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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Wednesday, May 03, 2023 - 11:26 am 
Recently finished "The Therapist" by B.A. Paris. It was pretty good. It was described as a "Whodunit Domestic Thriller" on the cover.
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Tuesday, May 23, 2023 - 12:04 pm
Finished "The House Witch" by Delemhach. It was good. I read it on my Prime account with Amazon. It came up as Kindle on my computer.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, May 23, 2023 - 1:45 pm
I just finished The Ferryman by Justin Cronin. If you want a story that blows your mind and makes you ask ••• is going on, this is the one for you! I love his writing and this did not let me down. No vampires this go-round but a mix of sci-fi, dystopia, love, anger, joy, sorrow. So good.
I just started Tom Hanks' new one and liking it right away.
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Saturday, May 27, 2023 - 8:27 pm
What's the name of the Tom Hanks' book? I would like to try it.
Just finished, "The Light on Farallon Island" by Jen Wheeler. It was good. Read it on Prime, I think.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Sunday, May 28, 2023 - 8:47 am
Hecka:
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece: A novel - by Tom Hanks. I haven't read it yet.
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Sunday, May 28, 2023 - 10:55 am
Thanks! I'll look for it.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, May 29, 2023 - 10:30 am
Sorry Hecka, I should have written the title. Thanks Mame. It is a very slow moving novel but I am learning a ton about the movie business.
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Wednesday, June 07, 2023 - 2:36 pm
I haven't found the Tom Hanks book yet. I finished The Bourne Retribution by Eric Van Lustbader. It was a typical Bourne book, I think. I have never read any other Bourne books or seen the movies, but I could see it. Interestingly, Robert Ludlum wrote the early Jason Bourne books, but he died in March 2001, so the ones since then were written by Van Lustbader.
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Thursday, June 15, 2023 - 7:27 pm
Finished another Dollar General book, "The Secrets of Paradise Bay" by Devon Vaughn Archer. It was pretty good for a romance. Was not your typical romance and most of the people in it were African-American.
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Thursday, June 22, 2023 - 6:14 am
Finished "Where the Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens. It was really good.
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Mak1
Member
08-11-2002
| Thursday, June 22, 2023 - 4:34 pm
Heckagirl, it was good and the movie did it justice too.
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Mak1
Member
08-11-2002
| Thursday, June 22, 2023 - 5:06 pm
Recently I've read "Songs in Ursa Major" by Emma Brodie, a novel inspired by the love affair between Joni Mitchell and James Taylor. I loved it. It's set in the music world of 1969 with all its ups and downs.
"The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane" by Lisa See was very well researched and beautifully written. There was one scene in the beginning chapters that completely shocked and horrified me. I put the book down and emailed the friend who had recommended the book. She had had the same reaction to that scene and reassured me that it wouldn't be repeated even though it may seem like it was going to be. I was later glad that she had given me that reassurance! I am glad I finished the book as it was such a wonderful story despite the sad parts.
"Talk Before Sleep" by Elizabeth Berg was heartbreakingly beautiful, comparable to "Beaches" in the love and support of the core group of women supporting their friend who has terminal cancer.
"Fairy Tale" by Stephen King didn't hold my interest so I didn't finish it.
"Northeaster: A Story of Courage and Survival in the Blizzard of 1952" by Cathie Pelletier has local (New England) appeal and would be interesting to anyone who likes natural disaster survivor stories. She spent years interviewing experts, survivors and relatives of others who were involved.
I read an older short book, "Before the coffee gets cold" by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. It was a fun read involving time travel to the past, with some twists. I enjoyed it but not enough to read the other books in the series.
Now I'm reading "The Perfect Murder" by Jack Hitt with Lawrence Block, Sarah Caudwell, Tony Hillerman, Peter Lovesey and Donald E. Westlake. It was published in 1991 and I picked it up at a book sale. It's intriguing. The main character writes to these famous murder mystery authors to seek their advice on plotting the perfect murder. The story is told in a series of letters between him and the five authors. Each gave him a plot and I'm at the part where he is deciding which plot, or parts of plots, to use to murder his wife and to make sure her lover is blamed for it.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Thursday, June 22, 2023 - 9:10 pm
Trying to catch up here, and can I just say you all are making my TBR list get longer and longer! 
