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[Sweetbay magnolia]

Adelle Waldman, The Love Affairs of Nataniel P. Decent prose. Reminds me of a watered down (more mainstream) but better Rules of Attraction by that miserable writer that some I have known thought was really cool to adore (Ellis).

I'm enjoying it. The bed scenes are a little gratuitous, but that may be by design. The psychological analysis between the characters, and in Nathan's mind, is interesting enough. What else is there to pen fiction about?

[number one queen]

I have just started using kindle app on I pad love it, would someone tell me what Ian doing wrong,I go to Amazon do the one click for kindle and end up with the sample version, then end up calling for help, which I hate thank you. Also, started reading one that was recommended on this thread called Whispers Of The Dead, by Simon Beckett, enjoying!

[number one queen]

Also I picked up The Black House, by Peter May, a Scottish mystery,very good, caught my interest!

[lovescats]

On 1/19/2015 number one queen said: I have just started using kindle app on I pad love it, would someone tell me what Ian doing wrong,I go to Amazon do the one click for kindle and end up with the sample version, then end up calling for help, which I hate thank you. Also, started reading one that was recommended on this thread called Whispers Of The Dead, by Simon Beckett, enjoying!

I think on another electronics thread someone said that you can't buy books or purchases on the amazon apps because then amazon has to pay the developer or site part of the proceeds I'm not sure of the exact terms.

I go to safari and the amazon site and make the purchases from there but I send them to my kindle but I can still send them to my mini ipad too.

[brewhaha]

The Empty Throne - Bernard Cornwell

Read it while you're on the throne.

[walkingal]

A new author for me, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison. After a great loss, a teenager with muscular dystrophy and his caregiver go on a road trip across the American West The novel ponders life's terrible surprises and the heart's ability to heal.

[lolakimono]

It was 1977 when a shoeshine boy, Emanuel Jaques, was brutally murdered in Toronto. In the aftermath of the crime, twelve-year-old Antonio Rebelo explores his neighborhood’s dark garages and labyrinthine back alleys along with his rapscallion friends.

As the media unravels the truth behind the Shoeshine Boy murder, Antonio sees his immigrant family—and his Portuguese neighborhood—with new eyes, becoming aware of the frightening reality that no one is really taking care of him. So intent are his parents and his neighbors on keeping the old traditions alive that they act as if they still live in a small village, not in a big city that puts their kids in the kind of danger they would not dare imagine.

[sunala]

Thanks SWEET, I'm feeling a bit better today but this bug is hanging on and won't let go.

I am now reading The Comfort of Lies by Randy Susan Meyers. I'm enjoying it very much and can't wait to get back to it. The book is somewhat like a soap opera, about a single woman who has affair with a married man, gets pregnant, and gives up the child for adoption. The story is written from three women's points of view; the unmarried woman, the woman who adopts the child, and the wife of the man who had the affair. I haven't read a book like this in a while, and I'm enjoying not having to think too much.

I'm having some pretty good luck with books this year

[LoriLori]

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?

[Colinka]

I am reading The Dress Shop of Dreams by Meena Van Praag. It is very enjoyable and quirky--has a taste of magic and whimsy. Reminds me of Sarah Addison Allen's books. (Speaking of which, her new book, First Frost, is out today! It's a sequel to Garden Spells.)