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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Thursday, October 05, 2017 - 12:46 pm 
I just finished watching Shetland on Netflix and liked the series. Most of them are 2 episodes covering 1 book. I have not read any of the books.
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Thursday, October 05, 2017 - 1:41 pm
I finished re-reading "Everything's Eventual" by Stephen King. It had been long enough that I did not remember a lot of it. Very good.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Thursday, October 05, 2017 - 3:47 pm
I just finished listening to The Wrong Side of Goodbye by Michael Connelly - it was good, too. I'll get on the wait list for his new one. 
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Thursday, October 05, 2017 - 3:49 pm
WAIT, WHAT??! I have watched a couple of episodes of Shetland and loved it. I did NOT, however, know that it was based on a book series. Rather like Wallander, then?
Damn....now I have both books and TV to watch/read. I need to figure out how to get someone to pay me to do both!!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, October 06, 2017 - 3:15 pm
The Bright Hour was quite good, though of course it was sad.
Reading Letters to a Young Doctor by Richard Seltzer.
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Uncle_ricky
Member
07-02-2007
| Tuesday, October 10, 2017 - 2:28 pm
I very rarely will read a book after I've seen its adaptation as a film or TV series. I completely loved "The Leftovers," the HBO series based on Tom Perrotta's novel. I was glad it was able to last three seasons. It's because I miss it that I decided to read the book, just to see how different it is from the TV show.
I'd also never read any of Perrotta's other books, so I was hoping I would like it enough to inspire me to read his other works. I am happy to report that the book, while not nearly as ambitious as the TV show, connected with me instantly, so much so that I'll definitely read his other stuff (I really like his writing style). The TV series is definitely much better, but then the show would never have existed if not for the publication of the book!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, October 10, 2017 - 5:57 pm
I liked Perotta's Little Children and The Abstinence Teacher. They aren't for everyone though.
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Uncle_ricky
Member
07-02-2007
| Thursday, October 12, 2017 - 3:22 pm
You and I rarely disagree. Plus, books that "aren't for everyone" are usually right up my alley! I've noticed that Perrotta's latest (Mrs. Fletcher) has gotten mostly rave reviews, so I'll lkely get my buttscratchers on that one first.
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Uncle_ricky
Member
07-02-2007
| Saturday, October 14, 2017 - 2:24 pm
This morning I finished Kaira Rouda's Best Day Ever, which I'd noticed Mamie give 5 out of 5 stars to recently. Ms. Rouda was unknown to me prior to now and I was very impressed with her villainous "hero" Paul Strom. He reminded me quite a bit of the Joe Goldberg character in the You thriller by Caroline Kepnes.
The stories are quite different, but both writers do exceptional jobs of giving us wildly creepy main characters that grip our attention from start to finish. I hope, similar to how Joe Goldberg returned for a second novel, that we've not seen the last of Paul Strom.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, October 15, 2017 - 3:10 pm
I finished Letters to a Young Surgeon, which was insightful at times, strange at others.
I think next is a novel, 2 a.m. at the Cat's Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino.
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Sunday, October 15, 2017 - 7:21 pm
Finished "Monster in the Closet" by Karen Rose. It was mostly good. I would say a mystery/thriller.
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Sunday, October 15, 2017 - 7:22 pm
I read 2 am at the Cat's Pajama's a couple years ago. I seem to recall finding it to be an interesting read.
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Monday, October 16, 2017 - 2:28 pm
Thank you, thank you and thank you once again Mamie316 & Uncle_ricky and anyone else who suggested the wonderful novel, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo! I read it yesterday and I must say I quite enjoyed it.
I was pleased that the reason for Evelyn choosing Monique was not blatantly obvious. At least not to me. I'm glad the author didn't opt for any of the usual storylines in that regard.
This is the first novel I have read from the pen of Taylor Jenkins Reid and I plan on checking out her earlier work.
Thanks again to all who suggested this book.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Monday, October 16, 2017 - 5:08 pm
YAY! II read that one on the plane to Scotland, Sugar, and loved it, too! Just recommended it to one of our library workers - but told her I didn't think our library book club was quite ready for it.
Meanwhile our library director is reading A Little Life and loving it, too. The best recommendations definitely come from this group!
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Wednesday, October 18, 2017 - 12:01 pm
SWEET!! Apple just settled a lawsuit, and I have Amazon money to spend. BEST book recommendation needed - preferably a book I can read more than once since I'm actually buying it and not just checking it out of the library. GO!
