The Snowman by Jo Nesbo, a Norwegian writer. Just as good as Stieg Larsson's books.
Unbroken is another excellent book.

I have just finished reading Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosney. This is coming out in movie form soon so if your interested you should read the book first.
I also read two books by Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed and I Know This Much is True. I found I could not put any of these down, they were all page turners.

I LOVED Sarah's Key!!!! I forgot about that... And along that line... The Book Thief!!!

I am currently re-reading most of Mark Twain's works using Kindle.

Thanks for the info, SkyGuy. Maybe I'll give it a try, but did you read the reviews at Amazon? Did you read the reviewers who said they cried while reading the book? They CRIED, SkyGuy! I still haven't gotten over Old yeller and Bambi. :(

Thanks to everybody for their recommendations! I took notes!
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The last time I checked with the Sumter Library, they didn't have the download available. However I'm in Canada now and strangely, our tiny corner library has free book download. Goodbye to lugging bags of books around. Yes, Judy, get an iPad ... They are so handy! I loooooove my iPad! :thumbup:

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I thoroughly enjoyed reading:

1. "Team of Rivals", by Doris Kearns Goodwin. It's about Lincoln and his combative cabinet.

2. "FDR", by Jean Edward Smith.

I was impressed by the amount of detailed information that was presented as these writers spent a lot of time researching their subjects.

IMHO - Not short reads but thoroughly engrossing to me.

Thanks for the info, Bare! I didn't know you were STILL in Canadia! (Sorry, my daughter calls it Canadia, and I 'caught' it from her. lol)

When you're in TV can you access your little library back home and download books? (I still belong to my little library back home, so I'm thinking ahead to my iPad... :laugh:)

Judy

I'm with you uujudy! I sure ain't gonna pick it up and read it if I KNOW it will make me cry! I'll never get over Old Yeller and wish I'd never seen it!!:cryin2:

Yes, Judy, sadly I must be in exile in Canadia for six months each year. I'd much rather be in TV. (Although I think it is at least 20 degrees cooler here).

Yes, when I'm in Florida I can still access my little library back in Ontario Canada, and download books. It's just like magic. I've spent a lifestime hauling bags of books on car trips, in airplanes, to the cottage, etc. I could never be without a choice of books. :read:

Now I can download five books at a time. If I find them uninteresting, I just return them to the library and download more. Easy peasy. Love it. :thumbup:

I'm a Pat Conroy fan
 

so I read South of Broad a few months ago. Loved it!!! Was still in a Conroy mood, so I'm reading Prince of Tides now on my Kindle. It's one of his older books, but I realized that I had never read it (saw the movie, but don't really remember a lot about the plot). Anyway, I am really enjoying this book. Love Conroy's way of writing and love the references to South Carolina - The Help is next. Thought maybe I'd read Water for Elephants to compare with the movie. I love my Kindle - many reasons, but most important to me, there's no eye strain because the screen isn't backlit, so it's easier on my older eyes.

The Villages library does not have downloadable books. I asked (even though I do not have an Ereader).

Z

I am working on several authors. I am trying to finish all of the Robert B. Parker books. I have a few of the Spencer series to go. I am also working through the Vince Flynn series, the different Clive Cussler series and the Jack Higgins series. I also like all of the James Patterson series and the Michael Connelly series.

Back a long tine ago, one of the TOTV patrons posted this link:

http://ww2.kdl.org/libcat/whatsnext.asp

If the author has a series with the same character you will be able to get a list of the books by that author in the series. It is very useful if the books follow one another. I use this to order books from the library. I keep the list in a file and check off the ones I have read. But be careful because the list will grow if the author puts out another book in the same series. Clive Cussler is one to watch for that.

Z

And Sky Guy recommended it for a "birthday book." sigh
Nope. Ain't gonna happen.

That clinches it! Gotta get an iPad/E-reader/internet tablet/whatchamacallit! My little library in Utah has many, many books available to download. :read:
Magic indeed!

And Bare, 20 degrees cooler than Florida sounds very nice right about now.

BeeGee what does this mean? I thought backlit meant that I could read it in bed? Wouldn't that be a good thing? Is backlit harder to see?

I have a fourteen hour flight from Detroit to Korea tomorrow, with a continuing two hours to Taiwan. I just starting the fifth Women's Murder Club mystery (The Fifth Horsemen) by James Patterson (actually these are written "over his name" by assistant writers, which bothers me greatly, but the series is quite good). And I bought a second book, the latest of John Sandford's Lucas Davenport series, Buried Prey. Both are on my SONY E-Reader, which I absolutely love. Between these page turners (or is it page clickers on an ebook?) and the great entertainment system on Delta's Boeing 777 Business Class, I'll be well entertained tomorrow.

