All Thing Books And Reading Thread 2019

[Rhall]

Picking up The Last Time I Lied from the library today. I should also be getting Margaret Atwood's The Testaments this week! She is coming to our little city on November 27th and I have tickets to see her with the book being included. Very excited for this!

 

[MissClouseau]

I have this weird thing, where I have to finish a book once I start it. So unless it's really, really bad, I'll drudge through.

I always did this too but decreased this year after I read a book review on Goodreads by an elderly lady that still makes me laugh to this date:

"Life is too short to read this."

 

[Mia6]

I always did this too but decreased this year after I read a book review on Goodreads by an elderly lady that still makes me laugh to this date:

"Life is too short to read this."

Ha!!!!!

 

[mani]

MOD NOTE: It was becoming a little confusing having the potential Book Club discussion within the thread, so if you're interested in being a part of it, this is where to go:
Book Club Anyone?

 

[Winchester]

I read all the Andy McDermott e-books (Eddie and Nina series) that our library had:

The Hunt for Atlantis #1
The Secret of Excalibur #3
The Sacred Vault #6
Return to Atlantis #8
The Valhalla Prophecy #11

I think there are 16 books total and I don't like reading books out of order, but those are all that's available from our library in e-book format. I may buy the collection from Thriftbooks, but haven't decided yet. They are pretty good.

I mentioned that I did buy Old Bones (Preston/Child), but I haven't read it yet. It's going to be the first book I read in the McShed.

 

[rubysmama]

I always did this too but decreased this year after I read a book review on Goodreads by an elderly lady that still makes me laugh to this date:

"Life is too short to read this."

 

[Lola3791]

I finished the first book in the Anne of Green Gables. I liked it a lot and can't wait the rest of the books.

 

[Lola3791]

I don't like reading books out of order.

I don't either. I won't start a series unless I have access to the rest of the books. When I was around 13 or 14 a family friend gave me the third book in a series. She told to read it and if I liked it she'd get me the other four books. I was a bit upset because I haven't read the first two. I read the Prologue and liked it and got the whole series. My assumptions about the characters in the Prologue where so off! And if I'd continued reading I wouldn't had a clue about what was going on.
Is anyone else like this or have a story related to it?

 

[Katie M]

I don't either. I won't start a series unless I have access to the rest of the books. When I was around 13 or 14 a family friend gave me the third book in a series. She told to read it and if I liked it she'd get me the other four books. I was a bit upset because I haven't read the first two. I read the Prologue and liked it and got the whole series. My assumptions about the characters in the Prologue where so off! And if I'd continued reading I wouldn't had a clue about what was going on.
Is anyone else like this or have a story related to it?

I was reading the Harry Potter books as they came out. I finished Goblet of Fire very quickly, and the wait was so long for the next one that I wound up losing interest

 

[DreamerRose]

@Tobermory . I have a couple of Baldacci books at home but find them a bit hard to get into. I like a book to grab me from the start or I lose interest. I'm sure I've missed out on quite a few really good books because I have given up on them. Anyone else the same?

Yes, I've given up on Baldacci and John Grisham, but for a completely different reason - their books are all too similar. I can guess the plot in the first few pages, and then the rest of it is just tedious.

I've just started Louise Penny's new book, A Better Man. My DIL said, "She's a Canadian?" Yes, she is. She been given the Order of Canada for her contributions to Canadian culture. I just love the little village she lives in - she writes about it. This book is dedicated to her golden retriever, who died while she was writing it.

 

[catspaw66]

I am currently reading, "Flight Girls"

Set just before Pearl Harbor and during WWII.

I like reading historical novels; especially about WWII.
Even though these books are fiction, her are a ton of facts, situations, I never heard of.

This one concerns a group of 4 female pilots where were subcontracted by the US Air Force to train new recruit pilots to fly planes, including all types of hairpin manuveurs.

It is set in Hawaii, begins just before WWII.

I never knew this existed. See, I learn history while enjoying my read.

I am about 1/3 of the way into the book. Pearl Harbor just happened. The devastation, fear, was described as eyewitness happenings.

