Jessie Nabors I want to like it more than I am, unfortunately. I know it is a memoir, and I liked her interview on NPR, but it just hasn’t hooked me yet.
Currently reading The Blue Bedspread by Raj Kamal Jha. I’ll finish today, so need to find a new one. I need something not so dark as my past few books have been.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Read it when in Jr High. Decided to do a reread as I am thinking about getting the new book Dracul written by Dacre Stoker one of Bram’s relations
Currently reading Mercy Blade (Jane Yellowrock #3) by Faith Hunter, just finishing Out Of Range (Joe Pickett, #5) by C.J. Box and have started Assassin’s Assistant by Robin Hobb.
A God in Ruins By Kate Atkinson. I’m not loving it. Having trouble keeping track of the characters and all the time jumping. This book needs a family tree visual at the beginning
I loved Travels with Charley. I liked even more a book written by my fellow Dutchman Geert Mak, who travelled the same route as Steinbeck and wrote a book about it, called In America: Travels with Steinbeck. Check it out!
@Ynn I wiil, ty, I get my audio reading from the Libray of Congress I will see if they have it. What time period did he do Steinbecks route? Did he do it because he liked JS and wanted to follow what he did? How different or similar are there perceptions?
@Nettie I think it was on the 50th anniversary of Steinbeck’s book. He comments on what JS wrote about each location, adds his own impressions and tells us about US history related to the area. He also wrote a very interesting book about Europe’s 20th century history. In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century https://g.co/kgs/mgWccq
@Nettie if you can find them, they are both worthwhile reading. A plus is that they are not just a dry summing up of facts. They are very pleasant to read and very informative.
Cover of Snow – Jenny Milchman trying to get it finished so I can start something else. I like it but am just restless and want to get back to Sarah J. Maas
The Pearl Thief by Elizabeth Wein. I’m having trouble putting it down. I loved another one of her books Code Name Verity. I think these are supposed to be YA mysteries but this not young adult loves them!
Just finished my first book this week (I aim for 4 a week). The Vinyl Detective The Run Out Groove, by Andrew Cartmel. Loved it. 400 pages of humor, noir, romance and records!
@Jessie Baker’s Secret was well researched and written. While not part of the resistance, Emma’s ingenuity and response to the occupying army can only be admired. I would definitely recommend you add it to your TBR list.
I love this series and am not a fan of Koontz. Ha. It is so fun. I hated the film adaptation though and really hoped it would be good as the novels entertain! Check out the comic books he did with the character as well
I’m currently reading what we keep by Elizabeth berg. Just finished what looks like crazy on an ordinary day and before that was Sarah’s key. Really enjoyed both and am also enjoying what we keep.
Loved that book. Just got her next one and looking forward to getting into it.
What’s her next one ?
What’s the next one ?
Force of Nature.
Any good ?
@Jessie I haven’t read it yet.
I’m reading Educated by Tara Westover.
Any good ?
Jessie Nabors I want to like it more than I am, unfortunately. I know it is a memoir, and I liked her interview on NPR, but it just hasn’t hooked me yet.
I enjoyed it having been raised by a like minded but less emphatic version of her father.
The Aloha Quilt
Night Fall (by: Nelson DeMille)
John grisham book “ the Camino island “
Love me forever by Johanna Lindsey
Good book!
Just finished Behind Closed Doors, OMG!!! So suspenseful! Starting the Zoo Keeper’s Wife.
Marsh King’s Daughter.
I my TBR bookcase!
Oh I just finished that! Great book!
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
The Escape Artist by Brad Meltzer
Currently reading The Blue Bedspread by Raj Kamal Jha. I’ll finish today, so need to find a new one. I need something not so dark as my past few books have been.
I Was Anastasia
How is it? I have it in my Amazon wishlist????
Just starting about 59 pages in. Liking it so far
Time After Time by Jack Finney
Look for Me; Lisa Gardner
A River in Darkness: One Man’s Escape from North Korea by Masaji Ishikawa.
The heart of a woman by Maya Angelou
Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine by Gail Honeyman. Great read!
