Book Lovers Club

MinusTwo

Jelson - love it.  Four years ago I started reading from my shelves, the goal being to finally get rid of all those books I would never read or wouldn't want to read again.  It was based on the fact that one set of floor to ceiling book shelves is in front of the "access door" for the shower on the other side of the wall in the guest bath.  Seems the small leak can't be fixed w/o possibly having to get behind the wall.

Well...  I did get rid of a few things.  Very few.  I also had to buy up all the continuing books for the various authors I decided to keep & collect for re-reading in another 10 years.  Then they closed our library for 2+ years for rehab.  At least I was going to used book stores instead of buying everything new.  Still have a small leak in the shower and haven't made it back to the newly refurbished library. 

Moonflwr912

Some days when I'm home alone, and feel like being with people, I go to the library just to read the magazines and be around people. My library offers coffee tea, etc so it's relaxing. 

sandra4611

Ah Moon, wouldn't it be nice to see each other again and meet at the library over a cup of tea? (sigh)

Jelson, LOL. I feel your pain, girl. I have them stacked up all around my reading chair plus must have 40 more I've downloaded onto my Kindle. Books OWN me. Resistance is futile.

Moonflwr912

sandra4611

Where's the LIKE button? LOL Moon.

M0mmyof3

lol

badger

Fall of Giants done!  Great book but I gotta tell ya, 985 pages is a handful.  Now #1 on the wait list for Winter of the World and #18 for Edge of Eternity.

(edit to add, this is Ken Follett's Century trilogy)

jbokland

HI Ladies...new to this thread!   Loved reading through your suggestions!  Nice not to bathe in BC all the time!

Badger- I see your from Wisconsin....are you familiar with the Author Kris Radish?   She writes some great women-empowering books that usually weave Wisconsin (her home state) in her stories somewhere.   My favorites are Tuesday Night Miracles and Annie Freemans Fabulous Traveling Funeral.

badger

hi jbokland, welcome!  IDK Kris Radish so thanks for the rec.

M0mmyof3

Gonna read Tom Clancy's Patriot Games

badger

My local library has several books by Kris Radish.  Picked up Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral.  A 330-page paperback is a welcome change.  Looks like a book I will enjoy, thanks again for the rec jbokland.

glennie19

I'm going to look for that book too.  It sounds good.

jbokland

Oh good!  I'd like to hear you review!    (a little qualifier, I suffered through the first chapter that went on too long about the Bali bra, but the rest was wonderful!)

 

voraciousreader

Anyone looking forward to the Nicholls' book....Us?   I put a reserve on it.  Reading now Morton's...Florence Gordon.  Both fiction!

Moonflwr912

mommyof2, I really liked that book. 

glennie19

Just got the Orphan Train from the library today!

MinusTwo

Oh Glennie you have a treat in store.

fgm

Glennie I agree with Minus.

I'm rereading The Snow Child for book club and enjoying it again!

Radical2Squared

ok...I'm reading This is Where I Leave You. I know some of you liked it and some of you didn't.

It has my head in a whirl. I live 20 minutes from Kingston NY. My name Is Jen. I am still friendly with my ex. We were together for over 10 years and he left to live with another gal right around the time I found out I had bc. His relationship with her ended after only a few months, and even through that he was my best friend through surgery and chemo...now the kicker

My exes name is Judd. So here we are Jen and Judd living in the Hudson valley just like in the book...except I'm the one that didn't sleep around. Lol It keeps throwing me for a loop to read "Judd' s" feelings about "Jen" all the time! Lol

glennie19

Finished the Orphan Train.  It was excellent!!  Thanks to all who recommended it.

voraciousreader

Radical....how coincidental....and yet not!  FYI...the author, Tropper is from Westchester County and continues to live there when he isn't travelling...which he does a lot of between screenwriting and meeting with Hollywood honchos in LA and filming for Banchee someplace near Charlotte.  I happen to adore his writing and loved the film.

MinusTwo

Radical - Coincidental is sure the word.  Maybe you need to put the book on the shelf for awhile if it's causing too many personal memories.  I've had books that hit me that way.

Finished A Killing in the Hills by Julia Keller.  Amazing descriptions of West VA - who leaves, who stays, & why.  Also read The Little Friend by Donna Tartt.  I haven't read the Goldfinch yet, but remember comments pro & con.  I found this slow going.  Good story so maybe it was just me.  Or maybe I just had to go slower to pick everything up instead of racing through?  And enjoyed one of the Vintage titles reprints (published before 1965) - mysteries w/puzzles like Agatha Christie & John Dickenson Carr.  I read Unexpected Night by Elizabeth Daly - originally published in 1940.  Very enjoyable.

sandra4611

An oldie, worth re-posting.

 

ruthbru

Love it!

Teacher64

tomorrow I'm making a library ripen because I got an email that Patterson's Burn, a Michael Bennett book, is available. It will be a fast read.

jbokland

it's not a book but I made the Huffington Post!  

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeanette-bokland/medical-marijuana-helped-me_b_6029754.html?1414002417

Jelson

jbokland - wow, very powerful and convincing statement on medical marijuana.

blondiex46

Awesome  n i use the street stuff, n since i took myself  off of chemo i still us3 it, for pain n to help me sleep...wish they would lusten

MinusTwo

Way to go JB.  Be sure to let us know how the vote goes.

MinusTwo

Serious recommendation - The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout.  I liked Olive Kitteridge tho I know it had mixed reception.  But this book is a gem.  Her writing really grabbed hold of me.  "Poignancy & emotional vigor, subverting our prejudices, complicating our easy judgements of people we think we know..."(The Washington Post)  It has some of everything.  Sibling relationships.  How most people grit their teeth & go forward no matter what.  How different cultures deal w/stress.  Slices of a world view that is not ours but not wrong.  How to determine the severity of our actions instead of being half aware of what our actions mean.  The author says: "Our lives are constantly changing, & therefore not even our own story is always what we think it is."