September 2017 What We're Reading

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September 2017 What We're Reading

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1mdoris
Bearbeitet: Sept. 1, 2017, 7:14 pm

Posting a bit early to get the ball rolling....
Reading Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life.

2Cecrow
Sept. 1, 2017, 7:15 am

Reading The God of Small Things, amid all the "new book by Arundhati Roy" hoopla. Pretty solid so far.

3LynnB
Sept. 2, 2017, 3:09 pm

The God of Small Things is one of my favourite books. I'm anxious to read the new one, too.

I'm about to start Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien.

4LynnB
Sept. 6, 2017, 4:49 pm

I'm reading Kim by Rudyard Kipling.

5ted74ca
Bearbeitet: Sept. 9, 2017, 1:40 am

Pretty light fare for me so far this month:
Voyager by Diana Gabaldon and The Death of Lucy Kyte by Nicola Upson. I'll leave the more serious reading for the long, wet winter ahead.

6LynnB
Sept. 17, 2017, 7:12 pm

I've started two books (which is unusual for me): Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari and Chocolat by Joanne Harris.

7LibraryCin
Sept. 18, 2017, 10:51 pm

Station Eleven / Emily St. John Mandel
3.5 stars

Just after an actor, Arthur, dies onstage of an apparent heart attack, it becomes known that a flu epidemic is sweeping the world. It’s not long before most of the human population has died. The book follows a young actress, Kristen, 20 years later; it also follows Jeeves just after the epidemic became known – he was an audience member who tried to save the actor who died. The book also goes back in time to look at Arthur’s life.

There is a lot of back and forth in time, but it says early on in each chapter when we are reading about, so it’s not hard to follow. That being said, I found the epidemic itself and the parts immediately after, were the most interesting to me. Arthur’s life wasn’t as interesting to me, though I was curious who, in his life, survived or didn’t. Parts of Kristen’s story, 20 years later, were somewhat interesting. It certainly was interesting to see how people had been coping for the past 20 years! Overall, it was good, but nothing super-special for me.

8vancouverdeb
Sept. 21, 2017, 7:52 pm

Nearly finished A Killer in King's Cove by Iona Whishaw . A fun and fabulous historical mystery that takes place just outside of Nelson BC. I'm really enjoying it! For fans of Maisie Dobbs, I'd say. Post Ww11, and strong and interesting female protagonist. I'm so glad to have found the first in series of three so far by this author.

9vancouverdeb
Sept. 21, 2017, 7:55 pm

Earlier this month I read Days Without End by Sebastian Barry as part of my Man Booker 2017 reading .It was fairly good, but I think I was not so much in the mood for reading about battles during American Civil War etc.

10LibraryCin
Sept. 22, 2017, 10:26 pm

A House in the Sky / Amanda Lindhout
4.25 stars

In 2008, Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout travelled to Somalia with Australian photographer, Nigel Brennen. While there, they (along with 3 Somalian escorts) were kidnapped and held for ransom. Amanda and Nigel were held for over a year before their families, with the help of a professional negotiator, came up with part of the money the kidnappers had originally asked for to get them released.

Amanda not only tells her story in the book; she narrates the audio. As the book was coming close to the end, I marveled that she was not only able to write her story, but she is able to narrate it! The book started a bit slower, as she told of her life growing up in Alberta, Canada (fairly local to me!), before she caught the “travel bug” and she wanted to travel all over. She tells stories of some of the places she travelled before deciding to head into Somalia to hopefully write a story to “make” her career. But, the pace of the book just picks up more and more as the book goes on.

At the start of the book, I was ready to give it 3.5 stars, but it quickly went up to 4 stars. At the end I might have given 4.5 stars, but I wanted to take the entire book in account for my rating and settled on 4.25, as I feel like it does deserve higher than 4.

11LynnB
Sept. 29, 2017, 8:38 am

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