"Letters from a Stoic" Seneca

The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom

Hi Wrangler,

I read that book and really liked it. Are you liking it?

The Time Keeper? I enjoyed it. It was an easy read.

I am now starting The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by the same author.

I just spent the better part of my lunch break (a very short one) diving into part of "The Butler's Guide to Running the Home and Other Graces" by Stanley Ager

I have SO many more things I need to be reading lately like books around education management and classroom psychology but I needed a reprieve. This is a good one!

I'm all about Addiction Memoirs
 

Straight Pepper Diet: A Memoir
by Joseph W. Naus

What I find interesting about addiction memoirs is that men who are addicted (granted, I usually read female authors but the few male authors exhibited this), seem to carry megalomanic or narcissistic personalities (often coupled with horrible treatment of women or sexual addictions) whereas the women who struggle with addiction seem to internalize their issues and are more self-destructive rather than wreaking havoc on the lives of others. Both sexes are in pain, but how they convey or process/deal with that pain seems very different.

Mitch Alboms books are all easy reads .but I just enjoy them so much

Statistics notes, not what you would call "light" reading, it might be time for a break.

I agree. Every one I have read I have enjoyed.

I'm re-reading Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee! I really did not care for it the first time around :glasses:

reading
 

" The Body Remembers"
by Babette Rothschild

Excellent work by Ms. Rothchild

"Life is a Verb":rrose:

I'm having a *Postathon* tonight...

I read three books while on holiday in August -

The Mirror Thief by Martin Seay
It was good, but took some work to finish. It has multiple storylines and narrators intersecting over the space of a few centuries. Set in sixteenth century Venice, Italy, 1950s Venice Beach, CA and modern day at the Venetian in LV. The concept was interesting.

I also read Before the Fall by Noah Trawley - which was like watching a good HBO crime drama. Nicely tied up, intriguing, hyper-realistic mystery.

And then I finished off my week on Lake Huron with The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell, which I loved. It ticks a lot of boxes on my 'perfect book' list: epic scope and saga like scale, magical realism, twisty overlapping storylines, characters you can love (and hate,) and beautiful, clever prose that just makes you hope the story will somehow go on forever.

Last weekend I finished the book Mitchell published after The Bone Clocks, Slade House. The stories are connected and have a little character overlap but aren't part of a series. Slade House didn't entrance me like the Bone Clocks, but it was a good read.

Now I'm in a state of 'which book next' contemplation.

The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women's Quest for the American Presidency – February 29, 2016 - by Ellen Fitzpatrick

I just finished In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume and I am starting Summer Sisters by the same author.

Hi Wrang1er what do you think of Judy Blume's books?
I think I own all of hers and have enjoyed each one.

Currently I am in easy to read books but interesting enough that I recall it whenever I pick it up to continue.....Vampire Apocalypse Book 1 kindle edition

I remember reading her books when I was young and liking them. This is the first time I read any of her adult books. I didn't love it. It wasn't a book I couldn't put down. We'll see how this second one goes.

I enjoyed Summer Sisters very much. My mother handed it off to me long ago. I hadn't read Judy Blume in ages. It was lovely to read her grown up stuff