I just finished "Not My Daughter" by Delinsky, an interesting read. The author reminds me of Jodi Picoult.

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I just finished True Colors by Kristin Hannah, wonderful book could not put it down. Started reading it yesterday and finished today.....

Did that author also write "Angel Falls"?
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Oh, never mind, I just googled her .. It looks as if she has written lots of easy-reading "beach books". Thanks for the recommendation, I'll definitely be downloading her!

I just got back from my trip and read both books I took with me. If you like police procedurals, you can't go wrong with Buried Prey, the latest in the Lucas Davenport series by John Sandford. A real page turner (not to be confused with PTurner, LOL). After a couple of duds, Sandford is back - really a good read. The second book I read was The Fifth Horsemen by one of James Patterson's ghost writers. This is the fifth in the Women's Murder Club series, and wasn't great. I loved one through four, but this one really pushed the envelope of believability. After this one, I'm not sure I want to read number 6. I'm still bothered by Patterson selling books under his name in large type, with the actual writer's name in small print. He's become nothing be

Sorry - It hit submit rather than preview.

He's become nothing but a high priced editor, not an author.

GUIDE TO THE PACIFIC........by Amelia Earhart............

:read:.....fumar

Thanks, Angie...
 

Agree with you. Just a FUN :read:. Just finished The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (GREAT :read:), Pink Boots and a Machete, and The American Heiress. Trying to finish Oracle Bones. This is a great thread. Really like the variety of books listed.

Thanks, everyone, for the additions to my book list. I've just started "The Book Thief," a little slow getting into it, but I loved Sarah's Key, so I'll stick with it on the previous recommendation. I also like most anything by Elizabeth Berg and Lorna Landvik (contemporary women's fiction would be the genre, I guess). Also like Robin Pilcher (Rosamunde Pilcher's son), and Marcia Willett (British) - reminds me of Maeve Binchy. Also enjoy Anne Rivers Siddons (usually) and Dorothea Benton Frank. A lighter Pat Conroy, although I like him too. On the lighter side, I like Marian Keyes (Irish, kind of chick-lit, but fun).

Liked the 1st half of "Unbroken," but got too depressed by the POW stuff and didn't finish it. On my request list at the library is "The Lost Summer of Louisa Mae Alcott and "The Devil in the White City."

My bookclub read "The Space Between Us" about the Indian class system, but I'm having trouble getting into "The White Tiger." Think all of that third world poverty is just getting too difficult to read about, depressing. Anyone know if "The White Tiger" gets better?

Just downloaded The Help to my Ipad...going on vacation this week so I have time.

I recently finished Still Alice by Lisa Genova. It's about a 50 yr. old female professer at Harvard who is diagnosed with early-onsent Alzheimer's. The story is told through her eyes. I read it in a day. Some parts are scary, as I'm sure we can all identify with memory lapses. Overall, it was a very good book.

I loved Sarah's Key. Didn't think I would like it and put off reading it for several months, but once I started it, I couldn't put it down. Can't wait to see the movie!

Just today I picked up Where the River Ends by Charles Martin. It (and he) came very highly recommended by members of my Book Club. So far so good.

Love this thread! Keep the books coming!

Hey Sunflower ... I also just finished "Still Alice" and I thought it was an excellent book. I sat down and read it from cover to cover. I went on to read other books by Lisa Genova.

"Still Alice" is definitely scary in parts. It describes a brilliant woman trying to "outthink" her disease and plan ahead to deal with her eventual deterioration. It sounds depressing, but it's a compelling book. I highly recommend it.

You mentioned two of my favorites: Maeve Binchy and Rosamunde Pilcher... I've recently happened across a new-to-me author whose writing style I find hilarious: Dave Eggers. Currently reading his book "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" - anybody besides me read it?

I recently finished "Still Glides the Stream" by Flora Thompson. She also wrote the books making up the volumne "Larkrise to Candleford". They all tell a very discriptive story of life in late 19th and early 20th century village life in England. They are well written and the story flows as a stream.

I have also finished "What Would the Founders Say?" Larry Schwei**** takes ten of todays political issues and formulates what our country's founders would have thought. Interesting and engrossing.

This has lead me to re-read the Constitution and dive into the Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist Papers. For lighter fare I am also re-reading "The Scarlet Letter" and the Harry Potter series.

First, welcome to Talk of the Villages (TOTV). Also, thank you for the book recommendations. I'm going to look for "What Would the Founders Say?"

Ditto.

:welcome: to TOTV. Keep on posting.

Definitely will have to get a copy of Racing in the Rain. I love dog stories. I have an ancient copy of "Lad, a Dog" by Albert Payson Terhune. It was written in the 1919 about the authors collies. I get my copy out every few years in the summer and re-read it! Just re-read Garrison Keillor's "Lake Wobegone Days". Laugh out loud humor especially for a Lutheran like me.

Just started 'The Help'...enjoying it when I can!

I just finished reading the first two of three books written by Stieg Larsson.
1. The Girl with the Dragon Tatto.
2. The Girl Who Played with Fire.
3. The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet Nest is the one I am waiting for the library to tell me it's in.

Long books but page turners.

I'm not much of a reader but I did love Racing in the Rain. At the end I wished there were more.

After 2 years since I read my last book, I just started a Clive Cussler book titled "The Chase" (Issac Bell Series) on my droid Nook reader application. I had read a number of his works in the past and was surprised that this one wasn't nautical in nature like his NUMA Files and Dirk Pitt series. Never knew he wrote anything else! "The Chase" is a murder mystery! Sheese... I was a chapter in before I realized it!

I am reading the Dixie Diva books. About a group of outrageous southern women and their mishaps and adventures. VERY funny..laugh out loud funny. Almost as good as the Sweet Potato Queens books.

