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What Are You Reading - 2024
Struggling young author Junie is accused of racial passing, known as Yellowface, by social media critics in R.F. Kuang's novel. Good story - glad I'm not a publisher!
My review of Yellowface
Finished both Femina and Skyward.Skyward was so good I immediately picked up the rest of the series. I've started Starsight.
I'm starting The Sans Pareil Mystery. It's book 2 in the Detective Lavender series. I have book 3 coming up in a hike, so wanted to get book 2 done before I reach that destination.
I never know whether to add Skyward to my list. I love Sanderson's Cosmere books like Mistborn and Stormlight Archive. But I generally am just not interested in books set on other planets and I think Skyward is maybe more SF than fantasy? But it IS Sanderson!
Nice Sandra!! Good start of the year :)
That's a great way to start the year Sandra!
Coming out in March for Kylie Minogue fans is another addition to the Little People BIG DREAMS series by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara. The popular 'Neighbours' actress became a singing superstar with chart-topping albums five decades in a row.
My review of Kylie Minogue with several illustrations
Peggy wrote: "I never know whether to add Skyward to my list. I love Sanderson's Cosmere books like Mistborn and Stormlight Archive. But I generally am just not interested in books set on other planets and I thi..."Yeah, it is SF with a hint of fantasy. Think star wars. It is written like his fantasy stuff though and is very character driven. I avoided it for a long time because it is YA but I loved it. I think you'd like it Peggy if you could think of the planets as countries and the space stuff as just inhospitable territory lol
Haha, Iike that perspective Margo :D I see the ebook is only €5 right now so I might just give it a try :)
I have a spotify subscription and they have started to do audiobooks too as part of it, although you can only listen to 15 hrs per month but that works for me. So i started listening to UNMASKED
I didn't know that about Spotify. I have a paid subscription too. I'll have a look to see if they've started doing that here too.
Fingers crossed Peggy. It only became available here about a month ago. They have a good selection.
I can't find it. I googled it and found something saying that it would be introduced in the UK and Australia first, and then other countries after.I don't really need it. Haven't been listening to audiobooks at all in the last few months and still own 15 or so that I bought through Audible.
That's a shame. It might pop up at some point for you by the sounds of it. I have half a dozen unlistened-to ones in my audible account as well. The chances of me actually finishing this one is pretty slim but figured I'd give it a go.
I think most readers here know what it means to fall under The Spell of a Story. Author/illustrator Mariajo Ilustrajo has written a very cute book about a girl who says she hates books.
My review of The Spell of a Story with lots of illustrations
I’m reading a book called The Girl Who Lived: A Thrilling Suspense Novel LARGE PRINT by Christopher Greyson
I finished reading The Mercies. I enjoyed it. I liked the writing style and the author did a good job of creating a bleak Vardo. I am moving on to In the Blink of An Eye now.
I'll be starting The Wise Ass for the monthly challenge tonight. I hope there are some chuckles in it. After Crow Mary and its bleakness, some chuckles would be welcome.
Janice wrote: "I'll be starting The Wise Ass for the monthly challenge tonight. I hope there are some chuckles in it. ..."Did Lenni & Margot not fit for the challenge or did you just decide you wanted to read something different for it?
The Seven
by popular Aussie author Chris Hammer sees Ivan and Nell's homicide investigation uncover more deaths and disappearances in a town where wealthy landowners write their own rules. Great read and good as a standalone too.
My review of The Seven
I finished No One Can Know
. I thought it was really good, but there was one "all bad" character that was so annoying that I put aside the story at times avoid him. Other than that issue, I enjoyed the story a lot. 3.5★ My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I had to put aside The Expectant Detectives
. I was enjoying it well enough, but I had the audio through NG and it disappeared off my app when it archived. I was only able to get through 19%. It's a bit too pricey to purchase and my library doesn't own it, so I'll keep my eye out for a sale copy.
I've just started The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
for the group read (and monthly challenge). I'm only about 9% in, but I'm really enjoying it so far.
Kristie wrote: "Janice wrote: "I'll be starting The Wise Ass for the monthly challenge tonight. I hope there are some chuckles in it. ..."Did Lenni & Margot not fit for the challenge or did you j..."
It does fit for the challenge, but I had already purchased a book for the challenge without knowing the Lennie and Margot fit. I've discovered that the audiobook I'm currently reading also fits. Argh! I didn't need to purchase a book for the challenge.
Oh! I can understand that. lol
I've decided to dnf Fellside. The subject matter is way too dark for my current mood, I'll have to research my reads a bit, I usually don't in case spoilers in book blurbs.Moving on to Cytonic.
I finished The Sans Pareil Mystery. I read it so that I could read the next book in the series which I have slotted into a hiking task coming up soon.I will start Summer of Night which is the next checkstop on the trail.
I need to get back to The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot. I stalled out listening to the audiobook and it expired before I got my hardcopy issue from my library. I am currently reading the last book in the Gilead series called Jack. I know that this series does not seem to be for everyone, but I guess I have been in the right mood for the last two books, especially since I purchased them. I really think they are better than the first two. I also have the author's first book, Housekeeping on hold.
I finished We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast. It sends out a very sobering message about the probable future if we don't change our habits, primarily our diets. Well written and food for thought (I had to do it LOL).
I read that book Cherie and I don’t know what you mean Cherie
I finished The Wise Ass for the monthly challenge. I thought from the book blurb that it had possibilities, but that it was a dud.I started The Last Phone Booth in Manhattan last night. It was released in 2024.
Christine wrote: "I read that book Cherie and I don’t know what you mean Cherie"Sorry Christine - I do not know which book you read, so I cannot reply. Did you read The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot? If yes, I was just saying that I need to get cracking and finish reading it.
If you read a book called Jack - there are many, many others with the same title. I am reading the one in the Gilead series, not the one about Jack and the Beanstalk. ;o)
I finished listening to The Other Einstein at work today. I had it on my TBR list for a long time, and my library purchased the audiobook at my request. It was an interesting look at Albert Einstein's first wife and a lot of HF regarding her and how Albert treated her.
Life on a small Australian farm in the 1950s means contentment and freedom for Rex, but confinement and restriction for wife Irene, who seems to be the Snake in this novel by Aussie author Kate Jennings. No actual venomous creatures, so no trigger warning 😊necessary. Irene's a piece of work, though!
My review of Snake
What fun to see the new release of Don Freeman's 1961 children's picture book, Come Again, Pelican, where a free-ranging little boy goes fishing alone on the beach.
My review of Come Again, Pelican with several of the cheery illustrations
Cherie wrote: "I finished listening to The Other Einstein at work today. I had it on my TBR list for a long time, and my library purchased the audiobook at my request. It was an interesting look a..."I really enjoyed The Other Einstein. It didn't paint ol' Albert in the most flattering light!
Margo wrote: "I really enjoyed The Other Einstein. It didn't paint ol' Albert in the most flattering light!..."It sure didn't!
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I wasn't enamored of either one of them. The first was too disjointed that I didn't get a feel of what the deeper significance was to the story.
I'm tired of the witchy stories where they're just trying to put a spin on a mystery by having the characters as witches who sing their incantations or quote Shakespeare as an incantation. It's similar to what happened to the vampire genre when Twilight came along. Give me dark witches (like Speaks the Nightbird) or whimsical (The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches).
I will start Crow Mary tonight and A Hard Day for a Hangover tomorrow.