Lexington Reads discussion

Just a quick check of the pulse: What is everybody reading right now?

I'm getting ready to read Cora Wilson Stewart and Kentucky's Moonlight Schools: Fighting for Literacy in America; followed by The Killing Moon; followed by Stealing Secrets: How a Few Daring Women Deceived Generals, Impacted Battles, and Altered the Course of the Civil War; then The Ice Princess; and last for this month, Someone Knows My Name.-I'm still working on next months reading list-any suggestions?

The Everything Hot Sauce Book: From Growing to Picking and Preparing - All You Need to Add Some Spice to Your Life! by Anglea Garbes

The Power of Parable: How Fiction by Jesus Became Fiction about Jesus by John Dominic Crossan


Twelve Desperate Miles: The Epic World War II Voyage of the SS Contessa by Tim Brady

Unholy Night by Seth Grahame-Smith

The Girl in the Blue Beret: A Novel by: Bobbie Ann Mason

Still Alice

We're on a fantasy kick right now. I just finished Warhost of Vastmark by Janny Wurts & am now reading Lady-Protector by L.E. Modesitt Jr.. Marg is reading Keeper of the Keys, the second in Janny Wurts' Cycle of Fire trilogy.

Doug wrote: "Just a quick check of the pulse: What is everybody reading right now?"

Wool Omnibus Edition by Hugh Howey

I'm reading Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry and Altzhimers PreventionProgram by GAry Small, MD and GIgi Vorgan. Both pretty interesting. I love Wendell Berry's language...

Seems like we are a pretty eclectic group of readers! I just finished "The Invisible Bridge" by Julie Orringer. I highly recommend it. It is an epic tale (WWII/Holocaust)with incredible characters that you will fall in love with. It is set mainly in Hungary which was an ally of Nazi Germany, so it offers a different viewpoint. Beautiful, beautiful writing. It will stay with me a very long time. This is a great Book Club pick. Still contemplating my next selection.

Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America's First Imperial Adventure by Julia Flynn Siler. Story of Hawaii's royalty pre-annexation to the US, the sugar baron's and the royalty's downfall because of them and the how-to of annexation for defense purposes. Quite good!

Melanie wrote: "Seems like we are a pretty eclectic group of readers! I just finished "The Invisible Bridge" by Julie Orringer. I highly recommend it. It is an epic tale (WWII/Holocaust)with incredible characte..."
I just finished "Women Heroes of WW II,and after reading your post,and determining that the Lexington Public Library has the title, I decided to download "The Invisible Bridge"(Kindle). Looking forward to starting it in the next day or two. Thanks for the heads up.

My pleasure. You won't be disappointed. Everyone in my book club, without exception, loved it. Let me know what you think after you finish.

We are definitely eclectic! I recently finished The Girl in the Blue Beret by Bobbie Ann Mason--highly recommend it. And I've just discovered the funny quick-read Jaine Austin mystery series by Laura Levine. I have read two of them in the past two days.

Jane wrote: "We are definitely eclectic! I recently finished The Girl in the Blue Beret by Bobbie Ann Mason--highly recommend it. And I've just discovered the funny quick-read Jaine Austin mystery series by L..."

I'm around half way through The Girl in the Blue Beret, and really enjoying the story and Ms. Mason's writing style. Regret not having read it long before now.

Right now reading The Wind Up Bird Chronicle for the Under 40 group at Tates Creek library.

Just a question: do we have an official group read chosen yet for July? Hadn't seen any posts about it yet.

Melanie wrote: "My pleasure. You won't be disappointed. Everyone in my book club, without exception, loved it. Let me know what you think after you finish."

Melanie,I just wanted to let you know how much I am enjoying "The Invisible Bridge". I'm only around 30% into it and loving every page of the writing and character development. Its a great follow-up to "Girl in the Blue Beret"

Nancy: I didn't want to overdo it with the group reads, so I was just putting Bluegrass Conspiracy as a summer read, with Yates Paul for the fall. People seem to have such varied taste, I'm not sure we can find a monthly read. That's just one opinion; if there's demand for more, I'm happy to oblige!

Harley.
I am so glad you are enjoying "The Invisible Bridge", but not at all surprised. The author's use of language, the characters, the story itself, are all so captivating. I haven't read "The Girl in the Blue Beret"...sounds like a good one, and the author is from Kentucky, right? I'll have to add it to my always mounting "to read" list!

