I loved that book! She's written 3 others - have you read those? They are all good but my favorites are The Forgotten Garden and The Secret Keeper. Also, if you like Kate Morton, you'll probably enjoy The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield as well. I love that genre, though I don't know exactly how to classify it. I wish there were more authors who wrote that type of book.
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I loved that book! She's written 3 others - have you read those? They are all good but my favorites are The Forgotten Garden and The Secret Keeper. Also, if you like Kate Morton, you'll probably enjoy The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield as well. I love that genre, though I don't know exactly how to classify it. I wish there were more authors who wrote that type of book.
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14 by J.T. Ellison
Ten victims, each with pale skin and long dark hair. All have been slashed across the throat, the same red lipstick smeared across their lips.
In the mid-1980s the Snow White Killer terrorized the streets of Nashville, Tennessee. Then suddenly the murders stopped. A letter from the killer to the police stated that his work was done.
Now four more bodies are found, marked with his fatal signature. The residents of Nashville fear a madman has returned, decades later, to finish his sick fairy tale. Homicide Lieutenant Taylor Jackson believes the killings are the work of a copycat killer who's even more terrifying. For this monster is meticulously honing his craft as he mimics famous serial murders proving that the past is not to be forgotten.
This was the second book I read by this author. I don't like her writing style. The story was decent but nothing I would ever read again or recommend.
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Adam by Ted Dekker
FBI behavioral psychologist Daniel Clark is a man on a mission. After over a year of tracking a mysterious serial killer known as Eve, he feels closer than ever to discovering the murderer's true identity when he finds Eve's latest victim still alive.
In an effort to save the girl, Daniel narrowly escapes becoming another casualty on Eve's list. Despite seeing the killer with his own eyes, a gunshot wound to the head leaves him with amnesia, unable to remember any details from the incident. His drive to find the killer takes on a whole new meaning when Eve takes yet another victim, one Daniel knows all too well-his estranged wife Heather.
Determined to bring her back alive, Daniel takes his obsession to a dangerous new level, even recreating his own near-death experience in attempt to recall anything from his encounter with Eve. Soon enough he finds himself fighting for Heather's life, and, in the end, his own.
GREAT BOOK! I think this is my new favorite author. So far I have liked everything I have read by him. Definitely a good read.
14 by J.T. Ellison
Ten victims, each with pale skin and long dark hair. All have been slashed across the throat, the same red lipstick smeared across their lips.
In the mid-1980s the Snow White Killer terrorized the streets of Nashville, Tennessee. Then suddenly the murders stopped. A letter from the killer to the police stated that his work was done.
Now four more bodies are found, marked with his fatal signature. The residents of Nashville fear a madman has returned, decades later, to finish his sick fairy tale. Homicide Lieutenant Taylor Jackson believes the killings are the work of a copycat killer who's even more terrifying. For this monster is meticulously honing his craft as he mimics famous serial murders proving that the past is not to be forgotten.
This was the second book I read by this author. I don't like her writing style. The story was decent but nothing I would ever read again or recommend.
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Adam by Ted Dekker
FBI behavioral psychologist Daniel Clark is a man on a mission. After over a year of tracking a mysterious serial killer known as Eve, he feels closer than ever to discovering the murderer's true identity when he finds Eve's latest victim still alive.
In an effort to save the girl, Daniel narrowly escapes becoming another casualty on Eve's list. Despite seeing the killer with his own eyes, a gunshot wound to the head leaves him with amnesia, unable to remember any details from the incident. His drive to find the killer takes on a whole new meaning when Eve takes yet another victim, one Daniel knows all too well-his estranged wife Heather.
Determined to bring her back alive, Daniel takes his obsession to a dangerous new level, even recreating his own near-death experience in attempt to recall anything from his encounter with Eve. Soon enough he finds himself fighting for Heather's life, and, in the end, his own.
GREAT BOOK! I think this is my new favorite author. So far I have liked everything I have read by him. Definitely a good read.
