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WHAT ARE YOU READING? ~~ SEPTEMBER 2018

sunala — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 04:31:20 GMT

Happy September 2018. Summer is over already! Bring on the fall!

Welcome to all the new members of our group.

Have a great month, and happy reading to all!

Re: WHAT ARE YOU READING? ~~ SEPTEMBER 2018

phoenixbrd — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 04:48:39 GMT

I just received my amazon orders:

Zohar (D. Matt)

Sefer Zetzirah (A. Kaplan)

and continuing to read:

Girordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (Yates)

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SWEET — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 08:09:41 GMT

Going to start Go On, Girl by Hilary Grossman, an ARC from the author. It's a "mommy" chick lit.

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Tinkrbl44 — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 08:46:45 GMT

For several weeks now, I've been reading the Andy Carpenter series by David Rosenfelt ..... and have enjoyed it immensley. Andy is a dog lover and an attorney in this series. Great series!!

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Chicagosuburbangirl — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 13:03:34 GMT

Sweet Salt Air from Barbara Delinsky.

She makes you feel like you are on the east coast island with the characters.

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Judaline — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 13:49:01 GMT

@Chicagosuburbangirl Mmmm.....don't get me started. I miss the east coast salt air from my childhood and I can still smell it.

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sunala — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 17:42:07 GMT

I'm halfway through The Rent Collector by Camron Wright. This is a very different book for me, as it takes place in Cambodia in a HUGE garbage dump, where people live in huts and make their money picking garbage and selling what they find. It's about a family of a young mother, father and baby, who is sickly. The young wife is taught how to read by the rent collector, an elderly woman who stops by every week to collect the rent, and the young wife's entire life changes. I'm not making this sound very enticing but it really is wonderful!

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DukeBlueNan — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 23:44:59 GMT

@Tinkrbl44 wrote:
For several weeks now, I've been reading the Andy Carpenter series by David Rosenfelt ..... and have enjoyed it immensley. Andy is a dog lover and an attorney in this series. Great series!!

I LOVE that series, too! Love the covers. So sweet!

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momoftwo2007 — Sun, 02 Sep 2018 04:02:48 GMT

I just finished My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman last night. I read Britt-Marie Was Here last month, and it is nice to see Britt-Marie appear in "My Grandmother Asked Me". I guess I kind of read these two books out of order, but it still works. I am starting to become a big Fredrik Backman fan. His books are full of soul and humanity. But I have to say that A Man Called Ove is still the best book out of these three.

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Sooner — Sun, 02 Sep 2018 04:08:54 GMT

Just read The Other Woman by Daniel Silva. Good read!

Re: WHAT ARE YOU READING? ~~ SEPTEMBER 2018

sunala — Sun, 02 Sep 2018 05:30:39 GMT

@Sooner wrote:
Just read The Other Woman by Daniel Silva. Good read!

@Sooner- I have to check my list to see if I read this book. There are so many books with similar titles to this, it's difficult to remember all of them. I'm glad you enjoyed it!

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Lilysmom — Sun, 02 Sep 2018 10:26:12 GMT

I finished Pieces of Her, a stand alone book by Karin Slaighter. I didn’t think it was as good as others by her I have read but it might just be me. LM

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travelin grandma — Sun, 02 Sep 2018 12:09:35 GMT

I'm reading EVERY LAST LIE by Mary Kubica. I love her books and so far this one is not a disappointment. Phychological thriller -- my favorite.

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dawg lover — Sun, 02 Sep 2018 13:40:28 GMT

@Judaline - thanks for your recommendation of Margaret Mizushima's Timber Creek K-9 mystery series. I have read the first three books, and each one gets better and better! Just wanted you to know that book 4 comes out on September 11th. And, in case you haven't read books 2 and 3, no doggie deaths! (I know that is very important to you.)

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smoky22 — Sun, 02 Sep 2018 16:28:52 GMT

@Sooner wrote:
Just read The Other Woman by Daniel Silva. Good read!

@Sooner I have this book on waitlist but I've only read one other book by him. Will I be able to read this book if I haven't read all of the others?

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Sooner — Sun, 02 Sep 2018 16:39:21 GMT

@smoky22 wrote:
@Sooner wrote:
Just read The Other Woman by Daniel Silva. Good read!
@Sooner I have this book on waitlist but I've only read one other book by him. Will I be able to read this book if I haven't read all of the others?

@smoky22 Yes you will! I don't think it will be a problem. Also there is online information on his page on Amazon and in other places for quick reviews of the series. I thought this was a good one!

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smoky22 — Sun, 02 Sep 2018 16:44:22 GMT

I finished Last Ride To Graceland (Kim Wright). It was imaginative and charming, a road trip of self discovery with a little Elvis lore thrown in. I thought it had a lot of heart and soul and I thoroughly enjoyed it. An unexpected gem!

Then I read The Bankers Wife (Cristina Alger), another unexpected pleasant surprise. It's a smart and sophisticated book about international money laundering told from the point of view of three different women. And no whimpering females here. They were all strong believable characters. It was really a good book, although a little too neatly wrapped up at the end.

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DukeBlueNan — Sun, 02 Sep 2018 18:03:54 GMT

After Anna by Lisa Scottoline

Not one of my favorites but I had to read it to see if my predictions were right! Close.

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LoriLori — Sun, 02 Sep 2018 20:09:39 GMT

@judaline, you asked in the August thread if I found Britt-Marie and Eleanor Oliphant have things in common (can't remember what word you used) and this is my third post (deleted the other two) and I realize it's a hard question. I'm not sure. .I much prefer the character of Britt-Marie yet I prefer Eleanor's book. Not sure if that makes sense.

What do you think and anyone else, please chime in.

It's an interesting question. Might be a good question for a book club, read both books and then discuss, but what do I know, I've never been in a book club.

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abbalulu — Sun, 02 Sep 2018 22:23:29 GMT

I just finished The Outsider by Stephen King and enjoyed it very much. He is one of the few authors that grabs me right from the first page. As others have mentioned, it is a bit long, but even when he goes off on tangents or into minute details they are usually so well written or interesting that you don't mind the detour. It's just that Mr. King seems to like to hear himself write and I don't mind because I enjoy the journey. I think another thing I like about his books is that the bad guys usually get what's coming to them and good triumphs over evil. Simplistic perhaps but I like to see good win out-as sometimes that just does not happen in real life.

@smoky22so glad you liked Last Ride to Graceland.