Post by kittenponypony on Apr 13, 2021 7:24:40 GMT -5
How do people find books to read? It’s kind of surprising to me that I have heard of so few of these books and authors, besides a couple. Makes me feel like I am reading older things or I am not on the same page (pun intended) lol
How do people find books to read? It’s kind of surprising to me that I have heard of so few of these books and authors, besides a couple. Makes me feel like I am reading older things or I am not on the same page (pun intended) lol
Here 🤣 That’s why I keep starting these threads, lol Now that we’ve done it awhile I also know which posters seem to have similar taste in books as I do.
I also read articles about new releases/recommended books or “If you liked x here’s some other books you’ll love”. If the quick summary catches my eye I put it on my list.
How do people find books to read? It’s kind of surprising to me that I have heard of so few of these books and authors, besides a couple. Makes me feel like I am reading older things or I am not on the same page (pun intended) lol
Here 🤣 That’s why I keep starting these threads, lol Now that we’ve done it awhile I also know which posters seem to have similar taste in books as I do.
I also read articles about new releases/recommended books or “If you liked x here’s some other books you’ll love”. If the quick summary catches my eye I put it on my list.
Exactly! I'd say I get the majority of my book recommendations here. The rest are usually from my sister or mom or someone else posting on Facebook.
I read enough that I honestly don't even pay that much attention to the description of a book most of the time. If someone says it was 5 stars or they loved it, I will often just put it on my list. I figure that if I don't like the book it's low risk - it's not like I'm only reading 3 books a year so it's very low stakes.
I do borrow audiobooks from the library and sometimes browse their "available now" offerings. I'll usually just look for titles I recognize or occasionally read the description if I'm really not finding anything.
How do people find books to read? It’s kind of surprising to me that I have heard of so few of these books and authors, besides a couple. Makes me feel like I am reading older things or I am not on the same page (pun intended) lol
How do people find books to read? It’s kind of surprising to me that I have heard of so few of these books and authors, besides a couple. Makes me feel like I am reading older things or I am not on the same page (pun intended) lol
I get my recommendations from here, Goodreads and I follow the local library on Instagram. They post a lot of new books and do a list of the top 10 most checked out/requested books for the month.
How do people find books to read? It’s kind of surprising to me that I have heard of so few of these books and authors, besides a couple. Makes me feel like I am reading older things or I am not on the same page (pun intended) lol
Newspapers and magazines still have book columns. I follow authors I like on Amazon and get notified when they have something new announced. I follow authors I like on Twitter and they often promote their friend’s books. If I like a Modern Love column or other “light” newspaper column I check the bio and they are often authors of interesting books. There are book mailing lists like LitNut and Bookriot that send out lists of new books.
I’m on Netgalley which lets you request early copies of books before publication to review. Even if I don’t get one, I request it from my library if it looks good. In my city if you suggest a book for them to buy you get it first!
How do people find books to read? It’s kind of surprising to me that I have heard of so few of these books and authors, besides a couple. Makes me feel like I am reading older things or I am not on the same page (pun intended) lol
Goodreads, and I love the HIH threads on books. Honestly, I get most of my recommendations from over there.
How do people find books to read? It’s kind of surprising to me that I have heard of so few of these books and authors, besides a couple. Makes me feel like I am reading older things or I am not on the same page (pun intended) lol
My method is probably not the best, but I’ve ended up reading some great (and eh) books! I only borrow e-books from my library through the Libby app. I sort by popularity and get on the waitlist for anything that sounds interesting and/or has high ratings. I’m in a library network that has a waitlist for a lot of popular books - sometimes 6 months. So I also go through “available now” and sort by popular books and end up downloading anything that seems interesting.
How do people find books to read? It’s kind of surprising to me that I have heard of so few of these books and authors, besides a couple. Makes me feel like I am reading older things or I am not on the same page (pun intended) lol
My method is probably not the best, but I’ve ended up reading some great (and eh) books! I only borrow e-books from my library through the Libby app. I sort by popularity and get on the waitlist for anything that sounds interesting and/or has high ratings. I’m in a library network that has a waitlist for a lot of popular books - sometimes 6 months. So I also go through “available now” and sort by popular books and end up downloading anything that seems interesting.
