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Post by honkytonkwoman on Apr 27, 2017 22:02:39 GMT -5
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk-lovely story Tony and Susan-well-written literary novelAlso still reading the Merrily Watkins series by Phil Rickman. I'm on Book 12 of 15 now (in chronological order though they are stand alone novels) Also various non-fiction (I read both simultaneously) I haven't read this, but I liked the film it was adapted to - Nocturnal Animals. It was very bizarre. I haven't seen the movie, but the book was good.
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Post by Rosie on Apr 28, 2017 16:11:24 GMT -5
I'm currently reading The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley. Written by Hannah Tinti.
Enjoying it so far. Samuel is raising his daughter, Loo. The "twelve" in the title refers to bullets. I don't make a practice of quoting myself but wanted to add that I finished this book. One of the best I've read in awhile (I read constantly). This one is 'staying' with me. I won't be able to begin another book for a day or two as I'm still reflecting and I guess recovering. Worth your time investment. www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8129-8988-5
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Post by Rosie on May 14, 2017 10:53:40 GMT -5
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Post by honkytonkwoman on May 14, 2017 14:29:08 GMT -5
Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama Japanese detective novelike So far looking very intriguing.
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Post by Rosie on May 14, 2017 18:34:09 GMT -5
I moved on from Into the Water and am reading The Boy on the Bridge by M.L. Carey ( The Girl With All the Gifts). This is a fantastic tale continuing kind of where Girl ended. {Spoiler} This is in the future and we meet Melanie again!
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Post by Rosie on May 26, 2017 14:23:45 GMT -5
Gwendy's Button Box - a "hot off the presses" novella by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar. Also The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti since I was so enamored by her recent The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley.
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Please do yourself a favor and avoid Roanoke Girls. Kirkus sums it up best ... "Sordid, unrealistic, and unredeemed." www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/amy-engel/the-roanoke-girls/Honestly had to give it up - so badly written and ugly.
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Post by dark sister on May 28, 2017 20:08:58 GMT -5
I'm currently reading The Glass Castle, a memoir by Jeannette Walls. I'm shocked she even speaks to her parents after all this. I wouldn't.
I also have a masters degree in petty.
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Post by Rosie on May 29, 2017 17:28:14 GMT -5
Currently reading Dennis Lehane's new thriller Since We Fell - enjoying it.
Ironic as I'm also immersed in "The Wire" - watching Season 4 at the moment. Dennis Lehane was a writer on the series.
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Post by Rosie on May 29, 2017 17:39:27 GMT -5
I'm currently reading The Glass Castle, a memoir by Jeannette Walls. I'm shocked she even speaks to her parents after all this. I wouldn't. I also have a masters degree in petty. If you are interested, Jeanette Walls wrote another book about her grandmother on her mother's side. Half Broke Horses.
"Anyone who devoured Walls’s incandescent 2005 memoir, “The Glass Castle,” has wondered: How did such untamed characters come to exist in America, in the not-so-distant 1960s and ’70s? Walls’s new book, “Half Broke Horses,” a novelistic re-creation of the life of her maternal grandmother, Lily Casey Smith, in the first half of the 20th century, told in her grandmother’s voice, gives a partial answer to that perplexing question. Through the adventures of Lily Casey — mustang breaker, schoolteacher, ranch wife, bootlegger, poker player, racehorse rider, bush pilot and mother of two — Walls revisits the adrenaline-charged frontier background that gave her own mother a lifelong taste for vicissitude. “I’m an excitement addict,” Rose Mary Walls liked to tell her children. And yet — can the contours of one woman’s life ever sufficiently explain the life that proceeds from hers?"
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Post by Rosie on Jun 9, 2017 11:14:08 GMT -5
dark sister , I just saw the trailer for The Glass Castle film. Woody Harrelson and Naomi Watts play the parents. Brie Larson plays the author. ***** I just finished Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough. A very creepy (but amazingly enjoyable) thriller with some supernatural tones. Don't trust either of the three narrators. I didn't anticipate the twist in the ending.
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Post by honkytonkwoman on Jun 16, 2017 22:19:12 GMT -5
First Bite which is about getting kids to eat healthy. I don't have picky eaters (teens who eat everything on sight and now a young adult chef) but it's interesting reading. The author seems to have done her research.
Fiction is the next to last Phil Rickman "Friends of the Dusk" Still binging. I have one more (latest) in the Merrily Watkins series. Then I will reread his other series soon.
"Vinegar Girl" by Anne Tyler is next in line.
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Post by honkytonkwoman on Jun 16, 2017 22:22:56 GMT -5
dark sister , I just saw the trailer for The Glass Castle film. Woody Harrelson and Naomi Watts play the parents. Brie Larson plays the author. ***** I just finished Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough. A very creepy (but amazingly enjoyable) thriller with some supernatural tones. Don't trust either of the three narrators. I didn't anticipate the twist in the ending. I think that's ony list. If not, I will add it. Sounds right up my alley.
