All things books and reading thread - 2016

[Winchester]

I've read all of Lisa Jackson's books; I like her. Another good author is Kay Hooper. And there is Heather Graham.

Just finished Tricky Twenty-Two (Janet Evanovich). I don't know why I waste my time on her books. They were cute in the beginning. After a while, though, they get very tiring. It's just more of the same old, same old. Even Grandma Mazur has gotten boring.

Ready to start Make Me in the Jack Reacher series.

 

[stewball]

I went on a reading jag and was finishing
books in a day and a half.
Another heart beat in the house by Kate Beaufort.
Sisters of treason by Elizabeth Freemantle
i let you go by Claire Mavkintosh

i enjoyed every one of them.

NowI've nearly finished Jeffrey Archer's second prison diary called purgatory.
It'd very good it's about the four years he spent in prison for perjury! The first book was called Hell. He'd been locked up in a high
Security prison for perjury!!!!!

I'm really enjoying it.

 

[DreamerRose]

I'm reading The Witches: Salem 1692, which my DIL gave me for Christmas. It's deadly boring, so I read it before going to bed, and I'm nodding off after a few pages. I read another book by the same author, another gift from DIL, on Cleopatra and found it tedious too. This author takes a historical event or person about which/whom little is known, then fleshes it out with lots of background information. For pages and pages. The story gets lost in all that extraneous information. 

I need to get back to the library. I usually read about two books a week and have nothing but Witches  right now. No one has mentioned best sellers, but I have found them lately just plain weird.  The Girl on the Train  I couldn't get through, I saw the ending of Gone Girl  in the first few chapters, and The Paying Guests  was the weirdest of all. It made no sense to me. What do you all think about best sellers? 

 

[rubysmama]

 
No one has mentioned best sellers, but I have found them lately just plain weird.  The Girl on the Train  I couldn't get through, I saw the ending of Gone Girl  in the first few chapters, and The Paying Guests  was the weirdest of all. It made no sense to me. What do you all think about best sellers? 

I borrowed a bunch of best sellers e-books from the library back in the summer. 

The Girl on the Train - I enjoyed it, but it wasn't anything special

Gone Girl - I got spoiled on this one, so didn't read it

One of the best books I read was "The Nightingale".  It's about 2 sisters living in France during the 2nd World War.  It's very long, but I really enjoyed it. Well, as much as you can enjoy a book set during war-time.  I recommend it.

Also read "The Goldfinch".  It was very strange.  Very long.  And it took all my perseverance to finish it.

I can't remember the others I read.  Guess they weren't that great. LOL.

I've finished "Shopaholic to the Rescue".  And am now planning to start the Outlander series.

 

[DreamerRose]

I thought The Goldfinch  was strange, too. The story jumped around, and to make it worse, I knew the painting was real and has never been stolen or lost. So it was hard to relate to the story.

I'm tired of Janet Evanovich, too, and also Patricia Cornwall. The Body Farm  was not a mystery at all, but just a description of the real body farm at the University of Tennessee. Her books don't have much flesh to them.

Just saw the movie of Walk in the Woods  which wasn't much like the book. The book was hilarious; the movie was okay. Some of the best scenes in the book were omitted in the movie. I also loved Paper Towns, the book. It's written for young adults but reminded me so much of my own sons when they were in high school. It was very funny.

 

[jcat]

Right now I'm reading a 1990s German book entitled Katzenprobleme, Problemkatzen - Cat Problems, Problem Cats. There's too much emphasis on Bach's Flower Remedies and homeopathy for my tastes.

 

[rubysmama]

I started reading "Outlander" a couple of days ago.  I'll admit, I was kinda bored through the first little bit, and contemplated stopping reading it, but kept going.  Now Claire has met Jamie and company, and it's much more interesting.  I'm on page 123 of 774, so I've still got lots to read.  And this is only book one. 

 

[stewball]

Stupid phone.

I've just.started reading back book called The Silent Boy by Andrew Taylor.
Starts in France during the revolution
The Boy sees something that traumatised him and he won't speak
That's as far as I've got. Had my sister not told me she enjoyed it I may have given up but I'll carry on
A bit longer n

 

[catspaw66]

My brother bought me a Kindle Fire about a month ago. So now I have a Nook first edition, a Nook color and the Kindle. I am using Calibre to convert all my thousands of epubs to mobi format.

