Can you let me know how "End of Watch" goes? I really enjoyed the first two books in the series, Mr. Mercedes and Finders Keepers, but this one looked a little to gruesome for me :glasses:

Will do, homoe! I suspect it's going to be pretty gruesome because the character is in his meanest state. And EEEEKKKKK!

"Come Visit Me Softly" poetry by Leah S Taylor. One amazing women I had the pleasure meeting. The photography is amazing and taken by Tiffany Couch.

The Whistler (J. Grisham, 2016).
 

I'm still reading Nora Ephron's anthology of works, but I came across an news release about John Grisham's latest book and read a few lines of the opening chapter. I think I will try to find a copy of it at the book store. Looks like a good read. :)

Katzchen is that book titled The Whistler?

Yes.

It's in the title of my post (The Whistler -- J. Grisham, 2016).

Damn, I'm just out of it today I guess...LOL

Just finished Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen and before that The Inheritance by Louisa May Alcott. I just started To Kill a Mockingbird.

CP
 

"My Name Is Asher Lev" by Chaim Potok

One of my favorite authors, and one of my
favorite novels. His "The Chosen" is
also great writing.

Greco

Homoe!

Just finished "End of Watch" and found it to be entertaining! If you liked the first two you will probably like this one. It's classic King, decent writing and gory as hell in some places while being wrapped in a nostalgic kind of fantasy.

I enjoyed it. It's a quick read (or listen in my case since I did the audiobook).

"Uniform Combined State Law Exam, Series 66, 9th Edition"... and I am sick to death of it! UGH

For fun, I just started "Fellside" by M. R. Carey. I loved "The Girl With All the Gifts" so much by the same author that I had to see what this one was about!

The Little Stranger ~ Sarah Waters

No book report just yet...

I finished "Fellside" several days ago and it was good. Entertaining if a little psychic-dramery.

Downloaded "City of Mirrors" by Justin Cronin. It's the final in his "Passage" series and a hefty 30 hours on audio. But I've got a road trip coming up and several days during Thanksgiving so I think I can get through it.

School is out in 3 weeks and I never want to read another Education Policy book as long as I live.

Just finished re-reading Needful Things, it is a favorite of mine for reasons unknown

Started reading Odd Thomas. I have seen the movie, but the book series is 7-8 books so I am excited

I found an interesting book to read, the other day, while wandering around the skilled nursing facility (pt/ot rehab).

Title : King Larry | The Life and Ruins Of A Billionaire Genius.
Author: James D. Scurlock.
Publisher: Scribner, 2012.


I've only read the introduction, a mere few pages, but the author gives meticulous attention to the man who gave birth to DHL, which was doing business long before FedEx (50 year head start) and how Larry Hillblom was not only a business genius but how his behavioral choices, hiding in plain sight, would be the long remembered undoing of his so called financial empire (and not his business acumen).

I haven't even finished with chapter one and already give it a huge props. Very good book. Very enlightening. Tragic story.

They left us everything : a memoir / Plum Johnson.
 

After almost twenty years of caring for elderly parents -- first for their senile father, and then for their cantankerous ninety-three-year old mother -- author Plum Johnson and her three younger brothers have finally fallen to their middle-aged knees with conflicted feelings of grief and relief.

Now they must empty and sell the beloved family home, twenty-three rooms bulging with history, antiques, and oxygen tanks. Plum thought: How tough will that be?

I know how to buy garbage bags. But the task turns out to be much harder and more rewarding than she ever imagined.

Items from childhood trigger difficult memories of her eccentric family growing up in the 1950s and '60s, but unearthing new facts about her parents helps her reconcile those relationships, with a more accepting perspective about who they were and what they valued.

They Left Us Everything is a funny, touching memoir about the importance of preserving family history to make sense of the past, and nurturing family bonds to safeguard the future.

ever hear of Christopher Barzak? Barzack? He writes these incredible horror novels that make my spine tingle as I read....his way with words breath life into every page and I often cant put his books down until completely read. One of them was recently made into a movie. I am reading one now about a young man who finds a long dead girl shape shifted into a red fox, while he is living in Japan against his will. Keeps me up at night for hours....

Two at a time
 

I'm reading bits and pieces of two books currently :reader:

Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain - an interesting read on neuropsychology by Daniel Siegel

Blind to Betrayal: Why We Fool Ourselves We Aren't being Fooled - about the reasons people tend to "bond" with those who are abusive to them by Jennifer Freyd (she's got a research lab at the University of Oregon)

I do sometimes read for purely pleasure though often read related to my work, which is the reason for my current choices. A move about 2 years ago has lead to the loss of a huge public library system resulting in less pleasure reading since I don't want to buy those books.

Trying to catch up on the past month's Sunday "NY Times" then...
Gayle Rubin's "Deviations".

'The Alchemist'- A fable about following your dream- by Paulo Coelho

Flour (by Joanne Chang)

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly

I'm enjoying it, and while I am looking forward to seeing the movie I think this will be another case where the book is much better than the movie.

(Paperback is being released Dec 6th)

Brother Odd, third in the series and loving it more than expected. Books make my soul happy :hamactor:

The Year of Voting Dangerously: by Maureen Dowd


I like her writing style especially her OP EDS in the NYT but this is the first book of her's I've read.

After hearing her on Seth Meyers the other night I think it's going to be something I'll enjoy!

Taproot Magazine
 

My close family & best friend gave me a current issue of Taproot magazine. The magazine is published in the state of Vermont, which features articles and stories about food, plant life, homesteading, art, and numerous other subjective and objective topics of interest. I am currently reading an article about a Pacific Northwest couple who homestead for a living, with interest for bee keeping and harvest of honey. Title of the article is: Sweet As Honey.

I highly recommend this magazine because the style of writing and subject interest is exceptionally outstanding, very enjoyable.

For more information, look up their website:
www.taprootmag.com

Or...

Write to:

Taproot
120 Graham Way - suite 200
Shelburne, Vermont. 05482-9906

I started reading All the light We Cannot See.

One of the tellers at my bank read it and loved it. I don't read enough fiction and it's always good to find something that keeps my interest.

So far so good. :)

I read that book, not long ago.
The story is well crafted . I don't know exactly how to describe it without spoiling it for you, but I really liked how various strands of the story were woven together. Metaphor, tons of metaphor. I kept the book too, rather than trade it in for another book. I hope you really enjoy the book --- All The Light We Cannot See.

I am reading Fern Michaels Sisterhood Series. I'm six books in and I'm enjoying them immensely. They are easy and fun reads.

The End Of America
 

Naomi Wolf. -This book takes a historical look at the rise of fascism, outlining the ten steps necessary for a state to take control of individual lives. This book also explains how this pattern was followed in Nazi Germany and Mussolini's Italy, as well as elsewhere, and compares it to the current state of affairs in American Political power since Sept. 11, 2001.

THE WHISTLER by John Grisham

I'm enjoying it:glasses:

Let's see, I just finished rereading The Notebook, and now I am once again rereading The Help.

Downloaded The Handmaiden's Tale by Margaret Atwood. Can't believe I have never read this.

God how I wish she's write another book~!

The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben

I just started reading Ayn Rand's, "The Fountainhead".

If the Buddha Dated by Charlotte Kasl has been a worn page-marked-up-dog-eared favorite for years. So, I recently picked up another by Charlotte Kasl, If the Buddha Got Stuck. I can already tell it will be another favorite.

Also picked up, "Dancing With Life: Buddhist Insights for Finding Meaning and Joy in the Face of Suffering" by Phillip Moffitt, but I haven't had much time to begin reading it yet. Soon, I hope. ☺