Book Lovers Club

brigadoonbenson

Glennie - Love Nesbo.  Haven't read The Snowman yet.  Making it through the series and I detoured.  I read that Snowman is the scariest one of the series.  It is the next one for me to read too.

I just finished reading Brain on Fire.  This week I watched Awakening with Robin Williams.  Very interesting that they were both about a strain of encephalitis. 

Am now reading The Girl Who Came Home.  Has anyone read that yet?  I am enjoying it so far but wondering if it is just a retell of Titanic.

 

glennie19

ha, brigadoon, we are at the same point in the series! I'm halfway through the book and I'll let you know how scary. Have you read Jussi Adler-Olsen?  I think he is really good also.

Have you read Harlan Coben?  I do really like his Myron Bolitar series. His latest book, MISSING YOU,,, is really scary. You will never ever consider on-line dating after reading that book. Never. Ever.

Mischief46

To think it has taken  me this long to find this thread!!  I too LOVED The Other Boleyn girl.  All of Phillippa Gregory's Books on the wives of Henry the VIII are very good.  I am also a fan of Ken Follett's Century Trilogy and many many other books that have nothing to do with history.

brigadoonbenson

Glennie - Since I am 70 I think that online dating is not on my agenda but thanks for the vote of confidence   Thanks for the suggestions.  I need a little blood racing reading now.  Haven't read any in awhile.

Mischief46 - I know.  When I found this board I said "Where have you been all my life!"  Welcome.

glennie19

brigadoon:  you never know. I know a 71 year old widow (2nd time widowed) who is going on Match.com.  She called one of my friends to ask for advice on the site as my friend met her hubby on a dating site. She says she can't stand being single.   At any rate,, if you like thrillers,, you will like Missing You.

brigadoonbenson

glennie- My husband will probably outlive me by several years.  I'll recommend it to him. 

voraciousreader

fgm...gladwell must have snored while writing the latest book! Bleech...

brigadoonbenson

VR - Guess you can't have a hit everytime.   I did like The Tipping Point and Blink.  Maybe I'll skip this one.

voraciousreader

my niece also read it and didn't think it was among his more interesting books.  A chapter or two were okay...

voraciousreader

Jonathan Tropper's book, This is Where I Leave You will be hitting the big screen in September!  I am keeping my fingers crossed that it will do well at the box office.  

In October Gone Girl also hits the big screen.  Unless tge reviews are stellar... I'm going to pass.

MinusTwo

Brigadoon - thanks for the chuckle.  You'll recommend match.com to your husband after you're gone - LOL.  I'm 70 too but find I don't suffer fools nearly as "gladly" as I used to so I probably won't bother with on line dating.

ruthbru

My grandfather died in a farm accident at the age of 49. My widowed grandmother lived another 43 years. Once I asked her if she had ever thought about remarrying. She said, "Well, I looked around, but all I saw was trouble!" Ha!

glennie19

Ruth, I love that!!!

Marple

I'm getting quite a list of 'want to reads'.  On the radio yesterday an author was interviewed, Claire Cameron about her book The Bear.  It sounds really good.  It's inspired by an actual event where two people are killed by a black bear In Algonquin Park.  In the book the author has added two children (who aren't attacked).  The person doing the interview said she couldn't put it down.  Algonquin Park is in the province I live in, but further north.  I've already checked and our library has it.  I'm really enjoying The Other Boleyn Girl.

Radical2Squared

ruthbru,

I'm stealing grandma's line next time someone asks me why I'm not married!

glennie19

Grandmas have the best advice.   Mine was told me:  "you never know what a man is like until you sleep with him. And if you wait until you're married to do it, well, it could be too late."

Radical2Squared

glennie, I'll use THAT one when my mother asks me why I never marry the guys I date! Lol

glennie19

I used it on Grandma once.  I dated this guy all thru high school and the first couple years of college. My whole family loved him and assumed we would marry. They were shocked when we broke up.  Two years later, I was driving Grandma back to my parents' for Thanksgiving and she brought him up, again,,,,  Finally I blurted out:  Grandma, he was lousy in bed.    She was like:  OH.  And she NEVER mentioned him again!!!

Marple

LOL, too funny. 

ruthbru

A couple more of gramma's sayings:

"You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar." (Extremely true!)

"Nobody's perfect, not even Jim. That's why the cops are after him." (She had a son named Jim who was something of a rascal.)

And she often would recite a poem about '77 Seasick Swedish Sailors'.....but she said it in Swedish, so I can not replicate it here!

sandra4611

Ha-ha, enjoying the quotes from Grandma. My paternal grandmother from Knoxville, Tennessee (pronounced Knox-vull, TIN-a-see) had lots of them. The best one was, "I swanee, darlin', don't you go borrowing (pronounced bar-ee-in) trouble, now." (pronounced nahw)

glennie19

OMG,, your grandma said I swanee,,,, so did mine!!  It is unusual to find that, these days!  She spent most of her life in eastern NC, before moving down to FL in the 1940's.  I thought that saying was peculiar to Eastern NC,, but I guess not.

Loved your pronounciation,, I can hear it in my mind!!

 

And fixin',,,,, as in  "I'm fixin' to go to the store now."

fgm

I love the grandma quotes and Glennie's answer to her grandma's questions.   Tonight I saw the movie The 100 Foot Journey and really enjoyed it...although it could have been shorter.  Has anyone read the book?  Usually I like to read the book before I see the movie but I thought this story would make an interesting book.

glennie19

I haven't read the book, but I did enjoy the movie.  It certainly made me hungry!!

Valsa123

reading The Storyteller ...very engrossing book.

sandra4611

Glennie, ha-ha, it must be a southern grandma saying. As for "fixin" it drives me crazy here it Texas. All the native Texans say it. I've lived here 28 years and so far have refused to say it.

voraciousreader

Hey book loving friends...not sure if I mentioned before...I'm a literacy volunteer.  

If any of you have the time, it is such a great activity. Check out your local literacy chapter.  I'm doing it for a few years now and each of my students have taught ME soooo much!  

glennie19

Awesome, VR!   Good for you. A very worthwhile project. It's so hard to imagine adults that can't read,,,, very sad.

 

Sandra:  I say fixin' all the time. Yankees poke fun at me. Oh well. It is ingrained in my being.

MinusTwo

I agree w/Sandra.  I've been in Texas for 40 years and still don't say fixin', but I do catch myself saying ya'all sometimes.

VR - Seems like there used to be more people who read non-fiction.  I read everything but about 10:1 ratio for fiction.  In the "non" catgegory - just finished A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Bird.  Fascinating to read about her travels in 1873.  I've had two books about her on my wish list for awhile and just discovered this book of her letters in some boxes I still hadn't unpacked from my Mom's.  Now I want to get her book about traveling in the Sandwich Islands during the same time period.

Also non-fiction:  A Secret Gift by Ted Gup.  A true account of the author's grandfather who in 1933 put an ad in the Canton, Ohio newspaper offering cash gifts to families who sent letters describing their hardships to an anonomyous PO box.  He had planned on $10 to 75 families got so many letters he cut that to $5.00.  That was equivalent of $100 with a loaf of bread at $.07, pound of ground round at $0.11, dozen eggs for $0.29, gallon of gas for $0.18 and the newly passed minimum wage at $0.33.  However there were no jobs and many counted themselves lucky to make $1.00 per day.

glennie19

A Secret Gift sounds good. I'll have to look for it.