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Book #72 Death in Salem:The Private of the 1692 Witch Hunt by Diane E. Foulds
Review: I liked this book a lot. The author took a closer look at the private lives of the accused,the accusers,judges, the elite and others tied to the Salem Witch Trials. I thought it was very well written and even gave a couple of new reasons as to why the accusers said what they did.
Book 73 #Twilight
Review: I have not been a big fan of Twilight and have made fun of it a lot however I decided to try to give the series a second chance. Maybe it was just me and the book series deserved a fresh look so I went to the library and got it. Nope. It was still bad. Won't read the series and am currently reading something else.
Review: I liked this book a lot. The author took a closer look at the private lives of the accused,the accusers,judges, the elite and others tied to the Salem Witch Trials. I thought it was very well written and even gave a couple of new reasons as to why the accusers said what they did.
Book 73 #Twilight
Review: I have not been a big fan of Twilight and have made fun of it a lot however I decided to try to give the series a second chance. Maybe it was just me and the book series deserved a fresh look so I went to the library and got it. Nope. It was still bad. Won't read the series and am currently reading something else.
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I also liked The Forgotten Garden. I know I read The Thirteenth Tale a few years ago, and I remember liking it. But, I am having a hard time remembering what it was about!
This makes me think of other favorite books that people have read in year's past that might not be on this thread. Two of my all time favorites are Cutting for Stone and Unbroken.
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Book 34 of 45
Brothers and Bones by James Hankins
Charlie Beckham is a rising star among federal prosecutors until, on the morning of the most important court day of his career, a deranged homeless man turns Charlie's life upside with a single word. He calls Charlie by a secret nickname known by only one other person in the world--Charlie's brother Jake, who went missing thirteen years ago. Charlie has a hundred questions but the homeless man disappears before Charlie can ask a single one.
So begins Charlie's search for answers, and for his brother, a search that leads him down Boston's darkest streets, into its blackest alleys, and, finally, into its criminal underworld. But if Charlie wants answers he'll have to get them from some of the most feared and ruthless people in the city.
Brothers and Bones by James Hankins
Charlie Beckham is a rising star among federal prosecutors until, on the morning of the most important court day of his career, a deranged homeless man turns Charlie's life upside with a single word. He calls Charlie by a secret nickname known by only one other person in the world--Charlie's brother Jake, who went missing thirteen years ago. Charlie has a hundred questions but the homeless man disappears before Charlie can ask a single one.
So begins Charlie's search for answers, and for his brother, a search that leads him down Boston's darkest streets, into its blackest alleys, and, finally, into its criminal underworld. But if Charlie wants answers he'll have to get them from some of the most feared and ruthless people in the city.
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The Thirteenth Tale is one of my favorites! I also really enjoyed The Forgotten Garden.
Finished book #62- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
It took me a bit to get into this, but once I got to about pg 200, I couldn't put it down. What a moving story & a real wake up to how America meddles in other countries not for the better of those people. I couldn't stand the father for what he put his family through. The story is told by the mother & the 4 daughters. I did enjoy reading from the different points of view of the daughters.
The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.
Next book: Percy Jackson series
Finished book #62- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
It took me a bit to get into this, but once I got to about pg 200, I couldn't put it down. What a moving story & a real wake up to how America meddles in other countries not for the better of those people. I couldn't stand the father for what he put his family through. The story is told by the mother & the 4 daughters. I did enjoy reading from the different points of view of the daughters.
The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.
Next book: Percy Jackson series
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Thanks for the recommendations. I'll have to check them out.
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Book #55 - "The Truth of All Things" by Kieran Shields
From Goodreads: When newly appointed Deputy Marshal Archie Lean is called in to investigate a prostitute's murder in Portland, Maine, he's surprised to find the body laid out like a pentagram and pinned to the earth with a pitchfork. He's even more surprised to learn that this death by "sticking" is a traditional method of killing a witch.
Baffled by the ritualized murder scene, Lean secretly enlists the help of historian Helen Prescott and brilliant criminalist Perceval Grey. Distrusted by officials because of his mixed Abenaki Indian ancestry, Grey is even more notorious for combining modern investigative techniques with an almost eerie perceptiveness. Although skeptical of each other's methods, together the detectives pursue the killer's trail through postmortems and opium dens, into the spiritualist societies and lunatic asylums of gothic New England.
