What are you reading?

[homoe]

Kobi, thanks for your post! I just finished Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign: by Jonathan Allen, Amie Parnes, but I think the one you posted about will be much better.

[Kätzchen]

Originally Posted by Kätzchen

I just finally finished reading Walter Cronkite's memoir, the other day. It's probably not most people's first choice in reading materials, but it brought back sweet memories of my mom's father, whom I had a very enjoyable relationship. He was the only grandfather I knew and I was his little princess. So I loved reading the Cronkite book.

I began to read the book by John Grisham (A Painted House), last night. When I first chose this book to read, I just chose it because of other books authored by Grisham (The Pelican Brief, and others), but I am glad I chose this book to read.

A Painted House is a story told from the narrator's point of view: Luke Chandler, who is seven years old. It's a story about the life of his family, growing up as a kid of cotton picking share cropper's who live in Arkansas, caught up in the world of back breaking poverty. This story, although it's a fictional account (novel) turns out to closely parallel the lives of my grandparent's growing up years. My grandmother's parents were cotton picking share cropper's in the south...my grandmother was eldest of thirteen children, whom all grew old enough to help pick cotton on their parent's share cropping tenancy. I see my grandparents lives through the narrator's point of view. I'm only on page 52, but I'm loving this story. <3

I set this book aside to voraciously read the book Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty, which I think was outstanding! The HBO series is based on Moriarty's book, but the book is a much satisfying and gratifying read (In my opinion).

I plan to finish reading Grisham's book by the weekend.

Then break into the other book I've set aside Undue Influence, by Anita Brookner. The Brookner book is not an easy read, I think, but who knows? The book has mixed reviews....people either love it or hate it.

Kobi, your book sounds interesting! I like reading books that present difficult to hear points of political views. I'll check it out before too long. Thanks for your post, Kobi.

[Kobi]

At the height of the Red Scare, Angela Calomiris was a paid FBI informant inside the American Communist Party. As a Greenwich Village photographer, Calomiris spied on the New York Photo League, pioneers in documentary photography. While local Party officials may have had their sus-picions about her sexuality, her apparent dedication to the cause won them over.

When Calomiris testified for the prosecution at the 1949 Smith Act trial of the Party's National Board, her identity as an informant (but not as a lesbian) was revealed. Her testimony sent eleven party leaders to prison and decimated the ranks of the Communist Party in the US.

Undercover Girl is both a new chapter in Cold War history and an intimate look at the relationship between the FBI and one of its paid inform-ants. Ambitious and sometimes ruthless, Calomiris defied convention in her quest for celebrity.

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I have lived on Cape Cod for over 40 years. It is not unusual to run into, do business with, have breakfast with people of celebrity without having a clue as to who they are.

Angela Calomiris is one of those people.

If you are of my era and ever spent time in Ptown, you probably met this woman too. Angela was the owner of Angels Landing bed and breakfast on Commercial St.

[knight]

The Girl Who Wrote in Silk---Kelli Estes

A simple reading about the lives of two women 130 years apart that are connected with a secret. A light presentation of the horrific historical time of the late 1800's when the Chinese population were pushed out of the Northern West Coast of the US and Canada. The story mostly takes place in the Seattle area and Orcas Island.

[homoe]

Originally Posted by knight

The Girl Who Wrote in Silk---Kelli Estes

A simple reading about the lives of two women 130 years apart that are connected with a secret. A light presentation of the horrific historical time of the late 1800's when the Chinese population were pushed out of the Northern West Coast of the US and Canada. The story mostly takes place in the Seattle area and Orcas Island.

Hey Knight, thanks for posting this! I've ordered it from Thrift Books and I'm going to be reading it next whenever it arrives by mail

[Kätzchen]

Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy).

[knight]

One of my favourite books of all times that I read again and again.

Originally Posted by Kätzchen

Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy).

[BullDog]

OMG this is my favorite novel of all time. I know it has a horrible message of the adulterous woman but I truly love this book - the passion, romance, intriguing characters, all the beautiful set pieces of 19th century Russia, I just love it. I have read it dozens of times since I was a teenager.

Originally Posted by Kätzchen

Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy).

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Edit: LMAO knight posting at the same time.

[Kätzchen]

Originally Posted by Kätzchen

Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy).

I've had troubles with my vision and having migraine headaches during the current heatwave going on in our neck of the woods, but I've read the first couple of chapters!

It's a great study on what NOT to do in a romantic relationship, *lol*. I broke out in a case of laughter over a character (Stevin) who just can't seem to get it right. Stevin goes out to skate on ice to woo the woman he's attracted to, but the woman sees right through the facade of his moves. She busts Stevin by telling him that she's not attracted to him at all because he 'stirred another woman' wrongly. Priceless!!!

[dark_crystal]

The Slave Ship: A Human History
by Marcus Rediker

In this widely praised history of an infamous institution, award-winning scholar Marcus Rediker shines a light into the darkest corners of the British and American slave ships of the eighteenth century. Drawing on thirty years of research in maritime archives, court records, diaries, and firsthand accounts, The Slave Ship is riveting and sobering in its revelations, reconstructing in chilling detail a world nearly lost to history: the "floating dungeons" at the forefront of the birth of African American culture.

[dark_crystal]

Originally Posted by Kätzchen

Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy).

One of my very favorites-- especially the long metaphysical tangent at the end: beautiful

[knight]

Hey there homoe, I am excited that you will read the book... It inspired me to research the PNW history of the treatment of the Chinese population in the late 1800's... I hope that you like it.. its a quick fluffy read but very enjoyable.
cheers!

Originally Posted by homoe

Hey Knight, thanks for posting this! I've ordered it from Thrift Books and I'm going to be reading it next whenever it arrives by mail

[homoe]

Originally Posted by knight

Hey there homoe, I am excited that you will read the book... It inspired me to research the PNW history of the treatment of the Chinese population in the late 1800's... I hope that you like it.. its a quick fluffy read but very enjoyable.
cheers!

Knight, you may enjoy the book "Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet"

[justkim]

I must first finish Giants before I can move onto You don't have to say you love me...

Giants
The dwarfs of Auschwitz
The extraordinary story of the Lilliput Troupe
Written by Yehuda Koren & Eilat Negev



You don't have to say you love me
A memoir
Sherman Alexie
The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian

[knight]

Homoe thank you so much for the suggestion I will order it from our local book store... It looks like a great read.
cheers!

Originally Posted by homoe

Knight, you may enjoy the book "Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet"

[homoe]

Originally Posted by knight

The Girl Who Wrote in Silk---Kelli Estes

A simple reading about the lives of two women 130 years apart that are connected with a secret. A light presentation of the horrific historical time of the late 1800's when the Chinese population were pushed out of the Northern West Coast of the US and Canada. The story mostly takes place in the Seattle area and Orcas Island.

This was an outstanding book and story!

[homoe]

Originally Posted by homoe

Kobi, thanks for your post! I just finished Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign: by Jonathan Allen, Amie Parnes, but I think the one you posted about will be much better.

Kobi, is your book an e-book? If NOT, would you be interested in doing a book exchange?

Shattered is a dry read I must say just so you know!

[Kobi]

Originally Posted by homoe

Kobi, is your book an e-book? If NOT, would you be interested in doing a book exchange?

Shattered is a dry read I must say just so you know!

I use the public library system.

[girl_dee]

i am struggling....

[2qt]

Currently reading Gwen Wilson's story.....I belong to no one..