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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...
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...
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 :? ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Re: December!
I downloaded the sample. Will check, thanks!
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?
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...
Re: November
Ugh, that is too much. It's now 4 dollars here.
Re: November
Just bought Replay for 2 dollars. I need to join cheap e-books compulsive buyers anonymous or something
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...
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...