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Reader's Choice Spring 2023
I loved Rebecca. The Hacienda was just fine.
The Collector's Daughter was shaping up to be a strong 5 stars but the ending felt a little....flat. Still a good book. Running list-
Comfort Me with Apples - read
No Cure for Being Human - 3.5
Blown to Hell- 4
Nowhere for Very Long - 3
Patron Saint of Second Chances - 4.5
The Stolen Lady - 5
Mango, Mambo, and Murder - 3.5
Look What You Made Me Do - 1
Light from Uncommon Stars - 4
The Hacienda - 3
The Collector's Daughter - 4
All Her Little Secrets - 3Comfort Me with Apples - 4
Dead Silence - 3
The Hacienda - 3
The Last Chance Library - 4
Light from Uncommon Stars - 2
Started something with Comfort Me With Apples. Said something about it on our family group chat. I so wanted to discuss it, but I wasn't sure I wanted to recommend it so I said that on the chat asking if anyone else had read it. Apparently what I said intrigued them enough that 4 of them read it as well and another one might be reading it. It was a fun discussion. My sister-in-law showed her true intelligence by pointing out so many things the rest of us had missed.
Patty wrote: "All Her Little Secrets - 3Comfort Me with Apples - 4
Dead Silence - 3
The Hacienda - 3
The Last Chance Library - 4
Started something with Comfort Me With Apples. Said something about it on our fa..."
Thanks for sharing that, Patty. Glad it made for an interesting discussion!
I just came across this and I have already read a couple of these books.I read The Patron Saint of Second Chances in the fall and thought it was fun (It could make a great movie).
I read No Cure for Being Human early last year and honestly don't remember much about it. I liked it but didn't love it.
I own a copy of The Stolen Lady that I won in a Goodreads giveaway. Maybe now I will finally get around to reading it.
I'm finding it super interesting that Look What You Made Me Do and A Flicker in the Dark are both on here because they felt sooooo similar. I definitely liked Flicker better.
Running list-
Comfort Me with Apples - read
No Cure for Being Human - 3.5
Blown to Hell- 4
Nowhere for Very Long - 3
Patron Saint of Second Chances - 4.5
The Stolen Lady - 5
Mango, Mambo, and Murder - 3.5
Look What You Made Me Do - 1
Light from Uncommon Stars - 4
The Hacienda - 3
The Collector's Daughter - 4
A Flicker in the Dark - 3.5 or 4
All Her Little Secrets. Sigh. Another thriller? *whining*
Anyway. The plot wasn't terrible (though it stretched suspension of disbelief a smidge for me) but the main character just. keeps. making. horrible. decisions. over. and. over. again.
Running list-
Comfort Me with Apples - read
No Cure for Being Human - 3.5
Blown to Hell- 4
Nowhere for Very Long - 3
Patron Saint of Second Chances - 4.5
The Stolen Lady - 5
Mango, Mambo, and Murder- 3.5
Look What You Made Me Do - 1
Light from Uncommon Stars - 4
The Hacienda - 3
The Collector's Daughter - 4
A Flicker in the Dark - 3.5 or 4
All Her Little Secrets - 3
Siren of Sussex gets 3 stars because it's not its fault I mistook it for a mystery. (Don't ask me why. I have no idea what I got it confused with.) Unfortunately this was a lot like nothing ruining your Friday like realizing it's actually Tuesday. I rolled my eyes so hard I was concerned about brain injury.
Running list-
Comfort Me with Apples - read
No Cure for Being Human - 3.5
Blown to Hell- 4
Nowhere for Very Long - 3 (every time I type out this running list I'm tempted to knock this down to 2...)
Patron Saint of Second Chances - 4.5
The Stolen Lady - 5
Mango, Mambo, and Murder- 3.5
Look What You Made Me Do - 1
Light from Uncommon Stars - 4
The Hacienda - 3
The Collector's Daughter - 4
A Flicker in the Dark - 3.5 or 4 (I still can't decide lol)
All Her Little Secrets - 3
The Siren of Sussex - 3
All Her Little Secrets - 4At Summer's End - 3
Blown to Hell - 5
Comfort Me with Apples - 4
A Flicker in the Dark - 3
The Hacienda - 4
Light from Uncommon Stars - 3
Mango, Mambo, and Murder - 4
No Cure for Being Human - 4
The Patron Saint of Second Chances - 3
The Stolen Lady - 4
They Can't Take Your Name - 5
The Collector’s Daughter - 4
All Her Little Secrets - 4At Summer's End - 3
Blown to Hell - 5
Comfort Me with Apples - 4
A Flicker in the Dark - 3
The Hacienda - 4
Light from Uncommon Stars - 3
Mango, Mambo, and Murder - 4
No Cure for Being Human - 4
The Patron Saint of Second Chances - 3
The Stolen Lady - 4
They Can't Take Your Name - 5
The Collector’s Daughter - 4
Look What You Made Me Do - 4
Dead Silence - 3 (liked the idea, just not the f-bombs)
Britt, Book Habitue wrote: "Siren of Sussex gets 3 stars because it's not its fault I mistook it for a mystery. (Don't ask me why. I have no idea what I got it confused with.) Unfortunately this was a lot like nothing ruining..."lol about knocking it down. I haven't read it yet.