I mostly read science fiction, horror, urban fantasy (and I write on the paranormal side). This past week, I read The Harrowing, which is a young adult UF; I read The Manor, again; Alone (kindle edition, self-pub, very poor editing); I'm getting ready to read Once Upon a Time in Midnight (read the beta draft and loved it). I also read a beta draft for a friend and have one here on my desk to start for someone else. Time to get busy! :)

Right now is Rot & Ruin, with Dust & Decay on deck

Hailey wrote: "Right now is Rot & Ruin, with Dust & Decay on deck"

those are so good! jon's good people and an amazing writer :)

I really enjoyed the books. He is a great author.

Hailey wrote: "I really enjoyed the books. He is a great author."

i can't wait to get my hands on dust & decay. i keep looking at my pre-orders. LOL

The Reckoning by Alma Katsu. It's the second book in this the taker trilogy. Very much looking forward to it.

The Red Church by Scott Nicholson

I'm currently reading Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter and Insurgent by Veronica Roth.

I am currently reading the devil in silver, by Victor LaValle

i'm almost two weeks post-op and have read a number of things and didn't keep track very well. :snicker:

am currently reading Collapse: New America by Richard Stephenson

before that I finished the 2nd Scott Nicholson collection - just downloaded the fourth. lol

Hailey wrote: "Right now is Rot & Ruin, with Dust & Decay on deck"

sooon, sooon!!

I'm reading King of Thorns, sequel to Prince of Thorns which came out last year. So far it is just as fantastic as the first one was! Dark and cold and sharp-edged and AWESOME.

On another note, (and I hope it is okay that I post this here, because I couldn't really find a discussion that it would fit), if you are interested in YA fantasy novels, I am a Lexington author (I work at LPL) and my newest book, Crystallized, just got entered into Authorstand's annual novel contest. It hasn't been officially published, but is available as an e-book for the duration of the contest, and I could use some preliminary reviews to use for publicity. So if you a) Love YA Fantasy, b) Read e-books and c) Don't mind reviewing books, I encourage you to download the book for free at:

http://shop.authorstand.com/Products/...

Thank you! I would love for this to become a Lexington Reads book once it is officially released :)

currently reading (almost finished) Columbine

Mari wrote: "currently reading (almost finished) Columbine"

Finished Columbine last night. Difficult to read in places - and I cried in a few. Book definitely an eye-opener. Highly recommend - especially if you follow this kind of thing.

I just finished reading Raylan: A Novel by Elmore Leonard. The TV show "Justified" is on this character & these 3 stories are tied together in a novel that is quite different from what was on TV. It's based in KY, mostly Harlan county & Lexington.

My review is here:
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Organic Housekeeping

The End of Overeating

Since I can't wait for the paperback of Flesh and Bone, I bought the Kindle copy the other day and started it this morning. Intense right from the start, just what I expect from Jonathan Maberry

Currently reading World of the Lupi series by Eileen Wilks.

The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling Good so far!

Now reading "Rules of Civility" by Amor Towles. The library can't keep it's dozen or so copies on the shelves, it's so popular.

I just finished The Night Circus, and Iced. reading Crewel right now. enjoying them all greatly.

The Sinner

I just finished The Night Circus, and Iced. reading Crewel right now. enjoying them all greatly.

I'm reading J R by William Gaddis right now. I'm not too far into it but it's really good so far. It reads faster than I thought it would, especially since it has a reputation for being difficult.

I'm reading Hotspur by Rita Mae Brown. It's interesting because the heroine is a 71 year old Master of a fox hunt in VA. It's a murder mystery & seems to be getting the fox hunting crowd down very well. I wish it didn't have so much anthropomorphizing in the animals, though. Cats & dogs having conversations really harms an otherwise good story.

crimes against magic

I am on a Molly Harper Kick. She is a KY Author who writes paranormal romance comedies... All I know is that they make me Laugh. I read the Naked Werewolf series and just finished the Care and feeding of stray vampires. I highly reccomend her books.

I am working on reading The War of the Worlds. For some reason I am reading really slow so this short book is taking me longer than I would like.

I am reading The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell. Picked it off the shelf at the library with no prior knowledge of the author or book. I can hardly put it down. The mystery of visiting another planet is enough to keep your interest and the characters are fascinating. I'll read more from this author.

The Sparrow is one of my favorite books! The sequel's not quite as good, but Sparrow was mind-blowing.

Mary Doria Russell is an excellent author. I read "Dreamers of the Day" (historical fiction) and really enjoyed it. Totally different from "The Sparrow". She is from Ohio, (Cleveland I believe).