What Are You Reading Now: November, 2017?

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What Are You Reading Now: November, 2017?

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1ted74ca
Nov 3, 2017, 2:23 pm

Two books finished this week:
London Rain by Nicola Upson, which was very good, and
Those Girls by Chevy Stevens which wasn't quite so good.

3rabbitprincess
Nov 4, 2017, 9:45 am

Hoping to put a bit of a dent in Templars: The Rise and Fall of God's Holy Warriors, by Dan Jones, this weekend.

4arcona
Nov 4, 2017, 8:35 pm

I just finished Police by Jo Nesbo. Perhaps it's just me, but I found it so hard to keep track of all the Norwegian names that I kept mixing up the characters. I usually enjoy the various Scandi mysteries but think I might give up on Harry Hole.

5LibraryCin
Nov 5, 2017, 3:09 pm

The Heart Goes Last / Margaret Atwood
4 stars

Due to severe economic hard times, like so many other people, Stan and Charmaine are living in their car. When they are given an amazing opportunity to live in a real house, they jump at the chance! But, there’s a catch. They live in the house for one month, then have to live in a prison for the next month, then they alternate months with another couple doing the same thing. When Charmaine meets the man from the couple they alternate with (they aren’t supposed to meet their alternates), things get a little messy.

I really liked this! There were a few sections in the middle that weren’t as good, I didn’t think, and it got a bit silly, even, but overall, I still really enjoyed it! I like Margaret Atwood, but this – at least to me – seemed more appealing somehow and may be one of my favourites by her (though, to be honest, it is hard to compare to some I read years ago, before I did ratings and reviews).

6LynnB
Nov 7, 2017, 7:41 am

7rabbitprincess
Nov 7, 2017, 6:40 pm

On the bus I finished The Captive Crown, by Nigel Tranter. This is the third of the House of Stewart trilogy and my favourite of the three books.

Next up in bus reading is The Hammett Hex, by Victoria Abbott.

8ionanyzr
Editado: Nov 7, 2017, 8:37 pm

Just started Red Rising by Pierce Brown, and read Our Souls At Night last weekend.

10bookmess
Nov 12, 2017, 10:14 am

I joined this group ages (years) ago but don't think I've ever posted. Now I'm retired, I'd like to take advantage of more of what LibraryThing offers (beyond just cataloguing my books) so look forward to seeing what others are reading.

In November, I've read, finally finished reading, or am reading:

52 Ways of Looking at a Poem (or, How reading modern poetry can change your life) (old book bought at a used book sale; British focus but fascinating to me--I've always said my brain just doesn't "get" poetry. This is helping.
Five Days At Memorial: Life & Death in a Storm-ravaged Hospital (old book about Hurricane Katrina)
Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards
The Nest (my book club's selection)
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a candle in the dark by Carl Sagan (another old book--seems to be a theme here--that I should have read years ago)

11rabbitprincess
Nov 12, 2017, 10:58 am

>10 bookmess: Congratulations on your retirement! :)

On the bus I've resumed the Poldark series with book 7, The Angry Tide, and at home I've started The Death of Expertise, by Tom Nichols.

12ted74ca
Nov 12, 2017, 1:35 pm

Starting to get back into the routine of reading. Latest reads are
1) The Mirror World of Melody Black by Gavin Extence, which was somewhat of a letdown, since I loved his debut novel
2) The Scottish Prisoner by Diana Gabaldon-my guilty pleasure, comfort reading while I'm enjoying the Outlander TV series currently airing
3) Telling Tales by Ann Cleeves-excellent as always

13ted74ca
Nov 17, 2017, 7:47 pm

Found this book in my local library and belatedly realized it was #9 in this Canadian mystery series. I didn't love this one, but I'll start at the beginning of the series now and give it another go. Lament for Bonnie by Anne Emery

14rabbitprincess
Editado: Nov 17, 2017, 8:48 pm

Planning to start only my second play of the year (I try to read three a year): Henry IV Part 2, by William Shakespeare.

15arcona
Nov 18, 2017, 8:53 pm

Just finished Ian Rankin's Even dogs in the wild and really enjoyed it. Rebus is retired, Fox and Siobhan are featured along with Rebus for some interesting crime solving. I like how Rankin has allowed Rebus to age and retire but still make him central in the novel.

16LynnB
Nov 19, 2017, 2:47 pm

I'm reading Barkskins by Annie Proulx.

17ted74ca
Nov 21, 2017, 3:19 pm

Had some time off work and it's been pouring down incessantly, so I did get some reading in:
Let Darkness Bury the Dead by Maureen Jennings, one in her Murdoch mystery series
Barrington Street Blues by Anne Emery and
No Safe House by Linwood Barclay. The first two were pretty good reads-the Barclay novel is from my collection of cheap paperbacks that I keep in my car for passing the time when I'm stuck on a closed highway or waiting for a ferry, etc. and it's the kind of book that I don't mind at all if it takes me a year to finish it.

18rabbitprincess
Nov 22, 2017, 7:38 pm

This morning I started my new bus book: Calamity in Kent, by John Rowland, recently republished as a British Library Crime Classic.

19ted74ca
Editado: Nov 25, 2017, 7:12 pm

Don't know what made this pick this book up at my local library, but I really got caught up in it Before the Fall by Noah Hawley

20rabbitprincess
Nov 26, 2017, 9:25 am

Preparing to start The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin. My library ordered a shiny new copy in the Penguin Galaxy edition, and the cover is totally rad :)

21LibraryCin
Nov 27, 2017, 11:50 pm

Road Trip Rwanda / Will Ferguson
4 stars

Author Will Ferguson has a friend in Calgary, Canada, who is originally from Rwanda, Jean-Claude. A 19-year old Jean-Claude, a Tutsi, got out of the country mere months before the genocide in 1994. The two take a trip to Rwanda for a few weeks and Jean-Claude tours Will around.

I learned that Rwanda has come back from the genocide socially and economically ahead of the game, ahead of other African countries, and ahead of many other countries in the world. It’s an impressive turn-around; of course, the ghosts of the genocide are still everywhere in the country. The book includes a brief history of what led to the genocide and the genocide itself, and of course, we learned more about various things that happened in various places throughout the country as Will and Jean-Claude took their trip.

There were a couple of respites from genocide “memories”: they did a tour in the Virunga Mountains to see Dian Fossey’s gorillas; they also went to a national park, where the wildlife is protected. I’ve read about both the genocide and Dian Fossey and the gorillas, so much of the information wasn’t new to me, but this was a reminder. Ferguson often adds humour to his travel books, but this one is a tough one to do that with. There is a bit, but not as much as in his other books. Overall, I thought this was a very good book to get information about the tough topic of the Rwandan genocide, in addition to updates about the country.

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