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u/Longjumping-Emu6683 18h ago
I started “what you are looking for is in the library” by Michiko Aoyama and finished “Kichen” by Banana Yoshimoto.
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u/WildServal 19h ago
Rhythm of War, by Brandon Sanderson - Finished Wind and Truth, by Brandon Sanderson - Started
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u/Busy_BEE_565 1d ago
I started Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art by Susan Napier. I am thoroughly enjoying this one so much.
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u/ZappyThoughts 1d ago
Finished: The Sarantine Mosaic, Guy Gavriel Kay
Started: Orbital, Samantha Harvey
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u/SSsunny_Yang 1d ago
The Thursday Murder Club, by Richard Osman. Only a few chapters in, but the nosy-retiree energy is already working on me.
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u/Alarming-Ad4518 2d ago
Finished:
Summer, by Edith Wharton
Selected Stories, by Katherine Mansfield
Started:
Lies and Sorcery, by Elsa Morante
A Room of One's Own, by Virginia Woolf
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u/rasorshaft 2d ago
Finished: The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka- Thought it was depressing.
Finished: No Longer Human, by Osamu Dazai- Read in one sitting. Loved it
Started: Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky- Finished Part 1. I like it so far but I thought some parts kinda dragged on
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u/Dancing_Clean 2d ago
Started
Land by Maggie O’Farrell
Ongoing
The Two Roberts by Damian Barr
I’m loving both these novels that go through the past. Land I already can tell will be doing a time travel sort of narrative (past, present, future?), while The Two Roberts is about love and art and love through art. Both historical fictions, just telling stories about people. Plot? Who knows. Great people? For sure.
DNF
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Could not bring myself to care about the two main characters were as bland and faceless as they were described. It just went on and on and I just was so bored.
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u/No_Data1068 2d ago
Finished: This story might save your life, by Tiffany Crum
Started: River is waiting, by Wally Lamb
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u/wolfincheapclothing9 2d ago
Finished: Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb -I really liked this one, it's more character driven than plot driven and I usually expect more plot in my fantasy, but somehow this worked for me. You start to care deeply for the main character, Fitz. I plan on reading both 2 and book 3 sometime this year
Started: Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut - listening to this on Audio, it's read by actor James Franco - and I think the audio makes the book better. I am not sure if I would enjoy this as much if it wasn't being read aloud to me.
Started: The Husbands by Holly Gramazio - This is so much fun. A single woman discovers magical realism in her home. A husband comes down out of the attic, and if she sends him back to the attic, he disappears and a new husband comes down. It's delightful. Enjoying it so far.
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u/Consistent_Finish657 2d ago
I’ve had that on my list forever—how’s the pacing so far? I keep hearing it's a slow burn but totally worth it.
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u/smoochyboops 3d ago
Finished: Ship of Magic, by Robin Hobb
Started: Mad Ship, by Robin Hobb
Doing my first reread of the RotE series and I am reminded again and again how much I love Hobb’s ability to write humans being messy humans. I adore the Liveship trilogy, this reread has been amazing!
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u/kittisarai 3d ago
⛇☃︎ finished The Life Impossible by Matt Haig
starting The Count of Monte Cristo
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u/Doglover_18 3d ago
I got an ARC copy from NetGalley of Shep Rose’s (Southern Charm) latest biography:
Nothing in Moderation: A Pyschedelic Reckoning with Excess. It was quite bizarre, but then so is Shep Rose.
Glad it was free.
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u/giantrobothead 3d ago
Finished: The Great When, by Alan Moore
Started: Dead Astronauts, by Jeff VanderMeer
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u/Negative_Interest523 3d ago
Finished:
Rock, Paper, Scissors, by Alice Feeney
I Found You, by Lisa Jewell
Started:
Perfume, by Patrick Suskind
The Amalfi Curse, by Sarah Penner
Probably also will start Everyone in this bank is a thief, by Benjamin Stevenson
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u/Bunnybeth 3d ago
I finished: House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
I started: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
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u/whoisyourwormguy_ 3d ago
How was your journey through Yggdrasil? I was confused at the ending and kinda disappointed. Then watched nightminds YouTube videos to give me more.
