JANUARY READS

[rapa]

The holidays are now history so is everyone finding time to settle down with a good book?

I'm reading Ann Patchett's STATE OF WONDER and am finding it a page-turner. Nothing like a trip to the Amazon jungle to pique my interest.  Also medical research intigue which fascinates me. Loved Patchett's BEL CANTO and this is just as good!

Douglas Preston's TWO GRAVES is enroute to library for me.

What are you reading now???????

[Carci]

No I don't think it was a spoiler...  just very profound as I recall... I might have posted it when I read the book but that was back on the old site and quite awhile ago...

[Carolyn Tewell]

RIGHT!!! Alex McKnight and Cork O'Conner - read all of those as well - just retrieving info is challenging this week...LOL - In the IRS TAX VORTEX!

One nice thing about posting at EONS - their was a little box for reference where we could type in something and lots of older postings would be revealed.  I almost jumped over to B&N dot com to do a fast search but I keep breaking away from the calculator constantly.  Drat the limited attention span over age 60 for me???

[grammyk]

I'm just starting David Baldacci's "The Forgotten".  Also picked up "The Panther" by Nelson DeMille and "Paris, a Love Story" by Kati Marton at the library today.

[Ioruach]

Regarding these Jesse Stone and Spencer clones, Lynn, perhaps it is just me, but while you are being “extra protective” I was so glad to see another Robert Parker book, regardless of who actually wrote it, I failed to be properly discriminating.  

There was only one other instance that I can recall of one author taking over the characters of another, and this is going to date me.  But after the death of Rex Stout, a writer named Robert Goldsborough assumed the character of Nero Wolfe, Stout’s oversized detective, and had a few titles published.  Which reminds me that I should go back and re-read some of those wonderful Nero Wolfe novels.

[Carci]

Also Robert Ludlum died in 2001 but there have been over a dozen novels published under his name since then.  I haven't tried any of them...

 

 

[officerripley]

I do still have the book Die a Stranger; but I'm thinking that those last few sentences--I was wrong, it was actually the last 3 sentences--would be kind of a spoiler.  But let me know & I'll priv. msg. them to you; just afraid of spoiling the book for anyone, I did that once on that other site & felt really bad.

[Ioruach]

Thanks for the heads up on Steve Hamilton, one of my favorites.  I have read several of his, but not Die a Stranger.  That will go to the top of my (rather long) to-read list.  If I remember correctly, The Lock Artist was excellent.

[officerripley]

I agree, lorouch:  The Lock Artist was excellent and it's being made into a movie, I hear.

[Mudqueen]

I just finished "The Disobidiant girl" and found it interesting. magnificence by Lydia millet is next.

[Gerald Guy]

I just picked up Nora Roberts' "A Will and A Way." It's shorter than her normal novels but just as entertaining. I got it for less than $3 for my Nook.

[Teddybear67]

David Baldacci Zero Day

[Grammie Sue]

Because I had time to read during the holidays but didn't want to get into something new, I read two old friends, Janette Oke's Love Comes Softly and John Gresham's  Street Lawyer.  Now that it is the new year and we have had chapel night I start back to the school books.  The Incomparable Christ by John Stott and the Handbook of Preaching by Dr. Nathaniel M. Van Cleave are two of our books for this quarter. We will have other books but those are the only two for right now.  Just two quarters and I graduate!  I learned, last Thurs at Chapel, that we have matriculation to (or is it with) another college and I can get my bachelor's if I go on after our accreditation application is accepted. We fully expect our accreditation application to be accepted by next month.  I am pretty excited about it all.