Book Club

[Lilysmom]

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@DiAnne wrote:

I started The Girls by Emma Cline.  I read 70 pages and gave up. I just could not get into this book.

On to Curious Minds by Janet Evanovich and Phoef Sutton.  A light fast enjoyable read.  

I am now starting A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny.  Don't remember where I heard about this book but there are over 500 on the waiting list for it at the library.  Has anyone here read it?

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@DiAnne, I read A Great Reckoning.  It is the 11th or 12th in the series.  I enjoyed it.  Big wait list ay my library as well.  It is the Inspector Gamache series.  LM

[Judaline]

@CLEM   Hmmmm........, what about his brother?

[CLEM]

@Judaline  I am not that far into the book  (I am a slow reader) still reading about the grandfather.  But I learned a lot of history about my homestate in Germany and he actually came from a village near where I grew up.

[sandy53]

Today I finished The Twelve Days of Christmas, the new book by Debbie Macomber.  It was a cute, light, fast, romance, but I'm not sure it was worth the $10.99 it cost for my Kindle.  I read several Christmas books each year to get me in the spirit of the holidays.

[beckyb1012]

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@sandy53 wrote:

Today I finished The Twelve Days of Christmas, the new book by Debbie Macomber.  It was a cute, light, fast, romance, but I'm not sure it was worth the $10.99 it cost for my Kindle.  I read several Christmas books each year to get me in the spirit of the holidays.

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It was great but I checked it out at the library since it is so small.  I believe there will be one more new release for the season regarding Christmas.  Probably will be smallish too.

[DiAnne]

@Lilysmom

Thanks for the info.  I don't know where I heard about this book and I did not know it was a series.  So far I am enjoying it - took a little while to sort out the characters.  

[SantaFe64gal]

Just curious about Christmas themed books - they all seem to be kind of cute, light reading - are there any really good Christmas books out there?

[Susan Louise]

I am reading 'Sixpence House' by Paul Collins

[beckyb1012]

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@SantaFe64gal wrote:

Just curious about Christmas themed books - they all seem to be kind of cute, light reading - are there any really good Christmas books out there?

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Every year starting around Halloween I read for the umpteenth time the Cape Light series by Thomas Kinkade and Katherine Spencer.  Small town life and mostly set around Thanksgiving to Christmas.  There are about 15 books now and of course Katherine is writing them by herself now.  Much like Jan Karon's Mitford series, which I also love.  Try them and you will be hooked.  She did a spin off called the Angel Island series.

[Lilysmom]

@DiAnne, if you like the book, you should go back and start the series.  There are 11 or 12 books.  Some are really good, all are enjoyable.  You will get to know the characters and look forward to the coming books.  

Here is the list in order

Still Life

A Fatal Grace

The Cruellest Month

A Rule Against Murder

The Brutal Telling

The Hangman

Bury Your Dead

A Trick of the Light

The Beautiful Mystery

How the Light Gets In

Long Way Home

The Nature of the Beast

A Great Reckoning

I always recommend this series to my reading friends.  She is Canadian (as am I) so I asmittedly have a bias.  I don't read her because she is Canadian. I read her because she is good.

Hope you take the plunge!  LM