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Post by The Great Carpezio on Jun 13, 2016 2:25:15 GMT
Hi readers!
I am off to Hawaii tomorrow. Sorry for the late post.
I'm reading The City of Mirrors (last of The Passage series). It's a long one, and I hope to finish it on the plane.
What did you read this week?
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Post by gina on Jun 13, 2016 2:45:32 GMT
I am still plugging away at Sue Klebold's A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy (Columbine). Its not that I am not enjoying it. I am just laying down too late and only getting a chapter or so in before my eyes shut.  I need to catch up on editing my client work and carve out more reading time. I also started The Violets of March by Sarah Jio in paper form (I usually read on my Kindle app via my HUGE iPad) since I've had a stack of her books sitting on my night table for ages. She's one of my favorites! I wanted something to bring outside with me and on the bus into Manhattan last weekend with my girls (we took a coach bus and saw Finding Neverland!) I am enjoying it, as I do all Sarah Jio books. I am just not making much time for that one either at the moment.  Summer is when I love to read. Only two weeks of school left for my 3 kids, give or take, then I'll have plenty of poolside and vacation reading time! SaveSaveSaveSave |
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Post by RobbyKay on Jun 13, 2016 2:50:03 GMT
Hi Readers!
I read Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Corman. It was a totally digestable biography of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I loved it! It talked about her personal life, and her rise to success as a lawyer, during a time when women didn't become lawyers, especially women with young families. It also detailed her passion for equal rights, and how she tried to change the law one case at a time.
Right now, I'm reading Tracy Chevalier's latest book, At The Edge of the Orchard. It's about a family that moves from Connecticut to Ohio to farm, and try to struggle out a life as apple farmers in the Black Swamp. It's good, but bleak so far. I'm about a third of the way through. We'll see how it goes from here.
Happy Reading!
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Post by gottapeanow on Jun 13, 2016 3:02:57 GMT
I finished two this week What Was Mine by Helen Klein Ross. The premise is wonderful - a woman steals a little girl from a grocery while her mother is distracted. She raises the child as her own, until she's discovered. But the book fell flat at the end. Another pea - Gina, maybe? - made the same comment about it. 3/5 stars.
I also read Crenshaw by Christina Applegate. This is likely a middle school book. Also 3/5 stars.
Carey, enjoy your vacation! Hawaii - so awesome!
Lisa
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Post by misadventurous on Jun 13, 2016 3:11:26 GMT
I read my June Kindle First selection, Intrusion by Mary McCluskey. I think I saw some other peas choose the same one and I'm curious to know what you thought. I thought it was painfully dull and skimmed the last third. I'm very glad I didn't pay for it. 1.5/5 stars
Just started The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens.
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Post by marianne on Jun 13, 2016 3:22:33 GMT
I finished And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. For a mystery lover, I think this may be only the 2nd or 3rd Christie book I've read; I just never got into Miss Marple or Poirot. Anyway, I can see why this one is considered one of her best. Classic murder mystery with bodies strewn all over, a great whodunit. I liked it and may read more from the Dame of Mystery.
I just started The Revenant by Michael Punke - I want to read the book before I see the movie. I'm also still reading The Woman in White but it's fallen to last on my nightstand since the other two are library books and have a deadline.
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Post by pjaye on Jun 13, 2016 3:29:05 GMT
First up this week was The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarty. This is one of the author's earlier books. Like her other books this is set in modern day Australia and there's a group of central female characters (friends and family) and how they interact and the consequences that occur when an elderly aunt dies. I was a little surprised by how much I enjoyed this one. It made me laugh out loud a few times. I gave it 4 out of 5 stars.
