Outlander (Book 1) love love love it, I am on chapter 31ish, I can not wait to find out all the answers to my questions!!
The Art of Racing in the Rain. I am listening via audio book on my drive to and from SC.......I have 2 hrs left and will finish it tomorrow, I like it so far, nothing incredible, but a good read, makes ou think about life
Last night I just started THe Dark Bayou by Nancy Dupluchain. Its a trilogy, this is the first one, ONly a chapter in , but so far its not bad It has my attention , for now
Post by Emerald1486 on Apr 10, 2015 6:51:49 GMT -5
Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander series book 6). I am enjoying it. I've read a lot of Outlander over the past month so I'm trying to slow down a bit from being overwhelmed. They aren't running together yet. Two more to go after this!
Post by marigoldgirl on Apr 10, 2015 8:50:11 GMT -5
I am listening to The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt on audio book. I like it okay. I am also reading a mindless vampire novel called Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K Hamilton. I am not sure if I will keep reading the others in her series. I like book series best.
QOTW: I can't remember the last time I ate a chocolate bunny.
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. It's OK; interesting story so far but the writing is a little...poorly edited.
I'm also listening to A Memory of Light on audiobook (it's a re-read; I wouldn't recommend trying it for the first time on audiobook due to the length and complexity).
QOTW: I skip them and go straight for TJ's dark chocolate PB cups.
I'm currently in the midst of Five Days at Memorial, which I'm reading for book club. I think it should engender QUITE the lively discussion! It's also sent me on a post-Katrina New Orleans binge.
Also, after a 200+ person wait, Girl on the Train finally came in at the library, so I just started that.
As a child, I always ate the head of the chocolate rabbit first, as I reasoned it was less time for it to be "aware" of the fact it was getting eaten.
The Luminaries for my book club. They postponed a week because no one finished it, and THANK GOD FOR THAT! As predicted, I was too busy this week to do much reading. I did manage to read almost 300/1050 pages, though. I like it okay. The story is interesting, and the writing is....well, it's actually really good, just not my style. It's set in the 1860s and the prose mimics books written in the time period. I had to check the publication date - lol.
I'm currently in the midst of Five Days at Memorial, which I'm reading for book club. I think it should engender QUITE the lively discussion! It's also sent me on a post-Katrina New Orleans binge.
That was a really good book. I'd love to hear how your discussion goes -- definitely plenty to talk about. Have you read Dave Eggers' Zeitoun? That's another good, emotionally exhausting Katrina book.
Post by sparrowsong on Apr 10, 2015 20:40:48 GMT -5
Just finished Austenland, which was kind of dumb. But I still want to see the movie version because I love Keri Russell
Now reading Queen of New France. It's ok. Not the best historical fiction I've read, but it's still kind of interesting because I've learned lots about British pilgrims to the US colonies, but nothing about French pilgrims to the Canadian colonies. Specifically it's about "les filles du roi," women who were sent by the king to be wives to the soldiers and fur-trappers inhabiting the region so that they would want to stay and populate the region. Hillary Clinton, Madonna, and Angelina Jolie are descendants of these immigrants.
I'm currently in the midst of Five Days at Memorial, which I'm reading for book club. I think it should engender QUITE the lively discussion! It's also sent me on a post-Katrina New Orleans binge.
That was a really good book. I'd love to hear how your discussion goes -- definitely plenty to talk about. Have you read Dave Eggers' Zeitoun? That's another good, emotionally exhausting Katrina book.
I really can't decide if I want t read Five Days at Memorial or not. I was born and raised in New Orleans and evacuated 2 days before Katrina hit. I have friends who worked at Baptist (which is what I still call that hospital), and I'm not sure what to think of that book. I've heard it's both good and bad, but the people who were there at the time come down more on the bad side. I actually know Mr. Zeitoun, though I hadn't seen him for years before Katrina, or since. It was a bit head-trippy when I saw the book for the first time in the Auckland, NZ airport bookshop.
I have Chris Rose's 1 Dead in Attic, but I haven't even been able to read more than the introduction to it. I keep thinking I should read these Hurricane Katrina accounts, but I just find that when it comes down to it, I can't.
Yay, you're back on your usual schedule, dorothyinAus !
I'm reading Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller. Really good so far. It had been on my radar and someone here also said it was excellent.
