Here's What We're Reading; March 2015

My first read of the month is a classic suspense novel, perfectly suited to take my mind off the facts that 1) I'm starting a new job at the end of the month 2) I have to pack up and move by the last weekend in March 3) that my one and only little reliable car was badly damaged and my neck/back/shoulders are very sore after a rear-ender accident on Friday! One Across, Two Down by Ruth Rendell.

I just finished A Fine Summer's Day by Charles Todd a " prequel ' to the series, which I've not read. Just started The Girl on A Train and enjoying it.

@ ted74ca - oh what challenging week for you! I hope you are feeling better soon and Ruth Rendell is usually a great creepy read!I hope you enjoy!

Finally finished a great book that I've been desperately trying to find time to finish lately. The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell. Quite a long read, and very detailed-you can't skim through parts of this, but I thought it was well worth it. Best read so far of the year for me, hands down.

I've read almost half of Sweetland and I feel really bad about this, but I'm finding it quite boring.
I've also grown impatient with The Paying Guests, for which I had great expectations having enjoyed some of her previous books. Sarah Waters
What? There must be something....maybe I need a good engaging mystery thriller. Hey, I have an unread Rendell. Or the new Gail Bowen. I am getting too fussy, I think, must be my new 'senior' status.

I'm reading Longbourn and Lady Oracle.

I'm reading Middlemarch for a book club.

ted, I hope you are recovering well from your accident and that the new job goes well.

I just finished Intolerable, one of the Canada Reads books.

mdoris, go the CBC Canada Reads Fans group and post what you thought of it!

I am reading The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

I'm reading a thriller by Jeffrey Archer Be Careful what you wish for

Gruesome serial killer novel, but kept my interest to the end: The Killer Next Door by Alex Marwood.

Finished The Girl on the Train and am reading A Test of Wills by Charles Todd.

After trying for over a month to read What We All Long For for a family book club, I had to admit defeat and stop reading. Just couldn't get into it and didn't care about any of the characters. Every night I wanted to read, but didn't want to read that, so played games on my iPhone instead. Meanwhile, Cobra by Deon Meyer was sitting just under it next to my bed. When I finally gave up on the book club book, I just roared through Cobra in two sittings and loved every minute of it. Meyer is great as usual.

I'm sad to report that I've stopped reading both my books--Lady Oracle by Atwood and Longbourn by Baker. I'm finding them less than compelling. Boring even. But I don't think they are so bad that I shouldn't finish them, so I will make myself. But I'm not inspired.

14, i know what you mean, I hate going through spells like that, books I 'should' like, but just cannot get excited about.
But I am really enjoying Ellen in Pieces.

Two reads this week: 1) the highly rated The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho which I had to read for my book club and which I didn't like at all-obviously I am a superficial person incapable of deep metaphysical thoughts! and 2) The Evening Chorus by Helen Humphreys, which I really liked.

The Long Way Home by Louise Penny

I've started Paper Towns by John Green - he does have a knack for great teen stories.

I'm reading My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead

I'm reading The House on the Strand, by Daphne du Maurier. Love the Cornwall setting!

Finished A Test of Wills by Charles Todd and I am now reading Aren't We Sisters by Clare Ferguson. Aren't We Sisters is long listed for the 2015 Bailey's Literary Prize.

Is anyone following CBC Canada Reads? It's pretty quiet over at https://www.librarything.com/groups/cbcscanadareadsfans

I admit I'm a day behind, but I was just reading some of the comments at the CBC website and I'm stunned at how negative people are. What is with people?

I'm excited to start Anne-Marie MacDonald's latest book, Adult Onset.

Just finishing Lady Oracle, which has to be the funniest Atwood, and excited to start a just-published novel Asylum: a Mystery by Jeannette de Beauvoir, which involves murders in Montreal. Sounds like just the thing for a rainy weekend.

I'm reading Persona Non Grata by Tom Flanagan

I've started Fall by Colin McAdam, which I'm enjoying for two reasons: 1) it's a slightly creepy and very engaging account of two roommates in a board school; 2) although not explicitly presented as such, it's set in Ottawa and I perfectly picture the setting, which is really cool!

I also just finished Gouvernance : le management totalitaire by Alain Deneault which denounces the over-emphasis of structure and process at the expense of ideas and ways of rethinking our societies.

I read 2 books this week: a horror story The Damned by Andrew Pyper and a British detective novel: Dead Simple by Peter James

I'm enjoying Blue Moon by James King.

I am reading Surprised by Joy by CS Lewis

I'm reading Walt by Russell Wangersky

@30 Lynn, I read Walt last year. An interesting book! I just finished Aren't We Sisters by Patricia Ferguson and I put a review on the main page. It is a long listed Baily Prize book - or Orange Prize, depending on how you prefer to think about it.

I finished Mais je fais quoi du corps? by Olivier Gay over the weekend. A nice little thriller.
Not sure what's next.

I'm reading The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett

Reading my third LL Bailey Prize book - A Blue Spool of Thread by Anne Tyler.

I love Anne Tyler. I've read every book she's written.

I enjoy her books, too, Lynn. I have read 4 or 5 of her books and so far, 110 pages in, A Blue Spool of Thread has grabbed me in!

I finished Asylum: a Mystery about fictional serial murders in current day Montreal that are related to real historical events in a dark period of Canadian history--the Duplessis Orphans. I'm glad I read this book because I'm not sure I'd heard about this horrific act (I think I had but then forgot). It also talks about CIA sponsored drug experiments going on in Montreal, and that I definitely didn't know about.

Now I'm starting a graphic novel -- Through the Woods, by Canadian author Emily Carroll.

Just finished another Inspector Banks story, Children of the Revolution by Peter Robinson. Always enjoy this series. Next up is a biography, Elizabeth the Queen: The life of a Modern Monarch.

@37 - Joyce, Asylum: A Mystery is going on my radar. I had heard about the CIA experiments in Montreal, but certainly not the the Duplessis Orphans.

>39 vancouverdeb: I think it's one that you might like. Keep your eyes open for it.