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

Remy said:
I'm reading The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. So far it's a bit of a downer. Got my copy at the thrift store. Someone must have used it for a book club because it has a some underline and paragraph brackets but otherwise like new.
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I read the book a couple of months ago, enjoyed it, something different Sue
 
CAN'T WE BE FRIENDS. by Denny S Bryce & Eliza Knight

Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe a revealing book about the friendship that forms between two popular stars.
It makes it a point that female performers didn't get respect or paid the same as male performers in that time frame.

Its a well written book which I found interesting.

Knowing how Marilyn Monroe's life ends,,, makes you wish she had tried to stay off drugs & booze.
 
I don't believe MM was murdered, just my opinion. See no reason for it and I don't think the Kennedys went around murdering people. I don't even think the last prez went around murdering people. Think that is sensationalist, not reality.
 
Pepper said:
I don't believe MM was murdered, just my opinion. See no reason for it and I don't think the Kennedys went around murdering people. I don't even think the last prez went around murdering people. Think that is sensationalist, not reality.
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I don't think JFK himself had anything to do with it.
 
I'm reading "The Mysterious West" A collection of suspenseful short stories by various authors, edited by Tony Hillerman.

I found a like new hardcover copy at the Goodwill. I'm on story 4. So far pretty good. The 3rd story was from the perspective of a cat set in Las Vegas and Henderson. Interesting twist at the end.
 
Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penny. Mystery's that take place in Quebec and Montreal for the most part. I like mysteries and this is a very well-written series. There was a series on tv called Three Pines. It starred Alfred Molina, who was the perfect Inspector Gamache. I watched the 3-part series on Prime that was the first three books of Louise Penny's series. That's what got me started on it.
 
Colleen said:
Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penny. Mystery's that take place in Quebec and Montreal for the most part. I like mysteries and this is a very well-written series. There was a series on tv called Three Pines. It starred Alfred Molina, who was the perfect Inspector Gamache. I watched the 3-part series on Prime that was the first three books of Louise Penny's series. That's what got me started on it.
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Great books and Alfred M *was* perfect. I understand the show is cancelled? If it is, that makes no sense 😔
 
Pepper said:
I don't believe MM was murdered, just my opinion. See no reason for it and I don't think the Kennedys went around murdering people. I don't even think the last prez went around murdering people. Think that is sensationalist, not reality.
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I read several different books about MM based on different theories, but the one that makes the most sense to me said that she would alternate between lying in bed all day, not bathing for days, and then suddenly get up and do extreme cleaning rituals to herself, one being giving herself a colonic. I can believe that, because there are lots of indications that she may have been bipolar.

A doctor then explained that a colonic before taking the sort of medications she regularly took could cause her system to absorb too much. Hence accidental overdose.

I don't think JFK would have had any reason to kill her. His constant womanizing was well known and the press always suppressed it and protected him from scandal. If anyone was worried about his association with her she never would have been invited to do that birthday song.
 
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Now reading Gator Country about the Everglades, gator farming and poachers.

Just finished The Wife, the Maid and the Mistress, a ‘maybe this is what happened’ fact/fiction read about the disappearance of Judge Crater in 1930 in NY. His, along with Jimmy Hoffa and Amelia Earhart are the three biggies in unsolved disappearances here. It was an interesting look at that era in history.

Also read The Midnight Library. Ok read but I don’t think it lived up to its hype. Same with Heaven and Earth Grocery and Hello Beautiful. I’m going back to classics or non-fiction, I think.
 
Colleen said:
Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penny. Mystery's that take place in Quebec and Montreal for the most part. I like mysteries and this is a very well-written series. There was a series on tv called Three Pines. It starred Alfred Molina, who was the perfect Inspector Gamache. I watched the 3-part series on Prime that was the first three books of Louise Penny's series. That's what got me started on it.
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I'll look out for a copy while thrifting. Thanks. Sounds interesting.
 
I like to try new authors but my old brain does not do well with those who jump around in times mixing past events with present in trying to get the story out. The one about Judge Crater did that but it was fairly easy to follow along. Does this bother anyone else?
 
Colleen said:
Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penny.
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My whole book club adores Louise Penny and most of them have read each book as it comes out. Although I love the descriptions of Three Pines (as the critics say she's a great world builder) she has said some things in her books that make me think I wouldn't like her and that she wouldn't like me, so I don't read her anymore.

Does anyone else ever feel that way about a writer? Get personally offended by something they've said?
 
Hamilton by Ron Chernow. 818 pages. To say the musical takes some artistic license is an understatement.

But Hamilton the man was a flat-out genius. That's how he survived his childhood and got to the U.S. The book itself is sooooooo detailed. Really a history book by a historian written for other historians, IMO.

I would have liked it if the publishers had included some maps of the regions discussed. Would help the reader visualize things more.

Aaron Burr: not a nice guy, really.
 
VintageBetter said:
Hamilton by Ron Chernow. 818 pages. To say the musical takes some artistic license is an understatement.

But Hamilton the man was a flat-out genius. That's how he survived his childhood and got to the U.S. The book itself is sooooooo detailed. Really a history book by a historian written for other historians, IMO.

I would have liked it if the publishers had included some maps of the regions discussed. Would help the reader visualize things more.

Aaron Burr: not a nice guy, really.
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I would like that in a lot of books, as well as floor plans for certain mysteries and family trees for the big epic novels. Right now I'm in the middle of "The Heiress," by Rachel Hawkins, that's all about who will inherit the big mansion in North Carolina plus the $500 million and for the life of me, I can't figure out where one brother and sister and their dad, fit in the family.

My hat's off to you for reading Hamilton. Whew.
 
The book I started yesterday is the River We Remember' by William Kent Krueger. Its set in Jewel, Minnesota,small town in 1958, the murder of a wealthy landowner, Jimmy Quinn who is found floating in the Alabaster River with a shotgun blast.
I like this author have read a few his books, the last one was' This Tender Land' which was terrific
 

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