What Else Are You Reading in 2021? Showing 101-150 of 2,230

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I just finished reading The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro. It was a relatively quick read and has a thought-provoking ending. Very worthwhile. I hadn't read anything by this author before. I appreciate the recommendation from a librarian!

[Travis]

Pamela wrote: "I just finished reading The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro. It was a relatively quick read and has a thought-provoking ending. Very worthwhile. I hadn't read anything by this author before. I appre..."

I really loved that book too.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Yay for librarians!! Glad you enjoyed it--I keep meaning to read another by him, I really enjoyed Never Let Me Go

[Anna]

I've been meaning to read Buried Giant since it came out, but still haven't. It's likely I'll get to Klara and the Sun first, because I'm very eagerly waiting for it!

[CBRetriever]

I have it as part of the Alphabet Challenge for I, so I will be reading it this year

[Anna]

CBRetriever wrote: "I have it as part of the Alphabet Challenge for I, so I will be reading it this year"

Buried Giant? I have Klara :D

[Kevin]

HeyT wrote: "I started back in with the Alex Verus series by re reading Fated. I read the first few books back in 2013 so I felt it was best to start from the beginning and then catch up. I enjo..."

Great series!

[CBRetriever]

Anna wrote: "CBRetriever wrote: "I have it as part of the Alphabet Challenge for I, so I will be reading it this year"

Buried Giant? I have Klara :D"

yep Buried Giant

[Phrynne]

I have read three of Ishigoro's books including the Buried Giant. He writes beautifully but somehow never captured my interest.

[Phrynne]

I keep seeing Emergency Skin mentioned on here so I had to give it a go. Loved it!
My review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Anna]

I devoured Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin today! It was so horrifying and fascinating at the same time. I only paused once (to use a blender, can't audiobook at the same time), and now I'm sitting here completely unable to focus on anything else. I don't know how to categorize it, speculative social horror? Near future tech enabling people to be their horrible selves? An all too realistic contemporary look at social media? All of these things? Compulsively listenable!

Gabi, I think you'd like it! :) It's on Storytel.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

I really really want to read a Schweblin, I keep hearing great things

[Anna]

I want to read Fever Dream, but I can only get a physical copy from my library :(

edit: Oh! I can get the Finnish translation on ebook from my library! ^_^

[Jemppu]

I have Little Eyes on my shelf, too. Seems uniquely fascinating indeed :)

[Gabi]

Anna wrote: "Gabi, I think you'd like it! :) It's on Storytel...."

Thanks, Anna! I have it on my TBR for quite some while now. It is great to hear that it had such an impact on you. Now I'm even more looking forward to reading it!

[Woman Reading]

I finished The Humans by Matt Haig. Maybe some would consider this Sci-fi lite, but I really liked it.

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3762318602

[Anne Hutchinson]

Rereading the Harry Potter series! 😊

[Don]

just finished "The Dry" by Jane Harper. Detective/Thriller. It was good, I liked it.

[Mystic]

I finished Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough. Presence of supernatural elements make it different from other psychological thrillers.

My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Planning to read some classic Sci-Fi books I found on the SF Masterworks Series soon.

[Jacqueline]

The movie is excellent Don. Definitely does justice to Jane’s book. And as I have said elsewhere the cinematography was beautiful. Really shows the drought conditions we have been living with for many years. The contrast between what was and what is now. It was so beautifully shot.

[HeyT]

I finished up Babylon's Ashes which I was kind of putting off because the installment before it was kind of a miss for me but I happily enjoyed this one much more. I'm back to reading Alex Verus with Taken. I'll probably read the next one after that before heading back into the expanse.

[T.S.]

I got the EarthSea Collection this holiday season so I can't wait to read that this year.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

ooo what a great gift!

[Beth]

My audiobook luck has been terrible during isolation, DNF after DNF, few or none of which are the books' fault. I started City of the Lost and here's finally a book that I've gotten past the first couple of chapters, and it's in a genre that I typically have no interest in. Hey, whatever works!

[Anna]

Sometimes a complete genre switch is the only thing that works!

[Mary]

Kakuriyo: Bed & Breakfast for Spirits, Vol. 1 by Waco Ioka

[Eric]

I finished Kushiel's Dart to get me into the New Year. Gave it three stars. Much is borrowed from Medieval and Norse history, as well as Greek mythology (Poseidon). Heavy on masochistic sexual behavior.

For a lark tried, The Wizard's Butler . What a blast. Fun read! Thought I'd read another by Lowell. Ravenwood.

[Bobby]

I just started Iron Prince and am really loving it. I was having trouble finding something to really sink my teeth into, and this is already right up my alley. I can tell I'll have a lot of fun with it, and at over 1,000 pages, it is just what I was looking for.

[Tamara]

CBRetriever wrote: "Tamara wrote: "I'm reading Dragonsbane, after a recommendation someone in this group made to me last year. (Characters in their 30s-40s, who aren't always mothers or divorced or hav..."

