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Re: WHAT ARE YOU READING? APRIL 2020


@Judaline wrote:

@Travone  As I read your review, I kept thinking, how awful, then omgosh, then good grief! Then when you said you "enjoyed" it I couldn't believe it. lol, no offense, I don't mean that, I just mean how did you ever continue to read it? 


It is a heavy topic but it isn't written that way.  The author is not lamenting her woes.  In fact she is accepting them.  I think that made it easier to read.  My best friend's mother suffered from the disease when I was growing up, that may have made my interest more than that of the average person.

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Re: WHAT ARE YOU READING? APRIL 2020

Stuck at home, and I've finished all my library books.  Luckily, I did have a new ebook come through from the library:  "THE K TEAM" by David Rosenfelt.  It is very helpful to have read the previous book which introduces the main character, "DACHSHUND THROUGH THE SNOW."  I always enjoy the David Rosenfelt books, and I think I'll re-read the series.  The first book was published in 2002, so it's been quite a while since I read the earliest books.  If you haven't read his books, they are humorous legal procedurals, with a dog lover twist.

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My neighbor left some books on my front porch for me.  She loves Janet Evanovich so she brought 5 of her books.  I'm on my second one and I'm really enjoying them.  I read Nine and now Ten Big Ones.  A few weeks ago I read a John Sutherland book, can't remember the first word in the title, second word was Prey.  About a group of gypsy like young people with a Charles Manson like leader.  It was really good!  I already gave the book back to the owner otherwise I would just look at the book!

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Re: WHAT ARE YOU READING? APRIL 2020

I'm working from home, so I only gained 40 minutes of commute time, which I used to listen to audiobooks, so it was already my designated reading time. Smiley Happy

 

I'm currently listening to Hillbilly Elegy on Scribd. (They're giving everyone a one-month free trial, no credit card needed.)

 

I'm reading The Bermondsey Poisoner, by Emily Organ. This is available as a Kindle Unlimited book and is number 6 in the Penny Green series. Penny is a London newspaper reporter in Victorian England. The mysteries are good and each book ends with Emily Organ's historical notes about things mentioned in the book.

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Re: WHAT ARE YOU READING? APRIL 2020

Sorry everyone, it was John Sandford not John Sutherland!

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I've downloaded a bunch of books to my two Kindles.   Some that I'm alternating reading - depending on time of day and my mood.  Wide variety of genres. 

 

Some of them you can just sit and read .... others you have to read/ponder, read some more/ponder some more

 

I have lots of time to read these days:  Smiley Wink 

 

  • The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (and Their Muses)
  • CliffsNotes on Aristotle's Ethics
  • On the Edge of Infinity: A Biography of Michael O'Brien
  • Father Elijah:  An Apocalypse (by Michael O'Brien)
  • Four Last Things Death, Judgment, Hell Heaven (Martin von Cochem)
  • The Man Who Was Thursday:  A Nightmare (Chesterton)
  • The Dream of Gerontius (poem by Cardinal Newman)
  • In Sinu Jesu:  When Hart Speaks to Heart
  • The Gift of Correspondence in Classical Rome
  • The Secret of Spring

Lots of others (and lots of samples of other books) downloaded.  

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Oh my goodness Alison Wonderland!  When I started reading your post I thought it said, I've gained 40 lbs not 40 minutes. Smiley LOL Blame it on the Facebook posts  with the before and afters of the stay-at-home orders with people gaining weight!

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Re: WHAT ARE YOU READING? APRIL 2020

I'm currently reading This Much I Know is True by Wally Lamb in preparation for the mini series starring Mark Ruffalo.  It's his voice I hear as the title character as I'm reading it.

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Good book!!
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Re: WHAT ARE YOU READING? APRIL 2020

Ok, for all of you John Stanford lovers, the book I couldn't put down was "Gathering Prey".