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Mak1
Member
08-11-2002
| Friday, June 28, 2013 - 5:03 pm 
Jasper, after one of the long passages about Innis, I was a little disappointed to go back to the wedding story. I looked ahead to make sure there would be more of the sub story.
I'm about to begin The Jury by Steve Martini. It's one of a dozen I picked up in a thrift store sale. I just noticed it is a series, and this isn't the first of that series. I hate when that happens.
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Friday, June 28, 2013 - 6:51 pm
Mak - I always try to get series books in the right order too! I love to find an author with a body of work that I can "arrange" and read through - I often find myself as interested im the "back story" as I am in each book!
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 1:45 am
I have the Carroll book and "Ella" and "A Wedding" all on order from my library -
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Mak1
Member
08-11-2002
| Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 7:31 am
Tnt, "A Wedding" had some interesting themes but may not be your cup of tea. The main story is about a group of high school friends who come together for a wedding 27 years later with all the rekindled feelings and secrets that entails. The sub story was about the Halifax Explosion of 1917, which I had never heard about. Knowing that you prefer non-fiction, I think a book about the explosion and aftermath would be more interesting for you. I'm going to look for one when I get a chance. If you do get the book and don't like the main story, it is easy to just find the sub story parts, as they are indented differently.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 8:36 am
I had to put down Sweet Salt Air. I just wasn't feeling it.
I started We Are All Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler and really liking it. It's a story told from the middle, that's what the narrator says and it's working, about a family that raised a chimp as one of their own kids. Something happened and they moved and the chimp didn't. I can't wait to get to the bottom of it all.
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Jasper
Moderator
09-14-2000
| Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 10:58 am
Mamie - too bad about Sweet Salt Air, I have enjoyed all her books that I have come across. Haven't read this one yet. I read your review and look forward to reading the new Chevy Stevens.
Mak - I think TNT rarely reads Non-fiction. If you are Canadian we were taught about the Halifax explosion in school so I was familiar with that event in history. I really have enjoyed that portion of the book the most.
Sea - With your taste in reading material I knew right off the bat you meant Gail's book!
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 11:41 am
You are right, Jasper - very little non-fiction is enough for me!
An interesting fact that I stumbled across some time back in a mystery that I was reading was the fact that there was regular dirigible service between Europe, New York, and Brazil. I did get interested enough to find a non-fiction book about that, so I am not completely a fluffball!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 5:05 pm
I think Gal and I are the non fiction mavens.. not the only ones, of course.
I finished The End of Your Life Book Club. Fine book.. quite a mother and family and they sure made the most of her time after her diagnosis.
And now.. a fiction book I had pre-ordered because I had read the first book and then the short prequel to that first book. First book is child being kidnapped later found after two years with a couple.. the prequel explains the whys of that action. And now just starting the book with the kid back home and frankly still not liking her mom one bit. And she's the narrator.. hoping she will mellow.
Steena Holmes, Emma's Secret: A Novel
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 6:42 pm
I just ordered that sequel, Sea. I still haven't read the first one yet.
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Mak1
Member
08-11-2002
| Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 8:06 pm
Oops, I had Sea's and Tnt's reading tastes mixed up. Tnt, you may very well like the book after all. LOL!
Jasper, I live in Maine but don't recall ever hearing about the Halifax explosion. We learned very little Canadian history in school. Isn't that strange? All of my great-grandparents were Canadian.
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Jasper
Moderator
09-14-2000
| Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 9:39 pm
I rarely read any non-fiction either. I do have a biography sitting in my pile of books as well, a first for me for a long long time! I like a good mystery with a side of fluff in between.
Funny about that Mak that they don't teach much about their closest neighbours. It was a devastating event. I did read a book not long ago that took place during WWII in Canada and GB. It was a mix of fiction and non fiction that had a lot of info in it regarding the St Lawrence and the anti-sub action along with U boat events off the east coast of Canada. Interested me enough to look things up a little more.
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 9:50 pm
I just started reading Lee Child's Persuader. Not my usual type of book at all. But I found it in a room, and thought might as well try it. It reads like an action-adventure movie.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, July 01, 2013 - 2:54 pm
Mamie, if you don't already own Finding Emma or Dear Jack, both are lendable if you wanted to read them on Kindle and I'd be happy to lend them to you.
She's from Canada, by the way, Steena Holmes..
