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Just finished Mud Bound by Hillary Jordan. A very good read. If you liked The Help you will like this.
Finished all three of the Steig Larssen books. I did like them. Don't feel a need to see the movies.

So, I can't go to book club next week, and I am not finishing The Black Dahlia. The book seems even worse than the movie. I hope the book club gets off the crime novel kick soon. I can't remember what's next, but I know Into the Wild is coming up, so I think I'll read it next. I have been meaning to read that for years.

I have the second Stieg Larson book. I could read that. I also have only read about four chapters of Shutter Island.

I want to read Eat, Pray, Love. People are still raving about it. Tried to get the book club to read it, but instead I am trudging through The Black Dahlia.

Lulu76 wrote:I also have only read about four chapters of Shutter Island.

His weakest effort to date - disjointed, rambling.

Lulu76 wrote:So, I can't go to book club next week, and I am not finishing The Black Dahlia. The book seems even worse than the movie. I hope the book club gets off the crime novel kick soon. I can't remember what's next, but I know Into the Wild is coming up, so I think I'll read it next. I have been meaning to read that for years.

I have the second Stieg Larson book. I could read that. I also have only read about four chapters of Shutter Island.

I want to read Eat, Pray, Love. People are still raving about it. Tried to get the book club to read it, but instead I am trudging through The Black Dahlia.

I liked Into the Wild as well as all of Krakauer's books.

I also want to read Eat Pray Love but I fear I will have another Art of Racing in the Rain experience - not "getting" the hype.

Chet wrote:

Lulu76 wrote:I also have only read about four chapters of Shutter Island.

His weakest effort to date - disjointed, rambling.

I loved the movie. I just wasn't really sure what went down. So I thought the book would help. But it's way more disjointed and rambling than even the film was.

Our next book club book is "The Thirteenth Tale." Has anyone read it? I am kind of over mysteries, which is what Amazon says it is.

I am looking forward to Into the Wild. I loved the book and have had many discussions about it.

I tried to read "Eat, Pray, Love," but couldn't get through it.

"Hold Tight" by Harlan Coben. It is a real page turner. Read it last night until I couldn't keep my eyes open and then finished it this morning.
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Thanks Minde!

I just bought The Hunger Games and Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins. Not sure if those have been mentioned here but they have gotten great reviews.

Also World War Z: An oral history of the zombie war, by Max Brooks. I have heard really good things about this one. I will check back once I am finished and let you all know.

Eat, pray, love drove me NUTS. i just could NOT read it--I know folks really rave about this book, but she just drove me crazy....I just didn't get it.

I gave up on all those crappy, half-read books and started to read "Big Russ and Me" by Tim Russert. I have been meaning to read it for years but hadn't gotten around to it, and I found it at McKay's for 75 cents.

Excellent book. He was an amazing journalist. But we all knew that, didn't we?

loria wrote:Eat, pray, love drove me NUTS. i just could NOT read it--I know folks really rave about this book, but she just drove me crazy....I just didn't get it.

Me EITHER! I tried, but decided reading was supposed to be enjoyable, and this was just the opposite of enjoyable....
It was like eating liver....blech....

I recently read:

Mennonite in a Little Black Dress - it was amusing, definately a girly book. The author's Mennonite family is nothing like the very conservative Mennonite families I know so the book sort of surprised me.

No One Would Listen A True Financial Thriller - written by a guy who for 8 years kept reporting Bernie Madoff to the SEC and tried to get the WSJ and other financial news outlets to investigate him. Interesting and rather frightening.

The Pages Between A Holocaust Legacy of Two Families One Home I heard the author on This American Life and the book sounded interesting. The short version is her Jewish grandfather promised the family home to a Polish family in exchange for hiding his daughter during WWII. The grandfather dies (years after landing in America) without complete the legal transaction. The author tries to right this "wrong" and the book is about her quest after she moves to Poland.

I just found out yesterday that Ann Vanderhoof has a second book! I loved, LOVED An Embarrassment of Mangoes, so when I saw her newest book on the shelf, I snapped it up. It has recipes too! It is called "The Spice Necklace: My Adventures in Caribbean Cooking, Eating, and Island Life." It's about their second Caribbean voyage on their boat Receta, and all the yummy food they find and cook. Here is a link to it on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Spice-Necklace-Ad ... 928&sr=1-1

Reporting back on what I read on St. John recently, well, I read the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy. I found the first one really dry and hard to get into. In fact, one day John and I were on floaties in the pool reading, and I actually drifted off from boredom and ended up dropping the book in the pool! John accused me of doing it on purpose. I persevered and finished all three books, but it definitely was not a favorite.

I also read Outlander. It was a little too romance novel-esque for my taste. I'm not planning on continuing with the rest of the series.

liamsaunt wrote:I just found out yesterday that Ann Vanderhoof has a second book! I loved, LOVED An Embarrassment of Mangoes, so when I saw her newest book on the shelf, I snapped it up. It has recipes too! It is called "The Spice Necklace: My Adventures in Caribbean Cooking, Eating, and Island Life." It's about their second Caribbean voyage on their boat Receta, and all the yummy food they find and cook. Here is a link to it on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Spice-Necklace-Ad ... 928&sr=1-1

Thank you, thank you! I have Amazon open in another window right now to order. I loved the first book too.

Just finished Dragon Tattoo. Good, not great, eyes did glaze over a few times, dont get the excessive hype.

Onto another Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child. This series is an very entertaining read, maybe more so for men. He is an ex-mil strong silent type who manages to get into these tight spots that involve righting wrongs, beating up bad guys and foiling their organized plots, and sometimes even winding up with the girl before drifting out of town.
Good, mindless, well written entertainment. Do not understand why this is not an action movie franchise in the mold of the Borne films.