Book Club

[auburndawne]

I read A Little Life earlier this year and that book has stayed with me.  One of the most incredible but heart-wrenching books I have ever read!!!  I can not recommend it highly enough!!!

Spent a couple of weeks at the beach and read Mary Alice Monroe's A Lowcountry Summer series...The Summer Girls, The Summer Wind and The Summer's End along with A Lowcountry Wedding.  Wonderful, wonderful books set in Sullivan's Island, SC and Charleston.  Very easy, enjoyable reads!!!

[ChynnaBlue]

I'm listening to It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism by Thomas E Mann and Norman Ornstein. Originally published in 2012, they've just released a revised version for 2016 with a new foreward and afterward. I'm really enjoying this book. It's a great look at the dysfunction of Congress, when, where, and how it started and why. It's absolutely fascinating.

[beckyb1012]

I have enjoyed all her books.  She writes very well.

Good summer book

[Lilysmom]

Just finished ROSEMARY, THE HIDDEN KENNEDY DAUGHTER.  It's a sad story.  It was an interesting read in a voyeuristic kind of way.  Not that long (around 250 pages) which is a good thing.  LM

[abbalulu]

Thank you @lainey1 for all your years of starting this thread. I don't post as often as I used to as it seems everyone is reading current books and I am still trying to catch up with ten years of books sitting on my bookshelves. However, I do come often and check the postings for ideas of new books to read. I just finished Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim and I know that I got the idea to read it from this thread-so thank you again.

[sunala]

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@abbalulu wrote:

Thank you @lainey1 for all your years of starting this thread. I don't post as often as I used to as it seems everyone is reading current books and I am still trying to catch up with ten years of books sitting on my bookshelves. However, I do come often and check the postings for ideas of new books to read. I just finished Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim and I know that I got the idea to read it from this thread-so thank you again.

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@abbalulu I finally read Yellow Crocus last month after having it on my Kindle for at least a year (probably more like two years). I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. It was so sad but I enjoyed the ending (well, as much as I could).  Don't we get the best books from this thread? I got it from here as well.

I finished Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen, which I really enjoyed, and now am reading Memory Man by David Baldacci. It's the first book of a series about Amos Decker, a former policeman whose entire family was murdered, and how he's going about trying to solve the crime. There was also a mass shooting at the town's High School, and Amos thinks the two crimes are somehow connected. I'm really enjoying this. I actually have enjoyed all the books I've read by David Baldacci. 

Happy reading everyone!

[FindingMyJoy]

Thanks to the Cozy Mysteries thread, I decided to try a new-to-me mystery series Cat In The Stacks. by Miranda James. I read the first one Murder Past Due. I enjoyed it so much that I right away put the next book on hold request at my library. It's always so much fun finding a new series!

[Yahooey]

I just finished ME BEFORE YOU BY JOJO MOYES - I enjoyed it but probably will not see the movie.

I'm starting MY GRANDMOTHER TOLD ME TO TELL YOU SHE'S SORRY BY FREDRIK BACKMAN. I don't know how I feel about it yet. I loved A man called Ove and it doesn't and I heard it doesn't compare

[skyblue]

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@Yahooey wrote:

I just finished ME BEFORE YOU BY JOJO MOYES - I enjoyed it but probably will not see the movie.

I'm starting MY GRANDMOTHER TOLD ME TO TELL YOU SHE'S SORRY BY FREDRIK BACKMAN. I don't know how I feel about it yet. I loved A man called Ove and it doesn't and I heard it doesn't compare

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@Yahooey Try Britt-Marie Was Here. You might like this one more.

[sunala]

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@skyblue wrote:

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@Yahooey wrote:

I just finished ME BEFORE YOU BY JOJO MOYES - I enjoyed it but probably will not see the movie.

I'm starting MY GRANDMOTHER TOLD ME TO TELL YOU SHE'S SORRY BY FREDRIK BACKMAN. I don't know how I feel about it yet. I loved A man called Ove and it doesn't and I heard it doesn't compare

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@Yahooey Try Britt-Marie Was Here. You might like this one more.

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@skyblue I loved A Man Called Ove too but I just couldn't get into Britt-Marie Was Here. I didn't remove the title from my list, but I can't see myself going back to it anytime in the near future. I couldn't warm up to her personality, and all her strange character-friends confused me with their dialect. They all seemed a bit insane. I did read that it gets better, but I'm not sure I'm ready for that. There are too many excellent books to read without trying to like a book. Life's too short for that!