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

    Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
    In the forests of the night,
    What immortal hand or eye
    Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

    -William Blake: The Tyger (first stanza)

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

    elizabeth... if it was done well I think it would make a good movie.  But there was definitely something about it which kept me wanting to turn the page.

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  • Cyborg
    Cyborg Member Posts: 848
    edited August 2012

    Early From The Dance

    By David Payne

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  • whaevah
    whaevah Member Posts: 354
    edited August 2012

    The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty

     Left Neglected  by Lisa Genova , and I laughed out loud with

    Bossypants by Tina Fey

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

    i think i have lost a serious number of brain cells.  I used to be fascinated by whatever i was reading.. now  I am mostly a kid literature type of gal..We have a lot of it.

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

    I love it how each morning I read Elizabeth's mantra.. "Elizabeth's Mantra: When in doubt, eat cake. When you haven't a clue, add ice cream"  I am going to start making a pound cake.  I found dried cherries.  soaking them and serving them with a plain cake is heavenly.  maybe it needs a little whipped cream.

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

    Apple... Speaking of reading and eating....on Friday, in the library parking lot I enjoyed reading the bumper sticker on this woman's car. It said something like "Cook something delicious for the people you love.". The gal was getting into her car and I told her I loved her bumper sticker. She then reached into the front seat and gave me a bag of fresh organic vegetables from a volunteer garden that she runs. She was planning on giving them to a librarian. But the librarian wasn't there. She really, REALLY made my day! Food and books AND generosity....

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  • LuvLulu07
    LuvLulu07 Member Posts: 778
    edited August 2012

    Wish I had brought something else on vacation - The Scarpetta Factor isn't holding my interest.  

    badger   Will think of you, should I get to Chicago.  Laughing

    A good book that I read last summer was Enemies of the People by Kati Marton.  Non-fiction book about Kati's family in Budapest, their struggles during WWII and their eventual departure for the States.  This was made more interesting for me as a friend currently lives in the old Marton house and I was able to take a tour of it after reading the book.  

    VR  Yum - enjoy the veggies.   

    edited for grammar 

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

    Apple, I agree with you, I haven't been into anything anything really intellectual since treatment. I am rereading my "in. Death", JDRobb, series just for fun.

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

    The Hypnotist's love story--liane moriarty--a really good read, finished in a day-  now I will look for her other books

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

    actually, i really am enjoying reading Lincoln by Gore Vidal.. it was a bit boring at first.

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  • lexi4
    lexi4 Member Posts: 1,074
    edited August 2012

    Apple, I have been reading my daughter's summer school reading books. I just finished The Great Gatsby.

    A quick and easy read. It seems that's about all my brain can handle these days!Tongue out

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

    Thank goodness we don't have book snobs laughing at our reading choices. Cause I will read practically anything, and usually enjoy it! LOL

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

    Moon...Book snob???!!! You just reminded me of a conversation that I recently had with the "former" DD. I asked her the very simple question, "So, what are you reading?"To which she replies, "Nothing you would enjoy.". EXCUSE ME!



    Ya think she thinks I' m a BOOK SNOB? Then it took another minute or two of twisting her arm until she FINALLY told me what she was reading. It was a fiction story about a young woman who was adopted. Very interesting twists and turns to the story. By sheer coincidence there was a story the previous day in our local paper about a 31 year old woman who, with the help of the paper, recently found her birth parents. I showed the DD the article and she read it and found it interesting too. I then told her that while our taste in books might differ, we could always find common ground beginning with the fact that we both love to read.



    I hope the next time I ask her what she's reading, she won't get bent out of shape....One would have thought while she was growing up that I shackled her to the non-fiction section of the library....Yikes!

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

    LOL, VR! I don't that is book snobnish as much as it is teenage girlish! LOL! My philosophy when my kids were teens was, simply: I embarrass them simply by existing. So I might as well do whatever pleases me! LOL

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

    Moon....I'm embarrassed to tell you how old she is.......Surprised

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

    Hmmm, 27, like my younger daughter? LOL. who said something like that book is too young for you? LOL sometimes its just the sexy books that cause them embarrassment, they don't want us to know they are reading that stuff. Or is it they don't want to know WE are reading stuff like that! LOL

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

    Thanks Moon. Now I feel better! And she's 28!