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Wednesday, October 18, 2017 - 1:00 pm
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, October 18, 2017 - 3:56 pm
Teach, my first thought when I sa 5he email was WAHOO! Second was I should come post and give people a headsup to check in case they haven't seen it themselves yet.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, October 18, 2017 - 10:52 pm
I got that email too!
This is the third settlement I have received.. Best class action lawsuit(s) ever!
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Tresbien
Member
08-26-2002
| Wednesday, October 18, 2017 - 11:37 pm
Teach, I don't read many books more than once, but have read The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy several times. Have fun selecting one!
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Uncle_ricky
Member
07-02-2007
| Saturday, October 21, 2017 - 3:46 pm
Sugar, I'm thrilled (and I'm sure Mamie is too) that you enjoyed TSHOEH as much as you did. When you get around to reading Taylor Jenkins Reid's other books, I'm confident you'll enjoy them just as much!
Speaking of Ms. Jenkins Reid, earlier this month, she raved on Twitter and Instagram about Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. That, of course, put my curiosity on high alert. Miraculously, both it and Ms. Ng's debut novel, Everything I Never Told You, were available at the library!
Over the past few days I read them both, back to back. She gives us heavy, heavy family dramas in each, with EINTY, published in 2014, being a little bit more intense because it involves the death of a family member. EINTY is extremely well-written and by the time I finished it, I was excited by the fact I'd get to immediately dive into Ng's follow-up, which was published early last month.
LFE is a very-close second to Eleanor Oliphant as the best book I've read this year. I could tell, very early on, why Taylor Jenkins Reid raved about it as much as she did. If you love family dramas as much as I do, this book is a sterling example of that genre at its finest.
The story concerns the Richardsons of Shaker Heights, Ohio (mom/dad/two teenage sons/two teenage daughters) and the mother-daughter twosome who move into a house rented out by the Richardsons in a nearby neighborhood. That's all you need to know -- if you read this book, as with Eleanor Oliphant -- I can almost guarantee you will love it. When I finished it earlier today, I was very, very sad to see it end (VERY sad). It's one of those I wish had been a thousand pages long!
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Kappy
Member
06-28-2002
| Saturday, October 21, 2017 - 6:42 pm
I read Everything I Never Told You two years ago and gave it a low rating because while I found it very well written, I also found it deeply depressing from start to end. I don't do depressing well.
However Uncle Ricky's review convinced me to give Celeste Ng another try. My library has 30 copies (ebook version) of LET with 6 people waiting per copy. Thank goodness they purchased 30 copies!
I also finished Black Raven by Ann Cleeves. I couldn't help but to compare her writing style to Peter May's and the fact that it didn't hold my interest as much as his series. Obviously the stories are good since they were turned into a tv series and now that I think about it, I turned off the first episode of that series a while back because I got bored, lol. Funny how one author strikes such a note in us and another talented one doesn't.
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Uncle_ricky
Member
07-02-2007
| Sunday, October 22, 2017 - 10:11 am
Kappy, You're right about Ng's first book being depressing - it is, wildly so. I should've mentioned that to alert others. Little Fires Everywhere reads more like a thriller because as the story unfolds, you get increasingly anxious as each plot point gets revealed. It's really remarkable how a writer as young as Ng is has been able to craft such an intricate story and keep all the action moving swiftly and at a fairly exciting pace.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, October 22, 2017 - 10:12 am
I loved Everything I Never Told You. It was depressing but so beautifully written. I have Little Fires in my TBR pile.
I just finished Turtles All the Way Down by John Green. Loved it. Aza, the main character, suffers from OCD among other issues and at times it was tiring just reading about being her.
I am now starting Tom Hanks' new book and also reading The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman. ( A sequel to Practical Magic)
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, October 23, 2017 - 11:11 pm
2 a.m. .. Yes, interesting is a good word.
Now starting Dish: how gossip became the news and the news became just another show by JEANNETTE WALLS, who wrote Silver Star, Half Broke Horses and her first, The Glass Castle, is a current movie.
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Uncle_ricky
Member
07-02-2007
| Friday, October 27, 2017 - 11:13 pm
Sea, I read Dish many years ago, when it first came out and enjoyed it. I hope you like it too.
Last night I finished Theft By Finding: Diaries 1977-2002 by David Sedaris. Similar to the Andy Warhol and Andy Cohen diaries, Sedaris is his usual neurotic self and delivers plenty of mirth along the way. I read he'll be publishing a follow-up second volume (his diaries from 2003 to 2017), next year. He is a riot.
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