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by Sílvia
Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:19 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: March!
Replies: 4
Views: 41

Re: March!

Blush, I LOVED Sea of Tranquility. Hope you do, too! I finished The Evening and the Morning! I am not broken! :wave It took me 3 weeks because it's 1000 pages long in Portuguese and I rarely read more than 300/week, but hey! I can still read! Then I started The Women by Kristin Hannah. I'm on page 6...
by Sílvia
Sun Feb 25, 2024 8:02 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: February!
Replies: 8
Views: 117

Re: February!

Yeah, gave up on Babel :( The Seven-year-slip didn't go anywhere either. Then I started How High we Go in the Dark, which is a dystopia about a plague and seemed up my alley, but I found out it's not really a novel, but a bunch of interconnected short stories. I've read about half of it but don't th...
by Sílvia
Wed Feb 14, 2024 6:01 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: February!
Replies: 8
Views: 117

Re: February!

Glad you enjoyed All the Light, Blush. I really didn't. I thought it would be up my alley, but found it super draggy. I didn't even finish the TV show. I'm in a book slump. Help! I started Babel, Rowan, and at first was super excited. Then he got to Oxford and now it seems I'm reading a textbook :? ...
by Sílvia
Wed Feb 07, 2024 1:33 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: February!
Replies: 8
Views: 117

February!

I finished Love and Other Human Errors. I liked the first half, but then it went downhill. It really, really needed an editor who at least knew the basics of punctuation. Then I read I Who Have Never Known Men by Belgian author Jacqueline Harpman. Anyone read that? It's a very unique dystopia. I rea...
by Sílvia
Mon Jan 29, 2024 3:59 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: January!
Replies: 10
Views: 194

Re: January!

I finished Bloodstream and read Ice Cold, also by Tess Gerritsen. They were both excellent. My kind of thriller: not too much police procedure but also no stupid plot twists that make me wanna throw the kindle at the wall. I can't believe I hadn't read anything by her until last year. Then I read Ye...
by Sílvia
Tue Jan 02, 2024 10:28 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: January!
Replies: 10
Views: 194

Re: January!

My goal is always 50, but since I always read a few more and last year I read 65, I increased it to 55. I wouldn't even set a goal, but I do it so that Goodreads can count my books. I don't think it does if you don't set a goal. I finished Playing with Fire by Tess Gerritsen and started another one ...
by Sílvia
Fri Dec 29, 2023 7:13 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: December!
Replies: 22
Views: 429

Re: December!

Where the heck is everyone?

I gave up on both YA sci-fi. Neither was working. Then I read Freida McFadden's Ward D, which was utter crap. Her books are usually trashy but fun, but this one was just trashy.

Not sure what's next, but I need something decent to remind me of why I like reading.
by Sílvia
Tue Dec 26, 2023 6:06 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: December!
Replies: 22
Views: 429

Re: December!

The Last Cuentista is slow going (though I haven't given it up yet.) Then I read Rock Paper Scissors, which I really disliked. My first and probably only one by this author (though I usually give an author 2 tries. We'll see.) I thought it was slow and not very thrilling at all for a thriller. I jus...
by Sílvia
Wed Dec 20, 2023 7:43 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: December!
Replies: 22
Views: 429

Re: December!

Thanks for sharing, Rowan! Some of those have been on my radar. I read another one by Julie Clark and found it super gripping. Hello, Beautiful I tried but gave up, that author's not for me. And the Sally Hepworth was as good as usual, I love her. I finished the melodrama I was reading, bleh. Should...
by Sílvia
Tue Dec 19, 2023 8:44 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: December!
Replies: 22
Views: 429

Re: December!

I tried that series, too, Rowan. Couldn't get through many of them, I'm afraid. And sure, post your top reads! I read another classic by Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End. Again I had the impression that he was fabulous at world-building, not so much at developing compelling plots. Or characters wit...
by Sílvia
Thu Dec 14, 2023 6:05 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: December!
Replies: 22
Views: 429

Re: December!

Finished Ghosts by Dolly Alderton. The synopsis kind of makes it sound like a rom-com, but it's very much not. It's a drama and kind of depressing. I gave it 3 stars because it was compelling enough while I was reading it (at least most of it), but also not terribly satisfying in the end. Not sure w...
by Sílvia
Mon Dec 11, 2023 6:31 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: December!
Replies: 22
Views: 429

Re: December!

Omg, I hated Catcher in the Rye with a passion. Glad you're enjoying it, though. I finished Matthew Perry's memoir. I feel really sorry for everything he went through, (e?)specially now that he's dead, but man, is the book convoluted. Not a good reading experience. Then I read The Guest List by Lucy...
by Sílvia
Wed Dec 06, 2023 10:21 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: December!
Replies: 22
Views: 429

Re: December!

What are you talking about, you already read a book in one day. You wanna read faster? :headscratch By the way, I read a few pages (20?) of Babel and it seems up my alley! Thanks! Now I don't know if I should read it in English or wait for the Portuguese version, which comes out in the first quarter...
by Sílvia
Fri Dec 01, 2023 8:02 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: December!
Replies: 22
Views: 429

Re: December!

I downloaded the sample. Will check, thanks!
by Sílvia
Fri Dec 01, 2023 4:56 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: December!
Replies: 22
Views: 429

Re: December!

Rowan, that's kind of been on my radar. I don't usually do fantasy either, but how much fantasy is there? Are there made-up beings? Or is it about regular people?
by Sílvia
Tue Nov 28, 2023 6:15 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: November
Replies: 15
Views: 353

Re: November

Finished People Like Her. I was completely engrossed. It's been marketed as suspense, which is probably why it has a relatively low rating on goodreads (3.37 when I looked.) To me it was much more of a drama, with just a little suspense thrown in at the end. It was much more about the life of a woma...
by Sílvia
Wed Nov 22, 2023 1:35 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: November
Replies: 15
Views: 353

Re: November

Ugh, that is too much. It's now 4 dollars here.
by Sílvia
Tue Nov 21, 2023 10:33 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: November
Replies: 15
Views: 353

Re: November

Just bought Replay for 2 dollars. I need to join cheap e-books compulsive buyers anonymous or something :paranoid
by Sílvia
Tue Nov 21, 2023 10:21 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: November
Replies: 15
Views: 353

Re: November

Blush, have you read Replay by Ken Grimwood? or Time and Again by Jack Finney? Both I would recommend. Those 2 are on my list! Also, check out Amazon. Both Bethany Clift's books are a dollar each on kindle here. I read Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam. Omg, the writing was so unbelievable pret...
by Sílvia
Wed Nov 15, 2023 9:46 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: November
Replies: 15
Views: 353

Re: November

Finished Last One at the Party. Really enjoyed it! I could have used fewer mentions of assorted bodily fuids, and at first the protagonist was so stupid I wanted to shake her, but still, it was very gripping and I'm glad I found it. Not sure what's next. Spudd, I hated that book, but the whole world...