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan Phillipp Sendker
The Library at Mount Char
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
The Mountain Between Us by Charles Martin
I loved this book!
@Karen I’ve heard great things about it! Loving it so far!
❤️❤️❤️❤️
The Invention of Wings on Saturday, When Breath Becomes Air on Sunday. Ready to pick a new one!
Half A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The nightingale
Loved it!
Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Read it when in Jr High. Decided to do a reread as I am thinking about getting the new book Dracul written by Dacre Stoker one of Bram’s relations
Middlesex.
This has been one of my favs for the year thus far.
Just finished reading A Man Called Ove. Moved.
Book Thief
somehow I never read this important book & am really engaged.
Absolutely loved it!
Beloved
The Missionary
Angel Falls by Kristin Hannah
It’s on my nightstand waiting to be read
The Baker’s Secret by Stephen P. Kiernan
Ready Player One by Earnest Cline
Inner Circle – Brad Meltzer
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
Watership Down. It’s been on my list for years!
Currently reading Mercy Blade (Jane Yellowrock #3) by Faith Hunter, just finishing Out Of Range (Joe Pickett, #5) by C.J. Box and have started Assassin’s Assistant by Robin Hobb.
Just finished Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks.
Change of Heart – Jodi Picoult
The Women in the Castle
And Then There Were None…. by Agetha Christie
The Little Paris Bookshop, and LOVING it!
Finding Anna by Christine Schaub
Thoroughly enjoyed The Dry.
Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine! ?????? Not enough hearts for this one
I’m loving it too!
It’s fabulous! I don’t want it to end!!!
In The Blood by Ruth Mancini
Atlas Shrugged
Midwinter Break by Bernard MacLaferty
Barbara Pym – Some Tame Gazelle
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend . Delightful book by Katrina Bivald.
Trevor Noah
Born a Crime
Finishing Educated
Just started Beneath a Scarlet Sky and hoping to finish The Wife Between Us.
Finding Rebecca
Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleaves
All I Ever Seen by Greg Vines
Just finished QBVII by Leon Uris, great book!
I don’t like reading intense books so crooked house by Agatha Christie
You might enjoy Barbara Pym..
I am always willing to try new authors in the similar genre. Thank you
Ruth Rendell, Dorothy Simpson, Anne Perry. I love them all.
A God in Ruins By Kate Atkinson. I’m not loving it. Having trouble keeping track of the characters and all the time jumping. This book needs a family tree visual at the beginning
Lacemakers of Glenmara and it’s ???
@Valerie haha, it’s just no Dark Matter which I read so fast!
Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
“Conscious communication” and “Appalachian Odyssey”
Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker.
This Man series.. Book 2 Beneath this man..
Reading Armor by John Steakley and listening to The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzie Lee
Classified by Nicole Wallace alternating with Hell and Back by Ian Kershaw because I like to alternate fiction with nonfiction.
Killing Town by Mickey Spillane
Home for unwanted girls.
Just finished Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck, started Child Finder by Rene Denfeld
I loved Travels with Charley. I liked even more a book written by my fellow Dutchman Geert Mak, who travelled the same route as Steinbeck and wrote a book about it, called In America: Travels with Steinbeck. Check it out!
@Ynn I wiil, ty, I get my audio reading from the Libray of Congress I will see if they have it. What time period did he do Steinbecks route? Did he do it because he liked JS and wanted to follow what he did? How different or similar are there perceptions?
@Nettie I think it was on the 50th anniversary of Steinbeck’s book. He comments on what JS wrote about each location, adds his own impressions and tells us about US history related to the area. He also wrote a very interesting book about Europe’s 20th century history.
In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century https://g.co/kgs/mgWccq
@Ynn , ty both books sound interesting. I know very little about Eurpoe land and history this book would be very interesting.
@Nettie if you can find them, they are both worthwhile reading. A plus is that they are not just a dry summing up of facts. They are very pleasant to read and very informative.
Cover of Snow – Jenny Milchman trying to get it finished so I can start something else. I like it but am just restless and want to get back to Sarah J. Maas
Before we were yours. Just started but beautifully written.
The girl who takes an eye for an eye. Most recent one in the tattoo/Lisbeth Salander books. Good.
