i did, i found it subtly hilarious while dealing with an incredibly emotional situation. i also liked using a dinner as a story arc.
I liked the dinner, I just thought the parents were insufferable.
oh, i completely agree, i found most of the characters insufferable. but i liked that it provoked such a strong reaction, you know? it wasn't just a nice story.
I liked the dinner, I just thought the parents were insufferable.
oh, i completely agree, i found most of the characters insufferable. but i liked that it provoked such a strong reaction, you know? it wasn't just a nice story.
I guess in that vein you're right. It provoked a VERY strong reaction!!
I most recently finished Gone Girl and am currently reading I am Livia.
If you haven't read it yet, 11/22/63 is one of the best books I've read in years. I enjoyed it so much I re-read it. I also ditto the recommendations for Unbroken and The Book Thief. Unbroken is so good I stayed up reading until 3:00 a.m. then my water broke about 5 hours later and I was extra exhausted while i was in labor.
Finished Mr. Penumbra's 24 hour bookstore this morning. I think this adolescent fiction too (my book club loves these because they're a church group and these tend to be "safe") but it was pretty good.
I raced through it in 2 days. I don't remember the last time I did that with a book. It's a mystery/adventure type book, but doesn't fall into the pitfall that most of these books do where they try to create cliffhangers along the way.
I was pleasantly surprised at how it twisted and turned but never got cliche.
Agree. I read this one last year and I really enjoyed it. I don't see it mentioned too often but it's a great read.
I'm reading My Name is Resolute by Nancy E. Turner right now (same author as These Is My Words, which is one of my faves). It's been a slow starter but it's getting good.
I liked Someone Could Get Hurt by Drew Magary. Funny if you have kids and probably even if you don't.
I guess the last really good book I read was The Goldfinch back in January. I have not been reading at my normal pace lately.
I just finished book 7 of the Wheel of Time series...do not start this unless you love long series (I think it is 14 book all over 800 pages) I love to read and don't like most books 250 pages or less since they just fly by. ... If you can't tell I would talk about books all day
We like to talk about books all day over at the Book Club (though I admit it moves pretty slowly).
How are you enjoying WoT? I think was around book 7 when it started to bog down for me - seemed like the stories were starting to get so drawn out that they never would be resolved. I did really enjoy the series, though!
I just finished book 7 of the Wheel of Time series...do not start this unless you love long series (I think it is 14 book all over 800 pages) I love to read and don't like most books 250 pages or less since they just fly by. ... If you can't tell I would talk about books all day
We like to talk about books all day over at the Book Club (though I admit it moves pretty slowly).
How are you enjoying WoT? I think was around book 7 when it started to bog down for me - seemed like the stories were starting to get so drawn out that they never would be resolved. I did really enjoy the series, though!
I stopped reading right around book 7 too. I love reading really long books, but it was just moving way too slowly for me. You already know what the climax will be anyways - big blowout fight at the end.
Jodi and Todd are at a bad place in their marriage. Much is at stake, including the affluent life they lead in their beautiful waterfront condo in Chicago, as she, the killer, and he, the victim, rush haplessly toward the main event. He is a committed cheater. She lives and breathes denial. He exists in dual worlds. She likes to settle scores. He decides to play for keeps. She has nothing left to lose. Told in alternating voices, The Silent Wife is about a marriage in the throes of dissolution, a couple headed for catastrophe, concessions that can’t be made, and promises that won’t be kept. Expertly plotted and reminiscent of Gone Girl and These Things Hidden, The Silent Wife ensnares the reader from page one and does not let go.(less)
I am reading flashback by Gary Braver. It has a parallel story between a group doing clinical trials with Alzheimer's patients and a person who ends up In a coma from a rare jellyfish that related to the trials. It's very different from my normal reads. But I am enjoying it.
I also am reading at the same time Ready Player One when I need a break from the Alzheimer's stories.
Have you read The Goldfinch yet? It just won the Pulitzer for fiction. I loved every page. It's long but so well written that it goes by very fast. Donna Tartt's other books are similarly amazing.
I also just read You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz and that was really good too. I think I read it in like three days, lol.
Right now I'm rereading Lionel Shriver's The Post Birthday World. It's an awesome book that often gets overlooked by reviewers.
Books I've read recently that I liked: Where'd you go Bernadette Me before you Tell the wolves I'm home The dinner Defending Jacob 11/22/63- a little drawn out like all s.k. Books IMO
What were your thoughts on The Dinner?
It was strange..... I think we could have done without the whole first half of the book. The premise behind it was interesting, but the whole drawn out dinner part was just unnecessary. But I think that was the point of the book. I read it for book club so I had to finish it, otherwise I probably would have stopped. The end made it better though. Unlike Where'd you go Bernadette (and Gone Girl, for that matter) where the endings just ruined it for me.