The Border Book Club

[AlreadyGone95]

Just curious, is anyone going to read or is reading the new Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child? I'm debating on whether to see if my library has it or to buy the book.

[DJ]

Just curious, is anyone going to read or is reading the new Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child? I'm debating on whether to see if my library has it or to buy the book.

My daughter is currently read this AG, I can let you know if she approves. My kids are huge Potter fans.

[buffyfan145]

I'll be getting it from the library within the next couple days as I had reserved it. I do have some friends who've already read it and most liked it. Some were disappointed it's actually the play's script but most of us knew that months ago. I'm excited to know what happens and see the characters as adults and their kids. Entertainment Weekly gave the script & actual play an A grade and most of the critics seems to be really loving it.

[NightMistBlue]

I didn't realize that Irving Azoff is still managing Steely Dan and Donald Fagen when he's solo. The latter part of Fagen's book is a 2012 tour diary, when he was on the road with Michael McDonald and Boz Scaggs. It is laugh-out-loud funny, with Fagen describing the "leprechaun-sized" Azoff as traveling everywhere with imposing bodyguards, and "owning a piece in everything that remains of the music industry" that continuously spits money back at him.

[Jonny Come Lately]

While I've been away on holiday I've been reading a book called Football Against The Enemy. It was written in the mid-1990s, it describes the author's personal journey across the world and talking to footballing (and non-footballing) people, and the role that football has played in each society.

There are many fascinating stories which range from the moving and shocking (such as one East German man's determination to follow the West German side Hertha Berlin from the other side of the wall) to moments of comedy (for instance, the Senegal national team missed out on the 1990 World Cup through sheer incompetence, by failing to submit their entry). The timing makes it especially interesting in the chapters on the former Soviet states, which had only recently gained independence, and immediately post-apartheid South Africa. It is a riveting read and I would recommend it to anyone with so much as a passing interest in association football. Even my mum, whose interest in the game is casual at best, really enjoyed reading the chapter about the rivalry between the Dutch and German national teams.

[LovinGlennGirl]

Reading Cross Creek by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings for the second time. Love this book, the farm it is based on is nearby. A friend and I toured it last week so thats why I am re reading.

[buffyfan145]

My fourth novel "Angel Eyes" is finally out!!! It's on Amazon here in both paperback & Kindle formats and it's also available in paperback and ePub versions on other sites including where I self-published on Lulu. I'm really excited about this one as it took me over two years to write & finish this and it's my first romantic-thriller novel. I actually got the idea for it two years ago after watching the film version of "Jersey Boys", having read Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing", and hearing Eric Church's song "Springsteen" all around the same time.

[NightMistBlue]

Reading Cross Creek by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings for the second time. Love this book, the farm it is based on is nearby. A friend and I toured it last week so thats why I am re reading.

Woah! You're lucky to live in such a beautiful place. I read the book years ago and it made me want to be a farmer for awhile Finally toured the house a few years ago.

Have you ever seen the movie starring Mary Steenburgen?

[NightMistBlue]

My fourth novel "Angel Eyes" is finally out!!! It's on Amazon here in both paperback & Kindle formats and it's also available in paperback and ePub versions on other sites including where I self-published on Lulu. I'm really excited about this one as it took me over two years to write & finish this and it's my first romantic-thriller novel. I actually got the idea for it two years ago after watching the film version of "Jersey Boys", having read Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing", and hearing Eric Church's song "Springsteen" all around the same time.

Congratulations, Buffy!

[Brooke]

Good for you, Buffy! I hope it does well!

I'm currently reading the Sheila Weller book, Girls Like Us. I really like Carole King and Carly Simon's music, not too thrilled about Joni Mitchell's. Good stories so far. Some of you have already read it, I think.