Are you actually typing the whole ist or copying/pasting it? if typing it then I'm impressed.
Typing sadly. Because there's not an option to copy/paste in the app as far as I can tell.
Britt, Book Habitue wrote: "Typing sadly. Because there's not an option to copy/paste in the app as far as I can tell."Ahh. That's too bad. Drives me nuts when apps do that.
Probably not worth it for Good Reads alone, but I have an OCR Text Scanner app that will read screenshots and turn them into text. I use it for a lot of things and it might work for this.
I've just been editing my first post to update my reading.
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It's super convenient for rating a book and adding the date read and such but it's a pain for some things. it doesn't even automatically capitalize after a period. as you can tell since I'm not fixing it, lol.
I really liked Dead Silence; I think I was in the right mood for it. I don't think I was in the right mood for Patron Saint of Second Chances.
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Yeah, mood is super important. Sometimes there are books that could potentially be right up my alley, but I'm not in the mood for that type of book right then. It's actually why I stopped using the Want To Read button in goodreads. Because I'd go, "Ooh, that sounds great, but I don't really want to read it now." And then I was left with giant overwhelming lists of books. So I just stopped doing it.
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Ooh, frustrating.
Mood is huge. I sometimes feel bad for not enjoying a book because I wasn't in the mood, lol.My problem is most books sound at least vaguely interesting. *facepalm* We have brand new shelves and I'm organizing books and I have a crazy number of books I need to read to decide if they get shelf space or are leaving my house.
I'm usually in the mood for about anything, so this was unusual for me.
I use the Want to Read list (more than 1000 at this point). Once in a while, I clean it out. For reading challenges, I look through the Lists and find the books already in my TBR. It's easiest on the computer, rather than mobile or app. I still have to be in the mood for the book, but it cuts down the seemingly infinite choices.
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My problem is most books sound at least vaguely interesting. *facepalm* We have brand new shelves and ..."
Not to mention, Dead Silence and Patron Saint of Second Chances are two very different moods. (Insert big, wide eyes emoji here). Glad you enjoyed Dead Silence, though! It's the best when our science fiction books get some love.
I prioritize the sci fi and fantasy nominations. :)
I swear half the point of the "want to read" thing for me is so that in the future when I come across the book again and look it up I can tell that 1) I've seen it before and 2) yes it has looked interesting before, lol.
Britt, Book Habitue wrote: "I swear half the point of the "want to read" thing for me is so that in the future when I come across the book again and look it up I can tell that 1) I've seen it before and 2) yes it has looked i..."Haha - I agree!
Britt, Book Habitue wrote: "I swear half the point of the "want to read" thing for me is so that in the future when I come across the book again and look it up I can tell that 1) I've seen it before and 2) yes it has looked i..."That's why I created a Maybe shelf; Want to Read is what I've committed to, and Maybe is less of a commitment for things that look interesting but I'm not sure I want to actually read.
Dead Silence was more paranormal horror than I expected (I was just thinking sci-fi) but even though that's not my jam it wasn't bad.Running list -
Comfort Me with Apples - read
No Cure for Being Human - 3.5
Blown to Hell- 4
Nowhere for Very Long - 3 (though still tempting to pop it down to a 2)
Patron Saint of Second Chances - 4.5
The Stolen Lady - 5
Mango, Mambo, and Murder- 3.5
Look What You Made Me Do - 1
Light from Uncommon Stars - 4
The Hacienda - 3
The Collector's Daughter - 4
A Flicker in the Dark - 3.5 (ish, idk)
All Her Little Secrets - 3
The Siren of Sussex - 3
Dead Silence - 4
The last week or two I was waiting for holds to arrive, and then three showed up at once.
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That is always what happens. lol
Absolutely inevitable lol
Thankfully the "deliver later" option is available.
