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[Judaline]

lori, this reminds me of what I did once-I read The Reliable Wife and absolutely hated it. The characters were all gruesome, dark, awful people. I didn't like or connect with any of them. It was by Robert Goolrick. I told myself I'd never read anything by this guy again. I guess it was a couple years later that I picked up Heading Out to Wonderful, not realizing he wrote it. Loved it. So, go figure. You never know.

[SydneyH]

Harper Collins sent me a copy to review, the autobiography of Junior Gotti and his associates. I'm enjoying it and it's a vastly different account then what I had heard previously about this crime family.

[lovescats]

Never Home by Laird Hunt I really enjoyed this but it's not a light story.

[Yahooey]

Finish Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty and Tell The Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt.

Big Little Lies is a quick read on the little we know behind closed doors. Someone is killed in the beginning and the story backtracks weeks before the tragedy. Everyone's viewpoints and thoughts are reveal little by little as the story unfolds. The story centers on some moms of kindergarten kids and their interactions and cliques. I enjoyed it.

I discovered Tell the Wolves I'm Home by the raves on this board. It is beautiful, tragic, sad and up lifting. Story is told by a young girl whose beloved uncle is diagnosed with AIDS in the 80s and died early on. The teen girl is trying find out where she fits in. Her older sister is no longer her best friend as she once was. Her artist uncle who would bring her to NYC and made everything magical is now gone. She befriended the partner of her uncle who is portrayed as the villain by her family. She started meeting him secretly and discovered that nothing is what it appears to be. It is beautifully written.

[brewhaha]

All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. This is a good read.

[Pianomama]

Just finished Revival by Stephen King. It was long and boring until the end.

[Judaline]

On 2/24/2015 lovescats said:

Never Home by Laird Hunt I really enjoyed this but it's not a light story.

If you liked this, you might like Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles. I really liked it. I like all her books, but there are few. Stormy Weather was another good one by her-about the dust storms in Texas, during the depression years. I wish she wrote more.

[lovescats]

On 2/25/2015 Judaline said:

On 2/24/2015 lovescats said:

<em>Never Home</em> by Laird Hunt I really enjoyed this but it's not a light story.

If you liked this, you might like Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles. I really liked it. I like all her books, but there are few. Stormy Weather was another good one by her-about the dust storms in Texas, during the depression years. I wish she wrote more.

I have Enemy Women I have to read it bought it when it was a kindle daily deal. Oh so much stuff to read.

[DiAnne]

I just finished Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson which I found a little disturbing in some parts. Did not realize people lived like this.

"After trying to help Benjamin Pearl, an undernourished, nearly feral eleven-year-old boy living in the Montana wilderness, social worker Pete Snow comes face-to-face with the boy's profoundly disturbed father, Jeremiah. With courage and caution, Pete slowly earns a measure of trust from this paranoid survivalist itching for a final conflict that will signal the coming End Times. But as Pete's own family spins out of control, Pearl's activities spark the full-blown interest of the FBI, putting Pete at the center of a massive manhunt from which no one will emerge unscathed. In this shattering and iconic American novel, Smith Henderson explores the complexities of freedom, community, grace, suspicion, and anarchy, brilliantly depicting our nation's disquieting and violent contradictions" -- from publisher's web site.

[LoriLori]

I finished "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" by Mohsin Hamed. It's a profoundly disturbing book wherein the narrator describes his life as a Pakistani immigrant, attending Princeton, being recruited by a top business firm in Manhattan, in love with a wealthy white woman -- and how everything changes for him after 9/11. It's not long and the narration makes it go very quickly and it really, really makes you think. There's a movie but as with so many books I can't imagine it being made into a film.

Now I'm reading Katherine Howe's "The House of Velvet and Glass." It starts with members of the wealthy Allston family of Boston dying on the Titanic and the rest takes place in Boston after that. I don't know yet know if it's the real Allstons for whom that neighborhood is made but I'm bored stiff and may never find out. She wrote "The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane" which I loved...and, so far, this is just bad, boring and clunky.