March! What are you reading?

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March! What are you reading?

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I finished Love, Rosie by Cecilia Ahern. It was cute.

I can't remember what book I have next but I am freaking out because I know it's short and my home branch is closed until further notice. The pipes have been frozen since last Tuesday and they have no water. I don't need water at the library, just books!

I really didn't need another reason to hate winter.

Edit: never mind. Made it to town and they were open. They haven't updated the website yet. Got my hold: It started with Paris by Cathy Kelly, so I will start with that.
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Ack! I hope the bad weather never gets in your way to books. Is this Cathy Kelly someone you compared to Maeve Binchy a while ago?

Finished Still Alice. Loved it. It was wonderful, if totally heartbreaking.

Then I started Grace by T. Greenwood. I like it so far, but there's a sense of impending doom that's making me nervous. The book opens with a scene where a father is taking his 13-year-old son to the woods to *shoot* him and calling him a monster (no spoiler here, this is in the first 2 pages.) Then it goes back in time to show how they got there. Of course I wanted to keep reading, but I'm afraid of what I'll find.

Man, I really need something lighter after this. I was supposed to read Landline, but the premise seems so silly.
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I finished Crossed by Ally Condie (sp?) last night. I didn't really care for it. It did get a bit better after a while, but it felt kinda pointless.

I haven't decided what to start next yet. Maybe I'll follow Silvia and read Grace, I have it so that might be a fun thing to do.
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Sil, I also thought the premise to Landline was silly but I still really liked it. And yes, Cathy Kelly is a bit Maeve Binchy-esqe. And a bit like Marian Keyes.
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Ok, I might give it a try, thanks. And I might check out Cathy Kelly, too.

Spudd, Grace is starting to bore me. I'm on page 131 and starting to think it's dragging. It's depressing, and not the good kind of depressing. One character's a shoplifter who loves one of her kids more than the other, another is a hoarder... blech.
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Hmm, maybe I'll read something else then!
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I finished The Bean Trees. It was ok, nothing overly special.

This morning I just barely started "The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism" by Naoki Higashida. Way too early to judge it so far.
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I finished It Started with Paris by Cathy Kelly. It was pretty good.

Now I finally have Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. I have been waiting so long; I hope it is as good as I expect.
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Finished Grace. Meh. Started out well, but it dragged too much in the middle and it was too depressing. The bullying scenes were almost unbearable. It did have me turning the last 100 pages fast, though. I probably won't give her up yet, but I wish she would let go of her misery lit thing.

Then I read Landline. I hated it. HATED. (Sorry, Blush.) I just have no idea what everyone saw in it. I found it silly, boring, and predictable. I only finished it because I paid for it. Next time I think I won't like a book, I'll stay the hell away from it. I'm right 99% of the times.

Not sure what's next. Hopefully something I'll like. Ugh.
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I decided to start Alif the Unseen instead of Grace, based on Silvia's review. :) So far I'm enjoying it, only about 10% in so far though.
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I started The Girl on the Train and I'm liking it.

I'm just about done with listening to the audiobook of The Power of Habit. I liked it but I felt that it strung along some random ideas/stories to make it longer. I don't know if I would have felt similar if I'd read the book.
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Finished Sweetland by Michael Crummey - it was excellent. Loved the writing and the characters

Mort(e) by Robert Repino - This was a apocalyptic, sci/fi, fantasy and action/adventure all rolled into one about how ants plot to take over the world and the rest of the animals become thinking, speaking beings and they work together to try to eliminate the human race. Cool premise, the book was just so-so.

Descent by Tim Johnston - really good. I actually didn't figure out the ending halfway through.

Sister Queens: The Noble Tragic Lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castile - I think I'm alone in my Tudor obsession here but this was excellent.

Now I'm reading A Deep Look at a Shallow Year by Andy Cohen. It's mindless.
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I finished Me Before You. I loved it, but it didn't have me as emotional as The One Plus One. And I'm really annoyed by how many times "a solitary tear" rolled down Lou's face. :roll:

Now I've got "Walt" by Russell Wangersky. The first few pages are gripping.
From critically acclaimed author Russell Wangersky, comes a dark, psychological thriller about a man named Walt, a grocery store cleaner who collects the shopping lists people leave in the store and discard without thought. In his fifties, abandoned, he says, by his now-missing wife Mary, Walt is pursued by police detectives unsatisfied with the answers he's given about her disappearance.


Almost invisible to the people who pass him every day, the grocery lists he collects, written on everything from cancelled cheques to mortgage statements to office stationary, give him a personal hold over those who both ignore him and unwittingly disclose facets of their lives to him.


When a new cold case squad is formed in St. John's to look into Mary's disappearance, the detectives begin to realize that Walt may be involved in more than just his wife's disappearance.


Set in modern-day Newfoundland, after reading Walt, you'll be sure to never let your shopping list fall to the floor ever again.
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Blush, for me it was the opposite with those 2 books! :lol Have you seen that she's written a sequel to Me Before You? I think that's a terrible idea, but of course I wanna read it.

I'm reading This House is Haunted by John Boyne. I love it.
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Finished This House is Haunted. The story is predictable, since it's about ghosts. But I loved the writing, the setting (England, 1867), the pace was good. Loved it.

Then I started The Duke and I by Julia Quinn. Apparently she's a trashy historical romance specialist? It looks like fun. Plus it cost US$1.88. That's already fun.
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Sílvia wrote:Blush, for me it was the opposite with those 2 books! :lol Have you seen that she's written a sequel to Me Before You? I think that's a terrible idea, but of course I wanna read it.
Ditto! Interesting about the sequel...yeah that seems like a bad idea.

I was not loving the book by the boy with autism, so I instead started "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy instead. It's my book club choice.
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I finished Walt this afternoon. I really enjoyed the writing style.

Next I have How to Fall in Love by Cecilia Ahern.
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Finished The Duke and I. It was great fun! I expected it to be cheesy and predictable. It is certainly predictable, but I did not expect it to be so funny. Several laugh-out-loud moments for me. I might check out her other books.

Next I have the sample of Last Letter from Your Lover by JoJo Moyes. I highly doubt she won't pass the sample test.
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I finished and liked Girl on the Train. Read Transhuman by Ben Bova and it was fine although the scientist in me was getting frustrated with the lack of accuracy/dumbing down of things. Not sure what's next on the pile.

I'm working my way through the audio of Stiff and it's fine.
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I just finished How to Fall in Love by Cecilia Ahern. It was really good but the premise was oddly similar to Me Before You.

Now I have The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion.
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