Re: What Are You Reading --- January 2015

Judaline · ‎03-10-2010

smoky, you are making me christie homesick-I think I'll pick up one. I love picturing david suchet (my caps don't work) as poirot. I don't think hastings was in the books, was he? I love his "good lord" and "I say" quotes. Just loved the series so much.

abbalulu · ‎03-20-2012

I read the third in the Flavia DeLuce series A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley. I also read an old Joan Rivers book called Don't Count the Candles.

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
Groucho Marx

LoriLori · ‎03-12-2010

On 1/29/2015 Judaline said:
smoky, you are making me christie homesick-I think I'll pick up one. I love picturing david suchet (my caps don't work) as poirot. I don't think hastings was in the books, was he? I love his "good lord" and "I say" quotes. Just loved the series so much.

Me too! So homesick for Christie! Up north I owned every single one of her books, even the short stories and the Tuppence & Tommy ones which were meh. And I'd forget who did it and read them over.

Hastings was in the books as I recall.

skyblue · ‎03-14-2010

I finished We Were Liars by E. Lockhart. It was a quick read. I liked it.

Now I'm reading Still Alice By Lisa Genova. I am hoping for some insight into this hideous disease.

smoky22 · ‎05-30-2010

On 1/29/2015 LoriLori said:
On 1/29/2015 Judaline said:
smoky, you are making me christie homesick-I think I'll pick up one. I love picturing david suchet (my caps don't work) as poirot. I don't think hastings was in the books, was he? I love his "good lord" and "I say" quotes. Just loved the series so much.

Me too! So homesick for Christie! Up north I owned every single one of her books, even the short stories and the Tuppence & Tommy ones which were meh. And I'd forget who did it and read them over.

Hastings was in the books as I recall.

Hastings was in the first book. Poirot is such a character. I read them all so long ago, I never remember "who done it" either. Well, no one forgets the Murder of Roger Ackroyd or Murder On the Orient Express.

I enjoyed the Tommy and Tuppence I just read but it did seem very familiar. I wonder if that was the only one I ever read in that series. I might try another one.

"everybody counts or nobody counts"

Judaline · ‎03-10-2010

I didn't care for the t&t books. Just didn't. Loved Miss Marple. I guess my favorite was 'and then there were none.' but it's hard to pick one.

MrsSweetieBear · ‎03-10-2010

I finished Louise Penny's The Beautiful Mystery and wound up enjoying it more than I thought I would (based on the location). I hope the next installment returns us to Three Pines though. She is just such a good writer, I will read all in the series. I think there are only 1 or 2 more. Darn.

Now I'm about half way through Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty. I've read 2 of hers previously. One I hated (What Alice Forgot) and one I love (The Husband's Secret). So I wasn't sure what I would think of this newest. So far I am pretty Wow'ed!

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

Pianomama · ‎03-10-2010

I just finished The Passage by Jason Cronin. It was hard to put it down, but it was very long. Took me a while. Now I am going to check the book out that follows it-The Twelve.

It was a really strange story-futuristic. I am not usually into that kind of book, but I have enjoyed the Hunger Games trilogy and the Divergent trilogy also.

Pianomama · ‎03-10-2010

Sorry, it is JUSTIN Cronin, not Jason.

SWEET · ‎03-09-2010

Finished Billy Joel by Fred Schruers. As an ultimate Billy Joel fan, it was a well written book w/BJ's permission and he had a lot of input into it w/quotes, etc. Loved it.

Onto Rebecca Makkai's The Hundred-Year House. Enjoyed her first one too.