What was the latest book that you read?

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Tell us the name and author of the latest book that you read, and if you liked it?Mine was September by Rosamunde Pilcher and I loved it.
 

I've tried reading several books the past few weeks none held my attention for more than a few chapters, They were all auto-biographical and I found it hard to like any of the authors which made it difficult to get to what may have been really interesting material.

First two by the same author: Jan Juska, A Round - Heeled Woman and Unaccompanied Women.

The third: Author, Dr Carl Hart, "High Price" Could be a great story to read, but, though I found the first few pages fascinating, as I continued to read, the writing reminded me of a previous author who just seemed to keep qualify his past actions instead of just letting the material flow, accept and own it. I still may try to see if there's anything redeemable to read further in, the subject matter I thought it would cover I'm hoping for some insight. Maybe I just need to be more open and understanding here. I will let you know in a few days.
 
Recently I re-read The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough) after many years. It was wonderful this time around too.
I never did see the TV mini-series.
 

Pappy said:
I am into mysteries big time. I use to hate to read, but now I can go though a book a week easy. Thank heavens for Amazon Prime. Just a small portion of my Kindle library.
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Same here Pappy. I'm reading a lot more than I ever did before, and I love Prime.
 
I've been reading a lot more since I got my Kindle. I can read anywhere - planes, buses, trains.

Recently finished: Old Path White Clouds - Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha by Thich Nhat Hanh

Currently reading another murder mystery: In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, Book 1) by Tana French.
 
AprilT said:
Read the book saw the movie some 30 years ago, I remember loving the book, the movie was so so.
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I've always seemed to prefer books to movie versions of stories. For me, most of the time, something seems lacking in the interpretation.
 
Bonnie said:
I've always seemed to prefer books to movie versions of stories. For me, most of the time, something seems lacking in the interpretation.
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There have been one or two books that were not as good as the movie, but normally when I read a book then see the movie it's not as good. One except was Chocolat. Read the book recently after having seen the movie about 3 times. Didn't like it at all. It's better to read the book after the movie I think, but I'm not that patient.

I'm anxiously awaiting the movie 'A Thousand Splendid Suns'. That book was impossible to put down.
 
Here are a few I've got on the go right now, all e-books from the public library on my Kobo, a bit of a mixed bag, keeps me going.

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Has anyone read The Ice People By Maggie Gee? she is such a good author, I have read other books by her, and enjoyed those too.
 
Forty days without shadow by Olivier Truc.

'Tomorrow, the sun will rise for the first time in 40 days. Thirty minutes of daylight will herald the end of the polar night in Kautokeino, a small village in northern Norway, home to the indigenous Sami people.

But in the last hours of darkness, a precious artifact is stolen: an ancient Sami drum. The most important piece in the museum’s collection, it was due to go on tour with a UN exhibition in a few short weeks.
Hours later, a man is murdered. Mattis, one of the last Sami reindeer herders, is found dead in his gumpy.
Are the two crimes connected? In a town fraught with tension–between the indigenous Samis fighting to keep their culture alive, the ultra-Lutheran Scandinavian colonists concerned with propagating their own religion, and the greedy geologists eager to mine the region’s ore deposits–it falls to two local police officers to solve the crimes. Klemet Nango, an experienced Sami officer, and Nina Nansen, his much younger partner from the south of Norway, must find the perpetrators before it’s too late…'

This review just about sums up my feelings on the book.

When I started to read Forty Days Without Shadow, I wasn’t entirely sure how much I was going to enjoy the Artic thriller, but I was absolutely blown away! Olivier Truc clearly has knowledge of the Arctic because the way he described it made me feel like I was actually there. The story line became more gripping, the deeper and more involved it became and before long I couldn’t put it down – I was absolutely desperate to find out what happened! Now that I’ve finished it, I already want to read it again!


http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/7476553-forty-days-without-shadow-by-olivier-truc
 
American Sniper by the now deceased Chris Kyle. A man who loved war and killing people, who he dehumanized by calling them savages...
 
I read anything and everything about airplanes. I finally read, "Alive" by Piers Read. It's an old book that I have been meaning to read for sometime and my daughter just gave me her copy that she got from the second-hand bookstore for $3.00. It's one of those books that I couldn't put down.
 
oldman said:
I read anything and everything about airplanes. I finally read, "Alive" by Piers Read. It's an old book that I have been meaning to read for sometime and my daughter just gave me her copy that she got from the second-hand bookstore for $3.00. It's one of those books that I couldn't put down.
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About the Andes plane crash survivors? I haven't read it. Just remember the movie.
 
I read a mixture of fiction and non-fiction, particularly enjoy biographies ( as opposed to autobiographies) but mostly fiction wins out.What can beat sitting in the sun with a good book?
 

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