January Book Log - open to all

[Anonymous]

So I thought we could list the books we've read each month, what we think of them (ratings out of 10?) and so I'm starting this thread for January.

[Anonymous]

I’m finishing up Fresh Water for Flowers today, and it is honestly a 10/10 for me. I have just loved it.

[Anonymous]

Love this! I read four books in the last few weeks:

1. The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post: 8.5/10
2. 100 Years of Lenni and Margot: 8/10
3. Lessons in Chemistry: 10/10
4. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow: 6.5/10

[Anonymous]

I just finished Her Majesty's Royal Coven and I LOVED it. I'd give it 9/10.

[Anonymous]

Finished a re-read of Festive in Death 8/10

[Anonymous]

Horse, Geraldine Brooks, 9/10
Our Missing Hearts, Celeste Ng, 8/10

[Anonymous]

Read The Italian Secretary by Caleb Carr between yesterday and today. 6/10. Should leave writing about Sherlock Holmes to Conan Doyle.

[Anonymous]

Just finished the Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and loved it. 8.5/10 (I’m a tough grader. The book was excellent but not life changing)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Love this! I read four books in the last few weeks:

1. The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post: 8.5/10
2. 100 Years of Lenni and Margot: 8/10
3. Lessons in Chemistry: 10/10
4. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow: 6.5/10

I have similar taste to yours! I’m starting Tomorrow soon and haven’t heard of Marjorie but will check it out. I loved Emma Straub’s This Time Tomorrow as my book rec for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Love this! I read four books in the last few weeks:

1. The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post: 8.5/10
2. 100 Years of Lenni and Margot: 8/10
3. Lessons in Chemistry: 10/10
4. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow: 6.5/10

I have similar taste to yours! I’m starting Tomorrow soon and haven’t heard of Marjorie but will check it out. I loved Emma Straub’s This Time Tomorrow as my book rec for you.

Ooh, thank you! I will check it out! I hope you love Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Everyone else seems to, so maybe there’s something wrong with me that I didn’t.

[Anonymous]

Station 11

[Anonymous]

The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave

This was maybe a 6/10 for me. I forced myself to read most of it and then skimmed the end. It was an interesting concept, but I was thinking about the improbabilities rather than losing myself in the characters and story.

[Anonymous]

I read Less, by Andrew Sean Greer. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31933085-less

I wasn’t expecting the type of prose in this book. At times very funny. At times really quite a lot. I found the MC exasperating, and felt like he really needs a therapist or life coach. He can’t seem to see himself the way everyone else does. But, close to his age, I also commiserated and have been feeling a bit hopeless lately, so I also understood. I skimmed though a couple chapters. It wasn’t what I was expecting, and I probably wasn’t in the best frame of mind to read a more literary fic novel, but I enjoyed it such that I have placed a hold at the library for the second in the series.

For me, 5/5 (10/10) and 4.5/5 (9/10) books are generally from these authors: Connie Willis, Terry Pratchett, Martha Grimes, Christopher Moore, Dan Simmons, Alexis Hall, CS Pacat.

I’d rate this a 3/5.

[Anonymous]

I hope to finish The Singularities by John Banville. It is exquisitely written but it is long and I discovered the characters he uses are plucked from various past works of his and I think I'm definitely missing something by not being familiar with those previous books. I'll come back to rate it out of 10 when I'm done.

[Anonymous]

Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell, 8/10. Much about it was beautiful, moving, compelling. I expected more to be done connecting it with Hamlet/really more connection to Shakespeare’s work over all. In the end I found the Shakespeare connection a little extraneous.