[QUOTE=PurerSands;1017460]Today I bought three books. Little Gone Girl by Alexander Burt (also known as Mia is Missing)

The Girl with A Clock for A Heart by Peter Swanson

AND

Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone.

I'm ashamed to say I never read the HP series. Fantasy is not a genre I part take in much. But I do remember seeing maybe 2 of the movies years ago and enjoying them. For some reason for the passed week I've had a niggling feeling to read them... Or at least give them a shot.

So I may start with Harry, and move on to my usual genre of Thriller...

Don't judge me.... :D[

Haveing read all the HP books, I have to say I loved them.
For one you really do get more involved, and it goes into greater detail.
I hope you like them as much as I did.

Judy
 

Ok, at last I have finally finished this book, and yes I know it took me some time.
So .... Judy, what can I tell you about his book.
After getting past the introduction, which gives you some background on how the research for the book started.
I was hooked.
Judy is a dog that received the highest bravery award that can be given for any animal.
She was a POW in the japanese war camps.
The book takes you from her mischievous pup days, right through all her trials in the camps with her fellow prisoners.
Please read this book, you won't regret it.

Revenge
 

Laura Blumenfeld-2002- Superb book! Gutsy Journalist Blumenfeld, searches for her father's arab shooter in Jerusalem and Iran seeking revenge.

Just finished Big Stone Gap! Liked it well enough but judging by the movie previews, I think it may be one of the few movies I like better than the book!

A book about Lenny "The Gov'nor McLean.....
 

Mark Cavendish
 

Just about to read his biography.
For those who have never heard of him, he's a british cycling champion.

BlackList
 

Author Sara Paretsky-2003 I love private detective V.I. Warshawski! Just finished her "Total Recall". A must read for fans. I once met Sara at a Chicago bookstore called Women and Children First, and CIJS she rocks!

I'm not reading anything exciting at the moment, because like Stephanie, I only have time to read schoolish stuff...

Of course, I must always snatch few moments for a small BFP distraction.

There are so many more, but here are just a few of the books I recommend at the moment:



[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Lies-My-Teacher-Told-Everything/dp/0743296281/?ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_y"]Lies My Teacher Told Me[/ame]

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Souls-Black-Dover-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486280411/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1446347197&sr=1-1&keywords=the+souls+of+black+folk"]The Souls of Black Folk[/ame]


[ame="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1577316290/?ref=cm_sw_r_pi_dp_YG0tvb1P0J58T"]The Emotional Lives of Animals[/ame]

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Profundis-Oscar-Wilde-ebook/dp/B00RWJPS8Q/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1446346169&sr=1-4&keywords=de+profundis"]De Profundis[/ame]

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00589AYWW/?ref=cm_sw_r_pi_dp_6Zz.ub1WVGJBD"]The March of Folly[/ame]

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BBXJH68/?ref=cm_sw_r_pi_dp_vmvhvb1EREY5Y"]Uncertainty[/ame]

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0306809982/?ref=cm_sw_r_pi_dp_jnNfwb0GXD43J"]Empty Without You[/ame]

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindness/dp/1595586431/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1446347318&sr=1-1&keywords=the+new+colorblind+racism"]The New Jim Crow[/ame]

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Gift-Creativity-Artist-Modern-World-ebook/dp/B002GKGB00/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1446347086&sr=1-1&keywords=the+gift"]The Gift[/ame]


I recommend them all! There's also 'The Painted Bird'...'The Master and Margarita' (love pretty much all Russian Classics)...'Perfume' (It's a murder mystery! There was a movie awhile ago). I could spend a long time on this. I'm still a dedicated Ann Rice fan/vampire nerd, though I can't get into the latest generation. They're too hip. They just don't work for me.

Just finished Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

About to finish Wheelmen by Alberti and O'Connell - about doping in cycling, esp Lance Armstrong

Borrowed a copy of On Photography by Susan Sontag.

I'm finally engaged...in a wonderful book. Its been a while since I found one I could sink my brain into...

I'm reading Thomas Jefferson: The art of power by Jon Meacham

Its a very interesting book about an amazing man. I even read the prologue...which I never do...

I finished The Tenth Insight by James Redfield and moved on to Birth of a Killer by Darren Shan

Churchill- Roy Jenkins

I'm reading the Walking Dead Compendium Volume 1.

And yes, I'm a fan of the TV show, though late to the table. I know there are some major plot differences between the TV show and the comic book, and that reading the comic book will not solve the Big Cliffhanger of the current season, but I'm invested enough in the characters now to care about them in the comic form.

Only 2 more compendiums to go!

I'm going to be on a 4 day holiday, over the weekend, and although I'm keeping my plans open, I'm going to read novels by Chaim Potok. I will probably save my very favorite book of all his books for the last, which is titled The Chosen.

The first time I read The Chosen, I was a sophomore in high school. The story of David and his struggle with his father, life at school and at home and conflicts within his family, has stayed with me since long ago.

Here's an excerpt from the very first page:

"When a trout rising to a fly gets hooked on a line and finds himself unable to swim about freely, he begins with a fight which results in struggles and splashes and sometimes an escape. Often, of course, the situation is too tough for him.

In the same way the human being struggles with his environment and with the hooks that catch him. Sometimes he masters his difficulties; sometimes they are too much for him. His struggles are all that the world sees and it naturally misunderstands them.

It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one..." (Karl A.Menninger).

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Goatsong by Tom Holt

Phenomenal.
 

The lioness in winter : writing an old woman's life / Ann Burack-Weiss.
 

"Ann Burack-Weiss, a gerontologist with more than forty years of experience, analyzes and engages with the writings of a dozen well-known authors for insights into old age. Featured are Maya Angelou, Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, Joan Didion, M.F.K Fisher, Doris Grumbach, Carolyn Heilburn, Doris Lessing, Florida Scott-Maxwell, May Sarton, Anne Roiphe, and Alexis Kate Shulman, among others, all of whom wrote about essential issues in old age including physical changes and disability, living alone, reflecting on and revaluing the past, generativity, public life, and the changing roles of family and friends. Burack-Weiss frames the reading of these texts in relevant theory and research including an introduction that discusses narrative theory and developmental, gerontological, and feminist perspectives on the older woman" -- Provided by publisher.

just found this:

https://www.literotica.com/s/chance-encounter-22