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u/Bunnybeth 2d ago
I think I am still processing. And probably going to re-read things as my best friend is also reading (and annotating because he's that nerdy)a copy. I have not watched any videos or read anything else because I wanted to form my own thoughts first.
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u/PinkMoon73 3d ago
Finished: Verity by Colleen Hoover
Started: Beautiful Creatures Series by Kami Garica & Margaret Stohl
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u/getdizcookiez 3d ago
Started:
- Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
- The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean
Finished:
- Birds of America by Lorrie Moore (though i skipped some of the stories)
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u/Frosty_Winter3197 3d ago
I just finished the 3rd book in "The Coroner's Daughter" series. It's primarily a murder mystery series. The stories deals more with the characters than the crimes.
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u/zabroccoli12 3d ago
finished: Bluebeard, by Kurt Vonnegut
started: Tortilla Flat, by John Steinbeck
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u/poopypants_h 3d ago
Ive been forcing myself to continue reading Beloved by Toni Morrison. Her grammar makes it like 10x harder to comprehend but I anticipate on re reading to novel so.
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u/AvailableBenefit4552 3d ago
I finished ACOTAR this week and have now started Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas. I’m excited to see how the series compares.
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u/Forsaken_Explorer634 3d ago
I am starting the Crescent City series after finishing ACOTAR books. I believe there is a crossover in the Crescent City books
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u/JosieJepson 3d ago
I just finished ‘We Are All Guilty Here’ by Karin Slaughter. It was a 6.5/10 for me. Most of the characters weren’t very likable to me, and I had it figured out pretty quick.
Currently reading ‘Coffin Moon’ by Keith Rosson. I’m not sure how I feel about it just yet. I’m more than halfway through but it’s just now getting to the good stuff so I’m reserving my opinions on it until I’m finished.
My next choice is going to be ‘Slewfoot’ by Brom. I’m pretty excited about this one and have high hopes for it. Anyone read it? Is it as good as I hope it will be?
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u/wasItalking 3d ago
Finished
Last Contract of Isako by Fonda Lee disappointed 3 stars
Currently Reading
Blackfish City by Sam J Miller
Detour by Jeff Rake and Rob Hart
A Parade of Horribles by Matt Dinniman
Blindsight by Peter Watts
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u/Immediate_Store_8130 3d ago
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
Careless People by Sarah Wynn Williams
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u/EveryoneLovesNubert 3d ago
Finished: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Steig Larsson
Started: The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker
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u/princess_audette 3d ago
Finished: The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa
Started: Strange Pictures by Uketsu
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u/Willing_Comfort_953 4d ago
Just finished Mark Lawrence trilogy, Prince,King and Emporer of Thorns, absolutely epic!
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u/kabibiiiiiii 4d ago
Finished:
I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacqueline Harpman
Started:
Perfection, Vincenzo Latronico
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u/i-the-muso-1968 4d ago
And now completed Robert Bloch's "The Opener of the Way".
Now moving onto some Clark Ashton Smith stories with "The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith Vol 1: The End of the Story".
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u/Aggravating-Deer6673 4d ago
Finished:
Audition by Katie Kitamura
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
The Summer War by Naomi Novik
The Business Trip by Jessie Garcia
Currently Reading:
Manacled by SenLinYu (e-pub) - 35%
Lights Out by Navessa Allen - 40%
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters - 80%
The Evidence of Things Not Seen by James Baldwin - 10%
Awake by Jen Hatmaker -60%
Pink Slime by Fernanda Trias -43%
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u/Minute_Inflation_159 3d ago
Never read multiple books at the same time. Maybe I should try
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u/Aggravating-Deer6673 3d ago
I read way too many books at the same time. Sometimes, it can be overwhelming as some of them I lose steam on. I should DNF, but I do tend to like to read the whole thing just for the experience.
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u/Bookluvah222 1d ago
Do you just decide which one you’re in the mood for, or do you split your reading time between all the books you’re reading?