If You Ask Me was fine. Cute fairly clean romance. Fairly unrealistic/escapism without consequences. Some trying to do too much and longer than I needed it to be lol.Running list-
Comfort Me with Apples - read
No Cure for Being Human - 3.5
Blown to Hell- 4
Nowhere for Very Long - 3
Patron Saint of Second Chances - 4.5
The Stolen Lady - 5
Mango, Mambo, and Murder- 3.5
Look What You Made Me Do - 1
Light from Uncommon Stars - 4
The Hacienda - 3
The Collector's Daughter - 4
A Flicker in the Dark- 3.5
All Her Little Secrets - 3
The Siren of Sussex - 3
Dead Silence - 4
If You Ask Me - 3
16 down!
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Oh no!
I'm probably going to do this challenge...in summer. I have to clear my TBR list, and I have 90 books left to go. So...like 3 months from now...
Oh man. One advantage of audio is I can't see the typos, but that was the one that wasn't available on audio.
Greg wrote: "I'm probably going to do this challenge...in summer. I have to clear my TBR list, and I have 90 books left to go. So...like 3 months from now..."There will be a new set of books then. :)
Britt, Book Habitue wrote: "Oh man. One advantage of audio is I can't see the typos, but that was the one that wasn't available on audio."I've been wondering: do audio narrators fix errors, like if the book is missing a word or uses the wrong word?
i would think? But then I've also caught mistakes in audiobooks so who knows.
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I've been wondering: do audio narrators fix errors, like ..."
There's a funny story from Stephen Fry, who recorded the Harry Potter books in England, and he couldn't say, "He pocketed it." And asked if he could say, "He put it in his pocket." and was told no. They just had him try over and over and over until he got the phrase done. I'll see if I can find the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r84pb...
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That is dedication Greg.
Elizabeth wrote: "Audrey wrote: "Britt, Book Habitue wrote: "Oh man. One advantage of audio is I can't see the typos, but that was the one that wasn't available on audio."I've been wondering: do audio narrators fi..."
I saw that. Cute. I wish we could get his narration here; I don't like Jim Dale's very much.
Reminds me of Benedict Cumberbatch's complete inability to say penguin, lol. At Summer's End was not what I wanted it to be.... but if you like domestic drama and healing....and are not bothered by sex scenes and suicide attempts.....then you may enjoy this historical romance.
Running list -
Comfort Me with Apples - read
No Cure for Being Human - 3.5
Blown to Hell- 4
Nowhere for Very Long - 3
Patron Saint of Second Chances - 4.5
The Stolen Lady - 5
Mango, Mambo, and Murder- 3.5
Look What You Made Me Do - 1
Light from Uncommon Stars - 4
The Hacienda - 3
The Collector's Daughter - 4
All Her Little Secrets - 3
The Siren of Sussex - 3
Dead Silence- 4
If You Ask Me - 3
At Summer's End - 3
Elizabeth wrote: "That is dedication Greg."Some of these books have been on my list for a decade or more. Time to get through them!
I'm pretty sure my only hope for clearing my tbr list is to no absolutely nothing but read for the next several centuries!The Last Chance Library was both sweet and infuriating. Predictable but lovely.
Running list -
Comfort Me with Apples - read
No Cure for Being Human - 3.5
Blown to Hell- 4
Nowhere for Very Long - 3
Patron Saint of Second Chances - 4.5
The Stolen Lady - 5
Mango, Mambo, and Murder- 3.5
Look What You Made Me Do - 1
Light from Uncommon Stars - 4
The Hacienda - 3
The Collector's Daughter - 4
All Her Little Secrets - 3
The Siren of Sussex - 3
Dead Silence - 4
If You Ask Me - 3
At Summer's End - 3
The Last Chance Library - 4.5
Britt, Book Habitue wrote: "Reminds me of Benedict Cumberbatch's complete inability to say penguin, lol. "I heard Hugh Laurie was unable to say "murder" in an American accent.
Even though I absolutely adore Hugh Laurie I'm still blown away by the fact that House and Bertie Wooster are played by the same man, lol
I first saw him in Blackadder, where he's a total moron, so it was hard to believe at first for me too.
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Comfort Me with Apples - read
No Cure for Being Human - 3.5
Blown to Hell- 4
Nowhere for Very Long - 3
Patron Saint of Second Chances - 4.5
The Stolen Lady - 5
Mango, Mambo, and Murder - 3.5
Look What You Made Me Do - 1
Light from Uncommon Stars - 4
The Hacienda - 3