What are you reading at the moment?

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  1. toni

    toni Mistress of Garden Junque Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    I just started Sarah Addison Allen's 4th book The Peach Keeper
    Like the first three it has a good story with a little mystical edge to it.
     
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    I'm reading "A Discovery of Witches" by Deborah Harkness and am really enjoying it...a story (not unlike the Twilight series by Meyer, only more geared for adults :-D )of witches, demons, vampires, history, magic, and love.
     
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    i'm reading 'The Resilient Gardener' by Carol Deppe. lots of great info!
     
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    I'm reading Mary Chesnut's Civil War Diary. I love books about the Civil War. My husband says it's because I'm a natural-born rebel.
    Bunkie, you could write a gardening book--what are you doing reading one?
     



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  5. bunkie

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    oh mg, i can never learn enough! there are so many wonderful ideas floating around out there. :D
     
  6. toni

    toni Mistress of Garden Junque Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    I finished The Peach Keeper the other day. It was okay but I liked Garden Spells much better.

    Kasey, I finished that book a few weeks ago and loved it. Now we have until sometime next year before #2 is released.
     
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    Kay Girl with Green Thumbs

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    Well, winter is upon us once again and this is when I can really bury my nose into books.
    I just read night road by Kristin Hannah, Heartwood by Belva Plain, and Live Wire by Harlan Coben.
    I also received a Kindle Fire for Christmas, and have read 3 books so far by Terri Reid about a ex- cop that sees ghosts and they help solve murders. They are on the "light" side of murder mysteries.
     
  8. toni

    toni Mistress of Garden Junque Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    I have started reading Buddha Standard Time by Surya Das. Living in the NOW, not the past or future. Very interesting, if not a little daunting read. I will probably read it a second time to make pick up on things I missed the first time through.
     
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    Im reading Dragon Keeper- Vol 1 of the Rain Wilds Chronicles by Robin Hobb. Interesting book.
    The summary is a bit long to include here, so if anyone is interested, you can just Google the title.
     
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    gaila New Seed

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    Reading the complete works of Florence Shinn,interesting and very helpful.
     
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    stratsmom Flower Fanatic

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    I'm reading "Eat Right For Your Blood Type" :rolleyes:
     
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    The Books of Rachel.
     
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    Am reading "Of Parrots and People" by Mira Tweti. I'm a bird person, but even if you're not it is an important eye-opener about the loss of bird habitats (especially the rainforests) & the cruelty of bird smuggling. It also tells of a wonderful man, Charles Munn, who has big $$$ and is using his wealth to buy thousands of acres in South America & turning them into bird sanctuaries that offer eco-tours.He has found a way to convince poverty-stricken bird smugglers not to continue smuggling.... he hires them to work in his sanctuaries for more money than they make smuggling! Great read!
     
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    My daughter had a college reading assignment and told me I had to read it..."IF I had time"....So I started "The Other Wes Morre", a book about two young men growing up in the same neighborhood with the same name, but different life destinations. One is a college graduate the other is serving life in prison, a true story about the choices that are made as they grow up with similar circumstances, but unbelievable outcomes as they are raised.
     
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    I am wading through Jane Fonda's My Life Up to Now, and I have come to the conclusion I don't like Jane Fonda. At some point a grown woman has to take responsibility for her own life, and stop blaming daddy for everything!
    I think I'll give up biographies for a while. Maybe a nice Agatha Christie . . . .
     

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