What are you reading for June?

[Anonymous]

I am reading Lessons in Chemistry - about 30% through it right now. I have a beach vacation at the end of the month, and I just downloaded 3 books on my kindle from the library in prep for that trip: Every Summer After, Carrie Soto is Back, and The Peacock and the Sparrow (new release spy novel - local former CIA agent author - not typical beach read but I'm ok with that). I really want to read Fourth Wing but I have about 8 weeks left on my library hold.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am reading Lessons in Chemistry - about 30% through it right now. I have a beach vacation at the end of the month, and I just downloaded 3 books on my kindle from the library in prep for that trip: Every Summer After, Carrie Soto is Back, and The Peacock and the Sparrow (new release spy novel - local former CIA agent author - not typical beach read but I'm ok with that). I really want to read Fourth Wing but I have about 8 weeks left on my library hold.

How do you like Lessons in Chemistry? I recently bought it, but I can’t push through. It seems like such a silly contrived story. I hate to give up on books (as I’ve been doing it a lot)…does it get better?

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Anonymous wrote:I am reading Lessons in Chemistry - about 30% through it right now. I have a beach vacation at the end of the month, and I just downloaded 3 books on my kindle from the library in prep for that trip: Every Summer After, Carrie Soto is Back, and The Peacock and the Sparrow (new release spy novel - local former CIA agent author - not typical beach read but I'm ok with that). I really want to read Fourth Wing but I have about 8 weeks left on my library hold.

How do you like Lessons in Chemistry? I recently bought it, but I can’t push through. It seems like such a silly contrived story. I hate to give up on books (as I’ve been doing it a lot)…does it get better?

Not PP but I didn't care for it either. Everyone else I know who has read it loved it but not me. I would say it does not get better. I would agree with your assessment of silly and contrived.

I also did not like Hello, Beautiful which everyone else I know who has read it also seems to have loved.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m halfway through Collapse by Jared Diamond. I loved Guns, Germs, Steel but I was a little wary of the premise of this one (was I going to come away convinced our inevitable demise is unalterable and fast approaching?) but so far it’s been very very interesting and more hopeful than I expected.

I’m also about halfway through Lucie Yi is Not a Romantic by Lauren Ho and am not looking it quite so well as Last Tang Standing, I think because I disagree with the main character’s choices a lot more and a lot of the central conflict is around a failure to communicate in a relationship which isn’t my fave romance plot driver.

I’ve been wanting to read these!

Someone recommended them to me here and I’ve really enjoyed them. I’m listening to the audiobooks (my preferred approach to nonfiction) and the narrator is really good.

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Anonymous wrote:I've been reading Claire Keegan. first Foster which was made into a film recently The Quiet Girl.

Now her booker prize nominated Small Things Like These

brief, evocative, moving stories.

First poster (reading Seven Moons) here - I love Claire Keegan! Small Things Like These was magnificent.

Have you read interviews about her process? She took 10 years to write this book, after Foster, which is amazing given it's what something like 114 pages only.

I didn't know that! Makes me feel better about my own work productivity atm. Then again, no one is raving about my work product....

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I have several books in progress right now. Currently reading the book while also listening to the audio book of these two:

Bleeding Heart Yard by Elly Griffiths (Book three featuring DI Harbinder Kaur)
A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny (Gamache Book 18)

I'm also reading two other books but focusing more on the above two:

Dirty Laundry by Disha Bose (not very far into this one)
Room for Love by Andrea Meyer

[Anonymous]

Anyone have The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty? I'm just starting it. There's so much hype around it that I'm excited!

[Anonymous]

"The Zombie Survival Guide" by Max Brooks. Fascinating work of non-fiction.

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I just finished Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Thoroughly enjoyed.

Reading Demon Copperfield next

[Anonymous]

I finally finished listening to everything the author Mary Kay Andrews has ever written. I have enjoyed every one of her books very much. I have been listening to all 30 of her audiobooks for about a year now. I finally finished the last one a week or so ago. Most of her books are about falling in love and fixing up an old house and solving a murder, all in one book. Which I guess fits into the genre of Cozy mysteries.

Then I listened to the book "In Five Years" by Rebecca Serle. It is about a 28 year old woman who gets a new job and gets engaged all in one day. That night she has a dream that seems like more of a premonition where she sees herself five years in the future in a different house with a different man. Once she wakes up she is spooked and apprehensive about going forward with wedding plans. My take on it -- Ehh. It was okay.

Now I am listening to "Lighthouse Island" by Paulette Jiles. Paulette Jiles wrote the book "News of the World" which was made into a movie. After I watched the movie I have been downloading everything she has written that my library has in stock. Lighthouse Island is kind of like the Hunger Games. I am enjoying it.

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Anonymous wrote:I am reading Lessons in Chemistry - about 30% through it right now. I have a beach vacation at the end of the month, and I just downloaded 3 books on my kindle from the library in prep for that trip: Every Summer After, Carrie Soto is Back, and The Peacock and the Sparrow (new release spy novel - local former CIA agent author - not typical beach read but I'm ok with that). I really want to read Fourth Wing but I have about 8 weeks left on my library hold.

How do you like Lessons in Chemistry? I recently bought it, but I can’t push through. It seems like such a silly contrived story. I hate to give up on books (as I’ve been doing it a lot)…does it get better?

A lot of my friends rated it 5 stars on the 1-5 good reads scale. I'm certainly not going to rate it 5 stars. I guess it depends how the rest of the book goes - whether I'll give it 3 or 4. Right now feeling like a 3.5.

[Anonymous]

Just finished Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting. Highly recommend. Loved it.
Started All My Rage but couldn't get into it after that and will prob move on to something else.

[Anonymous]

I just finished In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, and I see why it is a modern classic. Very novelistic and compelling. Now I am reading I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai. It is more of a page turner than I expected. I also didn’t know going in it was a story about a murder of a teenage girl—so more odd resonance with In Cold Blood than I expected.

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Anonymous wrote:I just finished In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, and I see why it is a modern classic. Very novelistic and compelling. Now I am reading I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai. It is more of a page turner than I expected. I also didn’t know going in it was a story about a murder of a teenage girl—so more odd resonance with In Cold Blood than I expected.

I'll like to hear how you like it. I liked in Cold Blood and the Great Believers (by Makkai) but haven't read her latest one yet.

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Anonymous wrote:I just finished In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, and I see why it is a modern classic. Very novelistic and compelling. Now I am reading I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai. It is more of a page turner than I expected. I also didn’t know going in it was a story about a murder of a teenage girl—so more odd resonance with In Cold Blood than I expected.

I'll like to hear how you like it. I liked in Cold Blood and the Great Believers (by Makkai) but haven't read her latest one yet.

Same. Thanks for the recommendation