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APRIL 2024 READ ANY GOOD BOOKS LATELY?

icezeus — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 01:53:40 GMT

Hello all readers. We have made it to the month of April.

Please share your likes and dislikes. All genres are welcomed so feel free to do more than lurk, dont's be shy. Post, what you enjoy reading.

I am currently reading Instinct by James Patterson and Howard Roughan.

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smoochy — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 02:17:01 GMT

I've started The Talented Mr Ripley

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charsha — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 02:25:09 GMT

Any good non-fiction??

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KathyM23 — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 03:40:48 GMT

I just finished reading Becoming Madame Secretary by Stephanie Dray. It is about Frances Perkins, the first woman Cabinet member as Secretary of Labor. We have her to thank for Social Security. It was a very interesting read. Highly recommended.

I have tried to read Finding Margaret Fuller and also The Princess of LasVegas but couldn't get into either of them and they are going back to the library unread.

I have started to read In Sunshine and in Shadow by Rhys Bowen in the Molly Murphy series. This series has always been a favorite of mine and hopefully will remain so.

This is the first book Rhys has co-written with her daughter such as Jonathan Kellerman with his son and Lee Child with his son. Although both of them are favorites I do not like the Kellerman duo at all and have only read one of the Child duo; not as good as just Lee Child. I have the 2nd Child duo on reserve and we will see.

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cindyNC — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 05:35:17 GMT

I've just finished reading C.J. Archer's The Glass Library Series........combines historical fiction and fantasy.

Currently reading The Underground Library by Jennifer Ryan. "When the Blitz imperils the heart of a London neighborhood, three young women must use their fighting spirit to save the community’s beloved library in this novel based on true events from the author of The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir. "

The other one I couldn't put down was The American Daughters by Maurice Ruffin.

And a fun series by Annelise Ryan - the Monster Hunter series "Morgan Carter, owner of the Odds and Ends bookstore in Door County, Wisconsin, has a hobby. When she’s not tending the store, she’s hunting cryptids—creatures whose existence is rumored, but never proven to be real. It’s a hobby that cost her parents their lives, but one she’ll never give up on."

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Lilysmom1 — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 10:24:02 GMT

Good morning and Happy April @icezeus and readers.

I just started The Hunter by Tana French. This was just released in March.

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Big Joanie — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 11:40:49 GMT

@smoochy wrote:
I've started The Talented Mr Ripley

Did ;you know there are more than one book ??

I loved them ...

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Krimpette — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 13:41:51 GMT

My favorite book this year has been "The Women" by Kristen Hannah. Wonderful book. Wonderful author.

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abbalulu — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 14:06:48 GMT

I read The Butterfly Sisters by Jenny Hale which was a story about a mother who asks her two daughters to meet at their grandmother's lake house to learn who inherited the house and what will become of it. There was mending family differences and some light romance.

I also read The Nine Lives of Bianca Moon by Delas Heras. This was a murder mystery where all the characters were cats or dogs. A dog reporter was murdered and his cat fiance decides to try and track down the murderer herself. It was an interesting premise for a book. I'm not sure if it was totally successful.

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beckyb1012 — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 16:06:21 GMT

The Many Lives of Marjorie Post, by Allison Pataki. CW Post's only child and his main partner, employee and devoted fan when he and his depressed wife started The Post Company from absolutely nothing but a dream. This family were down to their last few dollars and Mr. Post saw that housewives were always cooking for hours for just one meal, breakfast. So he invented Grape Nuts. The company grew and grew and at one time Marjorie was the richest woman in the world. While married to the second of her four husbands she came up with the idea of frozen foods and discovered a Mr. Birdseye who was freezing and selling his own caught fish. So she bought is small operation and away she went to new ventures in the food industry She entertained Presidents, Royalty and Hollywood. One of her three daughters was the American actress Dina Merrill. Marjorie struggled to find love but she helped so many families, cities and countries with her charity work.

I flew through this book.

You might remember Dina in the 1988 film Caddy Shack II with so many of the SNL cast memebers.

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beckyb1012 — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 16:07:04 GMT

@Lilysmom1 wrote:
Good morning and Happy April @icezeus and readers.

I just started The Hunter by Tana French. This was just released in March.

I started it this morning but only a few pages so far.

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dmod nj — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 16:16:48 GMT

Happy April, Readers!

Thank you, @icezeus , for this month's thread.

I am currently listening to How to Walk Away, by Katherine Center. I just started it, but I am very interested in continuing the book. I don't think I've ever read anything by her in the past.

"Margaret Jacobsen has a bright future ahead of her: a fiancé she adores, her dream job, and the promise of a picture-perfect life just around the corner. Then, suddenly, on what should have been one of the happiest days of her life, everything she worked for is taken away in one tumultuous moment.

