Book Recs & Pulitzers

[Vespasia]

May 21, 2023 19:39:18 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

May 21, 2023 12:14:28 GMT -5 starlily said:

I thought Malibu Rising was alright, but Carrie Soto is definitely way better of the two.

May 21, 2023 12:14:05 GMT -5 StrawberryBlondie said:

Carrie Soto is back is WAY better than Malibu Rising. I didn't hate Malibu Rising but it's my least favorite of the author's books.

I liked Carrie Soto is Back almost as much as I liked The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.

Thanks! I’ll read it next.

I'll just chime in with the opposite opinion. Carrie Soto is SO MUCH tennis. Like 90% tennis. I almost DNF but pushed through and didn't find it at all rewarding.

[basilosaurus]

I read ttt, but I cannot remember a single bit about it. It did not leave an impression. Same with great believers. I think the problem is me, not the books. Reading during terrible insomnia is probably not the greatest for impact.

[scm1011]

May 21, 2023 20:30:57 GMT -5 Vespasia said:

May 21, 2023 19:39:18 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

Thanks! I’ll read it next.

I'll just chime in with the opposite opinion. Carrie Soto is SO MUCH tennis. Like 90% tennis. I almost DNF but pushed through and didn't find it at all rewarding.

I DNFed for the same reason. I loved Evelyn Hugo and One True Loves but could not get into Carrie Soto because the tennis talk was overwhelming (and for me, boring).

[tacokick]

May 21, 2023 20:30:57 GMT -5 Vespasia said:

May 21, 2023 19:39:18 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

Thanks! I’ll read it next.

I'll just chime in with the opposite opinion. Carrie Soto is SO MUCH tennis. Like 90% tennis. I almost DNF but pushed through and didn't find it at all rewarding.

I finished it and liked it well enough but yes, the bulk of the book was a serve by serve retelling of tennis matches.

Much like when I watched Friday Night Lights my mind went blank during the sports moments and rejoined when they started talking again.

I actually read another book about tennis around the same time by wild coincidence (a memoir by the novelist Scarlett Thomas) and I think I am good for the rest of my days.

[wawa]

May 21, 2023 20:30:57 GMT -5 Vespasia said:

May 21, 2023 19:39:18 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

Thanks! I’ll read it next.

I'll just chime in with the opposite opinion. Carrie Soto is SO MUCH tennis. Like 90% tennis. I almost DNF but pushed through and didn't find it at all rewarding.

Oh god, I'm having flashbacks to the most pretentious book I've ever read who's name I have erased from my memory.  It was a fucking brick though.  About (among other things) private school tennis players.  I hate finished that thing.  Ruined tennis and books that involve tennis for ever and ever...

eta: LOL, I googled "pretentious fiction book about tennis" and there it is.  Infinite Jest.  BLECH. 

[Michelle]

Most of my recent reading has been for our Banned Book Club. These were my favorites, if you haven't read them yet:

All Boys Aren't Blue, by George M Johnson
The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas
Project 1619 (not a light read)
The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person, by Frederick Joseph (I have to say, I wish this book were published in 2005 or so... if this board (especially me) had read it, our most prominent Black posters may not have become so exhausted and left. Most of the lessons were taught to me by the extremely patient Nitaw/NitaX, iammalcolmX, and several others. So if you joined this board in the last 5 years or so and didn't have the benefit of their patient truth telling, please read this book.)

[basilosaurus]

May 22, 2023 8:52:19 GMT -5 wawa said:

May 21, 2023 20:30:57 GMT -5 Vespasia said:

I'll just chime in with the opposite opinion. Carrie Soto is SO MUCH tennis. Like 90% tennis. I almost DNF but pushed through and didn't find it at all rewarding.

Oh god, I'm having flashbacks to the most pretentious book I've ever read who's name I have erased from my memory.  It was a fucking brick though.  About (among other things) private school tennis players.  I hate finished that thing.  Ruined tennis and books that involve tennis for ever and ever...

eta: LOL, I googled "pretentious fiction book about tennis" and there it is.  Infinite Jest.  BLECH. 

Lol. From your first sentence I immediately thought of infinite jest. I tried to start a couple different times because a friend of mine raved so much. I happily gave him my copy because he lent his to some probably suffering feellow reader.