What are you reading for August?

[Anonymous]

What's on your list for August?

Currently reading: Dark Matter, by Blake Crouch. I really like sci-fi and this one got good reviews, so I have high hopes. It also took awhile to get it from the library because there were a lot of holds on it.

[Anonymous]

Just started The Corner That Held Them, by Sylvia Townsend Warner. Next up, The Last Policeman, by Bwn Winters.

[Anonymous]

I am doing the Sealey Challenge - started by Nicole Sealey (a living poet). You have to read one pamphlet or collection of poetry per day for the month of August - so 31 books (or pamphlets) potentially.

I always start with good intentions (and a stack to read from) but sometimes I flounder and don't finish things, or forget one day here and there.

Today's book is Maps of the Abandoned city by Helen Ivory.

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I'm about 1/3 of the way through Suburban Dicks, which is a lot of fun so far. I think I might have found the rec for that book here?

I'm almost done listening to the audio of The Golden Couple, and I sort of hate it. But I listened all the way through. After this, I may listen to Molly Shannon's memoir, or I may listen to another mystery about privileged people that I will also mildly hate.

[Anonymous]

I just finished The Whispers by Ashley Audrain

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett is next

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am doing the Sealey Challenge - started by Nicole Sealey (a living poet). You have to read one pamphlet or collection of poetry per day for the month of August - so 31 books (or pamphlets) potentially.

I always start with good intentions (and a stack to read from) but sometimes I flounder and don't finish things, or forget one day here and there.

Today's book is Maps of the Abandoned city by Helen Ivory.

I don't get reading a book of poetry a day. Sure, I can burn through them, but a lot of the pleasure of good poetry is reflecting, mulling over, chewing the poem. After a few, my brain is kind of full, you know? If I read a whole bunch at once, I'm not really getting much out of any single poem, just skimming them. I read poetry often, and genuinely see no value in this challenge. Read 1-2 poems every day, sure, that's a good challenge.

[Anonymous]

The Peacekeeper by Blanchard for a local book club. Utopian fiction about a North America that was never colonized. So the natives run the place - their way. With all the modern conveniences incl technology.

I dont' like it at all. Well crafted writing but mostly all laborious soap opera detail about relationships b/t characters. I like to learn something when I read a book and I am not learning anything with this book. It's also a cozy mystery and I think figured out who did it- but i keep reading to make sure. And: bookclub.

https://www.amazon.com/Peacekeeper-Novel-B-L-Blanchard/dp/1542036518

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am doing the Sealey Challenge - started by Nicole Sealey (a living poet). You have to read one pamphlet or collection of poetry per day for the month of August - so 31 books (or pamphlets) potentially.

I always start with good intentions (and a stack to read from) but sometimes I flounder and don't finish things, or forget one day here and there.

Today's book is Maps of the Abandoned city by Helen Ivory.

I don't get reading a book of poetry a day. Sure, I can burn through them, but a lot of the pleasure of good poetry is reflecting, mulling over, chewing the poem. After a few, my brain is kind of full, you know? If I read a whole bunch at once, I'm not really getting much out of any single poem, just skimming them. I read poetry often, and genuinely see no value in this challenge. Read 1-2 poems every day, sure, that's a good challenge.

You don't skim the pamphlets / books (often only 10 poems total anyway) you're supposed to take the time to read them all properly. If you're not used to reading poetry it could take you longer, of course.

[Anonymous]

I have been in a slump for months and months.
I have been reading The Escape Artist for all of July and now into August. It's a wonderfully written book and more than 50% through I would recommend it. But not getting through such a well written book makes me feel even worse about my concentration.

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This is my next book to read:
Trust, by H Diaz

Below are what I read this summer, so far:

Very good:
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Eliza Starts a Rumor
Daisy Darker

Glad to have finally finished it!
Moby Dick (a whale of a lexicon- needed spark notes to translate it, though)

Generally Depressing or Just Bad:
Demon Copperhead (most depressing ever- don't listen to Oprah!)
Wish You Were Here, by Jodi Picoult (gimmicky plot devise, otherwise just words on pages)

[Anonymous]

Hope
Bad Summer People

I’m at the beach and these are perfect.

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I just started This Tender Land.

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Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

Delicate Condition by Danielle Valentine

Whalefall by Daniel Kraus

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Almost finished East of Eden by Steinbeck
--Fascinating

Halfway through listening to The Eye of the Needle by Follett
--Compelling enough that I want to exercise just to listen some more

Recently read The Five Star Weekend by Hildebrand
--Light, entertaining, good read as she always is

Waiting to start We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza
--Recommended by my daughter, looking forward to it

[Anonymous]

Sunshine Nails. I’m loving it!