Literature What are you currently reading?

Emma JC said:
today I am reading Sandra Brown's "Envy" which is supposed to be one of her best - I have to agree so far (about 2/3s done)

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finished it (ps don't read it if you don't like at least a few sex scenes) - it was very good and the next one - her Best Kept Secrets is next on the list

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I went to the library and swapped out my book for "You" book. It is what the show is based on. I have the new Chuck Palahniuk book in transit to the library from my hold, "Not forever, but for now. "
 
I just finished Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen.
It's the first book in Her Royal Spyness series.
I got it because the blurb contained an endorsement from Jacqueline Winspear (author of the Maisie Hobbs series). and upon getting the book I found that Winspear was also thanked in the acknowledgments.

Although I enjoyed the book I think I might go and read another of her books - but a stand alone or a different series. Her Royal Spyness was sort of Slapstick. And although I like that kind of stuff - like Hiaasen and Wodehouse, I didn't think the humor was that great - although it nevertheless a good mystery. In the amateur sleuth/reluctant detective subgenera.
 
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I have finished a new YA sci-fi book called "Nubia The Awakening." It was written by Omar Epps and Clarence A. Haynes. I saw Mr Epps on Good Morning America promoting the book and the library had it. For those who don't recognize the name, Omar Epps is a well known actor. I remember him from the TV show "House." The book is about a future New York after massive climate change disasters. The rich people have built a sky city and left the disadvantaged to try to survive in the ruins of the city. Refugees from the lost nation of Nubia struggle to survive. The story revolves around several teens, some involved in gangs, who discover they possess unusual abilities. It is a good story about race and prejudice and corruption. It is told in the perspective of several of the teens. I liked it a lot and since it left you hanging at the end, I expect a sequel and perhaps a series.
 
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Chryssie said:
I have finished a new YA sci-fi book called "Nubia The Awakening." It was written by Omar Epps and Clarence A. Haynes. I saw Mr Epps on Good Morning America promoting the book and the library had it. For those who don't recognize the name, Omar Epps is a well known actor. I remember him from the TV show "House."
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I just saw him in Shooter the other day as I googled his hame as I couldn't remember what I saw him in, it was from Scream 2.

I have pre-ordered the new Arnold Schwarzenegger book in hardback as I know I will read it and so will my husband and brother.
 
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read another Sandra Brown - Seeing Red - also good

I just had A Touch of Ruin arrive from my waiting list from Scarlett St. Clair - not sure if someone here recommended it, looking forward to reading it.

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Finished another John Sandford Virgil Flowers book called "Deep Freeze" which was appropriate because it took place in Minnesota in the winter. I can relate so much to these books having lived in the area for many years. This one had Virgil solving two cases. One is the murder of the rich woman banker in a small town. The other concerned a PI from LA working for Mattel trying to serve cease and desist notices on some people who were "defacing" Barbie and Ken dolls. This was hilarious as they were modifying the dolls to make them anatomically correct and inserting voice recorders in them that said sexual things. Then they were selling them on the internet.
Lots of mayhem took place and it was a fun read.
 
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Read another in the Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penny called "How the Light Gets In." It was another really good murder mystery. I am reading this series all out of order and this is an older one that helped with some background as I started reading the newer ones first. The characters are so believable and one can really empathize with them. This one was about corruption within the police force.
 
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I have just finished "The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead. I am sure this book is on many banned books lists. It was an Oprah Winfrey book club choice in 2016 and as the title states is about the underground railroad that helped runaway slaves in the dark days of slavery before the Civil War. It is the story of Cora, a young woman who escapes the horrors of a cotton plantation in Georgia. This book is deeply disturbing and filled with the terrible atrocities done to slaves and those who tried to help them. This book describes the things that some of those in power would like erased from history. Should be required reading for every person in the country!
 
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I do want to mention regarding that book I just read. It is NOT an actual history book and has some fantasy aspects! Still I think it is a very worthy book and won a Pulitzer in 2017.
 
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Chryssie said:
I have just finished "The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead.
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a similar novel is Kindred

Kindred (1979) is a novel by American writer Octavia E. Butler that incorporates time travel and is modeled on slave narratives. Widely popular, it has frequently been chosen as a text by community-wide reading programs and book organizations, and for high school and college courses.
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Lou said:
oh. I forgot to tell you guys that I finished Lessons in Chemistry.
It has been on The NY Times Bestseller list for months. I put it on hold and I had to wait months and months for it. It's as good as everyone says it is. I loved it.

Apple is making it into a TV show.

it’s the story of Elizabeth Zott, a woman chemist and single mother confronting sexism and other tribulations as she tries to pursue her vocation in the early 1960s. She stumbles into a gig hosting a chemistry-centric cooking show on daytime TV and becomes a celebrity in syndication.​
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I finally received it from my Hold list and devoured it yesterday - loved it!! I will likely not get to see the series and that's okay because the book is great.

Thank you for the recommendation.

Emma JC
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