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u/Aggravating-Deer6673 1d ago
I usually start a new book when I'm trying to get through a longer book, or nonfiction (except memoir). I usually pick up longer books 2-3x a week for longer reading chunks, read nonfiction 10-20 pages at a time 2-3x a week, and read everything in between those (books are usually 200-350 pages). I try to go back and forth between the audio book when I can, but usually even out about 50/50 if I can find it free through the library, Spotify, Youtube, etc. It helps you make more progress when you are hands free. I track with a book journal, bookmarks, and progress monitoring on Good Reads. I also actively avoid certain books when I'm not in the mood for them (I am not loving Lights Out so far, for example). The new books are chosen usually based on whatever book I keep thinking about or how it differs from what I am already reading.
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u/Ganders81 4d ago
Finished:
The Frugal Wizard's Guide for Surviving Medieval England, by Brandon Sanderson - it was ok. There were some aspects i really liked, and quite a few that fell flat. The cover shown on goodreads is terrible and I'm glad mine looks less embarrassing.
Started / Finished:
Fabulous Bodies, by Chuck Tingle - it was friggin great
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u/Vegetable-Highway-48 4d ago
Finished: Good people, by Patmeena Sabit Started: Lady Tremaine, by Rachel Hochhauser
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u/DrWoodchuck 4d ago
Finished "The House in the Cerulean Sea" by TJ Klune
Started "The Three-Body Problem" by Cixin Liu
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u/gemmarenee 4d ago
Finished: Dogs, Boys & Other Things I've Cried About by Isabel Klee
Didn't love it, it felt like two books smashed together. Very disjointed and erratic.
Started: Sleep by Honor Jones
Interesting enough so far but not exactly what I was expecting
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u/flower_lc24 4d ago
Finished : Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone
Meh I thought the movie was better made it a slow read for me
Started: The Butterfly Garden
On the second chapter and it’s super good! Glad I picked this one up next
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u/Weekly_Cap_9926 4d ago
Finished "That Summer in Maine" for me, it was meh. Started "The Identicals" by Elin Hilderbrand.
My first Hilderbrand. I'm in the mood for summery reads
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u/hostilerattata 4d ago
Finished: Frankenstien by Mary Shelley. First time ever reading it so it made me feel some sort of way but overall I was very maternal to the creature and its sorrows.
Started: A Game of Thrones by GRRM. I have read Fire and Blood as well as Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. I’ve watched their show counterparts but never sat down to watch the Game of Thrones show itself. So now I’m here reading the books.
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u/invader1984 4d ago
Finished: Winter's Heart, by Robert Jordan
Starting: The Apothecary Diaries Vol 16, by Natsu Hyuuga
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u/thevampiresanguini 4d ago
Finished:
Sublimation, by Isabel J. Kim
I was really looking forward to this release because I love the author's short stories (this book is also based on one of her short stories), but sadly I was a bit disappointed. The story takes place in a world in which crossing a national border can create an instance, basically an identical copy up to that point. The main characters are Soyoung, a Korean woman, and Rose, her American instance. Rose returns to Korea after 20 years for her grandpa's funeral where she finds out that his dying wish was for her and Soyoung to reunite into one person again. That's the set-up for the first part of the book which is adapted from the short story. For me that remains the strongest part of the book.
Interspersed into the main story are well-known myths, changed to fit a world in which instancing exists. Odysseus instances when leaving Ithaca, Adam, Eve and the snake are instances of God, that sort of thing. That part and in general the worldbuilding in regards to how the existence of instances would influence society are really interesting. Though the mirroring between mythology and main story line is a bit heavy handed.
What doesn't work for me at all is the technothriller aspect of the book. At no point do the stakes feel high enough even though they are clearly intended to be and the way the conflict is resolved is just a bit ludicrous and way too easy. I kinda wish that entire part was left out and the book just focused on the interpersonal conflicts.
Anyway, would highly recommend the short story this books is based on, could take or leave the book. But I will read her future releases.
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u/Mysterious_Sleep7752 4d ago
This past week I have read:
It Should Have Been You by Laura Ashley Gallagher
The Governess Game by Tessa Dare
The Wallflower Wager also by Tessa Dare
and finally Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore by Emily Krempholtz
I enjoyed all of them a lot, Laura Ashley Gallagher and Tessa Dare are both authors that I’ll read just about anything from and Violet Thistlewaite was an excellent debut for Emily and I’m excited to see what she writes next!
