Book Club

[LoriLori]

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE: 

This book went straight downhill.  Like a ramp!  So disappointed.

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Third great horror novel of the summer, Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia.

So much fun!  

The Dead Girls Club was more of a mystery.

The Tenth House is intense.

Tuesday Mooney... is fun.  It has all kinds of clever references to horror movies and authors and actors, in fact the book is about a very wealthy man who dies, Vincent Pryce, who had written his own obit for The Boston Globe and sends everyone in Boston who wants to participate on a massive scavenger  hunt in which the rewards are hinted to be partt of his massive fortune.

Tuesday Mooney, the lead character, grew up in Salem, was fascinated with the witches from a young age and grew into an adult who lhorror, met him Vincent Pryce at the event at the Four Seasons at which he died...

I love Boston and i love this book and having these people on a scavenger hunt with so many clever and funny references to everything from Poe to the X files and Pryce was so eccentric (he collected macabre stuff and owned Lizzie Borden's pince-nez, among other things)....

And as the book goes on a lot of people are getting caught up in wanting that money and turning over every rock looking for clues..  This is not heavy horror, it's YA and it's dark but fun and different (so far)....

...it's a lot of fun.  It better not turn bad like...ahem...

[Flatbush]

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@Flatbush wrote:

I just finished reading, Her Father's House , by Belva Plain. It was an enjoyable read. I had never heard of her, but I will look for more of her books since I see that she has written quite a few of them.

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@Flatbush . Read Whispers by Belva Plain, it is one of my favorites! Also The Carousel.

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OMG @CANDLEQUEEN I first discovered Belva back in the 80's and still own some of her hardbacks and of course paperbacks as well. I was crushed when she passed on.  I have thought many times how wonderful it would be of her family members stumbled onto some unpublished works of hers to give us just a bit more to read.  All her books are so good.

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Thanks for the recs. I am looking forward to them. I think she died in 2010.Some authors  are so complex that I keep notes of who is who, but not her book.They just are enjoyable.
 

[LoriLori]

NIMA by Adam Popescu.

You know, the girl in Nepal near Everest who wanted to be a sherpa?  And I wrote a long post about the beginning and a few people found it interesting.  And the first few chapters were.

And then it sank like The Titanic and I gave it a brutal one-star.

It was stupid and insulting and ludicrous.  How does she disguise herself as a guy?  First she jilts her fiance on their wedding day, steals money from her father and runs away.  Then she gets to a cafe, she's never seen one, where she meets an American journalist who is part of three going. 

This woman sees Nima cut her hair off in the bathroom and so in order to help her deception she draws a mustache on her.  OK?

And hires Nima even though Nima doesn't have the muscle, has never carried anything heavier than yak dung.

And it's the off-season and they were never gong up Everest, just to Base Camp One, which I found out at the end.

Along the way she meets the fiance and decides she really loves him and has sex with him.  So much for tradition and culture.

At the end his group has reached Base Camp, her mustache has worn off and her cap has blown away but she's a-okay, and an avalanche hits.  A big one.

Somehow she uses her spidey senses and finds in this massive area of deep, heavy snow, she finds the exact spot where he's covered but saved by an air pocket (eyeroll) and she digs him out with her bare hands.  Well, with her gloves.

And they kiss.  End of book.

Oh and somewhere he throw in there that there have been other female sherpas on the mountain and she knows them, idolizes them, so what was this stuff about wanting to be the first woman to climb Everest?  Which I didn't know they weren't climbing until the very end?

I left such a bad review on Amazon and GR that the next day a review showed up on GR (where it's a very obscure book with almost no reviews), a review showed up that was written by either the author or a friend or relative.

One of the worst books ever.  Draw a mustache, pass as a guy!  A friend said I'm still "tied to the book."  I am!  It's the mustache!!!  Possibly t he stupidest thing I've ever read!

Be safe, everybody.

[SWEET]

Just finished Carolyn Brown's The Empty Nesters.  Pretty good read.

Onto Susan M. Boyer's Lowcountry Book Club.  A cozy mystery.

[Lilysmom]

@LoriLori ❤️, thank you.  LM

[BirkiLady]

The Far Away Brothers Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life by Lauren Markham (4 Stars)

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai (2-3 Stars)

The Chelsea Girls by Fiona Davis (4 Stars)

[esmerelda]

I am close to finishing a time travel trilogy.  The series is called Extracted and the first book has that title.  The second and third books are Executed and Extinct, respectively, by RR Haywood.  They are audiobooks as most of mine are, because I move and listen more than I sit and read.

I got the first book two years ago and only recently listened to it.  I bought the other two when I finished the first one, I enjoyed it so much!

The narrator (Carl Prekopp) is SO GOOD!  Wonderful English accents.  Great characters, some humor, surprises.  I've laughed and said "What?!" out loud a couple of times.

To me, the idea of time travel is fascinating.  And mind boggling!!

Good news:  the kindle versions are only $.99!

[CareBears]

@CANDLEQUEEN  It is very good so far, I think you will enjoy it!

[Desert Lily]

As I'm finding the time, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and The Ties of Lyle Walker.

[teganslaw]

I'm halfway through The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware. So far, it's her best book IMO. I like the descriptions and the atmosphere surrounding the house. I'm hoping that the ending doesn't let me down.