DECEMBER READS

[rapa]

Happy December!  Busy month for most of us but always time to relax with a good read!  I've finished Amy Tan's THE VALLEY OF AMAZEMENT and thoroughly enjoyed it.  It tells the story of a mother and daughter who were both high class courtesans in China. The story covers forty years. 

Currently well into David Baldacci's KING AND MAXWELL.  Am quite enjoying following King and Maxwell--former Secret Service agents turned private investigators, as they try to help a teenage boy prove that his father who was reported killed in Afghanistan is alive and not a traitor.  Story moves quickly and lots of action!

What are you reading???????

[Carci]

Just started Shoot The Moon by Billie Letts which I thought I had read before but so far it doesn't seem familiar. 

[Grammie Sue]

I picked up 4 of Sue Grafton's books at the Library last month and today I just finished Q... which I had read when it first came out.  I forgot till I was half way through that I had read it already.  Enjoyed it a lot though.  Now I have moved on to R... I am also reading a book by Doug Jones titled Mastering the Silence.  http://www.barnesandnoble.com/listing/2693377167841?r=1&cm_mmca...  It is a very good book.   

[Grammie Sue]

I am just wondering if you all still do the monthly reading of books together?  I haven't seen it posted but realize I could just be missing it, and is Barb still on here?  I have not seen her name lately either.  So glad to see yours is still here Rapa and Carci and a few others.  

[Carolyn Tewell]

Speaking of "no Barb" um, I am the only one signed on at TBD at 8:50PM? Maybe everyone is watching "The Voice?" Just kidding.

Actually I wanted to do a "look back" at my posts over 2012...almost 200 ...all here on Bookoholics except for maybe one or two when I was invited to stop in somewhere on TBD. Think it would be an exercise In futility. Just wanted to refresh what books made me rave with positive emotions?

Listening to John Grishom's Sycamore Row and loving it...half way through so unless it falls apart this will be my most favorite book of 2013.

Hope everyone posts soonly.~not so Mellowgal

[Ioruach]

I just finished The English Girl by Daniel Silva and thoroughly enjoyed it, as I have his many other novels featuring Gabriel Allon.  Silva also weaves the history of Israel’s struggles with its enemies into his books, which, at least for me, adds a lot to their interest.  In the spy genre, I would rate him nearly up there with John le Carré. 

[Thomas William Farquhar vii BA]

I have just started on Terry Pratchett`s new book, "Raising Steam".  it tells of the first railway on Discworld so far (I`ve only read the first few pages) it is funny with the train engineers having an accent from Lancashire in the North of England.  As I live in that part of the world myself, in Cumbria, I can understand them - an American might have a little trouble, but it`s worth the struggle.

[Flowergram]

Just picked up Cold Day in Paradise by Steve Hamilton and  The Dead Yard by Adrian McKinty.  Am currently reading  The Tehran Initiative by Rosenberg, had read the 12th Imam - on the computer. Also reading Giles Blunt"s - No Such Creature.  Carolyn am so glad you finally found a book to get into - you have had a string of displeasures.  Larouche I recommended Silva to a friend and she loves his books, she is into the spies and assassins. LOL. 

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[Eaglewoman]

Am reading Cold Sassy Tree and  and the Art of racing in The Rain for Jan book club.

[tnbopeep]

I'm in a reading desert right now. All my fav authors published new books last month now I've got to wait a year...bummer. I do want to read the new Fannie Flagg. It has a long title & I forget what it is. Meanwhile, I think I'll haul out my usual Xmas books & start re-reading. It's not Xmas without "Red Bird Christmas", "The Shepherd, The Angel, and Walter the Miracle Dog", "The Worst, Best Christmas Pagent Ever". OK, I may have gotten some of the titles wrong but you get the idea!

And Barb is still around - she's on Facebook quite a bit.

[Carolyn Tewell]

BoPeep...thanks for the heads up on Barb.

Flower...yes, you are right...I've been sounding like Debbie Downer for months!

Thanks for all the recommendations. Been a tough year! At least in the search for great escape mysteries. Seem jaded. I've got some potentials on hold. Almost done with Grishom's latest and not wanting it to end. Maybe I'll go back and read some that I skipped since he was so preachy there for awhile....nite nite.~mlo

[officerripley]

Right now I'm reading (or trying to what with the 5 min./week total reading time I get, that is; never, ever, ever remodel) A Door in the River, the 3rd in the Hazel Micallef mysteries by Inger Ash Wolfe; it's about a Canadian cop; they're pretty good and this entry is so far so good anyway.

[Carci]

Finished Shoot the Moon by Billie Letts.  I thought I had read it in the past but it didn't seem familiar the whole way through.  I enjoyed it and wish she'd write something new.  She only has four books and I've loved them all, especially The Honk & Holler Opening Soon.

I've started Oh My Stars by Lorna Landvik. She also writes in the style of Billie Letts and Fannie Flagg and I see on her page in  www.fantasticfiction.co.uk  that she has several I haven't read so guess I'll add them to my TBR list. The first will be "Tis The Season since it has a Xmas mode which I only enjoy this time of year.