Books on the Nightstand discussion

Listening to South of Broad Unabridged on CD Author of Prince of Tides in the car and A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages on my iPad at work.

Just finished Shock of the Fall this morning so off to pick a new book, also about a third through The Girl On The Train on audio which I'm enjoying :)

reading The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics on my kindle & The Sparrow in a hard copy

Becky, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics was so good! One of the best books I read last year.

I'll be listening to The Buried Giant later this week as well as wrapping up The Lost Boys Symphony on my Kindle and A Man of Good Hope in hardcover.

just finished Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy 10+ stars. cannot wait to read his new volume of stories.

for early march:
Adam
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Dept. of Speculation

I am also reading, and loving, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Having just finished a disappointingly bad written account of Jessee Owen's fame during the 1936 Olympic era, the global background as well as the stories of these amazing young rowers is wonderful. I will be sad when this book ends!

On audio, I am listening to The Goldfinch. Engrossing and entertaining.

I am listening to The Kiss of Deception and reading A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 and Station Eleven. I've got a week-long vacation, so hopefully I'll get to read a lot!

Andrew wrote: "Becky, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics was so good! One of the best books I read last year.

I'll be listening to [boo..."

I am in the early stages but I like it so far- I had bought the actual book for my son for 2013 Christmas & both he & his girlfriend loved it( they had moved to Seattle in Oct of 2013)

Since I am part of the jury for a SF Québec book award, I mostly read Québec SF authors right now, and will probably do that until the end of March (still have 5 novels and a lot of short stories to read)...

But I also read Station Eleven out loud in the car (my husband prefers my reading voice to audiobooks LOL).

And since I have borrowed a lot of graphic novels from the Library, The Unwritten, Ex Machinea, Morning Glories and Fables will haunt the next 3 weeks also :)

I finished Rainey Royal last night and really loved the atmosphere and prose, but it didn't work as a novel for me. 4 stars though, as a book of linked stories.

I should finish the audio of The Girl on the Train today. This started off great, but I feel like someone forgot to edit the second half.

I'll palette cleanse with a Kelly Link story or two from Get in Trouble, then I'll probably start Fram.

I really hope to get to Hausfrau and A Little Life this month, too.

I am currently reading for my book club. Not as good as but still a good read.

Listening in my car and loving the creepiness of it.

I'm listening to The Boys in the Boat, too, and reading A Sudden Light for book group.

JoJo Moyes' One Plus One

I read Shock of the Fall as well...but in February. I've just read The Peripheral in trade paperback and Hollow City I'm currently reading The Slap, The Word Exchange, Doctor Sleep and The Winter People...which I just picked up at Target.

Of those books I'll probably finish The Winter People first, The Slap second, and I may start on Three Parts Dead and Angelmaker before I finish Doctor Sleep and The Word Exchange...the former being predictable and the latter being well-intentioned but wordy.

Just started Doc then on to Epitaph. Hoping to start reading my other books for Booktopia VT!!!

Currently reading The Girl in 6E and will then be reading The Girl on the Train and Quiet.

I just finished The Troop and was severely disappointed, especially since it was enthusiastically blurbed by Stephen Kind and Mira Grant, both writers that I have read and enjoyed. Oh well.

Now I'm re-reading The Eye of the World (now that the series is finished, I'm giving it a second try, since I gave up around when the fifth book came out). After that comes Ack-Ack Macaque (looks like silly fun), Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II (interesting looking WWII non-fiction) and Thirteen Roses Book One: Before: An Apocalyptic Zombie Fable (what happened right *before* the Zombie apocalypse)

As you can tell, other than the non-fiction, I'm on a bit of a fluff kick this month.

I just finished First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen. So good as are all of her books!

I recently received my copy of Epitaph and started reading, but then wondered if I should be reading Doc first. Can they be read as stand-alones? I know very little about them, and that period.

Deb wrote: "Just started Doc then on to Epitaph. Hoping to start reading my other books for Booktopia VT!!!"

I just started

Finished The Winter People Saturday and picked up Vicious and The Dispossessed...the latter a last effort to understand the appeal of Ursula K. LeGuin's work

i'm making little progress in Cat's Eye and need a break. i love margaret atwood's writing, and this book is no exception, but i'm uninvested in the characters.

i started The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League. excellent so far! i don't recall much being said about this book in 2014.

Adore wrote: "i'm making little progress in Cat's Eye and need a break. i love margaret atwood's writing, and this book is no exception, but i'm uninvested in the characters."

I love Margaret Atwood, but I did not at all enjoy Cat's Eye the way I've enjoyed her other work. I read it a very long time ago and keep thinking I should give it another chance. I'm glad it's not the first Atwood I read, though.

THE KIND WORTH KILLING by Peter Swanson, quite the page turner with lots of twist and turns.

THE KIND WORTH KILLING by Peter Swanson, quite the page turner with lots of twist and turns.

I'm currently reading The Good Girl and am really enjoying the way the story unfolds. But sitting on my nightstand just waiting to be started is which I made my husband go pick up today after I listened to this week's podcast.