The Escape Artist by Brad Meltzer
Tje Expected One by Kathleen McGowan
The Son by Joe Nesbo…
Loved The Dry!! I’m reading The Alienist by Caleb Carr
One Breath Away by Heather Gudenkauf, she’s a favorite author of mine.
The Overstory
Until It’s Over by Nicci French
LOVED The Dry….I just finished Maybe In Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid. It was cute:)
Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine.
Hoping to finish Before We Were Yours (Lisa Wingate).
I’m on the last few chapters of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street.
The Slave by Kate Aaron. So far it’s good but I’m only on the third chapter.
The Pearl Thief by Elizabeth Wein. I’m having trouble putting it down. I loved another one of her books Code Name Verity. I think these are supposed to be YA mysteries but this not young adult loves them!
Hoping to finish this soon
Is this good? I have the book waiting to be read.
@Holly it’s ok. It didn’t get my attention at first but it’s good. There is some animal cruelty & abuse towards humans in the book.
Perfect Peace by Daniel Black. 5☆.
The Catcher in the Rye
Starting Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear. Just finished the Flavia de Luce series (9 books) by Alan Bradley.
Hope you will enjoy the series!
Nomadland-Surviving America in the 21st Century by Jessica Bruder
I’m reading The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden and listening to Stephen King’s 11/22/63.
The Breakdown by B.A. Paris
bdawg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Manic Monday by Piper Rayne ?
The wife between us
IT by Stephen King
Michael Stanley – Deadly Harvest
Silver Shadows by Richelle Mead.
Uglies by Scott westerfeld
What do you think so far? I loved The Dry!
I’m currently reading Turtles all the way down ??
Cross by James Patterson
What alice forgot by Laine Moriarty
i have not found anything to read yet…i have just finished eleanor oliphant is completely fine, and now i feel my life no longer has any meaning!!!!
I loved that book !
Lol, I could not pick any thing up for a while after reading Eleanor. I literally felt literally full, lol.
The Girls by Emma Cline.
Lone Star Cafe, by Lisa Wingate
I loved The Dry! I’m reading The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian and listening to I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara, both good…
I’m reading Blind Goddess by Anne Holt, (book book) and The Family Plot by Cherie Priest on my Kindle. Enjoying them both. (LOVED The Dry, btw) ???
reading the subtle art of not giving a duck Mark manson
I am reading: Eating with Peter: A Gastronomic Journey
by Susan Buckley.
‘If You Could See Me Now’ by Cecelia Ahern, and ‘Letters of Love’ by the Alannah & Madeline Foundation
The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
Starstruck by S.E. Anderson
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan, which I saw on SBC site. Interesting so far!
I just got lended the woman next door.
touch the dark by karen chance. I’ve heard some off and on things about it so i’m curious
The Silent Corner by Dean Koontz
The Bone People by Keri Hulme, thanks for asking.
The last breath…
Joy is an Inside Job – Ananda Gore
Picked up in Virginia at the battlefield. Field of Shoes
Almost finished with Fortune’s Children by Arthur T. Vanderbilt. Next Thieves on the Fen by Joy Ellis.
Horns by Joe Hill. 🙂
The girl who takes an eye for an eye by David Lagercrantz
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Firestorm by Donna Grant
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michele Macnamera
Re-reading Cat’s Cradle…Vonnegut…
The Child Finder, Dream of Fair Horses, Percy Jackson and the Golden Fleece
Slowness by Milan Kundera
After You by Jojo Moyes (almost done)
All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
And Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore!
Just finished my first book this week (I aim for 4 a week). The Vinyl Detective The Run Out Groove, by Andrew Cartmel. Loved it. 400 pages of humor, noir, romance and records!
Finished The Baker’s Secret by Stephen P. Kiernan today, ready to start Artemus by Andy Weir
How was this book ?
@Jessie Baker’s Secret was well researched and written. While not part of the resistance, Emma’s ingenuity and response to the occupying army can only be admired. I would definitely recommend you add it to your TBR list.
Will do, thank you.
The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
Educated
I am interested in this. How is it?
