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[SWEET]

Finished Sarah Pekkanen's Catching Air. Fast read. It was better than some of her others I've read.

Going to read Alice Hoffman's The Museum Of Extraordinary Things on this long Columbus Day wkend which starts for me tomorrow.

[Lynneuk]

Just read Big Little Lies by Lianne Moriarty and enjoyed it very much. Now on to The Secret Place by Tana French which is showing great promise so far. I started The Arsonist a few weeks ago but got bored with it and decided to forget it. May just have been in the wrong mood at the time, lol.

[Lynneuk]

Just read Big Little Lies by Lianne Moriarty and enjoyed it very much. Now on to The Secret Place by Tana French which is showing great promise so far. I started The Arsonist a few weeks ago but got bored with it and decided to forget it. May just have been in the wrong mood at the time, lol.

[Lynneuk]

Just read Big Little Lies by Lianne Moriarty and enjoyed it very much. Now on to The Secret Place by Tana French which is showing great promise so far. I started The Arsonist a few weeks ago but got bored with it and decided to forget it. May just have been in the wrong mood at the time, lol.

[Sagal]

Well - I'm on a Tana French marathon. I read THE FAITHFUL PLACE and BROKEN HARBOR and loved both of them - she is a great writer! Now I'm on her fifth book THE SECRET PLACE and I can't say I'm loving it - I'm into it 150 pages and I'm thinking it's OK but not great. I'm really surprised - maybe it will pick up - I'll keep you posted!

[LoriLori]

On 10/9/2014 smokymtngal said:

On 10/8/2014 skyblue said: I really liked WHISTLING PAST THE GRAVEYARD and WHERE'D YOU GO BERNADETTE! Also, I believe I prefer AGATHA RAISIN to HAMISH MACBETH.

I liked both those books, too (Whistling Past the Graveyard and Where'd You Go Bernadette). The first one is a nice, feel good book if you've been reading anything too dark. It's funny how with some books you're not willing to accept the improbability of the plot and in another book you just go with it. I think it depends on your mood at the time.

I like both Agatha and Hamish, they are just different. But, really, M. C. Beaton needs to give them both a facelift. I just picked up The Blood of an Englishman from the library. I'm sure I'll love it even though there is probably nothing new (I hope to be surprised). The cover says it's the 25th Agatha Raisin.

Ya know, I just PTB on "Agatha Raisin and the Perfect Paragon" last night. Never ever thought I'd do that with her but it seemed so much like the last one. Going forward I need to read them farther apart.

I replaced it with the opposite of a cozy, Richard Matheson's "The Legend of Hel House", hahaha. Tis the season. I may have seen the movie ages ago and been super scared but I don't remember it the way I vividly remember the movie of Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting."

[insomniac]

On 10/10/2014 SAgal said: Well - I'm on a Tana French marathon. I read THE FAITHFUL PLACE and BROKEN HARBOR and loved both of them - she is a great writer! Now I'm on her fifth book THE SECRET PLACE and I can't say I'm loving it - I'm into it 150 pages and I'm thinking it's OK but not great. I'm really surprised - maybe it will pick up - I'll keep you posted!

I love Tana French, and I think The Secret Place is excellent! I only have about 40 more pages to go: it's brilliantly done.

I'm buying a couple more copies to give as gifts this Christmas.

[auburndawne]

Just finished first book in a cute new series...Louisiana Longshot by Jana De Leon. Free on amazon for a time. Its about a CIA agent that has to go in hiding in Sinful, Louisiana and the funny adventures that happen to her. Highly recommend!!! Now reading Think Twice by Lisa Scottoline. My first by this author but so far so good. About twin sisters...one evil and one good. Tried SO hard to read The Poisonwood Bible but had to quit about halfway through. Just too slow and boring for me. I really wanted to like this book because it is beloved by so many but I just could never get into it!!!

[lovescats]

On 10/10/2014 insomniac said:

On 10/10/2014 SAgal said: Well - I'm on a Tana French marathon. I read THE FAITHFUL PLACE and BROKEN HARBOR and loved both of them - she is a great writer! Now I'm on her fifth book THE SECRET PLACE and I can't say I'm loving it - I'm into it 150 pages and I'm thinking it's OK but not great. I'm really surprised - maybe it will pick up - I'll keep you posted!

I love Tana French, and I think The Secret Place is excellent! I only have about 40 more pages to go: it's brilliantly done.

I'm buying a couple more copies to give as gifts this Christmas.

I like Tana French too but audible has a lot of bad reviews for The Secret Place you'll both have to let us know.

[smoky22]

On 10/10/2014 SAgal said: Well - I'm on a Tana French marathon. I read THE FAITHFUL PLACE and BROKEN HARBOR and loved both of them - she is a great writer! Now I'm on her fifth book THE SECRET PLACE and I can't say I'm loving it - I'm into it 150 pages and I'm thinking it's OK but not great. I'm really surprised - maybe it will pick up - I'll keep you posted!

I've never read anything by this author before, but I'm feeling the same way about The Secret Place. I'm about 250 pages in (that's about half the book) and I still don't care about the angsty teenagers or even the two detectives. I may just go to the end and call it quits.