QOTW: I don't think I have a system. I can't remember the last time I had a whole bunny, even. Ears, probably?
Thanks! Yep, now that Lent is over I'm back online more frequently. It was a hard thing to give up.
This week I'm reading A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver by E.L. Konigsburg. It's a re-read for me, but I'm finding new things in it, which is probably to be expected since the last time I read it I was still in high school.
QOTW: I'm an ears first kind of person. I feel it's the more "humane" way to go. But it hardly matters here in Australia where all I can find are hollow chocolate bunnies, and when I go to crack off the ears, I usually shatter the rest of the bunny/bilby.
dorothyinAus re: Five Days at Memorial -- what have you heard is bad about it from people who were there? Writing, research, unpleasant?
I have heard that the book is definitely biased, and that decisions made by those on the ground were presented and examined without regard to the situation at hand or the truth. Others have mentioned that it was a reaction to the situation regarding Dr. Pou and the alleged miscarriage of justice in those incidents, or at the very least an attempt to sway public opinion away from the medical professionals.
As I said, I haven't read it. I evacuated two days before Katrina hit and was out of my house for 6 weeks, so I do not have any firsthand knowledge of the situations either at Baptist or anywhere else. But I do give more credence to my friends' experiences a bit more than a book written by someone from outside the events.
I realize I go into reading the book with a bias against it, and that may be a big part of the reason why I have not read it yet.
Yay, you're back on your usual schedule, dorothyinAus !
I'm reading Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller. Really good so far. It had been on my radar and someone here also said it was excellent.
QOTW: I don't think I have a system. I can't remember the last time I had a whole bunny, even. Ears, probably?
Thanks! Yep, now that Lent is over I'm back online more frequently. It was a hard thing to give up.
This week I'm reading A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver by E.L. Konigsburg. It's a re-read for me, but I'm finding new things in it, which is probably to be expected since the last time I read it I was still in high school.
QOTW: I'm an ears first kind of person. I feel it's the more "humane" way to go. But it hardly matters here in Australia where all I can find are hollow chocolate bunnies, and when I go to crack off the ears, I usually shatter the rest of the bunny/bilby.
That was a really good book. I'd love to hear how your discussion goes -- definitely plenty to talk about. Have you read Dave Eggers' Zeitoun? That's another good, emotionally exhausting Katrina book.
I really can't decide if I want t read Five Days at Memorial or not. I was born and raised in New Orleans and evacuated 2 days before Katrina hit. I have friends who worked at Baptist (which is what I still call that hospital), and I'm not sure what to think of that book. I've heard it's both good and bad, but the people who were there at the time come down more on the bad side. I actually know Mr. Zeitoun, though I hadn't seen him for years before Katrina, or since. It was a bit head-trippy when I saw the book for the first time in the Auckland, NZ airport bookshop.
I have Chris Rose's 1 Dead in Attic, but I haven't even been able to read more than the introduction to it. I keep thinking I should read these Hurricane Katrina accounts, but I just find that when it comes down to it, I can't.
I actually read Zeitoun for a different book club a number of years ago! Emotionally exhausting is a great description of it.
And dorothyinAus, I totally get that. One of our book club members has actually opted out of this one, as she's also a New Orleans native, and finds most accounts just too hard to read. She did recommend Nine Lives, by Dan Baum, which is a more comprehensive look at nine people's stories, dating back to Hurricane Betsy era. I haven't read it yet, but am taking her word for it and just requested it from the library. I've also added 1 Dead in Attic to my list, but between this and The Girl on the Train, I think I'm gonna need something filled with rainbows and puppy dogs for a little while!
It's a small marsupial in Australia. Many people in Australia object to using the rabbit as a symbol of Easter, because the rabbits are such a pest in Australia, so some confectionary companies make chocolate bilbies instead.
This year though, chocolate bilbies were hard to find, so the Easter Wombat came to visit at my in-law's house. He brought chocolate wombats for both DH and me.
It's a small marsupial in Australia. Many people in Australia object to using the rabbit as a symbol of Easter, because the rabbits are such a pest in Australia, so some confectionary companies make chocolate bilbies instead.
This year though, chocolate bilbies were hard to find, so the Easter Wombat came to visit at my in-law's house. He brought chocolate wombats for both DH and me.