Books! How do you read and what do you read?

Just finished the last book in the Bill Hodges Trilogy "End Of Watch" by Stephen King.
The first two, "Mr. Mercedes" and "Finders Keepers", kept my interest enough for me to start the third.
Nice mixture of Crime story and horror that King is known for.

Found myself cheering for 'Bill Hodges' the way I did for 'Harry Bosch' in Michael Connelly's books.
 

Nearing the end of Stieg Larsson's "The Girl Who Played With Fire" (sequel to The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) .. then on to the 3rd book, "The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest".

I've decided not to watch the first movie, nor the series, as I've heard they don't live up to the books.
 
Sort of off-topic, but just gotta brag: for once, managed to be first in line on the Library's waiting list, for the next Longmire book, Daughter of the Morning Star by Craig Johnson (and also the next Cork O'Connor book, Lightning Strike by Wm. Kent Krueger), can't wait, yay! 😄
 

officerripley said:
Sort of off-topic, but just gotta brag: for once, managed to be first in line on the Library's waiting list, for the next Longmire book, Daughter of the Morning Star by Craig Johnson (and also the next Cork O'Connor book, Lightning Strike by Wm. Kent Krueger), can't wait, yay! 😄
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Hi,I've read 5 of Krueger's Cork O'Connor's books which I liked,have you read any of his other books? I especially loved "Ordinary Grace,Tender Land" Sue
 
moviequeen1 said:
Hi,I've read 5 of Krueger's Cork O'Connor's books which I liked,have you read any of his other books? I especially loved "Ordinary Grace,Tender Land" Sue
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Hi, Sue; actually I tried Ordinary Grace but just couldn't get into it. (I'm sure it was my fault because of what a good writer Krueger is; I should give it another try.)
 
Last night finished reading'The Dutch House' by Ann Patchett which was terrific
The story is about a real estate mogul who buys this lovely house from a Dutch couple for his wife,Elna who truly hates it.What she does next effects her 2 kids,Maeve,Danny for the rest of their lives.Danny as an adult is the narrator
I've read most of the author's books,I recommend this one
 
A light summer BEACH HAVEN by T.I Lowe.
Recovering Marine meets shop keeper who isn't the kind of person he expected.

SAVAGES by Shirley Conran.

About group of women who escape from terrorists after seeing heir husbands gunned down.
They hide in the jungle, learn to get along with each other as they try to survive till they are rescued.

This one holds your attention,, till you reach the point of,,"Will they ever get rescued?"
 
moviequeen1 said:
Last night finished reading'The Dutch House' by Ann Patchett which was terrific
The story is about a real estate mogul who buys this lovely house from a Dutch couple for his wife,Elna who truly hates it.What she does next effects her 2 kids,Maeve,Danny for the rest of their lives.Danny as an adult is the narrator
I've read most of the author's books,I recommend this one
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Good to know. Thanks for the recommendation.
I just finished "Exercised" by Daniel Lieberman. A deep (dare I say, exhaustive) dive into the science and history of human motion.
 
Came across a couple of older books recently. One was the Dining Car which was a pleasant departure from what I usually read and another book on the Churchills. This one is very gossipy and makes one wonder if Hollywood celebrities didn't take a page out of the way those older aristocrats and nobles lived was a great plan to follow. With all the adulterers and divorcees marrying into each other's families, yet remaining good friends for life is amazing. Winston and Clementine were exceptions to the rule it seems in those days as they were loyal to each other to the end. Fun reading.
 
Sylkkiss said:
Since I discovered I can set my Kindle Fire to speak with an Aussie male accent, I read --listen to--at least 5 to 8 titles at the same time in a week.
Currently reading a John Sanford novel,Twisted Prey; Blood Enemies, (sci-Fi) by Susan R Matthews and a number of Indie authors .
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Wait!
What?
You have a kindle who reads you stories in an Aussie male accent?
Oh yes. That does sound rather nice.
Thanks for being such a successful enabler. Lol!☺️
 
Keesha said:
Wait!
What?
You have a kindle who reads you stories in an Aussie male accent?
Oh yes. That does sound rather nice.
Thanks for being such a successful enabler. Lol!☺️
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Yeah. It's the text-to-speech tab embedded in ebooks. To get the language with various English accents, you go into settings and pick the one you want. No additional cost. Love it.
 
