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[Marsha2003]

I just started Proof Positive by Archer Mayor, the latest in the Joe Gunther series. I just finished the latest Temperance Brennan book, Bones Never Lie, by Kathy Reichs. I liked the last bit particularly, a little cliffhanger for her next book.

[smoky22]

On 10/1/2014 hopeQ1 said:

I would like to make a comment at this point. I have been following this Book Club for quite some time as I am an inveterate reader. I'm not very choosy, as I will read fiction and non-fiction, whatever suites my interest at the time. As any good reader, I do have my favorite authors in the fiction line, but I don't limit myself to just those ones.

What I have noticed here, that is so different than I expected of a Book Club, is you read a very diverse label of books, which is good, since this reaches such a large portion of the country. But what I sense is unusual is I expected more people to be reading consistently from the best-seller list, nationally and locally. I come here frequently to get opinions of these books and I rarely see much readership of these titles. I do see a broad reading of various books but the titles and authors span any amount of time from the classics to current day titles, including some best-sellers. I guess I thought it would be more heavily dosed with the best-sellers as most long-term readers are basically up-to-date on most past published books.

But it is good to know that you exist and I do enjoy all reviews on all books. I will continue to check in and see what everyone thinks about the books they decide to read.

Perhaps with more time the size of this club will even grow more with readership. I hope people have not converted to other methods of entertainment and enlightenment, as I personally feel that reading is one of our greatest treasures as well as pleasures.

Blessings.

I actually don't understand the post. I'm not sure what your definition of a best seller is. I understand when someone says they are reading the most current book by a certain author and plenty of people post their reviews here on the latest book by their favorite author (Tana French, Stephen King, John Grisham, Kathy Reichs, M. C. Beaton, etc.etc).

I get almost all of my books from the library but I think we have a great mix here of people who read old stuff and people who read new stuff. I wouldn't change this thread for the world. But I think you could join in and give us your reviews of the latest best sellers you've read. Perhaps you would give us the needed encouragement so we would read them, too.

[Judaline]

On 10/2/2014 LoriLori said:

Jud, I think that's great advice, to start a thread.

My mother loves her Patterson and Cornwell and Stiart Woods and basically won't read anything without a serial killer in it, LOL. And she will only read hardcovers. They have gotten so expensive, and she reads them so quickly, that I wait a year or so till they're off the bestseller list and I get them for her used on Amazon. Usually the books are a penny, in "very good" condition, and the shipping is $3.99.

lori, your mom and I would get along great. Many times I have handed a librarian a book that has come in that I requested, and it's a paperback!!!!! (I'm kind of a "no.....wire.....hangers" person), very set in my ways. I will grab the paperback between my thumb and forefinger and dump it in her hands. Yuk!!!! I am such a snob. It's all I can do to read a library book with all the unspeakable things on some pages, and I sometimes will try and figure out what they are-orange juice? Blood? Unmentionables? Truly, it's hard for me, but I steel myself and just hope this one will be clean. Literally. Don't hate me folks, just pity me, hahahaha

Oh, I forgot! The serial killers! Got to have them, too~

[BornToShop]

I just finished THE GIRL WITH A CLOCK FOR A HEART which is a debut novel for author PETER SWANSON. This one jumps right from page 1. It's a crafty & a sexy journey that unfolds in a fresh & terrifying, irristible plot. I just learned this will be a movie in 2015. Anyone loving a fantastic mystery thriller will love this.

[sunala]

hi HopeQ1 and welcome!

I think we are quite a diverse group from all across the USA, and have very different tastes in our reading.

I've been trying to expand my choice of books, but when I want to relax, I have to read what I'm most comfortable with, which is almost always fiction pertaining to slavery and race relations, the holocaust, books taking place during WWII either here or abroad, and books about Jewish families and customs. I enjoy mysteries but I'm not a mystery addict. I very very rarely read series, but I do read new books as well as the older ones. I enjoy John Grisham, Stephen King, Nelson DeMille, Elizabeth Berg and Anne Tyler, and will try my best to get those new books as soon as I can.

The thing is, I don't buy my books. For my whole life I've used the library but since I got my Kindle, I basically read eBooks. I get them from my library system, and they have a great selection of new books as well as older ones.

I get some of my best books from the recommendations of my reading pals right here. We have a wonderful, diverse group of friends and readers who are more than happy to share their reading experiences with the group. I've gotten some of my most favorite books from the recommendations right here.

I hope you'll join us and share your reading experience with us, and please feel free to start a thread. We have a whole board, so there is always room for a new thread about anything having to do with reading. I look forward to seeing you again!

Best regards, Sunny

[Judaline]

sunny, I like a lot of the type books you like. I also see that besides Unbroken there is a new WWll movie coming this Oct starring Brad Pitt. I love these movies.

I love this thread, too. I have gotten soooooo many book ideas here. Books I never in a million years heard of. Rush Home Road ???? Whoever heard of this one? I did! Right here. And too many more to mention. Like the HSN slogan, "It's fun here.''

[Janey2]

First I have to say if I wanted to read only the "best sellers" I can go to The Times best seller list (which I look at every Sunday), or any other list to find out the popular and new books for the week. That's easy. I like to look at this thread to get a list of books I would never have heard of without checking this forum out. I have read some really good books that all of you have listed. Thank you!

This month I read Say You're Sorry by Michael Robotham

The Promise by Ann Weisgarber

All I Know and Love by Judith Frank

Fast Track by Julie Garwood

[SWEET]

Ooops. Put my replay on September's thread but here it is again.

I finished The Arsonist - Sue Miller. I'm on the fence of liking it. It was part family/part arsonist. Liked the small town feel of this book but the ending was abrupt. Better than some of her other books I've read at least.

Starting Catching Air by Sarah Pekkanen next.

[smoky22]

I finished Middlemarch (George Eliot) and really enjoyed it. I'm going to try to read more of the classics that were free on my kindle.

I also read a couple of books by Josephine Tey, To Love and Be Wise and The Daughter of Time (truth is the daughter of time). Ms Tey does a wonderful job with characters. I have read that some consider the Daughter of Time to be the best mystery book ever written. You would have to be more interested in the Richard III time period than I am to think that, but I enjoyed it.

I'm currently reading The Darling Dahlias and the Silver Dollar Bush by Susan Wittig Albert. Also The Shifting Tide by Anne Perry (I love the William Monk books).

I have The Blood of an Englishman (newest Agatha Raisin) on waitlist at the library. I didn't know there was a newest Agatha Raisin until I read it here.

[Jessa9]

I started reading historic novels by Sandra Byrd. To Die for....Secret Keeper...Roses have Thorns....all excellent.