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  • mcsushi
    mcsushi Member Posts: 174
    edited July 2013

    Yes! If you are on goodreads, Gina, find us there! Laurie, I just started reading Wonder. I'll probably finish it up today. I saw it was on your list. READ IT! It is so, so good!

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  • gonegirl
    gonegirl Member Posts: 1,871
    edited July 2013

    how do you find folks on goodreads?  I'm on there too.

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  • Jelson
    Jelson Member Posts: 1,535
    edited August 2013

    http://www.techsupportalert.com/free-ebooks-audio-books   here is a website where someone has compiled a list of free audio and ebooks.  check it out.

    Julie e

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  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 34,614
    edited August 2013

    Finished Gulp and OMG Mary Roach is hilarious!  Am now halfway through Packing for Mars.

    Ruth I put the 100 year old man on my list and VR thanks for the rec of Lost States.  I enjoy a TV program on the history channel about how states got their shapes so am sure to like it.

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  • voraciousreader
    voraciousreader Member Posts: 7,496
    edited August 2013

    Badger...the book about how the states got their shapes which the series is based on is also a good book. Don't miss reading the page about Guyana in the Lost States book!

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  • mcsushi
    mcsushi Member Posts: 174
    edited August 2013

    To all my fellow Jeanette Walls fans... I just finished reading her new novel, The Silver Star, and I'm sorry to say it's absolutely awful. What a disappointment! I loved her memoirs, but her fiction novel is just dreadful.

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  • mcsushi
    mcsushi Member Posts: 174
    edited August 2013

    PS gritgirl: If you have a facebook account, you can link that to goodreads and any of your facebook friends who use goodreads will automatically become your friends. Other than that, your friends can find you via your email address

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  • Jelson
    Jelson Member Posts: 1,535
    edited August 2013

    finished Simon Rich's What in God's Name: A Novel. Rich is a writer for Saturday Night Live and has written several books including a collection of short stories and has contributed to various magazines. The premise of the book is that God is a doofus, the burnt-out CEO of Heaven who decides that humankind was a mistake and so he will destroy us. Two angels - nerds actually, who work in the Dept of Miracles make a deal with God that if they can bring an especially hapless couple together - he will spare mankind. kind of cute.

    also finished Colin Cotterill's latest Siri Paiboun mystery set in late 1970's Laos The Woman Who Wouldn't Die. This book gives a lot of back story for Siri's second wife Madame Daeng - former guerilla fighter and current noodle soup maker. I love this series and highly recommend it.  Also it fits into my favorite genre - books which feature happily married couples.

    already plowing through Carl Hiassen's Bad Monkey.


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  • Laurie08
    Laurie08 Member Posts: 2,891
    edited August 2013

    McSushi-  I will see if the library has it this week, thanks for the heads up!

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  • voraciousreader
    voraciousreader Member Posts: 7,496
    edited August 2013

    OMG! OMG! OMG! I AM READING THE MOST FUNNIEST BOOK! SIDE SPLITTING HILARIOUS ... STAY UP ALL NIGHT KINDA BOOK...



    Amber Dusick's Parenting: Illustrated with Crappy Pictures....



    I am laughing so hard that I have tears streaming down my cheeks!

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  • Moonflwr912
    Moonflwr912 Member Posts: 6,856
    edited August 2013

    voracious, that sounds so good.  I have one I love that is written like a childrens book in rhyme calle d "Go the F*ck To Sleep"  Its hilarious and I can remember feeling the same things as this father.  LOL

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  • voraciousreader
    voraciousreader Member Posts: 7,496
    edited August 2013

    Moon... Read Go the F" also! This other book is insanely funny!!!!!

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  • gonegirl
    gonegirl Member Posts: 1,871
    edited August 2013

    You can find a video of Samuel L. Jackson reading "Go the Fuck to Sleep" on YouTube. Even better.

