Got my copy of The Wonder and glad to hear you like it! Interestingly, it was reviewed by Stephen King in The NY Times!
@jaylynn thanks for the thumbs up for the new Emma Donoghue! Iām a big fan of all her books. Tell us what you think of Commonwealth when youāre done.
Iām reading The Nix. So far, it reminds me of the best of Jonathan Franzen: well written, big in scope, compelling characters, very āthe way we live now.ā
My book club and I went to dinner and then to see A Man Called Ove at the theater. It was a lovely evening and everyone really enjoyed the movie. I thought the casting was perfect, the humor translated well and the message of family and love was handled well.
Just read The Nix and then Gentleman in Moscow. Two really good books! Count Rostov is one of my favorite characters in a while. My next book club book is Commonwealth so I am glad to see the positive comments above.
Finished The Lost Girls (Heather Young) and really enjoyed it. I think the NY Times review sums it up nicely. āFor all the beauty of Youngās writing, her novel is a dark one, full of pain and loss. And the mystery that drives it is as shocking as anything youāre likely to read for a good long while.ā
Finished the second book of Stephen Kingās Detective Hodge trilogy. On to the last one!
Just put Commonwealth and The Nix on reserve at the library. Looking forward to reading them! Thanks for the suggestions!
Seconding the recommendation for A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles. It was such as lovely book. I agree with csshsm: Count Rostov is a wonderful character, as are all (well, almost all!) the denizens of the Metropol, the Moscow hotel where he was sentenced to house arrest for life after the Bolsheviks came to power. (I would say that the Metropol itself is a character!) Such a wonderful book.
Finished the Detective Hodges trilogy (Stephen King). The last one was bizarre, and much more āStephen King-ish.ā
I think Iām bumping A Gentleman in Moscow up to my next read/listen. I really liked Rules of Civility and it has rave reviews on Audible, including ones about the performance.
Just finished Telex from Cuba by Rachael Kushnerāloved it. Story of ex-pats in Cuba before the Revolution.
I am reading āAll That Man Isā, one of the Booker prize shortlisted books, and really enjoying it. It is more like nine short/long stories than a novel, each about a manās current circumstance in a different European city. Very beautifully written and interesting.
I am now hooked on Louise Penny mysteries. Move over, Ruth Rendell!
I just saw the film A Man Called Ove. Due to so many of the reviews saying they just couldnāt get through this book, I have been slow to buy it. But I LOVED the film. I will definitely get the book.
I decided to re-read East of Eden in order to do the CC book club. Ugh. I had forgotten how ponderous it is. Not sure if Iāll make it through it again, but Iām having no trouble getting to sleep. Steinbeck is literary Nyquil.
I just finished āHere I Amā by Jonathan Safran Foer. I didnāt think it was perfect but I liked it a lot.
Ha, I just finished East of Eden and it had the opposite effect on me. I could hardly put it down!
Hope you do join the CC book club discussion, cartera45. A range of views is always appreciated.
I havenāt liked some of the books Iāve read with the book club, and I tend to be rather critical of much of what I read, so I was surprised I liked this book so much.
@cartera45 Iām with you! But it should be fun to discuss.
Actually one of the best CC discussions, I thought, was for the collection of Alice Munro short stories. I liked them a lot more after talking about them.
What am I reading now? A really boring book on polymer chemistry. 
Isnāt there already a ābest bookā thread?
Here you go:
If you lose the link, it is easy to find - the link is pinned at the top of the Cafe.
Oh thanksā¦sorry about that.