One Summer. America 1927 by Bill Bryson
I just completed “Rising Strong” by Brene Brown. And will start “Option B” by Sheryl Sandberg! 🙂
Still me by JoJo Moyes
I am finishing Stephen and Owen Kings Sleeping Beauties
Good book
@Joy I like it but it draws ouuuuuut.
I thought it went rather, especially after under the dome that one took me months to read
@Joy Maybe its because I am listening to it. I haven’t read Under the Dome yet.
Under the dome is good and much better than that messed up tv series they made. Just drags.
Odd Thomas- Dean Koontz
I love this series and am not a fan of Koontz. Ha. It is so fun. I hated the film adaptation though and really hoped it would be good as the novels entertain! Check out the comic books he did with the character as well
I love Dean Koontz, most of the times books are better. But I do agree movie was a bit lame. Glad to hear that book is much better
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz.
I loooove his work.
I’m liking this a lot more than Oscar Wao, tbh. But his prose is always beautiful.
I haven’t read Oscar Wao. I loved Drown though.
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Imbue. One of the books to vote for in the NYC Book Club contest, “One City, One NY”.
Re-reading classics: Pride & Prejudice and The Great Gatsby.
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
Reservoir 13
The Urban Crucible by Gary Nash.
Miranda and Caliban by Jacqueline Carey, along with some of Tennyson’s Idylls of the King
I read The Dry earlier this year! I am reading Before We Were Yours.
The Second Half of Life by Angeles Arrien. Nonfiction. It’s a process book, so I will be with it for weeks.
I really liked The Dry. Now reading the second book in the Red Sparrow trilogy. Loving it.
The Caller By Chris Carter. Recommended by Amazon, so far is good and really interesting
The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.
Rush by Maya Banks
Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay.
Going to start The Dry next!
The Turquoise Ledge, by Leslie Martin Silko
still working on Dream Country by Luanne Rice. with the warmer weather, books don’t get read as fast
https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062391902/song-of-the-lion
Anne is Tony Hillerman’s daughter and she’s adding to the Chee-Leaphorn-Largo saga of Navajo policemen that her dad started with his novels.
Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly
Born A Crime by Trevor Noah
So good!!
@Joy so much I was clueless about, and he’s so funny, too!
13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
Good as Gone by Amy Gentry
All my puny sorrows. I’m on the fence whether I like it so far or not
The Girl In The Ice
Beyond the wild river
What is it about.
A Fedual Agent who gets cought up in his boyhood bff’s suicide/murder investigation in Australia.
I will have ro read it.
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn @Ward
I’m reading ” Get your Semester B ” 🙁
‘Born to Run’ by Bruce Springsteen – it’s great so far.
So much I didn’t know about him. Got to see him in a concert in Philly.
Love and Other Consolation Prizes by Jamie Ford.
Animal Farm
The Yellow Wallpaper
On my list.
Ready Player One.
The Haunting of Rookwood House by Darcy Coats. I started it Sunday. Very good so far!?
Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
Dear Martin
@Janet I think you might like this one.
Eleven Minutes
Just finished Susan Wiitig Albert’s, Queen Anne’s Lace and now onto The Prague Sonata by Bradford Morrow.
A Man Called Ove. So many people here had talked about it I just had to get it! Different,but I’m liking it
I liked it too. ?
The Female Persuasion
What do you think about that book ?
Just started but so far so good
A Shot in the Dark, Cleo Coyle
Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng
A Higher Loyalty, James Comey
Love and Ruin, Paula McLain
Columbine by Dave Cullen and I’ll be gone in the dark by Michelle McNamara
I’m just starting Middlemarch by George Eliot.
Actually, I’ve been too busy to do much pleasure reading. Good busy so it’s OK. But I’ve started Slow Way Home by Michael Morris.
I’m currently reading what we keep by Elizabeth berg. Just finished what looks like crazy on an ordinary day and before that was Sarah’s key. Really enjoyed both and am also enjoying what we keep.
The God of small Things by Arundhati Roy
Finished Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli last night. I’m starting Hidden Boddies by Caroline Kepnes tomorrow!
recollections of Three Reigns by Frederick Ponsonby