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Happy New Year! What are you reading? January 2018 edition
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Jan 09, 2018 01:28PM
I'm currently enjoying the audiobook version of Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks: A Librarian's Love Letters and Breakup Notes to the Books in Her Life by Annie Spence. I found it on hoopla and I highly recommend it based on our mutual love of readers' advisory. These letters are hilarious (especially the letter written by an intoxicated Annie in ode to a bookshelf she "meets" at a party).
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I thought by getting into Patrick Rothfuss's Kingkiller Chronicle (Name of the Wind) series late, I'd be able to binge the whole thing. Alas, book 3 isn't out yet! I finished Exit West this morning - could be a great book discussion book.
I'm reading A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers and it is fantastic so far! The first book was wonderful but I am enjoying this one so much more. The main character describes their issues with crowds and attention in ways I find really relatable.
Lisa wrote: "I thought by getting into Patrick Rothfuss's Kingkiller Chronicle (Name of the Wind) series late, I'd be able to binge the whole thing. Alas, book 3 isn't out yet!"I will definitely have to reread books 1 and 2 whenever book 3 decides to show its face. Heck, I might have to reread them when the series comes out.
Exit West has been on my TBR for a long time. I need to move it up the pile.
Barbie wrote: "I'm reading A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers and it is fantastic so far! The first book was wonderful but I am enjoying this one so much more. The main character describes their issues w..."I'm glad the sequel is holding up! The first book is also on my TBR pile.
I'm just over halfway through Wild by Cheryl Strayed. I wasn't sure if I was going to like it at first, but now I'm invested.Thinking about starting the series A Song of Ice & Fire, since I'm having Game of Thrones withdrawal symptoms. :)
But that will have to wait until after I read A Wrinkle in Time and A Handmaid's Tale. Those will be counting for my 2018 book challenge.
Maggie wrote: "I'm just over halfway through Wild by Cheryl Strayed. I wasn't sure if I was going to like it at first, but now I'm invested.Thinking about starting the series A Song of Ice & Fire, since I'm hav..."
Definitely recommend delving into Wrinkle in Time so you can schedule a movie date to see it on the big screen!
Kareemah wrote: "oh! and listening to Renegades by Merissa Meyer. This book is also off to rocky start for me but I'm only 3 discs in.And I too enjoyed Becky Chambers Wayfarer's books-- book 3 is due out in June ..."
I am so excited. I just finished Wayfarer's #2 last night and omg it was amazing. I can't wait for the next one. :)
Lindsey wrote: "I'm finishing up Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton, a short historical fiction novel. It's a little unusual, a little lyrical, focused on an independent woman with a creative streak and a deep ..."What is the Berlin book called?
Lindsey wrote: "I'm finishing up Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton, a short historical fiction novel. It's a little unusual, a little lyrical, focused on an independent woman with a creative streak and a deep ..."Ooh, I would totally read the Virginia State Peniteniary book. Thanks for mentioning that.
Kareemah wrote: "Excited to be 7 books in to the new year already! Really enjoyed the latest (and probably last) Flavia de Luc book: The Grave's a Fine and Private Place. Currently reading A Very Pukka Murder: A Ma..."I really enjoyed the slow burn of Three Dark Crowns and One Dark Throne is definitely more of the same, so I was bummed about that since now I need to wait for the THIRD book and find out what happened.
Kareemah wrote: "And I too enjoyed Becky Chambers Wayfarer's books-- book 3 is due out in June ..."Looks like summer 2018 is the best time for me to binge read all three books!
Lindsey wrote: "I'm finishing up Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton, a short historical fiction novel. It's a little unusual, a little lyrical, focused on an independent woman with a creative streak and a deep ..."Just read the synopsis for Virginia State Penitentiary and now I'm going to have to read it so I can get really angry and upset.
I'm a bad librarian! I hate A Wrinkle in Time! Hated it as a kid and still hate it now. I had to abandon it. Couldn't take it anymore.Started The Handmaid's Tale and LOVE it.
Maggie wrote: "I'm a bad librarian! I hate A Wrinkle in Time! Hated it as a kid and still hate it now. I had to abandon it. Couldn't take it anymore.Started The Handmaid's Tale and LOVE it."
I didn't know you had tried it as a kid as well! Like I told you IRL, I'm really curious as to whether the graphic novel version would be more palatable for you.
I just read Black Hole by Charles Burns in one sitting last night. I didn't mean to plow right through it, but there you go. It's a graphic novel about teens in the 70's who are passing around a teen-only infection (via sex or spit is also implied), and it can do just about anything to you. One character has a vestigial tail, another has strange purple bumps on his ribs, and another young lady is able to peel off all of her skin (there's a new layer underneath, no worries!).
So if you're doing Readers' Advisory for someone who wants a weird "historical"/lite-lite sci-fi graphic novel and likes the idea of teens smoking pot and being miserable, this might be up their alley!
Spoiler alert - there's no investigating the "Why" of the plague. People just get it and keep going with their teen angst.
I *may* have squealed when my hold on the 3rd book in Jemisin's Broken Earth series arrived in my box yesterday. It's taken me maybe 3 weeks to get through all three! The first time I tried something by her, I couldn't get into it, but these are gripping with terrific world-building.
Kareemah wrote: "Just wrapped up with The Essex Serpent. I'm not sure how I feel about this book. if anyone else reads it, let me know how you felt about it :)"I really liked it - though I had to get over my notion that there were going to be actual dragons. A snippet of what I wrote in my Goodreads notes, "It makes me think of writers like Dickens or Wharton for the all-encompassing nature of it: love and how it is expressed between family members or friends or lovers; evolution and faith; believing what we see; mass hysteria; poverty"
