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Has anyone read Alex Michaelides' The Silent Patient?
Or Mark Manson's The Subtle Art of Not Giving A (naughty word).
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I’m reading North Woods. Just began but so far it has kept my attention.
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Jlyn, I remember the title of 'hairy mclarey from donaldson's dairy', but not the plot!
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I just read Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl. It’s really quick and it’s short essays alternating between memories of her childhood and her recent life in late middle age. Some of the “chapters” are one page and none are more than about 3-4 pages. So easy to read in short chunks.

Lots about nature — birds, bunnies, her dogs, plants, weather — and quite a bit about her relatives including the old age and death of her parents. I enjoyed it though parts were really sad. All about the seasons of life. Very thoughtful but a delicate touch.
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On order from my library is
Memorial Days: A memoir by Geraldine Brooks about when her apparently healthy husband suddenly died right on the sidewalk. It is her walk through early widowhood.
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Two huge books on the history of art are on the desk. Lower to the bed and read them as they perch on a pillow, few pages at a time. Slow reads, and just savoring them slow. Got a Kroch & Brentano's gift certificate and so seldom do I shop for a book that I hardly knew what to want for; I am a library hound. But once in the store I had no problem at all getting rid of 50.00! Shocking for me; I am so used to reading free.
I do admit to guilt over not PAYING for authors I love. So sometimes when a book is amazing I will buy one to send to daughter, SIL, grandson.
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OK. Have fallen in love with another Author.
Christopher Bollen.
First read Havoc, a DELIGHTFUL tale of an old woman fleeing (SOMETHING), currently in Egypt. Is she evil? IF she is, the she may (or may NOT have) met her match in a small boy at the same hotel with his mother. DO get it!
Having Thus fallen deeply in love it is on to everything I can find in the library by him. So many that N. had to drive me to pick up the stack.
Currently reading my second of his called A Beautiful Crime. A gay couple, intent on some minor fraud, in Venice (speaking of falling in love again).

And what are YOU reading.
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Every time somebody here mentions a book I go to my library website to see if they have it and the answer is almost always no; they do have a couple of other books by Christopher Bollen though that I've bookmarked.
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You MUST get Havoc, C. Make them buy it!
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I had been reading my way through the NYT best books of the 21st century but I need to read something a little more fun. I was reading Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo. I can't stomach this book anymore and I don't know how it turns out but I can only surmise.

I am going to take Alva's advice -- Havoc is next on my list.
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Just finished “Did Mom Drop Acid?” by Michelle Cain. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I heard Michelle on a recent podcast, promoting her book (late 2024 release) which documents the caregiving journey of her Mom, who battled Lewy Body Dementia. I normally seek out other genres for greater escape, but something told me to grab this one quick. Why? Because Michelle uses something I rarely come across in caregiving and, admittedly, have also forgotten to seek out…HUMOR. How healing it is to be able to laugh at the brutality of cognitive decline, even if only momentarily. She does it in a way that is respectful and relatable. I laughed and cried my way through. I appreciate her gift of writing and the reminder that love and laughter are still the best medicine.
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The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni, just finished and was much more enjoyable than other recent books. If anyone wants a good story this is one
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Looks like that's another one my library doesn't have, it sounded good too. 😢 Oh well I'll bookmark it anyway.
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I highly recommend:
The Marmalade Diaries
The True Story of an Odd Couple
By Ken Aitken.

During covid shutdown in England Mr. Aitken availed himself of NHS Britain's program Care and Share, in which a young person, for a very reasonable (indeed small) rental can move in with an elder who wishes to stay in the home, but who would like a companion present at times: details to be worked out by the individuals.
Why or why or why do we not have such programs in our country.
Entertaining, enlightening and just plain GOOD FUN, is this read.
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Sounds lovely, Alva. I'm tempted.
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I just read The Retirement Plan,, fun twisty , and with a happy ending (believe it or not if you read the blurbs). LOL I really enjoyed it and it kept me guessing. I have a pile of mysteries beside my chair. Currently reading Murder Takes a Vacation by Laura Lippman, its very good so far.
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I devoured all of Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan books, I'll have to check my library for her newest one.
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They all sound good and some of the Tess M books are on Kindle Unlimited.
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Ooh glad this thread got bumped. I just finished "How to Stop Time" by Matthew Haig in which you can live forever but are not allowed to fall in love. A great lesson in future worrying which is on all of our minds I feel.

He also wrote "The Midnight Library" a great statement on the futility of regret. I am now on to another of his called "Humans".
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I loved The Midnight Library, glad to hear of another good one by Haig
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I just finished the Leiberman Papers series. It's like a turn of the century Sherlock Holmes based in Vienna.
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A Well-behaved Woman. Teresa Anne Fowler. I've been. Into the Gilded age stuff lately, after going to thousand island, really good so far.

The main characters name is Alva
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I'm rereading Nevada Barr's Blind Descent, it's hard to believe it was published back in 1998. Unfortunately that meant I woke up in the night trying to get out of an underground maze... there's no denying Barr knows how to draw you into her stories!
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More police procedure mysteries. When you are reading a series it takes the edge off when the hero or heroine is apparently mortally wounded. You know they have to survive as the series has another 5 books in it.

The 50 year old smoking, drinking, heroine was shot in the stomach and then went into cardiac arrest. Four months later she is chasing a villian, climbing high fences, running him down and cuffing him. Pretty resilient I say!!! It's very popular in the UK and will be made into a TV series.

I guess we all need a little fantasy.
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Ah Golden, I hear you about the heroes that are impervious to damage that is so pervasive in books, films and TV. It's why once favourite long running series tend to lose their appeal to me, they don't just bend the truth they descend into so far into the unbelievable it becomes difficult to feel any empathy for the protagonists. I've often wondered if it has contributed to the callous disregard for pain and suffering too many people exhibit today; when we repeatedly "witness" stabbings, beatings, shootings and more with no long lasting consequences it has to give an unrealistic expectation about the real cost of those violent actions.
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I am back to sewing again, so am listening to books on tapes. My local library can just about get any one recorded, as well it can get me films on DVD for the nights entertainment. Currently listening to Dana French The Secret Place. I love her police procedurals, and when read with love lovely accents they are especially fun.
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I'm reading "The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia" by Juliet Grames. Set in a fictional Calabria Italian village in the 1960, a skeleton is discovered under the old post office. The young American teacher who is starting up a pre-k school gets involved in trying to solve several mysteries in a setting where rather menacing poweful men lurk and secrets abound.

Reminiscent of the Elena Ferrante Brilliant Friend series but not copycat by any stretch.
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'Christ The Healer' by F. F. Bosworth, originally written in 1924. It's about the reason Jesus died on the cross wasn't just for our salvation from our sin nature but also for our healing as one of the gifts of the Spirit,
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If you like fiction I just finished The Queen of Fives, and it was very good.
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For those interested in Memoir, possibly my favorite genre after mystery, I recommend Carrying the Tiger, by Tony Stewart. Free on Kindle Unlimited and cheap otherwise on Amazon.

In this wonderful (but VERY TOUGH) book, the battle with cancer is not won. Over time Tony does lose his beloved wife. But their facing down the disease is a remarkable story in just exactly what the diagnosis, treatment, and life-journey with metastatic stage IV cancer can be/often is.

I highly recommend this tough book if you are ready to take a tough journey through a disease and a medical system that can work miracles, but at a cost. In this book, while the cancer is held at bay, the side effects of the treatment of it let you know that this choice to battle IS a choice, and takes great fortitude and acceptance, and requires tremendous sacrifice from our caregivers.
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