I very rarely go searching for a specific title.
This is interesting because I am sort of the opposite. If it is super popular I kind of assume it isn’t going to be great lol There are some outliers but at my library anyway the most popular books are mostly generic thrillers written by men. Some romance but a lot of Patterson and Coben. I always check out “coming soon” and see if I can get a jump on the queue or suggest books myself so I’m auto added.
I also like to avoid reviews and just go by descriptions with books. Then I read the reviews when I’m done to confirm I’m right lol
How do people find books to read? It’s kind of surprising to me that I have heard of so few of these books and authors, besides a couple. Makes me feel like I am reading older things or I am not on the same page (pun intended) lol
I look up books being made into movies, seriously!
How do people find books to read? It’s kind of surprising to me that I have heard of so few of these books and authors, besides a couple. Makes me feel like I am reading older things or I am not on the same page (pun intended) lol
I look up books being made into movies, seriously!
That’s good too! And a lot of books get optioned before they even come out in stores so you can get in on the ground floor.
I wanted to come back here and add what I read yesterday
Behind Her Eyes - Sarah Pinborough (also a show on Netflix) Not going to say too much because the ending is whoooaaaa and I don’t want to ruin it. Love triangle thriller. I am SO glad I had absolutely no inkling of spoilers for this! I can see from Good Reads the ending is polarizing but I LOVED it. I thought I had this figured out and boy was I wrong. 5 stars for managing to surprise me.
How do people find books to read? It’s kind of surprising to me that I have heard of so few of these books and authors, besides a couple. Makes me feel like I am reading older things or I am not on the same page (pun intended) lol
I work in a library so it's easy for me, lol!
I also use Google. So if I love a particular book or author a lot, but have read all of their books, I will Google "author read-alike" and a novelist's name and get a list of other writers to look into. I do the same with specific books.
Also, I go to Goodreads and browse their lists of the best books of each year (from reader votes). I like to get the books a couple of years old so I avoid the big waiting lists for new books at the library.
I finished Heart's Invisible Furies as we all know, lol, and loved it.
I'm now reading Taking Up Space, which is an examination through interview and personal experiences of being black and female/nonbinary in high-end university in the UK. Some is specific to the UK in terms of application process and getting in, but most of it is really applicable to the US as well. What I've read so far is really well done.
If anyone is looking for some non-fiction, I recently read (actually I listened to):
-Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (by Malcom Gladwell): "Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don't know. And because we don't know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world."
-Mistake Were Made (but not by me), by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson. "Why do people dodge responsibility when things fall apart? Why the parade of public figures unable to own up when they screw up? Why the endless marital quarrels over who is right? Why can we see hypocrisy in others but not in ourselves? Are we all liars? Or do we really believe the stories we tell?"
Both were really, really interesting.
I've been listening to Talking to Strangers forever now. It's really good but I never have time for audiobooks lately. I need to carve out some time.
I go through book award lists and best of the year lists and pick out books to put on my hold list, when my turn comes up most of the time I read them, sometimes I’m not feeling that ambitious and look for something else on the “It’s Your Lucky Day” list that has popular titles that I can check out now. I checked out Hamnet this morning from that list which was one I had pulled from a best of 2020 list a while back and didn’t read when my hold had come up.
Currently reading Group - Christie Tate. Too early to tell. A book about group therapy.
I’ll be interested to hear what you think when you’re finished. I wasn’t sure how I felt about it. I appreciate any memoir about therapy and bettering yourself, but some of the stuff her doctor recommended and some of the relationships she developed in group were odd. But then again, I’m not a mental health professional nor have I ever been to group therapy so it’s very likely just me not understanding.
I just finished and I agree. I haven’t ever been to therapy, so I was shocked at some of the “prescriptions” and the relationships outside of therapy - including therapist/patient. Obviously the author and other patients got a lot from his techniques, but reading about some of it made me super uncomfortable.
I'm about half way into You Love Me. It soooo follows the EXACT same pattern yet again, but whatever. It's an easy read and entertaining but it's taking a totally different direction than the show (season 3 is coming out this year at some point) and I'm happy they're doing something different for season 3. I'm interested to see where the characters go in the series vs the book.