I finally listened to Ann's favorite, The Sparrow. It won't be on my gifting list but I did enjoy it.

Gail wrote: "I finally listened to Ann's favorite, The Sparrow. It won't be on my gifting list but I did enjoy it."

I am reading it now, have been reading it & it is a struggle, I will keep at it, I don't dislike it but my mind wanders

I started A Little Life today. So excited!

Also, just finished the very dark, often funny, and intensely powerful Men, Women & Children.

Want to start "A Little Life" next. Interested in how you like it.

I hope to finish today after getting it to the ipod.I think it took me longer to listen to this book then it took to build the fair in 1893.

I'm about to put my house on the market, so my reading over the next few months will include a lot of owned-but-unread volumes that will then either go to the local library sale or into storage. However, first I have to get through my short stack of borrowed books: John Cleese's So, Anyway..., the companion volume to the terrific PBS series How We Got to Now, and Timothy Schaffert's The Swan Gondola. Next up: my own copies of Rafael Sabatini's Scaramouche, Harry Leon Wilson's hypochondriac tale Oh, Doctor!, Richard Altick's The Scholar Adventurers, A.S. Byatt's The Biographer's Tale, and Wendy Moffat's A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster.

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I'm reading The Goldfinch in paperback and listening to All the Light We Cannot See. I just finished listening to Station Eleven and loved it. I'm also slowly working through a free ebook version of Wuthering Heights on my ipad.

I'm reading Mollie Panter-Downes' One Fine Day about a day in the life of an English woman trying to get used to life in her small village after WWII. Very much enjoying it but with my eye on the next book on my nightstand, A Little Life.

Inhaled The Girl on the Train, savored The Invention of Wings and now I'm on How to be both

Just finished The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah yesterday. Great historical fiction. Also, trying to finish up Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin and In the Garden of the Beasts by Erik Larson. Up after that is All the Bright Things by Jennifer Niven and Scary Close by Donald Miller.

I am going to read a very short Folio book i have had for years. .A beautifull book.

A fantastic line-up!

Rachel wrote: "I'm reading The Goldfinch in paperback and listening to All the Light We Cannot See. I just finished listening to Station Eleven and loved it. I'm al..."

I just finished My Sunshine Away and it was so good!!
Almost through The Mime Order now too!!
So many good things came to me this month from the library!!

Jen wrote: "I just finished My Sunshine Away and it was so good!!

I felt bad for My Sunshine Away. I was looking forward to it, but when I started listening to the audiobook, I just couldn't get into it. What did you like about it, Jen?

Just finished We Were Liars, which I really liked....still reading The Sparrow & started with The Same Sky

I finished THE VALLEY OF FEAR today. This is the first Holmes novel that I have read. Reading some of the reviews I got the impression that it's not a favorite because Holmes and Watson play a little part in the book but like many Holmes fans I loved the story because I figured Holmes is telling it thru the writing of his pal Watson. It's an easy read with maybe a predictable ending but a good morality tale. I should finish THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN today.

Andrew wrote: "Jen wrote: "I just finished My Sunshine Away and it was so good!!

I felt bad for My Sunshine Away. I was looking forward to it, but when I started listening to the audiobook, I jus..."

I actually loved the retelling of how this one event (Lindy's rape) completely changed the entire neighborhood. I found the narrator to be extremely creepy at times, but I really couldn't stop reading until I had found out who did it and whether or not this teenage boy turned out okay or stayed completely obsessed his entire life. I was also interested to hear this all told from a boy's point of view since I have zero understanding of how a teenage boy would have understood and felt about this whole event.

Finished last night.Will start listening to . Thinking about reading . This is a collection of short stories that I have had on my shelf for years. Some readers might recall the British tv series from years ago.

I'm reading the latest from The Oprah Book Club 2.0 I'm really enjoying this one!

I took Michael's advice and started reading The Book of Strange New Things. I'm about half way through and so far I'm really liking it.

I finished Wonder in three days and now I'm trying to get through The Paris Wife but gosh it's slow. Debating if I should abandon it or not. It's rare I do that but I'm thinking I should do it more.

Joe wrote: "I took Michael's advice and started reading The Book of Strange New Things. I'm about half way through and so far I'm really liking it."

Joe,

I read The Book of Strange New Things in January and Michael is correct about his recommendation. I really enjoyed it and posted a review on my website.

http://marion-hill.com/book-review-59...

You may want to wait read the review after you finish.

Marion

I'm currently reading Duplicate Effort by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. It is the 7th book in the wonderful Retrieval Artist Series. Its Star Trek meets CSI with depth. Lots of fun reading and Rusch is a skillful storyteller.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/4224...

Marion

Marion wrote: "Joe wrote: "I took Michael's advice and started reading The Book of Strange New Things. I'm about half way through and so far I'm really liking it."

Joe,

I read [book:The Book of Strange New Thin..."

Marion,

Thanks for the reply. I will definitely check out your review when I am finished reading the book. I've been pretty busy this weekend and have been dying to get back to the story.