A while back, someone here recommended a book: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. I couldn't put it down; I just finished it and LOVED it! So, thanks.
I had gotten it from Library to read during and after my upcoming Hospital Adventure, but I've already finished it. Now I need a few recommendations for books to see me through the recouperation. I won't be able to sew for a few weeks at least. (Ugh!) I want some that are in the 'can't put it down' category.
I probably won't be back to 'talk' for a week or two, but will take a peek to get the book titles. Your recommendations will be noted and appreciated.
I'd like to recommend "The Friday Night Knitting Club". Very sweet, with some real life truths thrown in. Darn it - just googled and found that there is a sequel, which I didn't know about. Wonder if I can update my amazon order still...
I can 2nd that one. Just finished reading it. Worth the time :)
HTH Butterfly
I'd like to recommend "The Friday Night Knitting Club". Very sweet, with some real life truths thrown in. Darn it - just googled and found that there is a sequel, which I didn't know about. Wonder if I can update my amazon order still...
Pat, if you haven't read any of Elizabeth George's novels (the Peter Lynley series), they're great. Another mystery author I like is Faye Kellerman (Lt. Peter Decker series -- what's with all the detectives named "Peter"?). I think mysteries are pretty good in the "can't put it down" category! :) Best of luck with your Hospital Adventure. :)
I really must get this, PAT. I have had it on my shall I/shan't I list for ages. With this final recommendation, I will get it; especially since we used to go on Holiday to Guernsey for several years running. Thanks for the deciding vote! As to recommending books: I won't recommend a title or an author, but a strategy! I was feeling a bit jaded with most of my habitual genre a while back, and I sat and really thought, for a change. What I did was go back to authors that I had loved long ago. I am really enjoying the journey. Yes, they are set in different times, but the writing is still excellent, and the plots stand the test of time and modernism very well indeed. I bet if you think and look back, you would be able to find some to entertain you vastly. So refreshing not to crash into spelling mistakes and grammatical errors!! . In message , Pat in Virginia writes
Just finished reading: Heart and Soul by her. This one was one of her 'better' ones..moved along quite nicely. been awhile since I read The Whitethorn Woods so I can't comment on that one.
Going to the Library today and going to see if they have: Summer on Blossom St By Debbie Macomber or The Lost Quilter By Jennifer Chiaverini in yet
Enjoy your reading. Butterfly (Let me know when to send my Wings)
I'm all about the Vampires at the moment. Charlaine Harris has a new Sookie book. The Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer is ok, the last book of the trilogy is pretty horrific though. The first 2, I would let any kid read, but that last one...
I really liked The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory.
I'm reading John Adams by David McCullough right now. The HBO series was one of the best things I've ever seen on TV. And I loved 1776 by the same author. I also have that on Audio book because McCullough reads it and his voice is awesome. He narrated The Civil War on PBS.
Another book I couldn't put down and that has stayed with me since I read it was The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion.
I read Jim Beaver's book, Life's That Way, recently. Jim is a writer and an actor who played Ellsworth on the HBO series Deadwood. He's on another NG that I participate in and his wife died a few years ago. Jim sent out emails to family and friends during her illness and then was talked into turning those emails into a book. He's a wonderful writer and you'd think the book would be terribly sad and it was at times. But it was also funny and inspiring. I'll remember it forever.
I've started reading again after a lapse of a few years. I used to read, read, read all the time. Now I sew, sew, sew.
With audio books, I can do both! Yay! I've been sewing to mostly classics from the library. Dickens, all the Jane Austin books are available. Bronte sisters. I listened to The Year of Wonders, a novel about the Plague written by Geraldine Brooks.
I am a huge fan of the #1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. They are "light" reading but with a little something more to them. I think it is best to read them in order but not absolutley necessary.
Happy Heal>A while back, someone here recommended a book: The Guernsey Literary and
I keep starting and re-starting the first one. I keep losing my reading momentum and then I figure it would be better to just start over again. I've enjoyed seeing the characters on the HBO? series.
I had the same problem with the #1 Detective Agency series Kathyl. I think I read about 3 of them, but I stopped then - for some reason, I just couldn't connect with the characters. That being said, I have really enjoyed the HBO series - interesting, huh?
That was probably me Pat. I'm so glad you LOVED it - so did I. I'm really hoping the niece of the original author will write more adult fiction that is as captivating as Potato Peel Pie Society.
I am reading a mystery series right now that I'm quite enjoying. They also take place in England, but the time period is just after WWI. The first book in the series is Masie Dobbs & the author is Jacqueline Winspear. I think I'm on book 4 or 5 now & there is only one more left to read:( I love when a bit of fact is written into a novel. Masie Dobbs is a female private detective.
I'm sure you have read "These Is My Words" by Nancy Turner. I'm sure someone here recommended it a few years ago. I could not put the book down! If I had errands to run, I brought it with me & read it whenever there was a stop light! Pitiful, huh? It is one of my most favorite books, which led me to explore other books that were written during the covered wagon age! "Sara's Quilt" is a follow up to These Is My Words & it is also very good, but nothing holds a candle to These Is My Words IMNSHO!! The Star Garden is, I believe the last in that series & I thoroughly enjoyed it as well.
Nancy Turner's books led me to read Jane Kirkpatrick's Kinship & Courage series, starting with "All Together in One Place).
For really quick & dirty read, I have enjoyed James Patterson's The Women's Murder Club series.
Sandra Dallas is another favorite of mine, as well as Gail Tsukiyama. Secret Life of Bees is another all time favorite of mine.
Good luck with your recuperation. I'm so glad you posted your request - I love seeing what everyone is reading & adding the books to my list!
I don't think I'll be much help here. I re-read my classics and the Harry Potter books constantly. I do read some other books, like Tom Clancey, and James Patterson. But Dickens, Bronte, and Austin are among my favs.
The Women, by T. C. Boyle. About Frank Lloyd Wright told through the lens of his wives. (If you read Loving Frank, by Nancy Horan, about FLW's affair with Mamah Borthwich Cheney, you *really* have to read The Women.)
Sing Them Home, by Stephanie Kallos. Three siblings from a small town in southeastern Nebraska cope with being adults -- very much like Anne Tyler. (Kallos's first book is a must-read, too: Broken For You.)
Two good mysteries: Honestly, Dearest, You're Dead, by Jack Fredrickson. Jelly's Gold, by David Housewright.
Oooo! Thank you! I've read everything I could find about FLW. I loved Loving Frank, well, except for Mamah's gruesome end.
I will look for the Women.
Cindy
The Women, by T. C. Boyle. About Frank Lloyd Wright told through the lens of his wives. (If you read Loving Frank, by Nancy Horan, about FLW's affair with Mamah Borthwich Cheney, you *really* have to read The Women.)
Sing Them Home, by Stephanie Kallos. Three siblings from a small town in southeastern Nebraska cope with being adults -- very much like Anne Tyler. (Kallos's first book is a must-read, too: Broken For You.)
Two good mysteries: Honestly, Dearest, You're Dead, by Jack Fredrickson. Jelly's Gold, by David Housewright.
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