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What Are You Reading --- February 2014

lainey1 — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 15:36:33 GMT

This book thread is started on the first of each month.

Some suggestions for posting here:

~ underline, bold or CAPITALIZE the name of the book you're reading - it makes it easier for us readers to see what it is

~ include the author of the book - there are so many books with the same title (if you are recommending a book we want to make sure we read the right one)

~ post a few words about the book - would you recommend it or not

~ tell us the book genre - is it mystery, romance, historical, biography, etc.

***There is no obligation to do any of the above.

As always, all posters are welcome here!

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It's been a long, cold winter for most of us so I'm glad it's half way over! The good thing is I've been reading more because it's too cold to do anything else!

I just started Against The Mark by Kat Martin. This is a new author for me.

Happy reading all! lainey

Re: What Are You Reading --- February 2014

walkingal — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 00:40:48 GMT

Last night, I started Lynn Austin's A Woman's Place. Takes place during WWII about four women who work at a factory, all from different backgrounds and become friends. I really like Austin's books. Wish I had discovered her sooner!

Re: What Are You Reading --- February 2014

smoky22 — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 05:18:59 GMT

I started After Her by Joyce Maynard and managed to read six or seven chapters before I gave up on it. I found it boring and repetitive. But since I had read that much I decided to skim it to the end. I could have predicted how it would end.

Then I read Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall. What a difference! The first person narrative feels so much more real in this story. This is a wonderful book that I highly recommend.

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Judaline — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 15:10:23 GMT

Yeah, I loved Whistling.

I just finished The Wind is Not a River by Brian Payton. Wow. I feel like I went thru it with him. A 'flyer' and I use the term loosely, and his plane go down in the Aleutians. It's WWll and the Japs are on the island. It's a story of survival and what a story it is, and alternately we read about his wife who joins the USO just to get to Alaska and then somehow the Aleutians. She knows a plane went down there and nobody knows anything so she's making it her business to find him herself. Engrossing and absorbing.

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RINGER — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 15:34:38 GMT

Am starting "The Confession" by John Grisham. Think he is my new favorite author that has been around for a long time that I am just now reading some of his many books! (Whistling Past the Graveyard is a super book and to those who have not yet read it, give it a try! Loved it too).

Re: What Are You Reading --- February 2014

Judaline — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 19:00:31 GMT

I've told friends about this book. They look at me, puzzling over the title Whistling Past the Graveyard. They don't get it but I got it-right away. Don't you all?

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SWEET — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 20:57:14 GMT

Finished The Good Luck Girls of Shipwreck Lane by Kelly Harms. I thought it was going to be a silly book about 2 women w/the same name who win a house in Maine. It was cute and not silly at all.

Onto Adriana Trigiani's The Supreme Macaroni Club. Love her and this series.

Re: What Are You Reading --- February 2014

SydneyH — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 21:38:48 GMT

On 2/2/2014 RINGER said:
Am starting "The Confession" by John Grisham. Think he is my new favorite author that has been around for a long time that I am just now reading some of his many books! (Whistling Past the Graveyard is a super book and to those who have not yet read it, give it a try! Loved it too).

I loved The Racketeer, it was short but very witty and captivating with the twists and turns.........

Re: What Are You Reading --- February 2014

LilSweetTea — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 18:12:13 GMT

What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

I've been needing a light read. I just finished two heavy duty books in the last two weeks and my mind is numb!

Re: What Are You Reading --- February 2014

Yahooey — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 20:57:06 GMT

I just finished The Woodcutter by Reginald Hill as a highly recommended book here. I enjoyed it very much.

I'm slow to the party and just starting at A is for Alibi.

Re: What Are You Reading --- February 2014

Linders Back — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 22:50:39 GMT

Just finished Shooting the Sun by Max Byrd: historical fiction with the emphasis on "Fiction". Interesting mystery adventure about a group of British scientists heading into the Southwest in 1840 to photograph a total eclipse of the sun. OR are they going for another reason? Quick read with good Descriptions of wagon train travel and of the prairies. Kinda makes me want to do a road trip.

Now I'm reading Tabloid City by a favorite author of mine, Pete Hamill. Murder mystery in NYC (present day) that centers on the police and journalists during the 24 hours following a "murder at a good address' (the kind that sells papers.

Re: What Are You Reading --- February 2014

lainey1 — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 19:01:23 GMT

Just starting Sandra Brown's new book Deadline.

