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What are You Reading? January 2020

sunala — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 18:37:20 GMT

Happy JANUARY to all our readers and a very happy New Year 2020!

Please post what you're reading, what you liked and what you didn't, and share them with us so we can enjoy them too.

Happy Reading and a happy and a bright 2020 to all!

Sunny

Re: What are You Reading? January 2020

SWEET — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 19:01:05 GMT

Happy New Year. I will delete my comment from December's post since there January's wasn't up yet!

Just finished Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid. I really liked it.

Onto Christina McDonald's Behind Every Lie. I hope I like it better than her last one which I couldn't finish.

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mary0129 — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 19:10:04 GMT

Stephen Hanks' 1619 Twenty Slaves

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Laura14 — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 19:31:46 GMT

I am about to start The Beautiful One by Prince and a coauthor.

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ALRATIBA — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 19:35:57 GMT

I get daily email from a bunch of ebook sources with suggested reading. I can find one or two almost everyday to download. And, if I'm not sure - I can download a sample. Just love the "instant gratification" of buying Kindle books! Press buy it and in 20 seconds, I have the book.

Lately, I've been hitting the jackpot. I am concentrating on the literary fiction genre and have cme across quite a few great reads.

My latest: I just started reading "The Ten Thousand Doors of January." Author Alix E. Harrow.

Kind of a quirky nove.

From Amazon's blurb:

Often it’s not the ingredients that make the difference in the final product but the storyteller who wields them. Alix E. Harrow’s The Ten Thousand Doors of January includes book ingredients we’ve seen many times before: a girl discovering her true identity, a faithful animal companion, a missing parent, a Very Evil Person, and a book of power. But Harrow takes this basic recipe for a coming-of-age adventure and bakes in an emotional and heroic resonance that thrums deep in the reader’s belly. January Scaller is left with her father’s patron on an expansive Vermont estate, while her father travels the world searching for interesting relics in the early 1900s. One such relic is a book titled The Ten Thousand Doors, which tells of Doors between worlds

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For months now - it seems like everything I'm attracted to has to do with books, book stores, lost/found manuscripts, letters .... everything to do with the wrtten word.

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For escape .... I'm also reading the second volume of the Peculiar Children series. It's a fun read.

Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs,

The blurb on Amazon re Riggs is amusing ....

Ransom Riggs grew up in Florida but now makes his home in the land of peculiar children -- Los Angeles. He was raised on a steady diet of ghost stories and British comedy, which probably explains the novels he writes. There's a nonzero chance he's in your house right now, watching you from underneath the bed. (Go ahead and check. We'll wait.) If not, you can find him on Twitter @ransomriggs.

Re: What are You Reading? January 2020

Lilysmom — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 19:54:10 GMT

@sunala , thanks for starting us off in the New Year!

I am about half way through Jonathan Kellerman's The Wedding Guest. It ok, not great. Hoping it gets better. LM

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smoky22 — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 20:52:15 GMT

I'm reading one of my favorite authors to start the new year, Michael Connelly. The book is The Wrong Side of Goodbye. I'm almost to the end of the Bosch series but I have the Bosch/Ballard series to look forward to.

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BirkiLady — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 22:44:37 GMT

A Small Town by Thomas Perry

Twelve inmates meticulously plan to break out of a prison near a small CO town leaving the rest of the inmates freedom as well. The small town is left with theft, rapes, murders, and emotional devestation for those left behind.

Then, the book becomes absolutely unbelievable every step of the way. Yet, I kept reading because the story was full of information on how a detective thinks and does his/her job. That was interesting.

A female cop turned detective has been "hired" with funds provided by a grant to find the 12 prisoners who have vanished two years later. In extraordinary ways, with the right equipment handy, she always encounters the prisoner in the most dangerous situation(s) possible and, of course, leave him/them dead without any signs of her being in the area. Superman could not hold a candle to her skills!

The end did not fit the personality of the main character or the feel in the novel. It was too much "icing on the cake" and could have been deleted by the editor without loss. This was a good, easy read for January 1, 2020.

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Alter Ego — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 22:38:07 GMT

I finished listening to The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow and feel like I finally know what The Starless Sea was about! LOL

It's similar (in fact, I think some of the characters could arguably be lifted right out of the Sea) but just found it so much easier to follow. I really liked it and am happy @smoky22 commented on it.

