Book Lovers Club

ruthbru

I read fine during chemo, but once got in my car to drive over to DS's track meet (at a track in my own town that I had been to about 50 million times) and had to pull over and really, really think about how to get there. I absolutely drew a blank! Weird & scary!

I just finished a very weird, but captivating little book by the name of The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman. It would be categorized as fantasy literature, I imagine. Set in the English countryside, a man home for a funeral is confronted with hidden memories of supernatural events that happened when he was seven years old....or did they?

Also read a beautiful 'coffee table' book put out by LIFE in commemoration of the upcoming 150th year since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln-An Intimate Portrait, beautifully written with lots of outstanding pictures as well.

badger

Ruth, yes I think your book club would love Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral.  Nearly done with the other Kris Radish that jbokland mentioned: Tuesday Night Miracles.  Really liking this book too.  My local library has one other title by her: The Elegant Gathering of White Snows but I think I've read it already, it's the one with the Wisconsin women who walk.

Will hit the library tomorrow as I'm out of town again next week and can't be without a book while OTR!

ruthbru

Badger, I am hosting my Book Club Thursday & had already decided to pick Annie Freeman as our next book. I will report back on what everyone thought in one month.....you will either get the credit or the blame! 

badger

I vote for the credit and will share with jbokland! 

jbokland

It warms my heart that you like Kris's books as much as I do. You may also like Dance Naked at the Edge of Dawn!

glennie19

I'm almost done with Tuesday Night Miracles too and I'm really enjoying it. The library doesn't have Annie Freeman, so I'll have to look around for it.

MinusTwo

Ruth - I too got caught up on the Ocean at the End of the Lane.

WaveWhisperer

Me, too!!

jbokland

Ruth/- I just spoke with Kris Radish. She had graciously agreed to do an Author Discussion call or Skype if your book club likes. We could actually set it up for any of us to call in. Let me know and I can set it up for us!

badger

jbokland - how cool is THAT!

ruthbru

jbokland, that surely IS cool. I am just going to be giving out the book on Thursday & don't yet know when or where our next meeting to discuss it will be (we meet monthly, take turns hosting, with the hostess picking the next book), but will surely present that invitation to the group!!!

blondiex46

Sounds good i think i will check  it out thanks 

blondiex46

Ordered it from the library  yay

sandra4611

Me too, Blondie.

jbokland

Great, just let me know!

voraciousreader

I am reading a FANTASTIC novel.....The Luminous Heart of Jonah S.

fgm

For those of you who read Plainsong by Kent Haruf , I found the sequel on a bookshelf in my house. It's called Eventide and I enjoyed it very much.

voraciousreader

The Luminous Heart of Jonah S reads like a fable. I'm totally engrossed in the the story. Hypnotic. Wow!!

badger

Back from a weeklong business trip.  Brought and read three old paperback mysteries from local library.  One by Robert B. Parker from 1985 - A Catskill Eagle (good book, love Spenser & Hawk), and two by P.D. James - A Mind to Murder (1963) and Unnatural Causes (1967).  Both good but liked the second title better than the first.  Hadn't read her before but will read her again, there are several more in the stacks but they're hardcovers which don't pack well.  Fun to read detective novels that take place before the invention of cell phones and computers.  Meanwhile, I have two weeks to get through 1098 pages of the new Ken Follett Edge of Eternity - I can do it!

jbokland

any Outlander fans here ?

Moonflwr912

Sorry jbok, not really.

Badger I love PDJames. Take me a wee bit to get my mind in England though. LOL

Jelson

I am an OUTLANDER fan! I have read all the books, including the Sir John series - but not the ebooks. I saw the first (free) episode of the Starz series and - hadn't expected to like it but I thought it was fantastic. am waiting for it to be on netflix?

blondiex46

Got Tuesday night Miracles from the library, ready to read it.

aviva5675

Just read 'Some Luck' the first in a trilogy coming out by Jane Smiley. Enjoyed it very much. Interesting chapter progression, each chapter is one year. Some longer than others. Can't wait for the next 2.

Tomboy

OOOh! I want to read the luminous heart of jonah s!! Her book, moonlight on the avenue of faith was fantastic! I am saving it to read again someday! I went to my library page, and it said there was a problem with my card, so I have to contact the library! And they won't be open till tuesday! Hi blondie!

voraciousreader

kathec....I am DEFINITELY going to read Moonlight! Good luck with getting your library card reactivated! I'm also I reading Pinker's Sense of Style.

Moonflwr912

kathec, sorry to hear about your card mishap. When mind had a problem, I lost 2 books I had waited 3 months for! LOL Hope your ordeal is short. LOL

blondiex46

Hi kath

WaveWhisperer

Aviva, also just finished 'Some Luck' by Jane Smiley. Had truly loved her earlier 'Thousand Acres.' Liked the characters in 'SL,' but found it a bit long. I'll read the next two, though.

MinusTwo

Just finished Being Mortal:Medicine and What Matters at the End by Atul Gawande, a practicing surgeon, Harvard prof & author.

It's well written for layman or professionals. He struggles with how to talk to his patients and then his own father gets sick... He discusses what happens when what medicine can do runs counter to what medicine should do. I'd mentioned it to one of my docs and she said one of his earlier books is a definitive text for many docs. I'll be reading the others. I understand he's also a staff writer for the New Yorker and has won several writing prizes. Here's one of the reviews: "A deeply affecting, urgently important book - one not just about dying and the limits of medicine but about living to the last with autonomy, dignity and joy." Interesting to read about what 'assisted living' really meant in the beginning.