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The previous thread was getting a bit long, so here is a new Currently Reading Thread starting on January 1st 2024.

The previous thread is LINK HERE

Cave in the Snow ....Vicki MacKenzie

In another group, my 老虎机稳赢方法 friend Deb Atwood and I (and perhaps others who might join us) are taking part this month in a buddy read of The Hacienda (2022) by Mexican-born writer Isabel Ca帽as. This is a Gothic tale set in the Mexico of 1823, and is the author's first novel.

Currently reading:

-The World at Night by Alan Furst
-Dare to Lead by Bren茅 Brown
-City of Endless Night by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
-Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
-The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose

Just started reading Lady Tan's Circle of Women it鈥檚 been awhile since I picked up a historical fiction novel.

Werner wrote: "In another group, my 老虎机稳赢方法 friend Deb Atwood and I (and perhaps others who might join us) are taking part this month in a buddy read of [book:The Hacienda|5784..."
I read this one a few years ago when it came out and found it quite interesting how it linked horror as well as some historical undertones and messages as well.

Sarah wrote: "I read this one a few years ago when it came out and found it quite interesting how it linked horror as well as some historical undertones and messages as well."

So far (I'm only around 50 pages into it), the horrific elements are sparse and low-key, just vague impressions in the heroine's mind that she's unsure if she saw or heard correctly. But the historical fiction aspect is very front-and-center, and well developed.

I'm reading an intriguingly titled crime novel set in 1870 and called Wobble to Death 馃榿

Here is my 4.02 rounded to 4 stars review of The Deceiving Look by Victor Methos:
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Crime and legal thriller
Third book in the series
Overall, this tense, suspenseful, and tragic novel gripped me from the beginning. The author brings strong characters, a great plot, and fascinating relationships to the novel.

hoping to finish The Mirror & the Light and Nick of Time shortly and will get to my next reads after that.

I started reading one of the greatest Science-Fiction cultural touchstones of the 1960s


Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

Currently:
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

Soon to be added:
Forget What You Know by Christina Dodd

Tom, I really enjoyed Pigs In Heaven, as well as The Bean Trees.

RJ - Slayer of Trolls wrote: "I started reading one of the greatest Science-Fiction cultural touchstones of the 1960s


Stranger in a Strange Land by [author:Robert A..."

RJ, I read this terrific book during my teens and have always thought about rereading it. You may have motivated me in doing so. Thanks!

I finished reading The Gene: An Intimate History and thoroughly enjoyed it.
It's easy to read and interesting. It takes the reader from the earliest contemplations & ideas about heredity and what causes likenesses within families to the latest of gene technology & analysis. The author also touches on the ethics of what we learn and how to use the knowledge responsibly.
This is the second book I've read authored by Siddhartha Mukherjee. I've enjoyed them both. He writes for the "everyman", not the scientist or biologist. He makes the information understandable.

Petra wrote: "RJ, I read this terrific book during my teens and have always thought about rereading it. You may have motivated me in doing so. Thanks!"

Well, if you do re-read it and you feel like discussing it with others, head on over to the Hugo & Nebula Awards: Best Novels group here on GoodReads where it is one of this month's group reads.

I started reading the second book in the Virgil Tibbs series


The Cool Cottontail by John Dudley Ball

Well, I've already had one DNF this year, so hopefully the year gets better. This was my DNF:

The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls by Emilie Autumn

I hated giving up on it because I'd read 50% of it, but it just got weird and didn't seem to be going anywhere.

This is my current read. I'm 1/3 through it and it's pretty good so far.

The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren

On my 3rd book of the year, and I'm re-reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Been wanting to re-read this for over a year now, and it fit into a challenge prompt that I'm trying to complete this year. Also plan on reading Catching Fire (it also fits into a prompt) after I'm finished with The Hunger Games.

So far, I am not enjoying it as I did the first time I read it. Maybe should not have started it for a 2nd time to begin with. Didn't realize how cold Katniss can be towards the ones who care about her. But that was the point of her character, wasn't it? the oppressive government squashes everything inside. In 1984, the main character was somewhat cold inside, but he was still loveable, because of the cause of an oppressive government. Katniss isn't loveable. Maybe it's my mindset as the present. Don't know what else it could be.

Hate saying this but considering about DNF this novel; and now I don't want to tackle Catching Fire either. Guess I could find 2 other books to replace the prompts they filled on the challenge I'm trying to complete. Hate dreading to open up a novel to read. Any suggestions for the prompt: wings on the cover? or a book with a secondary color on the cover (orange, green, or purple)?

I am currently reading
physical book Plain Killing by Emma Miller
e book a clue for the puzzle lady by Parnell Hall

About to start The Fury. It鈥檒l be the third novel of his that I will read.

I'm currently reading Making it so by Patrick Stewart my 5th book and Grace by Paul Lynch book 6

Here is my 4.34 rounded to 4 stars review of Lethal Vengeance by Robert Bryndza:
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Police Procedural
# 8 in the series
Gripping, Complex, Good characterization, Page-Turner

I am reading:
1)Parable of the Sower (slowly to avoid an onset of depression);

2) Lady Audley's Secret on Kindle. As an American, I was totally unfamiliar with Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Since she was apparently such a prolific writer, I wonder if she is equally ignored in the UK or if she simply is overlooked in America, overshadowed by other writers such as Collins and Dickens.

3) The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett as an Audible listen late at night. I can't count how many times I have read this jewel over my lifetime.

4)Pilgrim at Tinker Creek / by Annie Dillard. It must be the wrong book for me at this time; it reads like a devotional, and who can speed-read a devotional?

