Just finished Gone Girl. I really liked it as it kept me guessing but I didn’t care for the ending.
I recently finished Gone Girlmas well. I enjoyed the twists and turns but agree with Onward - not a fan of the ending.
Second on The Book Thief!
Just finished “In the Shadow of the Banyan Tree”. Compelling story of 7yo girl in Cambodia starting in 1975 when the Khmer Rouge takes over and the pain of her family as they are moved repeatedly over the next 3-4 years. It is semi-autobiographical and the author’s first novel.
It was just published in print on August 7. An e-version was out earlier in the summer, as were reviews, so I put my request in at the library and was the first to get it. I could not put it down. Expect this to rocket to the top of best sellers lists.
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Another vote that Gone Girl is a great read but didn’t like the ending.
I enjoyed Gone Girl…dysfunctionally clever! (NJTM, no violence towards women…)
Sidetracked from starting Gone Girl by Gunn’s Golden Rules by Tim Gunn from Project Runway. I got this as a Christmas gift and am only now getting to it. What can I say? It’s just ridiculously entertaining, and kind of wise. He’s actually a complex man with an interesting life story, not what I’d assumed at all.
Just finished Gone Girl and loved it but didn’t like the ending.
Hmmm. Hard question…
Since I can’t decide on one, I’ll give a few:
Conspiracy of Fools, by Kurt Eichenwald. A book that gives a history and the circumstances surrounding the financial collapse of enron. Very heavy on finance and business terms and mechanisms, but I love finance so I loved the book. May not apply to all.
Being George Washington, by Glenn Beck. This was basically a biography of George Washington, with a focus upon his characteristics that led him to success and his impact on the newly found American Nation.
Ameritopia, by Mark R. Levin. If politics are your forte, then this book is worth looking into. It describes how American policies are overly utopian in ideal and execution, and uses ancient texts like Plato’s Republic and Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan to prove it. If you can deal with the bias, it’s a great book, in my opinion.
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Just finished, “Tryin’ to sleep in the bed you made”.. overall good read.
Oh and just saying, if someone says "Fifty Shades of Grey, " they’re getting a virtual punch.
I just finished [Shine</a> Shine Shine](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Shine-Lydia-Netzer/dp/1250007070/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345574974&sr=8-1&keywords=shine+shine+shine]Shine”>http://www.amazon.com/Shine-Lydia-Netzer/dp/1250007070/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345574974&sr=8-1&keywords=shine+shine+shine), a first novel by Lydia Netzer, and loved it. It’s a love story, but not at all conventional. It’s about the relationships that Sunny Mann, the main character, has with her husband Maxon, who goes on a mission to the moon, her mother, who is dying, her autistic son Bubber, and her friends and neighbors. (Those are not spoilers; you learn the relevant facts about these people very early on in the book.) It’s about being a wife, a mother, a daughter, and a unique self. It’s one of those books where I highlighted sentences and paragraphs, about things like love and death, that will stay with me for a long time.
I just finished “Wild” by Cheryl Strayed and I wasn’t as ‘wild’ about it as I thought I would be. The author’s self-pity and descent into drug abuse, promiscuity and abortion was off-putting. The parts I did enjoy were the simple trail descriptions, its hardships and the other through hikers she met on the PCT. Like the main character of “Into The Wild” she is trying to escape from her reality and is woefully unprepared for wilderness.
Something that was really lacking from “Wild” was any understanding of the flora, fauna, geology, weather. She hadn’t bothered to look up what the snow conditions were like in the High Sierra!
Since I care more about the trail, the wildlife and the topography than this woman’s personal story, the next book on my reading list will be on the John Muir Trail written by an expert. Yes, with a view to adding it to my bucket list. Only 211 miles.
Somehow I never think of the nonfiction books I read as books to suggest here but that’s kind of dumb so may I suggest the book “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking” by Susan Cain. This was the Amazon book of the month for January. It is really a stunner, imo, being an extrovert in a family of mostly very smart introverts. It looks at those who are introverted but it ends up revealing much that is questionable about our culture today.
Finally read “The Blind Assassin” by Margaret Atwood and loved it. I don’t usually have much luck with novels-within-novels, but this was brilliantly done. She’s such a sure, accomplished writer. I’m going to miss the narrator’s wit and insight. A sad story, though I laughed out loud a number of times because Iris said something so true and so well.
Gone With The Wind
I’ve been searching for something in the wizard/fantasy genre for an entertaining read and came up with Bartimaeus. Is anyone familiar with this series?
I have read them and enjoyed them. I think they are classified as “young adult”, but I read them at 45 and liked them. 
I enjoyed A Sense of an Ending, Where’d You Go, Bernadette? and Gone Girl. The last two were good airplane reads.
intparent: If I divide my age by 4 then I am young adult…that works!
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
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