APRIL READS

[rapa]

Am thoroughly enjoying Elizabeth Strout's THE BURGESS BOYS.  Almost finished Jonathan Kellerman's GUILT, which I put on the back burner. Next up William Kent Kruger's stand alone novel ORDINARY GRACE.  Tomorrow will pick up Harlan Coben's SIX YEARS and Lisa Gardner's TOUCH & GO.  Have 7 more on my reserve list and hope they don't come in anytime soon!  My plate runneth over!!!

What are you reading?

[Mandy Muffin]

I am finishing up "The Sentry"  by Robert Crais, a very popular LA noire genre writer.  If you like to drift among the underworld  characters, bad actors and cops that have been the subject of numerous novelists and movies, Crais' top sellers may be for you. http://www.amazon.com/The-Sentry-Robert-Crais/dp/0425245721

I have "An Absolute Scandal" by Penny Vincenzi on my schedule next that tells a saga-like story of financial misdoings on the continent.  http://www.amazon.com/An-Absolute-Scandal-A-Novel/dp/0385519893  Carrying the 757 page book around my be enough for me. 

[Carolyn Tewell]

RAPA - I am reading Six Years - slow going - I'm 2/3 way through - still confused.  But Mr. Coben is great writer so I'm sure all will be revealed.  I love the humor along with the pain and agony. LOL~mellow

[tnbopeep]

Whoa, Rapa, you surely do have a full plate - isn't that just the best feeling? Mellow - I'm behind in my Coben. Same problem we all have - too many books, not enough time.

I just finished the latest Alan Bradley, Flavia de Luce. I love that little mystery solver and her 2 mean sisters. Right now I've just started the 4th in the Jane Perry series by Laurel Dewey. This one is Knowing, and Jane is once again caught up in other worldly influences in her cop work. She's off the booze & cigarettes and cranky as hell and trying to help clear a murderer who's being influenced by the heart he received in a transplant. Nothing about these books is ordinary.

Talk about polar opposite main characters: Flavia & Jane!

[grammyk]

I'm almost done with "The Girls of Atomic City" and have "The Dinner" and "Calling Me Home" here to be read next.  "Guilt" and "Six Years" are waiting at the library for me...too bad work interferes with my reading time!

FYI - for Andrew Gross fans, his new book, "No Way Back" is 50% off this weekend as a Nook book.

[tnbopeep]

Grammy - how was "The Girls of Atomic City"? I looked up the description & reviews on Amazon & it sounds like something I'd like. Oak Ridge TN is just up the road from me here in Chattanooga so that holds extra interest. One of the Jefferson Bass books in his body farm series had part of the story line up there & it really caught my interest. I hadn't heard of this one so thanks!

[grammyk]

I'm almost done with "The Girls of Atomic City" and I have enjoyed it.  Very interesting how involved women were in the production of the bomb and how few people put together what was being done at Oak Ridge. 

I also take special interest in any book that is set in an area I'm familiar with; it does add to the enjoyment, doesn't it?!

[Grammie Sue]

I am still in Bible College for the next 5 weeks so I am still in text books for classes.  This quarter I am reading: Unlocking The Abraham Promise by Dr. Berin Gilfillan who is also our teacher, Destined For The Throne, by Paul Billheimer, Celebrations of Discipline, by Richard J. Foster, and The Christian Counselor’s Manuel, by Jay E. Adams. It is a lot to read but I am enjoying all the books and the classes.  

[Carci]

Just got back from being up north for one week with no internet access... bummer!

Lots of reading time this week and I finished: Ghostman by Roger Hobbs, Abandon by Blake Crouch, & Taken by Robert Crais...  Today I started Don't Tell A Soul by David Rosenfelt on our 3 hour drive home (small print so I kept fallin asleep as I was reading... lol)

I have several on reserve at the library (including Six Years & Ordinary Grace) which I put on freeze while I was gone, so they wouldn't come in when I couldn't get them.  The librarian suggested I just unfreeze a couple at a time so I don't get overwhelmed all at once... a very good suggestion which might work for you, rapa.

[officerripley]

That freeze function sounds cool; I wish our library had it, there's no way we can freeze our hold books like that which is too bad becuz I'm always getting overwhelmed with too many coming in at once, lol.

[Carci]

Yes, I just learned about one nice feature of it last week. 

When you are #85 (or whatever) on the list  and you freeze it, your spot keeps moving to the front of the line.  When you get to #1 they just hold you there and give the next book to #2.  Then whenever you unfreeze it, you get the next one available.  That's why you might get too many at once if you unfreeze them all after you have been gone awhile. I just unfroze Ordinary Grace (#1 with 16 copies) & Six Years (#5 with 47 copies) today so hope to get them both before we leave again in 2 weeks.

[rapa]

Finished ORDINARY GRACE last night!  Excellent read!!!!! I really like Kruger's stand alone novels. 

[Carci]

I love all his novels.  He is in my top 3 list of authors to read.  I just got notification from the library that they have Ordinary Grace waiting for me...  Yea!