I am reading:

Kindle Fire - Spacehounds of IPC (E.E. Smith)

Nook Color - Rainbow Six (Tom Clancy)

Nook first edition - Science fiction short stories (13,000 pages long)

Paper and ink - Heechee Rendezvous (Frederick Pohl)

These are the main ones. I am actually reading about 11 others off and on.

 

[handsome kitty]

I'm rereading Brotherhood in Death by J. D. Robb.  I read through pretty fast, then have to reread to get more details.

 

[fyllis]

I received a book for Christmas (A Traitor to Memory by Elizabeth George)  and as hard as I tried, I just could NOT get into it! It took me almost a week just to get to page 33! It is rare for me to put a book down and not finish it, but this book was SO slow and just plain stupid I had to move on. Currently, I am reading The Final Cut by Catherine Coulter. It is fast paced and intriguing. YAY! I read about 4 chapters last night when I went to bed. 

 

[sivyaleah]

Just bought the Kindle version of Jenny Lawson's "Furiously Happy".  I have the hard cover because she's a fav author and I like having theirs as something tangible, but should have just bought the Kindle to begin with.  Much easier to read.  I'm about half way through on the hard cover but may start fresh.

I'm also reading JK Rowlings adult book "Casual Vacancy".  Just began reading it yesterday so I can't say good or bad yet but I have high expectations.

 

[rubysmama]

 
Just bought the Kindle version of Jenny Lawson's "Furiously Happy".  I have the hard cover because she's a fav author and I like having theirs as something tangible, but should have just bought the Kindle to begin with.  Much easier to read.  I'm about half way through on the hard cover but may start fresh.

I'm also reading JK Rowlings adult book "Casual Vacancy".  Just began reading it yesterday so I can't say good or bad yet but I have high expectations.

I read "Casual Vacancy" several months ago.   I wasn't sure what to expect, but it definitely wasn't  "Harry Potter".  I'm curious to see what you think of it.

I just finished "Outlander" and have the 2nd e-book on hold at the library.   Will probably read something else while I'm waiting.

 

[jcat]

I finished the second "Outlander" book and then moved on to the Walt Longmire series by Craig Johnson. I just finished #11, "Dry Bones". Now it's time for some non-fiction.

 

[rubysmama]

Everyone still reading? 

I just finished "Room" by Emma Donoghue.   It took a bit of time to get into it, as it is written from the point of view of the 5 year old boy, therefore the grammar is odd.  But once I got used to it, I read it quite quickly.

Now I am about to start the 2nd book in the Outlander series:  Dragonfly in Amber.

 

[fyllis]

I am still reading The Final Cut (I only read when I go to bed. It makes me fall asleep, so it sometimes takes me a little while to finish a book) and it is getting REALLY good! Fast paced and a page-turner for sure!

 

[stewball]

Stupid phone.

I've just.started reading back book called The Silent Boy by Andrew Taylor.
Starts in France during the revolution
The Boy sees something that traumatised him and he won't speak
That's as far as I've got. Had my sister not told me she enjoyed it I may have given up but I'll carry on
A bit longer n

I finished it. It was so so.

 

[stewball]

I received a book for Christmas (A Traitor to Memory by Elizabeth George) and as hard as I tried, I just could NOT get into it! It took me almost a week just to get to page 33! It is rare for me to put a book down and not finish it, but this book was SO slow and just plain stupid I had to move on. Currently, I am reading The Final Cut by Catherine Coulter. It is fast paced and intriguing. YAY! I read about 4 chapters last night when I went to bed. 

Was it one of the police stories? I've forgotten the names. Some of her books are getting heavy and /or boring. I find that with writers who write a lot. I can't read Ruth Rendal books any more unless I don't want to take a sleeping pill!

 

[stewball]

I finished the second "Outlander" book and then moved on to the Walt Longmire series by Craig Johnson. I just finished #11, "Dry Bones". Now it's time for some non-fiction.

What's Dry Bones?

 

[stewball]

Everyone still reading? 

I just finished "Room" by Emma Donoghue.   It took a bit of time to get into it, as it is written from the point of view of the 5 year old boy, therefore the grammar is odd.  But once I got used to it, I read it quite quickly.

Now I am about to start the 2nd book in the Outlander series:  Dragonfly in Amber.

It was a very sad book. Are you going to see the film?