Re: What Are You Reading --- January 2015

Sagal · ‎03-13-2012

Just FYI - Book Bub has THE HOMECOMING OF SAMUEL LAKE on sale for $1.99 - if you haven't read this check it out - a WONDERFUL book!

smoky22 · ‎05-30-2010

I finished Tell The Wolves I'm Home. The characters never did resonate with me.

Also finished Moriarty. The author thought he was so clever. I say skip it.

Then I finally finished All The Light you Cannot See. It's a beautifully written, extraordinary book. It deserves all the praise it's getting. I know it took me a while to get into it (and too deeply reminded me of my parent's experience in Germany during the war) but in the end it is a very realistic and deeply moving story.

Trying to decide what to read next, and in the meantime I started one of my free kindle books, The Secret Adversary, a Tommy and Tuppence story, by that grande dame of mystery, Agatha Christie.

"everybody counts or nobody counts"

MrsSweetieBear · ‎03-10-2010

I finished The Outcast Dead. Another fast paced great (mystery) read by Elly Griffiths.

Now I'm reading and loving The Rosie Project by Graeme Simision. Did I read about this delightful novel here? It may have been a rec. of LibraryThing website where I catalog and list my books.

~Dogs are my favorite people and my favorite people are dogs.~

SWEET · ‎03-09-2010

On 1/20/2015 LoriLori said:
I finished "The Burgess Boys" by Elizabeth Strout and as you said, Sweet, it was not good at all. I can't even believe Strout could write a book I dislike so much. Even the most likeable of characters was not rootable and the rest were miseries. I loved her other three, "Olive Kitteridge" is one of my favorite books of all time.

I'm about to start "The Art Forger" by B.A. (Barbara) Shapiro. It's a novel about the greatest art theft of all time, which occurred at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (a truly lovely place; I've been there before the theft, and since). And it's about art forgery in general and a woman who is asked to forge a Degas. Many reviewers say it's a fast-paced read. Has anyone here read it?

I disliked Olive Kitteridge just as much. LOL.

As for The Art Forger, I couldn't finish that one either. LOL.

lovescats · ‎03-10-2010

On 1/20/2015 SAgal said:
Just FYI - Book Bub has THE HOMECOMING OF SAMUEL LAKE on sale for $1.99 - if you haven't read this check it out - a WONDERFUL book!

SAgal some reviews are upset by the abuse in it were you / I do like to get books like that on sale so I'm thinking about it

walkingal · ‎03-09-2010

Enjoying another new author for me, Stewart O'Nan's Emily, Alone.

lovescats · ‎03-10-2010

When I read The Burgess Boys I had the characters pictured in my head as though a movie but now I forget but for one of the brothers I pictured alec baldwin.

Sagal · ‎03-13-2012

On 1/21/2015 lovescats said:
On 1/20/2015 SAgal said:
Just FYI - Book Bub has THE HOMECOMING OF SAMUEL LAKE on sale for $1.99 - if you haven't read this check it out - a WONDERFUL book!

SAgal some reviews are upset by the abuse in it were you / I do like to get books like that on sale so I'm thinking about it

My bad - when I thought about the book I did not remember the abuse - I just remember it made an impression on me and I was glad I read it.

Sagal · ‎03-13-2012

Just finished DESPERATE by DANIEL PALMER. I thought it was good - not outstanding. The story was interesting but pretty incredible.

lovescats · ‎03-10-2010

On 1/21/2015 SAgal said:
On 1/21/2015 lovescats said:
On 1/20/2015 SAgal said:
Just FYI - Book Bub has THE HOMECOMING OF SAMUEL LAKE on sale for $1.99 - if you haven't read this check it out - a WONDERFUL book!

SAgal some reviews are upset by the abuse in it were you / I do like to get books like that on sale so I'm thinking about it

My bad - when I thought about the book I did not remember the abuse - I just remember it made an impression on me and I was glad I read it.

thanks that gives me a better idea of the book