What are You Reading? ~ AUGUST 2017 - Page 2

CANDLEQUEEN · ‎03-09-2010

Hi,

Happy August!!!!!!

I am reading THE DROWNING GIRLS, by Paula Treick Deboard....I am about 1/2 way through it, it is very good, easy to get into and easy to follow and holds my interest! It is the 1st book I have read by this author....

DukeBlueNan · ‎05-23-2010

I reread One for the Money by Janet Evanovich. So glad I did. It's been years since I'd read her first book. Loved it again!

LoriLori · ‎03-12-2010

@CareBears wrote:
@LoriLori That is the one book of hers that I have not read yet?

@CareBears, I wouldn't rush to read "Truly Madly Guilty." Liane Moriarty always holds something or a few things back in her books and that's part of why they're so readable but this time every other chapter, sometimes successive chapters, are about an event about which we know nothing and then get it in torturous little drips and drabs throughout the book.

LoriLori · ‎03-12-2010

@Judaline wrote:
Hi lori- did you ever see the special, maybe 20/20, I can't remember, but it was involving Jack and how Patricia Cornwell spent millions of her own money proving who he was? She thinks she did, anyway. I believe he was a doctor. Anyway, I never heard another word about it.

@Judaline, I didn't see 20/20 I don't think -- but I did read her book on the subject. Her Jack the Ripper was a very popular painter at the time, Walter Sickert.

She spent millions buying his paintings and destroying one to get DNA (worthless) and IIRC maybe destroying some of his paintings because she found them offensive.

Some of his paintings do depict the crimes but they were probably based off of newspaper articles. Because among other problems with Cornwell's theory, he wasn't in London at the time of the murders but rather in France.

I've read a bunch of books on the Ripper and I have to say hers was the worst. All conjecture and she only proved one insignificant thing in all those pages, spending all those millions.

OTOH "You Don't Know Jack" definitely uncovers many, many new facts.

Did you know that Scotland Yard at the time suppressed the evidence of the only two people ever to have met him? One sold grapes to him he bought for a victim and they even lied that she was not found with grapes in her hand (she was).

Some of the files were sealed for a hundred years. And when the hundred years expired and they were released much more was missing than was there.

Definitely a cover-up going up to the highest levels of Victorian society, police commissioners and attorneys and judges and royalty -- but for whom they were covering up and why, probably no one will ever know for sure.

Oh, I do love to run on about this. Sorry!

LoriLori · ‎03-12-2010

@CareBears, if I could do it over I'd skip "Truly Madly Guilty."

Remember in Liane Moriarty's "Big Little Lies" how (most?) readers were on the edge of their seat wanting to find out what happened at the party?

Well in "Truly Madly Guilty" it's a barbecue and she teases it way too much and for too long, so the story unfolds sooooo slowly it's like I don't care anymore what happened at the barbecue!

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lovescats · ‎03-10-2010

@LoriLori wrote:
@CareBears, if I could do it over I'd skip "Truly Madly Guilty."

Remember in Liane Moriarty's "Big Little Lies" how (most?) readers were on the edge of their seat wanting to find out what happened at the party?

Well in "Truly Madly Guilty" it's a barbecue and she teases it way too much and for too long, so the story unfolds sooooo slowly it's like I don't care anymore what happened at the barbecue!
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I miss your posts on the bb threads. I hope you are feeling better. I watched Big Little Lies on hbo and haven't read the book but I think the book has to be better.

@LoriLori

Colinka · ‎10-15-2011

I am enjoying :"What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories." by Laura Shapiro. Wonderfuly researched glimpses into the lives of six famous women, and how the meals they ate, or didn't eat (Helen Gurley Brown) shaped their lives. The other women are Dorothy Wordsworth, Rosa Lewis (The Duchess of Duke Street), Eleanor Roosevelt, Eva Braun, and novelist Barbara Pym. Fascinating premise!

Just finished "A Distant View of Everything" by Alexander McCall Smith. It the latest Isabel Dalhousie, and I'm getting a little tired of her as a character. She's becoming quite priggishly tiresome, and starting to meddle where she really shouldn't. Yawn! Oh, for some more Bertie or Precious!

Lilysmom · ‎03-09-2010

@LoriLori, so nice to see you posting again!!! Welcome back! LM

4mimi · ‎07-01-2010

I just read "Same Beach, Next Year". It's a great book and a quick read! Think you'll enjoy reading it.

Judaline · ‎03-10-2010

@LoriLori Thanks, yes it was the artist (not doctor) I was trying to remember. Glad you cleared things up. I recently read a Sherlock Holmes book-not by conan doyle-that had some of the ripper story in it-I can't remember the title but I remember the grapes, lol.