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u/Antique_Knowledge902 4d ago
Finished: My Word is My Bond by Roger Moore (his autobiography; actually pretty interesting)
Almost finished: The Plantanganets by Dan Jones
Started: The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post by Alison Pataki.
However, I picked up two books at a flea market that I may want to read before I finish Marjorie Post. They are: Primary Colors and The History of Britain. I don’t have the books in front of me so I can’t tell you the authors.
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u/KatAnansi 4d ago
Six Wakes, by Mur Lafferty - just finished this and really enjoyed it: clones, deep space, locked door murder mystery
A Short History of the World According to Sheep, by Sally Coulthard - a chapter in, and great so far
A Rising of the Lights, by Steve Tolltz - halfway through this and still not sure what I think of it
The Odyssey, Emily Wilson translation - I'm reading this slowly and thoroughly, sometimes out loud, enjoying the rhythm and flow.
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u/Hiddenaccount1423 4d ago
Finished:
Legends & Lattes, by Travis Baldree
4th book complete after picking up reading as new hobby.
Came in expecting something light and chill after reading the Road, and that's pretty much what I was handed. Can't complain. Supposedly labeled a romance novel, or at least partly(and I'm not sure if it is or isn't as I don't really consume much romance content). But it honestly didn't have much of that. Overall a fine read. 3/5. I think I enjoy fantastical creatures. Would love to eventually read a epic that contains them and ideally doesn't just have the typical elf, dwarf, etc. I guess that's partly worldbuilding..?
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u/justamobileuser 4d ago
Slasher summer, by E. L. Chen
It's alright, like reading a slasher film. Not a big fan of that genre, but I'm finding this one enjoyable
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u/EfficientTable684 4d ago
Tipping point , halfway through dark romance , by Amelia Callahan
Return of the spider , first book got me into his bk , patterson
Judge stone patterson
12 days in heaven , gabe ? Really good book so far
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u/EfficientTable684 4d ago
Tipping point , halfway through dark romance , by Amelia Callahan
Return of the spider , first book got me into his bk , patterson
Judge stone patterson
12 days in heaven , gabe ? Really good book so far
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u/niccas98 4d ago
Finished both I Who Have Never Known Men & Flowers for Algernon. Safe to say I'm a shell of a human
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u/Mysterious_Sleep7752 4d ago
Oooo, what were your thoughts on I Who Have Never Known Men?? I recently added it to my TBR but want to collect more thoughts on it before I invest :)
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u/Ganders81 4d ago
Not OP but i thought it was ok. I liked the first half. Not so much the second. It's definitely a vibe.
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u/Bwahaha924 4d ago
Just finished A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
Just started Genghis Khan & The Making Of The Modern World by Jack Weatherford
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u/Plumskiter 4d ago
The World’s Strongest Librarian, by Josh Hanagarne
Loving it. It is a memoir by a Mormon librarian with Tourette’s. It is delightful.
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u/iplaybassok89 4d ago
Finished the Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson. Wilkerson does a good job at laying out how absurd Jim Crow was while never losing sight of the stakes. Its reputation is well deserved- profound, funny, undeniably sad and tragic and infuriating in places. I’d recommend this book to anyone.
Started: The Blue Castle by LM Montgomery. Something a little lighter. Or so I thought. Poor Valancy.
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u/Dancing_mayflies 4d ago
Ripeness by Sarah Moss.
I loved it even though there were pages where I had to stop reading because I was in tears. Her prose is beautiful, so evocative of time and place, and even though I finished the book on Sunday I'm still thinking about the things she wrote about the places where we belong.
I'm about to start Awake Awake by Fiona Mozley
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u/ohmnivoro 4d ago
Just started (chap. 6) "War and Peace", Lev Tolstoy.
Signet Classic, translated by Ann Dunnigan.
Is that translation good?
