After reading several books suggested from The Great American Read, I had taken an hiatus from reading.

Which books... caused the hiatus?
 

Oh my, sorry to hear about the "hiatus". Which books, and why?

(Personally, I saw the entire series on TV... had recorded them, and now having seen them, I deleted the recordings. Actually, I was slightly disappointed by the choices btw. I think the reason I was disappointed was that most of the people who talked about their favourites seemed that the books they chose appealed to their own conditioning and solidified their own beliefs and vested interests (although I could be wrong), which I felt was a bummer.)

I never read the "winner"; only saw the movie with Gregory Peck... Feel free to send me a private message if you like.

If I learned anything from watching the series, was what Americans did read - which during my time as a retiree, I am taking advantage of by learning as much as possible about Americans {considering their political povs!}. I had been so busy the past 15-20 years prior to retirement that I had no time whatsoever to notice what was going on with my neighbour to the south. And now being retired, I have abundant leisure time to study why the Americans are the way they are.

I only read for fun now, or stuff on meditation.

Oh, it wasn't any particular book that caused the hiatus...LOL

I just finished reading Stephen King's new book Elevation


It was good, held my attention, and even better it has two lesbians as main characters..........:hangloose:

Mary just got her copy of Becoming by Michelle Obama...

hopefully she'll share.........:glasses:

She has and I'm enjoying it immensely........:glasses:

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I just read this. It was very good. I find the whole Manson Family fascinating (in a good and bad way) and this was insightful.

I'm Gonna Make You Love Me.....
 

By Tracey Richardson



Just started this Lesbian piece of fluff which contains A love of Motown Music plus a vintage convertible mustang, how bad can the story-line be!

Unfortunately pretty lame as it turns out!

Our used hardcovers are $2 each, now i feel bad lol

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I would love to read Chris Christie's book after seeing him today on Morning Joe, but I just can't stand the thought of giving that bastard one penny of my money!

hB
 

How about the library...free, and you can hand it back.

I caved and am SO disappointed in myself, as well as the book!

Magazines. Flipping through -
Feb Consumer Reports
Dec/Jan Mother Earth News
Feb/Mar GlutenFree and More

Books. Working on -
Slow a Modern Cookbook for a Party of One by Michelin Chef Anita Lo
Fire and Fury, Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff
In Praise of Difficult Women, Life Lessons from 29 Heroines Who Dared to Break the Rules, by Karen Karbo
Fed Up, Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward by Gemma Hartley

Later on today, I hope to be reading.........
 

Memoirs of a Literary Forger by Lee Israel

The movie Can You Ever Forgive Me was based loosely on this book..:glasses:

I loved this book! It's short, only just over 100 pages but it'll keep you in stitches and it contains some of the other letters she forged!

Here we are having a book trade around to be followed by discussion. We are tackling Different Loving, SM 101, Screw the Roses, Send Me the Thorns. Should be fun.

just finished The Woman in the Mirror by Cathryn Grant. She has a series of this character Alex....a serial killer. Easy read and while it lacks heavy suspense it is feminist to the core. I like that...I may read more of her work. Besides who can resist a feminist serial killer???