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What Are You Reading - 2024
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Jul 29, 2024 03:08PM
I know what you mean. I read Black Boy and Native Son this summer. I then checked out I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings but decided to return it without even cracking it open. I needed a break from all that discrimination.
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Both of those books look pretty intense.
They are. They are incredibly well written, though.
I gave up on All the Birds in the Sky. The book blurb sounded interesting, but it's very juvenile. It's tagged as adult, I'm about 50% in, and the children are still in school.
I finished Tangled Up in You. It was a really cute retelling of Tangled. if you're unfamiliar, Tangled is a retelling of Rapunzel. So, this was a retelling of a retelling. lol It was a quick and fun read. I'm still working my way through A Tempest of Tea for the August theme. It's taking quite a bit longer than I thought it would. There are little bits that don't always make sense and I find myself going back to see what I missed. It almost feels like the author had a solution in her head, but didn't actually put it in the story. Overall, I'm not loving it, so I'm glad it didn't end up as our group read. I'm putting it aside while I'm traveling for the next few days and will pick it back up when I return home.
I am also just wrapping up The Case of the Missing Marquess. It's a cute story. I'm finding it well written and entertaining. The audio is very well done.
I am traveling tomorrow and will be starting two new audio books. One of them is Nine Lives for my face-to-face book club. I'm not quite sure what my second will be, but I'll try to remember to come back and update.
I'm sorry to hear that about Tempest of Tea. I've got At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities downloaed and ready to start. I doubt I will do much reading tomorrow since I have a whack of things to do.
I was disappointed too. I love the cover and the story has so much potential. I grabbed a copy of t the Coffee Shop of Curiosities from my library. I'm hoping to have time to read it in August.
Who says cats and dogs are enemies? In Fred Blunt's picture book, All You Need To Know About Dogs: By A. Cat, the cat is merely disdainful of rambunctious dogs, until...
My review of All You Need To Know About Dogs with several illustrations
I do enjoy Andy Weir and James Moriarty, Consulting Criminal is no exception. This is a collection of three tales written about, and in the style of, the Sherlock Holmes mysteries. A delightful change of pace for the talented Weir!
My review of James Moriarty, Consulting Criminal
I'm starting The Cruellest Month tonight. I finished The Dry Grass of August and it dragged so much. I'm glad to have it off my tbr.
We listened to Nine Lives while traveling the past couple of days. It was a really good book to listen to while traveling. There were a lot of characters but it was engaging. I also started Mrs. Nash's Ashes. It's not quite what I was expecting, but cute. I pan to listen to it off and on over the next couple of days.
We are going to listen to Eruption for the monthly challenge while driving home Sunday.
It takes only a page or two and I'm completely back in Harry's world. Michael Connelly's Lost Light is as engrossing as the the others in the Bosch series. Love 'em!
My review of Lost Light
I was pretty sure I'd enjoy The Egg and Other Stories by entertaining author Andy Weir and I was right! It's a good book to dip in and out of.
My review of The Egg and Other Stories
The Booker shortlisted doorstopper, The Bee Sting, cuts right to the heart of an Irish family that is slowly unravelling. Quite a read.
My review of The Bee Sting
I finished Homeland, which was an excellent, excellent ready. Highly recommended.I will start The Berry Pickers today for my bookclub.
I finished Crossroads which was a fun romp, and a fast read.Next up is The Sacrament. I've got to get back to crossing off my hiking challenge reads.
I'm still working away at The Cruelest Month and could possibly finish it tonight.
I did finish The Cruelest Month last night and will start Thief of Hope. It's oldest on my TBR, going back to 2014 when I got it as a freebie somewhere. Ten years! Yikes.I have to hold off on starting The Sacrament. My library hold came through for Murder at Haven's Rock, but I can only have it for 7 days. So I will start it today.
My hiking challenge is stumbling on my reading The Sacrament. I can't move forward until it's done.
Janice wrote: "...My hiking challenge is stumbling on my reading The Sacrament. I can't move forward until it's done."I'm running into this same problem with Iron Flame. I keep planning it, but the audio is 28+ hours long, so it keeps getting pushed back for other reads.
I'm getting to the point where I only want to read shorter books. I'd be pushing back 28+ books too.
Zadie Smith's 'New Yorker' story The Embassy of Cambodia, is about neither an embassy nor Cambodia, but about Fatou, a young Ivory Coast woman living near the embassy in England, a scary place for someone like her to be right now, I imagine.
My review of The Embassy of Cambodia
Out the Window is exactly where she went in Lawrence Block's story, which he narrated himself in exactly the right voice. Now I want to find more of his #MatthewScudder crime series. 
