What was the latest book you have read?

Just finished Autumn’s Kiss a couple hours ago, started Autumn’s Wish. They’re part of a trilogy written by Bella Thorne.

The Ethical Slut

“The Killing of Roger Ackroyd”. The twist in the ending really caught me by surprise.

“Voices of the Pacific”, a collection of first hand accounts from vets who served in the Pacific theater of WWII.Sometimes poignant sometimes funny as hell. One old vet described how Japanese soldiers would call out at night, We fuck Eleanor Roosevelt! And they would respond, You can have her we don’t want her!

Not a book, but I recently discovered the John Brown Isekai

It’s been a while, but it was The Shack, by William P. Young, recommended by a friend who had been required to read it in college. She wouldn’t tell me what it was about because she didn’t want me to have any preconceived ideas, but she did say she wasn’t a fan. That’s all she would tell me.

I was completely enthralled and dazzled by it. I’m an agnostic, sometimes an atheist, and I started it hesitantly. It began kind of slow, but I stayed with it. In the first quarter of the book, a man’s 6-year-old girl disappears without a trace, and the way it was written affected me tremendously. I was in tears and had to put the book down for a few days.

As I continued on, I found myself having to put it aside quite often due to the way it presented the Holy Trinity. They were people who the father met, and he asked them big questions, just like you or I would. There were explanations that I had to digest. There was a lot to think about.

Years later I wanted to read it again and my local library didn’t have it at the time. I kept putting it off, meaning to order it online, then forgetting I wanted it. One day I was taking my trash to the dumpster. There in plain sight lay “The Shack”. It was right on top of all of the trash, almost as if someone had laid it there. I quickly picked it up and checked it for bugs, then brought it inside. It’s one more in a relatively large group of serendipitous events in my life – those meant-to-be occurrences.

It affected me like few books ever have. I knew there was a movie out, and it took another few years to get around to seeing it. I finally saw it on Netflix, and it was as good as I had hoped. I still have the book from the trash.

“The Emeroald City of Oz” by L. frank Baum

It’s a great escape from a troubled wold.

A Time to Kill, John Grisham. I just read it again.

@gondwanalon I’ve been wanting to read the whole series of Oz books, maybe I just will now.
@SnipSnip John Grisham has written some excellent books!

@smudges I bought all of the Oz books on a CD for about $15 from a guy on eBay a year or so ago. I’ve read over half of the books. I like imagining the twisted world of Oz. Some of the drawings are magnificent and creepy. They help to draw you into the stories.

I’m reading “Virgil Wander” by Leif Enger. I haven’t picked it up in about two weeks and I have less than two weeks to finish it for a book group. It’s fairly easy to read but I find as I get older, I am more easily distracted.

I’m reading The Last Thing He Told Me. So far, I really like it.

@gondwanalon Wow, what a deal! I’m definitely going to look for a bargain; at the very least the first 2–3 books.

The last printed book I finished was a winning novel by Jodi Picoult weakly titled Wish You Were Here. The author pulls off not one but two brilliant twists of a sort that I have never seen before in fiction.

Since then, I have been on a Kindle streak with Caimh McConnell’s Dublin Trilogy, of which I am currently in book 7, the most recent in the series. There are also other spinoff titles, and I’ll get to them. Detective stories with a successful blend of dark deeds, police work, and humor, plus some of the most original and engaging characters I’ve encountered in a long time.

“Sea Biscuit” by Anna Lee Waldo. I could read it a hundred times.

@Jeruba I recently read Wish You Were Here (on the recommendation of @janbb) and I thought it was a stunning pandemic book, I was so pleased I had read it.

I have just started Pavilion Of Women by Pearl S Buck, and I am already so pleased to be reading it. The writing is so soothing and evocative, that even at the beginning I am completely enchanted by it. It is instantly obvious why she was a Nobel and Pulitzer winner.

^And she was born in WV.

@Jeruba I don’t remember this having humor but being set in Japan with extensively detailed information on their own unique police and detective culture, plus a killer twist in the end…I highly recommend this for anyone who likes detective stories.

Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama

I recently finished the following:
The Creative Act: A Way of Being – Rick Rubin
Jazz A La Creaole:The Birth of Jazz – Caroline Vezina
The Good Earth – Pearl Buck (Reread)

All needed and welcomed for me at this time.

I just finished reading the first book in The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. My brother-in-law loves those books, but in all these years of reading Stephen King books I have never given it a try. It took a short story in one of his collections that took place in that world to pique my interest. And now I can’t wait to read the rest of the series.

I literally want blank when I read this message.
It’s been a long time since I have read but the last book I read was “The Inheritance Games”. I read all three books. I really recommend it. I also recently read the “Whisper” series as well and I absolutely loved it.

My book wish list is:
Shadow me series
An artist of the floating world
November 9
Queen Charlotte
The book thief
The Cruel Prince series

Sorry this is from my notes app and I don’t have the author names saved.
Sorry guys

I definitely read less actual books, nowadays. It’s a sad side effect of technological advancement…