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  • Elizabeth1889
    Elizabeth1889 Member Posts: 1,036
    edited July 2012

    lovemyfamilysomuch, I read "What Remains" about seven years ago and I was very touched by how much she loved her husband and what an amazing person Carolyn Bissett Kennedy was.

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  • lovemyfamilysomuch
    lovemyfamilysomuch Member Posts: 1,585
    edited July 2012

    Me too Elizabeth, it was interesting to get perspectives so different than how she (Carolyn Bissett) was portrayed in the media.

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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 57,235
    edited July 2012
    Read What Remains also. Very sweet and sad.
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  • Laurie08
    Laurie08 Member Posts: 2,891
    edited July 2012

    Ruth is the author Carole Radziwill ?

    I loved the book 1929, there is a sequel coming out soon :)

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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 57,235
    edited July 2012

    yes.

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  • voraciousreader
    voraciousreader Member Posts: 7,496
    edited July 2012

    Ahhhhh.... So non-fiction rocks!!! Yippee!!! When I was reading Stephanie Madoff Mack's book about losing her husband, I was reminded of Radziwill's book....





    I am reading David Crist's The Twilight War about the last 30 years' relationship that the U.S. is having with Iran. I gasp as I turn each page! Will be reading this stunning 500+ page turner for weeks to come.

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  • AnneW
    AnneW Member Posts: 4,050
    edited July 2012

    Oh, I need to add that one to my ever-growing list!

    I am doing a re-read of A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris. It's so beautifully written, and such a heartsting-tugging story. I need to see what else he wrote. He died several years ago. I think he was married to Louise Erdich, but I may have that wrong...

    Not sure what I'll read next. Maybe some non-fiction, or another Henry VIII era novel? I seem to be stuck on those ever since Wolf Hall and seeing THE TUDORS on NetFlix!

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  • Tazzy
    Tazzy Member Posts: 2,546
    edited August 2012

    Just finished Any Known Blood by Lawrence Hill.   Love his writing and the way his characters a brought to life. 

    Started Her Perfect Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger which so far am liking too.  Wasn't prepared for one of the characters dying of cancer at the beginning of the book.  Once you get over that its OK.

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  • Moonflwr912
    Moonflwr912 Member Posts: 6,856
    edited August 2012

    Tazzy, isn't it a b*TCH when those things hit us so dang out of the blue? I am glad you are enjoying the rest of it. Anyone else on here like J.D.ROBB?(Nora Roberts) I am hooked on the "In Death" series. Another one comes out in September.

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  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 34,614
    edited August 2012
    Moonflwr, I've read one of the In Death series and liked it.  Haven't gone back to them as I'm sort of compulsive about series fiction and like to start at book one if I can.  There are so many in this series I'm overwhelmed.  Is Eve Dallas still the lead character?
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  • Moonflwr912
    Moonflwr912 Member Posts: 6,856
    edited August 2012

    Yes, Eve is wonderful. I have all the books. First one is Glory in death. My favorite character is Peabody, otherwise known as shebody by her SO , Ian Mcnabb.

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  • lostinmo
    lostinmo Member Posts: 922
    edited August 2012

    Moonflwr- I just finished Nora Roberts "In the Garden' trilogy.

    Now I'm starting The Help.  I usually end up reading books long after everyone else has read them. 

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  • Moonflwr912
    Moonflwr912 Member Posts: 6,856
    edited August 2012

    Lomo, I just read The Help about two months ago, so, I get it! LOL.

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  • Elizabeth1889
    Elizabeth1889 Member Posts: 1,036
    edited August 2012
    I just finished reading Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard. It is about the assassination of President Garfield in 1881. Medicine was so primitve then. Garfield would have survived if his doctors had simply left him alone and our nation would have been blessed with a wonderful president.
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  • voraciousreader
    voraciousreader Member Posts: 7,496
    edited August 2012

    Read Destiny of the Republic last winter. It is a cautious tale.... You would think that the lessons learned wouldn't be forgotten..



    What I also thought interesting was Chester Arthur's succession to the presidency. A few weeks ago, I was in Manhattan's Madison Square Park for the wonderful annual outdoor BBQ and I saw a statue of him there and recalled the book once again!

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  • LuvLulu07
    LuvLulu07 Member Posts: 778
    edited August 2012

    Newbie here - have enjoyed going over what everybody is reading and recommending.  

    Just finished Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, a non-fiction about Chicago's World Fair and a serial murderer.  Slow at first, but gave a good depiction of what Chicago was like in the late 1800's.  I wondered if any of the World's Fair structures still exist - found out that I had been to one of them - the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.  