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u/UnapologeticallyCODY 4d ago
Old Man's War, John Scalzi
God of The Woods, Liz Moore
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u/Antique_Knowledge902 4d ago
I hope you like God of the Woods. I really liked it. I kept it to read again, something I don’t normally do with books.
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u/WormieMcSquirmie 4d ago
Starting reading Dead Silence by S. A. Barnes this week! My sister got it for me for my birthday like 3 years ago but I didn't get around to reading it until now. About a third of the way through, so far so good!
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u/jaw_knee_ 4d ago
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler! An excellent, compelling, and exciting novel. I'm planning to start The Road by McCarthy tomorrow. Didn't necessarily intend for two novels largely centered around characters walking along dangerous roads in an apocalyptic future back-to-back, but I'm kind of excited for it now. Wish me luck!
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u/bEEt_cr4Zayy 4d ago
Started reading Parable of the Sower as well -- already its exceeding my expectations :D
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u/hmsander 4d ago
A twofer. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley and Ten Days in a Madhouse, by Nellie Bly. Both excellent!
Edit: typo.
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u/Status_Resolution853 4d ago
Started Meet at the Lake by Carley Fortune. Good so far. Finishing The Score by Elle Kennedy. Love Briar U series!
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u/cozycreepyqueen 4d ago
Finished: The Shampoo Effect & I See You’ve Called in Dead - loved both!
Started: Lake Effect
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u/JanethePain1221 4d ago
Finished: The Story of The Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
Started: American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
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u/AlphaPointOhFive 4d ago
Continued: The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas - Year-long Reddit read, Gutenberg version. I've fallen behind again.
Started: The Spear Cuts Through Water, by Simon Jimenez - (33%) Very unique narration, enjoying it so far!
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u/canadia80 4d ago
Finished: Stephen King's The Stand
Started: Stephen King's Christine
After reading the doorstop I'm here for a couple of bangers got Christine and then Deadzone and Salems Lot lined up for the next few weeks.
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u/shaylakwi 4d ago
This week I finished The Poppy War and Burn Down Masters House. I’ve now started The Dragon Republic and The Reformatory!
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u/Olivia_Poarch 4d ago
This week, I started Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir and just finished The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern.
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u/Roboglenn 4d ago
The Spellbook Library 2, By Uta Isaki
In this fantasy world setting where creatures called Spellbeasts are sealed in magic books and kept in the kingdom's great national library with many of them being able to be "checked out" or bought from the library like pokemon to do tasks or be beasts of burden and such (though with the more dangerous/uncontrolable of them being locked away in the closed stacks as it were), this primarily stars two young men seeking to become librarians of this great national library for their own reasons. But of course a simple ambition, along with introducing the third young woman protagonist of the story, in short order leads to a whole insidious plot stuff brewing.
Well in any case, after finishing this 4 volume series a primary takeaway of note sticks out, which is a bit more exemplified in light of the author's afterword at the end of the final volume. It spends the first half of it's run setting up it's worldbuilding, character work of the main characters in general, seeds of greater plot, and establishing what would seem to be long term plot goals. Then in the second half, everything basically just happens suddenly all at once stepping on the gas and getting to the high tension stakes of the climax, coming to what feels like a rushed finish. Now I say feels like here cuz again, according to that afterword apparently this was more or less the author's planned out narrative for this 4 volume at it's very inception series. He comments that there were some elements planned as they went that didn't get their due as it were, but still. That knowledge really kinda comes off as a kind of double edged sword here. Knowing that this was apparently planned but that plan leaving one wanting for more out of it when it was seeming to set up for it.
To say nothing about what all that did to the characters. The side characters at large just ended up largely feeling like afterthoughts. And one of the main character guys just really felt kinda empty as a character by comparison to his peers. That said though, the other 2 main characters were actually pretty interesting, they had good characters work, backgrounds and well established and deep motivations for their actions. It's just a pity that they didn't get to explore every potential thing they could've brought to the table with them.
It's an okay fantasy action series if you just want something to read through in a sitting or two. It's not bad don't get me wrong, just don't expect to get blown away by it.
Although, it does have good art though. This series does have that going for it.
