MARCH READS

[rapa]

I'm anticipating some good reads this month and have 13 titles on reserve.  Monday I'll pick up THE STORYTELLER by Jodi Picoult and BENEDICTION by Kent Haruf.  Perhaps you have read some of Haruf's beloved tales such as his PLAINSONG  and EVENTIDE which take place in the plains of Colorado.  I'm thrilled that he's released a new book! 

Am reluctantly finishing A WEEK IN WINTER tonight.  Fabulous read!  Binchy at her best!

[grammyk]

I'm starting "Saturday Night Widows" and "Dying to Be Me".  Next will be working through the rest of "Far From the Tree" and then "The World Until Yesterday".  I'll probably need some lighter reading after that!

[Mudqueen]

I started "The Bells" and so far I like it.

[Carolyn Tewell]

I got nuttin' to add - but wanted to post so I get notifications of activity on this Thread.  Tried Jeffrey Archer - not going to waste my time - he and I have different political views - so was making me mad rather than ability to stick with the story.  

I am LOVING.... "Salt, Sugar, Fat" - Michael Moss (Pulitzer winner) wonder how fast this book will get to #1 in Non-Fiction?

Other than that...I'm scrounging.  Do have "A Week in Winter" on hold along with several others - reports will follow.~mlo

[grammyk]

Just picked up 3 new books at the Library to add to my TBR pile - "Alex Cross, Run", by James Patterson; "The Affair", by Colette Freedman; and "The Storyteller" by Jodi Piccoult.  In between the nonfiction books I'm already working on, I'm reading the Blessings series to "lighten it up" periodically.

[grammyk]

I'm on the list for it at the Library but hope I can finish some of the above before it comes in.  It sounds good; I'll be interested in hearing what you think of it.

[Eaglewoman]

Todays free fri book on the NOOK is Drift less by David Rhodes,Sounds like it might be pretty good.Also starting today they are going to have a free app on fri. Todays is Office Pro 7, usually $14.99

[Jick]

"First I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later." So starts Canada by Richard Ford.  It had me from the first sentences and held my attention and imagination to the very end. Highly recommend it. The best book I've read in a long while.  Any one else read it?

[Eaglewoman]

Just got A Thousand Splendid Sons and The Next Thing On My List for my nook and the  bookclub. You guys make so many recommendations I can hardly keep up.

[Lip Service]

Ms Magnolia, Amazon has disabled text to speech feature on kindle fire but there are ways to use it still. It is not great but could be useful if your hands get tired , here is a link

http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/android/text-to-speech-tts-...

 I don't love technology for its own sake but love it when it solves real problems, good to hear your story.

For those who use an iPad to read books, the experience of an iPad mini or a kindle fire is vastly different, if reading is something you do often, you probably need to give it a serious try. You can try the iPad mini at any Apple store or the kindle fire at best buy. I prefer the kindle fire because there frequently offers from Amazon for reduced price books

[Ioruach]

I just finished Stakeout by Parnell Hall.  The author has been around for quite a while, writes the Stanley Hastings private eye novels, the Puzzle Lady crossword puzzle mystery series and others. Stakeout is in the Stanley Hastings series.  

Hastings is an interesting detective.  His usual job is investigating slip and falls for a negligence attorney, so someone can be sued up to the gills for malfeasance or something like that.  But occasionally his work finds him running into something serious, like murders.    

Above all, Hall’s books in this series are funny.  At least I find them funny, although some of you might think my sense of humor to be bizarre and perhaps somewhat unsophisticated.  But they are lots of fun and easy to read when you want to avoid serious stuff.

[Eaglewoman]

In our book club we are reading "Everything is Illuminating" by Jonathan Safran Foer, has anyone read it? I am really struggling to read this one. I looked at the reviews and it seems people wither love it or hate it, seems to be no middle ground.

[Carci]

I checked out Everything is Illuminated on Amazon.  You are right Eaglewoman, it seems there are a lot of 5 stars and more 1 stars than I have ever seen on a review page... people either love it or hate it.  I think I'm gonna pass on that one.

 

I am reading and thoroughly enjoying The Baker's Daughter right now.  It  switches between 2007 Texas and 1940's Germany.  I will post more when I finish it but right now I like it much better than The Lost Wife which I read just before this one and was also set during WWII.