I'm stuck trying to find an audiobook. All the ones I requested at the library have 6+ week waits, and I don't have a podcast that's sucking me in.
I do have an Audible credit, but I want to use it wisely lol.
The following I have on hold...which would you spend your credit on?
The Women Demon Copperhead Just for Summer Under the Bridge Black Cake Lady Tan's Circle of Women
Or something else entirely?
I just finished Lady Tan's Circle of Women and loved it. I read, didn't listen, so not sure how the narrator is, but really enjoyed the book. I've been in a rut of reading mysteries and beach reads, but this pulled me right in. Would highly recommend.
My MIL did not like it at all though, she also hated Gentlemen in Moscow (one of my all time favorites), so guess it depends what you like.
Jalapeñomel, I liked Lady Tan’s Circle of Women a lot. Hated Demon Copperhead. Just say no.
I just finished Things My Son Needs to Know About the World. It’s the last of Fredrik Backman’s books I hadn’t read. Very short, so I knocked it out quickly. It’s very him and made me laugh a few times.
Also finished None of This is True by Lisa Jewell. It sucked me in and I spent some time reading yesterday afternoon so I could finish it. I don’t really ever rate thrillers over three stars and that held true, but I thought this was pretty solid.
Just started As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfah Katouh. I’m expecting it to be a tough read. Set in Syria.
I need to re-read Pachinko this month too for book club. It’s been a super long time since I read it, but I remember really enjoying it, so it’ll be an interesting one to read again.
I started Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano. Granted, I listen to it while I fall asleep so I end up back tracking a lot which is fine. I like it so far.
I read this in one day and LOVED it.
I just put down The Wager. I DNF even though it’s supposed to be great.
I need a new book…
I really wanted to like The Wager but found it really, really dragged.
I'm reading I'm Glad My Mom Died, which is really good but heartbreaking.
I am reading Bookshops and Bonedust. It's cozy fantasy I guess. Didn't even know that was a thing until someone picked it for my book club. Battle wounded orc is healing in a small town, getting cozy with the baker and helping revitalize the local bookshop. But, you know, also preparing to battle a necromancer with her ragtag group of gnomes and elves and such. I... just... never even imagined this would be a thing. But I guess it is lol. It's not bad actually.
I've been trying to get through The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton for like a month. It's good, but it's a classic (? it was published in 1920) and I'm embarrassed to say it takes so much brain power for me to get through the language lol.
Before She Finds Me by Heather Chavez just came through at the library so I think I'm going to switch to that. I think it's like a thriller? I'm not sure really some one here I think really liked it and I put it in my library list.
I currently have my Kindle on Airplane mode so I can finish Love, Theoretically.
I really WANT to like light, mindless reads, as it would help balance all of the other heavy/hard/stressful things in my world and the other books I enjoy reading (generally non-fiction), but I struggle getting into them so much.
All the Lonely People - Similar to Man Called Ove, which I loved. There was a slight twist in this book that actually had me teary a little. And I do not get teary with books.
You Should Have Told Me - Couldn't put this book down. Was a very easy, quick read. Enjoyed the little suspense of it.
I'm not normally one that will DNF a book. I'll try to power through it. But the last year I'm like "Why?" Last night I started a book (Where He Can't Find You) and I was less than 5 pages in when I said "Nope, not for me." And stopped reading.
Anyone else get like that where you know almost immediately a book is not gonna be one you want to spend your time reading?
I'm not normally one that will DNF a book. I'll try to power through it. But the last year I'm like "Why?" Last night I started a book (Where He Can't Find You) and I was less than 5 pages in when I said "Nope, not for me." And stopped reading.
Anyone else get like that where you know almost immediately a book is not gonna be one you want to spend your time reading?
Yes. Sometimes I can just tell the writing style isn't for me.
I'm not normally one that will DNF a book. I'll try to power through it. But the last year I'm like "Why?" Last night I started a book (Where He Can't Find You) and I was less than 5 pages in when I said "Nope, not for me." And stopped reading.
Anyone else get like that where you know almost immediately a book is not gonna be one you want to spend your time reading?
A lot.
My reading time is limited and I don’t want to waste it on books that aren’t grabbing me.
Post by wanderlustmom on May 8, 2024 14:41:28 GMT -5
I just loved Demon Copperhead but I know a lot didn't. I started the Women and I read Rose Code (3 stars) Listen for the Lie (3 stars) and the Thursday Murder Club (2, my sister loved it, I didn't). Just started the Women by Kristin Hannah.
I'm not normally one that will DNF a book. I'll try to power through it. But the last year I'm like "Why?" Last night I started a book (Where He Can't Find You) and I was less than 5 pages in when I said "Nope, not for me." And stopped reading.
Anyone else get like that where you know almost immediately a book is not gonna be one you want to spend your time reading?
Our book club book is None of This is True this month and for the life of me I cannot get myself to read it. Sometimes when books are too popular, I just don't want to read them and I purposely didn't read it when it came out. Now it just sits and stares at me, I think I've read the first page 5 times and have yet to get past page 10.
I'm questioning my life choices that so many people didn't like Lady Tan! I truly enjoyed it and now am hoping I didn't recommend it to too many people.
Our book club book is None of This is True this month and for the life of me I cannot get myself to read it. Sometimes when books are too popular, I just don't want to read them and I purposely didn't read it when it came out. Now it just sits and stares at me, I think I've read the first page 5 times and have yet to get past page 10.
my husband and I are like this too. But I always keep track of books that sound good and request them right away from the library (or sometimes I get an advance reader copy) so often I read a book before it’s a hit and often I’m surprised by what is popular! It’s not what I expect a good chunk of the time.
I'm not normally one that will DNF a book. I'll try to power through it. But the last year I'm like "Why?" Last night I started a book (Where He Can't Find You) and I was less than 5 pages in when I said "Nope, not for me." And stopped reading.
Anyone else get like that where you know almost immediately a book is not gonna be one you want to spend your time reading?
Too many great books to keep reading one I hate.
Agree. And like TR said, sometimes the writing you know right away. That's how I felt with this book. By page 3 I was like "That's a no"
I'm not normally one that will DNF a book. I'll try to power through it. But the last year I'm like "Why?" Last night I started a book (Where He Can't Find You) and I was less than 5 pages in when I said "Nope, not for me." And stopped reading.
Anyone else get like that where you know almost immediately a book is not gonna be one you want to spend your time reading?
I have a very low tolerance for books I am not enjoying. I DNF a lot and usually I can tell within a few pages whether or not I am going to spend my time with a book.
I just finished The Sound of Gravel, an autobiography by a woman who grew up in polygamy.
It was a great read! But tragic and heartbreaking and infuriating. It would be very cathartic to strangle several adults who run the gamut from being idiots to being straight up evil.
I just finished The Sound of Gravel, an autobiography by a woman who grew up in polygamy.
It was a great read! But tragic and heartbreaking and infuriating. It would be very cathartic to strangle several adults who run the gamut from being idiots to being straight up evil.
That was an intense book. I definitely neglected all my responsibilities the day I read that.
I just read We Were the Lucky ones and The Women. Both were too good for me to read with all my end of school/end of semester responsibilities! I need to read some mediocre stuff for the next two weeks