Book Lovers Club

a man at the flea market donates any books to the woodstock tibetans who sell them & donate the money to tibetan charities..........diane di prima has a new collection of poetry out: the poetry deal. can't wait to read it

I am almost finished with the new Lisa Genova book, Inside the O'Briens.  A very interesting read about a family dealing with Huntington's Disease.  I also enjoyed two of her other books, Still Alice and Left Neglected.     

Or maybe thought-provoking would be a better term than "enjoyed."  She has an excellent writing style for fiction, even though she is a neurologist.

jane

I have The Wright Brothers coming in the mail (air mail, no doubt )!

my brother sends me books from time to time. recently he's been sending me the novels of irene nemerovsky. I've not liked them magnificent as they are, creeping me out that she died in a german prison camp. (not her fault of course). & that thy're in translation. the latest he sent is called the wine of lonliness & I can no longer not like her. how did she know such thingws?? I'ts set in russio, paris & finland just before during & after the russian revolution. (the last one). the finnish section I'm now reading is so amazingly wonderful I do reccomend her works

& knowing how old she was when she wrote the novels How did she know that stuff at that young

age??

VR II, aka VR's mom, just finished reading Kent Haruf's new book, Our Souls at Night. I had recommended it to her even before I got it because the reviews were that good. I still haven't read it yet, but am now anxiously waiting for my library copy. Mom said that she read the book in a day and now wants to read the rest of his books! His writing is that good......

http://www.amazon.com/Our-Souls-at-Night-novel/dp/...=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

VR - thanks for sharing. It looks good.

Hi friends - just want you to know that this thread has reawakened my love for reading. In the past couple of months I've read What Alice Forgot, the Husband's Secret, and Orphan Train. The first two were because of high recommendations here. Excellent! Orphan Train was ok but a bit shallow I think. Next up is Isaac's Storm which I just downloaded from the library.

I now am reading the new neal stephenson I got from the cybermobile th. In it the moon has exploded from unknown causes, & mankind has 2 years to off-planet some of them before the debris makes earth uninhabitable for 10,000 years. now at 3 months past 0 there are about 100 human a month able to dock at the space station in various vehicles. the rest on earth await the end. most of the space station humans need to be pre menopausal women to accomodate wombs for the frozen embreos of some earthlings who weren't able to get a place at the station. from reviews I learn that I think the space station umans evolve intp 7 distinct races. thus the 7 even of the title

I've not read anything by Liane Moriarty but I see she has been mentioned often here.

Any suggestion in the best one or two to start with? I'm thinking I need a little fiction today.

Reading Gathering Prey now!  Badger, will your library let you put a pause on your account during your vacation? Ours does that. Then you reactivate when you return and you basically get your spot back.

abigail48- I have been reading rave reviews of the new Neal Stephenson - be sure to tell us how you like it.

Jackbirdie - some of Moriarty's books are darker than others. I started with Three Wishes, The Hypnotist's Love Story, then The Last Anniversary which were relatively light - but not lightweight. The most recent was The Husband's Secret which dealt with some heavy stuff - and which has really stayed with me - in a good way. I plan to read everything she writes, she is that good. - it just depends if you want to plunge into some difficult situations or wade in slowly!

I am now in a quandry - I took Pym by Mat Johnson out of the library because his latest, Long Day is getting rave reviews - so I figured I would check out an earlier book and wait on the newest one. It turns out that Pym is an update of sorts of a book by Edgar Allan Poe - Narrative of A. Gordon Pym - which I now feel obligated to read before Pym. Edgar Allan Poe and my older brother were responsible for my love of reading. Not only did my older brother pay me to read Tom Sawyer, but he would wake me up at night to recite Edgar Allan Poe's poetry to me - (some of which I still remember!) but my copy of Edgar Allan Poe's collected works is in tiny type which is tiring to read. Oh well - I have Pym checked out for 22 more days.......

Jelson- thanks so much for the recommendations. I like dark, but with the current state of affairs, I'll wade in.

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so it's year zero plus 2 and the white sky is immanent. at this late date there's political trouble. every large population has chosen 2 young people by lot to represent them. but everyone has fudged: they don't want ordinary children to be saved but exceptional ones. except the venesuelians who did choose 22 youngsters by lot, & now they've not been allowed on the shuttles because they're ordinary children. the venesuelians are furious & have blockaded the ships preventing them from leaving. & that's as far as I've read & a good place to stop with this report.

These past few weeks, I've been struggling with my eyes...finally getting things under some control....have a backlog of books that need immediate attention....Enjoyed, Our Souls at Night. Not going to say it is great....however, Harug's sparse use of words pack an emotional punch.