July 2025 -- What are you reading?

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Anonymous wrote:Wild Dark Shore

Loved it. It’s set on an island between Tasmania and Antarctica that is populated by a father and his 3 children, and a woman mysteriously washes up on the shore. Very descriptive climate fiction/mystery, changing pov each chapter.

I loved the Wild Dark Shore, too. I then read a bunch of light but fun beach reads and already forgot the titles, then I just finished The Heart's Invisible Furries, which I thought was beautifully written. What do I read next? I want another something with depth. Maybe another saga.

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Just finished “What We Can Know,” Ian McEwan’s latest book. I quite liked it. It’s about a future researcher who is intrigued by our time period and is researching a particular poet and his circle. It reminded me of “Trust” quite a bit, in the time and perspective shifting and its thesis that truth is a slippery concept. There’s also a lot of well-deserved anger towards people today, our hubris, our inability to confront the damage we’re doing to the planet, and the likely bleak and uncertain future we’re bequeathing to our great-grandkids. I’d really recommend this one.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm in my first book club and reading "The Midnight Library". It's terrible. I also usually read nonfiction so I think there is a huge adjustment perhaps?

No it’s awful.

Agreed. This book was terrible. No idea why it got so much hype.

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Anonymous wrote:Long Island by Colm Toibin. I’m halfway through—enjoying, but I liked Brooklyn better.

Finished it, and I can’t recommend it. I was frustrated by the feckless main characters and their utter inability to express their feelings, needs, and desires. I found myself rooting for none of them—which I guess is fine, because the ending isn’t positive for any of them.

Our book group read these books back to back last year. I absolutely loved Brooklyn and was so excited to get an update on everyone. I was really disappointed by Long Island.

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Anonymous wrote:^ Careless People is the Facebook tell-all, Indifferent Stars is about the Donner party

I love Careless People! Highly recommend. Many layers: working mom, start up employee, tech company manipulation of. Geopolitics. It’s all there!

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Anonymous wrote:Long Island by Colm Toibin. I’m halfway through—enjoying, but I liked Brooklyn better.

Finished it, and I can’t recommend it. I was frustrated by the feckless main characters and their utter inability to express their feelings, needs, and desires. I found myself rooting for none of them—which I guess is fine, because the ending isn’t positive for any of them.

Our book group read these books back to back last year. I absolutely loved Brooklyn and was so excited to get an update on everyone. I was really disappointed by Long Island.

I read both books back in April. It felt like the second book was just part two of the first book. The main char4acter seemed to spend her entire life just going along to get along. Until that one day that the guy showed up on their porch. I figured maybe Irish culture is one where nothing of significance ever gets discussed.
I liked them both.

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Anonymous wrote:So far, I’ve read The Doorman and Murder in the Dollhouse, which is about the Jennifer Doulas murder. Next book is These Summer Storms.

Please report back on These Summer Storms! It’s up next for me too!

Terrible.