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Our next GROUP READS..
Next month, December, is our "vacation" month from Group Reads, but we do have some work to do. It's time to submit titles for our next round of Group Reads. The plan is this: Submit several titles that you would like us to read and discuss as a group. Be sure to include titles in different genres, ie Fiction, non-Fiction, Mystery, etc. Submit your titles here, in this thread, which I'm going to "stick". You may submit titles until December 1. At that time, I and my trusty assistant (husband) will number the titles and make some selections based on which number gets called.... sounds goofy but it seems to work well.
The plan is that we'll then have our Group Reads selected starting January through June. IF we have an unusually large number of titles selected, we might carry them through past June, we'll see.
So, search your brains, and throw out some titles you'd like to see as Group Reads. And have fun!
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DECEMBER SLUMP???????
Where is everyone??? What are you reading? I'm deep into a book that rraayy recommended, SWORN TO SILENCE by Linda Castillo. Good suspenseful read! If serial killers discombobulate you don't bother to read!
Alan Bennett's "Uncommon Reader"
My aunt loaned me her copy of this delightful little book. It's about the troubles that develop when the queen of England takes up reading. A great romp with one of the best endings I've seen in a long time. Anybody read it?
Rabbit Rabbit tomorrow...
The usual reminder to say rabbit, rabbit first thing, for good luck. :D Really, I wanted to remind everybody that tomorrow I'll be closing the thread with the suggestions for the next group reads and getting going on making the selections, so if you have any last minute titles, go for it now!
Smike Screen
Sandra Brown does a remarkable job of twisting and turning in this novel. I read it in under 2 days because I was glued to the story.
The Three Miss Margarets - Schaffer
I read this book this weekend. It was an easy read and went very fast. Takes place in the deep south. There is a mystery surrounding the death of someone who was deeply connected to this small southern town. I would say this is a "chic" book. Not a new book, but it was good. I would recommend for a short trip or a rainy afternoon.
The Hidden Man by David Ellis
From Publishers Weekly
"Starred Review. Edgar-winner Ellis (Line of Vision) is off to an exhilarating start with this first in a series set in an unnamed Midwestern city featuring grief-stricken attorney Jason Kolarich, who blames himself for his wife and child's death in a car accident. Jason is shaken out of his emotional coma when a stranger called Mr. Smith hires him to defend an old friend, Sammy Cutler. About 26 years earlier, Sammy's two-year-old sister was kidnapped from her bedroom during the night. Suspicion centered on Griffin Perlini, a convicted sex offender who lived a few blocks away, but police could never prove that he took the child. Now Sammy is accused of killing Griffin, who he believes murdered his sister. Mr. Smith demands Jason get an acquittal for Sammy, conveniently supplying witnesses and a scapegoat for the case. Ellis avoids clichés in a multilayered legal thriller that depends on precise character studies, an original plot and a surprising but logical twist at the end."
Very good start to a new series.
"Starred Review. Edgar-winner Ellis (Line of Vision) is off to an exhilarating start with this first in a series set in an unnamed Midwestern city featuring grief-stricken attorney Jason Kolarich, who blames himself for his wife and child's death in a car accident. Jason is shaken out of his emotional coma when a stranger called Mr. Smith hires him to defend an old friend, Sammy Cutler. About 26 years earlier, Sammy's two-year-old sister was kidnapped from her bedroom during the night. Suspicion centered on Griffin Perlini, a convicted sex offender who lived a few blocks away, but police could never prove that he took the child. Now Sammy is accused of killing Griffin, who he believes murdered his sister. Mr. Smith demands Jason get an acquittal for Sammy, conveniently supplying witnesses and a scapegoat for the case. Ellis avoids clichés in a multilayered legal thriller that depends on precise character studies, an original plot and a surprising but logical twist at the end."
Very good start to a new series.
Nelson DeMille
I read The Gate House and I didn't like it! Too many words! (Iknow..it is a book and has to have words,,but) He could have said it all in no more than two chapters! (Not 677 pages!)..I'm listening to The Charm School and I like it - it's action packed and good characters..I'm in S.C. and not driving much so I listen while I walk and that is a litte slower..I'll probably finish it on the plane going home! I'm also reading The China Study!...once you read that, you are off meat for good! So...beware!
Your Heart Belongs to Me...
I finished the book a few days ago, it's by Dean Koontz. As I said in another post, I thought it was really scary. But as the book continued, it got less scary and more, oh, shall I say perplexing? I know, I think, what the lesson to it was, don't want to say too much, so as not to spoil... but, I really think that the author was kind of off his rocker, LOL when he came up with the premise. Nothing I read led me to thinking that the author's thinking could hold water.... I kept going, "huh????" once I got past a certain point.... Anybody else read the book and care to comment?
