What Are You Reading --- October 2015 - Page 3

blackhole99 · ‎08-22-2013

I'm re- reading MAMAS BANK ACCOUNT for the third time. I love this story about a poor Norwegian family living in San Francisco. It doesn't give a time line in the story, but the book was published in 1943 and Kathryn Forbes is the author.

LoriLori · ‎03-12-2010

@Judaline wrote:
lori, is that what OVE stems from-does it ever tell us?

Jud, I don't speak Swedish but I think it's just a wonderful coincidence; I can't be sure. I read that in Sweden the name is pronounced OOH-va but since I'm here not there I will continue saying it as OVE. I think he would approve.

kitty45 · ‎11-05-2011

Sorry, made a boo boo. I entered my reading list in September´s section.

Lilysmom · ‎03-09-2010

@beckyb1012 wrote:
Started this morning The Flying Circus, Susan Crandall.
She wrote Whistling Past The Graveyard in 2013. Love it so far.

@beckyb1012, I loved Whistling Past the Graveyard.n thanks for posting the new title. LM

Lilysmom · ‎03-09-2010

Just finished BLACK-EYED SUSANS by Julia Heaberlin. I think this just missed being a really good book. The ending could have been so much better IMO.

Good Readsa rated it 3.8 out of 5. Here is the storyline. LM

For fans of Laura Lippman and Gillian Flynn comes an electrifying novel of stunning psychological suspense.

I am the star of screaming headlines and campfire ghost stories.
I am one of the four Black-Eyed Susans.
The lucky one.

As a sixteen-year-old, Tessa Cartwright was found in a Texas field, barely alive amid a scattering of bones, with only fragments of memory as to how she got there. Ever since, the press has pursued her as the lone surviving “Black-Eyed Susan,” the nickname given to the murder victims because of the yellow carpet of wildflowers that flourished above their shared grave. Tessa’s testimony about those tragic hours put a man on death row.

Now, almost two decades later, Tessa is an artist and single mother. In the desolate cold of February, she is shocked to discover a freshly planted patch of black-eyed susans—a summertime bloom—just outside her bedroom window. Terrified at the implications—that she sent the wrong man to prison and the real killer remains at large—Tessa turns to the lawyers working to exonerate the man awaiting execution. But the flowers alone are not proof enough, and the forensic investigation of the still-unidentified bones is progressing too slowly. An innocent life hangs in the balance. The legal team appeals to Tessa to undergo hypnosis to retrieve lost memories—and to share the drawings she produced as part of an experimental therapy shortly after her rescue.

What they don’t know is that Tessa and the scared, fragile girl she was have built a fortress of secrets. As the clock ticks toward the execution, Tessa fears for her sanity, but even more for the safety of her teenaged daughter. Is a serial killer still roaming free, taunting Tessa with a trail of clues? She has no choice but to confront old ghosts and lingering nightmares to finally discover what really happened that night.

Shocking, intense, and utterly original, Black-Eyed Susans is a dazzling psychological thriller, seamlessly weaving past and present in a searing tale of a young woman whose harrowing memories remain in a field of flowers—as a killer makes a chilling return to his garden.

SWEET · ‎03-09-2010

Put this under September in error. What was I thinking.

Finished Sarah Pekkanen's Things You Won't Say. It was a good book but not one of my favorites by her.

Starting Jennifer Weiner's Who Do You Love next.

Honeybit · ‎07-17-2011

@baker wrote:
I'm re- reading MAMAS BANK ACCOUNT for the third time. I love this story about a poor Norwegian family living in San Francisco. It doesn't give a time line in the story, but the book was published in 1943 and Kathryn Forbes is the author.

@blackhole99 Some of us are old enough to rememberf the TV Series "I REMEMBER MAMA" which was based on this book. It was a delightful show, but I never did seek out the book and read it. Maybe I'll do that since you've reminded me of it.

sunala · ‎03-09-2010

@Honeybit wrote:
@baker wrote:
I'm re- reading MAMAS BANK ACCOUNT for the third time. I love this story about a poor Norwegian family living in San Francisco. It doesn't give a time line in the story, but the book was published in 1943 and Kathryn Forbes is the author.

@blackhole99 Some of us are old enough to rememberf the TV Series "I REMEMBER MAMA" which was based on this book. It was a delightful show, but I never did seek out the book and read it. Maybe I'll do that since you've reminded me of it.

Yes I remember the tv show. Surprisingly, the title was "Mama," not "I Remember Mama" like the movie. " Peggy Wood played Mama, and ****** Van Patten played the younger brother Nels. Such a warm, loving family. Money was tight but love was in abundance. They don't make television like that anymore.

I know I read the book several times when I was a kid, and loved it. I couldn't get enough of it.

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SAGal · ‎08-09-2015

I just finished AFTER YOU by JOJO MOYES - the sequel to ME BEFORE YOU. I was glad there was a sequel - I knew it would not be as good as the original since Louisa and Will would not be together but I still really enjoyed this new book. I loved the Louisa character and was interested to see what would happen to her. I recommend this book - I gave the original book a 5 on GOODREADS and I gave the sequel a 4.

smoky22 · ‎05-30-2010

@Sagal wrote:
I just finished AFTER YOU by JOJO MOYES - the sequel to ME BEFORE YOU. I was glad there was a sequel - I knew it would not be as good as the original since Louisa and Will would not be together but I still really enjoyed this new book. I loved the Louisa character and was interested to see what would happen to her. I recommend this book - I gave the original book a 5 on GOODREADS and I gave the sequel a 4.

SAGal, thanks for the review. I have it on waitlist. As usual, there are 4 or 5 people ahead of me.

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