Have just started Such a Fun Age and, so far, it's good!

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teganslaw — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 22:43:35 GMT

:Viking: The Green land by Katie Aiken Ritter. It's an historical saga based on the travels of Erik the Red and his discovery of Greenland. The book is fiction, but is well researched and gives the reader a view into how the Vikings lived.

It's beautifully written, and highly recommended for readers interested in everything Vikings.

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SXMGirl — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 01:28:05 GMT

I just finished A Black Place and a White Place, book 7 of the Wisteria Tearoom Mysteries, by Patrice Greenwood.

Most of the book takes place at the Ghost Ranch, with emphasis on the works of Georgia O'Keefe. Even though this normally would be a favorite subject for me, I found this book unsettling. This is a good series, but this book is a least favorite, and I am glad that it is finished.

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pachutabelle — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 01:45:07 GMT

I am reading MY NAME IS RESOLUTE by Nancy E Turner. It's a story about a young girl stolen from her home in Jamaica by pirates along with her brother and sister. After being sold into servitude she eventually finds herself free in New England before the Revolutionary War. I had already read a couple of books by this same author and enjoyed them.

I find that I am enjoying historical fiction lately but there seem to be so many about wartime. Not really looking for those although I have a couple of them waiting for me on my Kindle.

Our local book club will be reading HAVE YOU SEEN LUIS VELEZ? by Catherine Ryan Hyde this month. I'll start it in a couple of weeks. Can't finish it too far ahead so I'll be able to remember enough about it to discuss. lol

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Travone — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 12:52:09 GMT

Just finished This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger. I did like this book, but I wasn't really fond of the main character. I know he was young, but he really did seem to make a lot of bad decisions.

I also just finished Lock Every Door by Riley Sager. This is her third novel and I really like her. I've read all three of her books. If you like mysteries, I reccomend her books. They are all stand alone novels so you can start with any of them.

Just started Eggshells by Caitriona Lally. The jury is still out on this book. To say the main character is strange is an understatement.

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Judaline — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 13:39:14 GMT

@pachutabelle I read her books, too. Enemy Women was my favorite. Is this a new book, My Name is Resolute?

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Judaline — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 13:46:18 GMT

@dawg lover Did you read Blind Search yet? I'm still reading it. I liked it better the more I read but right now it's lagging.

My Margaret Mizushima book is in. Can't wait to get it.

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beckyb1012 — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 14:28:58 GMT

The Revisioners, by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton;

If Only I Could Tell You, by Hannah Beckerman.

Both books outstanding and excellent reads. So disappointed my library as no other works for either of these authors. Will keep on the look out for more of their work.

New Day, New Year, Decade New worlds to conquer.

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dawg lover — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 15:02:24 GMT

@Judaline wrote:
@dawg loverDid you read Blind Search yet? I'm still reading it. I liked it better the more I read but right now it's lagging.
My Margaret Mizushima book is in. Can't wait to get it.

@Judaline - It's at the library waiting for me; I'll probably get it today, if it stops raining. Glad to hear it gets better as it goes along.

I have had very few library books come in for me in December, so I spent most of the month reading the Inspector Banks mystery series by Peter Robinson. I'm on Book 18, but I need to hurry, as the newest book, #26, comes out in mid-January, and I hope to be caught up by then and ready to read it. They are very good books (but no dog in them!).

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pachutabelle — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 19:06:54 GMT

@Judaline My Name Is Resolute was published in 2015 so it may be her latest. Have you read These Is My Words? That's the first of hers that I read. I have Enemy Women on my Kindle but haven't gotten to it yet. It is by Paulette Jiles, another author I enjoy. Have you read her News Of The World? I see it's being made into a film starring Tom Hanks.

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CareBears — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 20:21:25 GMT

I just finished Lost You by Haylen Beck I was on the edge of my seat from beginning to end, GREAT book!

Not sure what is up next but I will post when I finish!

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number one queen — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 20:32:45 GMT

@dawg lover I love Peter Robinson, have read all his books and yes you are right they have no dog in them, but I can't wait for his next. I am currently reading FINAl GIRLS, by Riley Safer. Very good, recommended by a lot of readers here.