Staying with the Aussie authors, I moved on to Cloudstreet by Tim Winton. This is considered an Australian classic and won The Miles Franklin award in 1992. Somehow I've managed to not read any of his books before now but I'm trying to increase my reading diversity and trying lots of different genres & authors and he finally made it to the top of my list. Set in Australia (obviously!) from 1940-1960 and tells the story of two different families who are struggling to survive and end up living in the same large house together on Cloud Street. They all have their various struggles - alcoholism, gambling, adultery, marriages, births etc. This is a really "Australian" book, even I had a bit of a struggle at first to get used to the colloquialisms used. It's not my experience of Australian life, but I've certainly known older Aussies who could relate to this. I found it hard to rate, I liked it and it kept me interested...I ended up giving it 3 stars on Goodreads, but debated giving it 4.
Then I moved on to a couple of "weird" genre books, first The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness. First - if you've never read "A Monster Calls" by Ness, then you need to add that to your TBR...also weird but heartbreaking. I think I 'got' this, but I'm not 100% sure. It's a YA book that makes fun of the YA genre, but not in an obvious way. In YA books there's always the cool teens who fall in love with Vampires, or save the world or die beautifully...this book doesn't focus on those kids, but on the "others" who are in the background and who are never part of the main story. But then there were still parts I didn't really understand. I liked parts of it and I was happy to finish it, but I didn't think it made the point it was trying to make and some bits just didn't make sense to me. I gave it 2 stars.
Second weird for the week is The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey but I've only just started it so too soon to really comment. I generally don't like zombie anything, but this is meant to be different...so we'll see how it pans out. |
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Post by pjaye on Jun 13, 2016 3:42:16 GMT
I also started The Violets of March by Sarah JioI'd say don't bother! I usually love “modern woman finds diary of a mysterious woman from the past” books, but I thought this was particularly unbelievable and I got very close to ditching it. I kept hoping it would get better, but it didn't. |
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Post by gina on Jun 13, 2016 3:55:48 GMT
I also started The Violets of March by Sarah JioI'd say don't bother! I usually love “modern woman finds diary of a mysterious woman from the past” books, but I thought this was particularly unbelievable and I got very close to ditching it. I kept hoping it would get better, but it didn't. Ah, poop. I usually enjoy her books. Ok maybe I'll go with something else from my never-ending list of stuff to read! SaveSave |
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Post by gina on Jun 13, 2016 3:56:43 GMT
I finished two this week What Was Mine by Helen Klein Ross. The premise is wonderful - a woman steals a little girl from a grocery while her mother is distracted. She raises the child as her own, until she's discovered. But the book fell flat at the end. Another pea - Gina, maybe? - made the same comment about it. 3/5 stars. Lisa Yes, that was me!  We had the same feelings on that story it seems. SaveSave |
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Post by birukitty on Jun 13, 2016 3:57:24 GMT
Today I finished "The Lilac Girls" by Martha Hall Kelly. This was a historical fiction book and the author's first book. It tells the story of three main women during World War 2, one a New York socialite, Caroline, who works at the French Consulate and helps charities during the war, a Polish girl, Kasia, and her sister who are arrested and sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp in Germany, and a female doctor, Herta, who works at the camp. The chapters each start with a different woman's story which very much annoyed me because I wanted to find out what happened at the end of one chapter and move ahead to find out what continued to happen to that character. But soon the stories all started to weave together. I loved this book! The story line itself was incredible, although the story line of Caroline, was boring for a great part of the book. Much later it really picks up and I understood why she was such an important part of the book. At the end you find out that many of the characters were based on real people. I give it 5 stars and highly recommend it if you are into historical fiction.
Before that I read "The Girl You Left Behind" by Jojo Moyes. This is by the same author who wrote "Me Before You", although this is a historical fiction novel, in part-half is about World War 1, and half takes place during current times. It's about a couple who are separated by war and a painting her artist husband painted that catches the German commandants eye. Nearly a century later the painting finds it's way into the hands of a newly wed couple, and after the husband dies young expectantly the history of the painting comes into question. I really liked this book very much. I give it 4 stars.
