Erin Morgenstern (Night Circus) has a new book coming out in November and this will be my most anticipated book purchase of the year.
I’m so excited, too. And I’m first in line on my library’s hold list.
Erin Morgenstern (Night Circus) has a new book coming out in November and this will be my most anticipated book purchase of the year.
I don't know, I found one of those books in a free library last year, and even though Kinsey is cynical, she's also so gosh darned down home about it all. Maybe the difference is that it's a more contemporary cynicism.You think the Kinsey Milhone series needs more cynicism? I find Milhone to be fairly cynical and sometimes the endings aren't particularly satisfying in the way Harry Potter books are.
So that's how that book made it on to my library list!I’ve mentioned it in sekret sources but I second Prancer’s recommendation of How To Build A Girl by Caitlin Moran. I haven’t laughed so much reading a book in a long time. Moran is three years older than me so every single reference to cartoons, comics, tv shows and music speaks almost exactly to the things I watched, read and listened to.
Apparently a film has been made of the book and it was released last week. I’ll be interested to see if it’s as funny as the book.
So that's how that book made it on to my library list!
I really expected to love the book, as this type of story is right up my alley, but was really let down. Returned to the library about a third of the way in.
I usually don't talk about books until I've finished them, but I really needed a good laugh and How to Build a Girl is killing me .
The other book I brought with me on holiday is The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson. I loooooved Alif the Unseen so have high hopes for this.
I just finished reading Ann Patchett's new novel The Dutch House. I liked it a lot. It's one part Flowers In The Attic (although nowhere near as melodramatic) and one part old school soap opera (although a lot more fast moving), but it was also very intelligently focused on family, spouses, parents, siblings, extended family (I recognized a bit of my sister-in-law's and my dynamic), stepfamilies, servants who are strong secondary families, and the way children reflect and learn from their parents. All in 337 pages with a lot of focus on a house. So I definitely recommend it.
Have you read it yet? Not as much humor as the Virgie books typically have. I had the feeling Sanford is trying to figure out where to go with the books since Virgil is about to become a father. He's shifted Davenport to the US Marshalls to broaden his horizons, but Lucas is aging. I'm wondering if Sanford is ready to quit both series. I felt tying Virgil and Frankie together was going to be a problem for continuing the series.I have been sick and miserable all week and just noticed the new Virgil Flowers book by John Sanford has been released.
I saw that on the 7 day shelf today. I don't read Stephen King anymore, but I'll see what it is about."The Institute" by Stephen King also takes aim at Trump - I thought anyway.
Just part way through. Lucas clearly seems done - unless he finds a way to bring him back to health and glory. I agree with you about Virgil and Frankie - she is way too likable to be an addition to his failed marriages and not sure there is a way for him to keep up his sort of adorable "bad boy' ways with a wife and two kids. I had thought it was genius to allow Lucas to age, mature and take on a more adult lifestyle and then introduce Virgil - not the same as a younger Lucas but similar enough and endearing on his own. We shall see. Maybe the adopted daughter - her name escapes me - could become a major character. Wasn't she at one point going into law enforcement?Have you read it yet? Not as much humor as the Virgie books typically have. I had the feeling Sanford is trying to figure out where to go with the books since Virgil is about to become a father. He's shifted Davenport to the US Marshalls to broaden his horizons, but Lucas is aging. I'm wondering if Sanford is ready to quit both series. I felt tying Virgil and Frankie together was going to be a problem for continuing the series.
Lettie and yes, she wanted to follow Lucas. Sandford hinted at putting she and Virgil together as a foil for Lucas, but that went out the window when he decided to get Frankie pregnant. There is a Prey book due for release in the spring so we'll see then what the plan for Lucas will be. I love Jenkins and Shrake, but they can't carry a book by themselves.Just part way through. Lucas clearly seems done - unless he finds a way to bring him back to health and glory. I agree with you about Virgil and Frankie - she is way too likable to be an addition to his failed marriages and not sure there is a way for him to keep up his sort of adorable "bad boy' ways with a wife and two kids. I had thought it was genius to allow Lucas to age, mature and take on a more adult lifestyle and then introduce Virgil - not the same as a younger Lucas but similar enough and endearing on his own. We shall see. Maybe the adopted daughter - her name escapes me - could become a major character. Wasn't she at one point going into law enforcement?