Sylkkiss said:
Yeah. It's the text-to-speech tab embedded in ebooks. To get the language with various English accents, you go into settings and pick the one you want. No additional cost. Love it.
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I had no idea this was even available. While I enjoy reading, I think it would be nice to be read to once in a while.
Thank you.
 
Just finished The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear by Kate Moore; excellent! Now I'm reading Being a Dad is Weird: Lessons in Fatherhood from My Family to Yours by Ben Falcone (married to Melissa McCarthy, acts, writes scripts and directs, incl. some of her movies).
 
I'm now reading the latest installment of the police book series# 51 'Shadows in Death' by JD Robb aka Nora Roberts.
These books are set in the year 2058 featuring the same characters, Lt Eve Dallas,her husband,"Roarke' who is a multi- millionaire,Eve's police partner'Peabody' among others
I started reading them in '99,got hooked have read all the books,its like reading'Law&Order' in the future,like Roberts writing
 
Love the Lincoln Child Preston Douglas books...we have every one of them in our library...both of us are in the process of re-reading them right now.
 
Just finished "The Vanishing Half" by Brit Bennett. Set mostly in Louisiana from 1968 forward, the main characters are female identical twins who are considered Black by their hometown (and themselves) but can pass for White elsewhere. It's more about family connections and how we identity ourselves than race itself.

I can certainly recommend it.
 
Liberty said:
Love the Lincoln Child Preston Douglas books...we have every one of them in our library...both of us are in the process of re-reading them right now.
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I've been a huge fan of theirs from the beginning (Relic) of the Pendergast series. However...I felt like they ran out of ideas and the last 6 books have been a big disappointment. They seem to have changed Pendy too much and his "romance" with Constance was downright boring and not in line with his personality. I've given up on the series, unfortunately. I loved the beginning of the series when it was a mystery and creepy and Pendergast was a mystery himself and a unique character. I've moved on.
 
Colleen said:
I've been a huge fan of theirs from the beginning (Relic) of the Pendergast series. However...I felt like they ran out of ideas and the last 6 books have been a big disappointment. They seem to have changed Pendy too much and his "romance" with Constance was downright boring and not in line with his personality. I've given up on the series, unfortunately. I loved the beginning of the series when it was a mystery and creepy and Pendergast was a mystery himself and a unique character. I've moved on.
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Have you read their latest "The Scorpian's Tale"?

Personally, don't have a fixation on Pendergast...like him, but not over whelmingly.
Always like a good book with a good plot, period.

So what have you "moved on to" now?
 
THE FOUR WINDS by Kristin Hannah

This novel is about from riches to rags.
Well to do young woman marries the farmer's son who got her in the family way.
Takes place before & during the 'dust bowl & the Great Depression' .

How she & her 2 children survive after her husband leaves them to find a better life in Cal.
She later takes her children to find him .
Realizes that it would be impossible to find him in the hundreds of poor people who are in Cal. looking for work.

Story is based upon research of that time in our history.

Another must read of that time period is,,Whose Names Are Unknown by Sanora Babb.
 
I just finished “Everything I Ever Wanted” by Kathy Valentine (bassist for The Go-Go’s) and I loved it. I’f you’re interested to in the journey of one woman to being part of the first all woman band to have a number 1 album and beyond I highly recommend it.
 
War Trash
Ha Jin
(The author joined the Red Army at age 13, during the Cultural Revolution which means he was one of the teens who
terrorized the population-can't find anything on what he actually did)

The book War Trash is a fictionalized account of the Korean Communist, Chinese and North Koreans, in POW camps.
Far to many factual events for this to be a fiction book.

The communist wanted control of their troops in POW Camps, so, they instructed Communist Commissars to become
captured whereby they could threaten and control the behavior of the communist troops in the POW camps.

Though fiction the events he describes are true
Commissars, "Take me, take me"🤪

More on book later, it was most interesting.
 

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