And lastly because I skipped last week I read "Tempest" by Julie Cross. This was I think a YA book about time travel. It was pretty good and I'm glad I read it but I have no desire really to read the other sequels. I give it 3 stars.
BTW Pjaye, I read The Girls With All the Gifts and I loved it! I normally don't read zombie books either, at all, but I started this not knowing it was a zombie book. I started it in the Barnes and Noble cafe and it got me hooked right away. It was a really great read. I thought it would make an amazing movie and then after I read it I read the bio on the author on the back and found out he'd written some movie scripts. No wonder he writes like that! I hope you like it.
Debbie in MD.
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Post by janeliz on Jun 13, 2016 4:05:35 GMT
I read Mary Kay Andrews' newest, The Weekenders. Her books are reliably enjoyable---they're fun, summer reads.
I'm now reading a YA book, Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen. She's one of my favorite YA writers, and I'm hoping to get my 14 y/o DD (who does not love to read for pleasure) to check out a few of her books this summer.
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Post by peano on Jun 13, 2016 4:32:19 GMT
I finished The Nest which was OK and Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget an extremely well-written memoir by Sara Hepola. I just started Dietland and I'm not very far into it.
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Post by tuesdaysgone on Jun 13, 2016 11:10:01 GMT
I read a non fiction book The Trunk Murderess and yes, it's as lurid as the title suggest. It's the retelling of a famous Phoenix case from 1931 about a young woman accused and convicted of shooting two women and moving their bodies in large travel trunks. The author clearly has an agenda (i.e. suggesting that this woman was wrongly convicted) and for the most part she does prove that the woman was herself the victim of powerful local politics and corruption. It was interesting.
Next, I read The Last Painting of Sara de Vos. I really enjoyed it. The multiple characters and time lines worked very well for me. Let me also take this opportunity to recommend two other books I've read by this author that I enjoyed as much, if not more. Beautiful Miscellaneous and Bright and Distant Shores. I love his writing style and find it different in each of these titles.
I've just begun another Kate Atkinson novel, When Will There Be Good News?
Yeah for summer! I'll be back at the library this week and adding to my stack.
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Post by leannec on Jun 13, 2016 11:48:12 GMT
I finished The Beast by J.R. Ward which was straight up Black Dagger Brotherhood fluff ... lovely   I've now started Dietland by Sarai Walker ... I'm not far into it yet but it's gotten great reviews |
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Post by hollymolly on Jun 13, 2016 12:18:58 GMT
Finished The Dive From Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer. The writing was good enough that I wanted to give it 3 stars, but I just didn't like it, so maybe 2 1/2. I didn't find the main character likable, and couldn't understand why all these people kept falling for her. It was supposed to be about how she reacts to her boyfriend's accident, but that's barely a third of the book. The rest of it is her trying to make it in New York, but then that doesn't really go anywhere either. When she's in NY, she feels guilty for ditching her friends in Wisconsin, but she never does anything about it, and in fact just makes things worse. When she's in Wisconsin, she feels guilty for being away from her friends in NY, but once again does nothing but whine and treat them badly. She was extremely selfish all the time, and in spite of all of the opportunities for personal growth, I don't think she really got anywhere.
When I read a book that has been made into a movie, I want to see the movie as soon as I'm finished. I like to see the characters "in the flesh" even if it's not quite how they looked in my head. The Dive From Clausen's Pier was made into a Lifetime movie. It's only available for rent on Amazon, even with Prime. I was tempted to pay a few dollars, but couldn't bring myself to spend any more money on this character and her story. I watched a few scenes on Youtube, and I made the right decision. The movie looks even worse. The little bit I saw made me like the characters even less. If I had seen the movie first, I would have turned it off before it was over. At least the book was well written enough to keep me going to the end.
Now I'm reading And She Was by Alison Gaylin. This is kind of the opposite for me. The story is very compelling so far, and the main character appeals to me, but the writing is more like a romance novel. I don't mind mysteries with an element of romance, as long as the focus is the mystery. So far that's been the case with this book, but the way the scenes with the obvious romantic interest are written, I'm afraid it will become a cheesy romance.
