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Finished "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro.

AH

You're welcome! His newest, "Caught" debuted on the NYT bestsellers list at #1.

I read The Help while I was in St Thomas last week and I LOVED IT...couldn't put it down. I was sucked in from the first few pages until the end.

Highly Reccomended!

This is a book anout the realities, issues, relationships between blacks and whites in 1960's Mississippi. It is revealing, painful, touching, and hopeful...wow it really moved me and held me tight until I was done.

This is a subject I find so very interesting because segregation and prejudice was so common in my parent's generation but not all all common or accepted in mine....sometimes I wonder how can we change that much...how could we have been that far off that recently...how did things get that way...


Great read!

just finished harlen coben's "hold tight" (yes another harlen coben). it was good. sometimes i flip ahead, i just can't help it. but his books keep me reading the page i'm on and i never want to flip ahead.

also finished the new joe hill "horns". now i LOVED his last one "heart shaped box" but "horns" did NOT do it for me. i was looking for creepy this was not. it was very religious and philosophical and i was not mentally prepared for that at all. maybe i'll revisit it another time but i read it just to get through with it, ya know.

I just finished The Big Short by Michael Lewis. I really like him as an author and as a finance/economics person, the subject interested me.

Another recent read was Cooking Dirty by Jason Sheenan. (Might have the last name wrong) It reminded me in a way of Kitchen Confidential but more real. Having worked in bars and restaurants through college, I could really relate to Cooking Dirty. Very funny.

Read "Half Broke Horses" (after being on a waiting list at the library since January!) Also read "Joy School" by Elizabeth Berg. Elizabeth Berg is my go-to author when I want something that makes me smile.
AH

Okay, headed for a family reunion on my husbands side to Marquette, MI. Need a good book referral to read while getting out of family discussions and sitting on the deck overlooking Lake Superior. Any suggestions would be welcomed. Something relaxing.

Anita Shreve is very relaxing to me. Her writing is very ephemeral and feminine.

I just finished Chris Bohjalian's "Secrets of Eden", which I loved almost as much as "The Double Bind"

LysaC wrote:Anita Shreve is very relaxing to me. Her writing is very ephemeral and feminine.

I agree! I love everything by Anita Shreve.

AH

I just flew through another book by Elizabeth Berg, "True to Form". If you were a female growing up in the 50's or 60's I think you could so relate to the feelings and thoughts expressed by Berg as an adolescent in this book and in "Joy School". I read these books when they first came out and now I am reading them again.
AH

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Having just finished The Big Short, I am reading another Michael Lewis book, The Blind Side. I am about 1/3 into it. I haven't seen the movie yet. The book is breaking my heart, I hope there is a happy ending.

I just finished Game Change. It was ok. I am not hyper-into politics but I did find the descriptions of how champaigns work interesting.

How was "The Big Short" - I am a big fan of his writing, starting back with Liar's Poker. I want to read The Big Short this summer - and 13 Bankers.