Book Lovers Club

voraciousreader

lilac....heads up.....This month, Geoff Dyer is coming out with a NEW book on Gary Winogrand....

LilacBlue

Ooooohhhh, thank you for the heads up voraciousreader!!

I'm embarking on a yoga teacher training and reading 9 required books on the subject including anatomy and physiology, so unable to add to the discussion unless you'd like to hear about your sexy psoas!

ruthbru

mistyeyes

ruthbru - So True!!

carolehalston

Love the cartoon, Ruthbru.

My Kindle is loaded up again. I downloaded my max 10 books from the public (parish) library and my max from the Amazon catalog for Prime free reads. I also bought a cookbook for air fryer recipes that is on the Kindle and also on a Kindle app on my laptop.

I stopped reading a book called The Last Policeman (can't recall the author) because it was depressing. A young policeman recently promoted to detective works to solve a crime while the world around him is adjusting to the news that a giant asteroid is headed for Earth. Many people have quit their jobs and are working on bucket lists since life as they know it will end on a specified date. The crime looks like a suicide hanging but he thinks it may be murder.

tessu

Halfway through Good Omens by Pratchett and Gaiman and can’t stop laughing! (One of the gems from the library exchange cart.)

M0mmyof3

Really getting into Roots by Alex Haley.

MinusTwo

Re-reading A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley.

voraciousreader

lilac...

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/mar/12/street-philosophy-garry-winogrand-geoff-dyer-review

I am reading the book... my brain cells are ricocheting..

badger

Carole, I read all three books in the Last Policeman series! Apocalyptic yes, but intriguing.

Halfway thru Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology. Lots of short stories so it's a quick read.

Got a rec for Patrick Rothfuss, anyone know his work?

JuliaJazz

Love Patrick Rothfuss.  The Name of the Wind is incredible.

badger

Thanks, Julia! Will check library for The Name of the Wind.

JKL2017

The Name of the Wind & The Wise Man's Fear (the second book in the series) are both terrific. (And we've been waiting too long for the next installment!)

badger

Oh Joy, a new series! Hope not too long for the third book. My library has the first two. :-)

Tappermom383

I’ll add these books to my list - so many good recommendations here! I just finished Final Girls - I was surprised at the ending! Just started An American Marriage.

MJ

JuliaJazz

Just finished The Burgess Boys which is on sale for Amazon right now.  Same author who wrote Olive Kitteridge.  Loved both.

MinusTwo

I keep getting offers to subscribe to NY Review of Books. This latest offer is $10 for 6 months. Does anyone take or read this? Worth it or not?

badger

Minus, no rec for book review. Just here quick to say Happy Anniversary to this most excellent thread. Thanks Elizabeth for starting it, we still love and miss you!

Spent most of today reading The Name of the Wind. OMG what a great book!!

ruthbru

Happy 7th Anniversary to us! Thinking of you, Elizabeth.

pat01

Finished Women in the Castle, very good book, yet another angle on WWII, my favorite type of fiction to read. Now reading The Bone Garden, also very good. Both recommendations from this thread, thanks!

tessu

Just finished The Dreaming by Barbara Wood, a romance novel set in Australia of the late 1800’s. Unfamiliar author and not my usual type of read, but I enjoyed it. Describes the Australian outback colorfully, and sparked my interest to learn more about the Aboriginal culture. I was lucky to visit Australia a year ago and would love to go back someday...

pat01

Finished The Bone Garden by Tess Gerrittsen. Really enjoyed this book, and never saw the twist coming at the end. First book I've read in a while that has kept me up reading to see what happens next. Now I think I will continue reading A wrinkle in Time - started it a few weeks ago but life got in the way and had to return it, just came up for me again.

carolehalston

I enjoyed The Bone Garden, too.

M0mmyof3

Still slogging through “Roots”.

voraciousreader

The Finest Building in America....all about New York's Crystal Palace...1853-1858. A gem! I can't believe how much info is covered in this tiny book! And the pictures too! Picture after picture from The Met, The New-York Historical Society and The Museum of the City of New York....this book, no larger than six inches long is AMAZING. Just like the book that I recently read, March 1917, it made me wonder what people of the future will say about our present...

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-finest-building-in-america-9780190681210

Jelson

Just finished Peter Carey's A Long Way From Home. set in Australia early 1950's. Irene Bobs, her husband a car salesman, set off on the Redex Trial, a race circumnavigating the continent with their nextdoor neighbor - a quiz show champion and disgraced school teacher. Fascinating descriptions of driving, the mechanics of automobiles, roadless, wild and forbidding terrain as the characters' histories are revealed. Lots about aborigines and their brutal treatment at the time and in the past. Hadn't realized I had read one of Carey's previous books before - Parrot and Olivier in America. He isn't my discovery though, having won the Booker prize twice, for The History of the Kelly Gang and Oscar and Lucinda!!

JuliaJazz

On sale for kindle today Tg Notaro's book I'm just a person about her year with cancer 1.99. she is a comic. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015MNHTN0?ref=pe_2267260_279761320_g_7_8658&tag=x_gr_e_d_default_control_us-20

JKL2017

Thanks, JuliaJazz, I just ordered it & look forward to reading it! I just finished The Bane Chronicles & am currently reading (& enjoying) Karen Memory. (Both were suggested by readers on this thread.) And TaRenee, I just picked up Serafina and the Black Cloak from the library & hope to finish it before our trip to the Biltmore later this month. All of this reading makes my time on the exercise bike fly by - thanks for all your recommendations!

Edited to thank TaRenee for her recommendation

TaRenee

JKL I know you will love Serafina! The imagery in the book is amazing.

badger

Absolutely loved The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear. Looking forward to The Doors of Stone coming ?? but hopefully soon. Just re-read The Handmaid's Tale and may pick up A Wrinkle in Time.