[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by sunflower3630

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.

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.

[LovingLife]

Originally Posted by Ohiogirl

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?

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?

[joeken]

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.

[bkcunningham1]

Originally Posted by joeken

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?"

[2BNTV]

Originally Posted by bkcunningham1

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.

to TOTV. Keep on posting.

[KatzPajamas]

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.

[Trish Crocker]

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

[2BNTV]

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.

[skyguy79]

Originally Posted by KatzPajamas

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.

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!

[ladydoc]

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.

[quirky3]

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.

[Trish Crocker]

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?

[angiefox10]

Originally Posted by Trish Crocker

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????

[LELANDJANE]

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.

[barb1191]

Originally Posted by angiefox10

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????

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.