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

Colleen said:
I didn't read The Martian, but it's one of our favorite movies, starring Matt Damon, so I decided to read Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, who wrote The Martian.

I got hooked at the beginning but by the time I was 2/3 of the way through, I couldn't finish. It became ridiculous and so "technical" that I lost interest. It's been raved about but I just couldn't waste any more time on it. Ever feel that way about a book?? I wonder what I'm missing..hmmmmmm :unsure: .
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The Martian is my favorite book of all time, and it's one I only read after being harassed by 4 people in my family for years.

I started Project Hail Mary, but put it down after a couple of chapters. I thought maybe I just wasn't in the mood for it. I'll try it again someday.
 

WheatenLover said:
The Martian is my favorite book of all time, and it's one I only read after being harassed by 4 people in my family for years.

I started Project Hail Mary, but put it down after a couple of chapters. I thought maybe I just wasn't in the mood for it. I'll try it again someday.
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Did you know Andy Weir wrote the screenplay for 'The Martian', loved his book& the movie Sue
 
I try to read books only at night in bed before going to sleep. I used to read many more books than I do now, but chastised myself for sitting for hours in the afternoon reading, not moving about. I just finished "The Last Thing He Told Me" by Laura Dave. It was a good read, characters real and evolving, some mystery, some love, family relationships, all leaving me hooked until the very end.
Well worth the read.

I am more a fiction reader. Often, the new nonfictions leave me bored halfway through. The authors tend to say seven different ways the same event.... I also won't spend more time on any book if it hasn't hooked me a quarter of the way through. There are so many others to try.
 
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The book I'm reading now The Boys of Winter' by Wayne Coffey,the story about the U.S. men's hockey team how they were picked by their coach,Herb Brooks.They pulled off the biggest upset in Olympic history at the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake PLacid,NY defeating Russians ,then winning gold medal against Finland. The author interviewed all the players, coaches etc. He wrote in 2005
Its fascinating reading what the country was going thru at the time e.g Iran hostage crisis, the Cold War
I found the book in our community library which is in the basement in our building Sue
 
Pinky said:
Have been going through mysteries by Lisa Unger and Lisa Gardner .. both equally good in their genres. Now, moving on to Lisa Jackson.

Odd how they are all named Lisa :unsure:
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Pinky, the above authors are good at their craft.
I am an avid follower of Mary Kay Andrews and her books. They are wonderful light books to enjoy, and give me a chuckle at her deliverance of life's daily missteps!
 
With so much talk about God and religion I thought the books of CS Lewis would be of interest. CS Lewis was an atheist for most of his life. At late in his life he had a conversion. As a child I was read “The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe”. I still read it today and many more of his books.
 
I finished reading' The Boys of Winter by Wayne Coffey about the 1980 men's hockey team
The author gave bios of each player,described how coach, Herb Brooks picked each player. A detailed summary of the semi final game against the Russians,the gold medal game against Finland
13 out of the 20 players went on to play in the NHL,all retired now. Sadly Brooks died in 2003,2 players, Bob Suter died in 2014 of heart attack, Mark Pavelich died last yr
I really enjoyed the book Sue
 
Colleen said:
I'm not a Stephen King fan, but I've had 11/22/63 sitting on the shelf for a long time and recently picked it up when nothing seemed to hold my interest for very long. Ever feel that way??

I love time-travel books but haven't found very many that seem plausible and then they get boring and I lose interest and put it down and never finish it. Not 11/22/63! I was a senior in high school when JFK was assassinated and it affected me a great deal. I still cry when I watch anything on it.

Anyway...I'm hooked...for now...on 11/22/63 and I'll see if Mr. King can hold my interest all the way through this tome of a book.
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Re Stephen King, 11/22/63 is one of my favorite SK books. Perhaps because there is more emotion than fear in the story. I also really enjoyed reading Mr. Mercedes (3 in the series) and most recently Billy Summers for much the same reason. The Outsider is another SK book that features time travel you might like.
 
Just finished Sleepwalk by Dan Chaon, very good, 4 out of 5 stars; and American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears by Farah Stockman, excellent, 5 out of 5!
Just finished American Made. Still digesting it. I liked three fourths of the book. The ending not so sure about.
 
The River at Night by Erica Ferencik

Picked this up at a yard sale & could hardly put it down.

Four women, who take trips together plan on a rafting excursion in Maine.
Their group is one of the first to try out this river.
The guide is young ,, thinks he has all the skills needed to guide them down the river.

What happens to the women will keep you wondering ,,'what next ?'
 
I typically read on a bench by the lake, but it has been too hot. I now go to Starbucks. For the first year of retirement, I was reading self-improvement books. These days, I like completely escapist entertainment because the real-world news is so negative, so I am reading a salacious Jennifer Hilliard thriller. Nothing deep.
 
I just read Barbara Ross's latest Maine Clambake book, Muddled Through. It is a cozy mystery, and IMO, the best she has ever written. It was published today.

I got the book free from Netgalley. https://www.netgalley.com/

I signed up for free as a reviewer. It is legit. The publishers have to approve you to read one of their books. I download books to my Kindle Fire, using its email address. Books that have been archived are not available. I searched by publisher to find books I wanted to read. Not every publisher ... the ones I recognized as publishing books I've read.

You can also read the books online, or have it sent to your computer and read it on there.

In exchange for the free book(s), you have to write reviews of the books you request (and receive). Not all requests are approved. Naturally, given my book hog nature, I now have about 20 books to read and review. Most are from favorite authors of mine. A few, I got interested in and requested.

The publisher's look at the reviews you post, allegedly, to determine whether they want you to review their books. Nonetheless, I got a lot of free books when I had no reviews. I've written one review, on Muddled Through, and it upped my game. Instead of keeping it short and sweet (this was a great book, 5 stars), I actually thought about what I was going to say, and read some top reviewers book reviews on Amazon. The first draft, let's just say it was on it's way to becoming a book, too. I pared it down, of course. My discussion of the plot was otherwise going to end up being an outline of the book.

Surprising to me, I actually enjoyed writing the review. I was so glad to read the book before it was published, and grateful for the opportunity, that I wanted to do a good job.
 
Love a good mystery. Reading "Lies I Tell"...this is the just out second book from the writer of "The Last Flight" which was a fantastic mystery...her name is Julie Clark for anyone that might be interested.

Don't you just love it when you discover a "new" writer???
 

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