Book Club

[icezeus]

Welcome to the new thread. Please share your likes and dislikes with us.

As always all genres are welcome.

I am currently reading House Odds by Mike Lawson.

[AngelPuppy1]

Soul Mate - Sally Hepworth - This is the most interesting mystery/murder story I have read in a long time.  Well worth the read!  

[JCath]

I am enjoying How to Sove Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin. In 1965, Frances Adams is at an English country fair where a fortune-teller makes a bone-chilling prediction: One day, Frances will be murdered. It is a prediction that sparks her life’s work—trying to solve a crime that hasn’t happened yet.  Nearly sixty years later, Annie Adams is summoned to a meeting at the sprawling country estate of her wealthy and reclusive great-aunt Frances. But by the time Annie arrives in the quaint English village of Castle Knoll, Frances is found murdered, just like she always said she would be. Annie is determined to catch the killer, but thanks to Frances’s lifelong habit of digging up secrets and lies, it seems every endearing and eccentric villager might just have a motive for her murder.

[smoky22]

@icezeus  Thanks for keeping our thread going!

I just finished The Last Days of Kira Mullan by Nicci French, the 2nd in their Maud O'Connor series.  This was more than a murder mystery, it was a complete story and so well written. I felt the tension throughout.  It was long, but never boring.  I liked it better than the first Maud O'Conner book, even though the detective isn't very prominent until almost the halfway point. 

[Major Shopper]

Just read Eternal by Lisa Scottoline.

Such a good, but sad, read.

[pateacher]

I started The View from Lake Como by Adriana Trigiana, I enjoy reading her books because her characters are so relatable.

[teganslaw]

I finished "The Summer Before the War" by Helen Simonson. 

The novel takes place in the village of Rye, East Sussex UK in 1914. Hugh Grange is visiting his aunt Agatha for the summer. Enter Beatrice Nash, a free thinking teacher who is assigned the job of teaching Latin among other subjects. 

Everything changes when war is declared. The novel describes how WW1 touches the lives of the villagers and how the characters handle the disruption.

This is a very good book. I like how the author described the atmosphere and society of the early 1900's. Parts are sad yet the characters show strength throughout and learn things about themselves. Rating: 4 stars. 

[smoochy]

about a quarter of the way through Out of the Woods by Gregg Olsen. True crime about the abduction of a little girl, Shasta Groene, in 2005. He murdered her family in front of her before taking her. Kept her in the woods for weeks, molesting her in uspeakable ways. It's very well written and beyond disturbing. Will need something light after I finish this. 

[Neetgal2]

Wayward Girls by Susan Wiggs, being raised Catholic, can really relate.

Don't Let Him In, Lisa Jewell, very good.

Book of Fires, historical and interesting.  Jane Borodale

The Guest Cottage, Lori Foster

Saltwater, Katy Hays

[jellyBEAN]

Just went to the library (I get all my reading there) and picked up two more books.  I read only non-fiction - biographies, history etc...

First book is 'Warhol's Muses' - about Andy Warhol (pop artist) and his men and women that he used in his movies and just generally hung out with and inspired him in his art and lifestyle.  I love the 60's era and anything that has to do with it.

Second book is 'Original Sin' which is the Jake Tapper book on the downfall and coverup of President Biden's health during his Presidential term.  That's the one I started with first.  It's somewhat interesting, but so much of it was known or spoken about already.

I depend on my library for reads, so I kinda have to take what I can get.  Our public libraries where I live now do not have the selections of my previous State, lack of funding, etc... but there are still plenty of books out there to read.  Beats watching TV.