Books on the Nightstand discussion

Happy New Year!
I'm working on finishing a book I started last year but had to return to the library before I finished it. Show Trial: Hollywood, Huac, and the Birth of the Blacklist" I've long been fascinated by this part of U.S. history.
I'm listening to The Family Roe: An American Story. Someone else's in this group put me on to this one.

Finished On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century and now working on The Vapors: A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America's Forgotten Capital of Vice and listening to Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era.

Also returning to War and Peace - one chapter a day.

Linda wrote: "Finished On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century and now wor..."

That just might be the best way to read some books. That way you don't feel bogged down in some of those longer books.

C. John wrote: "Linda wrote: "Finished [book:On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century|5913749..."

Many of them are truly works of art, C. John.

Linda wrote: "C. John wrote: "Linda wrote: "Finished [book:On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth..."

Apologies Linda if you thought I was being critical. I thought I was replying to a post where someone mentioned they were reading War and Peace, I think it was, a chapter a day. I was suggesting that for books like that, which are rather large and daunting, that approach might be the best one. As far as graphic novels go I would never argue against those. I have quite a few of those myself, although I tend more towards the superhero ones.

C. John wrote: "Linda wrote: "C. John wrote: "Linda wrote: "Finished [book:On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from..."

I wasn't offended, C. John.

I'm also the one reading War and Peace one chapter a day. I've tried this a few other times and I'm determined to accomplish this. I'm hoping by posting my progress every day, some of my friends on this site might prod me into compliance. Feel free to be that person.

I used that method to read Les Miz last year Linda.

Les Miz , saw the musical version of that at the Playhouse Theater in Wilmington, Delaware. Incredible.

Gerald wrote: "Les Miz , saw the musical version of that at the Playhouse Theater in Wilmington, Delaware. Incredible."

Britany wrote: "I used that method to read Les Miz last year Linda."

That one may be next year's book, Britany.

I saw Les Miz in Detroit when I was 8 months pregnant with our son.

What “method “ is that?

Gerald wrote: "What “method “ is that?"

Reading a chapter a day for a tome.

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I just finished & I just started

January 2022. Am reading The Eiger Sanction by Trevanian. My first Trevanian. So far, I’m impressed with the quality of writing.

Read that years ago . Film version with Clint Eastwood.

Becky wrote: "I just finished & I just started "

This would make a good way for us to post our

I just finished._____I just started____.

Nice format to keep up with member's reading.

Finished The Sisters Sweet by Elizabeth Weiss

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Still reading: and starting

Finished The Vapors: A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America's Forgotten Capital of Vice and listened to Poison for Breakfast and The Stranger in the Lifeboat and Apparently There Were Complaints: A Memoir.
Now reading The Anomaly and listening to The Intuitionist

Finished
ONE:
A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

TWO:
Heard It in a Love Song by Tracey Garvis Graves

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished The Intuitionist (5 stars) and started listening to White Bird: A Wonder Story

Reading A Scott Berg’s Lindbergh. This book is twenty years old and I am thrilled to read it on Kindle. I read one other biography, Goldwyn. This took me right into early Hollywood film making.

Finished & currently reading

Listening to A Fugitive Green and reading Shuggie Bain

Finished Verity by Colleen Hoover

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood by Cheryl Diamond

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I just finished FOREVER YOUNG by HALEY MILLS. A daughter of the actor JOHN MILLS Haley was a good actress who Disney picked to star in a couple of his films. I would say that the book was passable with very good parts and some not so good parts.

Finished out January with Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson-Loved it!

Finished reading Shuggie Bain and 100 Things We've Lost to the Internet. Finished listening to A Fugitive Green Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement and Small Things Like These.
Now reading The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History and will start listening to Olga Dies Dreaming. Also keeping up on reading a chapter a day of War and Peace

Read The Shadow Scrapbook as well as a bunch of smaller items this month. The book was interesting and I would link my review but it t'aint written yet. I find doing the reviews to be harder than reading a book. By the way this volume definitely asserts that The Shadow and Lamont Cranston were not the same person, and since it is written by the author of the original pulp novels I think he knows what he is talking about.