McCracken County Public Library discussion

Quiet bunch this month. Anything good on your nightstands?

I just finished the end of your life book club. A story about a mom with cancer and she has a book club with her son. Pretty good.

I've kind of wanted to read that, but I suspected it was a book that would make me cry and I hate crying!

A reading partner and I (both regular attenders also of Off the Bookshelf) have recently finished The Goldfinch. It was long and it was definitely not a feel-good read. Still both of us agreed we would not soon forget the story. We would like to hear comments from you and others that may have read this book.

Michelle, I read the end of your life book club and I liked it too!
I just heard about goldfinch last night and have added it to my "to-read" shelf. So many books, so little time.
Just finished happily ever after by trista sitter. Only liked it so-so. Moving on to a mad, wicked folly by Sharon Biggs Waller. Hope it's good!

I just started wild by Cheryl Stayed. So far so good.

I added that one to my to-read list too...

It's good so far. Very good. Hope to get it finished this weekend.

I'm currently reading two books that I picked up from the library, Sag Harbor and Busting Loose, and Wuthering Heights that I downloaded to my Kindle for free. I think I have a hold book coming out soon too- the new J D Robb. I'm gonna have to take a day off work just to read!!

It's been so long since I've read wuthering heights. I'm reading can you keep a secret by Sophie Kinsella. So far so good.

I just started Mrs. Queen Takes the Train. So far, it's pretty amusing. The premise is that Queen Elizabeth is bored and frustrated with her life and she decides to run away to visit the old Royal Yacht Brittania, in Scotland. Right now, the book is just introducing some of the characters around her.

Who wrote that Melissa?

William Kuhn. I've never heard of him before. :)

Me either. The book sounds interesting.

Just FYI--you can link books and authors in your post--just click the "add book/author" link above the comment box. That way people can add the books and authors you're talking about to their reading lists and bookshelves!

Ooh good idea, Moderator!

Mccracken County Public Library wrote: "Quiet bunch this month. Anything good on your nightstands?"

My blind date review:
The Manhattan Beach Project
by Peter Lefcourt
I got into this book as I was reading it. This is well written suspense and action with funny commentary on the entertainment industry. This book fails the Bechdel test. The female characters are shallow and belittled.

I was given this book at the library in the "blind date with a book" program. I probably won't read any more Lefcourt, but I will totally let the library set me up again sometime!
3 stars https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I read The Goldfinch, Diane. I liked it a lot although I found it exhausting. Perfect writing, but so excessively wordy! I agree that it is one that really sticks with you. You should check out the author's first book, The Secret History, if you haven't yet. It's one of my favorites. It's not very uplifting either, though :)

I am reading a science fiction novel now--The Martian by Andy Weir. It's about an astronaut who accidentally gets left behind on a mission to Mars. So he has to try to survive on the planet. It's a fun survival story and surprisingly not grim.

I just finished the last lecture by randy pausch. Wow just wow!!! Quick read if you have a few hours.

John Green's Looking For Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars. Ransom Riggs Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Hamlet by William Shakespeare.

Born on a Mountaintop: On the Road with Davy Crockett and the Ghosts of the Wild Frontier by Bob Thompson. It is surprisingly funny and entertaining.