January 2025 - what are you reading?

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Anonymous wrote:Finished Long island, first Colm Toibon book I have ready, it was ok, enjoyed it, middle aged woman finds out about her DH affair and baby on the way, goes back to mother Ireland and reconnects with an ex from long ago.
reading The cliffs now-just started

It is a sequel to his earlier book, Brooklyn.

Brooklyn was fine, easy reading. The Master is a small masterpiece. (Skip The Magician.)

Thanks, I will pick up The Master, I have The Magician here that I just got from the library.
I enjoyed the Cliffs, it was about all the stories of the inhabitants of a house on the coast of Maine. Has anyone read it? She wrote a book called Maine as well, will pick that up after Im done with Colm.

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I just finished The Favorites by Layne Fargo. I was very excited about this one. It's about pro figure skaters. If I had a physical copy of the book, I would have thrown it against the wall. I can't believe how high the Goodreads rating is. It should have been marketed as a YA novel.

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The husbands, by Holly Gramazio. Downloaded on audio via Libby and finished it last night.
I thought it was so fun! I giggled throughout the book.

It is about a woman who comes home from a party to find her husband there. But she is not married. He goes up in the attic to change a light bulb, and a different husband comes down from the attic stairs a few minutes later. Every time she sends a husband up into the attic a different one comes down.

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Anonymous wrote:I just finished The Favorites by Layne Fargo. I was very excited about this one. It's about pro figure skaters. If I had a physical copy of the book, I would have thrown it against the wall. I can't believe how high the Goodreads rating is. It should have been marketed as a YA novel.

Your reaction is making me want to release my library hold on this one. I've heard such mixed things and have been wanting to "read it for the conversation," as I heard someone else say. It's so hyped that I feel like I need to read it to have my own opinion. But your opinion may be convincing me it's not worth it.

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Just finished God of the Woods. Enjoyed it. Long and a bit slow but I was into it.

Before that was Husbands and Lovers which I loved! Highly recommend.

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Just finished The Tennis Partner, by Abraham Verghese. It’s non-fiction, about the author’s friendship with a med student who was also an addict. I thought it was great.
Also just read Time of the Child by Niall Williams. Highly recommend. Wonderful! Set in an Irish village in the 1950s. It’s a story about a man— the doctor in the village— and his daughter, but really it’s a detailed portrait of this village and its people. I loved it.

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Just finished Perfume by Ron Suskind, not sure how to describe it. The writing style and author’s weird glee were kind of a delight- reminded me of Lolita and probably as disturbing.

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Strike Sparks, a poetry collection by Sharon Olds. It's really amazing and I highly recommend a poetry break if you're like me and you typically bounce between fiction and CNF. Some of these poems just stopped me dead in my tracks.

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Anonymous wrote:I just finished The Favorites by Layne Fargo. I was very excited about this one. It's about pro figure skaters. If I had a physical copy of the book, I would have thrown it against the wall. I can't believe how high the Goodreads rating is. It should have been marketed as a YA novel.

Your reaction is making me want to release my library hold on this one. I've heard such mixed things and have been wanting to "read it for the conversation," as I heard someone else say. It's so hyped that I feel like I need to read it to have my own opinion. But your opinion may be convincing me it's not worth it.

It was definitely propulsive and you'll fly through it. I was entertained even though I was yelling at the characters for much of the second half of the book. I think you should give it a try, if for no other reason than you can report back and we can either hate it together or you can say why you liked it. LOL

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Anonymous wrote:Strike Sparks, a poetry collection by Sharon Olds. It's really amazing and I highly recommend a poetry break if you're like me and you typically bounce between fiction and CNF. Some of these poems just stopped me dead in my tracks.

I have that collection. It is great, I agree. I like pretty much everything Sharon Olds has written but I try to avoid her earlier poems about sex with her husband, those aren't to my liking.

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Current:
Wicked - Gregory Maguire
The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells

Just finished:
Dawn - Octavia Butler

Next on list:
The Invisible Man & War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
Adulthood Rites - Octavia Butler

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Finished Long island, first Colm Toibon book I have ready, it was ok, enjoyed it, middle aged woman finds out about her DH affair and baby on the way, goes back to mother Ireland and reconnects with an ex from long ago.
reading The cliffs now-just started

It is a sequel to his earlier book, Brooklyn.

Brooklyn was fine, easy reading. The Master is a small masterpiece. (Skip The Magician.)

I have read all his books and I agree.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Finished Long island, first Colm Toibon book I have ready, it was ok, enjoyed it, middle aged woman finds out about her DH affair and baby on the way, goes back to mother Ireland and reconnects with an ex from long ago.
reading The cliffs now-just started

It is a sequel to his earlier book, Brooklyn.

Brooklyn was fine, easy reading. The Master is a small masterpiece. (Skip The Magician.)

I have read all his books and I agree.

I started with the Magician a couple of years ago and DNF so gave up on Colm, but Long island was much better, will read Brooklyn now and The Master.

Currently finishing the Blue Sisters, almost DNF at around 30 pages, but kept going and now weirdly into it, more sex scenes than anticipated, drug reference and bi action-so it became more fun! Clever sentences and thoughts dispersed throughout though emotionally superficial. Its a good escape book.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Finished Long island, first Colm Toibon book I have ready, it was ok, enjoyed it, middle aged woman finds out about her DH affair and baby on the way, goes back to mother Ireland and reconnects with an ex from long ago.
reading The cliffs now-just started

It is a sequel to his earlier book, Brooklyn.

Brooklyn was fine, easy reading. The Master is a small masterpiece. (Skip The Magician.)

I have read all his books and I agree.

I started with the Magician a couple of years ago and DNF so gave up on Colm, but Long island was much better, will read Brooklyn now and The Master.

Currently finishing the Blue Sisters, almost DNF at around 30 pages, but kept going and now weirdly into it, more sex scenes than anticipated, drug reference and bi action-so it became more fun! Clever sentences and thoughts dispersed throughout though emotionally superficial. Its a good escape book.

a lot of reckless self destructive behavior-but read about vs lived

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Anonymous wrote:Just finished Perfume by Ron Suskind, not sure how to describe it. The writing style and author’s weird glee were kind of a delight- reminded me of Lolita and probably as disturbing.

Oh, that was a weird one. How did you come upon it? I read from the 1001 books to read before you die list, and it was on that.