Best: Heart of Palm by Laura Lee Smith -- I love big family sags and for some reason I tend to enjoy books set in Florida. Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo -- I just adore this trilogy (YA fantasy) andi thought book two was as good as the first, which can be unusual for trilogies.
Worst: Lost by S.J. Bolton -- normally I really like her books but this one was just dull for me.
Best was 11/22/1963 by Stephen King. I liked it even more than I thought I would.
Worst was a Kindle cheapie called The River by Cheryl Kate Tardif. Poorly developed characters, middle-school level drama, unbelievable resolution, you get the idea. I have to just give up on Kindle Daily Deals.
My best book of June was Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalen.
I'm a nurse and I found it fascinating. It's her account of her descent into madness (seizures, hallucinations, paranoia) that turned out to be a rare, treatable (for most people) autoimmune disorder.
It really made me think about how many people could be misdiagnosed and institutionalized that have a treatable medical disorder and not a mental health disorder.
Worst - probably Dead Ever After, but I didn't hate it and I was glad to read the conclusion to the series.
Best - Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley, without a doubt. I freaking loved it! It's what I wanted Outlander to be. I'm now reading another book by her (Rose Garden). Pretty much all of her books are very similar in a somewhat unique way (involving both a modern story line and a historic one), but I really like them. Not too cerebral, but not TOO fluffy, either.
Best - Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley, without a doubt. I freaking loved it! It's what I wanted Outlander to be. I'm now reading another book by her (Rose Garden). Pretty much all of her books are very similar in a somewhat unique way (involving both a modern story line and a historic one), but I really like them. Not too cerebral, but not TOO fluffy, either.
I read that this month too and really enjoyed it! I really want to read more from here, but my library doesn't seem to have any of her stuff for Kindle and I really don't want to buy any right now.
Best... The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls. Very good. It's a great summer read, too. I don't normally go for "coming of age" novels, but this one was good.
Worst... The Grapes of Wrath. I mean, objectively, as literature, it was wonderful, but it was just not an enjoyable read for me at all.
Best: Remembering Raquel by Vivian Vande Velde - I probably wouldn't have picked this as my best had it not been for the fact I had previously read it as a child. It brought back some memories.
Worst: The Business of Baby by Jennifer Margulis - It was full of sensationalist fear-mongering.
Post by ChillyMcFreeze on Jul 3, 2013 15:41:54 GMT -5
I haven't had as much time to read for fun this summer, but I liked both of what I read in June--"Spring Fever" by Mary Kay Andrews and I'm finishing up "Gone With the Wind," which is so fun to read after seeing the movie a million times.