Plus the free business class wine is pretty good too . . . .

My iPad has reader's choices. One choice is for reading in bed at night .... I'd assume it is backlit, it has a black screen with bright letters, so you don't need to have a reading light on. I love it. And there is another type of screen for daytime reading. And the iPad also has a choice of the size of print.

Just finished Water for Elephants, The Kite Runner, Blue Gold by Cussler and The Confession by Grisham. All very good to excellent! Presently reading Sizzlin Sixteen by Evanovich, Cure by Robin Cook and The Vorpal Blade by Ringo Starr. Yes, all three at once. If you like scifi, I highly recommend Starr. Sizzlin Sixteen is my pool book. Cure is too easy to put down right now. I'm hoping it gets better.

I'm taking notes!

Kindle has "e-ink" whatever that is - it was explained that the reading is similar to a real page, as in real book, real newspaper - all I know is the online "geeks" (I mean this in the kindest way) that review the ereaders say that the e-ink is easier on the eyes - not like reading a computer screen, that's very tiring. Anyway, yes, you would need a reading light to read in bed....they have those especially for the kindles, attaches right to it. It is so user-friendly.....and best of all, it works for me!

I'm reading This Year It Will Be Different by Maeve Binchy. It's a little gem of a book of short stories all centered around the Christmas season.

I love Maeve Binchy so I picked it up at Perkins Pancakes last week. (They have books that you can take home for a donation to a children's group)

And, I discovered another reason to get an e-reader while trying to hold the book open with a banana while I ate dinner tonight. E-readers lie flat all by themselves!

Hub Bill is reading "Atlas Shrugged" on the iPad and I'm reading "The Help" on the Kindle. This hi-tech stuff is fantastic and certainly makes it so easy to read more and more and more as these great novels are at one's fingertips......Luv it......b

Barb .. In the iPad versus Kindle controversy, which is your preference for reading e-books?

God bless
 

You are an adventurous reader Bill--- Atlas Shrugged isn't for the casual reader.:coolsmiley::clap2::thumbup::22yikes:

BF....That's a good question that I never gave thought to as we enjoy both so much. However, a plus with the iPad is that one can read in "landscape" mode which allows you to read two pages on the screen (like an open book) and the kindle has the "portrait" mode only, showing one page at a time.

The iPad has a landscape mode?? News to me, and I read on my iPad all the time. How do you access landscape mode?

I love the backlit feature for reading in bed, love it ... no reading light necessary to disturb Fireboy's sleep.

If your iPad doesn't automatically change from landscape to portrait just by holding it in either position, then go to "Settings" and then click on "Video" then turn "ON" "Widescreen."

When I first got the iPad, it would flip-flop automatically to widescreen or portrait, but recently it hasn't been doing that as it stays in widescreen (landscape language in computers). We're now up North at our inlaw digs and will ask my great-grandson Kyle (15 y/o) to check this out. Am still not too savvy on the iPad, but do enjoy what simple things I do on it, and of course the e-reader is great. Kyle has been doing the add-on's and fixin's for us. Amazing how easy this comes to the kids, and this hi-tech stuff is beyond me, although I do manage, with much patience and fortitude.

Reading Pat Conroy.

I had my Nook a long time and loved it. My husband is now reading the Nook and I am reading on my iPad. There are a couple of benefits of the iPad. I downloaded Nook, Kindle and and iBook Apps and can price check each to see if the prices vary. If I think my husband would enjoy the book, I always order on the Nook as it will go to both devises-Nook and iPad. I prefer, just a little, the eink of the Nook or Kindle. However, one can turn the glare down very easily with the iPad. Once I discovered this, the reading was much easier on my eyes.

I'm reading, Alice I Have Been, by Melanie Benjamin. It's a novel about the real life Alice Liddell, who was the inspiration for Lewis Carol's (real name,
Charles Dodgson), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. I'm about 1/3 way through and it is delightful so far. I was a big "Alice in Wonderland" fan as a kid, so this book peaked my interest.

My book club is reading, Babylon Revisited, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I've just started it.

Loved, The help, and highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't read it yet.
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Wow
 

I've read him.. what a damaged childhood he must have had.:read:

"Rise To Rebellion" by Jeff Shaara

Jaycee Dugard. what an amazing person. survived all those years in the back yard of that pervert.

Just finished Belle Weather; Mostly Sunny with a Chance of Scattered Hissy Fits by Celia Rivenbark. What a hoot! It's a great pool book, but don't drink anything while you're reading or it will shoot out your nose. There's a laugh on every page. :D

Love a good laugh! It's on my list. Thanks.

Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes...novel about the horrors of the Vietnam war. Great reading.

I too was always a "Alice in Wonderland" fan as a child....read it many times back then, and twice more as an older "child".:smiley: