Literature What are you currently reading?

[Chryssie]

Just finished an older Louise Penny book called "Kingdom of the Blind." I have read several of these Inspector Gamache books in no particular order. This one was published in 2018. It was a good murder mystery as they always are. I love the quirky characters in Three Pines!

 

[SuicideBlonde]

Count my Lies was pretty good, questioning the story till the end.

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This was supposed to be a late summer read, not a spooky season read. Every Time I go on vacation someone dies.

 

[Emma JC]

so far I have just read the Introduction and some of the first chapter of Star-Spangled Jesus and I have to admit I am not looking forward to the rest - it is about Christian Nationalism and the author didn't even realize she was one, for most of her life... so heart-breaking how "christianity" and Jesus have been hijacked...

Emma JC
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[Lou]

I made a big decision yesterday that I am never ordering another book from Amazon. I went to a local bookshop to meet a local author and get my books signed and I was talking to the man who worked in the shop beforehand. I am going to go and buy my books there or at another local shop that a woman in my book group told me about. Or buy from charity shops or pick my books up from libraries/free libraries.

yeah. good decision.
Libraries are my first choice.

 

[Chryssie]

I have discovered a new cozy mysteries writer, Vicki Delany, who is Canadian. She has 4 cozy mystery series! I picked up a new one called "Tea With Jam and Dread" which is the newest in the Tea by the Sea Mysteries. I enjoyed it and it was a quick read. The main characters are Lily, her grandmother Rose, and her friend Bernie. Rose is invited to the UK for the 100th birthday of Elizabeth a countess whom she worked for when she was young. Of course there is a lot of family drama and a murder. Fun read and I will look for more of this author's books.

 

[Emma JC]

I have discovered a new cozy mysteries writer, Vicki Delany, who is Canadian. She has 4 cozy mystery series! I picked up a new one called "Tea With Jam and Dread" which is the newest in the Tea by the Sea Mysteries. I enjoyed it and it was a quick read. The main characters are Lily, her grandmother Rose, and her friend Bernie. Rose is invited to the UK for the 100th birthday of Elizabeth a countess whom she worked for when she was young. Of course there is a lot of family drama and a murder. Fun read and I will look for more of this author's books.

cool - I have downloaded the first of the "tea" series - Tea 7 Treachery - she has a lot of books... thank you for the recommendation

Emma JC
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[Raven]

I loved The September House.

I just got that out of the library yesterday.

I reread the last couple of chapters for the book for my book group. I had completely forgotten the ending from when I read it last year!

 

[Tom L.]

I just got that out of the library yesterday.

I reread the last couple of chapters for the book for my book group. I had completely forgotten the ending from when I read it last year!

I think I've gotten into the habit of almost skimming books, rather than truly reading them. It's probably because I'm reading for the enjoyment, at least as far as fiction goes, and don't care that much about how much I remember. But when it's some nonfiction topic I'm trying to become more knowledgeable about, I read more carefully.

 

[Raven]

I think I've gotten into the habit of almost skimming books, rather than truly reading them. It's probably because I'm reading for the enjoyment, at least as far as fiction goes, and don't care that much about how much I remember. But when it's some nonfiction topic I'm trying to become more knowledgeable about, I read more carefully.

I know exactly what you mean.

 

[Lou]

I think I've gotten into the habit of almost skimming books,

I almost never do that.
However I have been reading a Romantasy series. And the sex stuff is explicit, gratuitous, and goes on forever. There is only a few per book so I found that when I reach one I can just skim it till it's over.

 

[Emma JC]

And the sex stuff is explicit, gratuitous, and goes on forever.

about the only "detail" that I read - I especially skip a lot of the historical details, absorbing just enough to have a surface knowledge, I like details of what the scenery and weather is like also... what they're wearing and what they're eating I also skip a lot

Emma JC
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[SuicideBlonde]

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Starting How to sell a haunted house, today.

 

[Chryssie]

Read another Nora Roberts called "Blue Smoke." It's an older book published in 2005. It was really good, sucked me in and I couldn't put it down. It's about a psycho arsonist out for revenge. Typical Roberts thriller with family drama, murder, and romance.

 

[Emma JC]

I finally received the final book in the Glass Library Series by CJ Archer "The Journal of a Thousand Years" - 1/4 way through.

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[Chryssie]

Today I read "Run Rose Run" by James Patterson and Dolly Parton. Yeah I was surprised at this collaboration! It was about a young country singer (of course it was) who is taken under the wing of a retired big star. She is running from her past that catches up to her. It was ok, a quick, easy read. These Patterson collaborations are fairly hit and miss. I like the books he wrote by himself better.

 

[Lou]

I finally received the final book in the Glass Library Series by CJ Archer "The Journal of a Thousand Years" - 1/4 way through.

Emma JC
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I love CJ Archer.
Romance, mystery, magic, history. what else could you want.
Have you read her other stuff. The Glass and Steele novels are really good too.

 

[Lou]

I just read all the Murderbot Diaries novels. Still need to read the short stories.
To celebrate I started watching the Apple TV show MurderBot.
Just 20 minute episodes.

I had a bad reaction to the Covid Vaccine so I ended up binge watching them today. Almost half way thru.
The adaption is very good. I hope they keep going.

 

[Chryssie]

I just read all the Murderbot Diaries novels. Still need to read the short stories.
To celebrate I started watching the Apple TV show MurderBot.
Just 20 minute episodes.

I had a bad reaction to the Covid Vaccine so I ended up binge watching them today. Almost half way thru.
The adaption is very good. I hope they keep going.

My brother recommended the Murderbot books to me some time ago but I haven't gotten around to reading them. Thanks for the reminder! Should I watch the TV show or read the books first?

 

[Raven]

I realised I had already read a library book I got out so I stopped reading that one. I am reading one by Holly Seddon. The Woman on the Bridge.

She was at a book talk in my local area the other weekend, but I was doing something or I probably would have gone to see her.

 

[Emma JC]

I love CJ Archer.
Romance, mystery, magic, history. what else could you want.
Have you read her other stuff. The Glass and Steele novels are really good too.

I am not sure as I have read many of hers over the the years - I think the Glass Library series follows the Glass & Steele. I may go back and read the Glass & Steele again now that I know some of the characters, wow, so many in the series.

Emma JC
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