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Post by Rosie on Jun 17, 2017 12:57:35 GMT -5
"Vinegar Girl" by Anne Tyler is next in line. Vinegar Girl is delightful - re-telling of Taming of the Shrew. Be prepared to laugh. I'm reading another Shakespeare re-telling of Othello - New Boy by Tracy Chevalier.
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Post by honkytonkwoman on Jun 17, 2017 14:01:56 GMT -5
"Vinegar Girl" by Anne Tyler is next in line. Vinegar Girl is delightful - re-telling of Taming of the Shrew. Be prepared to laugh. I'm reading another Shakespeare re-telling of Othello - New Boy by Tracy Chevalier. Adding to my list. I love re-tellings.
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Post by nana on Jun 17, 2017 18:44:07 GMT -5
The Heart is the Last to Go by Margaret Atwood of The Handmaid's Tale fame ... this is also a dystopian novel.
I started A Wrinkle in Time and found out lovely news it is being made into a movie with a stellar cast so that seems positive.
I have been slow on Montana Women Homesteaders... picking it up and then forgetting about it. But it is good if you like that kind of thing.
Vinegar Girl sounds up my alley. I will add it to my list. I also want to read Before the Fall.
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Post by nana on Jun 26, 2017 22:48:30 GMT -5
Started Vinegar Girl.It is hysterical. We have it as a book on tape. The reader's different voices are perfect.
Also reading Stephen King's On Writing. I haven't gotten very far into it; he is describing his childhood. Very good read so far.
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Post by Rosie on Jun 26, 2017 23:02:18 GMT -5
Dean Koontz is a hit or miss author as far as I'm concerned. I like his Odd Thomas books and some of his earlier books but honestly some of his latest offerings have not been good IMO.
However, I am enjoying his newest, The Silent Corner.
It's a thriller and suspenseful. The protagonist is Jane Hawk, suspended FBI, who is investigating the suicide of her husband and several others.
This is going to be a series. The next book is The Whispering Room.
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Post by honkytonkwoman on Jun 27, 2017 8:15:23 GMT -5
The Chilbury Ladies Choir It takes place in an English village during WW2 Delightful.
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Post by nana on Jun 27, 2017 12:56:05 GMT -5
honkytonkwoman have you read the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society? It is so good. I just saw they are making it into a movie.
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Post by honkytonkwoman on Jun 27, 2017 14:37:21 GMT -5
honkytonkwoman have you read the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society? It is so good. I just saw they are making it into a movie. It's ony to-read list
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Post by Ripley on Jun 30, 2017 3:05:23 GMT -5
The new Diana Gabaldon collection of short stories and novellas around the Outlander characters Seven Stones to Stand or Fall just released earlier this week. Fantasti, as always, just a few pages into the book.
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Post by honkytonkwoman on Jun 30, 2017 10:57:21 GMT -5
The new Diana Gabaldon collection of short stories and novellas around the Outlander characters Seven Stones to Stand or Fall just released earlier this week. Fantasti, as always, just a few pages into the book. I read Outlander twice, and i want to read the rest of the series. Since I'm almost done with Phil Rickman's Merrily Watkins series (14 volumes and a novella) I can begin another series LOL. Honestly, I wasn't sure about Outlander the first time, but I really liked it on the second read. Now I want to read the rest of the books.
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Post by Ripley on Jun 30, 2017 11:11:20 GMT -5
The new Diana Gabaldon collection of short stories and novellas around the Outlander characters Seven Stones to Stand or Fall just released earlier this week. Fantasti, as always, just a few pages into the book. I read Outlander twice, and i want to read the rest of the series. Since I'm almost done with Phil Rickman's Merrily Watkins series (14 volumes and a novella) I can begin another series LOL. Honestly, I wasn't sure about Outlander the first time, but I really liked it on the second read. Now I want to read the rest of the books. I think you will enjoy the rest of the books- if you watch the show, the e3ach season corresponds to a book. I have met and done workshops with Diana Gabaldon several times as well as attended readings with her. We hung out at the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games in 2009 and had a blast. We drank Diet Cokes, complained about 18th women's undergarments (we were both dressed in period costumes in 99degree heat and humidity) and talked about writing. That mountain and the Games she used for the Clan Gatherings in North Carolina in the 4th book actually. I live about 15 miles from the mythical Fraser's Ridge of the 4th and later books, so reading about the Great Smokey and Blue Ridge Mountains in her novels is always a thrill. I'm biased of course, but I adore her and her pithiness and wit in RL she has given Claire in the books.
