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Name the First Two Books You Want to Read in 2014.

glmama — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 01:20:01 GMT

Hi Everyone,

The first two on my list to read ASAP in the New Year are:

The Goldfinch (Tartt).

Life After Life (Atkinson).

You?

TIA

Re: Name the First Two Books You Want to Read in 2014.

luvdoodles — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 01:57:31 GMT

Well I started MONDAY MORNINGS, I am about half way through, but I just can't get into it. I am going to download either ORPHAN TRAIN or THE BOOK THIEF tonight. Both have good reviews. I really love books from that era.

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skyblue — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 02:29:00 GMT

I loved both THE BOOK THIEF and ORPHAN TRAIN! Both are great books!

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glmama — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 03:25:11 GMT

Loved The Book Thief. My son is reading it now. Never read Orphan Train. Have to go investigate. Thanks for playing along.

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insomniac — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 03:33:32 GMT

I have a few books leftover from 2013 challenges I need to finish, but then I'm going for The Goldfinch and the latest Ladies Detective Agency release.

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glmama — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 05:21:40 GMT

Hi insomniac-looks like The Goldfinch is a popular one for many lately--I've seen it on many blogs and Best Of lists. Can't wait to read it, too.

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RINGER — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 16:40:17 GMT

On 1/2/2014 luvpoos said:
Well I started MONDAY MORNINGS, I am about half way through, but I just can't get into it. I am going to download either ORPHAN TRAIN or THE BOOK THIEF tonight. Both have good reviews. I really love books from that era.

THAT is shocking to me as that was a book I plowed through even knowing and having seen the show on tv!! We all sure have different tastes and it is fun to see people's likes and dislikes!!

Re: Name the First Two Books You Want to Read in 2014.

glmama — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 23:51:23 GMT

Thanks for the replies, everyone. Ringer-It always amazes me how personal books are. After being in a book club for a bunch of years there were some meetings where people would literally throw their book (in jest) at whoever chose it, and wonder aloud about how anyone could like it? And of course, someone always liked it! And vice versa.

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chihuahua02 — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 01:56:27 GMT

I've preordered "The Black Stiletto, Secrets and Lies" by Raymond Benson. It comes out on Tuesday. It's book 4 in a great series!!

Not sure what my #2 book will be for the new year.

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glmama — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 00:30:11 GMT

Thanks, chihuahua.

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Northcoast — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 00:54:46 GMT

I started reading the first book in Adriana Trigiani's series of three books called Valentine. I enjoy reading it on my Kindle because I can adapt the size of the letters in the words according to what my aging eyes can comfortably read.

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Cyndog — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 03:50:13 GMT

I got Amy Tan's new book, The Valley Of Amazement, for Christmas. Gonna read that and then finish Black Dahlia Avenger II.

Re: Name the First Two Books You Want to Read in 2014.

glmama — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 20:14:08 GMT

Thanks, cyn. Love seeing what's on everyone's To-Read lists.

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glmama — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 20:15:49 GMT

Northcoast-I think this is the year that I may finally get a Kindle. I say finally not b/c I've been pining for it, just couldn't decide if I would use it in the same way and manner I read books. However, we are going on vacation soon and I realize that loveliness of having a small device with 1000s of books on it!

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Cyndog — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 04:16:33 GMT

Yeah, gives us ideas for future reads.

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yellowBeetle — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 18:04:27 GMT

I got Double Down by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin as a XMAS gift - plan on starting it later today. It's a study of the 2012 presidential election. Loved their book on the 2008 election, Game Change.

Also want to read The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty. Anne Tyler is one of my all-time favorite authors - remember reading once that she was inspired by Eudora Welty's writing. Welty won the Pulitzer for this novel - looking forward to it!

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glmama — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 03:54:45 GMT

Thanks, Monet, the Welty book looks good.

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Honeybit — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 21:53:57 GMT

For me, on these cold dreary days, it's The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon by Alexander McCall Smith and The Dead in their Vaulted Arches (the new Flavia book) by Alan Bradley.

ETA -- thanks, gimama, for your comment about how personal books are and about the variety of tastes among book club members -- it gives me great comfort when I think of all the books our group loved that I really hated!

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glmama — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 00:17:32 GMT

Hi Honey-Seriously! There were many meetings where 5 of us would say we loved something and the other 5 said they hated it and vice versa. Typically, tho, there were many more times when there were less varied responses to something. And at the end of the year we would rate all the books and come up with our Top Books of that year.

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esmerelda — Sun, 12 Jan 2014 19:27:27 GMT

Like insomniac, I had a couple of leftovers from 2013. Currently reading The Mourning Hours (Paula Treick DeBoard). When I finish it, I'm heading for The Goldfinch (Donna Tartt). Not looking past that yet.