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Old 03-06-21, 05:54 PM  
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This is the wonderful thing about libraries. It looked good enough to try if I didn't have to pay for it. We'll see if it hold my attention once I get to it. (I have a LOT of books on my wish list at the library... )
So true!

I order way too many books at the library and then get overwhelmed when I bring them home because there is no way I can ever read so many books before they are due. I can't help myself - so many books, so little time!

I am almost done with The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America and really like it.

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Old 03-07-21, 06:41 AM  
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So true!

I am almost done with The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America and really like it.

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This sounds like something I might like. I’m going to see if my library has it.
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Old 03-07-21, 07:25 AM  
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This sounds like something I might like. I’m going to see if my library has it.
I hope they do. I got it from the library and am actually thinking about getting my own copy. Anyone who really struggles with food and weight should be able to relate to his story and he shares about the problems that morbidly obese people go through on a daily basis. It was very touching and also inspirational.

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Old 03-07-21, 09:02 AM  
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I just saw yesterday that someone has put Bella Poldark on hold and it's due next Saturday. I have no intention of letting that person wait for months like I did, so I'm going to read the remaining 395 pages by Saturday. I know I can do it, because I read A Suitable Boy (1500 pages) in 3 weeks when there were a dozen people waiting for it.
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Old 03-07-21, 07:34 PM  
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I hope they do. I got it from the library and am actually thinking about getting my own copy. Anyone who really struggles with food and weight should be able to relate to his story and he shares about the problems that morbidly obese people go through on a daily basis. It was very touching and also inspirational.

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Thanks Erica. My library doesn’t have it but another one in the county does so I put it on hold.
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In this thread I saw that Kate and Beth both liked Joyland by Stephen King so I read it and enjoyed it (a library book).
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Paine, glad you liked it! I liked that it had a sweet character story underlying the mystery.

Just started reading The Secret Keeper yesterday.
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I really liked Joyland too, although I was in the minority with the rest of my book club. They weren’t keen.

I just finished The Sea Gate, by Jane Johnson and really enjoyed it. It’s our book club selection for April.

I’ve always got a book and an audiobook on the go. My audiobooks are usually light & chick lit-ish, something easy to follow when I’m puttering around the house. Right now I’m into Robyn Carr, listening to The Promise, #5 in the her Thunder Point series. I’m also reading another Robyn Carr, Down by the River, #3 in her Grace Valley series. I tried to get into Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel but it was just too cumbersome. Maybe post Covid I’ll try again as I do love historical fiction, especially British.
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Old 03-15-21, 11:23 AM  
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In this thread I saw that Kate and Beth both liked Joyland by Stephen King so I read it and enjoyed it (a library book).
Glad you enjoyed it! I picked up his latest from Hard Case Crime, Later, at Target of all places, but have a lot in line to read ahead of it.

I finished the 3rd in Barbara Bretton's Sugar Maple series, Spun by Sorcery, and it really dragged compared to the first two. There are more ebooks in the series but I will wait to read them. I did enjoy all the knitting talk though.

Also finished the audio of Susan Orlean's The Library Book and enjoyed it, though a lot of the "gee whiz, libraries aren't just big buildings full of books!" tone had me rolling my eyes.

Yesterday I read a great little novella, A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djeli Clark which has been recommended on so many podcasts. It's a tight little mystery set in a fantasy steampunk version of 1910's Cairo. The worldbuilding is incredible, especially in only about 50 pages.

My audio hold of Daring Greatly by Brene Brown just came in this morning. Undecided on the next print book in the TBR stack.
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Old 03-15-21, 11:28 AM  
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I finished Bella Poldark and have started Night.Sleep.Death.The Stars by Joyce Carol Oates.
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