Just caught up to The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obrecht which I really recommend, beautifully written.
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers, a novel about the Iraq war. I read a lot of books and this one, IMO, should win the Pulitzer. I can’t recommend it highly enough. Buy it. Read it. Here’s a review so you don’t think I’m crazy: <a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/07/books/the-yellow-birds-by-kevin-powers.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/07/books/the-yellow-birds-by-kevin-powers.html</a>
Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.
Booklady, I recently read “The Yellow Birds” and I agree with you. It’s terrific. The writing is simply amazing. I love novels that are written by poets, and this one is a treasure.
I bought “The Year of Magical Thinking” about a year ago and hadn’t picked it up until a few weeks ago. I was enjoying it throughly and got to page two hundred while flying home from LA last week. Suddenly page 200 went back to page 169 and the book ended at 200 (again!).
Some weird printing quirk. I was heartbroken on the plane that I couldn’t keep going. Now I don’t know if the bookstore will take it back since it’s been a year. I’ll have to check my library. Bah.
^Who knows. But I once bought a dictionary that was missing a bunch of pages and got my money back even though it was much later. Of course I had a reasonable argument that you don’t know pages are missing in a dictionary unless you happen to need to look up a word in that part of a dictionary.
Yes! And you won’t know the end of the book is missing until you get to the end! I’ll give it a try and see if they will be reasonable.
^^^
The bookstore will return it to the publisher. It shouldn’t be a problem; it’s obviously not something you did to the book.
I’m enjoying Anna Quindlen’s Plenty of Candles, Lots of Cake. The book has essays on being a woman in your 50’s, 60’s and dealing with older kids, older parents and older us. It’s written as if you had just spent the day having coffee with her and she understands what you’ve been talking about so well that she writes an essay on it
I’ve never been able to get the functions to work right to underline…sorry, I know it should be.
Just finished “Among Others” by Jo Walton. This book won the Nebula AND the Hugo award… if you like sci-fi and/or fantasy, you definitely should read it. This one I got from the library, but now feel the need to own a copy of my own. Actually, I really want to hang onto the library’s copy (it is signed by the author), but guess I can’t do that…
I have read a run of VERY good books lately – not much more satisfying in life than that! 
I also liked Anna Quindlen’s Plenty of Candles, Lots of Cakes ( I don’t know how to underline either). The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel was a fun read too.
Among Others sounds good, so I just requested it from the library. (I love this thread.)
Cecilia Ahern’s “Love, Rosie”. Its adorable.
I just finished Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn. I’m going to have to balance with something lighter now.
Regarding underlining, the more correct thing to do these days is to italicize. I just figured out how to do them. Use the * book title [/ i] and take the space out from between the back slash and the letter i.
^On my browser I can also just highlight the word(s) and hit Control i, (or Control b for bold, and Control u for underline.)
I’m still in Book III of the Game of Thrones series - We’ve now killed off at least three major characters just in this book!
Yes, that is the thing about that series… don’t get too attached to ANYONE.
I am enjoying Cyndi Lauper’s autobiography … talent over circumstances. Not the best writing, but if you like her, you will enjoy the book.
Decided to go ahead with Gillian Flynn’s Dark Places and just finished it. I enjoyed it. I thought I had figured out the ending but I was wrong. My ending would have been good too though.
Just read that it is being made into a movie and Amy Adams is the possible lead. So Gillian Flynn has two books going to the big screen. It wouldn’t surprise me to see Sharp Objects made into a movie too.
I’m about 100 pages in to “Gone Girl” and loving it!
Have also recently enjoyed 2 books by Joanne Harris " Chocolat" and “The Girl With No Shadow”. She has a new book out which follows those 2 and I recommend (strongly) that you read them in order.
If you need some cheering up, Lisa Scottaline’s book “My Nest Isn’t Empty…” is laugh out loud funny.
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Readers decide on best books of the year. I admit that I can mark off less categories (one or two of the nominees already read) - really less total books nominated - than usual this year. (I’m not a member on the site so can’t vote.)
Anyway, I enjoy looking at the nominees in each category and have discovered some good books over the years that hadn’t been on my radar.