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Whoopee Carolyn I want to read Girl on The Train from your description - I did not like Gone Girl but maybe the adult themes are more up my alley. LOL I am reading or trying to - Go Set a Watchman - life just has too many distractions that interrupt my reading. At my bedside I am reading Almost Dead - that's the way I get to sleep. Another Alaska author is Dana Stabenow - also mystery writer and you might like her - worth it for the descriptions of life there.
Baldacci is absolutely a must read in my book ... pun intended... lol
In the last week I have finished Any Other Name (Walt Longmire) by Craig Johnson. This is the series that the cable show Longmire is based on. I have always enjoyed the books, the TV series... not so much. Maybe because none of the characters looked as I had pictured them.
I went on to read Our Souls At Night by Kent Haruf. This is a short bitter-sweet romance of 2 people in their 70's who find each other near the twilight of their lives. 'Their brave adventures - their pleasures and their difficulties - are hugely involving and truly resonant, making Our Souls at Night the perfect final installment to this beloved writer's enduring contribution to American literature.'
I'm now half way through The Bone Orchard by Paul Doiron. This series features Mike Bowditch as a Maine game warden and the stories are compelling and well written. Recommended for fans of the Joe Pickett series by C. J. Box..
Ordering a Baldacci from the library is an automatic. "Memory Man" was my latest. He has great characters (I love the group from the Camel Club series.) and spins an intriguing tale.
Bonanza at the library today - new books by Lisa Fairstein and Sara Paretsky found on the shelf when I went into my local library to return books!
Library discourtesy?
I just picked up "A Man Called Ove" at my local library tonight. http://www.amazon.com/Man-Called-Ove-Novel/dp/1476738025 I had it on reserve for two months with only three people in front of me and it has taken this long. It seem there is just one copy for all six libraries in the system. I tracked the last take out on my library program that allows me follow the book and the person had it out for exactly the 21 days allowed. To my surprise, all kinds of bells and whistles went off when I tried to take out the book with the automated system. I was informed that I was only allowed to take the book out for one week, due to the fact that a local book club has put the book on it's reading list. I told the librarian the book had been out for 21 days prior to me. It seemed ridiculous that it would take that long to read a book of about 350 pages, at most. The librarian told me some people reserve a book for more than themselves and pass the book around to their friends, which takes the entire 3 week up. Is this fair? When I finish with a book that I borrowed from the library, I return it immediately, knowing others are waiting to read the book. I don't think it is fair for people to be running a small little sub-set of the library borrowing system to circumvent the need for their friends and neighbors to reserve books on their own.
Sometimes it is just too much of a good thing. Several of my "hold" books at the library came threw about the same time. Then I left on a trip, was gone for six days, returned and received a call that two more were now available. Since I couldn't renew a book someone else is waiting for, I had to return The Stranger by Harlan Coben without reading it. Bummer! But I quickly put it back on hold.
Now I'm reading Memory Man by David Baldacci and on the non-fiction side, Planck-Driven by Vision, Broken by War. It is the story of the great German physicist, Max Planck, whose life was virtually destroyed by the Nazi bureaucracy.
On the bright side, too many books are much better than not enough.
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