5) Fairy Tale why Stephen King. Again - began in December. I don't like Stephen King but his use of classic fairy tales in this novel was amusing - at first. I'm 50% done. Should I finish or drop?

6) From Hebrews to Revelation: A Theological Introduction by a former prof Lewis Donelson. I'm on the Revelation. It raises a thousands theological questions for me, and his book has been almost as awesome as his classroom experience. Nothing in theology can be rushed for me, and the concept of the apocalypse and the new creation will engage me for the remainder of my days!

7) The Battle of Life in a group read by Charles Dickens.

I am anxious to finish these slow reads and move on to the exciting books waiting for me! 14 days into 2024 and nothing is finished!! Very unlike my pace in 2023.

John, Bren茅 Brown (and an outstanding life coach) got me out of my pandemic doldrums and back into reading for pleasure! I found The Gifts of Imperfection very insightful.

Now, having gotten the perpetual DNF monkey off my back, I am devouring The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood.

Finally finished my first read of the year today. Up next:


Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine

Laura wrote: "On my 3rd book of the year, and I'm re-reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Been wanting to re-read this for over a year now, and it fit into a challenge prompt that I'm trying to complete ..."

When it first came out, that series sounded so dark that I didn't want to read it - children fighting each other to survive, etc. I was surprised that so many kids as young as 9 were really into it. I actually don't like any dystopian books where violence is the way to win.

Back in 2020, I first encountered Shiela Crerar, the heroine of a short story cycle by British author Ella M. Scrymsour (whose full name was Ella Mary Scrymsour-Nichol) published in 1920, through the story "The Werewolf of Rannoch." The Adventures of Shiela Crerar, Psychic Detective collects all six of the stories; and having gotten a copy for Christmas, I was able to start reading it yesterday!

I started reading the Pulitzer Prize nominee


Basin and Range by John McPhee

Robin P wrote: "When it first came out, that series sounded so dark that I didn't want to read it - children fighting each other to survive, etc. I was surprised that so many kids as young as 9 were really into it. I actually don't like any dystopian books where violence is the way to win."

I agree and didn't want to read it when it first came out either because of the same reasons, and it is not appropriate for anyone that young. But I also don't think anyone should read what's outside their comfort zone, or children reading something their parents don't want them to.

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles and enjoying it very much!

I finally finished my re-read of ,Wild and Free and updated my original rating of 3.75 鉁� to a solid 4 馃専 read...

I am now beginning the first book to a 4 book series the Ravenhood, by Kate Stewart.. , Flock...
Wish me luck馃

Petra wrote: "Tom, I really enjoyed Pigs In Heaven, as well as The Bean Trees."

I thought The Bean Trees was ok, but I really liked Pigs in Heaven. I am wondering what both stories would be if they were written by a Native American author.

Finished The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish . This is a tough one but the writing is exquisite. My thoughts:
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I am about to begin , Exodus, book 2 in her Ravenhood series馃

Lee wrote: "...As an American, I was totally unfamiliar with Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Since she was apparently such a prolific writer, I wonder if she is equally ignored in the UK or if she simply is overlooked in America, overshadowed by other writers such as Collins and Dickens.."

She is overshadowed in the UK too, unfortunately. Many readers will not have heard of her and the others will probably only have heard of "Lady Audley's Secret". That includes me, but thanks to your comment, I was inspired to check out my library and they have a copy of The Doctor's Wife which is now on my TBR list.

Laura wrote: "On my 3rd book of the year, and I'm re-reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Been wanting to re-read this for over a year now, and it fit into a challenge prompt that I'm trying to complete ..."

I read all of these books during the last month of last year, and I have to admit, I thought Katniss was a turd most of the time, until she was irrevocably traumatized by the games

The Wheel of Darkness

Right now I am almost done with Nick of Time and Walk on Earth a Stranger both pretty good reads for YA novels and both the 1st in a series with one being a duology the Nick of Time series by Ted Bell and the other a trilogy.

I own the Second book of the Walk on Earth a Stranger trilogy by Rae Carson as a physical paperback so have decided to borrow the 1st book and the final book in the series on the Libby ebooks library as part of my local library and same with the final book in the Nick of Time duology too. I'll post my reviews when finished with them and probably won't get to the other books in these two series until probably later this year.

I started this one last night and read 25% in one sitting. It's SO good. I picked it up for an odd reason, though. LOL! My boyfriend is also a dialysis nurse and works for this company's competitor. I picked it up thinking it was about a recent story I heard in the news, but when I read the synopsis, I was like, I'm buying this, even though I don't do physical books anymore. LOL!



Killer Nurse: The Harrowing True Story of One Woman's Murder Spree in an East Texas Town by John Foxjohn

I started the second part of this volume of classic Science Fiction novellas


The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II B edited by Ben Bova

Looking forward to this one. A Universal History of the Destruction of Books: From Ancient Sumer to Modern-day Iraq by Fernando B谩ez | translation by Alfred McAdam

I just finished A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles which I loved and tomorrow I will start Murder on the Christmas Express by Alexandra Benedict

I am doing a buddy read on Childs Play by Danielle Steel

now reading Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig

I started reading the third James Bond book


Moonraker by Ian Fleming

Finished my read last night, so I'm starting this one later on today.


The Overdue Life of Amy Byler
by
Kelly Harms

I started reading


Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

I DNF'd Murder on the Christmas Express and am now rereading Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, Middlemarch by George Eliot and the Book of Acts in the Bible.

Finished Dead Mountain
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