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Post by rosemary3 on Jan 28, 2024 20:33:44 GMT
Keep us up to date with what you're reading this month!
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Post by windysisters on Feb 1, 2024 8:58:25 GMT
Carrying over The Moon Sister by Lucinda Riley I'm about half way and I think I'm beginning to see how all the individual stories will meet up at the end of the series.
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Post by froglady on Feb 1, 2024 9:32:28 GMT
Still reading The Library on Love Heart Lane by Christie Barlow.
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Post by sarita on Feb 1, 2024 9:45:20 GMT
Carrying over
The Twist of a Knife by Anthony Horowitz audio The Madness of Crowds Louise Penny
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Post by rosemary3 on Feb 1, 2024 20:18:31 GMT
I have some heavy books on my radar for this month. Starting off with If This Is A Man by Primo Levi about his time in Auschwitz. Not exactly fun but it's definitely caught my attention.
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Post by adelynechan on Feb 1, 2024 20:26:39 GMT
Carried over Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley and The Impostor by Damon Galgut (audio), the former of which I finished today. That was a queue jumper i.e. not the book I had planned to read next, which I will be going back to - The Wager by David Grann.
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Post by sarita on Feb 1, 2024 21:58:49 GMT
Finished The Twist of a Knife by Anthony Horowitz. Slow start but enjoyed it very much once it found its pace. 4*. Next up in audio is The Last List of Mabel Beaumont by Laura Pearson.
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Post by adelynechan on Feb 2, 2024 10:18:44 GMT
Finished The Impostor by Damon Galgut on audio - there is slow burn and then there is really slow burn and this was the latter. I can see how this would work for some, the writing style does have a mysterious aura to it that is quite appealing and suits the nature of the story. It also does a good job of painting a picture of South Africa, how different members of the community essentially dance round one another to form how the society works, and how central race is to pretty much everything that goes on. But for the "gripping tale" it tries to be, I found that there just wasn't enough plot, though to be fair to the author, I didn't think the narrator did the book justice.
Up next will be The Secret Smile by Nicci French.
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Post by sarita on Feb 3, 2024 18:26:34 GMT
Finished The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny. I think I’m tired of Gamache. This book was slow, going around in circles with a convoluted plot and many implausible moments. And as always, pontificating. I didn’t like how very serious questions were used as a background.2,5 rounded up. Not to mention the duck.
Starting La Petite Fille dans le cercle de la Lune by Sia Figiel. My book for Samoa.
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Post by rosemary3 on Feb 3, 2024 19:03:04 GMT
Finished The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny. I think I’m tired of Gamache. This book was slow, going around in circles with a convoluted plot and many implausible moments. And as always, pontificating. I didn’t like how very serious questions were used as a background.2,5 rounded up. Not to mention the duck.
Oh dear... I have this one and I haven't enjoyed the later Gamache books, so this doesn't sound hopeful - not that I've read them all by any means, but I enjoyed the ones I read that were set mostly in the city. Later the series gets more and more about Three Pines and all the "quirky" characters that we're supposed to love but I just don't. So I might just delete this one from my Kindle...
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Post by adelynechan on Feb 3, 2024 21:00:25 GMT
Finished Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li. One that I was looking forward to reading and has been on my wishlist since it came out but I was a bit disappointed by. I thought it tried to be something it was not (an "action" story, as I found the chapters on the actual heists implausible and quite weird) and not enough of something it was really good at (a story of being confused about one's sense of identity). But because of the latter, I'm glad I read it, plus it's a useful one as it fits many of the 75BC categories
Up next will be another book I'm really looking forward to, mainly because it features an AI detective: In the Blink of an Eye by Jo Callaghan.
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Post by sarita on Feb 3, 2024 21:08:53 GMT
Finished The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny. I think I’m tired of Gamache. This book was slow, going around in circles with a convoluted plot and many implausible moments. And as always, pontificating. I didn’t like how very serious questions were used as a background.2,5 rounded up. Not to mention the duck.
Oh dear... I have this one and I haven't enjoyed the later Gamache books, so this doesn't sound hopeful - not that I've read them all by any means, but I enjoyed the ones I read that were set mostly in the city. Later the series gets more and more about Three Pines and all the "quirky" characters that we're supposed to love but I just don't. So I might just delete this one from my Kindle...
It's not a DNF for me but I'm not going to read #18 that's on my TBR.
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Post by froglady on Feb 4, 2024 11:19:12 GMT
I've returned to reading Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow; I am finding it a hard read, which is why I had a break from it and read books that I didn't need to think about. I don't play computer games so most of the stuff thst's related to it leaves me untouched. I'm trying to find it in me to finish the book.
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Post by alison44 on Feb 4, 2024 11:32:56 GMT
I've returned to reading Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow; I am finding it a hard read, which is why I had a break from it and read books that I didn't need to think about. I don't play computer games so most of the stuff thst's related to it leaves me untouched. I'm trying to find it in me to finish the book. I absolutely loved this. I don't play computer games either, and have zero interest in them, but I found all the stuff about the creative process fascinating, because in many ways it's not dissimilar to writing and publishing fiction. But the world would be a very boring place if we all liked the same things!
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Post by froglady on Feb 4, 2024 12:09:56 GMT
I've returned to reading Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow; I am finding it a hard read, which is why I had a break from it and read books that I didn't need to think about. I don't play computer games so most of the stuff thst's related to it leaves me untouched. I'm trying to find it in me to finish the book. I absolutely loved this. I don't play computer games either, and have zero interest in them, but I found all the stuff about the creative process fascinating, because in many ways it's not dissimilar to writing and publishing fiction. But the world would be a very boring place if we all liked the same things! Yes I can see how the processes are similar- I shall finish it but it's struggle but I also don't want to give up on it either
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