I've finished the following:
AUDIOBOOKS - The Firekeeper's Daughter (AMAZING!) and Girl, Woman, Other - I'd started this on Kindle almost 2 years ago, so audiobook was definitely the way to go! I did like it, it just wasn't working for me as an evening read.
KINDLE - Life's Too Short, Demon Copperhead (AMAZING!!!), Salt Lane (HATED the ending), Paris Daillencourt is about to Crumble (wanted to shake him by the end), and Dead Beat & Kick Back (a double-book by Val McDermid).
DEADTREE BOOKS - slower going, but I did finish Nickel Boys (GOOD but also horrifying b/c it's based on a true story), and The Country Without A Post Office - I feel like I should take a class about the Kashmir region and THEN re-read these poems so I could better interpret them.
Current reads include:
Little Faith: A Novel on Audiobook (finished Echo in the Bone and started in with Written in my Own Heart's Blood since they said some of book 8 will be in Season 7 for Outlander - but since it's a reread, I'm putting it to the side for Little Faith)
Pineapple Street on Kindle - only a few pages in but loving it
Flamer as a deadtree book - only way to read a graphic novel, and this one is being read so I can say I've read all the top banned books of 2022.
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Thursday, June 29, 2023 - 3:21 pm
Finished "Apples Don't Fall"by Liane Moriarty. It was pretty good. I have read Fairy Tale by Stephen King not too long ago. I thought it was pretty good, too. I put a hold on a book by Steve Tyler. It's not available yet.
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Friday, June 30, 2023 - 1:30 pm
And the book by Steven Tyler popped up today but said there's a problem with getting it to me. Oh no! Hope I get to listen to it.
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Friday, June 30, 2023 - 6:38 pm
No problem. It came up the second time. It's an audiobook. If you don't like swearing, you would be offended.
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Vancouvergirl
Member
06-18-2022
| Tuesday, July 04, 2023 - 9:19 pm
I’m around half way through Oryx & Crake by: Margaret Atwood, it’s one of the books I have to read for my AP English Literature 12 Summer assignment. 😅 Lots of witty quotes in the book.
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Jimmer
Board Administrator
08-29-2000
| Wednesday, July 05, 2023 - 1:28 pm
Love all the good honest reviews that people post here. They’re both entertaining and helpful.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, July 06, 2023 - 12:57 am
Vancouvergirl, it is so freakishly wonderful to have you here posting on adult topics, when at least Mameblanche, probably others, and I first met you as a baby in a perambulator in a restaurant near English Bay in Vancouver however many years old you are plus about 8-9 months. Thanks for hanging with us.
Oops, topic - I am on a cruise ship in Alaska right now and found out a couple days ago that they still have a paperback book exchange AND still have a library (cruise lines are doing away with them). I found a Liane Moriarty book I had not yet read - truly madly guilty. I have been so busy I have only read a couple pages, but will get to it soon.
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Vancouvergirl
Member
06-18-2022
| Thursday, July 06, 2023 - 8:51 am
Haha thanks Juju2bigdog. Sounds like a cool cruise!
Just finished reading Star Trek: Reunion yesterday and also recently wrapped Star Trek: The Battle of Betazed.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, July 06, 2023 - 10:04 am
Riley Sager's new book The Only One Left is really good. I think his best yet.
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Rieann
Member
08-26-2006
| Thursday, July 06, 2023 - 2:25 pm
Thanks, Mamie! I just nabbed it.
I thought Riley was a woman. Lol
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Kappy
Member
06-28-2002
| Thursday, July 06, 2023 - 6:38 pm
Just reading the synopsis of that book by Riley Sager scares me, lol! But I'm still going to add it to my list. :0)
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, July 07, 2023 - 9:52 am
Rieann, I did too! LOL
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Monday, July 10, 2023 - 4:59 pm
Finished "It Ends With Us" by Colleen Hoover. Kind of different. She based it on her real life. It was okay.
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