Post by lust2hart on Sept 21, 2022 14:39:46 GMT -5
I'm reading Anxious People by Fredrik Backman. I'm not sure how far I am - maybe 20%. I like it on a macro level and am interested to see how the story plays out, but I find all of the dialogues between characters extremely irritating - which I'm guessing I'm not alone in.
I have Don Lemon's This Is The Fire checked out on audiobook but haven't started it yet.
Post by dancingirl21 on Sept 21, 2022 19:27:37 GMT -5
I just read Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren. It was written in 2018. 2 books later I’m now reading Every Summer After by Carley Fortune and just started. But it’s starting exactly the same and I’m wondering if this is pretty much the same book. We shall see.
I finally finished Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow on the plane coming home from a trip. I gave it 3.5*. I didn't love it like most people here did. The parts that were good l loved, the parts I didn't like I found boring and it made me reluctant to pick it up again. I'm clearly in the minority because the book has the best rating I think I've ever seen on Goodreads.
I'm reading The Silent Patient which I think is universally hated here. It always comes up in thriller recommendations so I have to read it.
Did someone here recommend One Day I Will Astonish the World? I have no idea how I got the book but I read it and I'm like "huh?" Ha. It was all over the place and I felt actually exhausted reading it.
The Diamond Eye was a great book. I haven't read historical fiction in awhile and I almost forgot how much I love those types of books. I also found myself going down the rabbit hole of learning about the lead character.
I started Project Hail Mary last night. The first chapter didn't grab me at all. It seems to be getting better slowly. I really enjoyed the other books I've read by Andy Weir and don't remember feeling "meh" at the start. I know I've seen this one mentioned a lot recently, so I assume it will be worth continuing.
I finally finished Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow on the plane coming home from a trip. I gave it 3.5*. I didn't love it like most people here did. The parts that were good l loved, the parts I didn't like I found boring and it made me reluctant to pick it up again. I'm clearly in the minority because the book has the best rating I think I've ever seen on Goodreads.
I'm reading The Silent Patient which I think is universally hated here. It always comes up in thriller recommendations so I have to read it.
I didn’t like TTT. It was so flat to me and then halfway through I felt like the author gave up and speed time up to a ridiculous clip. I felt like it could have been good but wasn’t. It felt pinned together in a strange way.
The Silent Patient was one of the worst books I’ve ever read. I think it comes up in recs because it was so inexplicably popular because it shows up for me no matter what genre I am looking at. I was literally looking at an art history text book and it came up as a suggestion.
I finally finished Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow on the plane coming home from a trip. I gave it 3.5*. I didn't love it like most people here did. The parts that were good l loved, the parts I didn't like I found boring and it made me reluctant to pick it up again. I'm clearly in the minority because the book has the best rating I think I've ever seen on Goodreads.
I'm reading The Silent Patient which I think is universally hated here. It always comes up in thriller recommendations so I have to read it.
The Silent Patient was one of the worst books I’ve ever read. I think it comes up in recs because it was so inexplicably popular because it shows up for me no matter what genre I am looking at. I was literally looking at an art history text book and it came up as a suggestion.
It has insanely good Goodreads reviews and four of my friends that read it rated it four stars. Lots of people like it.
I'm reading Anxious People by Fredrik Backman. I'm not sure how far I am - maybe 20%. I like it on a macro level and am interested to see how the story plays out, but I find all of the dialogues between characters extremely irritating - which I'm guessing I'm not alone in.
I have Don Lemon's This Is The Fire checked out on audiobook but haven't started it yet.
I had a love hate relationship with this book. Overall I think I liked it. lol
The Silent Patient was one of the worst books I’ve ever read. I think it comes up in recs because it was so inexplicably popular because it shows up for me no matter what genre I am looking at. I was literally looking at an art history text book and it came up as a suggestion.
It has insanely good Goodreads reviews and four of my friends that read it rated it four stars. Lots of people like it.
That always makes me feel like I read a different book.
Maybe if I had never read another book in my life I would have loved it because I’d have no frame of reference.
deadwing, stick with it. I don’t read sci-fi normally and I really loved it!
I frequently enjoy sci-fi. I'm just struggling to care about the main character. It's good enough to finish, but 100 pages in, I'm not dying for time to pick it up again.
The Silent Patient was one of the worst books I’ve ever read. I think it comes up in recs because it was so inexplicably popular because it shows up for me no matter what genre I am looking at. I was literally looking at an art history text book and it came up as a suggestion.