My review of Out the Window
I'm starting a new slate of books today - The Nanny on audiobook and The Pale Horse on Kindle. Both are hiking challenge reads.
I'm reading Broken Harbour for my yearly challenge. But also as it was a series I put my BIL on to and he had been waiting for ages for me to read this to talk about it (he read all of them in a row and as soon as they came out where I dole them out like treats). Unfortunately I can't talk to him about it any more, but I had already decided 2024 was the year of reading the books he had begged me to, I'm just honouring that without him. I will talk to my SIL about them instead as she has read them all too.But I do need to prioritise Tana French's books. I've had an insane week (moving an entire building with 7 working days notice) so have left this in our toilet as an incentive to just take a couple of mins to not think about work. I realised I spent about 20 in there today when I should have just finished and sat on the couch lol
That is a great way of honoring your BIL, Rusalka, and I'm sure your SIL would appreciate to have the opportunity to share those reads with you. LOL about the toilet.
I started The Johnstown Flood for the monthly challenge. I'm only about 50 pages into it and already hooked.
Enjoy your Tana French books, Rus. Wonderful that you are still planning to read them to honor your BIL. Work has sure been crazy for you lately. I got a giggle out of you sitting in the toilet for 20 mins reading. lol I finished Mrs. Nash's Ashes. It was really cute. The female MC got a little repetitive with her thoughts ("like is not love") and I almost took a star off for that frustration, but it also had some emotional moments that I appreciated, so I gave it four stars.
I started The Unhoneymooners yesterday. I'm not sure if I'll be able to finish before the toppler, but even though I'm enjoying my reads, I'm really looking forward to First Lie Wins and the change of pace with the genre.
I am also reading Here One Moment. I'm 27% in so far and enjoying it. There are a lot of characters to keep track of, but they are all different so it just takes a minute when the chapter shifts to know which one you are with.
Rusalka wrote: "I'm reading Broken Harbour for my yearly challenge. But also as it was a series I put my BIL on to and he had been waiting for ages for me to read this to talk about it (he read all..."I really enjoyed the Dublin Squad series. I read Faithful Place and liked it so much, I started at the beginning of the series. I need to get to The Witch Elm which I've had forever.
I've had the Dublin Squad series on my TBR forever. It's been recommended to me a few times and it sounds like something I would like, but I just never picked it up. Hopefully some day.
Sandra wrote: "I started The Johnstown Flood for the monthly challenge. I'm only about 50 pages into it and already hooked."Looks good, Sandra. I just added it to my TBR. I thought I had read most of McCullough's books. Don't know how I missed it.
I'm currently reading Fire Exit by Morgan Talty. It is really good. It seems to be a very honest and heart-felt (though fiction) portrayal about being a non-native person living on a reservation in Maine (his mother was non-native and married a citizen of the Penobscot Indian Nation and they moved to the reservation when he was three - not a spoiler), but his mother and him had to move off the reservation when his stepfather died when he was 16. I really think it has Pulitzer Prize possibilities. I'm reading a library copy, but just bought a copy for myself - that good.
I finished The Unhoneymooners in time for the toppler. :) I am glad I won't have to put it aside. I will continue to read Here One Moment and start First Lie Wins tomorrow.
I'm looking forward to your review on First Lie Wins, Kristie.I'll be setting my current audiobook aside (The Nanny) in favor for my toppler read, Fortune Favors the Dead. I'm all excited.
I'm really looking forward to it, Janice. Funny, I saw your book for the toppler and immediately thought it was a Miss Fortune book. lol I look forward to seeing what you think of it. It looks good.
The Neil Gaiman at the End of the Universe by Arvind Ethan David is a delightful Audible short story narrated by 'the' Neil Gaiman himself, which makes it more fun. 
My review of The Neil Gaiman at the End of the Universe
I hope you enjoy the Tana French book Rus. I need to return to the series as I love those stories.Talking of series, I started The Beggar King on the flight back from Croatia, it's the 3rd book in the Hangman's Daughter series, another series I really enjoy.
I am still working my way through Circe, I'm enjoying it, but I think I might have got more out of it in book format.
I am listening to Clean Sweep for a challenge. The narrator's voice reminds me of Dolly Parton. I sped it up a bit, which just added to the effect. Something about the accent and her intonations. It took me a while to get used to it without picturing Miss Dolly. lol
I was thinking that I didn't make that connection about Dolly Parton so I looked back at my review. I read the ebook. LOL! It was a fun series.
Pulitzer-winner Elizabeth Strout has asked her much-loved characters to Tell Me Everything, and some of them open up. I reckon she should add I'm listening! because that's why they're talking. Wonderful book. Love it, of course.
My review of Tell Me Everything!
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