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Post by honkytonkwoman on Jun 30, 2017 12:55:09 GMT -5
I read Outlander twice, and i want to read the rest of the series. Since I'm almost done with Phil Rickman's Merrily Watkins series (14 volumes and a novella) I can begin another series LOL. Honestly, I wasn't sure about Outlander the first time, but I really liked it on the second read. Now I want to read the rest of the books. I think you will enjoy the rest of the books- if you watch the show, the e3ach season corresponds to a book. I have met and done workshops with Diana Gabaldon several times as well as attended readings with her. We hung out at the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games in 2009 and had a blast. We drank Diet Cokes, complained about 18th women's undergarments (we were both dressed in period costumes in 99degree heat and humidity) and talked about writing. That mountain and the Games she used for the Clan Gatherings in North Carolina in the 4th book actually. I live about 15 miles from the mythical Fraser's Ridge of the 4th and later books, so reading about the Great Smokey and Blue Ridge Mountains in her novels is always a thrill. I'm biased of course, but I adore her and her pithiness and wit in RL she has given Claire in the books. That is awesome. I am looking forward to a new series I haven't watched the show because I am behind in all my shows, but I'll get to it LOL. Diana Gabaldon has already won a great deal of admiration from me because she has a blurb on Phil Rickman's latest Merrily Watkins book Any writer friend of Phil Rickman is a writer I already like.
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Post by Ripley on Jun 30, 2017 14:25:42 GMT -5
I think I need to start reading Phil Rickman! I also gave Diana an uncut NC pigeon's blood ruby I found in the mountains, telling her that she might need it someday or Claire might.
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Post by nana on Jul 1, 2017 17:30:29 GMT -5
I just added two new books to my list.
Big Hunger is about the relationship between corporate America and anti-hunger groups. It ties in with my interest in a local group called Farm Hands Nourish that works to make local foods accessible to low income people.
Another on my list is Lentils Underground. A number of years ago a young farmer started growing lentils as a food source. Lentils not only serve as food but also replenish the soil with nutrients. It was his way of bucking the system of agri-business and chemically laden produce.
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Post by Rosie on Jul 1, 2017 22:38:25 GMT -5
Started Vinegar Girl.It is hysterical. We have it as a book on tape. The reader's different voices are perfect. Also reading Stephen King's On Writing. I haven't gotten very far into it; he is describing his childhood. Very good read so far. I'm glad you are enjoying Vinegar Girl. I bet the reader's different voices would work well. I enjoyed On Writing. If I hadn't already owned Elements of Style I would have gotten it based on reading SK's book.
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Post by dark sister on Jul 12, 2017 19:17:05 GMT -5
I read War for the Planet of the Apes: Revelations, the prequel novel to the movie. Definitely recommend if you're a fan.
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Post by nana on Jul 14, 2017 21:39:42 GMT -5
I have another book on "tape," Before the Fall by Noah Hawley. It is on the dark side but he has me wrapped around his storytelling finger. I sat in a parking lot for a half hour yesterday because I wanted to keep on listening.
It is about two families... husbands are powerful and wealthy men...and a painter who are on a plane heading for New York when it crashes after 16 minutes after takeoff from Cape Cod into the ocean. The only survivors are the painter and a four year old boy. The story jumps back and forth and looks at the accident... I am not that far into it, but there are questions as to whether the crash was intentional.
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Post by Rosie on Aug 3, 2017 14:47:40 GMT -5
Highly highly recommend Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (debut novel).
Setting is Glasgow, Scotland. Took a bit to get involved in this book but once in, I believe you will be hooked.
I laughed out loud at Eleanor's funny thoughts and comments and ugly cried when she finally faces the truth about her past.
Wanted to reach in and give her a big hug.
Reese Witherspoon has the rights for the film version.
Kirkus had this to say about the novel:
A very funny novel about the survivor of a childhood trauma.
At 29, Eleanor Oliphant has built an utterly solitary life that almost works. During the week, she toils in an office—don’t inquire further; in almost eight years no one has—and from Friday to Monday she makes the time go by with pizza and booze. Enlivening this spare existence is a constant inner monologue that is cranky, hilarious, deadpan, and irresistible. Eleanor Oliphant has something to say about everything. Riding the train, she comments on the automated announcements: “I wondered at whom these pearls of wisdom were aimed; some passing extraterrestrial, perhaps, or a yak herder from Ulan Bator who had trekked across the steppes, sailed the North Sea, and found himself on the Glasgow-Edinburgh service with literally no prior experience of mechanized transport to call upon.” Eleanor herself might as well be from Ulan Bator—she’s never had a manicure or a haircut, worn high heels, had anyone visit her apartment, or even had a friend. After a mysterious event in her childhood that left half her face badly scarred, she was raised in foster care, spent her college years in an abusive relationship, and is now, as the title states, perfectly fine. Her extreme social awkwardness has made her the butt of nasty jokes among her colleagues, which don’t seem to bother her much, though one notices she is stockpiling painkillers and becoming increasingly obsessed with an unrealistic crush on a local musician. Eleanor’s life begins to change when Raymond, a goofy guy from the IT department, takes her for a potential friend, not a freak of nature. As if he were luring a feral animal from its hiding place with a bit of cheese, he gradually brings Eleanor out of her shell. Then it turns out that shell was serving a purpose.
Honeyman’s endearing debut is part comic novel, part emotional thriller, and part love story.
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