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Post by leftturnonly on Jun 13, 2016 12:28:53 GMT
I finished And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. For a mystery lover, I think this may be only the 2nd or 3rd Christie book I've read; I just never got into Miss Marple or Poirot. Anyway, I can see why this one is considered one of her best. Classic murder mystery with bodies strewn all over, a great whodunit. I liked it and may read more from the Dame of Mystery. I just started The Revenant by Michael Punke - I want to read the book before I see the movie. I'm also still reading The Woman in White but it's fallen to last on my nightstand since the other two are library books and have a deadline. I think I read all of Agatha Christie's books when I was still very young. Loved her that much. Then, I read a biography (autobiography I think...?) and it snapped so much of her historical references more into place for me. I'm actually quite amazed just how often a snippet from that biography crosses my mind. |
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Post by leftturnonly on Jun 13, 2016 12:48:09 GMT
I recently finished The Leaving of Things by Jay Antani. It's about a teenage Indian boy who has been living in America with his family for a dozen years before his family moves back to India. I felt like I was reading someone's actual life story as he experienced a drastic culture shock. I just Googled the book to see more about it and see that it was a Winner of the 2014 International Book Award for Multicultural Fiction. I can see why. I recommend it too.
I'm reading Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen right now and I'm enjoying it.
I very often grab something I've picked up along the way and have NO idea what it's about until I actually start reading. Very glad I picked these two!
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Post by scrappyesq on Jun 13, 2016 14:11:43 GMT
I'm Reading Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman. I don't like it at all. I'm reading it because I'm supposed to be talking about it with a friend of mine over lunch this Sunday. Otherwise it would have been on the top of my did not finish pile.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2016 14:18:43 GMT
I read Gone Again by James Grippando It's heavily court room based and centres around the disappearance of a young adopted girl. It wasn't bad but the middle really dragged.
I also read Face Paint by Lisa Eldridge I hate to say anything bad about it but it was all rather school project fleshed out with incredible photographs.
I'm now reading Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
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Post by kckckc on Jun 13, 2016 14:19:19 GMT
I have finished three books in the last couple of weeks.
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick. Arthur is a 69 year old widow. When cleaning out his wive's things, he discovers a charm bracelet that he has never seen before. What ensues is the story of Arthur chasing down the origin of each charm and discovering a lot about the life his wife led before she met him. On the surface this one had a lot in common with The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - unfortunately I felt it lacked the "charm" of Pilgrimage. This one felt more like a Nicholas Sparks romance. 3/5
Miller's Valley by Anna Quindlen. The story of Mimi Miller, her family and her community, as Mimi grows up and her home is slated to become a lake when the government puts in a new dam. This one is definitely character driven - there is not a lot of action/plot. I liked it. 4/5
Firewall by Henning Mankell. I picked this one up at the Friends of the Library book sale for a dollar. It is the 8th book in an older mystery/police procedural series written by a Swedish author. I enjoyed it and may look into reading the rest of the series. 4/5
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Post by pudgygroundhog on Jun 13, 2016 14:20:59 GMT
I read:
Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler. 4/5 stars. Stephanie Danler's debut novel, a coming of age story of a young women newly arrived in NYC, draws heavily upon her experience in the restaurant industry and I think that's the strength of the novel. Tess lands a job at a fictionalized version of Union Square Cafe and Danler immerses the reader in this whirlwind world of restaurant logistics and the workers' friendships/relationships, often fueled by their boozy, drug filled late nights. Initially the plot feels too thin - Tess mooning over bad boy bartender Jake doesn't make a crackling story, but I found myself getting into the story more as it continued, especially watching the triangle of Tess-Jake-Simone (a senior server who becomes a mentor of sort to Tess) play out. Danler signed a two book deal and I am interested to see how she follows up Sweetbitter, which was a solid four star read for me.
