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#2119994 - 03/01/17 02:41 PM
Re: What are you reading (2017)
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The Shack, by Wm Paul Young. My mom just found it be so engaging; and my sister told my mom about it initially. Someone just recommended this to me, she said it's the best book she ever read. I just started 1Q84. I'm hoping I like it, it definitely gets mixed reviews. Finished this yesterday. While I won't say it's the "best" book I've ever read, I do highly recommend it. The ending felt a bit rushed, but overall it was well written and is a very good story. And those who know me might be surprised that I a) read this book and b) really liked this book. So, that says a lot about it. Now I'm reading The Handmaid's Tale.
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#2120001 - 03/01/17 03:00 PM
Re: What are you reading (2017)
Elwood P. Dowd
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Oh, I liked Handmaid's Tale.
I quit on 1Q84 for now. If I start dreading 'having' to read a book, that's not a good sign.
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#2120111 - 03/01/17 08:26 PM
Re: What are you reading (2017)
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#2120174 - 03/02/17 01:57 PM
Re: What are you reading (2017)
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Gunmetal Gray - Mark Greaney...
read Home by Harlan Coben yesterday...wow, Myron and Win are back
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#2120198 - 03/02/17 03:12 PM
Re: What are you reading (2017)
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"Belichick and Brady: Two Men, the Patriots, and How They Revolutionized Football" by Michael Holley. Fiction? History, son. Definitely history.
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#2120225 - 03/02/17 03:55 PM
Re: What are you reading (2017)
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Nathan's Run by JT Gilstrap (or most any book by him...)
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#2120250 - 03/02/17 04:44 PM
Re: What are you reading (2017)
Elwood P. Dowd
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Finished: Hillbilly Elegy - insightful Testimony - Robbie Robertson, full of rock-n-roll era tid-bits
Reading: The Lost City of the Monkey God, find it fascinating
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#2120273 - 03/02/17 05:46 PM
Re: What are you reading (2017)
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Happy ~ thanks for the mention of Harlan Coben. Haven't read him lately but will have to look for Home.
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#2120285 - 03/02/17 07:00 PM
Re: What are you reading (2017)
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I have read a lot of Harlan Coben books... good author
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#2120804 - 03/07/17 03:21 PM
Re: What are you reading (2017)
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The Wolves - Alex Berenson, a John Wells novel, good stuff
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#2120919 - 03/07/17 08:45 PM
Re: What are you reading (2017)
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Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle because you can't go wrong with classic mysteries.
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#2120922 - 03/07/17 08:52 PM
Re: What are you reading (2017)
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If you like Holmes you should try
The Secret Agent; by Joseph Conrad
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#2121033 - 03/08/17 03:44 PM
Re: What are you reading (2017)
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Thanks! I will write that down, lose it and ask you again later.
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#2121057 - 03/08/17 05:07 PM
Re: What are you reading (2017)
Elwood P. Dowd
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OK... admittedly, I picked up (in the airport) Rogue Lawyer by John Grisham. I knew it would be a quick read, which is perfect for vacation. However, I did not have as much read time as I had hoped.... so now that I'm back home and have had a jam-packed schedule, finishing the last 1/3rd has not happened. But, once I pick it up it will go fast.
Not his best book either... Very clunky... It's almost like he didn't have enough to write 1 novel, so he used the same character to write a few short stories... without a lot of depth.
Certainly not the worst book I've ever read though...
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#2121337 - 03/09/17 08:24 PM
Re: What are you reading (2017)
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Sanditon by Jane Austen (her unfinished last book)
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#2121834 - 03/14/17 12:40 PM
Re: What are you reading (2017)
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The Burning Room - Michael Connelly, Harry Bosch is back...
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#2123039 - 03/22/17 01:24 PM
Re: What are you reading (2017)
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Just finished The Drifter by Nick Petrie. Not bad but nothing too exciting. Starting Up Country by Nelson Demille, Read The Talbot Odyssey by Demille previously which was really good.
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#2123086 - 03/22/17 03:23 PM
Re: What are you reading (2017)
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The Lost City of the Monkey God - Douglas Preston
Someone else mentioned it above, wow, a great book about discovering a "lost" civilization. True story, and I'm struggling to put it down.
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#2123089 - 03/22/17 03:25 PM
Re: What are you reading (2017)
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Happy - my husband won't stop talking about that book.
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#2123817 - 03/27/17 06:39 PM
Re: What are you reading (2017)
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Just finished Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline. This was based on historical events that I was not aware of. Somehow the shipment of orphans across the country to be possibly become indentured servants was not covered in my high school history class.
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