The blurb, states the story goes on to describe, deal with the Woman; who, during the war, enlisted to ferry planes back and forth across the Atlantic and England, during WWII.

To me, it sounds so interesting.. based on facts, but in a novel style.. with some real people of the time.

Great! Pearl Harbor is a neat place for history buffs. The barracks that I lived in there has been there since before WWII. I was there in 1972.

 

[Mia6]

I'm still reading Book 2 of the DI Nathaniel Caslin of the Yorkshire Dark Mysteries series. on my tablet. I have Final Girls by Riley Sager but that is deck reading and and it's been too hot, and On the Beach but I may return it and read at a later time.

I also have The Arrangement by Barbara Harding and The Woods by Harlan Cobin. I've never read anything by him. Has anyone else?

 

[rubysmama]

I don't either. I won't start a series unless I have access to the rest of the books.

Me either. And since I borrow e-books from the library, I always check first to a) see if the book is part of a series, and then b) if my library has all of them in e-book format. Quite often, they don't.

I was reading the Harry Potter books as they came out. I finished Goblet of Fire very quickly, and the wait was so long for the next one that I wound up losing interest

I didn't start reading the Harry Potter books till near the end, so I only had to wait for The Deathly Hallows.

Same with the Diana Gabaldon books. So I was able to read the first 8 one after the other. But now I've been waiting like everyone else for the 9th book.

I've just started Louise Penny's new book, A Better Man. My DIL said, "She's a Canadian?" Yes, she is. She been given the Order of Canada for her contributions to Canadian culture. I just love the little village she lives in - she writes about it. This book is dedicated to her golden retriever, who died while she was writing it.

I'm Canadian, I've never read anything by her. I haven't even heard of her.

I also have The Arrangement by Barbara Harding and The Woods by Harlan Cobin. I've never read anything by him. Has anyone else?

Don't think I've read anything by either of them.

I'm STILL reading Beholden by Lesley Crewe, but almost done.

 

[Lola3791]

I was reading the Harry Potter books as they came out. I finished Goblet of Fire very quickly, and the wait was so long for the next one that I wound up losing interest

That's another thing I won't do. I won't read a series unless all the books in the published.

 

[verna davies]

The Book of the Month Club thread will hopefully compliment this current reading thread. Any and all are welcome to dip in and out. There are all sorts of genre of books read by members so we hope that anyone interested will find something to their taste.

 

[rubysmama]

We've chosen a book to read in October. It was published in 2005, so hopefully there won't be as much demand for it as newer releases for those of us who borrow books from the library.

You can check out the book we chose in the Book Of The Month Club thread.

Hope you will consider joining us for our October read.

 

[Mia6]

Read DI Nathaniel Caslin on my tablet last night. Since this is the second book of the series based in Yorkshire, I am becoming used to the words the author uses.
Some of the words are I guess Yorkshire slang. Oh my, the UK folks really love their bacon rolls with brown sauce!

What are the rest of you reading?

 

[verna davies]

Oh my, the UK folks really love their bacon rolls with brown sauce!

Oh yes we do. Yum.

I read Alex Lake After Anna, cant say I enjoyed it that much, very slow and plodding. Have started another by him/her called Killing Kate and its much better.

 

[Mia6]

I am enjoying DI Caslin.

I downloaded The Widow by Fiona Barton and have another one by her, The Suspect coming in hard copy.

The Widow (Kate Waters, #1) by Fiona Barton

 

[Winchester]

Well, crap. I went over to our library on Friday during lunch to see if they had the Andy McDermott books in the series I was reading in e-book format. They had none. Nothing. I was very disappointed.

So I got the new Issac Bell novel by Clive Cussler and three ".... in Death" novels by J.D. Robb (aka Nora Roberts). I'm not a big Nora Roberts fan by any stretch, but I do like her books as J.D. Robb. I'm going to look online and see the whole series, so I can try to read them from start to finish.

And I mentioned before that I'm a huge Clive Cussler fan. As soon as a new book comes out, I'm right on it.