Re: What Are You Reading --- July 2014

Yahooey · ‎07-09-2010

Currently reading WHEN SHADOWS FALL by JT ELLISON. This is a mystery series - your cop, ME and a profiler. I like the characters and this time the scene is VA and DC. A man sends the ME a request to perform the autopsy if he is found dead. It looked like a suicide but of course wasn't. She was also the executor of the will although she doesn't know the dead man. It is fast paced and some DNA found on the victim was from a missing child found dead years ago. If the missing child is alive, then the body found and ID as the child is who? I'm really enjoying it.

Judaline · ‎03-10-2010

Just finishing the last ever Maeve Binchy book, Chestnut Street. You have to be a MB fan to like this book. Every chapter is a story. Some little, some a little longer. All delightful, all with a message. I'm nearing the end and to my surprise, the characters are all getting together somehow. Well, because they all live on Chestnut Street. It's a sweet book. Her DH said she wrote these stories over decades with the intention of putting them all in a book someday. I believe he did it for her after her death, but not certain about this.

SWEET · ‎03-09-2010

PTB on Jen Lancaster's Twisted Sisters. Kept falling asleep and couldn't get past page 57. I have too many other ones I want to read which means onto Lisa See's China Dolls. Her last one I ptb on so let's see if this one is any better.

glmama · ‎03-09-2010

On 7/26/2014 SWEET said:
PTB on Jen Lancaster's Twisted Sisters. Kept falling asleep and couldn't get past page 57. I have too many other ones I want to read which means onto Lisa See's China Dolls. Her last one I ptb on so let's see if this one is any better. ${#emotions_dlg.w00t}$

I've read a few of JL's books and I was eyeing this one as a fun, easy read (by easy, not much "deep thought" involved, like issues of war/race/religion!). I will take it off my list now b/c there are just TOO many that are so good waiting to be read!

glmama · ‎03-09-2010

OOOOh, almost forgot, Ladies--

I am not typically a YA reader. But I recently picked up a book called Landline by the author Rainbow Rowell. This was an "easy", fun, read, without being dumb. Quick, smart, etc. Rainbow Rowell wrote a very well-reviewed YA book called Eleanor & Park (have not read--think it's better suited to my 12 yo and his age). However, really good writer that I think can cross that YA/adult barrier.

SWEET · ‎03-09-2010

On 7/26/2014 glmama said:
On 7/26/2014 SWEET said:
PTB on Jen Lancaster's Twisted Sisters. Kept falling asleep and couldn't get past page 57. I have too many other ones I want to read which means onto Lisa See's China Dolls. Her last one I ptb on so let's see if this one is any better. ${#emotions_dlg.w00t}$

I've read a few of JL's books and I was eyeing this one as a fun, easy read (by easy, not much "deep thought" involved, like issues of war/race/religion!). I will take it off my list now b/c there are just TOO many that are so good waiting to be read!

Big disappointment. Thought it was going to be fun chick lit. I still haven't read her last one that was fiction but did enjoy the one before that one. Only have read one nf of hers -- The Tao Of Martha and thought it was great.

abbalulu · ‎03-20-2012

I read Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight. It was fast moving and I enjoyed it a lot. It concerns the serious matter of cyberbullying. It makes me glad that our kids are grown but makes me worry about the world the grandkids will be going into.

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

walkingal · ‎03-09-2010

Family Life by Akhil Sharma is a novel about an Indian family who immigrates to the U.S. in the late 1970's. The father is bored with his job in India, and dreams of moving his family to America. He leaves his family and moves first, and settles in Queens, NY. His family follows him a year later. The parents have high hopes for their new life, especially for their elder son, who is accepted into a prestigious high school. But then one summer, tragedy strikes the elder son, and all of their lives are changed. The story is told by the younger son, and it's sad and touching to read about his life and his family's life through his eyes and what he was feeling. I also think the novel is a good insight into the trials and tribulations of immigrants' assimilation into a foreign world and culture.

insomniac · ‎03-09-2010

Judaline, I am also loving Maeve Binchy's Chestnut Street.

I have a friend who calls Binchy's books romance novels.

I don't consider myself a romance novel fan, but I sure do love Maeve Binchy's stories!

Vamp · ‎04-14-2010

On 7/3/2014 skyblue said: I am currently Mary Kay Andrews' SAVE THE DATE. I had to add the M. C. Beaton Hamish Macbeth sample to my Kindle based on your recommendations. I LOVED the Anne George SOUTHERN SISTERS mysteries. I was sad to learn of this author's passing as her books about sisters Patricia Anne and Mary Alice really tickled my funny bone.

I enjoy Mary Kay Andrews' books and also LOVED Anne George's SS series. Good picks!