Literature

[uaintjak]

Goof books always make me laugh.

[MrsGryn]

You're such a literate goof.

[sam0920]

Lol. Goof or good. That's what I get for using my phone for everything. Big thank you MrsGryn! That was a great book. Any more recommendations?

[MrsGryn]

sam0920, right now I'm reading "From Scratch: Inside the Food Network." It's a lot of inside baseball stuff about starting a TV network from scratch (ha, see what I did there?) but so far pretty fascinating. I always liked Emeril, and there is some interesting stuff about him and the sort of two personalities you see on Essence and his Emeril Live shows, how Bobby Flay got into the mix, etc. Stuff like that.

[sam0920]

Thanks MrsGryn. I like Emeril & Bobby Flay. Will have to check it out.

[copssister]

I'm fairly sure we could raise some funds to support HT by having creating a Hamster version of this:

"A Guinea Pig Pride & Prejudice". MrsGryn??

[MrsGryn]

Jane is the most beautiful guinea pig of all!

 

The part of Caroline Bingley will be played by a weasel.

[bookwhore]

Has anyone read the Inspector Armond Gamache series by Louise Penny? I'm currently on hold for the latest book at the library and I'm already going through withdrawals from Three Pines. I just.hate that restless feeling I get just knowing the next book I finally decide to read won't measure up. Excellent writing. Highly recommend. 

[Tsylyst]

Yes, it is a favorite of mine. I haven't read the latest yet either, though I have it loaded on my ereader.

[MrsGryn]

What are they about?

[Tsylyst]

It's a mystery series about an older police Inspector that investigates crimes tied to a seemingly quiet Canadian village near Montreal. The characters all come across very real, and very flawed. It's very well written, but honestly the last couple have been hard for me to get through because everyone's life is kind of a depressing mess now that it's more than a dozen novels in and it has become less fun, less escape reading. At first you think it's just a cozy-mystery type of thing, and then it goes deeper.

Here's the first book in the series: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/still-life-louise-penny/1100355026?ean=9780312541538#/

[bookwhore]

The series definitely goes deeper, and darker, as it progresses. I, personally, don't mind it. Mostly because the author has the ability to write both despair and hope into a single paragraph, rather than taking pages and pages to get her point across. 

I agree very much about her characters. They are extremely well written, 3 dimensional, and some very quirky. In an honest and fun way. Not quirky just for the sake of being quirky.  Even the most minor characters are well crafted. 

Her ability to draw you into the village as a whole is top notch. I abhor cold weather, but she's managed to make me wish I could live there even during the winter season. Told my hubby I wouldn't mind visiting Canada later this year and he looked at me like I had lost my mind. Then his expression changed and he made a smart ass comment about asking the author to please change her locale to somewhere tropical.  

[Kyara]

I’ve only just read the first one and really enjoyed it. The characters are definitely what draw you in.

[karolm]

Still waiting for George RR Martin's 6th book.

Does anyone else still have hope?

[Kyara]

I don’t know.. I’m definitely losing hope.