"Letters from a Stoic" Seneca

The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom

Hi Wrangler,

I read that book and really liked it. Are you liking it?

The Time Keeper? I enjoyed it. It was an easy read.

I am now starting The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by the same author.

I just spent the better part of my lunch break (a very short one) diving into part of "The Butler's Guide to Running the Home and Other Graces" by Stanley Ager

I have SO many more things I need to be reading lately like books around education management and classroom psychology but I needed a reprieve. This is a good one!

I'm all about Addiction Memoirs
 

Straight Pepper Diet: A Memoir
by Joseph W. Naus

What I find interesting about addiction memoirs is that men who are addicted (granted, I usually read female authors but the few male authors exhibited this), seem to carry megalomanic or narcissistic personalities (often coupled with horrible treatment of women or sexual addictions) whereas the women who struggle with addiction seem to internalize their issues and are more self-destructive rather than wreaking havoc on the lives of others. Both sexes are in pain, but how they convey or process/deal with that pain seems very different.

Mitch Alboms books are all easy reads .but I just enjoy them so much

Statistics notes, not what you would call "light" reading, it might be time for a break.

I agree. Every one I have read I have enjoyed.

I'm re-reading Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee! I really did not care for it the first time around :glasses:

reading
 

" The Body Remembers"
by Babette Rothschild

Excellent work by Ms. Rothchild

"Life is a Verb":rrose:

I'm having a *Postathon* tonight...

I read three books while on holiday in August -

The Mirror Thief by Martin Seay
It was good, but took some work to finish. It has multiple storylines and narrators intersecting over the space of a few centuries. Set in sixteenth century Venice, Italy, 1950s Venice Beach, CA and modern day at the Venetian in LV. The concept was interesting.

I also read Before the Fall by Noah Trawley - which was like watching a good HBO crime drama. Nicely tied up, intriguing, hyper-realistic mystery.

And then I finished off my week on Lake Huron with The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell, which I loved. It ticks a lot of boxes on my 'perfect book' list: epic scope and saga like scale, magical realism, twisty overlapping storylines, characters you can love (and hate,) and beautiful, clever prose that just makes you hope the story will somehow go on forever.

Last weekend I finished the book Mitchell published after The Bone Clocks, Slade House. The stories are connected and have a little character overlap but aren't part of a series. Slade House didn't entrance me like the Bone Clocks, but it was a good read.

Now I'm in a state of 'which book next' contemplation.

The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women's Quest for the American Presidency – February 29, 2016 - by Ellen Fitzpatrick

I just finished In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume and I am starting Summer Sisters by the same author.

Hi Wrang1er what do you think of Judy Blume's books?
I think I own all of hers and have enjoyed each one.

Currently I am in easy to read books but interesting enough that I recall it whenever I pick it up to continue.....Vampire Apocalypse Book 1 kindle edition

I remember reading her books when I was young and liking them. This is the first time I read any of her adult books. I didn't love it. It wasn't a book I couldn't put down. We'll see how this second one goes.

I enjoyed Summer Sisters very much. My mother handed it off to me long ago. I hadn't read Judy Blume in ages. It was lovely to read her grown up stuff

I just finished my first graphic novel! Death: The High Cost of Living (Neil Gaiman).
LOVED it and can't wait to get to the next one!

Just finished The Glorious Heresies, sexy, ballsy, dark and very Irish.

Lisa McInerney won the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction for this her debut novel.

This was a treat to read, powerful and honest.

Cricket, the movie opens this Friday! What I've read and seen so far the location has been changed from London to New York and you know, that doesn't sit well with me!

The good was great, lets hope they didn't muck up the movie to bad:seeingstars:

"Brain on fire: My month of madness" by Susannah Cahalan

I am reading this:

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after I read her earlier book:

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Both are excellent!

I'm finishing up Little Women. I read it when I was young and have enjoyed reading it again.

CANCER WARD
 

Alexander Solzhenitsyn-1968-Banned in Russia
This great Russian writer discovered the inspiration for this book while being treated in an obscure Russian hospital, after the fall of Stalin, by sub-human standards, compared with today, and his relationship with eight other patients.

I'm reading and browsing thru

The Art of Pie-by Kate McDermott

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it's very good, altho I don't agree with mixing dough with hands, but I can see why this would appealing to those intimidated by pie making

About to dive into a hot tub and more Death from Neil Gaiman.

I'm a total graphic novel convert. Dammit! :|

I just finished The Pursuit of Mary Bennett. A Pride and Prejudice Novel. By Pamela Mingle. I enjoyed it. I wonder what Jane Austen would think about it.

I just finished People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks. Was ok. I actually have Lab Girl. I might try that next. I also just finished prolly my tenth reading of Very Good, Jeeves. I read Wodehouse before bed.

I just finished listening to "Girl on the Train" during my trip. Pretty decent!

This week I read the following:

True Grit - Charles Portis
The Help - Kate Stockett
The Daring Ladies of Lowell - Kate Alcott
Seven Year Switch - Claire Cook

All of which I enjoyed. I started Lucky Billy a novel about Billy the Kid - John Vernon but returned it early.

The Odd Thomas Series by Dean Koontz. Again. lol

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I'm halfway through "The Last Girl" and hope to start on "LeatherFolk: Radical Sex, People, Politics, and Practice" before my Brother and I start a road trip on Friday where he demands we listen to the latest Stephen King novel, "End of Watch".