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- Mon Jan 24, 2022 6:42 pm
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: January 2022!
- Replies: 28
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Re: January 2022!
Project Hail Mary is high on my to-read list. Glad to hear you're liking it, Silvia!
- Mon Jan 10, 2022 10:45 am
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: January 2022!
- Replies: 28
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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.
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.
Re: December!
Still here with my Enneagram books but also started The Awakening by Kate Chopin (for book club). It's ok so far.
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...
Re: December!
Awesome! That and Parable of the Talents were also so super good.
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...
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 ...
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!
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!
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...
Re: November!
Just started "Parable of the Talents," by Octavia Butler.
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.
Re: October!
Homegoing, it is! I started it over the weekend; so far, so good.
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...
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?
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.
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,...
- Mon Sep 27, 2021 9:41 am
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: September!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8530
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...
- Fri Sep 17, 2021 2:50 pm
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: September!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8530
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...
Re: August!
Hmm, I don't think it was too violent. I think most of it was sort of implied, rather than overt, violence.
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...