What Are You Reading --- January 2015 - Page 3

LoriLori · ‎03-12-2010

On 1/1/2015 smokymtngal said:
Thank you, lainey, for starting us once again in the new year. I can't believe it's 2015.

I just finished The Handsome Man's Deluxe Cafe by Alexander McCall Smith, a perfect book to read for the holidays. I thought it was one of the better books in the series.

I'm about 100 pages into A Tale For The Time Being by Ruth Ozeki. I'm not always a fan of books that alternate points of view, but the writing in this book is exceptional. I'm intrigued to see where it goes.

Smoky, A Tale for the Time Being is one of my favorite books. Can't wait to hear what you think of it

I've pre-ordered my copy of the new Flavia. Two more days. A different setting, as you probably know; a boarding school in Canada, the one Harriet attended.

FindingMyJoy · ‎12-28-2012

I just finished W*cked Autumn by GM Malliet. This was an author new to me. Another thread here had recommended this mystery series. I enjoyed the English setting of the story. It felt like a mini-vacation. I have already reserved the next book in the series from my library. Thank you for this recommendation! I love reading these book threads - you all give such good recommendations especially since I seem to get stuck reading the same authors over and over. It's nice to try something new!

Epicurean · ‎03-09-2010

Reading a gift from Christmas the title is ""CELIA GARTH""' written in 1959 about a young seamstress during the civil war. I love historical fiction and this is one of the best I've read.

MrsSweetieBear · ‎03-10-2010

I finished off 2014 with my last book of the year, Tell the Wolves I'm Home, and I agree with the previous posts. Excellent.

Before that I read The Painter by Peter Heller, which I also loved.

I'm currently reading Some Luck, Jane Smiley's new one. A slow quiet kind of novel and a good start to the new year.

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

Bridgegal · ‎03-09-2010

I just finished Gray Mountain by John Grisham today. I liked it a lot.

smoky22 · ‎05-30-2010

On 1/4/2015 LoriLori said:
Smoky, A Tale for the Time Being is one of my favorite books. Can't wait to hear what you think of it

I've pre-ordered my copy of the new Flavia. Two more days. A different setting, as you probably know; a boarding school in Canada, the one Harriet attended.

Lori, you lucky girl! I don't know when I'll be able to get the next Flavia book from the library. I don't even see it listed yet. Looking forward to her new adventures.

A Tale For The Time Being is an extraordinary book, so multi-layered, and beautifully written. I would have never picked up this book without your recommendation. I'm about 60% into it (this book is worth not rushing through it). I hope I'm not disappointed in the ending, but no matter how it ends I will not be sorry to have read it. Thank you for recommending it.

"everybody counts or nobody counts"

lolakimono · ‎03-29-2012

I just started this one:

Sarah Nickerson is like any other career-driven supermom in Welmont, the affluent Boston suburb where she leads a hectic but charmed life with her husband Bob, faithful nanny, and three children—Lucy, Charlie, and nine-month-old Linus. Between recruiting the best and brightest minds as the vice president of human resources at Berkley Consulting; shuttling the kids to soccer, day care, and piano lessons; convincing her son’s teacher that he may not, in fact, have ADD; and making it home in time for dinner, it’s a wonder this over-scheduled, over-achieving Harvard graduate has time to breathe.

A self-confessed balloon about to burst, Sarah miraculously manages every minute of her life like an air traffic controller. Until one fateful day, while driving to work and trying to make a phone call, she looks away from the road for one second too long. In the blink of an eye, all the rapidly moving parts of her jam-packed life come to a screeching halt.

A traumatic brain injury completely erases the left side of her world, and for once, Sarah relinquishes control to those around her, including her formerly absent mother. Without the ability to even floss her own teeth, she struggles to find answers about her past and her uncertain future.

Now, as she wills herself to regain her independence and heal, Sarah must learn that her real destiny—her new, true life—may in fact lie far from the world of conference calls and spreadsheets. And that a happiness and peace greater than all the success in the world is close within reach, if only she slows down long enough to notice.

skyblue · ‎03-14-2010

On 1/5/2015 smokymtngal said:
On 1/4/2015 LoriLori said: <p class="quote_author">Smoky, A Tale for the Time Being is one of my favorite books. Can't wait to hear what you think of it

I've pre-ordered my copy of the new Flavia. Two more days. A different setting, as you probably know; a boarding school in Canada, the one Harriet attended.

Lori, you lucky girl! I don't know when I'll be able to get the next Flavia book from the library. I don't even see it listed yet. Looking forward to her new adventures.

A Tale For The Time Being is an extraordinary book, so multi-layered, and beautifully written. I would have never picked up this book without your recommendation. I'm about 60% into it (this book is worth not rushing through it). I hope I'm not disappointed in the ending, but no matter how it ends I will not be sorry to have read it. Thank you for recommending it.

Thanks for the recommendation. I added a sample of A TALE FOR THE TIME BEING to my Kindle. This sounds intriguing to me!