I liked this book, but not enough to continue on with more by this author. I like a good mystery, and this was, but it got way too "wordy". A lot of exposition, and not enough action. There were spurts of action, and then page after page after page of exposition. I need my mysteries to move along a bit more.
I also think that the font and typeset used influenced me. This was a smaller font and typeset than I like, and it really started to hurt my eyes to read. I had to shorten my reading time, which I resent quite a bit!
Not sure what's up next. Got some things to pick up at the library tomorrow. We'll see what strikes my fancy!
Book #55 - "The Truth of All Things" by Kieran Shields
From Goodreads: When newly appointed Deputy Marshal Archie Lean is called in to investigate a prostitute's murder in Portland, Maine, he's surprised to find the body laid out like a pentagram and pinned to the earth with a pitchfork. He's even more surprised to learn that this death by "sticking" is a traditional method of killing a witch.
Baffled by the ritualized murder scene, Lean secretly enlists the help of historian Helen Prescott and brilliant criminalist Perceval Grey. Distrusted by officials because of his mixed Abenaki Indian ancestry, Grey is even more notorious for combining modern investigative techniques with an almost eerie perceptiveness. Although skeptical of each other's methods, together the detectives pursue the killer's trail through postmortems and opium dens, into the spiritualist societies and lunatic asylums of gothic New England.
I liked this book, but not enough to continue on with more by this author. I like a good mystery, and this was, but it got way too "wordy". A lot of exposition, and not enough action. There were spurts of action, and then page after page after page of exposition. I need my mysteries to move along a bit more.
I also think that the font and typeset used influenced me. This was a smaller font and typeset than I like, and it really started to hurt my eyes to read. I had to shorten my reading time, which I resent quite a bit!
Not sure what's up next. Got some things to pick up at the library tomorrow. We'll see what strikes my fancy!
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City of Ashes
Cassandra Clare
I didn't quite like this story as much as the first, but I am enjoying the series a lot. I feel like it is more mature than some of the other YA supernatural stories.
City of Ashes
Cassandra Clare
I didn't quite like this story as much as the first, but I am enjoying the series a lot. I feel like it is more mature than some of the other YA supernatural stories.
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I just completed The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (aka J.K. Rowling).
I really enjoyed this book. It is very much a murder mystery/detective story and very much British Literature on top of that, but I had no problems relating to it and the characters. I thought the plot was full of twists and turns and I was suspecting several people before all was said and done. The ending wasn't a total surprise.
I really enjoyed this book. It is very much a murder mystery/detective story and very much British Literature on top of that, but I had no problems relating to it and the characters. I thought the plot was full of twists and turns and I was suspecting several people before all was said and done. The ending wasn't a total surprise.
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Just started kingdom keepers and a must for any Disney lover
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So I was just looking at fandango for upcoming movies and saw that The Book Thief is coming out in November. I'm really torn on whether I want to see it or not. It is my favorite book EVER and I don't want the movie to ruin it but then again I want to see how it turned out as a movie. I'm excited but not....lol
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Book #40 - Summerland by Elin Hilderbrand
Book #41 - No Time for Goodbye by Linwood Barclay
Book #41 - No Time for Goodbye by Linwood Barclay
I finished book 18 Wedding Night by Sophia Kinsella last night. I thought it was cute and there were quite a few LOL moments - typical for her books. But there's no way anyone could prevent a couple from having tushy on their honeymoon lol. Farfetched but fun.
Pondering what book to start next...
Pondering what book to start next...
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I worried about the same thing, but have you watched the trailer? It looks amazing! I was vacillating and leaning toward not seeing it until I watched the preview. Now I can't wait to see it.
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Book #74 Carmelo by Sandra Cisneros
Review: I really like this book. The story is about Celaya and her family with its history and secrets. What I liked about this book is no one is perfect, not even the main character. At first Soledad, the grandmother is an antagonist and overly critical to everyone even in the explanation of her past history. In the end though you can see how she really views her daughter and the family that she had been so mean to over the many years.
