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WHAT ARE YOU READING? MARCH, 2020

sunala — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 05:31:55 GMT

Happy MARCH to all our readers!

Please share what you're currently 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 month to all!

Sunny

Re: WHAT ARE YOU READING? MARCH, 2020

Catty2 — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 07:20:57 GMT

I finished this on 2/29 but the February forum is closed so I'll add it to March. Pruning The Dead by Julia Henry. It's a mystery who-done-it that takes place in a little town called Goosebush, MA. Overall, the book was a little slow but it kept my attention enough to keep reading and find out who the murderer was.

The Dutch House by Anna Pachett. This book was about a ge...

mrssims — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 07:32:25 GMT

The Dutch House by Anna Pachett. This book was about a generation of f family, along with living in the Dutch House, the good times, the bad, a sister and brother and how their lives changed. Some nights I could not put it down to the early morning. A great, long story.

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Lilysmom — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 08:52:12 GMT

@mrssims , thanks for posting. The Dutch House gets great reviews. On the list. LM

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Ladylaughsalot — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 10:53:47 GMT

Maude by Donna Mabry. A true-story, written by the author and her grandmother, about the grandmother's life in the early 1900's. Very good, but also sad.

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Jasmine19 — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 15:17:38 GMT

Olive, again by Elizabeth Strout. I liked this book even more than Olive Kitteridge because of the way it deals with aging. Olive deals with the fears that many elders face: living alone, driving at night, bodily " failures", and moving into assisted living. Absolutely lovely read - the kind that stays with you for a while.

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QVCkitty1 — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 15:49:52 GMT

"The Giver of Stars," by Jo Jo Moyes. It is about women who deliver books in depression era Kentucky. It's so good.

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LoriLori — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 16:08:56 GMT

Finished Frederik Backman's Anxious People.

Awesome. Funny, sad, serious, light-hearted, small number of terrific characters, different for Backman but very much fits with his other work, and a locked-room mystery! (with pizza, a rabbit, and a story that unfolds differently than any of his others).

LOVE HIM!

Will remind when if I'm still here before it's released in September. I'm buying one too.. Mine has no cover and isn't final edition. And I'm greedy, I want everything Backman.

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NEvans2 — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 17:38:42 GMT

I just finished "The Secrets We Kept" by Lara Prescott. First book for this author. It takes place during the Cold War, about women who worked in the "secretary pool" at the beginning of the CIA. There's also a second story about getting Doctor Zhivago published in the Soviet Union and how these two stories are interwoven. I really enjoyed it.

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KathyM23 — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 17:51:05 GMT

I just finished Trace of Evil by Alice Blanchard. She is a new author for me. This books is a thriller and the ending is totally surprising. I just placed another book by her on Reserve at the library.

Last night I finished Museum of Desire by Jonathan Kellerman, an Alex Delaware mystery. He is one of my favorite authors, but I have to say this book did not hold my interest as his others do.

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dmod nj — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 18:04:03 GMT

I just finished Joanne DeMaio's Blue Jeans and Coffee Beans. I LOVED it. I am going to read all 10 of the books in that beach series.

I just started Marie Force's Trouble After Dark. It's book number 21 in the Gansett Island series. I've read and enjoyed them all.

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SXMGirl — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 21:47:48 GMT

I just finished all 18 books in the DI Hillary Greene mysteries by Faith Martin, and I am hoping that she continues with the series as it is excellent. If you enjoy books set in an English village and like a strong female main character, you will like the series.

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BornToShop — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 22:18:46 GMT

It's been awhile since I read a book in a day but this one...oh my! Beautifully written & believable book especially in light of the current horrors of the missing Vallow Idaho children & the missing Tennessee toddler, Evelyn Boswell. Hard for me to believe this book was a debut for Gilly Macmillan! I highly recommend this book!

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beckyb1012 — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 14:44:03 GMT

A Bitter Feast, by Deborah Crombie; Had no ideal this is book 18 for this Scotland yard defective series. Lots of reading to catch up on this great book series.

Don't You Forget About Me, by Mhairi McFarlane; light romantic reading of finding your high school love again your 30's;

The Other Mrs., by Mary Kubica. Just her name alone means excellent thriller.

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TaylorBrown — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 17:17:54 GMT

I Almost Forgot About You by Terry MxMillan.

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Alison Wonderland — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 17:26:54 GMT

The Mother of Black Hollywood, a memoir by Jenifer Lewis, and The Inventor, a mystery by Emily Organ.

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SWEET — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 18:19:29 GMT

Just finished Bonnie by Christina Schwarz about Bonnie of Bonnie & Clyde fame. Didn't know much about her before and sort of still don't. It was mostly about her running around with him all over the U.S. to avoid the law. Just an ok book.

Starting Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes by Kathleen West.

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BirkiLady — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 18:45:43 GMT

The Suspect by Fiona Barton (4 Stars)

Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout (4.5 Stars)

Zoo Nebraska The Dismantling of an American Dream by Carson Vaughan

(1.0 Star - A magazine article would have been sufficient.)

Best Friends Forever by Kimberla Lawson Roby (4 Stars)

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pateacher — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 21:38:58 GMT

I just finished American Dirt,a real page-turner and eye-opener for me.

Tonight I will start Perfect Little Children by Sophie Hannah.

AMAZON SUMMARY

All Beth has to do is drive her son to his soccer game, watch him play, and then return home. Just because she knows her ex-best friend lives near the field, that doesn’t mean she has to drive past her house and try to catch a glimpse of her.

Why would Beth do that and risk dredging up painful memories? She hasn’t seen Flora for twelve years. She doesn’t want to see her today—or ever again. But she can’t resist. She parks outside the open gates of Newnham House, watches from across the road as Flora arrives and calls to her children Thomas and Emily to get out of the car.

Except . . . There’s something terribly wrong. Flora looks the same, only older. Twelve years ago, Thomas and Emily were five and three years old. Today, they look precisely as they did then. They are Thomas and Emily without a doubt, but they haven’t changed at all. They are no taller, no older. Why haven’t they grown? How is it possible that they haven’t grown up?

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sunala — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 21:49:45 GMT

@Jasmine19 wrote:
Olive, again by Elizabeth Strout. I liked this book even more than Olive Kitteridge because of the way it deals with aging. Olive deals with the fears that many elders face: living alone, driving at night, bodily " failures", and moving into assisted living. Absolutely lovely read - the kind that stays with you for a while.

@Jasmine19- I totally agree. I enjoyed Olive Kitteridge but I absolutely adored Olive, Again. I actually wanted to read it over again when I was done, but I controlled myself. I have, however, read parts of it whenever I have it in front of me. Love love LOVED it!