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  • voraciousreader
    voraciousreader Member Posts: 7,496
    edited August 2012

    Joy... After reading Devil in The White City, I booked a trip to Chicago! When I stood on the museum grounds, I looked around and tried to envision what the city looked like at the dawn of the 20th century. Afterwards, I read Alice Sparburg Alexiou's, The Flatiron. Following the Chicago fair, many of those great architects landed in New York and recreated their magic. Similar to Chicago, the back story of how the Flatiron got built in New York is riveting!

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  • LuvLulu07
    LuvLulu07 Member Posts: 778
    edited August 2012

    VR    I visited Chicago's Science Museum as a child, and remember it as a magical place.  Would love to get back to Chicago and see it again with the Fair in mind.  The web has some good images of the Fair - it's interesting that amateur photographs were discouraged.  Loved the end of the book - tied in the shift of thinking about architecture in US cities, and fun info with the addition of some products that we know today (Cracker Jacks!)

    Wasn't the construction and testing of the Ferris Wheel unbelievable?  I held my breath for some of the book - this type of invention would never happen today.   

     Will check out The Flatiron.  

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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 57,235
    edited August 2012

    I was just in Chicago and did walking tour of Graceland Cemetery, it is a Chicago Architecture Foundation tour. Both John Root and Daniel Burnham, the architects written about in The Devil in the White City are buried in this cemetery, along with many other architects and other of the top citizens of Chicago. Very interesting and beautiful!

    Really liked Destiny of the Republic too.

    Now reading Janet Evanovich's Explosive Eighteen, just for something mindless and fun.

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  • LuvLulu07
    LuvLulu07 Member Posts: 778
    edited August 2012

    ruth   Would love to get to Chicago and tour, after having read the book.  I have family in Chicago, so have another reason to visit!

    Leaving for vacation on Friday - the paperback that I'm taking is The Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwell.  Haven't read any of her books yet.  

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  • apple
    apple Member Posts: 7,799
    edited August 2012

    found Gore Vidal's Lincoln in the bowels of our basement library - it's pretty good so far.

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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 57,235
    edited August 2012
    Joy, it is really an interesting tour. When I told my DH I had toured a cemetery, his surprised question was, "On purpose?" After I explained, he understood but said he would have still picked Wrigley Field. Laughing
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  • voraciousreader
    voraciousreader Member Posts: 7,496
    edited August 2012

    Ruth... I am reminded of the Brooklyn, National Landmark Green-Wood Cemetery tour! AND... Sarah Vowell's terrific book Assasination Vacation.... which mentions.... Presidents Garfield and Arthur! Believe it or not... many people enjoy battleground and cemetery vacations. And that Geoff Dyer book, The Missing of the Somme is all about his road trip of visiting WWI memorials and cemeteries. The book is a tour de force!

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  • Stanzie
    Stanzie Member Posts: 1,971
    edited August 2012
    Has one else ever noticed how sometimes when something comes up in someones life they then see it everywhere.. Like when you get pregnant all of a sudden you notice everyone seems to be pregnant. Well this weekend I had a friend and her kids visiting and guess what we talked about - yep The Devil in the White City - I was coming on this thread to ask if anyone had read it and Ta Da just what I wanted! You guys are great!
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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 57,235
    edited August 2012
    I loved Assassination Vacation! I may have to track it down and reread it. Also will look for the Dyer book.
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  • Elizabeth1889
    Elizabeth1889 Member Posts: 1,036
    edited August 2012

    Add me to the list of people who like to tour cemeteries. I live near Boston and one of my favorite places to walk is Mount Auburn Cemetery. It is our nation's oldest garden cemetery and it is the resting place of 19th century literary notables like Longfellow and James Russell Lowell.

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  • Tazzy
    Tazzy Member Posts: 2,546
    edited August 2012

    Haven`t read any cemetry books..but loved to visit them when I visited New Orleans. 

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  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 34,614
    edited August 2012

    Joy, please let me know if you get to Chicago, I'm a half-tank of gas away!

    Finally finished "State of Wonder" and also read John Grisham's "The Innocent Man"

    Now on to "The Secret Life of Bees"

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  • Tazzy
    Tazzy Member Posts: 2,546
    edited August 2012

    Just finished Her Fearful Symmetry - weird, but I enjoyed it.  

    Not sure what is next ??

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  • Elizabeth1889
    Elizabeth1889 Member Posts: 1,036
    edited August 2012
    Tazzy, I read Her Fearful Symmetry, too, and I felt the same way about it.
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