What are you reading for November?

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Anonymous wrote:Started Kingdom of Without by Andrea Tang today. It’s a cyberpunk heist set in alternate history Beijing and it’s great so far! I planned to read the first chapter and then go to bed but now I’m a hundred pages in and up late.

Why does the book cover only have white people? There are no Chinese faces…

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Started Kingdom of Without by Andrea Tang today. It’s a cyberpunk heist set in alternate history Beijing and it’s great so far! I planned to read the first chapter and then go to bed but now I’m a hundred pages in and up late.

Why does the book cover only have white people? There are no Chinese faces…

Is this like the thing where white people think anime characters look white? Pretty sure the cover models are all Chinese. But honestly even if they weren’t some incredible books have really horrible covers (shoutout to my insane 80s copy of Left Hand of Darkness) so I’m not really sure that’s relevant to it being a really fun book to read.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing yet but I'm considering Frankenstein (didn't get to it in time for Halloween reading) and My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry.

The end of the year is approaching and I haven't yet reached two of my 2023 reading goals: to read a classic and to read a book club book that I missed at the time - so I am trying to get these two in.

I read "My Grandmother asked me to tell you she's sorry" a couple years ago. I liked it. Another book I read by Fredrik Backman that I liked even more was "Britt-Marie was here".
I like all of his books.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm currently reading Verity by Colleen Hoover - it's been in my wish list for a long time and I'm just getting to it. I'm enjoying it so far, and about half way through, so I feel like something terrible is just around the corner!

It had an ending that I was certainly not expecting.
Colleen Hoover books are not my typical genre. But I bought a kindle at the thrift shop for $4 and it was on there. I figure the kindle only cost $4 because it didn't come with a charger and the battery was dead, but I had one just like it at home (kindle keyboard) so I knew I could charge it. Once I got it charged I discovered there were already about 200 books loaded onto it. Verity was one of them.

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I read four books by Debbie Macomber in November. They were all enjoyable. However, four Debbie Macombers in a row is kind of like eating an entire pecan pie by myself in one setting. So much sweetness that I now want to avoid it for a while.

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Anonymous wrote:Just finished -

The Heiress, by Rachel Hawkins - advanced copy, releases in January. It's a good family drama/light thriller based around an heiress who first went missing for a bit as a toddler. She had a crazy life, ended up a widow four times, then ends up adopting a child, who becomes the new heir, much to the dismay of her sister & her family. Overall a quick read, 3.5 stars

Now I'm reading Matthew Perry's memoir and The Maid by Nina Prose (book 2 comes out soon).

Did you like that? I really disliked it.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just finished -

The Heiress, by Rachel Hawkins - advanced copy, releases in January. It's a good family drama/light thriller based around an heiress who first went missing for a bit as a toddler. She had a crazy life, ended up a widow four times, then ends up adopting a child, who becomes the new heir, much to the dismay of her sister & her family. Overall a quick read, 3.5 stars

Now I'm reading Matthew Perry's memoir and The Maid by Nina Prose (book 2 comes out soon).

Did you like that? I really disliked it.

No I did not like it. I can't believe it was the mystery book of the year last year. So forced and pretty terrible.