Has anyone listened to the You Caroline Kepnes books as an audiobook? Was it good? The writing style (second person) bugged me as a regular book but I thought it might be better to hear. I have a long solo drive next week and need something.
Has anyone listened to the You Caroline Kepnes books as an audiobook? Was it good? The writing style (second person) bugged me as a regular book but I thought it might be better to hear. I have a long solo drive next week and need something.
I haven't listened to the audiobooks, but Santino Fontana narrates the books and people have raved about how good the audiobooks are because of him. I'd definitely give it a try.
Has anyone listened to the You Caroline Kepnes books as an audiobook? Was it good? The writing style (second person) bugged me as a regular book but I thought it might be better to hear. I have a long solo drive next week and need something.
I listened to the first one and Santino Fontana is fabulous!
A friend lent me "Dirty Laundry". I'm about 40 pages in and wanting more.
DH bought me a biography of Edwina Mountbatten that I read while on my stationary bike. It's a good biography of an interesting woman who lived in interesting times.
I am 75% through Demon Copperhead and not getting the love. It’s 40% too long. I really like Barbara Kingsolver, so I wanted to love this with all the accolades, but it’s a miss for me.
I'm almost done reading "Fourth Wing" based on BookTok hype, and I'm loving it! Definitely recommend if you like fast-paced fantasy, anything dragon-related, or school/college settings.
My work bestie really wants me to read this, but I’m just not a fantasy person. She very much is.
Post by underwaterrhymes on Jun 3, 2023 7:11:17 GMT -5
I’m still struggling with finding a great thriller. I’ve joined a FB group called Psychological Thriller Readers lol and hoping I find some good ones there. Lately I’ve read:
The Last Word by Taylor Adams - 3 stars
The Very Irregular Society of Witches - 4 stars
The Housemaid’s Secret by Frieda McFadden- 3 1/2 stars
Lost in Time by AG Riddle - 2 stars (this could have been higher because I generally enjoyed the story, but I hated the way they ended every chapter on a cliffhanger. Super annoying.)
Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes - 4 stars (This one WAS a great thriller, but TWTWTW whew)
Cursebreaker Series by Brigid Kemmerer - 3 stars for all 3 books
Ward D by Frieda McFadden - 2 stars
Before she Knew Him by Peter Swanson - 3 stars
Small Game by Blair Braverman - 3 stars (I was super disappointed in the ending - it felt rushed - so initially I gave it 2 stars, but it was really well-written, so I decided to go back and give it 3)
I started Our Missing Hearts and couldn’t get into it. I also started The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and same thing. I’m due for a really good book!
I started Our Missing Hearts and couldn’t get into it. I also started The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and same thing. I’m due for a really good book!
Oh man I really loved Addie! Keep with it I say!
I just finished Sea of Tranquility. I didn’t love it, I liked her other books better (Station Eleven, Glass Hotel). The time travel/dates kept throwing me off.
I started Our Missing Hearts and couldn’t get into it. I also started The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and same thing. I’m due for a really good book!
I hated Addie LaRue—-the writing felt very amateurish to me. I finished it, but I couldn’t wait for it to be over.
I started Our Missing Hearts and couldn’t get into it. I also started The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and same thing. I’m due for a really good book!
I loved both of these! Maybe we have very different tastes, but if not I'd keep going anyway!
tacokick I read the first two "You" books on audiobook and loved them. The 3rd one, I read on my Kindle and the voice was SO different reading vs listening that I couldn't enjoy it. I would definitely recommend the audiobooks over an actual book for that series (also I think the plot of the third one was just shitty).
I just finished "Sovietistan: A Journey Through Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan" by Erika Fatland. Great travel writing and I like reading about places I will likely never visit.
The leader of my book club (SUCH a hardcore reader) is doing a challenge to read a non-fiction book from every country in the world. Impressive!
I love this idea! I prefer non-fiction and I’ve been looking to branch out from my typical subjects of history, politics, and biographies. I don’t think I’ll set a goal quite that lofty, but looking for books about other countries is a great idea. Maybe I’ll start with one from each continent and go from there.
ETA: I’d love to her list so far if she has shared it anywhere!
