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What I'm Reading Now--Nov 2009 |
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11/01/09 11:48 AM BCC ZEN BOOKIE COOKIE
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Wish these threads reset automatically at the beginning of the month. But at least I remembered on the 1st this time.
I'm closing in on finishing Alice (to my regret, I want to stay there) and will go back to Henry and Wolf Hall.
Currently reading: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Just Finished: Nine Dragons by M Connelly **** |
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11/01/09 12:30 PM BCC ZEN Bookie MASTER |
I've been reading the 300 page little A Stopover in Venice for more than a week! What's up with that? And have several library books that need
to be read before I can get to other stuff.
Karen
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11/01/09 01:42 PM |
Reading, Infidel, and while I can't say I wasn't aware these types of things go, I must say, I am deeply sadden that there are
women and girls who are still enduring this treatment. I think it is easy for us to stick our head in the sand and just hope it all goes away. I know I
certainly wish it wasn't true and feel helpless to help.
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11/02/09 04:39 AM |
Finished off October with Anne Tyler's 'Noah's Compass' and I'm now into 'Miss Hargreaves' - one of the Bloomsbury Group books.
It's an interesting one where a couple of young men invent somebody as a kind of a joke and she turns up just as they imagined her and causes havoc for
them.
Barb
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11/02/09 07:58 AM BCC ZEN BOOKIE COOKIE
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Barb, Miss Hargreaves sounds good. It's coming out here in December. Besides Henrietta's War, what else is in the series of Bloomsbury books?
Currently reading: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Just Finished: Nine Dragons by M Connelly **** |
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11/02/09 11:19 AM BCC ZEN Bookie MASTER |
Hmm, I thought I had posted that in last month's thread but I guess I only posted part of it. You can find it here:
http://www.bloomsbury.com/thebloomsburygroup/
Karen
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11/02/09 12:41 PM BCC ZEN BOOKIE COOKIE
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Oh you might have Karen. Thanks though. I ordered Miss Hargreaves and she should be here for Christmas.
Currently reading: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Just Finished: Nine Dragons by M Connelly **** |
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11/02/09 02:24 PM |
Henrietta's at the library! I saw her this morning but they weren't finished processing it yet so I'll get her later this week. :)
Don't ever bother reading Insp Anders and the Ship of Fools. Ship of fools indeed! Could be peopled with ones like me who actually read the entire book. Waste of brain space. Bah. Read more of the history book and finished with Eliz. Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. Next entry looked like it took place during the Civil War. |
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11/03/09 09:14 AM |
Gave up on another book. Started out in 1st person and it was a dude telling his families history. Then went into the 3rd person but it was still him here and
there. How in the world would he have known exactly how his grandmother was feeling when he was only 6? Yet he says he did. Dumb.
Grabbed the Donna Leon off the shelf (About Face) and it's already better than the 2 I tossed aside. Whew. |
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11/03/09 06:57 PM BCC ZEN BOOKIE COOKIE
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I'm finally getting around to reading Flying Crows by Jim Lehrer and it has some stories that are quite different from the usual. Two inmates in an asylum
in 1933 have witness horrors in their lives, one the Centralia Massacre in Missouri in 1864, the other the massacre at Union Station in Kansas City in 1933,
involving Pretty Boy Floyd. Their inability to deal with what they witnessed landed them in the asylum at a time when conditions and treatment (such as it was)
were primitive at best.
Lehrer tells the story in his direct unemotional style, but he jumps around a lot in time, between 1916, 1933, and 1997 when one of the inmates is discovered hiding/living at abandoned Union Station, where he's been since 1933!!! I'm going to try to stick with it, but the jumping around is beginning to wear on me even though he clearly identifies the time shifts with chapter titles. Glad we didn't vote this one in, even though I nomm'd it because it's kind of rough going on the ill treatment scale.
Currently reading: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Just Finished: Nine Dragons by M Connelly **** |
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11/03/09 10:03 PM BCC Zen Bookie Master
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I've read an ARC from Robert Crais that really, really grabbed me and held my attention right through till the end: The First Rule. Look for it in about a
month, I think. I also loved Nine Dragons from Connelly as you knew I would! I've also read two books by L.R.Wright: The Suspect and Sleep While I Sing.
