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[smoky22]

For a while I had nothing to read and all of a sudden all my library holds became available. I'm trying to read Tell The Wolves I'm Home and finding it very slow. Maybe too YA for me. I keep looking at the pages and thinking I've only read 120 pages. It seems like I've been reading it forever.

Also reading All The Light We Cannot See. So, I've read 200 pages (which is 100 pages more than the last time I tried to read it) and I think it's going to be relentlessly depressing. Please, someone tell me I should go on. I want to like it.

Still reading Moriarty. At least it isn't depressing.

[skyblue]

On 1/15/2015 smokymtngal said:

For a while I had nothing to read and all of a sudden all my library holds became available. I'm trying to read Tell The Wolves I'm Home and finding it very slow. Maybe too YA for me. I keep looking at the pages and thinking I've only read 120 pages. It seems like I've been reading it forever.

Also reading All The Light We Cannot See. So, I've read 200 pages (which is 100 pages more than the last time I tried to read it) and I think it's going to be relentlessly depressing. Please, someone tell me I should go on. I want to like it.

Still reading Moriarty. At least it isn't depressing.

I really loved BOTH books! I hope you can find the positive messages I found, too!

[smoky22]

skyblue, thank you for the response. You've given me hope.

[sunala]

Hi everyone, last night I finished Lay that Trumpet in Our Hands by Susan Carol McCarthy, and I loved it. The book is about a family living in central Florida during the 1950s, with the Ku Klux Klan quite active in that area. The story is told by the young teenage daughter. The book is based on fact, and is an excellent coming-of-age book about growing up in that particular time of our country's history. I recommend it.

I started The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, and I'm already hooked. I know it's going to be a great read.

LoriLori I loved The Middlesteins. Parts of the book stayed in my mind for quite a while.

BeckiWV, you're going to love 11/22/63! It's one of my all-time favorite books. Please let us know what you think about it.

Happy reading!

[MrsSweetieBear]

On 1/15/2015 smokymtngal said:

On 1/15/2015 dawg lover said: Hi MrsSweetieBear, just wanted to let you and other Elly Griffiths fans know that she will have a new book out on April 28th, called "THE GHOST FIELDS." I enjoy her books as well.

Thanks dawg lover. Love her Ruth Galloway books. I thought I had read the book was coming out in March. Oh, well, I'm sure it will be worth the wait.

Oh, I'm glad to hear that! I have enjoyed this entire series and don't want to see it end. I just started #6, The Outcast Dead, and it might be the best yet. She draws you in immediately.

[LoriLori]

Sunala, please call me Lori and yes, I haven't even started another book because I'm not ready to let go of The Middlesteins. Have you or anyone else here read her other books, and if yes are they even nearly as good?

I think next up will be The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout. Hope it's half as good as "The Middlesteins."

[SWEET]

On 1/16/2015 LoriLori said:

Sunala, please call me Lori and yes, I haven't even started another book because I'm not ready to let go of The Middlesteins. Have you or anyone else here read her other books, and if yes are they even nearly as good?

I think next up will be The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout. Hope it's half as good as "The Middlesteins."

The Middlesteins stayed w/me for a long time too. I really enjoyed The Kept Man by her but didn't like The Melting Season but that's just my opinion of course.

Really disliked The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout. I liked Amy & Isabelle best by her if you haven't read it yet.

Finished Robin Sloan's Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore. I was ready to ptb but stuck with it and ended up liking it more than I thought I would. The beginning was slow but the middle and end was better.

Since I have one library book left that's not due for a while, decided to read one of my own -- Danielle Ganek's The Summer I Left Gatsby.

[sunala]

I've been in bed the last few days with a miserable "bug," so I've been reading a lot. I finished The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry and I just LOVED it. Even though my eyes were tearing from my watery eyes, I just made the font larger on my Kindle and kept reading. I've never done that with a book before. This year is definitely starting out with some 4 and 5 star books!

Lori, The Middlesteins definitely stayed with me for a while. There was just something about that book that captured me.

I don't know what I'm reading next, but tonight I started watching Water for Elephants, which I've never seen although I adored the book. The movie is very good but I had to close my eyes for a while.

Now I'm going back to bed and hopefully I'll feel better tomorrow.

Happy reading everyone!

[SWEET]

On 1/18/2015 sunala said:

I've been in bed the last few days with a miserable "bug," so I've been reading a lot. I finished The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry and I just LOVED it. Even though my eyes were tearing from my watery eyes, I just made the font larger on my Kindle and kept reading. I've never done that with a book before. This year is definitely starting out with some 4 and 5 star books!

Lori, The Middlesteins definitely stayed with me for a while. There was just something about that book that captured me.

I don't know what I'm reading next, but tonight I started watching Water for Elephants, which I've never seen although I adored the book. The movie is very good but I had to close my eyes for a while.

Now I'm going back to bed and hopefully I'll feel better tomorrow.

Happy reading everyone!

Hope you feel better soon. I loved the book and the movie.

[maximillian]

I just read The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins. It is not an action-packed story, but rather a psychological thriller. It has been compared to Gone Girl, but I think it is quite a bit different. It's a good read, but keep going, it is worth reading to the end.