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[sunala]

On 2/13/2015 MrsSweetieBear said:

On 2/12/2015 tansy said:

Lolokimona, I was going to suggest ORDINARY GRACE, too.

I loved Ordinary Grace and so I am looking forward to Red Knife if and when it becomes available at my library.

Also adding my for: On my Best Fave List!

Currently I am reading and thoroughly enjoying Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands, a novel about true events (the KKK, etc.) in 1951 Florida. The POV is a 13 year old girl and written about 12 years ago. Excellent so far.

MrsSweetieBear, last month I read The Storied Life of AJ Fikry and I just loved it! I also read Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands last month, and I thought it was excellent. I'm on a roll with several really good books this year!

This morning I finished Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel. It's a dystopian novel about a virus that kills 99% of the earth's population. The story is how the survivors carry on with their lives. Although the subject matter was depressing and scary, I really enjoyed it (does that make sense?)

SAgal, William Kent Krueger's Ordinary Grace was one of my very favorite books of all time. I haven't tried any of his "Cork" books but I'd imagine they'd be pretty good.

I'm off to bed. Sweet dreams everyone, and happy reading!

[lolakimono]

I just started this last night.

Welcome to the wilds of the human microbiome, where for hundreds of thousands of years bacterial and human cells have existe­d in a peaceful symbiosis that is responsible for the equilibrium and health of our bodies. Now this invisible Eden is under assault from our overreliance on medical advances including antibiotics and Cesarian sections, threatening the extinction of our irreplaceable microbes and leading to severe health consequences.

In Missing Microbes, Dr. Martin Blaser reaches back to the discovery of antibiotics, which ushered in a golden age of medicine, and then traces how our subsequent overuse of these seeming wonder drugs has left its mark on our systems, contributing to the rise of what Blaser calls our modern plagues: obesity, asthma, allergies, diabetes, and certain forms of cancer. Blaser’s studies suggest antibiotic use during early childhood poses the greatest risk to long-term health, and, alarmingly, American children receive on average seventeen courses of antibiotics before they are twenty years old. At the same time, C-sections deprive babies of important contact with their mothers’ microbiomes. Taking us into the lab to recount his groundbreaking studies, Blaser not only provides elegant support for his theory, he guides us to what we can do to avoid even more catastrophic health problems in the future.

[Judaline]

On 2/13/2015 Lilysmom said:

On 2/13/2015 skyblue said:

On 2/13/2015 Lilysmom said:

SUNNY, TANSY, I checked out the storyline for Ordinary Grace and it looks very good. It's on my to read list. Thanks for the rec. storyline follows:

From New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger comes a brilliant new novel about a young man, a small town, and murder in the summer of 1961. New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were at the ready at Halderson’s Drug Store soda counter, and Hot Stuff comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. It was a time of innocence and hope for a country with a new, young president. But for thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a summer in which death assumed many forms. When tragedy unexpectedly comes to call on his family, which includes his Methodist minister father, his passionate, artistic mother, Juilliard-bound older sister, and wise-beyond-his years kid brother, Frank finds himself thrust into an adult world full of secrets, lies, adultery, and betrayal. On the surface, Ordinary Grace is the story of the murder of a beautiful young woman, a beloved daughter and sister. At heart, it’s the story of what that tragedy does to a boy, his family, and ultimately the fabric of the small town in which he lives. Told from Frank’s perspective forty years after that fateful summer, it is a moving account of a boy standing at the door of his young manhood, trying to understand a world that seems to be falling apart around him. It is an unforgettable novel about discovering the terrible price of wisdom and the enduring grace of God.

Ordinary Grace was one of my favorites last year.

Thanks Skyblue. I am looking forward to this! LM

I read this a while back. I have absolutely no memory of it so it mustn't have made much of an impression.

mrssweetiebear, anything new by Faith Sullivan or any news at all? Loved her first and second books so much.

[dawg lover]

Just read three new books and enjoyed them all: "DEATH OF A LIAR" by M C Beaton (the newest Hamish MacBeth mystery), "OBSESSION IN DEATH" by J D Robb, and of course, "THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN" by Paula Hawkins (far superior to Gone Girl, in my opinion). Next are "MOTIVE" by Jonathan Kellerman and "AT THE DROP OF A HAT" by Jenn McKinlay (from her very cute Hat Shop cozy mystery series).

[smoky22]

dawg lover, thanks for mentioning there is a new Hamish MacBeth. I'll have to look for it.

[RetRN]

Stonewalled--Sharyl Attkison.

[skyblue]

On 2/16/2015 Judaline said:

On 2/13/2015 Lilysmom said:

On 2/13/2015 skyblue said:

On 2/13/2015 Lilysmom said:

SUNNY, TANSY, I checked out the storyline for Ordinary Grace and it looks very good. It's on my to read list. Thanks for the rec. storyline follows:

From New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger comes a brilliant new novel about a young man, a small town, and murder in the summer of 1961. New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were at the ready at Halderson’s Drug Store soda counter, and Hot Stuff comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. It was a time of innocence and hope for a country with a new, young president. But for thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a summer in which death assumed many forms. When tragedy unexpectedly comes to call on his family, which includes his Methodist minister father, his passionate, artistic mother, Juilliard-bound older sister, and wise-beyond-his years kid brother, Frank finds himself thrust into an adult world full of secrets, lies, adultery, and betrayal. On the surface, Ordinary Grace is the story of the murder of a beautiful young woman, a beloved daughter and sister. At heart, it’s the story of what that tragedy does to a boy, his family, and ultimately the fabric of the small town in which he lives. Told from Frank’s perspective forty years after that fateful summer, it is a moving account of a boy standing at the door of his young manhood, trying to understand a world that seems to be falling apart around him. It is an unforgettable novel about discovering the terrible price of wisdom and the enduring grace of God.

Ordinary Grace was one of my favorites last year.

Thanks Skyblue. I am looking forward to this! LM

I read this a while back. I have absolutely no memory of it so it mustn't have made much of an impression.

mrssweetiebear, anything new by Faith Sullivan or any news at all? Loved her first and second books so much.

I keep hoping for the sequel to The Cape Ann to be released in a Kindle version. I'd be interested in more books by this author.

[dawg lover]

Smoky (and other Hamish MacBeth fans), check out the Constable Evans series by Rhys Bowen. The first book is called "EVANS ABOVE." I recently read the whole series, and enjoyed them very much. Like the Hamish MacBeth books, the main character is a policeman in a quirky village, but it is set in Wales.

[tansy]

I just finished THE STORIED LIFE OF AJ FIKRY, which I enjoyed. I'm not sure about my next pick THE TRANSCRIPTIONIST but I'll give it a go.

[Judaline]

On 2/16/2015 dawg lover said: Smoky (and other Hamish MacBeth fans), check out the Constable Evans series by Rhys Bowen. The first book is called "EVANS ABOVE." I recently read the whole series, and enjoyed them very much. Like the Hamish MacBeth books, the main character is a policeman in a quirky village, but it is set in Wales.

I read this a while ago but for some reason it just didn't do it for me. I just placed my request for the new Hamish. So hard for me to remember which ones I've read already. I should have started at the beginning of her list but didn't know I was going to like them so much and then it was too late.