April 2025 - What are you reading?

[Anonymous]

Dream State, which I very much enjoyed.

[Anonymous]

Mistborn. My first Brandon Sanderson outside of the Wheel of Time. Hopefully he’s as good as everyone claims!

[Anonymous]

I just finished The Measure by Nikki Erlick. It was fine. Thought provoking, but not particularly well written. I picked it up as a Lucky Day book in between waiting for holds and my Hoopla allotment to reset.

I just started What Happened to the McCrays? by Tracy Lange. So far, so good!

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Late to the party, but I’m e-reading/listening to Braiding Sweetgrass; her voice is very soothing, it’s almost meditative. I’ve also just started Entangled Life as my hardcover nonfiction…it’s been on my list for a little while and thought it might give me some interesting talking points for my book club’s next discussion (Mexican Gothic).

For fiction, I’m flipping between Shogun and The House on the Cerulean Sea because my Libby library holds didn’t time well…will probably focus on Cerulean Sea (finished Moby Dick recently, so a shorter book may be good).

[Anonymous]

Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks about coping after the death of her husband, journalist Tony Horwitz, who collapsed on a street in Chevy Chase DC in 2019 at age 60. I listened to it and felt it was more poignant since Brooks read it herself. It’s less than five hours long in audio form.

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Anonymous wrote:I just finished The Measure by Nikki Erlick. It was fine. Thought provoking, but not particularly well written. I picked it up as a Lucky Day book in between waiting for holds and my Hoopla allotment to reset.

I just started What Happened to the McCrays? by Tracy Lange. So far, so good!

I like those Tracy Lange books. I love Irish family dramas.

[Anonymous]

Just started Notes on an Execution.

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Anonymous wrote:Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks about coping after the death of her husband, journalist Tony Horwitz, who collapsed on a street in Chevy Chase DC in 2019 at age 60. I listened to it and felt it was more poignant since Brooks read it herself. It’s less than five hours long in audio form.

Loved it, her reading added whole another dimension to it. So well written. Reminded me of Joan Didion.

I read The Tell by Amy Griffin. It's well written but I don't know, there are certain parts that should not be questioned but are hard to wrap ones head around.

[Anonymous]

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

I'm 3/4 of the way through, and I'm only going to finish it because it's short. I don't like anything about it, especially the characters. I've read a few really good books lately, and this one is not.

[Anonymous]

I finished the first five books in the Finlay Donovan series.
The books are about a woman who writes crime novels and is overheard one day talking about one of her books and is mistaken for a contract killer. Next thing you know, she has been hired. She has a two year old and a five year old and is recently divorced.

I am finding the series delightful. The latest book just came out in February and my library has a six month wait list for it, so I suppose I will have to wait a while to read the next one in the series.

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Anonymous wrote:Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

I'm 3/4 of the way through, and I'm only going to finish it because it's short. I don't like anything about it, especially the characters. I've read a few really good books lately, and this one is not.

Now done, and I still have nothing good to say about it. I'm now reading "The Girl on the Train" and finding it to be a page-turner.

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I just finished Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson. I really liked it. Lyrical writing, but didn't feel pretentious.

Now I'm starting Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat. I loved her book about the the genocide of Haitians living in the DR, The Farming of Bones. Hope this one is just as good.

[Anonymous]

i ain reading no shi because im in college bud

[Anonymous]

"The Last Song of Penelope" by Claire North. It's the last part of her "what was Penelope up to while Odysseus was wandering around for 20 years" trilogy. These novels are beautifully done, and I'm really enjoying this one.

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I’m reading Curtis Sittenfeld’s new short story collection Show Don’t Tell. I’m four stories in and loving it so far! I think I’m about 10 years younger than Sittenfeld, but I really connect to her characters. Their thoughts, feelings, and observations always resonate with me. Reading her work makes me feel so seen!