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[smoky22]

On 3/15/2015 Judaline said:

smoky, I hated The Blackhouse. I pulled the bookmark on it quite early.

Judaline, you were a lot smarter than I was. Terrible book!

[Lilysmom]

I am in the first 1/3 of the book Red Sparrow. I didn't think I was going to like it but it is pulling me in now. It gets a rating of 3.91 out of 5 on Good Reads. Thanks to whoever suggested Good Reads to me. I'm love it and use it religiously.

Here is the storyline...

In today’s Russia, dominated by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, state intelligence officer Dominika Egorova struggles to survive in the cast-iron bureaucracy of post-Soviet intelligence. Drafted against her will to become a “Sparrow,” a trained seductress in the service, Dominika is assigned to operate against Nathaniel Nash, a first-tour CIA officer who handles the CIA’s most sensitive penetration of Russian intelligence. The two young intelligence officers, trained in their respective spy schools, collide in a charged atmosphere of tradecraft, deception, and inevitably, a forbidden spiral of carnal attraction that threatens their careers and the security of America’s valuable mole in Moscow. Seeking revenge against her soulless masters, Dominika begins a fatal double life, recruited by the CIA to ferret out a high-level traitor in Washington; hunt down a Russian illegal buried deep in the U.S. military and, against all odds, to return to Moscow as the new-generation penetration of Putin’s intelligence service. Dominika and Nathaniel’s impossible love affair and twisted spy game come to a deadly conclusion in the shocking climax of this electrifying, up-to-the minute spy thriller.

[SWEET]

Finished Mona Simpson's Casebook. It was a coming of age book about a family and very different from what I usually read. Enjoyable.

Onto Michelle Wildgen's Bread and Butter.

[catmama]

On 3/14/2015 smokymtngal said:

I'm still reading A Sudden Light. It's totally different from The Art of Racing in the Rain, but I really like it so far.

Two other books just became available on my kindle (The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell, and Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel) I've been waiting a long time for both of those books. I'd better hurry up and finish my current book.

I'm listening to The Bone Clocks and am really enjoying it. I tried to read Cloud Atlas, but just couldn't get into it, so maybe I'll try the audible version after I finish Bone Clocks.

[SydneyH]

Just started.......

[lolakimono]

I finished this one-

"When life is murder, who can you trust?"

One minute Mia Quinn is in her basement, chatting on the phone with a colleague at the prosecutor's office. The next minute she hears a gunshot over the line, and Mia listens in horror as her colleague and friend Colleen bleeds to death.

Mia's a natural for heading up the murder investigation, but these days it's all she can do to hold her life together. As a new widow with a pile of debts, a troubled teenaged son, and a four-year-old who wakes up screaming at night, she needs more time with her family, not less--and working Colleen's case will be especially demanding. But Colleen was her friend, and she needs to keep her job. So Mia reluctantly teams up with detective Charlie Carlson to investigate. But the deeper they dig, the more complications unfold--even the unsettling possibility that someone may be coming after "her."

[smoky22]

On 3/16/2015 catmama said:

I'm listening to The Bone Clocks and am really enjoying it. I tried to read Cloud Atlas, but just couldn't get into it, so maybe I'll try the audible version after I finish Bone Clocks.

I started The Bone Clocks and found it's several connected stories. I really liked the first one. I'm up to the 2nd one (the book is over 600 pages) and it is a little strange, but the author seems to be a brilliant writer. I never read Cloud Atlas. I tried to watch the movie once and couldn't get into the movie so I didn't think I'd like the book either. Most reviewers said this is a better book.

[Judaline]

Going through Netflix movies, I found a Three Pines Mystery-it was a Masterpiece Theater presentation two years ago. Huh? Not here it wasn't or I totally missed it. It stars Nathaniel Parker of the Inspector Lynley series. BAD CHOICE! How could they pick him???? I picture David Suchet. Oh, well, a little Gramache is better than no Gramache. I put it in my Queue.

[Judaline]

On 3/16/2015 SydneyH said:

Just started.......

excellent choice.

[Lilysmom]

On 3/17/2015 Judaline said:

Going through Netflix movies, I found a Three Pines Mystery-it was a Masterpiece Theater presentation two years ago. Huh? Not here it wasn't or I totally missed it. It stars Nathaniel Parker of the Inspector Lynley series. BAD CHOICE! How could they pick him???? I picture David Suchet. Oh, well, a little Gramache is better than no Gramache. I put it in my Queue.

Judaline, I saw what I think is the same movie. I didn't like the character chosen to play Gamache at all. Let me know what you think of it. LM