In the hospital and forced to face the possibility that nothing will ever be the same again, Margaret must figure out how to move forward on her own terms while facing long-held family secrets, devastating heartbreak, and the idea that love might find her in the last place she would ever expect."

I've been listening to Hope Holloway's, Seven Sisters series, book 2-4. Light, romance/family stories. Easy listening/reading.

Kerk Murray's, Since The Day We Danced, is the book I'm currently reading. He's a new author to me. I'm enjoying the book.

"Emma Wright’s world came crashing down when her husband blindsided her with divorce papers on their anniversary and left her for a younger woman. Starting over at forty, she moves into a quaint beachfront cottage on the other side of Hadley Cove with her beloved rescue dog, Riley. But just as she’s picking up the shattered pieces to her life, Riley goes missing.

Meanwhile, in Chicago, widowed father Luke Grayson vows to repair the strained relationship with his teenage son, Jeremiah. In search of new beginnings, he moves them to the picturesque small coastal town of Hadley Cove, Georgia. While they're getting settled, an unexpected visitor arrives at their doorstops, and seems to believe this is his home.

As destiny weaves Emma and Luke’s paths together in unforeseen ways, their lives will change forever."

I downloaded the following as the next books on my tbr list.

Notes From the Cove, Jennifer Bardsley

Aunt Violet's Locket, Kristin Harper

The Liars, Joanne DeMaio

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mildoo — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 17:15:48 GMT

beckyb1012

I read this book several months ago. Thought is was about average, but I have to admit I did not know much about Marjorie Merriweather Post . Seems she really tried to be a good partner in her marriages, but her husbands were cads. I remember seeing Dina Merrill in a lot of movies. She was a popular character actress, very pretty.

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pprmntstx — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 17:24:05 GMT

James Patterson's #1 Lawyer.

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mildoo — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 17:29:37 GMT

I just finished reading SPLINTERS a memoir by Leslie Jamison (?). Got good reviews, but I didn't really care for it. Too dark. She writes of her broken relationships and her love for her child, but she drags this poor baby all over the country in order to fulfill her literary obligations. Her life just sounds too fractured.

Just started this morning reading AFTER ANNIE by Anna Quindlen about a wife and mother who dies suddenly and the effects it has on her four young children and her husband. I really like Anna Quindlen, she writes with a lot of heart and her characters are always so interesting. I expect I will like this book, too.

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KathyM23 — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 18:12:10 GMT

@beckyb1012 I really liked The Many Lives of Marjorie Post by Alison Pataki - interesting good book. But as I said upthread Alison Pataki's last book Finding Margaret Fuller I just could not get interested in altho I antcipated receiving it.

If you decide to read Pataki's latest book based on your interest in the Marjorie Post book, please post your comments. Maybe I just didn't go far enough into that book and will give it another try. I do like historical based fiction.

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beckyb1012 — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 18:29:52 GMT

@KathyM23 wrote:
@beckyb1012 I really liked The Many Lives of Marjorie Post by Alison Pataki - interesting good book. But as I said upthread Alison Pataki's last book Finding Margaret Fuller I just could not get interested in altho I antcipated receiving it.

If you decide to read Pataki's latest book based on your interest in the Marjorie Post book, please post your comments. Maybe I just didn't go far enough into that book and will give it another try. I do like historical based fiction.

I have only read Alison's first three books, for some reason my library has not carried any of her other nine books. This one was on loan from a friend. I did like The Traitor's Wife, The Accidental Empress, and Sisi. If read anymore I definitely will post.

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SWEET — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 18:32:17 GMT

First book of April done. Memoir of Ronnie Spector, Be My Baby. Great book, done well. Book was originally written in 1990 with the Postscript written in 2021. She died in 2022 right before it was republished I think.

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teganslaw — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 18:38:48 GMT

Reading "Everyone Here is Lying" by Shari Lapena.

William Wooler is a respected doctor in the small town of Stanhope, but has kept an affair secret from his wife and children.

Then William's lover, breaks up with him. William is devastated and drives home hoping to be alone with his thoughts. His 9 year old daughter, Avery,is home by herself when he arrives. She gives William a diffcult time and he loses his temper, leaving the house. Hours later, the family reports Avery missing.

This is a very good book. Everyone is hiding something and keeping secrets, hardly any of the characters can be trusted. Just when I think I figured something out, the book takes another twist. I've read all of Lapena's books and this is one of her best.

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smoky22 — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 18:50:11 GMT

I read The Square of Sevens by Laura Shepherd Robinson. The description on Amazon is:

Cornwall 1730: A young girl known only as Red travels with her father making a living predicting fortunes using the ancient Cornish method of the Square of Sevens. This book is quite a saga, over 500 pages, and I was engaged throughout. Reminded me of Dickens but a much easier read.