Book Club

[SWEET]

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@catmama wrote:

I just finished a very sweet book called Love and Saffron by Kim Tay.  It takes place in the 60s and is a story of two women who become pen pals.  The correspondence is started by Joan, who lives in Los Angeles, and is writing to Imogene in Seattle.  Imogene has written a column in a periodical that Joan reads and she enjoyed it so much that she decides to complement Imogene on it.  This is the start of a loving and fulfilling friendship between the two women.  Lots of mentions of food.  I highly recommend it.  

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@catmama 

I loved this book and her last name is FAY.

[catmama]

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@SWEET wrote:

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@catmama wrote:

I just finished a very sweet book called Love and Saffron by Kim Tay.  It takes place in the 60s and is a story of two women who become pen pals.  The correspondence is started by Joan, who lives in Los Angeles, and is writing to Imogene in Seattle.  Imogene has written a column in a periodical that Joan reads and she enjoyed it so much that she decides to complement Imogene on it.  This is the start of a loving and fulfilling friendship between the two women.  Lots of mentions of food.  I highly recommend it.  

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@catmama 

I loved this book and her last name is FAY.

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Thank you!  I missed that

[tansy]

Jon Cowan's PROOF, a legal thriller.  It reminds me of Turow's Presumed Innocent.

The author was a writer and producer of the Suits series.

[tgr]

There is a series by Richard Osman and I have read and enjoyed them all.  A 5th book is due out in Sept.  The Thursday Murder Club, The Man Who DiedTwice,  The Bullet That Missed, The Last Devil to Die and We Solve Murders. 

[Alter Ego]

@tgr - I enjoy the Thursday Murder Club books and have preordered the 5th book. Really looking forward to the movie coming next week to Netflix. I think the cast looks pretty great!

[SWEET]

Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl by Renee Rosen was a pretty good book about Estee Lauder and a woman named Gloria who she befriended.  Based on true story of Estee but Gloria was definitely fictional but could have been true in real life. 

[beckyb1012]

The Beijing Betrayal, (a Marcus Ryker #6 novel), by Joel C. Rosenberg. 

 Abu Nakba of Pakistan as pulled off atrocities so catastrophic in Chicago it makes 9/11 look tame.  Now Marcus and his team have been sent to find him and kill in person, just like Bin Laden so that the world will know for sure. 

While in the Pakistan military compound the team finds a room full of Pakistani in hazmat suits with clipboards, all dead.  There are three chambers in this underground room.  The first holds three monkeys tied up dead where their faces have melted away and their mid sections exploded.  The next chamber holds a horse, a cow, and a goat in the same exact condition.  The third and final chamber holds two women and an old man, all of whom are in the same state as the animal.  

What are these Middle East Leaders and China planning for the United States and how can a small group of the best of the best stop them in time?

[Another new name Sue]

Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton.  Highly recommend.

A woman rescuse a baby hare and it changes her life.  The author writes beautifully, and it's a powerful, tender story.

[Q-Checker]

@Another new name Sue -Thanks for the recommendation for Raising Hare. I Googled it and it sounds like a great, if not perfect, book for one of my book discussion groups.        I will be putting it on their Recommended Books list for the next voting round.

[Judaline]

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@Another new name Sue wrote:

Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton.  Highly recommend.

A woman rescuse a baby hare and it changes her life.  The author writes beautifully, and it's a powerful, tender story.

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I sense a bad ending so I won't be reading it.