PIFM - Chat/Banter Review Your June Read

[Mandy]

Arrgh just about to start my May read and then onto my June one soon hopefully!!

[Kirsten]

Been there, Mandy!

[Mandy]

I've just finished my May read in two days and now I will be able to start my June book on time, yay!

[Kirsten]

I've started listening to Without Fail -- boy, Jack sure doesn't get a break.

[Kirsten]

And I'm pretty sure he doesn't wear the same coat size as Tom Cruise.

[Dana]

I got my copy of cinder if anyone still wants to buddy read :)

[Perri]

Great timing just finished and ready to start!

[Ann]

Here's my review for LaRose by Louise Erdrich.


Wonderful writing and a wonderful story - emotional and haunting, full of tradition and humanity.
(Far from being depressing, I found it uplifting)
5 stars.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

It was a great choice PIFMers!

[Sean, Moderator]

Sorry a little too busy lately to vote

[Amber]

Happens, Sean.

[Agnieszka]

Oh boy, more than 30 new post alone in this thread - I think I need to check more often in the future ;-)

Sean wrote: "Sorry a little too busy lately to vote"

That's life!

Rich wrote: "I wonder about something I saw in the page read total section. Someone read 41 books in May for over 16,000 pages.some of these books were over 500 pages in a day. I don't see how it is humanly pos..."

As far as I know with the fast-reading-techniques it's possible to read up to 100,000 pages per month. I was wondering that same think some years ago as well.
The other thing I noticed in some of my challenges is that many of the Asian readers have often much higher page counts and I was wondering if they have different kind of page formats due to their scripture or if they just need to space to express the same thought (German translation of English book are usually about 40 percent longer only due to the language differenc) - perhaps Amber can help to answer that question.

[Perri]

Agnieszka, that is so interesting to me! I've notice how much shorter English is to, say, German and Spanish when the translations are next to each other. Aren't Asian symbols made up of words rather than letters? That would seem to make reading much faster!

[Agnieszka]

Perri wrote: "Agnieszka, that is so interesting to me! I've notice how much shorter English is to, say, German and Spanish when the translations are next to each other. Aren't Asian symbols made up of words rath..."

That's was my assuption as well, though gramar and sentence sturcture can add sometimes in terms of length.

[Ann]

Here's my review for Lolas' House: Filipino Women Living with War


The women in this book became very real to me, and they will stay in my mind for a long time. I was glad to witness their accounts.

[Aesaan]

Finished reading And Then There Were None and I absolutely loved it. Thanks :)

Here's my review (not good at it): https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Also looking forward to reading Dark Matter, but then I also have to read The Stand, so lets see how it goes.

[Sue]

I love the Stand, fav. novel. I have read it 5-6 times usually around 4th of July!

[Patricia]

I have finished my June selection, Close Your Eyes. I am glad you all selected this one. Great writing and a pretty good mystery. I can recommend this one.

[Aesaan]

Sue, You read The Stand 5 or 6 times, Wow, Amazing

This will be my first S. King novel... and it's the longest of all, knocking 1,400+ pages ☺

[Aesaan]

And also, Sue, you got me excited for the book even more than before ☺

[Agnieszka]

Just finished the first of my June books and loved it so much. So far it's the best on in the series and since the first was the weakest I'm looking forward to the next one - looks like her books get better and better :-)
Thank you all, for picking it.
Now I'm looking forward to start the other June book: A Spy Came Home and hope to finally finish my May books.

[Ann]

Ok, Agnieszka, I'm going to look out for that one.

[Agnieszka]

Ann wrote: "Ok, Agnieszka, I'm going to look out for that one."

I hope you like it as well - the genre is romantic suspense :-)

[Mandy]

Finally started my June read Full Dark, No Stars :-) so running behind yet again lol

[Vicki Willis]

I am about 25% through my June read Presumed Guilty. It is so so. It will be a quick read. She is one of my favorite authors, but this was before she was mainstreamed and just wrote some mediocre romance novels. So it is predictable and cliche, but am happy to read it and knock it off my list.