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[skyblue]

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.

[SydneyH]

Just started the first of a urban fiction trilogy..........

[Lilysmom]

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

[MrsSweetieBear]

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.

[smoky22]

Just a comment on Red Knife. It's the eight installment in a series (Cork O'Connor). I read the first book in the series and was not impressed (can't remember the name). Apparently lolakimono read the 8th book in the series and was also not impressed. MrsSweetieBear, I know you like to read a series in order and I just wanted you to know that Red Knife is not the first book in that series.

I haven't read Ordinary Grace but I do know it's a standalone book that isn't part of the Cork O'Connor series.

[Sagal]

On 2/12/2015 tansy said:

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

ABSOLUTELY LOVED ORDINARY GRACE! And he has a sequel to Ordinary Grace coming out next spring!! Read this in his blog on GOODREADS!

[MrsSweetieBear]

On 2/14/2015 smokymtngal said:

Just a comment on Red Knife. It's the eight installment in a series (Cork O'Connor). I read the first book in the series and was not impressed (can't remember the name). Apparently lolakimono read the 8th book in the series and was also not impressed. MrsSweetieBear, I know you like to read a series in order and I just wanted you to know that Red Knife is not the first book in that series.

I haven't read Ordinary Grace but I do know it's a standalone book that isn't part of the Cork O'Connor series.

Oh! I didn't realize that. Mahalo!!

[SWEET]

Finished You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz. The beginning was slow but enjoyed the 2nd part of the book.

Up next is The Marrying of Chani Kaufman by Eve Harris.

[mcbet]

I just finished The Sisters by NANCY JENSEN, the story of a family from 1927 to 2007. I enjoyed reading it but rather glad it was not my family. Then I started The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by MARY ANN SHAFFER and ANNIE BARROWS and am really enjoying this one.Yesterday I planned on an early night and finally made it into bed at midnight and the same thing may happen tonight. It is a series of letters from an English writer to some people she does not know (yet) in Guernsey. Funny, sad and interesting.

[lolakimono]

I just finished this.

In a house in London a woman starts a new life, trying to put tragedy behind her. Then a pretty blonde child runs into view, bringing with her an inexplicable suggestion of evil.

Once Julia Lofting had a husband and a daughter. But everything has changed since she bolted from her marriage, in flight from the unbearable truth of her daughter's death. For Julia, there is no escape. Another child awaits, another mother suffers, and a circle of the damned gathers around her. The haunting has begun . .