Can you let me know how "End of Watch" goes? I really enjoyed the first two books in the series, Mr. Mercedes and Finders Keepers, but this one looked a little to gruesome for me :glasses:

Will do, homoe! I suspect it's going to be pretty gruesome because the character is in his meanest state. And EEEEKKKKK!

"Come Visit Me Softly" poetry by Leah S Taylor. One amazing women I had the pleasure meeting. The photography is amazing and taken by Tiffany Couch.

The Whistler (J. Grisham, 2016).
 

I'm still reading Nora Ephron's anthology of works, but I came across an news release about John Grisham's latest book and read a few lines of the opening chapter. I think I will try to find a copy of it at the book store. Looks like a good read. :)

Katzchen is that book titled The Whistler?

Yes.

It's in the title of my post (The Whistler -- J. Grisham, 2016).

Damn, I'm just out of it today I guess...LOL

Just finished Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen and before that The Inheritance by Louisa May Alcott. I just started To Kill a Mockingbird.

CP
 

"My Name Is Asher Lev" by Chaim Potok

One of my favorite authors, and one of my
favorite novels. His "The Chosen" is
also great writing.

Greco

Homoe!

Just finished "End of Watch" and found it to be entertaining! If you liked the first two you will probably like this one. It's classic King, decent writing and gory as hell in some places while being wrapped in a nostalgic kind of fantasy.

I enjoyed it. It's a quick read (or listen in my case since I did the audiobook).

"Uniform Combined State Law Exam, Series 66, 9th Edition"... and I am sick to death of it! UGH

For fun, I just started "Fellside" by M. R. Carey. I loved "The Girl With All the Gifts" so much by the same author that I had to see what this one was about!

The Little Stranger ~ Sarah Waters

No book report just yet...

I finished "Fellside" several days ago and it was good. Entertaining if a little psychic-dramery.

Downloaded "City of Mirrors" by Justin Cronin. It's the final in his "Passage" series and a hefty 30 hours on audio. But I've got a road trip coming up and several days during Thanksgiving so I think I can get through it.

School is out in 3 weeks and I never want to read another Education Policy book as long as I live.

Just finished re-reading Needful Things, it is a favorite of mine for reasons unknown

Started reading Odd Thomas. I have seen the movie, but the book series is 7-8 books so I am excited

I found an interesting book to read, the other day, while wandering around the skilled nursing facility (pt/ot rehab).

Title : King Larry | The Life and Ruins Of A Billionaire Genius.
Author: James D. Scurlock.
Publisher: Scribner, 2012.


I've only read the introduction, a mere few pages, but the author gives meticulous attention to the man who gave birth to DHL, which was doing business long before FedEx (50 year head start) and how Larry Hillblom was not only a business genius but how his behavioral choices, hiding in plain sight, would be the long remembered undoing of his so called financial empire (and not his business acumen).

I haven't even finished with chapter one and already give it a huge props. Very good book. Very enlightening. Tragic story.

They left us everything : a memoir / Plum Johnson.
 

After almost twenty years of caring for elderly parents -- first for their senile father, and then for their cantankerous ninety-three-year old mother -- author Plum Johnson and her three younger brothers have finally fallen to their middle-aged knees with conflicted feelings of grief and relief.

Now they must empty and sell the beloved family home, twenty-three rooms bulging with history, antiques, and oxygen tanks. Plum thought: How tough will that be?

I know how to buy garbage bags. But the task turns out to be much harder and more rewarding than she ever imagined.

Items from childhood trigger difficult memories of her eccentric family growing up in the 1950s and '60s, but unearthing new facts about her parents helps her reconcile those relationships, with a more accepting perspective about who they were and what they valued.

They Left Us Everything is a funny, touching memoir about the importance of preserving family history to make sense of the past, and nurturing family bonds to safeguard the future.

ever hear of Christopher Barzak? Barzack? He writes these incredible horror novels that make my spine tingle as I read....his way with words breath life into every page and I often cant put his books down until completely read. One of them was recently made into a movie. I am reading one now about a young man who finds a long dead girl shape shifted into a red fox, while he is living in Japan against his will. Keeps me up at night for hours....

Two at a time
 

I'm reading bits and pieces of two books currently :reader:

Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain - an interesting read on neuropsychology by Daniel Siegel

Blind to Betrayal: Why We Fool Ourselves We Aren't being Fooled - about the reasons people tend to "bond" with those who are abusive to them by Jennifer Freyd (she's got a research lab at the University of Oregon)

I do sometimes read for purely pleasure though often read related to my work, which is the reason for my current choices. A move about 2 years ago has lead to the loss of a huge public library system resulting in less pleasure reading since I don't want to buy those books.