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Post by natsplatt on Jan 4, 2024 20:52:52 GMT
Just finished my first book of the year, and frankly, may have just finished my Book of the Year!
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros was everything Bookstagram promised and more, I loved it and didn’t want it to end!!
I have already started The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey on borrow box (can’t read a chunky hardback in bed!) so I’m going to continue with that for tonight and choose a new physical book tomorrow!
Nat
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Post by windysisters on Jan 5, 2024 8:16:49 GMT
I finished Dirty Tricks after work yesterday. Was a bit confusing but intriguing all the same. I've now started Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote - it's a novella so will help me get a good start on my numbers  I hadn't realised it is narrated by George Peppard's character which I'm finding I quite like! |
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Post by windysisters on Jan 5, 2024 8:23:23 GMT
Just finished my first book of the year, and frankly, may have just finished my Book of the Year! Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros was everything Bookstagram promised and more, I loved it and didn’t want it to end!! What are you doing to me? I'm trying to stop reserving "random" books from the library and concentrating on my TBR and then you sell this one to me   |
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Post by adelynechan on Jan 5, 2024 10:58:17 GMT
Just finished my first book of the year, and frankly, may have just finished my Book of the Year! Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros was everything Bookstagram promised and more, I loved it and didn’t want it to end!! What are you doing to me? I'm trying to stop reserving "random" books from the library and concentrating on my TBR and then you sell this one to me |
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Post by adelynechan on Jan 5, 2024 11:00:25 GMT
Finished Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa, a pleasant enough quick read but nothing close to what I was hoping for / expecting. It's really a book of two halves, which I found disconnected, and it didn't help that I didn't like where the author took the story in the second half.
Up next, working down the stack of books that I've identified as fitting challenge categories, will be The Fine Art of Invisible Detection by Robert Goddard.
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Post by natsplatt on Jan 5, 2024 13:14:46 GMT
Just finished my first book of the year, and frankly, may have just finished my Book of the Year! Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros was everything Bookstagram promised and more, I loved it and didn’t want it to end!! What are you doing to me? I'm trying to stop reserving "random" books from the library and concentrating on my TBR and then you sell this one to me It was so much fun to read! It’s like Game of thrones meets Hunger Games!! Nat |
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Post by froglady on Jan 5, 2024 23:14:19 GMT
Just starting: Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa.
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Post by froglady on Jan 5, 2024 23:16:30 GMT
Finished Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa, a pleasant enough quick read but nothing close to what I was hoping for / expecting. It's really a book of two halves, which I found disconnected, and it didn't help that I didn't like where the author took the story in the second half. Up next, working down the stack of books that I've identified as fitting challenge categories, will be The Fine Art of Invisible Detection by Robert Goddard. I've just started Days at the Morisaki Bookshop - it was suggested as a next read at the back of The Door-to-Door Bookshop. |
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Post by froglady on Jan 5, 2024 23:19:07 GMT
What are you doing to me? I'm trying to stop reserving "random" books from the library and concentrating on my TBR and then you sell this one to me It was so much fun to read! It’s like Game of thrones meets Hunger Games!! Nat Oh this sounds interesting as I love Game of Thrones and The Hunger Games so I'll have to put it into my wishlist to remind me to get it. |
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Post by adelynechan on Jan 5, 2024 23:24:11 GMT
Finished Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa, a pleasant enough quick read but nothing close to what I was hoping for / expecting. It's really a book of two halves, which I found disconnected, and it didn't help that I didn't like where the author took the story in the second half. Up next, working down the stack of books that I've identified as fitting challenge categories, will be The Fine Art of Invisible Detection by Robert Goddard. I've just started Days at the Morisaki Bookshop - it was suggested as a next read at the back of The Door-to-Door Bookshop. Would be interested to hear your thoughts on it once you've finished, if you felt the same way that I did. |
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Post by adelynechan on Jan 5, 2024 23:40:02 GMT
Finished my first audiobook of the year: It Started With A Tweet by Anna Bell. A bit slow to start but once it got going it was really good, just the right balance of a solid plot and hilarious scenes. At 11 hours it's a bit longer than I'd like (my Borrowbox is a bit messed up, often showing me durations that are shorter than what the book actually is), but after the first 2 hours or so the story really flowed and it actually didn't feel this long. I loved laughing and crying together with Daisy, and the narrator was brilliant with all the accents.
Up next will be The Hive by Scarlett Brade.
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Post by sarita on Jan 7, 2024 13:36:36 GMT
Finished Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra. As always, his books are dense and complicated. This one was very slow for about 200 pages then I got really hooked. Set in Los Angeles between late 20's and the end of WW2, it shows the movie making world and the life of large cast of characters. All of them are affected by the war, either directly or through the implausible decisions of the government. Worth the effort if you're ready to work hard. 4,5* rounded down.
Started the first travelling book of the year, Three Singles to Adventure by Gerald Durell. Set in Guyana.
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Post by adelynechan on Jan 8, 2024 10:26:42 GMT
I've left my currently reading at my cousin's place in London when I was there at the weekend, so that goes on hold till either this or next weekend depending on when I next visit. Instead, last night I zipped through A Vicarage Christmas by Kate Hewitt, which I found a fun short novel, with a bit of Bridgerton feels to it. It is a series, but full details aren't yet available for all the books - though there is a teaser right at the end of this one that the next book will be about another one of the Holley sisters instead of a continuation of this story. I'm a bit intrigued but not intrigued enough to order the book, though certainly a series to keep an eye out for.
Up next will be The Silent Treatment by Abbie Greaves, as I start my "read more hardbacks" goal for the year.
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Post by froglady on Jan 8, 2024 12:45:17 GMT
I've left my currently reading at my cousin's place in London when I was there at the weekend, so that goes on hold till either this or next weekend depending on when I next visit. Instead, last night I zipped through A Vicarage Christmas by Kate Hewitt, which I found a fun short novel, with a bit of Bridgerton feels to it. It is a series, but full details aren't yet available for all the books - though there is a teaser right at the end of this one that the next book will be about another one of the Holley sisters instead of a continuation of this story. I'm a bit intrigued but not intrigued enough to order the book, though certainly a series to keep an eye out for.
Up next will be The Silent Treatment by Abbie Greaves, as I start my "read more hardbacks" goal for the year.
sorry to be a pain but can I just check the author eith you of A Vicarage Christmas? Thanks |
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Post by sarita on Jan 8, 2024 16:56:25 GMT
Since I don't want to read about people catching wild animals in Guyana, I removed Three Singles to Adventure from the list.
While searching for a replacement, started Veiller sur elle by Jean Baptiste Andrea, Goncourt 2023.
And Home Before Dark by Riley Sager, zoom buddy read
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I hadn't realised it is narrated by George Peppard's character which I'm finding I quite like!
