Book Readers (What books are you reading) Let's Chit Chat
#123
Originally Posted by Sue Fish
Originally Posted by Dancing Needle
I'm glad this thread got started for two reasons: First, I wanted to share with you all that I just got hired as Library Page at my local library. I'm so excited! I start today (in 2 hours...yikes).
I love to read and love the library so I think it's going to be a perfect fit. And the second reason is it's great to get recommendations for books, this thread has a great list! I've bookmarked it so I can check back often.
I just read "The Last Town on Earth" by Thomas Mullen. Very interesting book based on the 1918 Flu Epidemic. My DH is reading it now.
Wish me luck on my new job! :) :)
I love to read and love the library so I think it's going to be a perfect fit. And the second reason is it's great to get recommendations for books, this thread has a great list! I've bookmarked it so I can check back often.
I just read "The Last Town on Earth" by Thomas Mullen. Very interesting book based on the 1918 Flu Epidemic. My DH is reading it now.
Wish me luck on my new job! :) :)
I know the 4 librarians I am very friendly with at my library listen to books constantly..only way they can get thru as many as they need to and still take care of their home, families and job...
:)
#124
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Originally Posted by Dancing Needle
Originally Posted by Sue Fish
Originally Posted by Dancing Needle
I'm glad this thread got started for two reasons: First, I wanted to share with you all that I just got hired as Library Page at my local library. I'm so excited! I start today (in 2 hours...yikes).
I love to read and love the library so I think it's going to be a perfect fit. And the second reason is it's great to get recommendations for books, this thread has a great list! I've bookmarked it so I can check back often.
I just read "The Last Town on Earth" by Thomas Mullen. Very interesting book based on the 1918 Flu Epidemic. My DH is reading it now.
Wish me luck on my new job! :) :)
I love to read and love the library so I think it's going to be a perfect fit. And the second reason is it's great to get recommendations for books, this thread has a great list! I've bookmarked it so I can check back often.
I just read "The Last Town on Earth" by Thomas Mullen. Very interesting book based on the 1918 Flu Epidemic. My DH is reading it now.
Wish me luck on my new job! :) :)
I know the 4 librarians I am very friendly with at my library listen to books constantly..only way they can get thru as many as they need to and still take care of their home, families and job...
:)
#125
I read mostly the James Patterson books and now have them on the Kindle on my new iPhone. when I moved about 3 1/2 yrs ago my children had to do most of the work, was in a cast for a broken foot and could not do any weight baring on it. Anyway, they boxed my books up in boxes, about 10 packing boxes and gave them away. True I had read all but maybe I wanted to reread some. Had a great Shakespeare collection, his plays, full length in 4 books.
#126
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Location: Merced, CA
Posts: 4,188
I'm looking for a long thick paged series to read, sink into, escape to this summer... historical fiction is my favorite. What would you suggest?
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My very favorite is an old series by Manning Coles, about Tommy Hambleton,
whom I fell in love with many years ago. These were written during or shortly
after WW2, about an English man who joins the British secret service, and does
a lot of time in Germany after getting amnesia, and thinks he is a German. He
has a chance to kill Hitler, thinks he is the nephew of an old German woman he
takes care of, is smart, inventive and funny in parts. The authors did work with
British intelligence at that time, so it does have a sense of reality. And he/they
also wrote a series of ghost stories, with two charming men who came back,
doing things that prove funny as well as interesting.
I read these over and over, since some of the time our own news is just too brutal at times to worry about.
And then there's the Donna Andrews series, I'm already signed up for her new one coming out next month, Stork Raving Mad.
And I'm one of the most frequent visitors to our library, love it dearly. Plus,
it has a large room with used books that range from about 10 cents to hard
backs that are never over 2 dollars!!