OMG!!! I also really hated this book. It isn't even really art history related, it should have at least been associated with a psychology text or something.
I've recently finished "To Kill a Troubador," the latest in the Bruno, Chief of Police series by Martin Walker. It was predictable in the best way and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I also read "On Java Road" by Lawrence Osborne. It is a literary mystery-ish book set in Hong Kong at the height of the protests in 2019. I live in HK until right before the events that inspired the story, so it was very interesting to me, but I also thought it was a little slow and I'm not sure it would resonate as much for someone who had no prior knowledge about the setting and events.
I finished reading My Policeman. My mom had recommended it and said multiple friends of hers loved it. I thought it was decent but didn't blow me away or something. It was mostly kind of sad, especially for the female character IMO.
I also listened to Beartown, which I read almost exactly 4 years ago but wanted to read again ahead of the new book release. I also have the sequel checked out but haven't started it yet.
I started reading The Measure and so far it's really good. I'm only like 20% of the way into it though.
I just finished Fairy Tale by Stephen King. Loved it. 4 stars.
Ok, how Stephen King-y is it? Is it fabulous like his short stories (i.e. Night Shift) or is it Stephen King who spends 5 pages describing a shoe lace?
I've finished 4 books this month and enjoyed them all:
The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert Summer of '69 by Elin Hilderbrand The Cactus League by Emily Nemens (could have done without the weird frame story/journalist narrator, but otherwise okay) Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore
Debating whether to start a Colleen Hoover book. People fawn over her SO much that I feel like I'm setting myself up for disappointment, but so be it. I might also start the sequel to The Hazel Wood (The Night Country).
I read I'm Glad My Mom Died. iCarly and the spin offs was a little after my time, so I didn't have a frame of reference for who everyone was, but it was an interesting little book, and she has a nice writing style. I hope she finds peace and maybe pursues writing.
“With sorrow—for this Court, but more, for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection—we dissent,”
I just finished Fairy Tale by Stephen King. Loved it. 4 stars.
Ok, how Stephen King-y is it? Is it fabulous like his short stories (i.e. Night Shift) or is it Stephen King who spends 5 pages describing a shoe lace?
I found Fairy Tale to be a page turner. There were some places where it bogs down a little in the details, but I don't think it was excessive on the whole. It was only 500ish pages, which is on the short side for King, in my experience.
Ok, how Stephen King-y is it? Is it fabulous like his short stories (i.e. Night Shift) or is it Stephen King who spends 5 pages describing a shoe lace?
I found Fairy Tale to be a page turner. There were some places where it bogs down a little in the details, but I don't think it was excessive on the whole. It was only 500ish pages, which is on the short side for King, in my experience.
Post by onomatopoeia on Sept 28, 2022 10:36:51 GMT -5
I recently read the Alice Vega detective series by Luisa Luna, I really liked it. The main character (Alice) is kick-ass.
I'm reading Hollow Kingdom right now, about a pet crow during an apocalypse trying to figure out what happening to all the humans. It sounds bizarre but it's funny and poignant and has tons of really random facts about the world thrown in. I've enjoyed it so far.
I'm also in the middle of This Is How It Always Is. It's made me think a lot about the type of parent I want to be and how we're all just trying our best, and don't always get it right. It's good.
lust2hart, They really annoyed me too. In the end it all made sense and I loved every single one of them! I was so disappointed in the tv version. I don't think it captured the characters or the story.
I just finished The Giver of Stars and I really loved it. I listened to it on audio and parts were so exciting.
I found Fairy Tale to be a page turner. There were some places where it bogs down a little in the details, but I don't think it was excessive on the whole. It was only 500ish pages, which is on the short side for King, in my experience.
I haven't updated in awhile so here's what I've read since I last did:
All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir 5* Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel 5* The Very Nice Box by Laura Blackett, Eve Gleichman 4* Metropolis by B.A. Shapiro 5* The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh 4.5* How to Be Eaten by Maria Adelmann 3.5*
I currently have Ordinary Monsters out and it is...a monster at 660 pages. My library recently got rid of fines so...that's good lol
I also have two ready to pick up: Stay Awake by Megan Goldin and Breathless by Amy McCulloch. Both are thrillers and should be quick reads if/after I get through Ordinary Monsters.
I'm reading Invisible Child by Andrea Elliot, a New York Times Journalist. It's a true story about a girl (and her whole family) who grows up poor in New York City. I can't put it down, it's so well written.