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  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 34,614
    edited August 2013

    OMG funny!!!  Love this thread.  ♥

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  • wenweb
    wenweb Member Posts: 1,107
    edited August 2013

    I sent "Go the Fuck to Sleep" (via Samuel L. Jackson on You Tube) to my 34 year old son, who would NEVER go to sleep, and was always asking for that one more glass of water Wink 

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  • Moonflwr912
    Moonflwr912 Member Posts: 6,856
    edited August 2013

    LOL, yeah, we are warped. LOL. Grit, great new pic!

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  • gonegirl
    gonegirl Member Posts: 1,871
    edited August 2013

    Thanks, moonflwr. Wearing your beautiful necklace in it

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  • Jelson
    Jelson Member Posts: 1,535
    edited August 2013

    Carl Hiaasen's BAD MONKEY - having been disappointed by Nature Girl, I was a bit leery of his latest - but found it to be one of his best. Wonderful characters - much action  and laugh out loud moments. Very enjoyable read. Have reserved Dusick at library, thanks for the tip VR!!

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  • Laurie08
    Laurie08 Member Posts: 2,891
    edited August 2013

    II just finished Ken Folletts Winter of the World.  I liked it.  I like Pillars of the Earth better but it was good.  I did not feel as though I could not put it down though and it did not keep me up late at night.

    I am now starting Jodi Picoults book The Storyteller.  Has anyone read it?

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  • Cyborg
    Cyborg Member Posts: 848
    edited August 2013

    The Silent Wife

    by A. S. A. Harrison

    And

    Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

    Good books

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  • planetbananas
    planetbananas Member Posts: 206
    edited August 2013

    I loved Gone Girl and just downloaded Silent Wife, happy to hear a good review.



    I just read Lie Still. I didn't care for it, it seemed like two books smushed into one and as a former Texan I did not like the stereotype made of Texas women. I usually don't get too excited about such things but the word redneck was used way too often. It has some good reviews so mileage may vary on this one.

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  • mcsushi
    mcsushi Member Posts: 174
    edited August 2013

    I don't remember if anyone has mentioned this book, but I just finished Life After Life by Kate Atkinson and it is fantastic. Interesting premise, great characterization, and I highly recommend it!

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  • Jelson
    Jelson Member Posts: 1,535
    edited August 2013

    am I the only one who didn't know that A.S. Byatt and Margaret Drabble were sisters?  to the library I go, haven't read Byatt, read Drabble a long time ago.

    http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/rivalries/2013/08/literary_grudge_match_a_s_byatt_margaret_drabble_their_mother_and_their.html

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited August 2013

    Jelson:  I certainly did not know.  Thanks for the article.  I'm on the opposite side - read Byatt but never Drabble - but I'll be headed for the library.

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  • bedo
    bedo Member Posts: 1,866
    edited August 2013

    I have been avoiding "Cutting for Stone"which somehow found it's way to my bookshelf, but got desperate and read it. It has been nominated for the National Book Award three times. A novel about Indian doctor working at a mission hospital in Ethiopia. Born a twin of a Nun and an Indian physician. It really captured me.

    Sorry, haven't read the whole thread, so don't know if anyone else has recommended it!

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  • Laurie08
    Laurie08 Member Posts: 2,891
    edited August 2013

    Bedo- Cutting for Stone is a much loved book on this thread!  So nice to see you join us!

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  • wenweb
    wenweb Member Posts: 1,107
    edited August 2013

    Yes bedo, Laurie is right.  I also noticed that it was one of those books that we either loved or hated!!  I loved it from the first page, glad you are enjoying it too Wink

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  • Laurie08
    Laurie08 Member Posts: 2,891
    edited August 2013

    Wenweb- Have you read Snow Angel?

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  • wenweb
    wenweb Member Posts: 1,107
    edited August 2013

    Hey Laurie!!  No, I have not even heard of it.  I will check it out, thanks!

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  • planetbananas
    planetbananas Member Posts: 206
    edited August 2013

    Bedo that was the last truly great book I have read. I finished it about a month ago and I gave a copy to my plastic surgeon. I know he reads a lot and I figured he might enjoy it.

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