Book #75 House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Review: A classic.
Review: I really like this book. The story is about Celaya and her family with its history and secrets. What I liked about this book is no one is perfect, not even the main character. At first Soledad, the grandmother is an antagonist and overly critical to everyone even in the explanation of her past history. In the end though you can see how she really views her daughter and the family that she had been so mean to over the many years.
Book #75 House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Review: A classic.
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Book 35 of 45
No Cry For Help by Grant McKenzie
During a cross-border shopping trip, a family vanishes. No reason. No ransom. No cry for help.
Bus driver Wallace Carver fears the worst when his family fails to meet him at the Bellingham, Washington mall. His anxiety is justifiably heightened when security cameras unexplainably show that he crossed the Peace Arch border alone. Now all Wallace wants to do is get his wife and sons back. But first he has to work out why they were taken and by whom.
No Cry For Help by Grant McKenzie
During a cross-border shopping trip, a family vanishes. No reason. No ransom. No cry for help.
Bus driver Wallace Carver fears the worst when his family fails to meet him at the Bellingham, Washington mall. His anxiety is justifiably heightened when security cameras unexplainably show that he crossed the Peace Arch border alone. Now all Wallace wants to do is get his wife and sons back. But first he has to work out why they were taken and by whom.
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117/150 - The Brazen Angel by Elizabeth Boyle. This is the first in a Kindle trilogy bundle I bought by an author I hadn't read before. It takes place in England and France during the French Revolution. It was interesting and the characters well-developed and likeable. Wasn't sure if I'd ever read beyond the first book, but I liked it sufficiently to start the second in the series.
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Book #74 - Necessary Lies by Diane Chamberlain
North Carolina, 1960. Newlywed Jane Forrester, fresh out of university, is seeking what most other women have shunned: a career. But life as a social worker is far from what she expected. Out amongst the rural Tobacco fields of Grace County, Jane encounters a world of extreme poverty that is far removed from the middle-class life she has grown up with. But worse is still to come. Working with the Hart family and their fifteen-year-old daughter Ivy, its not long before Jane uncovers a shocking secret, and is thrust into a moral dilemma that puts her career on the line, threatens to dissolve her marriage, and ultimately, determines the fate of Ivy and her family forever. Soon Jane is forced to take drastic action, and before long, there is no turning back.
I am a huge fan of Diane Chamberlain anyway and I absolutely loved this book. I was rooting for Ivy (and Jane) right from the start. It was a real eye-opener, in terms of the way things were done back then. Although it's not based on any real-life story, a lot of the content within the book is based on fact - and it's heart-breaking stuff. The way Diane Chamberlain writes makes you really come to care about the characters. I couldn't wait to find out what happened to them all and I was praying for a happy ending.
Started reading 'Lullaby' by Claire Seeber last night. Only a couple of chapters in but I'm hooked already.
North Carolina, 1960. Newlywed Jane Forrester, fresh out of university, is seeking what most other women have shunned: a career. But life as a social worker is far from what she expected. Out amongst the rural Tobacco fields of Grace County, Jane encounters a world of extreme poverty that is far removed from the middle-class life she has grown up with. But worse is still to come. Working with the Hart family and their fifteen-year-old daughter Ivy, its not long before Jane uncovers a shocking secret, and is thrust into a moral dilemma that puts her career on the line, threatens to dissolve her marriage, and ultimately, determines the fate of Ivy and her family forever. Soon Jane is forced to take drastic action, and before long, there is no turning back.
I am a huge fan of Diane Chamberlain anyway and I absolutely loved this book. I was rooting for Ivy (and Jane) right from the start. It was a real eye-opener, in terms of the way things were done back then. Although it's not based on any real-life story, a lot of the content within the book is based on fact - and it's heart-breaking stuff. The way Diane Chamberlain writes makes you really come to care about the characters. I couldn't wait to find out what happened to them all and I was praying for a happy ending.
Started reading 'Lullaby' by Claire Seeber last night. Only a couple of chapters in but I'm hooked already.
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