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???????

[Eaglewoman]

Just got an email that Maeve Binchy last book that she wrote just before she died will be out Feb 12. she wrote "Mindinf Frankie"" "light a Penny Candle" and many more. I really like her style of writing.

[rapa]

I'm #13 on the reserve list for Maeve Binchy's last gift to us: 

http://www.amazon.com/Week-Winter-Maeve-Binchy/dp/0307273571/ref=sr...

[Carolyn Tewell]

I'm now listening to The Black Box by Michael Connelly - a Harry Bosch mystery - cold cases.  Um,  the story really gets bogged down with police procedure and lots of potential leads - and of course listening rather than reading has its own complications - can't go back EASILY and re-listen to keep everyone straight.  I was going to chuck it - but at the moment have nothing else on hand.  So I'll continue the effort - maybe it will get more engrossing?~mlo

 

[Eaglewoman]

Just finished the Paris Wife, about Earnest Hemingway 1st wife. Interesting, they had no much money but managed to do a lot with it.

[Mandy Muffin]

Paris Wife was a great read.  It really comes to light if you have read some Hemingway, especially "The Sun Also Rises" and "A Movable Feast." 

[Flowergram]

Finished Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and then read The Girl Who Played with Fire.  Both really good books and will read the third one soon.  Got to finish others first.  Too bad the author of these died - would like to read more -he had a great imagination.  Anyone else like these?

[Lip Service]

The author had two more unpublished novels that were found on his laptop after his death.

The novels are under dispute between his father and brother (whom he was estranged from) against his common law wife.

If he had been married to his wife there would have been no ground for dispute.

The only reason he was not married to her is because in Sweden marriage deed must make the address of the couple public. He was a journalist who investigated neo-Nazi group in Sweden and some had put a contract on his head hence it was a matter of life and death that he would not publish his home address.

The stuff he writes about is a reality that he lived.

[Flowergram]

I have not seen the movie but my friend saw the one in the U.S. and said it was terrible - too much cut from it and made the scenes choppy and difficult to follow.  She saw the subtitled foreign one and said she loved it.  I read that he was an editor of Expo magazine for 20 years and it was very in to investigation of the neo Nazi group in Sweden.  Will be glad to read more if it becomes available from his family.

[grammyk]

To those who like David Baldacci's books, "The Panther" was very good. I like his sarcastic humor. Now on to "The Last Runaway" by Tracy Chevalier.

[Mandy Muffin]

I just added "Hopeless" to my Kindle.  It is #2 on the USA TOP SELLERS.  I am finishing up on "Safe Haven" which is their number on book, which I indicated in a prior post on this thread.  It is soon to be a major motion picture.  http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AQ3K8IU?tag=ut056-20

[Lip Service]

I am reading the kindle book 'Take No More'.

It begins when James Blake, returns to their home in London to find that his wife has been shot and killed. All he has is an email from her with a picture of a Michelangelo painting in it.

It is an action packet thriller similar to Harlan Coban, it is also cheap $2.99 as a kindle book

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004EYUH9C/

[Gerald Guy]

"Night Rider" was a nice change of pace, an action-packed rommance set in the Wild West of 1888. Beverly Jenkins is an acclaimed and excellent story-teller.