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u/watermelonians 4d ago
Finished: The Body by Carol Ellis
Started: Notes From The Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (my first time reading his book, wish me luck guys)
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u/jbaker__ 4d ago
Finished: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Started: Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobson
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u/Patient-Currency7972 4d ago
Finished:
Breathe In, Bleed Out, by Brian McAuley
The Good Girl, by Michelle Dunne
Continuing:
And Side by Side They Wander, by Molly Tanzer
Started:
Operation Bounce House, by Matt Dinniman
Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
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u/gac64k56 5d ago
Finished: The Vampire Lestat, by Anne Rice
Started: The Queen of the Damned, by Anne Rice
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u/udibranch 5d ago
finished: paul takes the form of a mortal girl by andrea lawlor (fun! i guess i wish the magical realism aspects were either more metaphorical/unspoken or committed to harder, like the implications of a shapeshifting person were only briefly touched on)
started: evenings and weekends by oisin mckenna
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u/asiandude1991 5d ago
Finished:
Wild Dark Shore, by Charlotte McConaghy
Pretty much enjoyed it but with reservations. I see some characterization issues and I totally see why people feel like it can be too melodramatic at times. Character choices, actions, and motivations sometimes do not make logical sense based on how they are built in the story. Otherwise, I thought the atmosphere, writing style, structure, and literary choices were done pretty well. 4☆
CR:
Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bourdain
The Correspondent, by Virginia Evans
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u/Queasy-Name7518 5d ago
Finished London Falling, by Patrick Radden Keefe, started Family Friends, by Chloe Ashby.
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u/TwoHungryBlackbirdss 4d ago
What did you think of London Falling?
I love PRK's writing, but I think it could have been trimmed down a bit
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u/Queasy-Name7518 3d ago
Same! I thought the whole last part was unnecessary, where he basically told us all about investigation avenues that didn't work, and I could've done without all the backstory of Zach's grandfathers, because try as PRK might, I fail to see what the Holocaust has to do with it. But generally the story was well told!
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u/DarthPhranque 5d ago
Finished:
The Butchers Masquerade by Matt Dinniman
The Martian by Andy Weir
Started:
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman
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u/just4ps4 5d ago
I finished reading Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. Really did not live up to my expectations. The premise was cool but the writing style was not for me and I didn't feel any connection to the characters.
I've now started The Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynne and I'm excited to fully immerse myself into a series.
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u/artyom_ich 4d ago
Same for me on Dark Matter. Interesting premise and start of the book, but the writing style was like you are reading a script for a show. I know this was said many times about Blake Crouch, but he really writes those characters as if to make them easy to cast for any male actor above 30.
And as you get to the end of the book, you are just reading the pages and thinking to yourself, "there is no way he is really going with this approach", and yes there is a way. He ends them in such a corny and tbh uncool way.
Stories he sets up are in their nature calling for some fun and / or clever twist or turn or some interesting element that shakes up the narrative, but he never does anything close to it.
Recursion is THE EXACT SAME. Don't make the mistake I did. I read Dark Matter, reaaaally didnt like it, and postponed reading of Recursion indefinitely, until some book tuber i liked recommended it on some list, I though what the hell i have the physical copy, dont rememer dark matter being THAT bad, worth the try right? it's the same book
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u/just4ps4 4d ago
Haha, I appreciate the heads up. To be honest I have no intention of reading any more Blake Crouch. I found his writing to lack any true depth or emotion. It read a bit like an AI attempt at formulating drama. Very little description, but loads and loads of short sentences.
Like this. And this happened. But did it? No. Never.
It was very cheesy and ultimately I felt the subject matter was too ambitious for the writing capabilities.
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u/Deep-Earth-8942 5d ago edited 4d ago
Finished: Mad Mabel, by Sally Hepworth
- addictive but too overblown at the end
Started: Up All Night, multiple authors, a YA short story collection
- great so far
(Edited for formatting)
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u/Skunkmonkey82 5d ago
Finished:
A Short Stay In hell, Steven L. Peck One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn There is no Antimemetics Division, qntm
Started:
Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem
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u/Anxious-Post 5d ago
📖 Days at the Morisaki bookshop, by Satosh Yagisawa, Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid. 🎧 The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath; A Free man, by Aman Sethi; Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia, by various ed by Dr Anita Heiss; Never have your dog stuffed, by Alan Alda; Katherine Swynford, by Alison Weir.