After this, I'm reading Behind Her Eyes because I've heard so many good things about it.
I’ll be interested to hear what you think when you’re finished. I wasn’t sure how I felt about it. I appreciate any memoir about therapy and bettering yourself, but some of the stuff her doctor recommended and some of the relationships she developed in group were odd. But then again, I’m not a mental health professional nor have I ever been to group therapy so it’s very likely just me not understanding.
I just finished and I agree. I haven’t ever been to therapy, so I was shocked at some of the “prescriptions” and the relationships outside of therapy - including therapist/patient. Obviously the author and other patients got a lot from his techniques, but reading about some of it made me super uncomfortable.
I couldn’t even finish it. It honestly seemed like a bad idea to even publish the book because it validated so many bad boundaries and there was some real ethical issues raised that weren’t dealt with.
Post by cheeseplease on Apr 17, 2021 18:18:44 GMT -5
I just finished a book called Float Plan by Trish Doller. I read it in less than a day. Loved it. It's the story of a woman reeling from the suicide of her fiancé. 10 months after his death a reminder he put in her phone goes off that this was the day they were leaving on a sailing trip from Florida to the Caribbean. She rashly decides to go alone on the boat he had been refurbishing. After a scary night she hires a sailing mate who is also fighting his own demons but who is such a kind and good person. All the descriptions and scenery and boating terms and secondary characters were all so well written. I loved this book and highly recommend.
Now I am reading Kind to Kill by Peter Swanson. It's been in my kindle a year and didn't realize it until I checked it out from the library (I get most of my kindle books through my library). It says I am 36% in and so far so good. I've heard great things about this author in general so can't wait to see who does who in the murder sense here.
I think since I last posted in here I finished The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels and really enjoyed it.
I am now reading The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto and am finding it really easy to read. I love the narration from “Music” or whatever they’re calling it. It’s great so far.
The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig. It seemed really promising at the beginning and I was genuinely excited, but the execution has failed to live up to my expectations. The premise of the book is so good, I feel like Haig wasted an opportunity. I haven't finished yet though, maybe there's a big, insightful finish that will wow me.
It's feeling a bit like the book Where'd You Go Bernadette? It also feels like Haig made easy choices, when he could have made the text deeper and more meaningful. It's too superficial for me. Too plot-driven and not introspective and thoughtful enough.
How do people find books to read? It’s kind of surprising to me that I have heard of so few of these books and authors, besides a couple. Makes me feel like I am reading older things or I am not on the same page (pun intended) lol
Goodreads, and I love the HIH threads on books. Honestly, I get most of my recommendations from over there.
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson. It’s really well researched and written, but is a hard read. There have been several moments I’ve had to stop and reflect and many paragraphs I’ve had to re-read a couple of times to ensure I didn’t miss the significance.
I'm reading The Hot Zone, which is nonfiction about the origins of Ebola and when Ebola showed up in the United States in the 80s. It's fascinating and kind of terrifying at the same time. I recommend! lol
The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig. It seemed really promising at the beginning and I was genuinely excited, but the execution has failed to live up to my expectations. The premise of the book is so good, I feel like Haig wasted an opportunity. I haven't finished yet though, maybe there's a big, insightful finish that will wow me.
It's feeling a bit like the book Where'd You Go Bernadette? It also feels like Haig made easy choices, when he could have made the text deeper and more meaningful. It's too superficial for me. Too plot-driven and not introspective and thoughtful enough.
Bummer! This is on my "to read" list. Hopefully the ending is really good!
“With sorrow—for this Court, but more, for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection—we dissent,”
The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig. It seemed really promising at the beginning and I was genuinely excited, but the execution has failed to live up to my expectations. The premise of the book is so good, I feel like Haig wasted an opportunity. I haven't finished yet though, maybe there's a big, insightful finish that will wow me.
It's feeling a bit like the book Where'd You Go Bernadette? It also feels like Haig made easy choices, when he could have made the text deeper and more meaningful. It's too superficial for me. Too plot-driven and not introspective and thoughtful enough.
Bummer! This is on my "to read" list. Hopefully the ending is really good!
FWIW I really liked it. I don't need all of my books to be super deep.