Someone actually recommended it directly, during a discussion about YA books. I should probably go back and have a look...
I did really enjoy it - except for some extreme gory-ness during one of the battles near the end. Insightful and honest.

[Tamara]

Don & Michelle: What is it about Lois Bujold's books/Penric books that you like so much? Is it just that they're a break from heavier things, or do they perhaps get better as the series goes on? I listened to 'Penric's Demon', and was underwhelmed. It was nice, and unusual, but I didn't feel anything really captivating about it. It's probably just different tastes, but I want to know if I should give them another go, if there's more good to find.

[Anna]

Tamara, we have a thread for all things Penric and another one for the novels in the same world! :)

But in short, if you didn't like the first one, you won't like the rest.

[Rachel]

Re: Penric - maybe try eye reading - I read the first but tried listening to the next and I HATED the voice/wat of speaking the narrator used. Would have completely ruined the book for me and changed what Penric sounded like in my head.

[Gabi]

I second Rachel: Grover Gardner's voice is one I don't like either. Still I liked the first book in the series best so far.

[Rachel]

I could handle him as Miles Vorkosigan but Penric is just not not NOT the way he voices him.

[Gabi]

He also made Vorkosigan difficult to get through for me.

[Anna]

I love him as Penric :D

[Don]

Tamara, The Penric stories likely strummed a tone with me right now because of the year 2020 when I read them. Things I enjoyed, Penric was happy to lead a simple, well charted life but he didn't whine too much when that drastically changed. Lois McMaster Bujold's writing for me engages the transport function. The Unfolding of Desdemona's and Penric's association is to me interesting and subtle.

[Don]

watching the News in 2020 made morally ambiguous less interesting.

[Don]

Regarding Audio books, I think the industry might be starting to understand that having more than one narrated version might be good for sales, I like the Penric stories narrator fine but there are other narrators who drive me off of any story they do.

[Karin]

I just finished a reread of 'Salem's Lot. It was the first Stephen King book I ever read back when the paperback edition came out. I remember everyone in the family passing the copy around as it was a "you gotta read this" book. It held up very well.

[Ines, Resident Vampire]

Karin wrote: "I just finished a reread of 'Salem's Lot. It was the first Stephen King book I ever read back when the paperback edition came out. I remember everyone in the family passin..."

Karin, I reread it last year and found the first half a bit slow, but the second half was amazing.

[~ Giulia ~]

I finished The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. I think I liked it more than the first even if the ending confused me. Up next is Waking Gods.

On the side I'm reading Skyward, which is delightful - if you can say so about something so full of war and loss. Probably not. So... it's like taking a bath in the warm blood of your enemies while surrounded by their cries of agony?

[Don]

Salem's Lot is amazing and something I will not read before bedtime.

[Gabi]

~ Giulia ~ wrote: "... On the side I'm reading Skyward, which is delightful - if you can say so about something so full of war and loss. Probably not. So... it's like taking a bath in the warm blood of your enemies while surrounded by their cries of agony?
"

:D This is the perfect Spensa description! Love it!

[Gabi]

This week I read

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik which was lame and a real letdown after her "Uprooted" and "Spinning Silver" which I liked. And to my utter dismay it doesn't even count for the popsugar prompt "dark academia", cause I understood this prompt wrong (how can one keep up with the daily changing hip trends?)

Bear Head by Adrian Tchaikovsky, the sequel to his novel "Dogs of War", which feels a lot like a direct commentary to the current political and social environment set in a cyberpunk future on Mars.

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami, also read for the Sugarpop Challenge (prompt 'title which is also a song'). I will forever adore this author's style. But the story itself here is cringeworthy in its antiquated and fetished take on women.

[CBRetriever]

I have no idea why some of Adrian Tchaikovsky's books don't seem to show up on amazon.com for US readers. Neither of the Dogs of War books are available in Kindle format for US residents on amazon.com. It is on amazon.fr however....

Anyway, I'm working on The Chronicles of Tornor Trilogy: Watchtower, The Dancers of Arun, and The Northern Girl which is fairly quick and easy reading so far.

[Gabi]

CBRetriever wrote: "I have no idea why some of Adrian Tchaikovsky's books don't seem to show up on amazon.com for US readers. Neither of the Dogs of War books are available in Kindle format for US res..."

He is writing for four different publishers and I think some of them are only UK distribution.

[Beth]

CBRetriever wrote: "I have no idea why some of Adrian Tchaikovsky's books don't seem to show up on amazon.com for US readers."

I came across this with Cage of Souls. I was able to order the British edition in paperback from US amazon (it shipped from Book Depository, iirc), but there is not an ebook for it on that site.

[CBRetriever]

Cage of Souls was also available on amazon.fr in Kindle format and I bought it September 2019

[Jordan]

Gabi wrote: "This week I read

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik which was lame and a real letdown after her "Uprooted" and "Spinning Silver" which I liked. And to my utter dismay ..."

So much agreement about Norwegian Wood. I love his other stuff but I have been trying to finish this one for months now and it is a struggle.