SEPTEMBER READS

[rapa]

September days are here! What's on your plate?

I just finished BIG LITTLE LIES. Definitely chick lit! Am eagerly waiting for my reserve of Louise Penny's new book. Have any of you read it yet???

BTW, "RABBIT RABBIT RABBIT"

[Eaglewoman]

LAst night went to a wonderful and inspiring talk by author Vanessa Diffenbaugh (The Language Of Flowers) About a girl who aged out of the foster care program. The author also talked about her organization Camellia Network, that helps those kids. Very interesting. I would guess there was about 200 people there. They also gave us one of her books and we had the opportunity the have it signed by her.

[rapa]

Am I the last to know that Lee Child has a new Jack Reacher book out?????? The title is PERSONAL. BTW, where is Ray, our Lee Child guru? Am #60 on the reserve list. Started the new Louise Penny last night.

[Mandy Muffin]

It sounded like a military coup, but "Five Days in May" by Ninie Hammon is a real psychological thriller.  A young lady, age 31, is to executed by the state of Oklahoma in 5 days for the brutal murder of her baby sister.  A preacher is forced into covering the death counseling requirement by state law and agrees to see her every day until she is executed.  Secrets unravel and mystery surrounds the death.  A great read with rave reviews from Amazon at only $3.99.  http://www.amazon.com/Five-Days-May-Ninie-Hammon-ebook/dp/B00KWRPA2O

[Mandy Muffin]

I just was notified by Amazon that my E-book, "The Edge of Eternity" by Ken Follett is available for download.  I have followed the trilogy, as I am a great Follett fan, having read just about every one of his books over the years.  So I guess I'll settle down to this 1,000 plus page tome and find out how the world turns out.  http://www.amazon.com/Edge-Eternity-Three-Century-Trilogy/dp/052595...

[Mandy Muffin]

Update:  With characters in key positions inside the Kremlin and the White House, the Cuban Missile Crisis has just been averted.  Good stuff.  This is just one of the "edge of eternity" issues that is contained in this definitive work of Follett's career. 

[rapa]

Unfortunately I couldn't engage in Louise Penny's latest book, THE LONG WAY HOME. I did read the ending but found I didn't really care about the plot or what happened to the characters. I do care a lot about Louise Penny and hope that someday she writes her autobiography.

Am now half way through William Kent Krueger's WINDIGO ISLAND. This story grabbed me from the get go and I bet it would grab you, too!!!

[Glenda Scheideler]

I am glad I came back to the site - I am finding readers of a like mind!  Hooray!

[Slopok]

Finished, Gone But Not Forgotten, by Phillip Morgolin. A good  "whodunnit":Complex, utterly compelling, and brilliantly executed, GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN is a book that truly lives up to its extraordinary advance praise:  Once begun it simply cannot be put down. Amazon 4.5 stars..I gave it 4.

[Flowergram]

Have been busy and did not notice I was not getting e mails from here.  So back on line now.  I just finished Deviant- by Adrian McKinty - one of his Colorado books - YA and I did not know this when I started, had previously read In the Morning I'll be Gone - big difference.  Now I am curious about what his books will be like from Australia.  I just started Linwood Barclays - A Tap on the Window and am reading a seriew of 4 books by Terri Blackstock.  Both have begun as good books.  Also has anyone heard from Carolyn?  Miss her comments here.  You all have given me a big list here that I will have to read sometime in the future.  Thanks....

[Ioruach]

I have still been reading; perhaps not as frequently, what with all the other demands I have been encountering. But there is nothing better than a good book to soothe the troubled soul. So during the past month I have finished The Keeper by John Lescroart, Field of Prey by John Sandford and Trickster's Point by William Kent Krueger. I would say the best of the lot was Trickster's Point. I can't get enough of Krueger's Cork O'Connor stories. I just started Paw and Order, a Chet and Bernie mystery by Spencer Quinn.

[rapa]

Loruach, I'm almost finished Krueger's WINDIGO ISLAND. Excellent Cork O'Connor story. Even has a good dog eppy. Hope you're on the reserve list for this one. One of my college roommates and husband own a Great Lakes shipping line. Am learning things from this book about the Port of Duluth and shipping lines that I didn't know.

[Ioruach]

I have Windigo Island on hold at my library, but I am number 84 so don't expect a call very soon. Also, I noted your view of Louise Penny's latest. Interesting that I read a review of the book in the Minneapolis  paper that said much the same thing that you did. Oh well, I still have several of her older ones that I haven't yet read.