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[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Bookworm wrote: "I had started the year with Project Hail Mary. Completed yesterday. Really liked the execution. My recommendation would be, to use the audiobook as follow along to your physical/ebook. Ray potter's..."

Loved Rogue Protocol and Three body Problem.

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Leena wrote: "@Bookworm - I have a Scribd subscription - past 6-7 yrs and vociferously advocate it. The problem is that the new books are released a audio bks - it's great if you are ok with the same. there are ..."

@Leena. - Yeah pdfdrive is great, but I don't find some of the recent releases there. For classics, there's no turning back from it. For Kindle Unlimited, even I haven't heard any great things about it.

Will check out Scribd and Z-lib. Thanks for the suggestion.

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Em Lost In Books wrote: "Bookworm wrote: "I had started the year with Project Hail Mary. Completed yesterday. Really liked the execution. My recommendation would be, to use the audiobook as follow along to your physical/eb..."

Pretty excited for Rogue Protocol. I liked the first 2 installments in the series.

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

If you like you can try her Rakhsura books too. They're also very good.

[Leena]

@ em thanks shall check out Rakhsura too

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Em Lost In Books wrote: "If you like you can try her Rakhsura books too. They're also very good."

Adding to my TBR. The covers look great. Thanks!

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Hope you two like them. :)

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Hope you two like them. :)

[Palash]

With new year, resuming wheel of time series after 2 month break. So, The Path of Daggers will be my first read of this year.

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Palash wrote: "With new year, resuming wheel of time series after 2 month break. So, The Path of Daggers will be my first read of this year."

I found 7-10 very tiring and full of fillers. Two books could easily have covered what was stretched to 4 books. But if you survive that dull phase, awesomeness awaits you in next four books. :)

[Palash]

Yeah. I am also finding book 8 hard to get through. I actually planned to start book 8 in December, but the prologue and initial chapters kept putting me off. And from what I hear, its going to get worse in book 9-10.
By the way, I didn't find book 7 to be sloggish and enjoyed it. Infact, book 6 was very sloggy to me(except final 20% part).

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Finished reading Venetia and Sold. While former was a fun romance latter was scary and brutal. My reviews :

Venetia - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Sold - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

now starting The Thursday Murder Club, BOTM here and The Liar's Key.

[Leena]

Em, I'm happy you've read a Heyer. she's an all time favourite go to author. Devil's Cub is my favourite.

[Leena]

I finished The Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George. Definitely disappointed... I loved Lynley the series....

Just started with The Serial Killer Wife by Alice Hunter. Part of reading the German month JANUAR challenge.

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Finished Rogue Protocol and The Three-Body Problem. Both were sci-fi but very different worlds.
Have enjoyed them and added their next installments to my TBR.

Will now start The Thursday Murder Club, the BOTM.

[Leena]

Have finished the with Serial Killer's Wife by Alice Hunter and its great one time read. thoroughly enjoyed it.
onto my historical romance BOTM and letter N from JANUAR - Never Fall For Your Fiancé by Virginia Heath.

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Bookworm wrote: "Finished Rogue Protocol and The Three-Body Problem. Both were sci-fi but very different worlds.
Have enjoyed them and added their next installments to my TBR.

Will..."

Loved those two and i am also currently reading Murder Club. Not made much progress yet though

[Leena]

Em Lost In Books wrote: "Leena wrote: "I've started the new year with thrillers - finished Carla Negger's Night's Landing and will be reafing the following crime classices
1. A great Deliverance
2. The Bone Collector.
3. ..."
Ive started the Butterfly Garden and Em its beautiful. Impeccable writing and the sorrow, grief , angst, helplessness... its an emotional overdrive. Im 1/3rd through and xannotnseem tonput it down. Hope it continues so.

[Makrand]

Leena, I agree on everything that you wrote above about The Butterfly Garden. Tragedic and thrilling however the same cannot be said about the second book in the series.
Unfortunately it was so bad for me that I abandoned the series and decided not to tread on that path again. As if it's not written by Dot
1st book is marvellous

[Leena]

I don't think I would have the midspan for bk2. The second bk being terrible is not unique to this series only. I'd read If You Say Yes by Neha Yazmin- and it was brilliant. Bk 2 I couldn't ‍get through 50 pages. I was so looking forward to it, the plot , change in personalities of the main characters was all so devastatingly disappointing

[Leena]

hey, has anyone read John Fowles's The Collector??

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Leena wrote: "hey, has anyone read John Fowles's The Collector??"

not me, but have it on tbr for ages.

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Leena wrote: "Ive started the Butterfly Garden and Em its beautiful. Impeccable writing and the sorrow, grief , angst, helplessness... its an emotional overdrive. Im 1/3rd through and xannotnseem tonput it down. Hope it continues so..."

will bump up this up my tbr

[Leena]

I'm currently reading a historical romance called A Hope Divided by Alyssa Cole. its beautifully written, set during the American Civil War. Its interracial too.

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Finished Thursday Murder Club. Loved the characters, story not so much.

Started The Golden Son

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Done with the Thursday Murder Club.

Started The Ice Palace. It's a modern classic and on the shorter side.

[Leena]

Em.. that's been on my tbr since last Yr. do let me know your thoughts

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Leena wrote: "Em.. that's been on my tbr since last Yr. do let me know your thoughts"

Around 15%, its been a fast read so far. I am liking it very much.