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

    28 IS still a teenager! LOL, but don't tell her I said that! LOL

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  • Elizabeth1889
    Elizabeth1889 Member Posts: 1,036
    edited August 2012
    I just finished reading Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. Scary mystery!
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  • wenweb
    wenweb Member Posts: 1,107
    edited August 2012

    I was and still am reading John Irving's newest novel "In One Person", but just having returned from a 5 day backpacking trip in the high Sierra, decided to reread Bill Bryson's "A Walk in the Woods".  It's his LOL account of hiking the Appalachian Trail.  I was laughing past mid-night...

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

    Wen....Bill Bryson rocks!  I LOVED "A Walk in the Woods."  Check out "At Home"  when you get through Bill's walk!

    The Twilight War is a VERY challenging read.  Amazing!  I think I could go work for the State Department when I finish reading it.....Tongue out

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  • Tazzy
    Tazzy Member Posts: 2,546
    edited August 2012
    Bill Bryson definitely laugh out loud - not to be read in public Smile
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  • Elizabeth1889
    Elizabeth1889 Member Posts: 1,036
    edited August 2012

    Good news for fans of Ken Follett's Fall of Giants. Winter of the World, the second installment of the trilogy, will be available on September 18.

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  • mumito
    mumito Member Posts: 4,562
    edited August 2012

    Follett is one of my favorite authors.Thanks for the heads up.

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

    I am going to start reading his At Home book... has been in my library for a while...now is time.

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

    Book Lovers... Attention!!! Jonathan Tropper, author of the hilarious novel, This is Where I Leave You has written a new book, One Last Thing Before I Go. It will be released on Tuesday. He will sign books and speak on Tuesday at the Barnes and Noble on 82 Street and Broadway in Manhattan. I am planning on attending. If anyone would like to join me and a few of my friends, feel free to pm me. You can also check his website for other dates for your areas.

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

    Anbody reading "On Beauty"?  Came highly recomended--dumb question, is Horace, the protaganist black?

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited August 2012

    I've been remiss at posting.  It happens during the summer season when I'm working full time.  But I haven't stopped reading.  Liked Laura Lippman's The Most Dangerous Thing.  Read Faye Kellerman's new book Gun Games.  I've liked her better than her husband Jonathan for quite a while, but maybe her books are becoming to much of a formula for me.  Used to like Patricia Cornwall & John Grisham but they all seem the same now.   Re-reading Martha Grimes pub mysteries.  Always good.  A British friend loaned me Dreams of My Russian Summer by Andrei Makine. He is an expat Russian living & writing in French about Russia that was then translated into English.  Evocative, lyrical writing and exquisite verbal pictures.  It teases your past memories with sentences like "...(she came into the house bringing) the smell of cold in the folds of her cloak".  I like that - the smell of cold.  Read Diane Keaton's autobiography Then Again.  Great thoughts about her mother. Even read a Western someone had given me written by Willie Nelson.  Not bad - even though there was a co-writer, or most likely a ghost writer.

    Finally got to the used book store today and picked up 20 books for $15.00.  They always have shelves in front with hardbacks for $1.00 and paperbacks for a quarter.  Scored Shindler's List, which I have never read, for a quarter.  Voracious - looked for Geoff Dyer with no luck.  A new young lady clerk asked how long it would take me to read them all.  Actually I probably read four books a week when I'm working.  More in the off "winter" months when I'm not outside as much. And since this is a book lovers club - I'd expect we all read more than we post.

    Moonflower - I read JD Robb.  Lexi - I recently re-read The Great Gatsby and it's nothing like I remembered from HS.  Would love to see a Sr. Hi. reading list if any of you are teachers or have HS kids.   Whaever - LOL for Bossy Pants.  Badger - thanks for Blake's Tyger.  Not to be confused with Tigger.

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

    Tigger, tigger, burning bright....... LOL

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