All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage. 4/5 stars. George Clare came home from his job to find his wife murdered - or did he know what he was going to find? The book opens with this scene, then rewinds to set the stage of the Clares, their move to an old farmhouse in upstate New York, and the various supporting characters that intersect with their lives. Knowing what is coming, there is a sense of underlying dread as the reader gets a better sense of the characters and events that lead up to Catherine's murder. The book is not so much a whodunit story, but a slow burn, how-did-this-happen story with a closer look at relationships and what lies beneath the surface. Overall the story was straightforward, but it kept my interest and I liked the book.
I'm currently reading The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee.
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Post by sueg on Jun 13, 2016 14:29:07 GMT
I'm now reading Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger I read that on vacation a couple of years ago and just couldn't put it down. I had read some reviews that were not so keen on it, but I found it enthralling. I started on Gone but not Forgotten this week, and am just getting into it properly. I need to find some time to read that is not bedtime, as I think it needs to sustained reading. Unfortunately, watching the Euros football and reading mysteries are mutually exclusive. |
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Post by paigepea on Jun 13, 2016 14:33:39 GMT
First up this week was The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarty. This is one of the author's earlier books. Like her other books this is set in modern day Australia and there's a group of central female characters (friends and family) and how they interact and the consequences that occur when an elderly aunt dies. I was a little surprised by how much I enjoyed this one. It made me laugh out loud a few times. I gave it 4 out of 5 stars.
Staying with the Aussie authors, I moved on to Cloudstreet by Tim Winton. This is considered an Australian classic and won The Miles Franklin award in 1992. Somehow I've managed to not read any of his books before now but I'm trying to increase my reading diversity and trying lots of different genres & authors and he finally made it to the top of my list. Set in Australia (obviously!) from 1940-1960 and tells the story of two different families who are struggling to survive and end up living in the same large house together on Cloud Street. They all have their various struggles - alcoholism, gambling, adultery, marriages, births etc. This is a really "Australian" book, even I had a bit of a struggle at first to get used to the colloquialisms used. It's not my experience of Australian life, but I've certainly known older Aussies who could relate to this. I found it hard to rate, I liked it and it kept me interested...I ended up giving it 3 stars on Goodreads, but debated giving it 4.
Then I moved on to a couple of "weird" genre books, first The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness. First - if you've never read "A Monster Calls" by Ness, then you need to add that to your TBR...also weird but heartbreaking. I think I 'got' this, but I'm not 100% sure. It's a YA book that makes fun of the YA genre, but not in an obvious way. In YA books there's always the cool teens who fall in love with Vampires, or save the world or die beautifully...this book doesn't focus on those kids, but on the "others" who are in the background and who are never part of the main story. But then there were still parts I didn't really understand. I liked parts of it and I was happy to finish it, but I didn't think it made the point it was trying to make and some bits just didn't make sense to me. I gave it 2 stars.
