What are you reading 2018?

[Ultralight]

...11/22/63 was my favorite of his more recent works.

It is on my list!

[JaneV2.0]

The only character of King's I ever liked was Christine; he has a way of imbuing everything he touches with ugliness, if my memory serves me. I did like one of his short stories-The Mist?

[Ultralight]

The only character of King's I ever liked was Christine; he has a way of imbuing everything he touches with ugliness, if my memory serves me. I did like one of his short stories-The Mist?

Why did you like Christine?

Also: King can create characters that are utterly evil. But he also creates characters are are so truly good. This is something like like about him.

[JaneV2.0]

Why did you like Christine?

Also: King can create characters that are utterly evil. But he also creates characters are are so truly good. This is something like like about him.

I can't really remember the specifics, only that Christine was surprisingly sympathetic, IMO. I never found any of his characters particularly likable, but it's been a long time.

[rosarugosa]

I can't really remember the specifics, only that Christine was surprisingly sympathetic, IMO. I never found any of his characters particularly likable, but it's been a long time.

But Christine was a car.

[JaneV2.0]

But Christine was a car.

Yes, she was.

[catherine]

I only recently learned about Marjory Stoneman Douglas after the Parkland shooting. She seems like such an indomitable woman, I was compelled to read her autobiography. It's a pretty light read, but she reminds me in a way of my great aunt who was born only 9 years earlier. I'm fascinated with that period of time--the turn of the century through the Depression, and I'm also fascinated with people who stand up for unpopular causes, so this book, Marjory Stoneman Douglas: The Voice of the River, is right up my alley.

[Yppej]

This Just In: What I Couldn't Yell You on TV by Bob Schieffer
9 Years Among the Indians 1870-1879 by captive Herman Lehman

[nswef]

I just finished Hillbilly Elegy for book club. I was NOT looking forward to reading it and was pleasantly surprised, it flowed well, was hard to put down and no graphic horrors. It helped me understand some of the people around me. I am sorry there is not a good solution, much like the inner cities. My first reaction for a solution is to take all the children away and place them in safe, calm environments, but we know that cannot happen.

[Lainey]

I just finished Hillbilly Elegy for book club. I was NOT looking forward to reading it and was pleasantly surprised, it flowed well, was hard to put down and no graphic horrors. It helped me understand some of the people around me. I am sorry there is not a good solution, much like the inner cities. My first reaction for a solution is to take all the children away and place them in safe, calm environments, but we know that cannot happen.

Our local book club read that too. Next up for the club is "Evicted" by Matthew Desmond, non-fiction book on how affordable housing is becoming harder to obtain, and the resulting instability for families and neighborhoods and society is so devastating.

After that we've chosen a Fannie Flagg book - have to get away from the gloom for a while...!