really like the writing and it's interesting. It better be since it's 800 pages, lol.
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Post by kellybelly77 on Jan 4, 2016 15:13:58 GMT
Since I was so busy decluttering this last week I didn't finish a single book!! But I am in the process of reading 2 right now. I am almost finished with both actually. So hopefully I will have some for next week! While I do love reading, I am so excited by all my progress I have made with organizing my house.
The two I am reading are:
Notorious RBG a book about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I really love her!
Year of No Sugar a book about a family who, wait for it, doesn't eat sugar for a year!
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Post by sugarmama on Jan 4, 2016 15:33:36 GMT
I'm currently listening to THE MAGIC STRINGS OF FRANKIE PRESTO and so far I am really enjoying it. This may be one of my favorites for 2016.
I also read DISCLAIMER about a woman who receives a book and as she reads it, she realizes it's about her. This was really creepy and the story did not unfold in the way I originally expected. This was about 3.5 stars for me.
Add me to the list of those who want to read ROSEMARY: THE HIDDEN KENNEDY DAUGHTER and KITCHENS OF THE GREAT MIDWEST.
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Post by lisaknits on Jan 4, 2016 15:41:20 GMT
I read The Martian by Andy Weir and really enjoyed it. It was a quick read because I just didn't want to put it down!
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Post by jackie on Jan 4, 2016 15:43:31 GMT
I finished Black-Eyed Susans by Julie Heaberlin. I really enjoyed it. I see she has two other books, so I'll probably take a look at those.
I also just finished In the Blood by Lisa Unger. I really liked this one. This was another thriller and was very twisty. I listened to this one on audiobook and when I finally started putting the pieces together for one of the secrets, I swear my mouth literally dropped open while I was driving. I love books that do that! Thanks to the peas (can't remember who) that remember both of these books. I'm wondering, I see that Unger has quite a few books out, some look like they're in series. Does anyone have a recommendation for some other really good ones by this author?
I'm about halfway through The Good Girl by Mary Kubica. This one got a lot more fanfare than the two listed above, but so far I'm not enjoying it as much as either of those. I like it, just not nearly as much. The book changes perspectives from the narrator and time, which I'm fine with, but the portions where the girl who is kidnapped (no spoilers, this happens right away) is with her kidnapper are just so...drab, for lack of a better word. It's still very much holding my interest and I feel like there is going to be a shocker revealed somewhere along the way.
I never read this book but did see the movie and thought about going back and reading it, I found it that compelling. Did you or will you read this same author's book, Seeing, which is kind of a sequel? By the way, if you haven't watched the movie Blindess, you should. I thought it was really good--disturbing at times, but good.
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Post by auntkelly on Jan 4, 2016 15:58:35 GMT
I got a lot of reading done this week. (At the expense of getting other stuff done... ) I finished The Wright Brothers by David McCullough. It was excellent. Great for a layperson who doesn't really understand the physics of flight. There was more attention devoted to the "human" side of their lives. I really can't recommend it enough. From brothers to sisters, I picked up The Romanov Sisters by Helen Rappaport, about Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia, who were the daughters of Tsar Nicholas and were of course murdered with the rest of their family in the Russian Revolution. I am fascinated by the Romanovs, and have read several books about them. I thought this one was quite good; the author managed to bring out information about the girls that I had never read before. However, it was a tad depressing, so I picked up Beach Town by Mary Kay Andrews at the library as a palate cleanser. It was a romance about a location scout who finds a small Florida beach town as a site for a movie, and how she butts heads with the good-looking mayor. Nice premise, but I really did not enjoy it. I had a hard time making myself plow through it. So since my foray into fiction was unsatisfying, I went back to non-fiction and read Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Lawson. This was about the sister of JFK and Bobby, who was born developmentally delayed after oxygen loss during her birth. She struggled for years trying to keep up with her bright and active brothers and sisters, and had a hard time dealing with her frustration. As she got older, her rages became harder to deal with and her father sent her in for a pre-frontal lobotomy when she was 22. It was disastrous and she ended up basically forgotten and institutionalized for the rest of her life. I knew a little bit about her story, but this book was fascinating. The author seems to have had access to new papers in some of the various Kennedy collections, and that provided a lot of good background. Another sad story, though. Right now I'm reading A Murder At Rosamund's Gate by Susanna Calkins. It takes place in the 1600s in England and the heroine/sleuth is a chambermaid in the home of a magistrate. It's only okay. I had also read several books about the Romanovs, but I agree I learned a lot about the Romanov daughters in The Romanov Sisters. Other books have focused on their brother and made the girls out to be nothing more than sheltered princesses who knew nothing about the real world. In The Romanov Sisters, I was fascinated to read about how they rolled up their sleeves and worked as nurses in a military hospital during WWI. It was also interesting to read about their different personalities. Even though you know how the story will end in every book about the Romanovs, it is always heartbreaking. |
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Post by paigepea on Jan 4, 2016 16:35:47 GMT
I read The Martian by Andy Weir and really enjoyed it. It was a quick read because I just didn't want to put it down! Dh read this on our beach vacation two weeks ago and he loved it. He's not a reader but he read it so quickly that he had to borrow dd's kindle when she was swimming to read something else because he hadn't been prepared with a second book. We watched the movie a few days ago and he loved that too. I'm reading Circling the Sun by Paula McLain, about record breaking female pilot Beryl Markham. this isn't my normal genre but I'm loving this book - it is so well written that the words seem poetic at times. I'm not half way but I'm very much hooked. Wish I had more time to read! paige. |
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Post by kckckc on Jan 4, 2016 17:06:09 GMT
I finished 3 books last week.
Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong. A rather odd, fun sci-fi read. I enjoyed it.
Gratitude by Oliver Sacks. A very short book - it consists of four essays Sacks wrote at the end of his life. Excellent.
Here by Richard McGuire. This was my first graphic novel. I would guess that it is different than most. The story of what happens in a certain spot over many years. I enjoyed it.
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Post by marianne on Jan 4, 2016 20:15:15 GMT
I enjoy reading these threads and have gotten lots of good recommendations from them, but this is my first time participating. I read a lot of mysteries so my input may get boring after awhile. I finished Rutland Place by Anne Perry, the fifth in the Pitt series. (I'm also well into her William Monk series.) As with any mystery series, they tend to get repetitive but I enjoy her historical writing, attention to detail in Victorian England, and plot twists. I also finished my first read of a random choice of her Christmas mystery series, A Christmas Homecoming. It was good and typical Perry - I may start this series as well. I'm in the process of reading Lurking in the Deep by Jadis Shaw and others, an anthology of creepy, ordinary, or mythical sea creatures lurking in the deep, dark waters. A different collection of short stories and an entertaining read. Kind of like the spooky stories you share with your friends to scare each other. I hope to participate more in the New Year! |
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