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by Sílvia
Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:24 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: March!
Replies: 11
Views: 100

Re: March!

Rowan, I was afraid she'd glorify the US role in the war, but so far it's been quite the opposite, she's been critical of it, so that's good. And I'm finding her writing very good, as good as in The Four Winds, which is the only one of her books I've given 5 stars to. She's getting better! Which Sal...
by Sílvia
Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:19 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: March!
Replies: 11
Views: 100

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: 136

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: 136

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: 136

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: 216

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: 216

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: 469

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: 469

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: 469

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: 469

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: 469

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: 469

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: 469

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: 469

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: 469

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: 383

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: 383

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: 383

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: 383

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...