OCTOBER READS

[rapa]

"HELLO OCTOBER!"

Did you remember to RABBIT RABBIT RABBIT?

There are some good reads out there. Have you found any that really grab you? I'm still enthralled with Thomas Christopher Greene's riveting psychological novel THE HEADMASTER'S WIFE. Next up is Sandra Brown's MEAN STREAK.

Happy reading to all!

[Baia]

I read a lot of Carolyn Hart when she first started out and then I caught on to her method and I lost interest.  If you enjoy her work, that's all that counts.

[rapa]

Don't recall reading Carolyn Hart. Hope it works for MLO!!!!!!!

[Mandy Muffin]

I finally finished the new Ken Follett tome, "The Edge of Eternity," which finishes up his trilogy about everything that happened in the world from 1890 to about 1990.  After 1,000 plus pages, I wound my way through such events as the Cuban revolution, the Russian communist oppression, the British rock and roll invasion, the East Berlin wall, the Korean and Vietnam Wars, the struggle for black equality, the assassinations (Kennedys/King), and more sex, infidelity and drug induced bad behavior that a novel could ever hope to hold in a story line.  It is divided into ten parts and would probably make good BBC special.  But you need a score card to keep track to he multitude of characters that appear in the pages. 

Just began an interesting book on the death penalty and a lady that is about to get it in Pennsylvania:  "The Execution of Noa P. Singleton," by Elizabeth Silver.

[Baia]

I have been enjoying reading again lately.  Reality television is not for me and neither are sports, so that leaves a lot of quiet time to be filled with books.  I won't share specifically what I am reading now, but I will share an experience that I had many years ago when I decided to take the plunge into unknown literary waters by choosing books at random from the library shelf.  One year I went to the section for authors with last names beginning with "G".  I discovered Graham Greene, Elizabeth Goudge, Rumer and Jon Godden.  Another time I chose authors starting with "A".  I discovered Charles Abbey and the Monkeywrench Gang and other books about the year the north Atlantic whaling industry failed because the krill went somewhere else and life along the Erie Canal when it was a major transportation route.  I don't remember the names of the authors of those books of historical fiction, but I often remember little tidbits from what I learned from reading them.

I have a lot of books in my home library to be read or re-read and I often put books on hold that I read recommendations for, but recently I have been feeling a call to the fiction side of my public library branch to just put out my hand and take the first book I touch.  Or just take out the first book in the first shelf.

[Countryphyl]

Great idea. Once a year, my library has the brown paper week. Each book is wrapped in brown paper so you can't tell what it is. I think I will try closing my eyes and just taking the first book I touch. I think I will try the fiction first.

[Slopok]

Just finished, Five Days In May, by Ninie Hammon, recommended by  Mandy Muffin. A very good book, gonna give this one 5 stars. A mere $3.99 on Kindle:...         http://www.amazon.com/Five-Days-May-Ninie-Hammon-ebook/dp/B00KWRPA2...

I pick up some thoughts sometimes in reading that stay with me, such as, from a Dean Koontz book, that death is just a comma. This one had a thought provoking concept: The top button truth:"If you get the top button right, then all that follow will fall into place". A concept that could be applied through out life....The book was really a page turner near the end! 

[Carolyn Tewell]

BAIA...Thanks for the review of author Mary Hart. Was surprised to learn she had written over 40 books, yet never heard of her??? I did plug in the PLAYAWAY but had sound turned down so low and Doc was making so much noise with his drilling and excavating...could not follow the story-line. I'll give it another shot this week when I am able to take walks, fold clothes, empty litter boxes, ...like you, can't find much on TV...HOMELAND, CASTLE and some FOX news reporting.

I'll be around with other personal comments. Nitrous is making mind fuzzy...and this is different from normal?

[rapa]

Just had a shower of good reads arrive at library. Am glad they are checked out for three weeks! Now in my stack are: MEAN STREAK by Sandra Brown, STONE MATTRESS by Margaret Atwood, ENVIOUS MOON by Thomas Christopher Greene and PERSONAL by Lee Child. Nice variety! Will be burning the midnight oil for awhile. :)

Hubby has graduated to out patient therapies at our hospital. I'll be able to take a book to Fitness Center and work my machine while he's in therapy. Hallelujah!

Hope ya'll are enjoying this beautiful fall weather! MLO, are you finished with the torture chamber?

[Carolyn Tewell]

RAPA...yes, I am improving ...might even go into the Office.

WOW!!! You got a boatload of "good reads!" IMHO. Margaret Atwood. Sigh...tried to read her stuff - maybe now that I am older and wiser...can digest the content?

WARNING WARNING...ALERT ALERT...R RATED D THE Night Gardener" by George Pelecanos ...now, I picked this up in desperation on an old shelf of cast off Audio Books at the Library because I THOUGHT I had heard of the Author regarding TV and films. Ahh well, yeah, for sure. This book is warm/fuzzy with overtones of what Police are faced with. Lots of F-bombs, colorful expressions of body language (make the color blue) but a gripping story? Soon as I recover from this book, mix it in with some normal reading/listening then I will select another more recent book from Author.

Mandy...I can't wait to get Edge of Eternity! It will probably be 30 discs or more. Now, as I have said before with AudioBooks we can't easily look back chapters to remind us of characters. That is why some books are more challenging during a listen. But I managed thru his others ...just love the writing, the contexts, etc.

I order DEADLINES by John Sanford and PERFIDIA by James Ellroy. Can't remember ever reading a book by this Author...so no idea if I will like....moment

[Glenda Scheideler]

Just finished DEADLINES and I loved it.  I am a great John Sanford fan and the main character in this book   -- Virgil Flowers.  If you have not read him in the past, I will be interested to know how it comes across to you.  When you follow characters from book to book, they become like old friends and you want everyone to love them.

[Carolyn Tewell]

What was I saying? LOL. Pelecanos writer "THE WIRE" TV SHOW, among others...guess he and Laura Lippman did some work together for another series. I'm on the iPad so can't bring up and hold the WIKI info. My understanding is that The Night Gardner is not his usual style? He writes about Wash D C and the struggle of their lower class citizens along with Law Enforcement.

I'm not a fan of Crime shows like NCIS (tho I'm in minority) but this book may turn me into breaking away from standard mystery and more into procedural Police dramas. Once again this book has very "EARTHY" language.

[Mandy Muffin]

I have read some George Pelacanos in the past.  But his TV writing on "The Wire" was excellent.  Entertainment Weekly named "The Wire" the best TV series of all times.  My son calls it "power watching" as I am going through various TV series, using my Amazon Fire TV.  I finished "The Wire" a few weeks ago and it is by far the roughest and most honest account of crime in a major city in America, namely, Baltimore.  They expose the raw truth behind the ghetto drug trade, gang warfare, the dock unions and corruption, the corrupt politicians, the skin  trade, police brutality, prison brutality, bad schools, misdeeds by the press, and host of other illegal activity  as the underbelly of the city is laid bare.  They used a real convicted black female killer to play the female assassin who was killing dozens of people on contract.  You can't get more real than that.