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Post by Wise Old Goat on Feb 3, 2020 15:43:19 GMT -5
I finished off my Jane-uary on a great note. I really enjoyed Brightly Burning (Jane Eyre in space). I also read Ayesha at Last which is an Indian-Muslim-Canadian retelling of P&P. The author is a teacher at ds' old high school although he never had her. I really enjoyed it I read Molly Greeley's The Clergyman's Wife which is a book about Charlotte Lucas Collins - I was worried about reading a book about Austen characters in her world but I thought the author did a good job.
Now on to do a bunch of sci-fi reading to clear some books off my physical TBR. I read Alien Echo by Mira Grant which is a YA book in the Alien world (like the Alien movies).
I'm also reading Love Lives Here which is a Canada Reads contender about a family dealing with a trans child and parent.
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Post by Inky on Feb 3, 2020 20:01:34 GMT -5
I just finished An Innocent Man - another John Grisham novel. Now I'm reading Black Klansman - I'm going to have to watch the movie - the book is excellent. The movie was outstanding!
Well I really liked the book right up until the last chapter! That totally sucked that the police just pulled the plug like that. Did the movie end the same way?
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Post by Peachy on Feb 5, 2020 20:14:21 GMT -5
I started the year strong finishing two books the first week, but then I struggled finding something that would hold my attention. I had to set a few books aside to try again later. I finally stuck with The Outsider by Stephen King. I’m about 2/3 finished.
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Feb 7, 2020 11:43:34 GMT -5
The movie was outstanding!
Well I really liked the book right up until the last chapter! That totally sucked that the police just pulled the plug like that. Did the movie end the same way? Yes - but it kind of made sense in context.
I'm reading Illuminae by Jay Kristoff and Aimee Kaufman. It's a YA sci-fi and I'd tried to read it a few years ago on my ereader but it's unreadable in that format. But what I read I really liked so I pulled the trigger on Book Outlet's Boxing Day Sale and picked it up. It's soooo good. It's basically a file that has been collected from all sorts of different data points to detail a disaster - the files are audio transcripts, journal entries, text messages, etc. So the format is unique - but it's super fast paced and I'm really digging it. Book Outlet only had books 1 and 3 so I'm going to have to buy book 2. I hate reading paper books but this is worth it for me.
And I highly recommend everyone reads Love Lives Here by Amanada Jette Knox. Her daughter came out to her when she was 11 as trans (she was born with male genitalia) and a few years later her partner also came out as trans. A remarkable book that I think everyone should read even if they already think they're an ally.
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Post by stellarfeller on Feb 7, 2020 12:20:00 GMT -5
I read Stephen King’s latest, The Institute, this week. Now I’m reading The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman.
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Post by junebug on Feb 9, 2020 13:32:15 GMT -5
I am reading Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James. It's weird and disturbing but in a good way! I was on the waitlist for this book for 6 months, so I'm rushing it a bit since I'm worried the library will take it back before I'm done. I may buy it in hard copy as I think it is a book thatis worth savoring and also would like the ability to flip back and forth.
I'm listening to Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs. I don't like memoir as a genre and find quite a bit of this boring. But I do think it is interesting to hear her talk about the places she grew up, which are all local to me. If this is true, Steve Jobs was a psychopath in the true clinical sense.
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Post by Inky on Feb 10, 2020 21:13:51 GMT -5
I read Stephen King’s latest, The Institute, this week. Now I’m reading The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman. I just went to the library site and put my name down for it. I'm #215 on 12 copies LOL. Maybe it will be my summer reading.
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Post by Peachy on Feb 11, 2020 18:51:01 GMT -5
I finished Sk’s The Outsider on Sunday. I liked it! I think I’ll start What She Knew by Gilly Macmillan next.
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Post by junebug on Feb 12, 2020 12:28:50 GMT -5
Just started listening to the Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.
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Post by Miss Prudey on Feb 12, 2020 22:30:52 GMT -5
Finished The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown, putting Brave New World on the back burner to power through A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell for book club.
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Post by alicechalmers on Feb 15, 2020 20:52:50 GMT -5
Next book club pick is “Disappearing Earth” by Julia Phillips. I am about to start but thankful I have a month! This is really, really good. But fair warning, it’s sometimes confusing, always bleak, and doesn’t tie up loose ends in a pretty package. It’s also beautifully written speaks to so many truths in life.
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Post by nansel on Feb 24, 2020 10:48:55 GMT -5
I finally read The Testaments. I was #263 or something on the library waiting list, and it made it to me last week! I was pleased with it, thought it explained and tied things up, but not too tidily. My one complaint is the same one I have for every Margaret Atwood book I've read (lots over the years), is that the way she writes resonates in my brain some way and I end up thinking in the same cadence as I read her words.
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Feb 24, 2020 13:44:43 GMT -5
I reread Handmaid's Tale in preparation to read The Testaments but then decided I didn't want to lol. As an aside it's a dick move to write a sequel 30 years later and not include Coles Notes at the beginning of the sequel I didn't read the sequel to Illuminae Files when ds was home last week because I didn't want to ignore him lol. So I started it today. I read a couple of queer YA sci-fi books that were just okay for me while he was home.
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Post by marianparoo on Mar 14, 2020 16:47:48 GMT -5
Kathy Reichs's A Conspiracy of Bones has arrived!!!!
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Post by Miss Prudey on Mar 23, 2020 15:56:44 GMT -5
Finished Brave New World on Saturday. Rereading one of the first 1970’s Harlequin Romances I ever read to cleanse my palette before I pick my next non-fluff read.
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Post by junebug on Mar 23, 2020 16:34:05 GMT -5
I am SLOGGING through Meg Wolitzer's The Female Persuasion. Snoozefest. To counter that, I'm listening to a very silly romantic comedy called The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren.
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Post by coachgrrl on Mar 23, 2020 20:49:35 GMT -5
Just finished The Jetsetters which was a good fluffy read. Now reading The Kitchen House which is very good so far
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Post by junebug on Mar 27, 2020 13:36:02 GMT -5
Finished The Female Persuasion. Meh. Great writing, but just boring.
Starting The Ten Thousand Doors of January.
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Post by Inky on Mar 27, 2020 20:20:53 GMT -5
I'm reading Jen Gunters "The Vagina Bible". I shall be an expert when I finish!
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Post by marianparoo on Mar 28, 2020 14:08:54 GMT -5
Dropped the ghosts for a bit, just ordered and received the first Miss Phryne Fisher Investigates aka Cocaine Blues after seeing an episode of the TV series.
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