Jill started me off on the first one and my neighbor lent me about four of the series which was helpful since it's an older one. Now I'm reading a book
that I was supposed to finish ages ago so I could write a review on Amazon Vine and I'm nearly 6 mos overdue: Ignorance of Blood by Rob't Wilson.
It's a really intense thriller on terrorists in Spain, featuring Inspector Javier Falcon; it's the fourth and final book in a series in Seville. One of
Wilson's better known books was A Small Death in Lisbon, one of my favorites.
Betsy
Taking allergy pills is like having Snow White multiple personality disorder. You go from Sneezy/Grumpy to Sleepy/Dopey/Happy. from CEO of Zappo's, Tony Shieh |
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11/04/09 04:12 PM |
I needed something to read while sitting at the doctors office for my three hour glucose test so I picked up the new book The Hunted by Wayne Barcomb.
I figured a murder mystery was a good Halloween read. The story line is a little lewd in parts and I was a little bummed right off because the story line
seemed pretty easy to figure out. However, something kept me reading even after I left the doctor's office. Over all not a bad read since it kept me
reading, but not one of my favorites.
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11/04/09 05:37 PM |
Sheesh! More books for the "list".
Sandra |
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11/04/09 07:54 PM |
I picked up The Murder of King Tut by James Paterson, it is labeled a non-fiction mystery so I figured , hm, I'll give it a try. I
picked it up at the grocery store of all places.
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11/04/09 08:14 PM BCC ZEN BOOKIE COOKIE
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Dang Betsy, I was going to try to resist the new Crais (buying it I mean)--guess not LOL. I really enjoyed the most recent Connelly too; thought it was better
than the last one before it.
HI Michelle, good to see ya-did you get a major headache from that test?
Currently reading: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Just Finished: Nine Dragons by M Connelly **** |
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11/04/09 08:20 PM BCC ZEN Bookie MASTER |
Ack! I thought I posted this before but it's not here:
Michelle, you should join us for a A Town Like Alice. I think all of us are really enjoying it. (Aren't we?)
Karen
Don't know what I'm currently reading... between books for a minute. |
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11/04/09 10:09 PM BCC Zen Bookie Master
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Give into temptation, Jill. The Crais is worth it! Curt finished it last night and agrees with me. It's a goodie! And yes, I liked the Connelly better than
the last one but how can you go wrong with Kowloon, HK as a setting?
Betsy
Taking allergy pills is like having Snow White multiple personality disorder. You go from Sneezy/Grumpy to Sleepy/Dopey/Happy. from CEO of Zappo's, Tony Shieh |
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11/04/09 10:34 PM |
Betsy, I can't wait to read the new Connelly. I have been waiting for the library copy but might have to give in and just get it on my Kindle.
Sandra |
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11/05/09 08:21 AM BCC ZEN Bookie MASTER |
I am about 1/2 way through the official biography of the Queen Mother by William Shawcross--so far it's been riveting for me, but of course I am very much
interested in the monarchy anyway.
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11/05/09 08:55 AM |
Reading a mystery set in Sweden written by Asa Larsson. It's called "The Blood Spilt" and may be a follow-up to her earlier "Sun Storm"
but I haven't checked even though I'm pretty sure this is another one I put on hold because I liked the first one. So far, so good. The cover says
it's the winner of Sweden's Best Crime Novel award. It follows a detective and a lawyer who are generally apart (they aren't partners or anything
like that). Sure makes me wish I could see the scenery and hear the wind in the pines.
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11/05/09 09:01 AM BCC ZEN Bookie MASTER |
So, I just typed "The First Rule" into Leo (library search) to see if I could reserve it yet. Two titles popped up:
1) The first rule of little brothers (pub. 2008) 2) THe first rule of the glorious virgin S. Clare (pub. 1665) My library certainly has an extensive collection, don't they!
If things go wrong, don't go with them - Roger Babson
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