What are you reading for December?

[Anonymous]

Yellowface
The speech team
Ask again, yes

[Anonymous]

The Bee Sting. It’s long but really enjoying it

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Just finished 12 Months to Live by James Patterson and Mike Lupica. It was an impulse buy at Costco and not something I normally would pick up. I liked it okay, but with over 100 short chapters in a less than 400 page book, I feel like I paid for a lot of empty paper. The book is about a top notch criminal attorney who gets a cancer diagnosis at the start of a murder trial. It was OK but I'm donating it, too unrealistic and a bit dry & dull.

Just started The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney. It's about 4 kids about to inherit a trust fund called the nest, when one of them gets into an accident and the mom designates the trust to payoff a lawsuit. The other three sibs are rightfully upset and so far, I'm finding the dysfunctional family rather endearing.

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Collected Regrets of Clover

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Anonymous wrote:"An elderly lady is up to no good" by a Swedish author named Helen Tursten.
It's about -- well, it's about an elderly lady who is up to no good. And no one suspects her because she is elderly.
I thought it was awesome. It's a short book at just under 200 pages. The audio version is 3 hours long.
I plan to check out what else this author has written because I really liked this one. I see there is a sequel to the one I just read.

That’s one of the best titles I’ve ever heard!

[Anonymous]

Winter Street by Elin Hilderbrand as recommended on here for a holiday read

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Anonymous wrote:Finally reading all the light we cannot see. I don't usually like historical fiction, but I like it so far.

Oh I loved that book! Can I ask why you don't like historical fiction? I've found that I really enjoy it because I feel like I am learning while still reading something "easy" (i.e. doesn't feel like a textbook).

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Anonymous wrote:The Last Applicant. (Great so far.)

Sorry- forgot to mention plot. Domestic suspense. Takes place in NYC. The head of admissions in a ritzy private school and a parent are the main characters.

I'm looking for something new and decided to try this based on what you said!

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Anonymous wrote:"An elderly lady is up to no good" by a Swedish author named Helen Tursten.
It's about -- well, it's about an elderly lady who is up to no good. And no one suspects her because she is elderly.
I thought it was awesome. It's a short book at just under 200 pages. The audio version is 3 hours long.
I plan to check out what else this author has written because I really liked this one. I see there is a sequel to the one I just read.

Ooh that sounds just up my alley.

I'm reading a pretty terrible but fun cozy mystery - Death Comes to Marlow

Next up I am planning to read the first book in the Slow Horses series. We're on the third season of the tv show now, and I LOVE it - there was a big profile of the author of the books the show is based on in the Times yesterday.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"An elderly lady is up to no good" by a Swedish author named Helen Tursten.
It's about -- well, it's about an elderly lady who is up to no good. And no one suspects her because she is elderly.
I thought it was awesome. It's a short book at just under 200 pages. The audio version is 3 hours long.
I plan to check out what else this author has written because I really liked this one. I see there is a sequel to the one I just read.

That’s one of the best titles I’ve ever heard!

I just put the audiobook on hold based on the title alone.

[Anonymous]

The North Woods - adore it.

Master Slave Husband Wife - just started, but it's excellent so far - nonfiction reads like a novel.

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I also checked out The Elderly Lady is up to no good. Thanks for the recommendation!

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I just finished Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh. The movie of the book is coming out next week. I loved her writing style and its oddness. It’s bleak and may have an unreliable narrator. Not sure it all works, though, but unique and well-written. She also wrote My Year of Rest and Relaxation, which I’m interested in reading now.

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Anonymous wrote:The North Woods - adore it.

Master Slave Husband Wife - just started, but it's excellent so far - nonfiction reads like a novel.

Good to hear about The North Woods. Waiting for it at the library.

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Anonymous wrote:Finally reading all the light we cannot see. I don't usually like historical fiction, but I like it so far.

I tried reading this when it first came out years ago- I just could not get past the first few pages, are you finding it easy to read?

I saw it’s a show now, so I’d like to give it a try again

That why I tried again - I also quit the first time after the first number of pages. It picks up around by page 50. I liked it. 4.5/5