What are you reading for September?

[Anonymous]

Started The Anniversary, by Stephanie Bishop. It came recommended in the NYT. Tightly written, suspenseful novel about a famous author whose husband jumps overboard during their anniversary cruise, and winds up dead... or does he? Maybe the case of an unreliable narrator? So far, so good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Started The Anniversary, by Stephanie Bishop. It came recommended in the NYT. Tightly written, suspenseful novel about a famous author whose husband jumps overboard during their anniversary cruise, and winds up dead... or does he? Maybe the case of an unreliable narrator? So far, so good.

Ooh that sounds good! I am reading the sequel to Suburban Dicks, which I first learned about here. A former FBI profiler/crime solving savant who left her job to raise kids suspects a friend may have killed her husband - or is she just bored with life!

[Anonymous]

Both sound great. I'm reading the Sebastian Barry booker nominated Old God's Time about a retired police detective (in Ireland) whose entire family, wife, kids etc are dead (you learn this in the first few pages, its not a spoiler). He is visited by two younger policemen who hope to get his advice on an historic Church abuse case. It is kind of surreal and bizarre in the first chapter, and that really lured me in. But thereafter it's basically the main character having sentimental memories about his lost wife and kids and I am finding it a bit of a slog now.

[Anonymous]

I recently finished I will teach you to be rich by Ramit Sethi - I liked it for what it's worth.

I'm slowly plugging away at Pineapple Street. I am almost done with it, and will likely give it 3 stars.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Started The Anniversary, by Stephanie Bishop. It came recommended in the NYT. Tightly written, suspenseful novel about a famous author whose husband jumps overboard during their anniversary cruise, and winds up dead... or does he? Maybe the case of an unreliable narrator? So far, so good.

Oooh, that's so weird and cosmic! I clicked in to post that I am reading The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates which is about a couple who go to Niagara Falls on their honeymoon in 1950 and the first thing the husband does the morning after is go jump in the falls to commit suicide. I wondered where she was going to go with this after spending the first two chapters describing this in depth including delving deep into both of their minds but once she moved on from that to the rest of the story it has been pretty compelling, I'm enjoying it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I recently finished I will teach you to be rich by Ramit Sethi - I liked it for what it's worth.

I'm slowly plugging away at Pineapple Street. I am almost done with it, and will likely give it 3 stars.

I’m reading Pineapple Street, too. So far, the characters just aren’t that interesting to me and I’m about 1/3 through. I keep waiting for something interesting to happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I recently finished I will teach you to be rich by Ramit Sethi - I liked it for what it's worth.

I'm slowly plugging away at Pineapple Street. I am almost done with it, and will likely give it 3 stars.

I’m reading Pineapple Street, too. So far, the characters just aren’t that interesting to me and I’m about 1/3 through. I keep waiting for something interesting to happen.

It never does! Did you not see all the Pinepple Street blasting in the other thread? Lol!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I recently finished I will teach you to be rich by Ramit Sethi - I liked it for what it's worth.

I'm slowly plugging away at Pineapple Street. I am almost done with it, and will likely give it 3 stars.

I’m reading Pineapple Street, too. So far, the characters just aren’t that interesting to me and I’m about 1/3 through. I keep waiting for something interesting to happen.

It never does! Did you not see all the Pinepple Street blasting in the other thread? Lol!

Haha, I am the one who originally posted that I am reading it here, and I'm definitely not going to say you all here didn't warn me LOL. It kind of reminds me of Emma Straub's book the Vacationers - there are some interesting things that I like about it and some funny/true observations but overall kind of slow for for my taste, I guess.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I recently finished I will teach you to be rich by Ramit Sethi - I liked it for what it's worth.

I'm slowly plugging away at Pineapple Street. I am almost done with it, and will likely give it 3 stars.

I’m reading Pineapple Street, too. So far, the characters just aren’t that interesting to me and I’m about 1/3 through. I keep waiting for something interesting to happen.

It never does! Did you not see all the Pinepple Street blasting in the other thread? Lol!

Haha, I am the one who originally posted that I am reading it here, and I'm definitely not going to say you all here didn't warn me LOL. It kind of reminds me of Emma Straub's book the Vacationers - there are some interesting things that I like about it and some funny/true observations but overall kind of slow for for my taste, I guess.

OK, finished it and gave it 3 stars. I'm not sorry I read it though.

[Anonymous]

Just (finally) read The Guest in one day on September 2 so that counts for this thread. I was the one bellyaching that it would be like House of Mirth in another of our threads. It moved fast and I liked it. Like to speculate about the end! Also helps that the only character I really cared about was Beach Dog.

[Anonymous]

I'm back in the office so I'm reading a lot more data science driven content. Honestly if this club talked about journal articles I would love to talk about those but I think I would be an audience of one. But that's what I'm reading right now. I'm finding that I'm "the" expert on a certain subject at work so I just stay up to date on it.

[Anonymous]

I'm currently reading Midnight at Malabar House by Vaseem Khan. It's a police procedural/mystery series set in 1950s India, featuring the fictional first female detective inspector. I'm enjoying it.

Next I have Orient Express by Graham Greene checked out from the library, or one of the many Libby check-outs I haven't gotten to yet.

I had The Anniversary on Libby and read the first few pages, but it was due to be returned and it didn't grab me, so I moved on to something else. The problem is that I read a few bad reviews on Good Reads that colored my reading.

[Anonymous]

I finished listening to "The Floating Feldmans" yesterday. It is about 3 generations of a squabbling family who all go on a cruise together.
I liked it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I had The Anniversary on Libby and read the first few pages, but it was due to be returned and it didn't grab me, so I moved on to something else. The problem is that I read a few bad reviews on Good Reads that colored my reading.

I've DNF books based on Goodreads and Amazon reviews - if I don't like a book midway through, I'll read some of the reviews and if they seem to confirm my suspicions about where the book is headed (e.g., there's no character development to speak of, character motivations don't make sense, plot holes or lack of plot resolution, etc.), I'll put it aside. I did this most recently with Kate Gutierrez's "More Than You'll Ever Know"... the book had a bad start, with one of the characters being incredibly irritating and the other's motivations and character arc simply not making sense. I read some reviews to see if the book got better from there, but most confirmed it didn't, so I returned it to the library.

[Anonymous]

^^ I don't take into account reviews on good reads or Amazon. I sometimes will follow a NYTimes review, but even those seem inadequate and never without an agenda.