Book Lovers Club

glennie19

I like Nickled and Dimed too.  Let me know how you like Bright-sided.

sandra4611

 

MinusTwo

Just finished reading The Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline (2013).  I loved it.  Combines the stories of a 91 year old lady who was sent to MN on the trains from NYC in 1929 as an Irish immigrant orphan with an 'almost' orphan girl in foster care in 2011.  Compelling stories of the girls, then & now.

glennie19

I'm waiting for my turn at the library on that one. Glad to hear that you liked it.

ruthbru

I heard the author talk this summer. Facinating!

M0mmyof3

I highly recommend the books by Phillipa Gergory. I've read and collected the series of books she did on the Tudors and I have collected and read the series she did on the War of the Roses.

Jelson

Future Library - what will books be like in 100 years, will there be books, will there be humans? Margaret Atwood first author to sign on to this art project in the Norwegian Forest...

http://www.futurelibrary.no/

Teacher64

I loved The Orphan Train and gave it to the library, along with The Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, The Kitchen House,  and Unbroken. I live in a small town so book donations are appreciated.

MinusTwo

Jelson - fascinating project.  Thanks for the link.  I may be in the minority - at least in Texas - but I very much like Margaret Atwood.

granny72

I very much like Margaret Atwood too.

sandra4611

I hated The Handmaiden's...Tale? Totally weird. Just not an Atwood fan.

M0mmyof3

I prefer Douglas Adams's "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series and George Orwell's "Animal Farm" and "1984". Never did like Atwood.

fgm

Minus-my book club just read and discussed The Orphan Train. I had to reread it because I had read it a while ago.  Most of us really liked it.  One of our member's great great grandparents had adopted her great aunt from an orphan train that came to Missouri. In her case, her aunt already knew that she was adopted. Several children had name tags so the adopted parents could find them.  Our next book is The Snow Child that I'll lead. I got the title from this wonderful site. I'm going to have to reread it since I read it awhile ago, too.

Sandra- I agree with you.  I couldn't finish The Handmaiden's Tale. It gave me an "icky" feeling.  But then my daughter loves Atwood.

MinusTwo

My son sent me a link last night about Being Mortal: Medicine & What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande.  He is a surgeon at Brigham & Womens, and his book talks about how to approach end of life issues with reason but compassion.  He has several previous books & has been a staff writer for the New Yorker for some years but somehow he's escaped me.  Anyone one read him?  I'm considering ordering this one.

voraciousreader

Minus...I've read several of his books .  He was also selected to chose the 2006 edition of the best science and medicine stories.  He is a terrific writer!

ruthbru

Moonflwr912

Anybody out there have any Little Libraries in there area? They just installed 5 around Port. Most are on private property.  The idea is to leave books you love and take some out. It's really eclectic as people are very different. 

In Milwaukee they had a bit if trouble with people taking ALL the books!  They caught some people red handed, one took all the children's books for her Daycare! Someone else was gonna take them to the second hand book store. Sigh. They now put note s that it's take 1 leave 1 and not for business use. And the ask people to inscribe the books as "Little Library Book, always free!" That way used books stores won't buy them.  I hope they last a while I love the idea of books around town! 

blondiex46

Reading Jennifer it, read Weiner All fall down, is ok and Tana French A secret Plan, I don't like it, not reading like 400 pages little print.  I go to the library all the time....

sweetcorn

I just read Orphan Train by Kline and loved it also.  I am now reading Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty, and am enjoying it also.

jane

glennie19

Still waiting for the Orphan Train,, #10 in the queue now.   But Personal,, the new Jack Reacher is on its way to me!  I'll be able to pick that up tomorrow.

MinusTwo

Oh Glennie - we know Lee Child will be good!!!

voraciousreader

moon...a few weeks ago I looked at the little libraries website and fantasized where I would place one!  I love the idea!!

sandra4611

Goodie, goodie! (Clapping hands like a little kid) My e-copy of J.D. Robb's newest just became available for my Kindle. If you need me, I'll be in 2060 with Eve, Roark, Peabody et al.

Moonflwr912

man. I have my hardcover sitting next to me right now. But i promised I wouldn't read it til I got my sewing done. Sigh. Maybe just one chapter. Who am I kidding. Once I start Eve and Roarke & Co will pull me in i won't break for air til I'm done. Tomorrow I'm sewing..... LOL

fgm

I saw Gone Girl last night and liked it.  I thought they did a good job following the book. My boyfriend hadn't read the book and he also enjoyed the movie. But commented that he wouldn't want to be married to the author!

kathindc

Sandra, Moomflwr, I finished Robb's new book in a day and a half.  You know once you pick it up you won't be able to put it down.  That's what I love about her books.  I have never read any of her books under her real name.

sandra4611

Kathindc, I was shocked to learn that J.D. Robb and Nora Roberts were the same person. I always thought Nora Roberts wrote bodice ripping paperback romances, not a genre I'm interested in. But one of the books I got from the library was half J.D. Robb and half Nora Roberts. What the heck...it's part of the overall story so I reluctantly read it...and I liked it. Since then I've read some more Nora Roberts books and found them to be quite entertaining. No bodice ripping or girded loins in sight.

glennie19

Finally got the new Jack Reacher from the library today!!

 

**hold my calls**

MinusTwo

I'm spending a lazy Saturday in my PJs reading a book I picked up for $0.25.  Don't laugh - it's Twilight.  Yes, the teen vampire book.  I do try to keep up w/what teens are reading.  It's actually not bad.

voraciousreader

glennie...please tell me what you think of the latest Reacher book.  DH enjoyed it....passed it along to neighbor who enjoys the book....he just chewed me out how he didn't enjoy it.  He kept telling me how much he enjoyed the series..with the exception of this one! Oy!  Go figure....I had to listen to the rant and I didn't read the book!