Book Club

[teganslaw]

I'm reading 'A Bridge Across the Ocean" by Susan Meissner. It's an historical novel combined with some paranormal events.

The book starts out in 1946. telling about two women who cross the Atlantic ocean in the RMS Queen Mary as war brides to be with their husbands. When the ship gets to New York, only one will disembark. 

The present: Brette tours the Queen Mary, ( docked in Long Beach and is supposedly haunted) as a favor for a friend. She becomes involved in the past events and finds a connection to her life today. 

This is a very good book. I find the lives of WW11 war brides interesting and how they relate to Brette's life. 

[tansy]

Just finished A FLICKER IN THE DARK by Stacy Willingham, a new-to-me author.  A story about missing girls.  I enjoyed it but it's my kind of book.

I plan to check out her other books.

Next up is WHAT KIND OF PARADISE by Janelle Brown.  Not the Janelle of Sister Wives fame 😜

[tansy]

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@teganslaw wrote:

I'm reading 'A Bridge Across the Ocean" by Susan Meissner. It's an historical novel combined with some paranormal events.

The book starts out in 1946. telling about two women who cross the Atlantic ocean in the RMS Queen Mary as war brides to be with their husbands. When the ship gets to New York, only one will disembark. 

The present: Brette tours the Queen Mary, ( docked in Long Beach and is supposedly haunted) as a favor for a friend. She becomes involved in the past events and finds a connection to her life today. 

This is a very good book. I find the lives of WW11 war brides interesting and how they relate to Brette's life. 

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My other was an English warbride, @teganslaw, arriving here on the Queen Mary.  I toured the ship years ago.

[beckyb1012]

Atmosphere, by Taylor Jenkins Reid.  Joan as been obsessed with the stars and science as a very young girl.  When NASA opens the opportunity for women to apply for astronaut training she quickly puts in her application.  There are still barriers to women in that the only person who can actually fly the rocket/shuttle as to have been a military pilot.  Joan wants to do it all even if she as never flown a plane.  Being a part of the crew going up in space and even being down in the space center directing the crew members who are on a journey.

These men and women new trainees and the seasoned astronauts form bonds while competing against each other.  Joan finds herself being picked after Sally Ride for the Shuttle trip planned for November 1984, she will be the second American woman in space.  While preparing for the planned trip she is continuing the almost daily help to her unwed little sister and the raising of her young niece.  While at the same time hiding from everyone, co-workers and her family the romantic relationship she should not be having with another astronaut. 

[Q-Checker]

I am in the midst of reading A Reporter's LIfe by Walter Cronkite. It is dense with nostalgia and information about events and personalities in the second half of the last century inaddition to interesting detail about print and broadcast journalism of that era. No surprise that Cronkite is a superb writer, and the book reads like he put his heart and soul, along with some humor and clever commentary, into writing his memoir.

[MoJoV]

I just finished The Undoing of Violet Claybourne by author Emily Critchley.  I enjoyed this gothic mystery. Two girls meet at an English boarding school,  the wealthy girl invites the other to spend Christmas at her family estate.  There are lots of twists and turns. 

[SWEET]

Just finished my first book of September.  Laura Lippman's first in the Tess Monaghan series Baltimore Blues published in 1997.  A pretty good mystery.

[pprmntstx]

Bridal Shower Murder  by Leslie Meier

[withaK]

Just started the new Robert Galbraith "Cormoran Strike" detective series book The Hallmarked Man....not getting into her personal politics (JK Rowling is the author, RG is pen name) but novel is good, as is series...each book acts as a stand alone novel

[okaywitheasypay]

@icezeus I read or actually listened to via Audible 'Identity' and enjoyed it . I am a Nora Roberts fan. I usually listen to Audible books while in the bathtub,for short times. This one I listened to post bath time until finished with book.