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by Bugsy
Mon Jan 24, 2022 6:42 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: January 2022!
Replies: 28
Views: 5246

Re: January 2022!

Project Hail Mary is high on my to-read list. Glad to hear you're liking it, Silvia!
by Bugsy
Mon Jan 10, 2022 10:45 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: January 2022!
Replies: 28
Views: 5246

Re: January 2022!

Finished The Awakening by Kate Chopin (book club selection). It was ok.

Started The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson. So far so good, but I'm sure it will get kind of heavy. So I also started The Book of Mythicality by Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal for some levity.
by Bugsy
Thu Dec 30, 2021 11:32 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: December!
Replies: 30
Views: 5504

Re: December!

Still here with my Enneagram books :hehe but also started The Awakening by Kate Chopin (for book club). It's ok so far.
by Bugsy
Tue Dec 21, 2021 10:48 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: December!
Replies: 30
Views: 5504

Re: December!

Silvia, I'm so glad you liked Kindred! It blew me away. Your reasons for not getting into Parable of the Sower make sense, but I still really liked that one too. Turns out I appreciate a lot of the religious-type views expressed there, and I tend to read a lot of depressing things anyway for some od...
by Bugsy
Tue Dec 14, 2021 10:45 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: December!
Replies: 30
Views: 5504

Re: December!

Awesome! That and Parable of the Talents were also so super good.
by Bugsy
Tue Dec 14, 2021 9:33 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: December!
Replies: 30
Views: 5504

Re: December!

:lol Well thanks, Silvia, for letting me reach that same conclusion. I had no idea what was happening, and there were already so many different characters that I couldn't even keep track of who was who. Oh well! I hope you love Kindred. As you saw on Goodreads, she is my new favorite author, and tha...
by Bugsy
Mon Dec 13, 2021 11:08 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: December!
Replies: 30
Views: 5504

Re: December!

I don't love short stories either, Silvia. The one exception was Olive Kitteridge, which for some reason worked for me. I gave up on Doctor Zhivago. Just could not get into it. Over the weekend I started Yellow Wife, by Sadeqa Johnson, and it sucked me right in. I'm already 84% through it, and it's ...
by Bugsy
Fri Dec 03, 2021 11:55 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: December!
Replies: 30
Views: 5504

Re: December!

I would add "A Man Called Ove," by Fredrik Backman.

A couple nights ago I started "Doctor Zhivago," by Boris Pasternak. I'm not far enough into it to know what it's going to be like, but I'm half-heartedly trying to read some classics so we'll see!
by Bugsy
Thu Nov 18, 2021 11:20 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: November!
Replies: 21
Views: 4409

Re: November!

Oh my gosh, Octavia Butler is such an impressive author. "Parable of the Talents" was SO GOOD. It is remarkable that it was written in 1998. There is even a Presidential candidate whose main slogan is "Make America Great Again." :paranoid I think I need to read everything she wro...
by Bugsy
Mon Nov 08, 2021 9:20 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: November!
Replies: 21
Views: 4409

Re: November!

Just started "Parable of the Talents," by Octavia Butler.
by Bugsy
Thu Nov 04, 2021 9:54 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: November!
Replies: 21
Views: 4409

Re: November!

Finished "Homegoing," and it was great. Like so many books IMO, the ending felt a little rushed and maybe incomplete, but as a whole it was very well-written and compelling. 4 stars, would recommend.
by Bugsy
Mon Nov 01, 2021 11:59 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: October!
Replies: 21
Views: 4668

Re: October!

Homegoing, it is! I started it over the weekend; so far, so good.
by Bugsy
Sat Oct 30, 2021 10:38 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: October!
Replies: 21
Views: 4668

Re: October!

I finished "I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House," by Stephanie Grisham. It was ok. I liked learning a little more about Melania, since she always seems like such an ice queen, but otherwise it wasn't anything surprising. Next will be Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi; Y...
by Bugsy
Thu Oct 21, 2021 9:02 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: October!
Replies: 21
Views: 4668

Re: October!

I finished "We Have Always Lived in the Castle," by Shirley Jackson. It's the selection for work's book club. This is supposed to be a classic, but I didn't care for it at all. Super underwhelming. Maybe I missed something? :shrug
by Bugsy
Thu Oct 14, 2021 10:24 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: October!
Replies: 21
Views: 4668

Re: October!

Finished "A Man Called Ove." It was decent. Heartwarming in many ways, if a bit trite in others. Anyone who knows a curmudgeonly man "of a certain age" would probably appreciate it.
by Bugsy
Tue Oct 05, 2021 9:36 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: October!
Replies: 21
Views: 4668

Re: October!

I don't get many things unsolicited - haha. :hehe You are most certainly not broken, Silvia! But maybe take a break from fiction and try some non-fiction for a while? Memoirs, biographies, social commentary...there's a whole huge world of non-fiction out there! I've borrowed "A Man Called Ove,...
by Bugsy
Mon Sep 27, 2021 9:41 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: September!
Replies: 16
Views: 3550

Re: September!

I blew through "Educated: A Memoir," by Tara Westover. It's the selection for work's book club that meets tonight, so I was in a rush to get it done. Fortunately it was a compelling read! I went down a little rabbit hole last night regarding the author and this story, as some of her statem...
by Bugsy
Fri Sep 17, 2021 2:50 pm
Forum: Book Club
Topic: September!
Replies: 16
Views: 3550

Re: September!

We got through three audiobooks on our trip: -And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie -The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood -The Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman I'd read the last two already but enjoyed listening to them anyway, and Jason liked all three. We actually made it through the mo...
by Bugsy
Wed Aug 25, 2021 11:30 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: August!
Replies: 11
Views: 3082

Re: August!

Hmm, I don't think it was too violent. I think most of it was sort of implied, rather than overt, violence.
by Bugsy
Mon Aug 23, 2021 10:14 am
Forum: Book Club
Topic: August!
Replies: 11
Views: 3082

Re: August!

On Saturday morning I started "Run Away," by Harlan Coben, which is the next book club selection. I read a ton yesterday and finished it just before bed. Super good book and not something I would have chosen on my own, which is why I appreciate book clubs! Looks like "The American Sto...