When we become frogs, I want to join the book club too!

I just started reading, Fall of Giants by Ken Follet. It's an historical novel and the first of a trilogy than spans the 20th century. So far, I'm loving it!

My book club in ATL, which is on it's 14th year, just finished reading a series of short stories focused on The Seven Deadly Sins.

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I too am interested in joining a book club.

Tap Room Tales
 

Just read Tap Room Tales by Chuck Acquisto: downloaded for Kindle...also available for Nook and the IPad...great read!!

It's a fun history of Pebble Beach National Pro-Am with stories and quotes from some of the players and people directly involved in making this a major event

The Silent Girl
 

i just read The Silent Girl by Tess Gerritsen - If you like mysteries you will enjoy this - I found it hard to put down.

Run into a period yet?

Yes, yes, Tess Gerritsen is one of my faves. Now I'm reading the Alex Cross series from James Patterson - read Kill Alex Cross, then thought I'd "catch up" and start at the beginning. "24 Hours" by Greg Iles was definitely a read that hard to put down...give it a try....it'll keep you on the edge on your seat.

A Stolen Life - By Jaycee Dugard
 

To my great surprise my family gave me a Kindle Touch 3G for Christmas. I downloaded a couple of short stories for $2.00 each. Today I downloaded A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard. I'm only about 10% of the way into this book which recounts Jaycee's 18 year ordeal of her abduction at the age of 11 by a pedophile sex offender and his wife who are now deservedly serving life sentences in California prisons. So far it's a compelling survival story written by a young woman who is trying to overcome her years of imprisonment.

Side note: It's amazing how many books these e-readers can store. According to the Amazon web site, the Kindle Touch 3G can store 3,000 books. I told my sister that by the time her 4th grader starts high school, I'm predicting that all of her textbooks for school will be on an e-reader. No more lugging around heavy books in a backpack.

I just finished "Learn Me Good" by John Pearson. The book was a free download from Amazondotcom last week, so I downloaded it to the Kindle app on my Android tablet. I don't have an e-reader yet.

This is the first complete book I've read electronically, and I'm still not sure if I like reading this way. I did love being able to read in bed without a book light (the tablet is back-lit), but I really missed 'feeling' how far along I was in the book. I found myself asking, "Where am I? Am I near the end?" Yes, there's a percentage bar, but 85% doesn't register in my brain the same way that the thickness of the pages did. Plus, there were a few blank pages before the final chapter, which threw me off. I'm easily confused... :laugh:

Back to the book. The story is about an engineer who was laid off and took a job teaching third grade in Dallas. The book is a series of emails to his ex-cohorts at his old engineering company. He writes about his experiences as a new teacher, his students, their parents, the school district... Overall, it was an interesting (and funny!) book. If you can still get it for free, it's worth every penny! :icon_wink:

Fairy Tale Interrupted
 

I'm now reading Fairy Tale Interrupted - A Memoir of Life, Love and Loss, by RoseMarie Terenzio. The author was the personal assistant to John F. Kennedy Jr. during the last 5 years of his life. Interesting, not too gossipy. I wonder what would have happened if JFK Jr. had not died in that plane crash with his wife and sister-in-law in 1999.

Thanks to your post I downloaded the book also. My husband is an engineer and I have worked in several facets of education (now consulting) so I related to it. Well written with humor throughout.

Free Kindle Books
 

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Thanks for the tip Angie! I signed up!

Last two books I have read were by Erik Larson, who is simply a fantastic writer.

He actually writes history with concentration of particular events with great detail. Last book was "Thunderstruck" where he tells two stories and finds a way to intertwine them...1st the story of Marconi's invention of the wireless which is woven with one of the biggest murder mysteries in England of that era.

The first was also by Larson..."The Devil in the White City"...again, with great detail he intertwines the story of the making of the Chicago Worlds Fair, with that of a serial killer on the loose in Chicago at the same time.

Great detail.....and a great sense of the culture of the time.

Currently about half done with "Steve Jobs"

trilogy
 

Currently on Book #3 of The Hunger Games...riveting...movie comes out next month.

Here's another vote for "The Hunger Games" trilogy. I put off reading them for months because I thought, based on the subject matter, that I wouldn't like them. I was wrong!! It's a facinating concept and there is a great parallel between the state in which the main characters were left at the end of the books, and our returning war veterans.

I have "The Help" on audio book and have listened to it THREE times! It's great for a long car trip. It's done in different voices and greatly enhances the experience of the book, I think. Loved it.

Another vote for Sarah's Key. I felt like I was locked in the closet for the whole book, like I was holding my breath. Hurry up! Hurry up!.....I kept thinking.

I am also a lover of books by Sarah Addison. "Garden Spells", "The Sugar Queen" and a few others. There's a bit of fanciful magic in all of them and I loved all the characters. Easy reading. Good for a cruise.

I appreciate everyone's suggestions. Keep 'em coming!