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For the mystery lovers:? I've started a book,? Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (such an uplifting title!).? It won the Nobel in Literature and so far, I'm loving it.? Set in Poland and written by .?
I'm enjoying the different locale, the different season (winter) and fresh characters who are so eccentric and interesting.? An excellent escape. Finished Mexican Gothic.? Was so disappointed.? It came out of the gate with a bang, like a DuMaurier thriller and devolved into a not so great knock off of a Stephen King horror fantasy.? I just couldn't suspend my disbelief long enough to make it work for me. Mary. |
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I just heard the review for Mexican Gothic on Fresh Air and decided I didn't want to read it. I'm reading Ruth Reichl's memoirs (started with her NYT restaurant critic one but now am in her Gourmet one). Very well written and keeps me interested. I've had trouble focusing on books because I'm rather busy right now. I tried Unfollow and a few others that I would ordinarily have enjoyed but couldn't focus on them. On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 10:29 AM mary_007usa via <sewgood5=[email protected]> wrote: For the mystery lovers:? I've started a book,? Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (such an uplifting title!).? It won the Nobel in Literature and so far, I'm loving it.? Set in Poland and written by .? --
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Thanks for the recommendation.? I am in the middle of reading Things in Jars, by Jess Kidd, which I learned about when Anmiryam read it.? A little offbeat, and a good story, well written.? (I also enjoyed Kidd's first book, Himself).? Another recent read, but much longer, was The Overstory, by Richard Powers.? There were a few times when the story made me walk away for a few days, but I was always compelled to come back. Patricia in Austin, still staying home
On Friday, July 17, 2020, 9:29:59 AM CDT, mary_007usa via groups.io <sewgood5@...> wrote:
For the mystery lovers:? I've started a book,? Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (such an uplifting title!).? It won the Nobel in Literature and so far, I'm loving it.? Set in Poland and written by .? I'm enjoying the different locale, the different season (winter) and fresh characters who are so eccentric and interesting.? An excellent escape. Finished Mexican Gothic.? Was so disappointed.? It came out of the gate with a bang, like a DuMaurier thriller and devolved into a not so great knock off of a Stephen King horror fantasy.? I just couldn't suspend my disbelief long enough to make it work for me. Mary. |
开云体育I’m working my way through The Magician trilogy by Lev Grossman. The basis for the series on SyFy that we thoroughly enjoyed. Another case of “the books are better “ than the show. I borrowed the first one via e-loan and the second and third hard copy.Grown up Harry Potter? Ann McManus in PA ?Sent from my iPhone On Jul 17, 2020, at 10:29 AM, mary_007usa via groups.io <sewgood5@...> wrote:
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I liked Drive Your Plow very much!? I just finished Attica Locke's latest - Heaven, My Home, set in east Texas.? I've enjoyed her writing, and a glimpse into a different world - it's her 3rd or 4th.?? I've just started the Stranger Diaries (Elly Griffiths) and it seems promising. I liked the IQ series by Joe Ide (mystery, set in LA).? Mick Herron's series starting with Slow Horses is great fun, if you like spy/mystery/British. Diane, happy the library is lending again!
On Friday, July 17, 2020, 7:30:00 AM PDT, mary_007usa via groups.io <sewgood5@...> wrote:
For the mystery lovers:? I've started a book,? Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (such an uplifting title!).? It won the Nobel in Literature and so far, I'm loving it.? Set in Poland and written by .? I'm enjoying the different locale, the different season (winter) and fresh characters who are so eccentric and interesting.? An excellent escape. Finished Mexican Gothic.? Was so disappointed.? It came out of the gate with a bang, like a DuMaurier thriller and devolved into a not so great knock off of a Stephen King horror fantasy.? I just couldn't suspend my disbelief long enough to make it work for me. Mary. |
开云体育I read The Overstory and recommended it to Mark. Yes, long. Yes, intense. Loved it, though. It was a Now Read This monthly selection. ? Ann in PA ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Texknitter via groups.io
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2020 10:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [yarnmongers] Monger Books ? Thanks for the recommendation.? I am in the middle of reading Things in Jars, by Jess Kidd, which I learned about when Anmiryam read it.? A little offbeat, and a good story, well written.? (I also enjoyed Kidd's first book, Himself).? Another recent read, but much longer, was The Overstory, by Richard Powers.? There were a few times when the story made me walk away for a few days, but I was always compelled to come back. ? Patricia in Austin, still staying home ? On Friday, July 17, 2020, 9:29:59 AM CDT, mary_007usa via groups.io <sewgood5@...> wrote: ? ? For the mystery lovers:? I've started a book,? Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (such an uplifting title!).? It won the Nobel in Literature and so far, I'm loving it.? Set in Poland and written by .? |
开云体育I’m in two book clubs -one read The Overstory last year and the other is reading it this year. Highly recommend ?I stayed up until 1:30 finishing Mary Trump’s book but it doesn’t qualify as literature. It was worth 3 hours or my time.? And I just read the Nickel Boys, another fast - but devastating- book. It won a second Pulitzer for the Colson Whitehead. I preferred his earlier book Underground Railroad.? Amy On Jul 17, 2020, at 9:01 AM, Ann McManus <mcmanusab@...> wrote:
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开云体育I will second Mick Herron, and Joe Ide. I enjoyed The Stranger Diaries too. Just read the first in a new cozy translated from the Polish, Mrs. Mohr Goes Missing which is set in Cracow in 1893. The “detective” is a social climbing bored housewife and it was both smart, funny and very well plotted. Looking forward to the next in that series.?Other standouts now that I’ve got my reading mojo back are Olive Kitteridge (which I’d been meaning to read for years and years), The Haunting of Hill House (again, I’d missed it and while I can’t say I enjoyed it, I thought it brilliant). Other
really good literary fiction I’ve read includes: The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason, Actress by Anne Enright and Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier (don’t read unless you can cope with a young woman making very bad choices).
Sci-Fi and Fantasy I’ve enjoyed: Catfishing on the Catnet by Naomi Kritzer (a really fun YA near future thriller starring a real fabulous AI), and the first novel about my beloved Murderbot, Network Effect by Martha Wells. For a fun listen, I thought The Jane Austen Society was totally diverting, though totally predictable.
Patricia, so glad you’re enjoying Things in Jars, I think I will read anything Jess Kidd writes. I find some writers find voices and styles I just love (Kate Atkinson is the first on that list for me, even when the books aren’t great, I love the
process of reading them). Couldn’t stand The Overstory. The stuff about trees was great, but I felt the characters were flat and the whole thing went on too long. Just started Maggie O’Farrell’s new book that comes out next week, Hamnet which is historical fiction about the death of Shakespeare’s son. Really great evocative writing that makes you feel like you are in late Tudor England. It’s already getting
stellar reviews.?
Off to read some more while the puppy sleeps,
Anmiryam
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Me too, really like Drive Your Plow - such a different voice. I'm trying to consciously expand reading horizons outside our borders. Also adored The Overstory.? That said, besides working through my antiracist reading library, I'm in a Plains/pioneers "flight" (liking the idea of book flights - reading a group of books that share a common thread). Just finished Wallace Stegner's The Big Rock Candy Mountain, moving on to its sequel. Then on to O Pioneers, The Stone Angel, Giants in the Earth, and Growth of the Soil. Ambitious, I know. Loving having more reading time than pre-pandemic. --Therese Thérèse Shere Freelance indexing & digital information design On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 9:00 AM Diane via <tdpigg=[email protected]> wrote:
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