-------------------------------
My very favorite is an old series by Manning Coles, about Tommy Hambleton,
whom I fell in love with many years ago. These were written during or shortly
after WW2, about an English man who joins the British secret service, and does
a lot of time in Germany after getting amnesia, and thinks he is a German. He
has a chance to kill Hitler, thinks he is the nephew of an old German woman he
takes care of, is smart, inventive and funny in parts. The authors did work with
British intelligence at that time, so it does have a sense of reality. And he/they
also wrote a series of ghost stories, with two charming men who came back,
doing things that prove funny as well as interesting.
I read these over and over, since some of the time our own news is just too brutal at times to worry about.
And then there's the Donna Andrews series, I'm already signed up for her new one coming out next month, Stork Raving Mad.
And I'm one of the most frequent visitors to our library, love it dearly. Plus,
it has a large room with used books that range from about 10 cents to hard
backs that are never over 2 dollars!!
#127
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Originally Posted by Dancing Needle
Originally Posted by Sue Fish
Originally Posted by Dancing Needle
I'm glad this thread got started for two reasons: First, I wanted to share with you all that I just got hired as Library Page at my local library. I'm so excited! I start today (in 2 hours...yikes).
I love to read and love the library so I think it's going to be a perfect fit. And the second reason is it's great to get recommendations for books, this thread has a great list! I've bookmarked it so I can check back often.
I just read "The Last Town on Earth" by Thomas Mullen. Very interesting book based on the 1918 Flu Epidemic. My DH is reading it now.
Wish me luck on my new job! :) :)
I love to read and love the library so I think it's going to be a perfect fit. And the second reason is it's great to get recommendations for books, this thread has a great list! I've bookmarked it so I can check back often.
I just read "The Last Town on Earth" by Thomas Mullen. Very interesting book based on the 1918 Flu Epidemic. My DH is reading it now.
Wish me luck on my new job! :) :)
I know the 4 librarians I am very friendly with at my library listen to books constantly..only way they can get thru as many as they need to and still take care of their home, families and job...
:)
#128
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Hello. My favorite author? Anne Carroll George, without a doubt. She wrote Southern Sisters Mysteries series. Regretfully, she has passed away.
I only read mysteries. Just finished Cold Blood by Theresa Monsouri. And yes! I love the library!
I only read mysteries. Just finished Cold Blood by Theresa Monsouri. And yes! I love the library!
#129
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Merced, CA
Posts: 4,188
I have books in darned near every room in my house, and yes,
I can keep track of what I'm reading.
Again I'm re-reading Anne McCaffrey's books, from the first ones onwards.
Now on the fabulous Pern ones, then on to a big one, Planet Pirates.
She has such a fabulous talent for SF, but I don't like and will not buy any
more done by or with her son, who insists on killing off half the planet of Pern,
which I've grown to love for decades!! So there!!
Then there's the Patrick McManus series of truly funny camping and fishing
books, men and women both love these! I read so fast and so much that I
go through books at a furious rate, but only keep the ones I want to read over.
I give them to friends and family, and when they lock the doors when they see
me coming, I drop them off at the Library's book box.
I can keep track of what I'm reading.
Again I'm re-reading Anne McCaffrey's books, from the first ones onwards.
Now on the fabulous Pern ones, then on to a big one, Planet Pirates.
She has such a fabulous talent for SF, but I don't like and will not buy any
more done by or with her son, who insists on killing off half the planet of Pern,
which I've grown to love for decades!! So there!!
Then there's the Patrick McManus series of truly funny camping and fishing
books, men and women both love these! I read so fast and so much that I
go through books at a furious rate, but only keep the ones I want to read over.
I give them to friends and family, and when they lock the doors when they see
me coming, I drop them off at the Library's book box.
#130
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: central California
Posts: 636
I just thought of some more of my favorites, A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton. She wrote The book of Ruth also, it was good but, A Map of the World was sooo good. A hard subject, but her writing in it was just beautiful. I've been too chicken to read Poisenwood Bible, but Prodigal Summer by Kingsolver was really good. Rosemunde Pilcher's The Shell Seekers, I loved, read it decades ago, but have also listened to it and I still enjoy it. Thank you everyone for this, I love recomendations for books.
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