FEBRUARY READS

[rapa]

In addition to the SUPER BOWL, Punxsutawney Phil and Valentine's Day, I hope that  February brings you lots of good reads! I'm starting off with what I anticipate to be a couple winners!  This morning I picked up at the library Sue Monk Kidd's THE INVENTION OF WINGS  and Joyce Carol Oates new release CARTHAGE.

Happy reading to you all!!!!!

[Mandy Muffin]

Is this it?  http://www.amazon.com/Pilot-HD/dp/B00I3MPDP4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&...

[Flowergram]

You got it - I have not been able to just put the address in on explorer and get it to come up.  Hope you enjoy the movie - it is 51 minutes long.

[Ioruach]

I just finished Storm Front by John Sandford. I thought it was one of the author’s better efforts.  This one features Virgil Flowers, not Lucas Davenport, although Davenport does have a small part. 

Sandford’s novels generally feature lots of murders, often very brutal ones.  But in this one, there were really none of note. Rather, Flowers finds himself on the trail of a mysterious artifact that was stolen from an Israeli dig site and brought to Minnesota in the backpack of a dying man.  The artifact is a stele, a stone inscribed with information that could supposedly rewrite the Bible. Suddenly, Flowers is at the center of a situation involving all sorts of goofy characters and subplots. I enjoyed it.


[grammyk]

I really liked this one too, lorouch.  Very different for Sandford, as you say, but interesting.

[rapa]

I'm currently reading an interesting bit of beautifully written  prose by British author Morag Joss.  The book, OUR PICNICS IN THE SUN is described by Lydia, one reviewer, as " a book that highlights regret. The regret of decisions made in the past, of relationships not maintained, of lives not lived. Joss explores the stress that is placed on caretakers when a medical event occurs that requires all the time and energy of one of the partners.  It's a book that explores all those messy feelings that happen during life and the effect they have not only on ourselves, but on those around us as well."  I would classify this book as literary, not pop fiction. The book is depressing and best read in small doses but compels you to proceed to the outcome. Here, see if it's your cuppa tea!

http://www.amazon.com/Our-Picnics-Sun-Morag-Joss/dp/0385342764/ref=...

[grammyk]

Sounds like a good read!  I just requested it through my library system.

[Carci]

I finished Killing Jesus by Bill O'Reilly last week, which was very well researched and made the life of Christ come alive for me in a historical context... what life was like back in those days.  It was violent and gruesome in parts and very hard to read but definitely worth the time and effort. The book does not take a religious point of view and won't change your views on your faith but will certainly bring His life and times alive for you. 

I needed something light after that so I read When I Found You by Catherine Ryan Hyde, one of my favorite authors. A hunter finds a baby abandoned in the woods and left to die.  Their lives become connected over the next 40 years.  "By the author of Pay It Forward, this is a poignant tale of love, pain, and trusting people to stay by your side in a world where leaving is easy."

I'm now 100+ pages into Skeletons At The Feast by Chris Bohjalian. Set in 1945, in the waning months of WWII, it is the story of a small group of diverse people who are attempting to cross from Warsaw to the Rhine before the Russians invade, to reach the British and American lines... very good story so far but brutal in descriptions of the Holocaust.

[Eaglewoman]

Stayed up last night to read Night Between "The Oceans."Really like that one, some one here recommended it -thanks. Going to book club today "Dandelion Summer"

[Flowergram]

Has anyone here read Ian Rankin - a Scottish writer.  I just read his book The Falls and liked it so well that I picked up another one today called Watchman.  I am not reading them in order - the weather has been so terrible here that I cannot order any from the library - never know if I can get in town to pick them up.  I do plan to start them in order when spring arrives - I like his style.  Also picked up William Tappley's  Dark Tiger - also not reading him in order.  Love his books.  I also finished the Outliers - someone from here recommended it and I did like it - have to read a little and think about it but interesting.

[Carolyn Tewell]

FLOWER....what the Heck? Why don't I know this Author? I just jumped over to my Library website and ordered a couple of his books on Audio...

Almost done with All the Pretty Horses~Cormac McCarthy...figured it was a "guy" story but I really am enjoying it. This Author was recommended by a writer I like ... Think it may have been CJ BOX.

More later...finally out of the TAX VORTEX. <^..^>. Purrs

[Flowergram]

Well Carolyn I guess you cannot expect to know every author and I do hope you like him - as for me I am hooked.  Will look up the book you were reading also - love C.J. Box.  Glad you got your taxes done. Got ours in too.  Welcome relief when finished. For me and the govt.  LOL

[Mandy Muffin]

I couldn't seem to fall asleep last night --  I guess it was the stress of doing my annual income tax submission, a exercise that has been going on for 57 years, according to my estimates -- so I used the voice function on my Kindle and 90 pages later, I was in the arms of Morpheus.  When I woke this morning, I was curious about what I had done and found myself wrapped up in "The Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline.  I had run across the term in a novel I just finished, but it referred to NYC children being shipped to the mid-west in the post Civil War Era.  In this case, it is the Depression Era, where the same thing is happening, as children are being abandoned  due to poor economic condition.  In the first novel, they went to Illinois but in this case it was Minnesota.  Mostly they were Irish.  Great read, so far.  But I am actually reading the words right now. http://www.amazon.com/Orphan-Train-Christina-Baker-Kline-ebook/dp/B...