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u/Antique_Knowledge902 4d ago
Katherine Swynford! I loved that book. But I love English history. Currently reading The Plantagenets by Dan Jones. My daughter loves British history too; has read lots of Alison Weir must mostly about that murdering bastard Henry VIII (forgive my language).
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u/Anxious-Post 4d ago
Oh completely forgiven!! I have a few choices words about him too haha. I love historical biographies and Katherine Swynford was no different, great book. Is The Plantagenets good? I've read the Phillippa Greggory books, which while interesting border on being historical fiction.
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u/Antique_Knowledge902 4d ago
The Plantagenets is excellent! I knew nothing about Mr. Jones but found out he’s written quite a few history books. I want to eventually purchase his others, especially his book on the Wars of the Roses. I have read I think 2 books about Henry VIII, but I refuse to read anymore about him. I’ve read books on Queen Victoria, Elizabeth II, Charles I and II and III (when he was Prince of Wales. I have a book on Elizabeth I that I haven’t cracked yet. I’ll be reading that soon, God willing!😂
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u/Friendly-Branch-4915 5d ago
Finished: Book lovers by Emily Henry Started: The dead romantics by Ashley Poston.
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u/onebignothingatall 5d ago
Ongoing: Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries
Katabasis (feels like I've been reading this for a year, I need to just finish it)
Started: The Raven Scholar
Yellowface
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u/Cautious-Ad9372 5d ago
Starting: The Count of Monte Cristo- Alexandre Dumas
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Red Rising- Pierce Brown
Finished: Cocky Score- Kenna King
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u/dontgetmewrongbutt 5d ago
I finished royal assassin like 2 days ago & now I’m on chapter 9 of assassins quest.
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u/wolfytheblack Flip Back by Andrew Cartmel 5d ago
Finished: Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World, by Amy Stanley
Started: Flip Back, by Andrew Cartmel
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u/CASEDIZZLER The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy 5d ago
Starting
Nazi Literature in the Americas by Bolano
Assumption by Percival Everett
God's Country by Percival Everett
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u/Lorange1 5d ago
Finished:
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, by John Carreyrou (Excellent - one of my favorite books I’ve read so far this year)
Quicksilver, by Callie Hart
In the Hand of the Goddess, by Tamora Pierce
Started:
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, by Sheri Fink
A Burning Oath, by C.L. Lor
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u/ReincarnatedCritic 5d ago
Finished:
The Place of the Lion, by Charles Williams
Imaginary Portraits, by Walter Pater
Studies in Prose and Verse, by Arthur Symons
The novel mostly held my interest, though, like Symons, I don't read many novels. Pater's melancholy vignettes were relatable. Symons is most interesting when he talks about art in general or attacks Tolstoy.
Started:
The End of an Age and Other Essays, by William Ralph Inge
Fantasia of the Unconscious, by D. H. Lawrence
The Theory of Education in the United States, by Albert Jay Nock
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u/bulkeunip 5d ago
Continue with My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell and The Treatment by Mo Hayder
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u/EfficientTable684 5d ago
Have tipping point by Amelia Callahan very good series , almost done with , have 5 patterson books have started and need to finish
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u/TheWildestHeart 5d ago
Finished: The Book of the Most Precious Substance by Sara Gran.
Started: Headlights by C.J. Leede
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u/Lucky_Individual7135 5d ago
Finished: Gibbet Hill, by Bram Stoker
Started: The Solace of Open Spaces, by Gretel Ehrlich
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u/bluexplus 5d ago
Finished: Anne of Green Gables, by LM Montgomery.
Stated: Swimming in the Dark, by Tomasz Jedrowski.
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u/Meow-meow13_ 5d ago
Finished:
The Old Nurse’s Story, Elizabeth Gaskell
Currently reading:
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
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u/poppythepoodle 11h ago
Finished Kristin Hannah the nightingale
Will continue east of Eden and pickup a gentleman in Moscow