Falling Upward
 

I just ordered "Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life". I will let you know how it was after it arrives!

It is supposed to be a refreshing look at the second half of life - instead of "I've fallen and I can't get up", it talks about the time in life when we learn patience, forgiveness, and concern for other people. We look at life realistically, and with joy and appreciation.

Just finished 'The Help'. I enjoyed it but honestly I was a little disappointed...I wanted to like it more than I did. I didn't feel as though I really knew any of the characters. I love a book that makes me love, hate, envy, root for or fear the characters in it. i just didn't feel any depth. Maybe it was just the mood I was in?

Don't you think that sometimes when you hear so much about a book or movie and you finally read it... it's somewhat of a let down? I think my expectations are too high.

I remember thinking that about E.T. Sooo much hype and by the time I saw it, I felt like, Is that all there is????

A friend recommended a series of books by Tasha Alexander . I downloaded the series to my Kindle and I'm on the
4th one. They're about a wealthy woman in the victorian period who shuns the rules of society to live a little outside the way of the women of that time.
She becomes a kind of detective in solving mysteries for friends and acquaintances. I'm really liking them.

I share your feelings about HELP. Hubby enjoyed it along with so many others, yet I've attempted to get into the book and find it dull and boring. Each time I persevere and read a few more chapters, I set it down and forget about it as if it just didn't click with me. However, the movie has been well acclaimed so maybe I should see the movie and then finish the book. No big deal. I have sooo many books on my iPad that I'll never be lost for a good story.

I just finished a recently-published book, "Heartfelt Stories" written by Peggy Morgan Hatfield, who happens to be my dear friend and neighbor here in The Villages. The book is non-fiction, made up of short stories from her journal throughout Peggy's life. Easy read, delightfully amusing as well as portraying love and devotion to family, faith, and friends from which strength of character prevails. I purchased the book from Amazon, but not as an eBook as I would like her to sign the book.

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I love crime stories/murder mysteries - I just finished CJ Lyons' Borrowed Time - and it was almost as if two different people wrote it. I got the sample on my Kindle, so I could "try before buying" and it was good, got my attention right away, but then after I bought it - it changed - there was a secondary theme (love, sex) that didn't seem to fit and didn't make sense for the characters that were introduced in the beginning (don't get me wrong, I have nothing against love and sex..highly recommend it!) but I was disappointed that it was written in such a way. Anyone else read any of her books and have that same impression? Also, has anyone else read any of Tess Gerritsen's Rizzoli & Isles series? I read The Silent Girl, then realized that I probably should have started in sequence, red the sample of The Surgeon and it seemed to be a little disturbing - (the murderer in this case performs awake hysterectomies on his victims....) seems too gruesome for me and I've been told that her books tend to be that way, although the Silent Girl wasn't that bad. Anyone else love crime/murder mysteries and can recommend something to me? Thanks!

Life - Keith Richards.

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Have you tried Faye Kellerman or Laura Lippman? Two of my favorites.

Thanks!

"The Hope" HermanWouk, another of his great historical novels.

I love The Haj by Leon Uris. Yes, it's an oldie but a goodie. Probably my third time around. It certainly explains the world as it is today plus just a good read. I'm visiting my favorites like Pillars of the Earth by Follett and Poland by Michener. King Rat by Clavel is also waiting.

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Just started it and can't put it down even to get on TOTV!!!!:read:

Just finished the new Lee Child book "The Affair". For all you Jack Reacher fans, I think this is the best one yet! It is a prequel that explains a lot.

Love a good mystery
 

Greg Iles "24 Hours" - literally could NOT put it down.....lots of twists and turns, which is what I like! I've read a few of Barbara Freehy's books - they were okay (sometimes too sugary and too much romance, though) - but Connie Shelton's Charlie Parker Series is pretty good, so far; then Michael Prescott got my attention with "Blind Pursuit" and "Last Breath"--just finished that one....had me on the edge of my comfy chair!!!:22yikes: Then after reading a good meaty murder mystery, I'll go with something classic or "soft" like "The Velveteen Rabbit" or something else that's a good sweet memory from my childhood. But I always go back to those chilling murder mysteries...love my Kindle!!!!

I love this thread. Thanks for the good reading suggestions. I am reading Steve Jobs and cannot put it down. Ironically we were visiting our son who lives in Woodside CA last week and took our six-year old granddaughter to a birthday party at the home of Jack Sculley. I was reading the chapters in the book about John Sculley at the time. The book is well written and a fascinating account of not only Steve Jobs but the culture of high tech.

Let's see - I read Ulysses when I was 14, so I don't have to do that again. Finally got around to reading War and Peace about 3 years ago, took several months to finish. Read half of Moby Dick years ago, read the whole thing recently - stunning. Other than that, I read crime stories and mysteries mostly, never "chick lit." Almost all new fiction is about dysfunctional families - enough is enough.

"The Tehran Iniative" by Joel Rosenberg from a new series he's writing. Read 'The Twelfth Imam" first---both are very good! I highly recommend 'anything' by this author!!!

Just finished Mission Compromised, now reading The Assassins both by Oliver North. Like the way he approaches the story from different angles at the same time.

Bridal Illusions an unpublished novel written a few years ago by a friend from Chicago. She is sending along a few chapters each day. If you are a female and went to a Catholic high school, you can relate!

I'm reading an amazing book called Good-bye is Not Forever by Amy George. It is a book that has been on my book self for years. The story is true and is about the experiences of the author as a young child growing up in Ukraine in late 1930's and then as a Russian prisoner of war who was taken to Germany during WWII with her mother and brother who were put to work by German's.

Its a gripping story and an easy read other than the subject matter.

Suzanne