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Midnight by Dean Koontz. Just finished it. I have two books on Stephen King sort stories or another Dean Koontz. Haven't decided which to start next.
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My VERY favorite mystery author, Peter Swanson has a new one out and I waited a long time for this one to show from my library's hold list: Yesterday I walked in for The Kind Worth Saving, a sequel to what I think was his first "The Kind Worth Killing". That latter I guarantee for a twisting mind game you will not see coming over and over again. And it is FREE on Kindle if you are an Unlimited member. So try The Kind Worth Killing if you are a mystery fan.
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Women Who Think Too Much: How to Break Free of Overthinking and Reclaim Your Life by Susan Nolen-Hoeksema. I borrowed it from the library and just started reading it today. It seems interesting and so far I find myself in several descriptions.
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Just finished Dr Henry Marsh's latest memoir, And Finally.
As a neurologist who is dianosed with stage IV prostate cancer Dr Marsh deals in this latest book of his with the difference in being a doctor, and a doctor who is also a patient. Fascinating on any number of fronts.

For instance, are you aware that babies have more brain cells than at any other time in the life cycle. They are born pre programed to learn any language and its nuances, even several. Once they begin learning a language the extra cells begin to die off, called "pruning".

Or that our hearts beat on average 4Billion beats over our lives? All of us from a long lived Galapagos turtle to a mouse. So the mouse's heart over his lifespan beats 400 times a minute, but the galapagos turtle's only an average of 4 times a minute.

Just tripping over fascinating brain facts as I read. Loved it.
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I will say I search books in the "bargain corner" of Half Price Books. So some of the books I pick up are a bit odd, or not highly (or maybe even a little) advertised. I am currently reading The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe. I also picked up The Room on Rue Amelie by Kristen Harmel (she also wrote The Book of Lost Names that I found amazing..I hope this "new" one is just as good)
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Has anyone read Secret of the Stones by Ernest Dempsey? Thinking about it next.
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"The Forgetting" was a great book! I highly recommend it.

If you want to read it make sure you get the one by Hannah Beckerman, there is more than one book with that title.
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A fabulous novel by Charmaine Craig called My Nemesis.
A blurb calls it "sly and seething" and they got THAT right. I would like to thow the female protagonist into the fires of Hades myself.
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Book bans in schools are reaching an all time high. Tons of books along with the Bible! It’s crazy!
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The wives are finally starting to get smart. Just starting.......
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Don't you hate it when the characters are so lame you don't care whether they live or die? LOL
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The Forgetting, Hannah Beckerman

I am about 2/3 through, to the point that the two manipulative men and two naive wives are so stupid I almost feel physically ill. I am definitely angry!
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Okay thanks for the update Glad, I'll put that one on my "don't bother" list.

The Laurie R King book Back to the Garden was a disappointment too, the plot line was all over the place and I had a hard time even figuring out who the main protagonist was meant to be :(
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Still stuck in Joyce Carol Oates old Gothics. Still working my way thru all three and now am in the midst of The Mysteries of Winterthurn.
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Finished "Through the Darkening Glass" very strange and somewhat enjoyable or I would not have finished it. But, not five stars, probably 2.5 maybe 3.
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I’m currently back to my long-term reads for stressful complicated situations – Georgette Heyer’s Regency Romances. I think I have the lot. I used to read them 50 years ago at examination time, to calm down my head. I know many of them more or less by heart.

This is NOT the right time for the solid stuff, like the History of the Papacy!
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Glad, Joyce Carol Oate's Gothics are not books I would recommend. They are takeoff on the gothics of the 1800s and they are odd odd odd. VERY odd. She admits in her author's notes she was obsessed with thinking on them and with writing them, and almost could not let the obsession go when she stopped. If you want to read an amazing book by her choose Blackwater, a takeoff on the Ted Kennedy/Mary Jo Kopecne car crash and drowning of the latter. THAT is short and AMAZING. Fictionalized account, but real clear exactly who she is talking about. I believe her shortest book and perhaps her best. She has in her latter years become very very dark indeed.
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Keeping a Quiet Heart
Elizabeth Elliot
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Glad - I tend to discount the top reviews for everything and look at what everyone else is saying. When you get a lot of credible sounding people saying essentially the same thing I tend to believe them, and although some people seem to love the book a lot of others have really panned it.
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In Order to Live by Yeommi Park.
At 13 she “escaped” North Korea only to be immediately trafficked by her smuggler in China. It details her oppressive life in NK and China. Rescued by South Korean missionaries, she lives in USA, and is an advocate for suffering NK victims, especially human trafficking. Timely reminder of the blessings we enjoy.
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Alva, 752 pages?! Don't think I will read that one but it does sound like a good book. It would probably take me a month, at least, to read!
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Bellefleur, Joyce Carol Oats old (1980) gothic. I love it dark.
Had three of her gothics saved forever, covered in mylar jackets, in the library. Decided to do them one as a time. Bloodsmoor Romance is next. I kept these intending always to "read them again". At 80 figure it's now or never, then can give them away. Heavy books taxing the arthritic fingers and the aging eyes.
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CW, Goodreads shows four stars as does Amazon. I wonder if the Canadian Goodreads is different ratings that US?
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Give us a review when you've finished it Glad, many of the reviews at goodreads are not very high.

I'm currently into the newest Laurie R King book, I'm not sure yet whether it's good or not.
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Through A Darkening Glass. Set in 1940's England during WWII. A story of a girl murdered 1910's now believed to be a wraith, a ghost, haunting the town where the main characters have evacuated to from London.

Fun, but curious and strange actually kinda creepy.
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Glad, we got YouTube TV as well. Never had so many channels, and so much less than our cable was, which in SF was Astound-Wave and had gone up over 200 a month. You could call and plead that you were a senior and get a teensy bit off, but had to do it all the time, the charges were going up monthly. Things are so much better now. We have Sonic for the computers/phone and youtube TV for the rest, and can really get anything we care to watch now. I so agree with you.
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Finished "Hidden in Snow". Highly recommended! I am also going to check out "The Sandhamn Murders". This book series was so popular it was made into a tv series. Will try to find that as well. It might have English subtitles or maybe even in English. English is taught throughout school in Sweden and Norway from what I understand.

Oh and I fell asleep watching Dick Van Dyke on YouTube tonight. Woke up to the complete movie of Bonanza, yes all 3+ hours! No I didn't watch it. YouTube also has some full length, free, movies.

For those that are interested that want to get rid of cable tv, that satellite on your roof, and the $130 bill that comes along with it, try YouTube TV. At least It was $130 when I dropped It 1.5 years ago, and wouldn't go back! It is wonderful and actually includes some premium channels included in the only $65/month fee. YouTube TV is an app on your smart TV, it it is not there search for it. There is a free one week trial.

SMH I wonder how long until we stop referring to them as Smart TV's. You can't buy stupid ones any more, can you?

YouTube and YouTube TV are different.
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I'm reading a book called Knock Knock by Anders Roslund. Pretty good but I keep on getting sidetracked. Seems I've been reading it for a while now.
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It is kind of interesting it is smoked creamed cod roe. The book calls it caviar and of course that is what roe is, especially if the cod type. I just never thought of that product as caviar.
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glad - yes, I remember that . I gather it was good! All that snow feels familiar.❄❄❄ You can get the smoked roe on Amazon. I think it is gluten and dairy free.
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