Re: OCTOBER 2025 READ ANY GOOD BOOKS LATELY ?

tansy · ‎01-02-2011

I have We Are All Guilty Here on audio but am only two chapters in.

SWEET · ‎03-09-2010

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These books are not new , but I enjoyed them so much I would like to share . The first in the series is Class Mom by Laurie Gelman. Jen Dixon is a rather snarky volunteer at her son's school and her emails to the parents are very funny and sometimes misunderstood. All of these books are about Jen, school and her family

1). Class Mom
2) You've been volunteered
3) Yoga pants nation
4) Smells like teen spirit

@QVCkitty1

I love this series. I still need to read Class Mom and You've Been Volunteered.

I follow her on IG and she has a very funny page especially her videos about being 60 or over 60. Can't recall now.

@SWEET , Yes, I follow her too, she is very funny. I'm not sure, but I think she is the wife of the producer of Kelly and Mark.

@QVCkitty1

She is the wife of Michael Gelman!

abbalulu · ‎03-20-2012

@QVCkitty1 I really enjoyed that series of books too. She has a great knack for making the story both interesting and funny. I'm hoping for another in the series or if not that more books by her in general.

I read I Like You Just Fine when You're Not Around by Ann Garvin. It was a great title but for me the book did not live up to the potential of the title. It was about a woman who was a therapist and was dealing with an aging mother, a sister who took off and left her with her newborn and a boyfriend who is on a project in Hawaii and wants her to go with him. It had the potential to be good but for me it was just too all over the place and not very cohesive.

On the other hand I also read Frank & Red by Matt Coyne which was delightful. It is about a newly divorced mother and six year old boy who move next door to an elderly man who lost his wife and is estranged from his son.

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

SWEET · ‎03-09-2010

Love Lisa Scottoline's books. The Truth About The Devlins was another good one.

QVCkitty1 · ‎05-23-2015

The Irish Goodby by Heather Aimee O'Neil

" You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts."
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

sandy53 · ‎03-12-2010

My first book for October is The Academy by Elin Hilderbrand and her daughter Shelby Cunningham. I agree with many of the reviews on Amazon: the first hundred pages of this book are boring, but then it gets better. The New England boarding school setting was interesting, but I really could not relate to either the student or the adult characters. The ending left things open for a sequel, but I don't think I am interested.

My next book is going to be Apostle's Cove by William Kent Krueger.

QVCkitty1 · ‎05-23-2015

@sandy53 wrote:
My first book for October is The Academy by Elin Hilderbrand and her daughter Shelby Cunningham. I agree with many of the reviews on Amazon: the first hundred pages of this book are boring, but then it gets better. The New England boarding school setting was interesting, but I really could not relate to either the student or the adult characters. The ending left things open for a sequel, but I don't think I am interested.

My next book is going to be Apostle's Cove by William Kent Krueger.

@sandy53 I liked, didn't love The Academy.

" You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts."
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

hkrgrl · ‎03-13-2022

full disclosure: i listen to audiobooks mostly and get what is available from Libby/library, so i am sure most are not new.

1. by any other name: Jodi Picoult

2. a spark of light: jodi picoult

3. the cat who caught a killer: L.T. Shearer

4. the cat who solved 3 murders: L.T. Shearer.

#3 & 4 are read with an English accent, which i adore.

joviolin · ‎04-20-2020

@sandy53 - Once I got into it, I absolutely loved The Academy (by Elin Hilderbrand and her daughter, Shelby Cunningham). The (mystery) plot was clever, and the goings-on in a prep school were totally believable. The menu descriptions, typical of Hilderbrand books, made my mouth water for days!!! It is listed as #1 in a series, so I'm sure there are future sequels to look forward to. I felt it was so much better than Hilderbrand's final (solo) book, Swan Song. That one was a total disappointment for me.