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Janey2 — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 23:47:01 GMT

Just finished THE INVENTION OF WINGS by Sue Monk Kidd. I thought it was too long, and just OK. I recently read THE WEDDING GIFT by Marlen Suyapa Bodden and thought that it was sort of similar to THE INVENTION OF WINGS, but so much better. I also read River Road by Jayne Ann Krentz and liked it more than I thought I would (do not usually read those type of books).

Re: What Are You Reading --- February 2014

beckyb1012 — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 23:56:52 GMT

On 2/2/2014 SWEET said:
Finished The Good Luck Girls of Shipwreck Lane by Kelly Harms. I thought it was going to be a silly book about 2 women w/the same name who win a house in Maine. It was cute and not silly at all.

Onto Adriana Trigiani's The Supreme Macaroni Club. Love her and this series.

Just discovered Adriana Trigiani a few weeks ago and I am on the last book of all hers that my library as on the shelf, "The Shoemaker's Wife." Read the Valentine series and Big Stone Gap and a couple of others. Thinking about buying her cookbook.

I loved Macaroni Club. Enjoy it. Try to read Lucia Lucia when you can.

Re: What Are You Reading --- February 2014

SWEET — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 11:15:42 GMT

On 2/4/2014 beckyb1012 said:
On 2/2/2014 SWEET said:
Finished The Good Luck Girls of Shipwreck Lane by Kelly Harms. I thought it was going to be a silly book about 2 women w/the same name who win a house in Maine. It was cute and not silly at all.

Onto Adriana Trigiani's The Supreme Macaroni Club. Love her and this series.

Just discovered Adriana Trigiani a few weeks ago and I am on the last book of all hers that my library as on the shelf, "The Shoemaker's Wife." Read the Valentine series and Big Stone Gap and a couple of others. Thinking about buying her cookbook.

I loved Macaroni Club. Enjoy it. Try to read Lucia Lucia when you can.

I've read all of her books! All wonderful. She is doing a major motion picture of Big Stone Gap. I follow her on Facebook too.

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blessed10 — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 14:55:45 GMT

Finished "Promise Not to Tell" by Jennifer McMahon; short read, and I really enjoyed it!

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Linders Back — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 16:35:46 GMT

Finished Tabloid City by Pete Hamill in one day which is a record for me.

Plot: one day in NYC with a myriad of diverse city folks whose lives will intertwine around a double murder and the imminent demise of a daily newspaper. Found myself casting the parts using many of the cast of NEWSROOM. IF you like that show, you'll like the fast pace of this book.

Now on to Mrs. Poe by Lynn Cullen.

Re: What Are You Reading --- February 2014

beckyb1012 — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 18:24:30 GMT

On 2/5/2014 SWEET said:
On 2/4/2014 beckyb1012 said:
On 2/2/2014 SWEET said:
Finished The Good Luck Girls of Shipwreck Lane by Kelly Harms. I thought it was going to be a silly book about 2 women w/the same name who win a house in Maine. It was cute and not silly at all.

Onto Adriana Trigiani's The Supreme Macaroni Club. Love her and this series.

Just discovered Adriana Trigiani a few weeks ago and I am on the last book of all hers that my library as on the shelf, "The Shoemaker's Wife." Read the Valentine series and Big Stone Gap and a couple of others. Thinking about buying her cookbook.

I loved Macaroni Club. Enjoy it. Try to read Lucia Lucia when you can.

I've read all of her books! All wonderful. She is doing a major motion picture of Big Stone Gap. I follow her on Facebook too.

Oh thanks for the news on the movie, cannot wait. I do not do Facebook but I do follow her on twitter. She is wonderful. Thanks again!!

Re: What Are You Reading --- February 2014

Vamp — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 19:10:14 GMT

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

Re: What Are You Reading --- February 2014

Retreaded — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 00:26:51 GMT

Hi Lainey and all. First time poster here, though I've enjoyed this forum for several years. I love to read and am lucky enough to be able to volunteer at our local library every week. I read everything and anything! I just finished STILL LIFE WITH BREADCRUMBS by Anna Quindlen. It's about a photographer who finds her N.Y. City lifestyle unsustainable, rents out her apartment to pay her parent's nursing home bills, and retreats to the country to try and find inspiration to reinvigorate her career and bank account. It's one of the better books I've read recently. Next up is the Robert M. Gate's memoir.