What Are You Reading? Part Deux

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Yeah, that's the other title that I remember seeing among his newer books at the library. One thing is for sure, I won't run out of Grisham books any time soon. This is one quandary that I had reading Donna Tartt: she only publishes one book a decade. I finished The Goldfinch and The Secret History over the last twelve months and had recently started The Little Friend. I hesitated then decided to save it for a rainy day or like that last piece of cake in the freezer one saves from their wedding. Some books are to be savored, to quote GNTLGNT's profile.
 
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Doc Creed said:
Yeah, that's the other title that I remember seeing among his newer books at the library. One thing is for sure, I won't run out of Grisham books any time soon. This is one quandary that I had reading Donna Tartt: she only publishes one book a decade. I finished The Goldfinch and The Secret History over the last twelve months and had recently started The Little Friend. I hesitated then decided to save it for a rainy day or like that last piece of cake in the freezer one saves from their wedding. Some books are to be savored, to quote GNTLGNT's profile.
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I thought The Goldfinch was an excellent book, Doc. The Secret History was a very good read as well.
 
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I did, too. I liked The Goldfinch better. There are certain writers that can make a reader feel they've stepped into the looking glass or "through the wardrobe" and Donna Tartt is in that elite group.
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I bought The Goldfinch based on a couple of really good reviews I read at the time and was glad that I made the right decision.
I actually must get around to reading it again some day.
 
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Another book that really impressed me, recently, was The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell.

The Bone Clocks is a novel by British writer David Mitchell. It was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2014, and called one of the best novels of 2014 by Stephen King. The novel won the 2015 World Fantasy Award.
 
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Paddy C said:
Another book that really impressed me, recently, was The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell.

The Bone Clocks is a novel by British writer David Mitchell. It was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2014, and called one of the best novels of 2014 by Stephen King. The novel won the 2015 World Fantasy Award.
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Hey, I have this one too, and haven’t read it yet. Mr. King also recommends Mitchell’s Slade House, so I have it waiting as well.
 
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danie said:
Hey, I have this one too, and haven’t read it yet. Mr. King also recommends Mitchell’s Slade House, so I have it waiting as well.
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I actually came across Slade House first and read The Bone Clocks after but I'd suggest that you read them in the order they were released.
Two of the best books I've read this year.

On a sad note, I told my Dad about them and decided to send them to him a while ago. Unfortunately, he never got to read them...
 
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Paddy C said:
I actually came across Slade House first and read The Bone Clocks after but I'd suggest that you read them in the order they were released.
Two of the best books I've read this year.

On a sad note, I told my Dad about them and decided to send them to him a while ago. Unfortunately, he never got to read them...
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Okay, thanks for the tip.

I’m sorry your dad didn’t get to read them. But he did get to think he had a pretty special son for having a shared love of reading good books.
 
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Paddy C said:
I actually came across Slade House first and read The Bone Clocks after but I'd suggest that you read them in the order they were released.
Two of the best books I've read this year.

On a sad note, I told my Dad about them and decided to send them to him a while ago. Unfortunately, he never got to read them...
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((Paddy C))
 
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