Second weird for the week is The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey but I've only just started it so too soon to really comment. I generally don't like zombie anything, but this is meant to be different...so we'll see how it pans out. So glad to read your review on the last anniversary. I've thought of trying it but haven't. Now I hope too. P. |
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Post by paigepea on Jun 13, 2016 14:36:32 GMT
Today I finished "The Lilac Girls" by Martha Hall Kelly. This was a historical fiction book and the author's first book. It tells the story of three main women during World War 2, one a New York socialite, Caroline, who works at the French Consulate and helps charities during the war, a Polish girl, Kasia, and her sister who are arrested and sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp in Germany, and a female doctor, Herta, who works at the camp. The chapters each start with a different woman's story which very much annoyed me because I wanted to find out what happened at the end of one chapter and move ahead to find out what continued to happen to that character. But soon the stories all started to weave together. I loved this book! The story line itself was incredible, although the story line of Caroline, was boring for a great part of the book. Much later it really picks up and I understood why she was such an important part of the book. At the end you find out that many of the characters were based on real people. I give it 5 stars and highly recommend it if you are into historical fiction. Before that I read " The Girl You Left Behind" by Jojo Moyes. This is by the same author who wrote "Me Before You", although this is a historical fiction novel, in part-half is about World War 1, and half takes place during current times. It's about a couple who are separated by war and a painting her artist husband painted that catches the German commandants eye. Nearly a century later the painting finds it's way into the hands of a newly wed couple, and after the husband dies young expectantly the history of the painting comes into question. I really liked this book very much. I give it 4 stars. And lastly because I skipped last week I read "Tempest" by Julie Cross. This was I think a YA book about time travel. It was pretty good and I'm glad I read it but I have no desire really to read the other sequels. I give it 3 stars. BTW Pjaye, I read The Girls With All the Gifts and I loved it! I normally don't read zombie books either, at all, but I started this not knowing it was a zombie book. I started it in the Barnes and Noble cafe and it got me hooked right away. It was a really great read. I thought it would make an amazing movie and then after I read it I read the bio on the author on the back and found out he'd written some movie scripts. No wonder he writes like that! I hope you like it. Debbie in MD. The Girl You Left Behind is one of my favourites. Have you read The Last Letter From Your Lover? A great love story by Jojo Moyes. I can't decide which of those two I like better. P. |
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Post by paigepea on Jun 13, 2016 14:47:35 GMT
I'm reading Mary Kubica's newest book DON'T YOU CRY. I've only just started and haven't had a lot of reading time but hope that it is engaging. The characters seem interesting so far.
A while ago I finished the second book in Lucinda Riley's SEVEN SISTERS series, THE STORM SISTER. I enjoy her writing and I am enjoying the series and plan to read the next one, but this wasn't my favourite Lucinda Riley story. It was a bit predictable for me. And the story / conflict was too perfect - could have been better/more interesting. Too bad because I loved the first book in the series.
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Post by MsKnit on Jun 13, 2016 15:12:28 GMT
I am slogging my way through All the Light We Cannot See.
My husband is on vacation this week. Plus, I need took it a shawl to a certain point before s class on Sunday. I am kind of relieved for the break from reading that book.
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Post by kellybelly77 on Jun 13, 2016 15:29:23 GMT
I read The Lost Empress by Steve Robinson. It was a genealogical crime mystery that switched back and forth between present day and 1914 when the ocean liner Empress of Ireland sank en route to England. The story revolves around one woman who was listed as deceased in the boat sinking but yet recent DNA tests revealed she may have had other children after the boat sank...
And then I took an impossibly long road trip this weekend and read book #2 in the Selection series. The Elite by Kiera Cass. Hunger Games meets the Bachelor is how I would describe it. Young adult for sure and my 14yo is reading them but I read the first so I feel like it is my duty to finish up the series! We ordered the next 2 from Amazon when we got home last night. They take like a day to read so we should be able to finish this up pretty quick!
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Post by kristi521 on Jun 13, 2016 15:30:47 GMT
I finished two this week What Was Mine by Helen Klein Ross. The premise is wonderful - a woman steals a little girl from a grocery while her mother is distracted. She raises the child as her own, until she's discovered. But the book fell flat at the end. Another pea - Gina, maybe? - made the same comment about it. 3/5 stars. Lisa Yes, that was me! We had the same feelings on that story it seems. SaveSaveMe three! It sounded like a great idea, but it all bundled up too nicely in the end. |
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Post by kellybelly77 on Jun 13, 2016 15:34:11 GMT
I read Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Corman. It was a totally digestable biography of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I loved it! It talked about her personal life, and her rise to success as a lawyer, during a time when women didn't become lawyers, especially women with young families. It also detailed her passion for equal rights, and how she tried to change the law one case at a time. I really liked this one as well! But I also really really like RBG! |
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I need to catch up on editing my client work and carve out more reading time.
We had the same feelings on that story it seems.