I have never cried as consistently as I did reading that book. Like, just constantly throughout the entire thing. Sometimes sobbing, sometimes just light tears. Whew.
I made the mistake of starting it on the train 😬 silent crying, mask all soggy, definitely looking bonkers.
Omg I could not have been in public while reading that. I listened to it on audiobook, and ugly cried through the whole thing lol. My baby was also 16mo at the time I was listening to it so I'd just look at her and start crying all over again. It was a really beautiful book though I still think about it often.
I finished Black Cake which I really liked. Everything tied together and satisfactory in the end which I like, I hate ambiguous endings or even worse when a plot line is just left like the author forgot they had started it.
I've been listening to An Immense World which is about how animals experience the world. I dont think I could read it some parts are more boring to me, but it has a lot of interesting tid bits that I've been enjoying listening while doing yard work.
Post by Jalapeñomel on Jun 4, 2023 17:47:46 GMT -5
Im listening to Dave Grohl’s book thanks to the rec in the audiobook thread. I put down The Uglies, because, surprisingly, there’s a long ass wait for it at the library.
Post by litskispeciality on Jun 5, 2023 11:28:45 GMT -5
I made great progress on Mad Honey this weekend. It's so good, but as others have said so, so heavy. Also far too long. A bit defeating to be 180 pages in and not even 50% of the way through. Gotta hustle to finish as it's due soon.
I need to request a copy of Dave Grohl's book as I loaned my copy away before I could read it. Quazi related, the Foos have a new album out and it's so good, but so heavy. I'm a bit tempted to read if there was a divorce or something, although thinking about it probably also a lot of grief around Taylor Hawkins
Post by gerberdaisy on Jun 5, 2023 11:58:32 GMT -5
Has anyone read The Guest by Emma Cline yet? Just finished it and boy that book bothered me.
Also read the Whisper Network this month and did not like it.
My TBR pile consists of the newest Chanel Cleeton book on Cuba, an Agatha Raisin book, Did you hear about Kitty Karr , The Violin Conspiracy and A Good Girls Guide to Murder. Need to get reading, and hope I like these more than the last two books.
I finished The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides. I didn’t realize there was a twist and my overactive mystery trained brain kept coming up with tangents about what really happened in the story. I enjoyed it as a novel, but it was predictable in the big reveal.
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao was an unexpected love for me. The author is really entertaining on Tik Tok and I decided to read it on a whim. I got the audiobook from my library and it was really well done. This isn’t my usually genre of books, but it was captivating. It’s set in the future, using Chinese history and myths as a basis. A dystopian world with a (everyone is happy) love triangle, fighting against systemic and cultural misogyny, war against evil invaders from another world and revenge against those that have wronged the heroine. Highly recommend.
Currently reading Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li. I’m enjoying the character reveals and can really relate to dynamics around perpetual foreigner syndrome, first generation pressures and the bonds between siblings/childhood friends. Hopefully, it stays as interesting as the plot of the heist progresses.
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I started Our Missing Hearts and couldn’t get into it. I also started The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and same thing. I’m due for a really good book!
I hated Addie LaRue—-the writing felt very amateurish to me. I finished it, but I couldn’t wait for it to be over.
I loved Our Missing Hearts.
I thought I was the only person on earth who didn't like Addie LaRue. I DNFed about 1/3 of the way through. I was so bored.
I'm almost done reading "Fourth Wing" based on BookTok hype, and I'm loving it! Definitely recommend if you like fast-paced fantasy, anything dragon-related, or school/college settings.
I finished this last night. Well, technically early this morning. It was so good!! I am sad I have to wait until November to read book 2.
I’m about 70% into Camp Zero. I’m really enjoying it. It’s different than usual dystopian fiction. I’m listening to Really Good Actually, and the main character is insufferable.
I am 75% through Demon Copperhead and not getting the love. It’s 40% too long. I really like Barbara Kingsolver, so I wanted to love this with all the accolades, but it’s a miss for me.
I was so annoyed with myself for reading this book. I read David Copperfield while waiting for it from the library, and it was such a slog for me. And then so was this. Yeah it was an updated, modernized version, but it was still the same story, and it was just as long and boring for me.