Books
Books I've read and my book club
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My 2018 Reading Challenge
I took the Goodreads 2018 Reading Challenge. Do you think I made my goal? Read about how I did and learn more about the books I did read.
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A Salad and a Book Review
September was my month to host our book club – A Novel Group. It’s always fun to try new recipes on this group, but I usually try to also include a few things I know are good. Most of the time, the new ones turn out pretty well, and that was the case this last time. I made a salad that everyone liked a lot, based on the fact I had nothing left over!! (I should mention, however, that the recipe did say it made four servings and we had six people. But I find most salad recipes say things like that and then I end up with way more,…
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Book Review – Beyond the Cabin
Book Review – Beyond the Cabin by Dana Ridenour My husband Tim has a friend from college who worked for the FBI, as did his wife. When she began writing novels, Tim decided he’d like to read what she wrote. I got him this book for Christmas last year. And I ended up reading it before he did!!
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Seeing Book Club (The Movie) with My Book Club
Tuesday night was the scheduled night of our May book club meeting. We decided we should use this time, instead of discussing this month’s book, to see the new movie “Book Club”. If you haven’t seen the movie, you should. I think you’ll like it. What’s it about? This movie is about four women who’ve been lifelong friends and started their book club years ago. I’m not sure how old they are supposed to be in the movie – maybe their late 60s/70s? (The actresses are all over 70 except for Mary Steenburgen, who’s 65.) They’re all very successful but are at different points in their lives, which is typical of…
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How Do You Read?
Through a poll on my site, I recently asked you how you prefer to read books? Here are the results. As you can see, there were no votes for audiobooks, which kind of surprised me. But I wasn’t entirely surprised that most of you chose books over eBooks. I didn’t include a “both” option on purpose. I know a lot of you are like me and read both traditional books and eBooks, but I wanted to know what you truly prefer. If I had voted, I would have said books. While I love my Nook, there’s nothing like holding a real book in my hands. My love of books My…
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Book Review – Couple of March Reads
I’ve read a few books in March, so I thought I’d share my thoughts on a couple. What Alice Forgot This book was written by Liane Moriarty. It’s the third book by this Australian writer I’ve read. One was selected by my book club, and actually, I think I was the one who picked it. The last two I read outside of book club, but we have discussed them. I know the others like her as an author and I will likely read more of her books. While I gave this 3 stars in my Goodreads review, I did enjoy reading it. I really liked the other two I read –…
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Books I Like to Read – Favorite Authors – Part I
Right after I retired (the end of April 2016), the first thing I wanted to do was to catch up on my reading. For years, I’d been a member of a book club (one where you buy books) and I had accumulated quite a few books to read by my favorite authors. But with my book club reading (A Novel Group), I was struggling to read more than I had to. I was so excited about the opportunity to read for hours at a time. Over the years, I used to read before bed at night, but that had become a challenge. Those of you in my age group probably know…
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A Novel Group – My Book Club’s 2017 Picks
My book club – A Novel Group – will celebrate ten years together in September. We’ve had a few changes in membership over the years, but not many. We started with six members and we currently have six. It’s a good number. A Novel Group – what we’re about A couple friends from work and I decided to start a book club. We like to read and it was another way to get together on a regular basis. Each of us invited one other person to join the group, so we’d have six members. And of course, we had to have a catchy name. We came up with A Novel…
