Book Club

[sandy53]

Today I finished Before She Disappeared by Lisa Gardner.  This book was published in January 2021.  It introduces Frankie Elkin, a character who finds missing people.  She is not a PI or law enforcement; she is simply obsessed with helping families find those who are missing.  I thought the book was OK, but it did not make me want to run out and get the sequel (book 2 was published in January 2022).  It was a very bleak book, but the process she used to find the lost girl was interesting.  The ending was ok, but I just could not relate to the main character at all.  She is an alcoholic who traded her addiction for this obsession with finding the lost.  She's smart, but troubled.

[CANDLEQUEEN]

I have just started My Husband's Daughter, by Emma Robinson! Starts off very very good!

[SWEET]

I can't believe I've never read Anne Tyler's Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant.  It's been out for a long time.  It wasn't as good as her others to me.  I love family books though. 

[Lucky Charm]

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@Lucky Charm wrote:

Just started reading  After All by Mary Tyler Moore, today. 

Only up to her high school years so far, but what a sad, sad story.

Admittedly, she was a great actress to give us the impression that everything was *okay*.womansadd:

Updating my *review*.  Stopped reading just shy of the last few pages.  

MTM has included some of the most grotesque occurrencess, that I honestly think she could've left unsaid.

I don't even know if I'll bother reading till the end.  

Just really bizarre.

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[AuntG]

@Lucky Charm when was the MTM book written? She came across as a wholesome person so I'm surprised there are things included that make you not want to finish her book.

[Lucky Charm]

@AuntG  She'd written 2 books, this was the first.  It was about her life from day 1 up until the mid 90's.  She was born in the 30's. 

The second was probably a re-cap of book one and included her struggle with Type 1 Diabetes.

She was diagnosed immediately following a miscarriage and she just went a little too far with that story, imho.  It was grotesque and left me weak in the knees.  

She played a wholesome person, but admittedly, she wasn't.  She didn't play *herself*.  She either played Laura Petrie or Mary Richards or whoever else....

[insomniac2]

Anne Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is one of her best books, IMO.

[Judaline]

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@Lucky Charm wrote:

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@Lucky Charm wrote:

Just started reading  After All by Mary Tyler Moore, today. 

Only up to her high school years so far, but what a sad, sad story.

Admittedly, she was a great actress to give us the impression that everything was *okay*.womansadd:

Updating my *review*.  Stopped reading just shy of the last few pages.  

MTM has included some of the most grotesque occurrencess, that I honestly think she could've left unsaid.

I don't even know if I'll bother reading till the end.  

Just really bizarre.

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I'm curious. Could you give a sample of one of those experiences (not in detail if you don't want to).

Oooops, sorry, I didn't read far enough. I see you posted more!

[Judaline]

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@SWEET wrote:

I can't believe I've never read Anne Tyler's Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant.  It's been out for a long time.  It wasn't as good as her others to me.  I love family books though. 

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Sounds like a Billie Letts book! (The Honk and Holler Opening Soon).

[teganslaw]

Back to Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope book. "The Seagull." The author hasn't disappointed yet, so I'm sure this will be another good book.