Book Lovers Club

fgm

Ruth-Orphan Train is on my book club list for October. I'm looking forward to reading it.

I've finished 3 of the 4 books by Jennifer Worth.....Call The Midwife, Shadows of the Workhouse, and Farewell to the East End. These books contain stories that were on the PBS show Call the Midwife but of course the books have a lot more detail.  The final book, In the Midst of Life, are stories about  when Worth worked with dying patients. I put that one down for awhile and started reading The Boys In Boat which I am enjoying. 

glennie19

I feel your pain about library books on hold,, that happens to me too. They all come in at once.

voraciousreader

you can put a "freeze" on your reserves.  So when you are reading one book, you can put a freeze on the rest...check with your library!

glennie19

hmmm,, I know I can freeze them or pause them before they come in,, but once they are on the shelf with my name on them,, I'm not sure.

Teacher64

I live in a small town and recommend books to our librarian all the time. Then I get to read them first! 

Moonflwr912

If there is a waiting list, no freezes. They give you 3 days to claim it. If you don't then they pass it to the next person on the list. You would have to go back to the end if you miss it. I'm going to claim it today, Richard Castle latest. No PT tomorrow I could read it all the way through! LOL 

MinusTwo

Moon - my suggestion is to stop everything else and just read for a week.  Eat out, or have things that take minimal prep.  Forget the vacuuming & even the washing.  Reading is a time honored summer passtime.  Go for it!!!

MinusTwo

Enjoyed Red Knife by William Kent Krueger.  Based on a small town MN ex-sheriff who is half white & half Ojibwe.  Town is right next to the reservation.  "Vivid picture of racial conflict in small-town America, as well as a sensitive look at secrets we keep even from those closest to us...".  I'm going to look for more of his books.

Loved Crow Lake by Mary Lawson.  Set in the wilds of Northern Ontario about family, love & misunderstandings, resentments & debts.  "...the kind of book that keeps you reading well past midnight; you grieve when it's over.  Then you start pressing it on friends."  It was her first in 2002 and I'll be looking for more of hers too.

Now reading Eudora Welty's Thirteen Stories.  I''m not as impressed w/this batch as I thought I'd be.

So much fun to be back to books and ignoring my magazines again.

sweetcorn

I will have to try Crow Lake!  Sounds like my kind of book, also The Paris Apartment.  Last week I finished Skeletons at the Feast, and it was very good.  I read Rena's Promise:Two Sisters in Auschwitz while traveling over the weekend, and it is also very good, although such a terrible subject, but one that continues to fascinate me.

I picked up One Thousand White Women from the Friends of the Library sale area, so I may start that next.  Unless I find Crow Lake in our stacks here at the library this afternoon.

glennie19

I just found out that Tana French has a new book coming out on Sept 2.  It's called The Secret Place.  

MinusTwo

Just finished The Great Santini by Pat Conroy.  I've enjoyed all of his books and this is one I'd missed.  Hard to read about how the father treated wife & kids, especially when he was drinking.  Now I've started Cutting for Stone by Verghese.  That should keep me out of trouble for awhile.

208sandy

Minus Two - you have just recommended two great books - I even have the Pat Conroy Cookbook - and I've been a Vergehese fan since he wrote his first book "My Own Country" - I was living in the Tri-Cities area (Kingsport, TN) where the book takes place - it isn't a novel - it's a story about the AIDS epidemic reaching the general population in the South - he's a terrific writer!

sandra4611

What books do you have on your nightstand right now?

I have 6 - all came in at the library within 5 days of each other. I haven't started any of them yet. Wild Swans by Jung Chang, two books about Paris in WWII, The Hotel on Place Vendome by Tilar Mazzeo and Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris by Francine Prose, Random Harvest by James Hilton, The Gold Coast by Nelson DeMille, and Manhunt: The 12 Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James Swanson.

What should I start first?

sandra4611

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glennie19

Isn't it amazing when they all come in at once?  I haven't read any of those books,, so no idea which one to read first.

glennie19

I especially love that 2nd picture!  Clean house?? What for?  there are books to read.

MinusTwo

Sandra - Thanks for your list.  I made a recent trip to the used bookstore so there are two bags with 21 books waiting for me.  A wealth of riches!!  I'm a sucker for all those shelves of books for $0.50 from their over stocks.   I will be going to one of our Indie stores Monday on the way to see my MO - Murder By The Book.  This is the time of year they put all their extra used trade-in books on sale for $1.00.

sandra4611

Minus, if I was in Houston I'd come with you! A girl never has enough books.

Teacher64

Just got Orphan Train and got my copy of Vengeance is Mine signed by the author. I used to teach with Reavis Wortham and now he's writing a series, Red River Mysteries. I'm glad to have some good reads for after surgery next week.

brigadoonbenson

Just found this board.  I can see that I am going to be very busy. 

I just finished "Unbroken" and it is a wonderful read.  I can't begin to understand how anyone can endure the kind of abuse this man endured. 

Teacher - I read "The Orphan Train" and liked it.  Hope you find it engaging.

Pat01 - I read "The Paris Architect" also and enjoyed it.  I am sure that this happened all over the occupied area but I had never thought about it until I read this book.

Right now I am reading "Saigon" by Anthony Grey.  I am only about 1/4 into it but it is a very good read on the lines of James Clavell's  "Taipan" or "Shogun" 

MinusTwo

Brigdoon - Welcome.  Your name is one of my very favorite stories/musicals!!!  I used to read Clavell so I'll look out for Grey.

brigadoonbenson

MinusTwo - That is where it came from.  I feel as if I live in Brigadoon as it is so beautiful here.  Have you ever heard Adam Lambert's version of "Come To Me Bend To Me"?  I am providing the link.  His voice is amazing in this so don't let the artist's genre deter you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJYyqzUr6jU

Thank you for the welcome.

 

 

MinusTwo

Wow Brigadoon - absolutely beautiful.  Thanks for the link & the memories while listening.

brigadoonbenson

MinusTwo - Here is my Brigadoon off my back deck.

 

glennie19

Wow, that's beautiful!!

voraciousreader

Moonflwr912

Adam Lambert is very talented. His first album was pretty good. But he sure likes to glam up! LOL.  

sandra4611

Welcome Brigadoon. That musical is a favorite of mine as well. I was in a production of it some years ago playing Meg Brockie, so I know the play inside and out. The picture from your home is magical indeed and DOES look like Brigadoon.

Thank you for the link to the fabulous voice of Adam Lambert. He is so incredibly talented and a quite beautiful person with those blue eyes and coal black hair.

ruthbru

Just read a delightful book, one of those where you just hurry through other things to get back to reading.

Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James. It takes place at an English Manor in 1803 and has a very Jane Austen feel. At first I had adjust to the more formal style of writing (and make a list of all the main characters & their relationships with each other), but once I got into it, I couldn't put it down!