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Bookworm wrote: "Done with the Thursday Murder Club.

Started The Ice Palace. It's a modern classic and on the shorter side."

This look interesting, do share your thoughts.

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Em Lost In Books wrote: "Bookworm wrote: "Done with the Thursday Murder Club.

Started The Ice Palace. It's a modern classic and on the shorter side."

This look interesting, do share your thoughts."

This has been interesting read for me.
Here's my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

So objectively, this is a good book no doubt. But there're few things which didnot sit well with me. But owing to the times ( specifically Norway ) during which it was published, I do understand why the content is so. The author doesn't name the guilty and confusing feelings of the girls. Was it to protect the book, so that it reaches majority of the audience or was it because the author himself felt that it's "something" that can be cured or released in this case.

Again, I don't hate it, far from it. That’s why, didn't rate it as of now.

I'm not mentioning specific details because it might be a spoiler. But you can give it a try if you have time and it's pretty short.

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Interesting. will surely give this a try. :)

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Went on to add three books to my current read shelf. hopefully will wrap up few by next weekend.

Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry and The Yearbook, I love reading light reads on weekend.

Dark Sacred Night, loved the first book.

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Do let know whenever you happen to read. It'll incite a good discussion. :)

Good to have few lighter and happier reads actually. Hope you have fun.

[Leena]

Ive started reading The Orange Girl by Jostein Garder. Its such sweet, endearing story. Do give it a try both of you. Its set in Norway too.

[Austin]

Currently reading Bag of Bones and 11/22/63, both by Stephen King. I am finding both of them very boring. I just don't like his style of writing. I like intelligent witty conversations, some humour or info dump like in Sci-fi books to get going. None of them were present in both the books. I will read upto 100 pages and DNF them if still uninteresting.

Leena, it's not working out :-(

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Leena wrote: "Ive started reading The Orange Girl by Jostein Garder. Its such sweet, endearing story. Do give it a try both of you. Its set in Norway too."

@Leena, will surely check it out. I see it's a short one too. :)

[Leena]

Austin- go back to Pet Semetary/ Carrie. you can wave sleep bye bye. And his Dark Tower Series..

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Thanks for the recommendation @Leena.
Just finished The Orange Girl. I liked it and it was the feel good book which I actually needed. Was bit predictable but I had no problem with it. Infact, happy to know the identity of The Orange Girl. :)

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

I'm going to start Exit Strategy. Excited as this is the final installment in the murderbot diaries. I believe, there're books after this one as well but they are like full-length standalone novels of our very own bot.

And then there's Dune, which is waiting in my tbr since ages. Hopefully I'll pick it up this weekend. We shall see.

[Leena]

you know, my daughter will be happiest to know that you've not only read but liked the Orange Girl. it's really her insistence that's made me read it. She just cried off an entire tissue box.

[Leena]

I actually loved his Sophies world and Solitaire Mystery. I like his writing style and the orange girl has just the quirky ,teenage feel to it.

[Leena]

I finished off my As in JANUAR
A Hope Divided by Alyssa Cole is brilliant.
Anything but a Gentleman was bk 10 in an ongoing series and a big disappointment. so, this weekend just about evened off.

[Leena]

em,the cover for the Yearbook is lovely. and I've picked up excuse me while I cry for my daughter. looks like The Yearbook too is coming home.

[Leena]

this isn't the forum,but what do you guys do with books you've finished reading and need to make space for newer books??

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Leena wrote: "you know, my daughter will be happiest to know that you've not only read but liked the Orange Girl. it's really her insistence that's made me read it. She just cried off an entire tissue box."

@Leena. That's so sweet. :) It's so good to see a her picking such reads. Usually most of the teenage/young adults gravitate towards fast paced thrillers.
quick question - till what age do we specify young adults? 22/25?

The concept of the book is good. I was at one point irritated with Georg in the beginning as he didn't seem to appreciate what he had got. Because, in real life, I would have loved to receive such a letter. At the end, he made up for it though.

Regarding the space, I have very less physical books because of the space crunch. So, now I just read the e-version. I do buy physical books but have cut down on the number based on how big they are. (Example: Say greater than 600 pages or so --> physical; else e-version)

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

i don't have that many physical books as i mostly read ebooks but the ones that I have, I find hard to part with. So I keep them with me...

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Bookworm wrote: "I'm going to start Exit Strategy. Excited as this is the final installment in the murderbot diaries. I believe, there're books after this one as well but they are like full-length s..."

isn't there a fifth book in murderbot trilogy? and six book is in pipe too...

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Em Lost In Books wrote: "i don't have that many physical books as i mostly read ebooks but the ones that I have, I find hard to part with. So I keep them with me..."

Same.

Em Lost In Books wrote: "Bookworm wrote: "I'm going to start Exit Strategy. Excited as this is the final installment in the murderbot diaries. I believe, there're books after this one as well but they are l..."

Fifth as in the Network Effect? Yeah, I thought so too but it says standalone novel in GR premise.

I do see same characters in the character list. Also looked at sixth one, yeah they have linked it as Murderbot diaries 6.

So I stand corrected, reading fourth installment not the final.
That's good news. :)

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

looking forward to your review of Exit Strategy. :)

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Wrapped up Excuse Me While I cry Ugly. it was a good read.