Re: JANUARY 2025 READ ANY GOOD BOOKS LATELY?

CANDLEQUEEN · ‎03-09-2010

Finished Obsessed by James Patterson. It was good, typical James Patterson, short chapters, fast paced and keeps your interest throughout..

I am now onto another James Patterson, called Shattered! Just started, but it starts off with a Bang!

smoky22 · ‎05-30-2010

I read The Killing Plains by Sherry Rankin, a free First Reads book on Amazon. It will be officially published February 1st. It's a murder mystery about 2 deaths 20 years apart, set in a small town in Texas with a lot of family secrets. Goodreads people seemed to love it (rated 4.18) but I thought it was just average.

I also tried to read Intermezzo by Sally Rooney, about two brothers grieving over their father's recent death. I could not get into the style. Besides the stream of consciousness writing, there were paragraphs that went on for pages, no punctuation for people talking, and very long chapters. Sally Rooney apparently has a lot of fans, and this might be a very good book, but I found it too much of a chore to read.

I'm on to Table For Two, a collection of short stories by Amor Towles, mainly set in New York, but one in Los Angeles.

Judaline · ‎03-10-2010

@nwbabs wrote:
Finished listening to Force of Nature (Aaron Falk, #2) by Jane Harper yesterday. Genres: Mystery, Crime, Fiction. Five female colleagues on a corporate retreat in a remote Australian forest get lost and only four make it back. The whodunit and why unfolds as the wilderness setting easily injects paranoia for the inexperienced participants.

Having enjoyed Federal Police Agent Aaron Falk in The Dry, I wanted to continue the series between holds. Not quite as much Falk in this second book, but Stephen Shanahan continues to do a nice job of narration.

I'm reading The Dry right now. I'm not exactly crazy about it. Falk is the personality kid! (kidding) I don't think I like anybody in this book. And I dislike 'going back' in time. It's going back to when they were teen-agers-Egad! Another thing I don't like. Almost halfway thru and it had better pick up. I won't be reading the next one. @icezeus has said from the start to 'tell us what you liked or disliked about a book' or something like that, so this is my way of cooperating, lol.

SWEET · ‎03-09-2010

I got to almost the end of the month without a dnf. I just had one though. Denny S. Bryce's In The Face of The Sun. I tried to read her first book a few years ago with the same results. No idea if it's her writing or what. This book had dual timelines which is fine since I read a lot of them. I know I tried to read this one once before a few months ago but then Goodreads told me this was my third attempt.

If I ever see her other books, will I try to read them? Maybe, just maybe!

abbalulu · ‎03-20-2012

At The beginning of the month I finished up three Christmas books

The Mistletoe Secret by Richard Paul Evans

A Dog's Perfect Christmas by W. Bruce Cameron

Catching Christmas by Terri Blackstock

Then I read The Housemaid by Frieda McFadden which just about everyone here has already read. I'm looking forward to reading the other books by this author.

I finished up by reading Sabina by Bella Kuligowska Zucker which was a true story about a young Polish Jewish woman who hid in plain sight in Germany during the war by stealing a Polish Catholic girl's identity and getting a job on a farm. The rest of her family perished but she managed to stay alive through her own bravery and ingenuity.

I always find the stories of survivors both compelling and sad and tragic. I think I am drawn to these stories because I just cannot grasp how human beings could be so cruel and heartless toward other human beings-maybe it is something that is impossible to understand.

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
Groucho Marx

nwbabs · ‎02-24-2018

Finished listening to The Green Road by Anne Enright on audiobook. Genres: Fiction, Irish Literature. Storyline: Irish family dynamics driven by the family's matriarch, Rosaleen.

The chapters alternate between Rosaleen and her four children over several decades and continents. The story culminates during the Christmas holiday with everyone reunited back in County Clare older and perhaps wiser.

This book was recommended to me as a fan of Irish literature. And, I did enjoy certain passages and the multiple narrators were not a distraction for me. But overall, I would rate it 3 out of 5 on the Goodreads scale. Goodreads average rating 3.51 currently.

Thanks to all that post, as I like having a full waitlist and the next read at the ready. Cheers!

Judaline · ‎03-10-2010

@abbalulu wrote:
At The beginning of the month I finished up three Christmas books
The Mistletoe Secret by Richard Paul Evans
A Dog's Perfect Christmas by W. Bruce Cameron
Catching Christmas by Terri Blackstock

Then I read The Housemaid by Frieda McFadden which just about everyone here has already read. I'm looking forward to reading the other books by this author.
I finished up by reading Sabina by Bella Kuligowska Zucker which was a true story about a young Polish Jewish woman who hid in plain sight in Germany during the war by stealing a Polish Catholic girl's identity and getting a job on a farm. The rest of her family perished but she managed to stay alive through her own bravery and ingenuity.
I always find the stories of survivors both compelling and sad and tragic. I think I am drawn to these stories because I just cannot grasp how human beings could be so cruel and heartless toward other human beings-maybe it is something that is impossible to understand.

I loved Catching Christmas. Also, Sabina sounds good-think I'll try it.

teganslaw · ‎03-11-2010

I'm reading "Zoya" by Danielle Steel. The author is hit or miss, and this is one of her better novels. It was written earlier, so the style seems different. Many of Steel's later books are repetitious, (which can be annoying) but "Zoya" isn't as much. The novel takes place during the Russian Revolution and tells the story of a young girl's struggles through it all.

"The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog."

Mark Twain

CANDLEQUEEN · ‎03-09-2010

@teganslaw wrote:
I'm reading "Zoya" by Danielle Steel. The author is hit or miss, and this is one of her better novels. It was written earlier, so the style seems different. Many of Steel's later books are repetitious, (which can be annoying) but "Zoya" isn't as much. The novel takes place during the Russian Revolution and tells the story of a young girl's struggles through it all.

@teganslaw I read that one many years ago, and reallyliked it. I agree many of Danielle's books are hit or miss, her earlier novels were pretty good though to me.