What are you reading the week of August 30, 2015.

[Goblinmonger]

Got here in the morning on Sunday, so thought I'd start it.

I am reading first book in The Strain series. I am enjoying the TV show, so thought I'd give it a read.

[left-of-center2012]

1. oops - didn't realize this is the fiction group

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I'll return with a fiction book suggestion

[japple]

3. I'm still reading Ivan Doig's book Sweet Thunder. During my trip to Montana

last week, I went by an independent bookseller in Helena which hosted a book reading of Ivan Doig's last novel Last Bus to Wisdom. I had seen the notice of the reading and cursed because I missed it by one day. I bought a copy of the book to read/donate to my library back home and mentioned to the two women at the register that I was sorry to have missed that event and they gave me a bookplate with Ivan Doig's autographs on it. What a thrill. I will read the book (when I'm through with his other one) and donat Last Bus to Wisdom to my little community library here in Georgia. They have a few of his books, but nothing current. This will probably thrill the head librarian as much as it did me.

Hermatic, I hope you enjoy The Lacunaas much as I did. It is one of the most pleasurable reads I have ever had, but then I have loved everything Barbara Kingsolver has written.

[hermetic]

2. Hello fellow host

Thank you for starting this thread.

I'm reading The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver. This was recommended by someone here a few weeks back. I read The Poisonwood Bible many years ago and found it quite remarkable. This book is, as well. Funny, sad, historical, beautifully written. Timeless messages.

I did try to read The Bean Tree once but for some reason, at that time, I found it very disagreeable. Perhaps I'll try it again some day.

I look forward to hearing what others are reading this week.

[Enthusiast]

6. Hello, hermetic!

We have never read any of the books by Barbara Kingsolver. But you and japple have me interested.

Mrs. Enthusiast is going to try The Poisonwood Bible. Not this week, but eventually.

[scarletwoman]

10. Hi, Enthusiast! Just thought I'd mention that I've read most of Barbara Kingsolver's books,

although not quite all at this point.

However, I thought The Lacuna was absolutely fabulous, and definitely one of the best books I've ever read. The only reason I didn't include in my list of "Best Books Read in 2015" is because I read it in 2009 when it first came out. I was already a Kingsolver fan, so I snatched it up right away as soon as it was available in my library.

It's an awesome read - it takes you from the days of the Bonus Army (1932) to the heady times of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Mexico and their friendship with Trotsky, then forward to WWII.

I would say it's a book not to be missed.

[Enthusiast]

11. Hi scarletwoman! Nice to see you. Thank you for sharing your take on Kingsolver.

I appreciate your recommendations. When I read about The Lacuna on FF I thought it sounded interesting.

[Enthusiast]

4. Hello, everyone! Thank you for the thread, Goblinmonger.

Earlier in the week I finished The Lost Island by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. It was a wild and crazy adventure, not for everyone but I enjoyed it. Since finishing The Lost Island I have been reading Lighthouse Island by Paulette Jiles. Lighthouse Island is a dystopian novel—very unusual.

Mrs. Enthusiast read The Codex by Douglas Preston. She gives The Codex a two thumbs up. Then she read Thirty-Three Teeth by Colin Cotterill which she liked very much. She has yet to decide on a new book for this week.

[japple]

5. I loved Lighthouse Island as well as all of Paulette Jiles' other books, which are VERY

different from this one. I read somewhere that there will be a sequel.

[Enthusiast]

7. That's why we are reading Lighthouse Island, because you liked it.

Well, Mrs. Enthusiast already read Lighthouse Island a few weeks back. It seems we like all the books you recommend. I appreciate that. We must have similar, if not identical tastes.

[japple]

12. Yes, it appears we do have very similar reading preferences. I read on

Paulette Jiles' website that she will have a new book coming out January 2016!! Yay!

Also, it appears that the sequel to Lighthouse Island, Zain, is subscription, but I couldn't figure out how to get it.
http://paulettejiles.com/

[Enthusiast]

13. Thank you!

[mackerel]

8. I'm reading John Dies at the End. My son loved it and he's been begging me to read it.

I

[shenmue]

9. "Little Black Lies," Sharon Bolton

[w0nderer]

14. 12 th book Robert Asprin MYTH series

Funny, Fast paced, Word gamed Fantasy