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Although I had the Bobbsey Twins and then Nancy Drew and Cherry Ames and that sort of series, my mom started me early on biographies.. and I loved them. Looking back, she provided bios of strong women  .. Amelia Earhardt, Betsy Ross, etc..
Anyway I do prefer memoir, biography and other non fiction, especially if I'm reading certain subjects.. lots of books about dog behavior, breeding, when I had and bred labs, books that helped with rape crisis counseling, domestic violence, hospice, cancer along with various volunteer gigs.
And real life stuff like hiking or mountain climbing, volucanoes, other countries..
but I've certainly read my share of fiction as well.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Monday, July 01, 2013 - 5:13 pm
I LOVE Lee Child! Persuader was the first book of his I read since it was free on Kindle, but I've read many, many more since then. I'm currently starting at the beginning of the series and am up to book 3 so I can read them in order. They're fun, quick reads.
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Uncle_ricky
Member
07-02-2007
| Monday, July 01, 2013 - 5:23 pm
I finished The Interestings over the weekend and really liked it. I'd never read anything by Meg Wolitzer before and read this one based solely on the positive review that it got in a recent issue of the New Yorker.
Have any of you read any of Wolitzer's earlier stuff? I'd never heard of her and was very pleasantly surprised by the quality of the writing -- it reminded me of Franzen's The Corrections and Freedom.
It's time now for some "fun" reading, viz., Lone Wolf by Linwood Barclay, the third Zach Walker thriller.
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Uncle_ricky
Member
07-02-2007
| Monday, July 01, 2013 - 5:31 pm
I agree with the review of Lee Child's stuff. Though, sadly, after reading the first six Reacher books, I dropped him as soon as I found out that he had ENDORSED the casting choice of Jack Reacher when Hollywood finally got around to filming one of the books last year.
I cannot in good conscience continue reading any of the rest of the Reacher books because I can't get that casting choice out of my head. Those first six Reacher books were delightful and I have no doubt the rest of the books that came after are equally enjoyable. Oh well. It was fun while it lasted. Fortunately, there are thousands of other writers to pursue.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, July 01, 2013 - 5:53 pm
Sea, I have Finding Emma but not Dear Jack. Is that part of the same story?
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, July 01, 2013 - 10:42 pm
Mamie, yes, it is.. don't want to give away the plot but of course you know Emma is missing, which is why they are Finding.. and Dear Jack is about people involved in that book.. it is the back story and just a novella and I think it is meant to be read second even though the timeframe is earlier.
If you want to borrow.. just wait until you are ready since you just have certain time frame.. of course it is ample time to read a book but you want to be ready to start.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, July 02, 2013 - 8:59 pm
I borrowed Dear Jack.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, July 04, 2013 - 5:08 pm
I finished Emma's Secret quickly. I guess it gave closure on the plot.
Now reading a book I got awhile back, 600 Hours of Edward by Craig Lancaster. Fiction, the story of Edward, who lives with high functioning Asperger's and OCD. I brought this forward when the second book went on sale and I bought that. That will be my next book.. Edward Adrift.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, July 05, 2013 - 9:15 pm
I just finished Finding Colin Firth by Mia March. I enjoyed it. It has some of the same characters as her other book The Meryl Streep Movie Club.
I am now reading The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls by Anton DiSclafani and Chose the Wrong Guy, Gave Him the Wrong Finger by Beth Harbison. (Great title!)
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Uncle_ricky
Member
07-02-2007
| Saturday, July 06, 2013 - 2:32 pm
Finished the Linwood Barclay (Lone Wolf) and it was good, but not quite as enjoyable as the first two Zack Miller tales. I am now immersed in the latest by Ian McEwan, Sweet Tooth.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, July 07, 2013 - 12:38 am
Wow, I really LIKE Edward! Finished 600 Hours of Edward and now starting Edward Adrift.
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Cablejockey
Member
12-27-2001
| Sunday, July 07, 2013 - 7:11 am
I have started reading Always Watching by Chevy Stevens who also wrote Still Missing which I found a fascinating read last year.
So far, so good.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16044953-always-watching
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Scout
Member
01-19-2005
| Sunday, July 07, 2013 - 5:01 pm
Just finished Jeannette Wall's new book, "The Silver Star". Didn't like it quite as much as some of her other books, but still a pretty good story.
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