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

Just completed "The Dutch House" by Ann Patchett. Liked it a lot. Right now I'm reading "Maybe You Should Talk to Someone" by Lori Gottlieb.
 

I read everything from cereal boxes to science. In between: from cute and light hearted (Cat Who and Miss Julia) to history and historic fiction., biographies, murder mysteries. science - some of which I understand, some not - scifi but not monsters with three eyes and claws. I want my sciti in the realm of possibility now or in the future. "Moving Mars" Edward Rutherfurd's stories of varioous cities and countries. A lot of wonderful history in his books.

For the light "read once" books that I will pass on to friends, I buy paperback. For books I will keep, hardback. Recently I had a book clearance to make room for who knows what. Over the years, I keep saying don't ever give away anything. You might want it some day. Yet I give away and then, yes, want it some day. I want my books back. Not so much the fiction. I seldom read a fiction book twice. There is always something nwee coming along. At least I kept my poetry books, my reference books.

I carry a small spiral notebook in my purse - the kind you can fold back. Each page a different author and keep a running list or what I have read. That way I won't buy something I have already read. Confession: I've still done it a few times.

Have you ever been reading a series and suddenly get news that the author has passed away? One on my list right at the climax of the series. :-(

Enough from me.
 
Liberty said:
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?
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No, I haven't read Scorpion's Tail. I'm not a big fan of Nora Kelly. I listened to Old Bones on Youtube and it didn't seem to keep my interest. I tried reading it first, but DNF it.

I honestly haven't been able to find anything that holds my interest. I've read different genre's (except romance) and have even tried reading science fiction, which is not something I enjoy. My husband and I love the movie The Martian by Andy Weir so when his book, Project Hail Mary was recommended, I got about half way through it and couldn't go any further.

I normally like mystery (not true crime or bloody, gory stories) stories and tried reading Elly Griffiths but lost interest in them. I found, years ago, a series that I just loved. It was the Hamish Macbeth series by M.C. Beaton. I have the whole series and I've re-read them several times. I also read the Patrick Taylor series about a couple country doctors in Ireland. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield was very good and so was The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah, which took place during WWII. Currently, I'm re-reading The Cat Who....series by Lillian Jackson Braun.
 
StarSong said:
You might want to look into some of Kristin Hannah's other works. I've found her books to be consistently good.
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I also found Across the Winding River by Aimie Runyan very enjoyable. It's a historical time-travel book, which is a genre I had never read before, but it was very good. I'd like to read The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah but I'm too cheap to buy it....haha. I'll have to check my library.
 
maxine said:
I read everything from cereal boxes to science. In between: from cute and light hearted (Cat Who and Miss Julia) to history and historic fiction., biographies, murder mysteries. science - some of which I understand, some not - scifi but not monsters with three eyes and claws. I want my sciti in the realm of possibility now or in the future. "Moving Mars" Edward Rutherfurd's stories of varioous cities and countries. A lot of wonderful history in his books.

For the light "read once" books that I will pass on to friends, I buy paperback. For books I will keep, hardback. Recently I had a book clearance to make room for who knows what. Over the years, I keep saying don't ever give away anything. You might want it some day. Yet I give away and then, yes, want it some day. I want my books back. Not so much the fiction. I seldom read a fiction book twice. There is always something nwee coming along. At least I kept my poetry books, my reference books.

I carry a small spiral notebook in my purse - the kind you can fold back. Each page a different author and keep a running list or what I have read. That way I won't buy something I have already read. Confession: I've still done it a few times.

Have you ever been reading a series and suddenly get news that the author has passed away? One on my list right at the climax of the series. :-(

Enough from me.
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Hi Maxine,I've kept a book journal of the books I've read since 2000,make notations if I liked or didn't finished a book Sue
 
Colleen said:
I also found Across the Winding River by Aimie Runyan very enjoyable. It's a historical time-travel book, which is a genre I had never read before, but it was very good. I'd like to read The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah but I'm too cheap to buy it....haha. I'll have to check my library.
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I get everything from the library!

Will check out Across the Winding River - thanks for the recommendation.
 
Still reading Nordic mysteries ..

The Ice Princess - Camilla Lackberg
Jar City - Arnaldur Indrioasan
Bad Intentions - Karin Fossum
The Glass Devil -Helene Tursten

Going back to Henning Mankell, non-Wallander books.
 
Hi. I'm not a voracious book reader but when I do read one, I tend to gravitate towards nonfiction (Psychology, Marketing, Philosophy, Health, etc) I prefer print cos i can scribble on the margins with my wooden pencil :) but ebooks are more convenient.. I use audio books to revisit books I've read before.

The book that changed my life as a teen was "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl. I reread the book in my early 40s and I had a different take on the book. The book taught me how to give meaning to pain which later helped me when my parents passed away. Frankl, a concentration camp survivor who faced the prospect of death everyday also wrote that "the last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." .

The last book that I read was The Fear Bubble which taught me that fear is a time and a place.
 
Reading seems a bit of an addiction for me. And i sometimes think one of the big reasons I retired was to be able to read more.

Right now working on:
Sharon Kay Penman's historical fiction
Paris 1919 by Margaret Macmillian on the versaille treaty after ww1
Succesful Aging by daniel Levitt a neurologist

Lots of mysteries to read, mostly english. quite enjoy the PJ Burley books set in cornwall but still missing a few. robert goddard

always picking up a book randomly now and again to read while reading other books . I think i have (inherited ) largest collection of american civil war books in canada which i am working my way through. To read next a book on fredrick douglass
 
So many books, so little time.

Has anyone red the million copy best seller "Polar Vortex" by Matthew Mather?

I've got it and it really looks like an outstanding mystery involving a flight disappearance over the North Pole - no distress calls, vanishing into thin air.
 
Liberty said:
So many books, so little time.

Has anyone red the million copy best seller "Polar Vortex" by Matthew Mather?

I've got it and it really looks like an outstanding mystery involving a flight disappearance over the North Pole - no distress calls, vanishing into thin air.
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I'd love to read something like that!
Is it in paperback? Is it new?

My library is now open, so may be I can find it there.
 
dobielvr said:
I'd love to read something like that!
Is it in paperback? Is it new?

My library is now open, so may be I can find it there.
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Its in one of those what I call "half paperback" versions. Don't think it comes in a smaller one, as this is a nice sized book. Some publishers only publish this "half kind of paperback" version in place of both hardcover and smaller paperback versions I think. Its a nice looking book with
good decent sized type.
 
I'm reading "The Hideaway, by Lauren K. Denton.
Its about a gal that has an antiques shop in New Orleans (NOLA, as we call it) and finds out
she's in her grandmothers will. She's inherited the house and she goes to the town to see "The Hideaway and discovers a box her grandmother "MAGs" left in the attic with clues to a life Sara never imagined for her grandmother.

Its a good Southern "sit on the porch with a glass of tea" summer mystery.
 

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